The Alpha’s Unwanted Bride

The Queen turned away angrily after watching Jasmine's display.

She wanted to do much but as Queen she had limits.

Initially the royal family had had unlimited power but her tenth great grandfather had been too zealous with his powers and in the end been too much of a tyrant.

In the end, the wolf council was made to put the royal family in check.

She sighed as she went on he way extremely unhappy.

"What's going on?" Her husband asked her but she ignored him as she strode down the halls and her women in waiting all anxiously following her behind.

Once she got into her bedroom she sat down exasperated and just looked towards the horizon.

It was already late.

There was no way in hell they were going to be able to travel back today anymore.

They would have to spend the night here.

"Do you need anything your majesty?" One of the servants asked.

She wanted to say no thank you and then she realized that she was extremely tired and a bath would be lovely.

"I would like a bath please." She said.

The maids hurried away to bring the water for her to use.

When they had placed they water in the bath, she was undressed and went into the bath tub where she was properly massaged and her body was treated well.

By the time she was done, she felt completely refreshed.

She sighed as she wore a silk night dress and went to the mirror to brush her hair.

"Can I do it for you your Majesty." A maid asked her.

She hasn't combed her hair in a while.

She liked to do things for herself once in a while and not just be a queen who was treated like an invalid.

"No I shall do this. You may go." The Queen said and they did as she instructed.

She didn't have curly red hair, rather hers was straight and long.

It was Scarlet who had had bouncy red curls that framed her beautiful face.

She sighed as she thought of her dead daughter and she shook her head to remove the memories.

She knew how much pains and suffering she had endured.

How much she had blamed herself.

Then the doors opened and her husband came in.

Even at the age of almost sixty Roland was the most handsome man she had ever met.

It had been arranged marriage of course but they had been lucky.

It was love at first sight.

It was fierce passion for her.

She could remember it like yesterday.

She had been trying to flee from her marriage and climb a wall when a young man she had never seen had found her struggling in her large dress as she hurried up the wall.

"Goodness." He has said. "Where in the devils are you going to dressed like that?"

She freaked and fell down from the vines she was holding on the wall but lucky enough and just at the right time, he caught her in his arms.

She had gasped at his beauty and how perfect he was and so had he.

Later when they were married he would tell her that she was the most beautiful flower he had ever seen and she knew that it was not a lie.

She had eventually been put down to stand on her two feet and then he head asked her what she was running away from.

"My wedding." She clicked her tongue reluctantly. "You do not know me?"

He rose a brow. "No I do not, pray tell me."

She turned away and lied. "I'm only a servant here. A maid I dare say. For the future Queen, today is my wedding."

"Oh." He said his eyes wandering after discovering she was to be married.

"I'm to wed someone I do not know or someone who would most probably never love me." She had ended up telling him.

He had had no idea who she was and she in turn had no idea who he was.

Then she looked at him. "You're dressed all fancy."

She said. "You must be here for the Queen's wedding."

His eyes sparkled. "Do you know the Queen?"

She nodded. "Yes I am her hand maiden."

The lies were outrageous but she just wanted to make a fast escape.

Then she turned back to her wall climbing and he said. "Wait."

She stopped.

"You see I am being forced into a marriage that I know nothing about." He said.

She laughed. "Forced? But I beg your pardon as a man you could never be forced to do anything. All you do is beat you wife, drink, make sure she has as many babies as you want sometimes beat her if she doesn't give you the number of babies you want and then go around looking for other women."

She snorted and turned around to resume climbing the wall.

"I assure you that I am not that kind of man." He told her.

"Really?" She asked with a laugh. "Well to me a man is a man."

"Is your father that much of a brute?" He asked her.

She turned her head to face him and she was angry. "My father is no such man! He was a rare one from all the men I had ever met. And if he were to be here he would not force me to wed."

And it was true the only reason why she was being forced to marry was because she had lost her entire family.

Her mother father and her young brother in a tragic accident.

She and her elder sister had survived because they had not traveled but rather remained in the castle.

She was never supposed to be Queen but for something beyond her power she had been made to take a power she had never prepared for the first place.

"I apologize." He said to her once he had seen how pale she had gotten. "Do forgive me."