The Alpha's Unwanted Bride Chapter 271: THE EMERALD NECKLACE

"I did not know," She said her voice breaking. "I swear Xaden I had no idea."

"How were you supposed to know?" He asked her with a very an voice. "What would knowing change? Would it bring back what he did to ? Would it change the past?"

She looked down at her hands as she was absolutely weak and even unable to say a word.

Then she looked back up at him. "No. It would not have. But it would have changed the way I looked at him."

He was surprised at her words back at him.

Then he straightened up and said. "It does not change what you did too."

"You think I am proud of myself?" She asked him. "You think that I am proud of supporting my father who barely even looked at from

The mont I was born? Do you think that I am proud of myself?"

She sighed heavily. "I have been through things. Those scars at my back were all my pack’s doing. Luna Maria hated so much. I was a reminder of her husband’s infidelity. I was the scorn. I was the scapegoat. And she and her daughter used that against . Bear with every slight opportunity they had."

She laughed and looked at him. "I know you hated . But if you had Jessica instead of , then you would have wished you had . Jessica never did anything for herself. The stories that you heard about the spoiled daughter of Alpha Bale is as true as it could ever be. Jessica portrayed that. And whenever I crossed her she would have beaten."

She sighed and resud fingering her necklace.

"You always touch your necklace when you are anxious." He said.

She looked down and saw she was in fact touching her necklace .

"It was the only thing belonging to my mother that I had." She said. "My only mory of

Her even though I had one."

Then she looked up at him. "Do you want to see it?"

She started to take it off but Xaden felt an uneasy feeling.

"No it is yours." He said. "Yoh should

Have it on you always".

And then he rose up to his feet and started to head up towards the steps.

"Do you belive now?" She asked him. "Do you belive that I never ant to hurt you? And that all I did, I did because I was forced to. I had no choice."

He stood standing.

He held the railings of the wooden steps that led out of the lower deck, then he said. "No I do not."

Then he started to ascend the steps.

"Will you kill ?" She asked.

He stopped short imdiately.

Her heart started to race heavily waiting to hear what he had to say.

But then he simply said nothing and walked out of the cabin.

Jasmine pulled herself together and then rolled on her side in a fetal position and began to cry.

Then Kire heard her and climbed up the bed and cuddled himself around her.

He slowly licked her tears.

She managed a weak laugh and then she rubbed his hair.

Soon the gently rowing of the ship drifted the both of them to sleep

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Queen Rose lay in her bed fingering her daughter’s eral gem.

Wondering and hoping.

She still had not given up on her daughter.

When she had found the broken erald afloat it had been a ssage.

That her daughter was no more.

But Rose had refused. She had said that she had wanted to see her own dead body with her own eyes.

The erald was a very powerful relic that the royal family had for thousands of years.

Its history went back as far as the first wolves.

Even before the Lycans.

It had been all where the wolves had begun.

What their history was about.

What their life was about.

The future Queen was to always wear the erald necklace.

It was embedded with great power and once it was unleashed it could bring about the end of the race.

It could bring about the release of the first monsters that had walked this earth.

But Scarlett had worn it as it was expected. And she had taken the weight of it.

And when she had gone missing, they had all been worried about the necklace too.

And they had found a small piece of the erald.

They had all been worried that the creatures would be unleashed.

But for so reason or the other it hadn’t.

They had all been baffled.

Even the castle city of magic had been confused.

It was expected that if even a small

Piece of the erald broke that all hell would

Be unleashed.

There had been no opinion to back it up.

Only one of the high celestial magicians had said sothing.

Miria.

She said. "It is what the gods had foretold. The red fla is here. Only the red fla can stop the monster from unleashing."

It had fueled the possiblilty and rumor that Scarlet was the proposed one.

The one that was waited for for over thousands of years ago.

The one that had been foretold told co and save them from the impending evil.

"But if the red fla is scarlet would I not have known since she was here." The Queen had asked anxiously while all the other magicians had waved it off and said it was all re child’s tale and myth that had been used over the years to scare their enemies.

Miria looked at her. "No. The red flas may not be scarlet herself. The red flas may be in her blood stream."

The Queen was quiet for while and then it dawned on her. "You an to say she was pregnant?! But she is only a child!"

"No." Miria shook her head as she passed her side of the table and walked to where the Queen was. "In the future. When the daughter gives birth then she will have the red flas."

"So you think my daughter is alive? She is alive is she not?" She asked her clinging to her as she was the only one that was giving her the hope that her daughter might still be living:

Even her husband had told her that it was ti for them to go past it and accept that Scarlet was most probably dead.

"Yes your majesty. I belive she is still alive." Miria said and the Queen closed her eyes tight and took in a very deep breath.

"Stop feeding the Queen nonsense." The other magicians said. "Your majesty do not listen to her."

"You will dare not tell your Queen what to do!" Rose said and her eyes beca red and blazing.

Indicating her own red wolf and status as Queen.

They quickly went on their feet down af her.

Then she turned to Miria.

But Miria was gone.

That was the last ti she had seen the magician.

And tis had gone. Years had passed and the Queen was still holding unto the hope that her daughter was still sowhere out there.

She had sent so many wolves out to look for

Miria.

But none had found her.

It had been extrely depressing.

Even the city of magic had no idea where she was. It was like she had just disappeared into thin air.

As the Queen fingered her erald she felt sothing was wrong.

She felt the heavy night snow storm coming with a heavy storm.

And then she jumped out of her bed and quickly put a fur robe and went out of her room.

One of her maidens were at the door. "Your majesty please you are to rest."

But rose ignored her.

Since her best friend and closest hand maiden Hildegard had traveled to see her family in the country she had been forced to have other maidens that Cherry had chosen specially at her service.

She hurried down the dark castle walls tang were lif with fire and guards standing at attention.

And then she pushed the door of the throne room open and saw that her husband and so n were speaking.

They were high ranking officials of the royal family.

"What has happened?" She asked quickly.

Roland turned and saw her. Then he sighed and said. "A ssage owl ca in. There seed to be sighting of a kraken on the sea leading up to the south."

"A kraken?" She gasped. "Krackens are supposed to be a re myth."

"And that is what we take them as." He said. "Probably so sailors saw one of the Marge sea creatures and over exaggerated."

She turned to the maester. "What do you think maester?"

He was quiet. "The Kraken is a very dangerous creature. It has been a creature that was used to instil fear in the first n. And it is also supposed to be one of the creatures that are held at arms length by the erald gem."

She stopped and her face went white. "The erald. The one that scarlet had."

He nodded. "Yes your majesty. If this story is in fact true then sothing must have triggered it."