The Alpha’s Unwanted Bride

"I leave this pack." Xaden said in anger. "Not for a long time. And everything falls to pieces? You let Jasmine escape? How did she even manage to make it out of the pack? With the security. So now anyone can come in?"

"Kire." Erik explained. "He took her out. He knows the nooks and crannies of the entire place. I don't think it was hard for him."

Xaden's red eyes darted to Kire who whimpered and looked down on the ground.

Xaden was baffled.

He still counts believe it .

He still very much couldn't understand what was going on.

What he was being made to believe.

"H… how did you even come back without her. If you say you found Kire and Marro, then why didn't you look for her? You knew she was still coming and yet you came back."

"Xaden we perceived your scent." Erik explained. "And hers too. We had assumed that the both of you had gone back together."

"Assumed?" Xaden laughed bitterly. "Did you fucking see her? Did you see me? Or are you just choosing to find a way to get out of this one."

"You know I won't lie." Erik said. "I care about Jasmine and I would never let her get into trouble."

"It seems we both have different views on what it is to care for Jasmine." Xaden said angrily. "Unfortunately for you, you're not the father of the child."

Erik recoiled at the sharp and mean words.

"Xaden I tried my best to make her stay." Anna said.

And then he turned and saw tears in the eyes of his sister.

"After everything…. I… I just tried my best. I told her not to worry. I wanted to leave and find you too." Anna expressed as she struggled between muffled tears. "But I didn't want to make it worse. I didn't want to scare the rest of the pack. They would have been forever to look for me while they should have been looking for you. She just didn't listen. She didn't care about the baby."

Xaden wanted to hold his sister but his entire being was drained and weak.

"Even you nanny Nia?" He asked turning to face a now alert Nanny Nia. "Your job, the sole essence of why you are even here was to stay by her. How could you let a pregnant woman escape in the dead of the night?"

Guilt and shame was well written all over her face.

"My lord I accept it. It was my error. I should have handled it better." Nanny Nia said apologetically tears were streaming down her face and she used her finger to wipe a tear away.

He bit his bottom lip.

He was disappointed in them all.

He was mentally drained and could barely even keep his mind at ease.

And then it finally hit him.

He had been hallucinating her at Alpha Hunter's pack.

Thought it had been a dream or bare hallucinations.

When in fact she had been there.

She had been there this whole time and he had left her there?

He was so furious with himself.

He wished he could go back and take her with him as he had escaped.

He felt like a coward.

Like a fool.

He had escaped while she had been left behind.

Was he truly an Alpha if he had abandoned the mother of his child?

"We aren't so sure where she is." He heard Erik saying in the background. "But we assume that she was taken. We don't know much. Marro said she had gone to make enquiries and get help from the neighboring pack. That's all we know for now-

"She was taken to Alpha Hunter pack house." Xaden said cutting him short.

Erik blinked in disbelief and uncertainty.

"Uhm… er… Xaden we aren't exactly sure. About that and-

"I saw her there." Xaden said.

Everyone looked at him, their eyes filled with question.

He didn't bother to answer them.

No one dared to ask how he knew.

He let his mind wander with thoughts on what to do.

"The men that were sent to look for her where are they now?" Xaden asked after a cooling silence.

"Men?" This time it was Damian who spoke up.

Xaden turned to look at the small group of people in his bedroom.

"Yes the wolves you sent after you realized she wasn't with me." Xaden asked.

No one said a word.

They simply stared at each other.

Xaden was getting sick and tired of their silences.

"WHEN I ASK A QUESTION ANSWER!" He screamed.

Anna jumped in fear, Nanny Nia rubbed her elbow, Fiona looked the other way and Loren mistakenly broke one of the medicine glasses.

Erik and Damian had their faces pale.

Marro looked terrified and Kire seemed to want to escape from the room .

"We didn't sent anyone." Damian said speaking up.

Xaden blinked.

"We wanted to. But we couldn't risk it." Damian discussed, his eyes hovering, trying his best not to make eye contact with Xaden. "We didn't know what was lying as a trap ahead. If the men could be led by a false scent, and the same man could do take you prisoner, who knows what next he could do. We had to strategize. We still had no idea it she was initially with you or something else. We had to wait till you had come around before we began searching."

"You are telling me, that you found out Jasmine isn't with me and yet you decided not to go after her. Even send men after her." Xaden said barely a whisper, but everyone could hear.

"There have been sanctions. Raids, the path has been different. Other packs are wary, roads aren't safe. If we did that without being sure of what we were doing. Innocent men were going to die." Erik explained.

Xaden put his hands in his face.

He hated it, but they were right.

He couldn't let men die because of Jasmine.

They were loyal to him, but he, Xaden, Son of Orion, alpha of the great Crescent pack would die bringing her back to him.

Xaden removed his hands from his face, and then got up.

They seemed to stand alert with him.

He walked past them, heading for the door, even though he limped and his ribs were still healing, he had his head straight on.

"Where are you going?" Anna asked the question In everyone's minds.

Xaden stopped once he was at the door.

"To find the mother of my child." And with that he stepped out and slammed the door so hard that everyone shook.