The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 248

Chapter 248: XADEN’S HEARTBREAK

XADEN’S POV

Once Jasmine had walked out of the room, Xaden kicked his fist into the wall and began smashing things.

When he was through, he was breathless; very slowly, he crumbled to the ground and sat down with the mess and pieces of furniture surrounding him.

He was breathing heavily.

He felt like a fool!

An absolute fool!

She had taken him for a fool! He had gone through all those lengths for her, and I’ll tell you how she had instantly betrayed him.

He was barely even able to believe any of it.

When he asked her if all the accusations being made against her were true, he had hoped that she would deny them.

Hoped that she would tell him and try to convince him that it was all a lie.

But to his greatest horror and disappointment, it had all been confirmed.

The moment she began to plead to him to forgive her, he knew that it was true.

It had shattered him.

It was a nightmare he had wanted to wake up from.

But it was reality.

He had made plans in his head.

He told himself that he would defy the order and make her his mistress.

He could never marry her because she was a slave, but he would give her a spot as his mistress.

He had even spoken to Erik about it, he had been excited and had even ordered that his room be made to accommodate someone else living with him.

His mouth felt sour and bitter.

He raked his fingers through his hair violently as he rummaged through his mind.

He was distraught.

Distraught that all of this was true, he now had no one else to turn to.

He had wanted to be with her, yet she had chosen to Betray him.

He looked so stupid in front of his men!

Thank the goddess that he had not announced to anyone else that he would make her mistress apart from Erik.

He would have been made a laughing stock.

It was something that he would never have been unable to recover.

The door opened, and Erik came in.

Erik put his hands on his waist.

"How are you holding up?" Erik asked.

Xaden remained on the floor, too weak to even stand up on his feet.

He did not even reply.

He was quiet again.

"And that bastard took my sister!" Xaden said through gritted teeth.

He knew what they did to women.

He has, after all, done it to Jasmine.

He did not want to imagine that his sister had gone through all that.

If he had known this entire time, then he would have gone and looked for her from the beginning.

But he had been here in this castle living life so swell and his sister had been suffering in the moonlight pack.

"I believe that is the next cause of action," Erik said.

"Yes. We will leave today." Xaden said. "We will go by sea. Going by the roads will take forever. Send word to Garrick about our arrival, and he will keep it to himself. I do not want to risk Bale finding out and making an escape. I will end his life."

"And what about Jasmine? Have you chosen her punishment?" Erik asked.

"You want me to pardon her? You have always had a soft spot for her." Xaden said.

"Of course not. You should punish her. She lied to you and kept it from you." Erik said. "But I believe you should listen to her. I told you from the very first day she traveled with us that was something amiss. Her new story fills all the missing holes and makes more sense."

Xaden did not want to agree, but it was true.

It made more sense now.

"She will come with us on the journey, and it is there that her fate will be decided," Xaden said, rising to his feet. "If I find out that Bale had a hand in my mother’s death. I will kill Jasmine whether she has a hand in it or not."

And he left the room.