Chapter 253
“I had hoped that you will be more responsible.” He said with so much disappointment in his tone she was cringing hard. “You need to understand our enemies will use the slightest opportunity to get to us.”
“Jasmine is not the enemy.” She said trying to make him understand.
“You still do not understand it do you?” He asked further annoyed.
“Jasmine was sent here as a weapon to end me. She lied and deceived me! Was an imposter in this pack. Was trading information back and forth for the man who killed your mother!” He snapped at her.
That was what shut Fiona.
She went instantly silent when she removed what had truly happened to her mother.
The terrifying things that had occurred when she was left with Bale.
What bale had done to her.
“Jasmine had a choice. Yes her father might have forced her to come along with us.” Xaden said. “He might have forced her to act in place of his real daughter. But she made the choice to hide it from me. She chose to deceive me and fear Bale more than I. And that was the worst decision she could have made. There is no turning back on what she did. Neither is there forgiving for what she had done.”
Fiona tried to speak up again but he cut her off.
“Do you not understand that if you were not high born, then you would have been sentenced to death for concealing such information from my court?” He demanded. “You knew how ruthless your mother was. How she would have never take this from anyone. If someone had been caught she would have killed them at the spot.”
It was true.
Her mother had been very cruel when it came to her enemies.
She was merciless and rarely ever forgave.
She would have killed Jasmine at the spot.
Fiona had not approved but she had had no say in the matter.
“For the things you have done you will no longer be able to rule as Luna over your mother’s pack when you are of age.” He said.
Her eyes widened in horror at his words.
“You have to be joking about this and-
“You will be wed to a man that I deem fit and well enough for you.” He said ignoring her response. “And he will rule with you as Alpha while you shall be Luna. Your choices have made it clear to me that you will be unable to make the right chocies if you take back your throne as Luna”.
She gawked at him in disbelief at what he was saying. “You have no right to do this! It is my birthright and I was going to be Luna after my mother whether she was alive or not.”
“Yes I do have the right because you mother had handed me all her properties to my name.” He said. “So you will take whatever decision I make for you.”
“And you belive that marrying me to some useless wolf who has no right will seat on my own fucking throne while I play wife and birth him his fucking children.” Fiona raged in anger.
“Your actions were foolish and rash! It is all my fault for letting you stay and act like a mere servant when you should have been learning how to be a queen.” He said.
“It was my decision to make! And because I care for Jasmine does not meant that I will forgive her father. I intend to kill him one day.” She replied.
“There will be no need for that. I will be the one to kill him myself.” He said. “I will avenge us all. But I have made my decision and that is final. You shall be made to behave like a woman of good morals and learn a well suited education from a nurse.”
“You can not do this to me! It is my birth right!” She snapped.
“Yes I can!” He hissed back. “And you threw away that right when you intentionally kept those secrets from me.”
He turned away her and then he called some guards to them.
“Escort the lady Fiona to her bedroom.” He said. “She is to remain there throughout today and when she begins her duties as a lady you are to folllow her everywhere she goes.”
“Xaden you can not do this to me!” She cried in frustration.
“Better still you can be a bit far from her. About ten steps to give her some breathing space. But you must always keep an eye on her.” He told the guards.
They bowed. “Yes my lord.”
And with that Xaden started to leave but she stopped.
“What are you going to do to her?” She asked him.
That stopped him in his tracks.
“What are you going to do Jasmine?” She asked him awaiting his reply.
“That will be up for me to decide when I reach the moonlight pack.” He said.
And with that he headed out of the hallway and walked down out of the main castle entrance.
His men were already waiting for him.
“The men at dock already got information about our travel and a ship is waiting for us.” Erik said.
“Good.” Xaden nodded.
Then he turned and saw Jamaine standing with a little girl.
She was talking to the little girl and seemed to be in a deep conversation with her.
“Who is that?” Xaden asked.
“The little girl?” Erik asked. “She was the one that was supposedly saved by Jasmine and Fiona the day she was attacked by Aurora. Just around the same age as Jade.”
Xaden watched as the two of them discussed and Jasmine tucked a loose hair behind her ear.
Then it made him remember the imagination he had of her being with their three children.
The children he knew he would never have because he had take away that ability and because she had betrayed him.