Chapter 510
Xaden stood there like a hanging fly as she ushered her final words of rejection.
It wasn’t supposed to hurt this bad.
After all he didn’t have a heart.
After all he had grown to be a cold man.
To put everything before his emotions.
His job as an Alpha.
Logic first before anything else.
And yet here was torn.
Confused and In anguish.
He had no idea what to say.
For the first time it was like he wasn’t himself anymore.
Whether to scream and shake her to tell him that she did have an affair with Hunter and that he would forgive her.
He would forgive her even though she had.
Even though the evidence proved that she did.
Even though he had been so blinded with rage and jealousy that he had locked her up in a dark room as punishment.
He wanted to cut himself and feel physical pain rather than the ache he felt in his chest.
Where his heart should be.
He rubbed his face and began pacing the room.
It was the only thing he could manage before he began spiraling into madness.
Before descending into the chaos of the complexities of his situation.
He rubbed his face again as he continued to pace the room.
He looked at her as she was curled up to herself.
He wanted to reach out to her and then he instantly remembered her last words.
Don’t touch me. Ever.
He recoiled from doing so.
And then he finally found his voice.
“Jasmine I’m sorry.” He began.
There was an eerie silence in the room. “I just want you to be honest with me. I just want you to please tell me the truth. I don’t care if you had an affair with Hunter in the past or whatever may had happened. Even if you planned to kill my and take the jewels. Just be honest with me. I will forgive you.”
He went down on his knees.
For a woman.
For the first time in his life but he made sure to maintain a distance from her to prevent touching her.
She had made it clear that she didn’t want that.
“Just tell me the truth and I would let it all go. I wouldn’t care what anyone inthe pack says. Just be honest with me. Please.” He begged.
This was important.
Her honesty.
She slowly looked up at him.
Her eyes sparking in rage.
“Get out.” She spat.
“I know you’re hurting but you’re making this more difficult for the both of us.” He began. “Just tell me that you did it! And I will forgive you!”
She was still lying to him and it infuriated him.
It fucked with his head.
He was willing to forgive her.
“GET OUT!” She screamed.
He sighed knowing that nothing was going to come out of this.
He very slowly rose up to his feet and then took short strides to the door.
“The Queen has requested our presence at the Royal Pack house.” He stated once he hung at the door. “We would be on our way in two weeks. It’s best you begin to prepare for the journey.”
And with that he walked out of the room and shut it behind him.
Nanny Nia had been standing in the corridor obviously waiting for his emergence.
Once she saw him her eyes lit up.
She bowed at him and he stood aside to let her go into the bedroom.
“My Lord.” Nanny Nia’s voice stopped him right in his tracks.
He didn’t turn around to look at her.
He just remained standing backing her.
“When you first brought me to take care of Jasmine. I… I was in dismay.” She began. “She was nothing like the others I had raised. But I have seen her for who she is and I have grown to love her.”
He sighed.
“Believe me my lord when I tell you that Jasmine had no hand in your kidnapping.” Nanny Nia said. “If she did then why would she return? And with the necklace.”
That was what baffled him.
Why didn’t she just run away.
Or perhaps Hunter has sent her away?
Or she had run away and his men forced her to come to him as punishment.
He had no idea.
“The child was buried in the lake at the northern forest of the pack.” Nanny Nia said.
He stiffened.
That was where he had made love to Jasmine the night of the festival.
“And it was a girl. She would have called her Thalira.” Nanny Nia informed further.
Xaden felt his bones weaken at the revelation.
“Thank you.” He said and with that he strode off
As he walked down the hallway he heard the door shut.
He felt sick and heavy.
Heavier than he had felt going in.
He had gained nothing from his conversation with her.
Yet he felt emptier than ever.
He sighed to himself as he came down the stairs.
He knew the whispers.
He knew what the people said.
They just never had the audacity to say it to his face.
Jasmine was a traitor
She had tried to kill him and he still let her leave
She couldn’t even carry a pup. How pathetic she was!
Alpha Xaden had become weak.
He knew the things going on in their mind.
He knew how angry a number of men were that there was evidence that she had planned it all and yet she still lived.
And she herself refused to admit it.
He was angry above all that she had buried their child without him.
He walked away from the pack and strode towards the forest.
When he was being followed by his men he rose his hand up to halt them.
He walked on his own.
He strode for over an hour until he found the lake and the newly covered soil.
It was so small.
He squatted and placed the bunch of Jasmine flowers he had picked along the way, on the burial ground.
“Rest Thalira. Daddy loves you.”