The Alpha's Unwanted Bride

Chapter 522: THE EMERALD PENDANT

”What do you mean by Chaos?” Auburn asked scared.

She had thought that this was just going to be simply her impersonating a girl that barely existed.

But now here she was, in the middle of both murder and sudden chaos.

But her greed had gotten the best of her and she moreover she had already made it here.

There was going to be no stopping her now.

”The one who would become the next crowned King or Queen usually wears the emerald necklace. It was a gift from the goddess herself.” Cherry said. ”It is also a curse. During her creation, she didn’t just make wolves she made monsters too. To seal the monsters off and protect us, she created the emerald. You can only hand the emerald in very rare instances. Usually when an heir has been born.”

”Scarlett your fake mother had it when she drowned. It would be a signifying story that you are truly her grand daughter, because your mother gave you when she was dying after child birth. And you have never taken it ever since.”

Auburn fingered the emerald necklace that now hung well over her chest.

It glistened.

”What happens when I take it off?” Auburn asked.

”You would never take it over.” Cherry warned. ”Well.... Assuming this were the real one, then chaos would unleash. Monsters would start to spring up from the ground.”

Auburn’s face was terrified and Cherry laughed aloud.

”But this isn’t the real one.” Cherry said. ”If it were then you would be dead if you tried taking it off.”

”What if Queen Rose takes it off?” Auburn asked.

”She won’t. Because she knows it herself. And even if she attempts to, then you would stop her because you were told that bad things would happen to you if you ever tried to.” Cherry said. ”That would make her believe you more.”

Auburn nodded and for a while the ride was quiet.

”What happened to the real Scarlet?” Auburn asked.

”I drowned her.” Coral said bluntly.

Auburn became tight lipped and turned to face the window.

The silence continued until they came to a halt.

”Get down.” Cherry instructed.

Auburn did as she was told and then very gently came down from the carriage.

Auburn looked around and saw it was an old abandoned cabin.

”This is a town very close to the Royal Wolf castle.” Cherry educated her. ”You will stay here for three days and on the fourth you would come to the royal castle.”

”Why so long?” Auburn asked as she shivered.

”Because if you came today then my brother in law would smell something amiss.” Cherry said. ”Stay here and make sure you don’t leave until that fourth. There are clothes for you to wear and a good to conceal your identity as you travel. Remember what I told you? Find your way to the gates and inform them who you are. The rest would be handled.”

The driver shut the door and went back to his seat.

”Do not fail me.” Cherry said as a very strict and straightforward warning.

And with that the carriage resumed its journey.

Auburn watched them go until they were out of eyesight.

She began to worry that perhaps she had made a mistake.

But when she remembered about Candy’s body she trembled.

Then she remembered everything she had been promised.

The good things she was going to have.

She smiled to herself and became filled with excitement.

She was going to make Cherry so proud that Cherry would always want her around.

Auburn, Princess of the entire Wolf world.

Who would have ever known her luck?

She gently touched the emerald necklace on her neck as she went into the cabin

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Jasmine absent mindedly fingered the emerald necklace that had been on her neck all her life as she sat looking into the space.

She was in the astrology room and seated by the beautiful windows that overlooked the entire pack.

It had become her happy place.

Her one place where she could escape how deeply she felt.

All her life, she had had no one.

The ones she had grown to have had died along the way.

Fate was so cruel to her.

The goddess hated her.

She was alone.

She hugged her arms together.

Very soon she was going to be in the Royal kingdom.

The Queen herself had requested to see her.

Perhaps fate had decided to land her another blow.

Maybe the Queen now hated her and wanted to have her killed.

And as usual the Queen would finally meet Anna and adore her.

She sighed heavily to herself.

Whatever was going to happen, it was better than being here.

She didn’t want to remember.

She hated this place so much it made her skin crawl in disgust.

She didn’t want to remember that her baby had died here.

She didn’t want to remember that Xaden, the cat he of her child had accused her of having an affair with a man who had kidnapped her.

How she wished she had never left Alpha Hunter’s pack!

He was a better man than Xaden ever was to her.

It was all laced with Anna’s lies.

And to think that Xaden believed Anna.

Jasmine shook her head.

Whatever her fate was, she needed space from the pack.

She slowly got up from the balcony she had been sitting on and walking to the beautiful shelves filled with books he had given her freedom to learn from.

She picked up the one she had recently found.

His late mother’s journal.

She gently touched it and when she was about to drop it, something within her told her to hold on to it.

So she did.

And for the first time in her life, Jasmine stole something that did not belong to her.

A dark shadowy figure that had been watching her from outside the shut window, loomed over.

As of satisfied with what it had seen, it turned and disappeared away.