The Alpha's Unwanted Bride

Chapter 367: PREGNANT

”What?” Xaden asked shocked .

His face had gone as white as snow.

Was he hearing clearly. He was definitely not hearing clearly.

”What did you just say?” He asked.

”I said she is pregnant.”

Marie repeated as she blew one of her candles and then burned the feather she had used over Jasmine.

It burned to purple flames and became ash.

”P..p..pregnant?” He asked stunned. ”How. That’s not possible. It can’t be...

And then he stopped.

He could not have children. He could never get anyone pregnant.

And he was the only one who had been sleeping with Jasmine.

Unless....

Unless she was sleeping with someone else.

His face became a mask of thunder and rage.

His blood began to boil and in a fit of his rage his claws began to come out.

”She has been fucking someone else.” He demanded in anger. ”I can’t have kids!”

Marie rolled her eyes at him and said. ”Relax. It’s yours.”

That stopped him immediately.

”H...h- how?” Xaden was back to stuttering.

His wolf was now lost and confused.

His previous anger had stilled and was replaced with confusion and lack of comprehension.

”What do you mean it’s mine.” He asked trying to call himself. ”I can’t have children. I gave away that ability to you along with my heart. I can’t love and I can’t have children. I have slept with thousands of women. Jasmine is not the first and I doubt that she would be the last. None of them have ever gotten pregnant.”

”I am as shocked as you are.” Marie said. ”But it is the truth. The child in her belly is your blood mixed with hers. There is no denying that.”

Xaden started to frantically rake his hands through his hair, trying to decipher this new found situation.

It made no sense. None at all!

”You said you took it away. I specifically told you! That I never wanted to have children. You assured me that I would never have children. I made it clear to you from the beginning. I told you what happened to my family. I paid the price and now you didn’t?”

”My spells are never wrong!” Marie snapped at him. ”I have been using magic for years before your great grand parents were born. I never ever make mistakes.”

And then she returned back to her work snooping through her antiques.

”So how did this happen?” Xaden asked.

”Its because of her heritage and lineage to the-

She stopped immediately.

”Heritage? Lineage to what?” Xaden asked. Why had she stopped talking halfway in the conversation.

What was she hiding.

”Because she is an unshifted wolf okay?” Marie responded. ”She is an unshifted and it makes it more difficult. You are an alpha and already shifted. But she isn’t and that further complicates things. Her body is adapting to the foetus. That’s why she fell ill.”

”There still hasn’t been much discovery on the body of an unshifted wolf. They are a rare and minority bunch which is more reason why anyone really bothered to know more about them. They are treated like infidels and dirt. So of course who would care about them.” Marie said looking down at Jasmine.

Xaden swallowed heavily.

He still could not wrap his head around the fact that Jasmine was pregnant and for him at that.

”Perhaps that’s why she is with child. Maybe there is something in the body of the unshifted wolves that makes them surpass even magic as powerful as mine.” Marie pointed out.

Xaden paced the room back and forth.

”So what do we do?” He asked.

”What do you want to do?” She asked him.

Xaden sure as hell didn’t know.

He had never really imagined children but now that one was in the picture, he slowly began to.

He began to wonder if it was a little girl just like Jasmine with bouncy red curls or a little boy that looked like his parents or even him.

He wanted to faint.

”Do you know what sex?” Xaden asked.

She gave a light shrug. ”No it’s too early for that and like I said she is an unshifted wolf. Child bearing would be difficult for her.”

Xaden blinked. ”Child bearing. How many months far gone is she?”

”About two months.” Marie said.

”If she is so weak just by being pregnant and even almost died then what would the rest of the pregnancy be like?” He asked.

”Want to hear the truth?” Marie asked him cautiously.

”Yes.”

”I expect it to be difficult honestly.” She said. ”Dangerous in fact. It could come with complications and it could lead to death of both mother and child. Or perhaps only one.”

Xaden felt a chill. The thought of her dying scared him.

But why did it?

He should be delighted.

It meant that he would get rid of her once and for all.

”Can the pregnancy be terminated?” Xaden asked.

She eyed him cautiously. ”We could try that. But I would have to do it with her consent.”

Xaden shook his head. ”I am not going to take any risks. I don’t want a child and if it’s mine, I have every right to abort it.”

Marie folded her arms and glared at him.

”Are you asking for an abortion because you don’t want to have a child or because you are scared of losing her to death.”

Xaden’s face fell instantly, then he became his hard and arrogant self again. ”I don’t care about her. I only care about the fact that I don’t want a child. I never wanted one and you know it.”

Marie looked at him closely. ”Fine. But I will not let that happen. She has every right to choose too. It is her baby as much as it yours. Moreover it’s her body.”

”Soyou want me to tell her? Or you would do it?” Xaden demanded.

”Tell me what?”

He turned around and saw Jasmine seated up on the bed and awake.