The Alpha's Unwanted Bride

Chapter 424: UTHER’S BLACKMAIL

Anna’s chest rose and fell rapidly as the emotions flooded her all at once, shame, rage, jealousy, and a strange, icy fear.

Her wolf was clawing beneath her skin, snarling, demanding answers, vengeance, blood.

Blood for the one who now wanted to claim her own mate.

How dare that bitch?!

Erik... Jasmine...?

Initially she had guessed it as just a figment of her imagination.

Even when she had later confronted Erik and Jasmine they had both denied it.

She had had no proof that they were having a relationship.

But now her uncle’s words gave them weight.

She but the bottom of her lip in anxiety so hard she tasted blood and then dug her nails into the curve of her arm.

This was different.

Now here her entire being was crashing.

All because of Jasmine.

Jasmine once again was ruining her life.

She tried to force herself to believe that it was a lie.

She turned to the one who had just turned her life upside down with this story.

”You’re mistaken,” she said coldly, her eyes meeting Uther’s with a simmering fire. ”Erik would never... betray my brother like that.”

Uther only smiled, the kind of smile that knew too much. ”You forget I was in the Crescent Pack long before you were taken. I still have contacts, ears in places you wouldn’t imagine. I’m am an old man. I can tell when a wolf lusts after another she wolf.”

Anna turned her face away hoping to not hear all the things he had to say.

Trying to shut him out.

”Jasmine has been keeping secrets, very dangerous ones. I’m not here to argue with you, Anna. I’m here to remind you who the enemy is. I am here to remind you who you are. Who you were born to be.”

She turned her head away, jaw clenched. ”And what’s that?”

He stepped closer, lowering his voice until it was nothing more than a whisper brushing against her ear. ”The Luna of the Crescent Pack. His blood. His equal. Not some outsider with tainted lineage and a bastard in her womb.”

”But I’m his sister.” She said helplessly. ”I can’t be Luna while he is Alpha.”

”Of course you can.” Uther said. ”Being a Luna doesn’t simply mean you have to be his mate no my dear. Even a sister can become Luna.”

Anna’s blood went cold at those words.

All Anna had wanted growing up was to be married into a wealthy pack, preferably royal family.

Where all she could do was throw parties and have anyone and everyone at her beck and call.

She never really cared about power as long as she had everything that made her comfortable.

But after the moonlight pack had been taken captive, Anna realized there and then she wanted more than to be a pretty wife.

She wanted more and what was better than discovering that the brother amd family you never one existed was from a powerful wolf clan.

She had fantasized about it, being Luna, ruling beside her brother.

Jasmine had always been the obstacle, the one person Xaden protected even when he claimed not to care.

But this... this was different.

Her uncle was proposing something bigger than jealousy or spite.

”How sure are we that the bastard she carries isn’t for my brother but for Erik?” Anna asked as soon as the thought came up to her mind.

Uther shrugged. ”We don’t. And even if she gives birth, and the child is a male, that child would threaten your right to rule. Jasmine can become Luna. And you will

be all but forgotten.”

”I could tell Xaden.” Anna said stupidly. ”You know that she is having an affair. He would kill her and the child and feed her body to the wolves.”

”There is no proof.” Uther said leering down at her. ”Xaden won’t believe. She has charmed him with magic. And even if he does believe, he would kill Erik too. Do you want your mate to die?”

”No.” Anna said sharply.

She was furious with Erik for betraying her, but she would rather die than have him killed.

She still believed that he would love her day.

It was just left for Jasmine to be kicked out of the picture once and for all.

”So what are you proposing?” She asked him.

”I’m proposing that you don’t do this alone.” He said. ”I just want what’s best for you. Watching that whore try to take your place?”

He shivered in disgust. ”I would never allow it. I want to let you know that no matter what. I am here for you. To see you in your rightful place not a usurper who isn’t loyal to anyone.”

Anna was wary.

”That’s all I wanted to let you know.” He said and then turned to leave.

Thoughts raced through her mind and then she stopped him just as he was about to leave.

”Wait!” She said.

And he did.

”I need your help.” She said and then looked around cautiously as if to see if anyone was watching.

And then she said in a whisper. ”To get rid of Jasmine.”

He smiled at her. ”What are your options?”

Anna itched her arm in anxiety. ”I was thinking poison.”

”Good.” He said. ”I like how you think. I know just the person. I would return tomorrow with instructions on how you can do it.”

She nodded hastily.

And then he turned around.

”What is your gain in all this?” She asked him. ”What do you profit in this?”

He smiled at her. ”Seeing my niece on the throne. Jasmine’s family have been nothing but ruthless to mine. Her bloodline is the reason my sister is dead. Your mother is dead. To see her become Luna, would be a disappointment to my sister. I want to set things right.”

Anna wasn’t sure if she believed him, but he had a point.

The next day he came back to her with a vial containing a poison and instructed that only one drop be used.

It was enough to kill Jasmine and her child.