h4Chapter 499: THE UNKNOWN/h4

    When Jasmine returned to her bedroom she felt the chill and sudden overwhelming feeling of loneliness.

    She gently clutched her tummy at the memories she had had carrying her baby.

    A baby girl.

    She would have had a baby girl.

    She shakily walked down the bed and sat down.

    She picked up a pair of knitted overalls Nanny Nia had made for the baby and fingered it.

    For the child that never came.

    She wanted to hate him.

    Hate everyone.

    She was grinding her teeth so hard that she felt it would break into pieces.

    She needed to get out of this ce.

    She didn’t belong here and she wasn’t going to stay here.

    Once she found a way to get out.

    She heard a soft knock at her door.

    She felt her entire being go still.

    "Come in." She said very quietly.

    She prayed it wasn’t Xaden.

    Or worse Anna who she knew would onlye to gloat.

    The door opened and it was neither.

    It was Loren, Marro and Kire.

    She gasped in delight.

    It was the first time she had smiled since she woke up.

    Kire came running up to her.

    She expected him to pounce on her, but for some reason or the other he simply slowed down when he came close to her bed.

    He seemed to know that she was still unwell and was treating her with ease.

    "You’re a very smart boy." She said as she rubbed his fur.

    He looked at her his eyes affectionate as he whimpered.

    And then Marro came up to her very slowly.

    She was delighted to know that he had made it back to the pack.

    That Kire had obeyed her and taken Marro back to the pack.

    She was d that he was safe.

    "Hello Marro." She said with a faint smile. "It’s good to see you well."

    He looked very neat.

    Not like thest time she had seen him.

    He wore clean clothes unlike his torn and dirty clothes she had met him in.

    And his then ruffled hair filled with grass was now wellbed.

    He looked like a well fed and clean boy.

    She was delighted about.

    "Jasmine." He said, his eyes bright. "I was worried about you. I wanted to go back for you. But Kire refused."

    "Hey." Jasmine said as she gently rubbed his hair. "It’s good you didn’t. We’re here together aren’t we? We’re safe. I would never have forgiven myself if anything happened to you."

    He looked down on his shoes. "I’m sorry about what happened to you Jasmine."

    She felt a sting and managed to hold a smile.

    She said nothing in rtion to what he was talking about.

    "How do you like this pack?" She asked. "Is everyone nice to you?"

    He nodded. "They are. But I still miss my family."

    She then remembered that he had been through worse than she had.

    He had lost his mother, father and brother in a gruesome massacre.

    He had also been betrayed by his own aunt and uncle.

    The only other family that should have protected him.

    He was now all alone.

    She felt the guilt linger in her heart.

    She pulled him up close to her and hugged him firmly.

    She gently rubbed his back and felt his warmth.

    The hug wasn’t just for himself but for her too.

    For everything she was feeling.

    She finally let go and gently held up his chin to stare into his eyes.

    "I know this is hard for you but you’re going to have a beautiful start here." She said. "This pack wees enemies of their enemies. And you my dear are top of the radar important."

    He managed a small smile.

    "Alpha Xaden says I get to stay here for as long as I want. And he is going to raise me under his wing." Marro said.

    Jasmine’s face tightened at Xaden’s name.

    Of course Xaden promised to take care of him, he was the main reason why Marro’s family was dead.

    If Marro had never met Xaden in the first ce.

    The little boy would still be with his family and would have never witnessed such brutal incident.

    The least Xaden could do was take him in.

    And that was what he always did.

    Erik, Fiona, Jessica now Anna, Marro

    He all took them under his wing and treated them like his own.

    All except for her.

    She was never going to be forgiven and she had been punished in the worst ways possible.

    He knew how to take care of others.

    But never her.

    She was the daughter of his main enemy and that was what she was always going to be.

    She smiled at Marro.

    "I’m d to know that." She said.

    "Alright that’s enough." Loren said interrupting their conversation. "You two need to go and let her rest."

    Loren then proceeded to shoo therge wolf and little boy out of the room.

    Jasmine watched them go with a smile.

    Once they were gone her smile fell and the empty hollow feeling returned.

    Loren sat down on her bed.

    And together they were quiet for a while before he cleared his throat and said. "I’m sorry you went through what you did."

    Jasmine said nothing.

    "I know everything was a lie. We believe you." He told her.

    Jasmine fiddled with her dress.

    "I should never have returned." She said. "Hunter wanted me to stay back. I could have. I should have. It’s my fault...."

    She began to choke on her words as the tears filled her throat.

    "If I had stayed behind. Sh... she wo.. would have still been alive. I killed my own baby by returning here." She struggled.

    "Gods no." Loren said. "This is not your fault. Xaden is a fool. He can’t see clearly and has no one to me but himself. Don’t ever me yourself."

    "I swear I never sent any letters. I never even met Hunter before." She expressed.

    Loren nodded. "I believe you."

    Jasmine took in a deep sigh. "He said something. He said someone wanted me."

    Loren rose a brow.

    "What?"

    "I don’t know who." She said. "He just said someone I’ve never met wanted me. And it was all a ploy to get me. None of it made any sense."

    Loren went quiet before asking the question that haunted them. "Who could this be? And why do they want you?"

    No one could answer