Chapter 280
“Urma!” She said with such delight as she threw her arms around her and hugged her tightly.
“My delicate flower.” Urma said as she gently rubbed her back.
Jasmine did not want to let go as she breathed in the scent of the woman who had loved her.
The only woman who had loved her while she lived in the pack.
Reluctantly Jasmine let go when she felt Urma pull away.
“I never thought I’ll see you again.” Jasmine said.
Urma caught her chin. “My flower. It was not the end of the roads. I wish I was there with you when you went away p>
Jasmine swallowed and looked down at her hands.
And then Urma put a Jasmine in her hair like she had always done from the moment she was young.
She felt the tears at the brink of her eyes.
“You look well.” Urma said. “Look much better than how you did here p>
“I am sorry to break the family reunion.” Ned apologized as he stepped in. “But we have to be fast p>
Urma looked at him. “Who are you p>
Ned cleared his throats. “I am a healer. An apprentice I mean. I am still learning p>
“Hmmm.” Urma rolled her eyes.
“Don’t Urma. He saved my life.” Jasmine chastised her gently.
Urma sighed and said. “Well for that I thank you p>
Ned smiled.
“Xaden is fighting the pack.” Jasmine said. “They broke down the wall. He knows everything. He knows that I was an imposter and he belives that his sister who died a long time ago is here in the pack p>
Urma went quiet.
“He belives that she was taken away by my father. There is no such person as that but Xaden is determined to proved otherwise.” Jasmine said.
Urma remained quiet.
“Urma is there something that you know?” Jasmine asked with suspicion.
Urma sighed in heavily. “The pack is falling. All the secrets should be falling too p>
“What?” Jasmine asked scared to what the truth might be.
After Urma told Jasmine her face went white.
“I need to tell Xaden.” She said.
Urma held her arm. “If you go back to him then he would take you his prisoner forever. This is your chance to run. Come with me p>
Jasmine stopped to think about it.
She was right.
If she actually went away with Urma then she could be free from everything.
Free from all the cruelties she had faced and she could have a simple life.
One she had never had.
“We can go to the west where the free wolves live. The Royal family has no jurisdiction over there. You could do all the things you wanted to do. Away from all of this.” Urma pleaded.
Jasmine was quiet.
And the Ned took a step forward. “Jasmine you really don’t p>
“Ned stop.” She said and he stopped right in his tracks.
What Urma was giving her was a fairy tale. A dream come true.
What she had always wanted to do when she lived here.
A life free of being a slave to her family.
“Urma. What you have offered to me is the best offer anyone has ever given me. And I would love to go with you.” She said.
Urma was delighted and then Ned’s face fell.
“But.” She added. “I have another home. I have people who depend on me. The crescent pack is my home. I found happiness I never had. Perhaps I would run away with you if I never went there. Perhaps. But I have now. Ned vouched with his life to stay with me. I will not want him executed for losing me. But I need to go p>
“Do you love him?” Urma asked.
Jasmine froze.
Ned was quite unsure of who they were referring to.
“Yes.” Jasmine said after a while. “And I can not leave him. If we leave him now then he will make the worst mistake of his life. He will never forgive himself p>
Urma was quiet and skeptical.
“Do this for me Urma.” Jasmine begged. “Please p>
Eventually she gave in after a heavy sigh.
“Alright Jasmine. Anything to make you happy my flower.” Urma said cupping her cheek.
And together all three of them hurried down the hall.
XADEN’S POV
Xaden and his men had raided the pack had literally made victory.
What was left was for the head of Bale.
To kill him once and for all, but not before he told him where his sister was.
His men who had gone down to the dungeons returned.
“Did you find her?” He asked heavy with anticipation.
They shook their head. “No my lord. The prisoners there have no count of who she is p>
And then Erik came jogging up to them.
“We have him. We have all of them”. Erik told himself
Xaden felt the moment of atonement had finnaly arrived.
He went with them and there he found Bale, his wife Luna Maria and then a servant girl standing behind them.
Xaden just looked at them.
Bale was already at his knees.
“Who is she?” Xaden asked.
“She is Jessica. Their legitimate daughter.” Erik replied.
Xaden turned back to face Bale.
“The man who took everything for me.” Xaden said. “Do you remember what I told you when I was a child? Before you killed me. I said I would find you. And I would use my sword to sever you into two p>
Bale said nothing.
Luna Maria was whimpering. “We had nothing to do with this I swear p>
“Shut up you bitch!” Xaden spat as he pointed his sword at her. “You. You of all
People. You are nothing but a monster. You sent the bastard of your husband to me in replacement of your own child p>
“I swear I tried to stop them but he did not listen to me.” She said. “He was the one who forced them p>
“Liar.” He sneered. “And you. You are going to pay. I heard of how cruel you both were. Heartless to Jasmine. And you will pay with your lives p>
“Xaden don’t!” Jasmine barged right into the room.