The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 665

Chapter 665: THE SURPRISE GUEST

Morning light did not warm the castle.

It felt cold.

Hollow.

Like every wall had learned the truth last night and was silently judging her for it.

Rose sat alone in the throne room, still wearing the same gown from the night before.

Her hair was loose around her shoulders, her eyes swollen from crying.

In front of her, the ruby carpet blurred as she stared at it, unblinking.

Auburn.

An impostor.

Jasmine.

Her real granddaughter.

Cherry.

Her betrayer.

Her sister.

Coral

Her own daughter

The child she had birthed and raised... had pushed her own sister off the both with the intentions to have her killed.

And Roland.

Her very own Husband.

Rose closed her eyes, breath shaking.

Her husband had been sleeping with Cherry.

Her bitch of a sister.

The truth was muddy, poisoned, confusing but it didn’t matter.

It hurt all the same.

She touched the crown on her head.

For the first time in her life, it felt like a burden.

A weight she didn’t deserve.

A reminder of every failure she had made.

"You should step down," a dark whisper in her mind said.

"You don’t deserve this crown."

Royals who ascended the throne were meant to stay on the throne for life.

Stepping down meant only one thing.

Killing your self.

Her fingers trembled against the cold gold.

She didn’t know how long she stayed frozen like that, but eventually, footsteps echoed through the hall.

"Hildegard," Rose whispered without lifting her head.

Her best friend.

Her one and only true sister approached with careful steps and bowed.

"Rose may I speak with you?"

Rose let out a short, humorless laugh.

"Of course. Go on. Tell me you told me so. You’ve wanted to since the day Cherry and Auburn walked into this castle."

Hildegard blinked... then actually smiled softly.

"This is not the time for who was right and who was wrong," she said gently. "This isn’t a victory."

Rose let out a shuddering breath.

Her throat tightened painfully.

"I had her... here," Rose whispered. "My granddaughter. Under my roof. And I didn’t see it."

Her eyes overflowed, tears sliding down her cheeks again.

"Everything I said about her family abandoning her and how terrible her family were. How stupid they were to have left her and-

Her voice cracked like old glass.

"I was talking about myself."

Hildegard stepped closer and took Rose’s trembling hand.

"Rose in as much as I would like to say so. Jasmine came to you because fate brought her here. You didn’t know. And you were sick. You were poisoned for years. Cherry did everything she could to blind you."

Rose covered her eyes with her free hand.

"I failed her. I failed Scarlett. And she has been suffering her whole life because of me. All the monstrous things Bale did. All the things I let him get away with and my own grand child had to face. I wish I could bring him back from the dead and kill him myself." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Hildegard squeezed her hand.

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