Aicy

Ninety-nine lashes. That was the price of loving the Alpha’s son. Bettoni Williams gave everything to Ardon. Her heart. Her trust. Her dignity. In return, he accused her of witchcraft, stripped her of her rank, and watched as she was whipped ninety-nine times in the public square. Broken, disowned, and demoted to a Gamma, Bettoni swore she would never trust a royal again. She planned to rot in the slums, to remain invisible and forgotten. But fate, and a bored Alpha Commander, had other plans. When the kingdom's most feared war hero, Commander Zachery, returns home, Alpha Jaceon fills the grand hall with silk-dressed noblewomen and forces him to choose a wife before the blood moon or lose everything he has. Annoyed, Zachery slips out the back. Bettoni, hiding from the feast in a dark alley, stumbles upon him in a moment that would make any sensible woman run. She doesn't run, but calls him a wild animal to his face, and this only makes him immediately obsessed with her. He drags her into the feast by the wrist, declaring; "You're going to be my Commandress tonight." Now, Bettoni is trapped in a marriage with a brute who collects wives like trading cards. Zachery is uncouth, violent, and dangerously seductive. He treats the palace like a playground and his brother, the King, like a joke. Bettoni intends to use this monster to climb back to the top and destroy the family that ruined her. But Zachery is not a ladder. He is a cliff. And he has no intention of letting his new sweetheart go. Revenge is a dish best served cold. But the Commander likes his nights scorching hot. ~•~ ️ Mature Content Warning (18+): This story contains 18+ content including explicit erotica, detailed sexual scenes, and mentions of sexual violence including r*p* and assault. If such themes make you uncomfortable, please read with caution.

"In ten hours, my life will be over." I never thought surviving my cheating fiancé would be harder than dying. After catching Roger Trent—the Alpha's only son—in bed with my own sister, I destroyed the billion-dollar contracts I had helped build for him. Now he claimed I owed him one hundred million dollars. To save my best friend, I surrendered myself. Instead of showing mercy, he rejected me before the entire pack. The mate bond broke, the executioner raised his sword, and I prepared to die. Then everything stopped. The pack's sacred Moontree, which had remained barren for over a century, suddenly began to bloom. Somehow, it was blooming because of me. The family that wanted me dead suddenly refused to let me go. My ex wanted to control me. His mother wanted to use me. My sister wanted my place. Then Caius Trent returned. The Alpha's estranged younger brother. The Supreme Adjudicator. The most feared man in the realm. Imposing, untouchable, and twenty-two years older than me, he paid my hundred-million-dollar debt without asking for my permission and claimed me under his protection. He insisted it was simply the law, but I never believed him. Every time danger found me, he was already there. Every time I broke, he quietly put me back together. And every time I tried to hate him, he looked at me like he had been searching for me his entire life. But Caius was keeping secrets. So was the Moontree. And the truth behind my birth threatened to destroy everything I thought I knew. Roger had rejected me without looking back. Now he was forced to watch the uncle he feared fall in love with the woman he had thrown away.