Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Ninety Two

ALIYA’S POV

“I should have known; gods forgive me for being so stupid. Of course, you will fall in love with him; of course, you will break every rule and destroy everything we’ve spent years building just for one man.” Empress Julia said to me, her eyes filled with clear disgust and disappointment.

I was in her chambers, naked and on my knees, awaiting my punishment.

I had never seen her look so furious before, but I couldn’t even bring myself to care about how she or the other Empresses and High Regents felt.

“You let him into your bed, didn’t you? I imagine he must have been quite the man.” I said, and her whip lashed across my skin; it took every will in me to hold back the cry threatening to escape my lips.

“I wasn’t the one the gods chose; she chose you, and now you’ve shamed her.

Did he defy you?”

“What I did with him is none of your business, Julià.” I sneered at her.

this time, harder than before. “Oh, I will find out; I will dig my

his tongue. If he had… disvirgined me, then there was supposed to be blood. Still, I didn’t

wasn’t the truth, but

satisfied by

would happen to him… what will happen to Trian?” asked.

been executed immediately, but I chose that he spend the rest of his days down

anyone thrown in there never makes it out. It wasn’t like any dungeon in a werewolf pack. They called it The Pit for a reason. The castle had an underground pit

before they were

even imagine Trian in a

said to her, “You sentenced a man to death, all because he took me outside the castle; you didn’t even give him a trial. He saved me – eaters that would have ripped

saved me from

–

It is impossible; they only exist outside our walls.”

if it hadn’t been for him, they

trying to mask the panic in her eyes. She lowered herself to my level.” Don’t breathe a word of this to

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