Mated To The Alpha King (Raven and Ethan) novel Chapter 58

Chapter 58

Raven’s POV

I knelt there as the sun burned through my body, and the effects of the pepper that had been rubbed onto my skin earlier began to sear through my nerves like fire. My body trembled uncontrollably, and every breath felt like I was inhaling needles. The sun–unforgiving and cruel–blazed directly above me, heating the ground until it felt like I was kneeling on molten stone.

I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry out. But what would it change?

No one would come for me. No one believed me.

Not even Alpha, Ethan.

When he stood in front of the council, pretending to spare me by rejecting the stoning sentence, I thought there was a small sliver of mercy in his cold heart. I was wrong. This punishment, this slow, torturous exposure under the midday sun while my skin blistered and cracked, was crueler than death.

At least it’s better than death, my wolf whispered quietly, her voice weary, her tone calm. But even she didn’t believe the words.

Pain burst through my arms where the sun had turned my skin a deep red, and angry blisters bubbled over my forearms. My hands had been tied behind my back so tightly that I could barely feel my fingers anymore. The ropes had bitten into my skin, cutting deep enough that I could feel the blood pooling and drying under them. The smell of pepper mixed with sweat and searing skin made me gag.

I tried to shift my weight, hoping to relieve the pressure on my knees, but it only made the pain worse. My legs gave out, and I collapsed forward into the dirt, my cheek pressing against the scalding ground. A cry tore from my throat, but it was hoarse, broken, barely more than a whisper.

“Help…” I gasped.

Silence.

Only the buzzing of flies, the distant rustle of leaves, and the sun beating down with relentless fury.

Tears spilled from my eyes, drying almost instantly as they ran down my scorched cheeks. My lips cracked and bled, the corners torn from being clamped shut for too long, trying to bear the pain without screaming.

I wasn’t going to make it.

I knew that now.

I closed my eyes, letting the pain swallow me whole. My chest rose and fell shallowly as I tried to breathe past the agony. Thoughts drifted like smoke through my mind.

Alpha Ethan. The man who ruled this pack. My mate I could remember the way he treated me after I helped him win the war and was hospitalized but now that man was gone replaced with a cold–hearted beast.

And now?

A maid. A thief. A liar.

A criminal in his eyes.

I would never forgive him.

And Olivia she took him every deam thing that I have, and I promise to myself if I ever come out of this alive I will make her pay with the last blood in me and also alpha Ethan make him for neglecting the bond between us and also for subjecting me to his sex slave

I never asked to be born. I never asked to be her father’s bastard. I never tried to take anything from her–not her title, not her place, but I don’t see the reason why she hearted me this much.

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Chapter 58

1 had spent my childhood trying to win her over

But it didn’t matter. Olivia hated me. Enough to see me dead.

I gasped as a fresh wave of pain surged through my body, the skin on my shoulders splitting from the heat. My vision blurred. My wolf whimpered inside me, cowering, unable to help. She couldn’t even shift. The ropes and the pain made it impossible.

“I won’t forgive you,” I whispered to no one. “Ethan… I won’t ever forgive you for this.”

For believing her lies.

For letting them do this to me.

For not looking me in the eye even once before sentencing me to this.

For all those nights you summoned me like a toy, only to treat me like a stranger in the light of day.

For pretending, I didn’t exist.

I choked on a sob as the pain intensified. The sun had reached its highest point now, and it was like a god with no mercy stared down at me, mocking me.

Each second dragged out like a lifetime.

I thought of Beta Matthew. His soft voice. His warmth. The kindness in his eyes. If he knew what they were doing to me, would he come? Would he try to stop them?

Or had Olivia made sure he was kept away?

I didn’t know.

I no longer had the strength to wonder.

All I knew was that this was the end.

I was sure of it.

Dark spots danced in my vision. My heart fluttered like a bird trapped in a cage. My body began to shut down. I was too weak, too broken.

Still, the memory of Olivia’s voice echoed in my head:

“She’s always been jealous. She wants what I have. That bracelet belonged to me. And this isn’t the first time, is it, Alpha?”

No.

wasn’t jealous.

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