I'm Aurora, an unmated commoner, an inferior bloodline. 

My parents taught me a lot of things growing up, but the most important one is never piss off a royal.  They run the world, they make the rules, and they are brutal when they don’t get exactly what they want, especially an unmated commoner girl.

Most royals fuck commoner girls for fun, knowing we couldn’t possibly fight back. Some of them do it to get their release and then kill them, leaving behind no chance for an heir that is a half-breed. I’ve never seen a commoner female return from the palace.

There aren’t many of us left in my pack, but my alpha has managed to convince the royal warriors that there aren’t any unmated females in his pack and if there were, he would gladly hand them over I’m unmated, only a year and half away from turning twenty to feel my mate. I pray to Moon Goddess that I need the protection of a mate.

Until that day, a tall, brute man walks into my house like he was invited in. I tremble while he grins.

He is a Royal.

The Alpha's Commoner Bride

Jaxson tries to get me to sit back down, my words so jumbled and mixed up that I’m blabbering nonsensically. I want to stand, to shift, but it’s impossible to while I’m in this state. My whole body is sore from rejecting Xander, let alone dealing with the wounds he laid onto me from the last time I saw him.


I pushed myself too far then, and I’ll do it again now if it means helping Luke.


Jaxson doesn’t agree, trying to lead me toward the house but I stumble, murmuring about what Xander had said in my head, about what he is going to do to Luke, and what he has been doing to me. My head spins as I hit the wood floor of the little home on the beach.


“Please, stop,” Jaxson hums, trying to help me stand but I flinch away so fiercely that he eventually pulls back, creating space between us. “Aurora, calm down then tell me what you’re trying to say. I can’t understand you when you’re panicked. Please, sweetheart.”


Chapter 53