Bankrupting the Alpha: Crowned by the Dragon King
“I built his empire with my blood and my money. He rewarded me by taking my cousin to our bed.”
For years, I was the invisible Alpha of the Sandwell Pack. While Maxwell claimed his "duties" kept him from me, I was the one balancing the ledgers, securing the borders, and investing my private millions to turn his dying territory into a gold mine.
On my 18th birthday, I finally found out what those "duties" were.
I found my fated mate, Maxwell, in the arms of my cousin, Amelie. they mocked me for being a "useful fool," an unpaid servant who funded their luxury while they shared a bed.
When I exposed their lies to the Pack, they didn’t offer me justice. They chose Amelie’s fake tears and exiled me on the spot.
I didn't steal a cent of their wealth—I left the accounts exactly as I found them: pathetic and empty.
Five years later, the girl they threw away is the woman who owns the world.
A royal decree from the Dragon King forces all Alphas into the elite Alpha Academy. I return not as a victim, but as a billionaire mogul. Maxwell is there, too—not to beg for my forgiveness, but to hunt me down. He’s humiliated, bankrupt, and determined to make me pay for exposing his "perfect" reputation to the world.
But I’m not the defenseless girl he remembers, and I’m not alone. I’ve caught the eye of Sol, the Dragon Prince, a man who finds my power intoxicating.
Maxwell wants my blood for the lies I uncovered. The pack wants my fortune to save their skins. But the Dragon Prince? He’s ready to burn anyone who dares to touch his Queen.
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Chapter: The Hale BloodlineAella POVHunter immediately disappeared beneath another mountain of books.I wasn't even surprised anymore.The moment Pamela mentioned her father's surname, he had become completely absorbed by the search."Hale..." he murmured to himself as he pulled one heavy volume after another from the shelves."There has to be something."Order quietly joined him.Several books floated through the air on their own, landing neatly on the enormous table before them.Chaos wandered over with a cup of tea."I'm placing bets."Hunter didn't even look up."On what?""Whether the Hale family is incredibly powerful..."Chaos grinned."...or incredibly boring."Hunter rolled his eyes."I hope you're wrong.""So do I."Nearly twenty minutes passed.Books opened.Pages turned.Names were crossed out.Family trees appeared and disappeared as Order organized centuries of records.Then Hunter suddenly froze."I found it."Every conversation stopped.Pamela and Marcus immediately walked closer.Hunter carefu
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Chapter: Two Years LaterAella POVThe Sanctuary was unusually lively that morning.For once, the throne room wasn't filled with discussions about mutants, barriers or bloodlines.Instead, everyone seemed... excited.Order had announced the previous evening that Marcus and Pamela were returning from the Spirit Realm.Even though only a relatively short time had passed for us, the Spirit Realm flowed differently.For them...Two years had gone by.Two years of training.Two years of learning.Two years of growing.I stood beside Sol near the entrance, unable to stop smiling.Queen Samantha, Queen Genoviva, Queen Silveira, Leo, Aurora, Hunter, Chaos and even the babies had gathered to welcome them home.Xander floated impatiently in front of the doorway.Riot kept trying to climb the nearest pillar.Althea sat quietly in a maid's arms, watching the entrance with unusual interest.Then the great doors opened.Marcus walked in first.For a moment...I barely recognized him.He looked older.Not physically.There
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Chapter: Pieces Falling Into PlaceAella POVThe Sanctuary had become the center of our war.Every throne room meeting ended with new plans.Every plan created three more.Every victory uncovered another problem waiting for us.This time, however, I felt something different.For the first time in months...We were the ones beginning to move first.Instead of reacting.Instead of chasing Elias.Instead of waiting for another attack.We were finally taking the initiative.The following morning, Sol gathered the commanders through communication scrolls.The meeting stretched across every allied territory.The Silver Pack.The Academy.The Dragon Kingdom.The Void.Even several independent packs joined the call.No one questioned why.John had remained free for far too long.Sol stood before the great map in the Sanctuary's war room.His voice was calm, steady, carrying the confidence that made people naturally listen."We've spent too long focusing only on Elias."His golden eyes swept across every commander."That change
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Chapter: The One We ForgotAella POVQueen Samantha stayed for tea.It was something so ordinary that, for a few precious minutes, I almost forgot we were living through a war.She laughed with Leo.She corrected Aurora's posture without even thinking about it.She smiled every time one of the babies babbled something unintelligible.It was...Strange.Not unpleasant.Simply different.I found myself studying her as she spoke with Sol.She carried herself differently now.Her shoulders were relaxed.Her smile reached her eyes.She laughed more easily.There was no hesitation before giving an order or voicing an opinion.She looked...Free.It took me several minutes to understand why.John wasn't beside her anymore.No longer speaking for her.No longer making decisions in her place.No longer casting that quiet shadow over every conversation.She wasn't behaving like a Queen who had just reclaimed her throne.She was behaving like the woman she had always been before someone slowly convinced her to stand behin
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Chapter: Let Her BeAella POVFor the first time in weeks, everything was quiet.No alarms.No mutant attacks.No reports waiting on my desk.Just the soft afternoon light spilling through the windows of the Sanctuary and my daughter sitting quietly on the floor beside me.Althea had surrounded herself with books again.Not toys.Books.She couldn't even read yet.At least...Not the way normal people did.She simply rested one tiny hand on a book before pushing it toward a maid or toward me, almost as though she already knew whether it contained something useful.I watched her for nearly an hour.She never wasted a movement.If she pointed at a book, it mattered.If she clapped, she wanted something specific.If she looked toward a particular person, it was always for a reason.Everything she did...Had purpose.And that realization broke my heart.She was still a baby.She should have been throwing toys.Laughing at meaningless things.Making impossible messes with Riot.Trying to float after Xander.I
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Chapter: One purposeImmediate KnowledgeAella POVThe discovery of the bloodline records changed everything.For weeks we had been reacting.Now...We finally had direction.Every strange ability.Every impossible power.Every mystery surrounding our families suddenly had context.We no longer fought blindly.We had a plan.And for the first time in months, everyone had a clear role to play.Hunter left the Sanctuary the following morning.His mission was perhaps the most dangerous of them all.Destroy Elias's antenna.The ancient tree.The hidden portal that connected his transportation network.Not immediately.Not recklessly.First he had to observe it.Understand it.Learn when it activated.Only then would he strike.If Elias lost the antenna, his ability to move mutants across the kingdoms would be crippled.Hunter accepted the task without complaint.Although Queen Silveira insisted on checking his head one last time before allowing him to leave."You still have a concussion.""I'm fine.""You fle
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A woman worth billions, dated the wrong brother
Amber built an empire she was never allowed to claim.
Brilliant, strategic, and fiercely loyal, Amber was the mind behind a billion-dollar real estate empire—the woman who identified undervalued properties, structured acquisitions, and designed expansion projects that reshaped skylines. But when betrayal strikes, she’s fired, humiliated, and discarded by the man she helped rise to the top.
She walks away with nothing but her intelligence, her dignity… and the projects that were always hers.
What her ex-fiancé never expects is his powerful half-brother.
A billionaire real estate magnate in his own right, controlled, private, and raising two adopted children on his own, he offers Amber something unexpected: a contractual marriage. No romance. No lies. Just mutual benefit. A public wife to stabilize his corporate image—and a strategic partner who understands the business better than anyone.
Amber accepts.
She takes her real estate projects with her—developments she sourced, designed, and negotiated from the ground up—and brings them into her new husband’s company. Entire portfolios shift overnight. Investments follow her. For the first time, her name is on the contracts, her voice dominates boardrooms, and her success is undeniable.
As Amber rises, the real estate empire she once built in silence begins to crumble. Deals collapse without her leadership. Bad investments surface. And the company her ex-fiancé claimed as his own crashes spectacularly—while Amber thrives, wealthier and more powerful than ever.
But what begins as a business arrangement slowly becomes something far more dangerous.
Because power is intoxicating. Trust is fragile. And love was never part of the contract.
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Chapter: UnofficiallyAmber POVGrandfather was furious.I had expected him to be upset after receiving the recordings and the HR reports.I had not expected him to storm into my office less than an hour after I returned to Asher Corporation."They did what?"His voice echoed through the hallway."They threatened you?""And Pamela?"I quietly slid the recording toward him."I thought you should hear it for yourself."He didn't interrupt the audio once.He listened to every insult.Every sexist remark.Every threat.Every disgusting comment directed at Pamela.By the end, his face had turned frighteningly calm.He slowly removed his glasses and placed them on my desk."They're lucky the police arrived first."I couldn't help smiling."I think Jason would agree.""Oh, Jason isn't the one I'm talking about."That made me laugh.Grandfather had always looked like the picture of a dignified businessman.People tended to forget he hadn't reached the top of the corporate world by being gentle.Before I could repl
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Chapter: housecleaningAmber POVSo much for my disguise.The moment I kicked the door open, the plan had officially ended.I was simply too angry to keep pretending to be someone else.Without saying a word, I removed my sunglasses first.Then the wide-brimmed hat.Finally, I pulled off the blonde bob wig and dropped it onto the table.The room fell completely silent.Every pair of eyes widened."Oh..."I smiled coldly."You do know who I am."Of course they did.I was their new CEO.The reason this merger was even taking place.If Phoenix Ashes hadn't grown as much as it had over the past year, Asher Corporation would have simply absorbed my company, just as they had expected from the beginning.Unfortunately for them...Phoenix Ashes had become far too successful for that to happen.Now we were merging as equals.I slowly looked around the room, matching each face to the personnel files I had studied on the flight.Oscar Hale.Manager of Asher Corporation's Media Division.Lucas Thinly.Vice President of
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Chapter: Pamela's bossAmber POVThe trip back to River City was surprisingly quiet.Jason and I spent most of the flight working, reviewing reports and answering emails while trying to pretend everything was normal.Neither of us truly believed it.Something always happened when we returned home.By the time the plane landed, a car was already waiting for us.The meeting had been scheduled at one of Asher Corporation's corporate restaurants, a location frequently used for executive lunches and internal negotiations.Perfect.Nobody would expect me to arrive disguised.I glanced at myself one last time in the car's mirror.A short blonde bob wig framed my face.Large designer sunglasses hid my eyes.A wide-brimmed cream-colored hat completed the look.Instead of my usual business attire, I wore an elegant champagne-colored dress paired with high heels and an expensive-looking handbag.I looked less like the CEO of two corporations and more like a spoiled heiress spending her father's money.Exactly what I w
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Chapter: A womanAmber POVThe following weeks disappeared in a blur of meetings, reports, and endless video conferences.Jason and I had spent months building our companies in Sum, and for the first time since relocating, we had intentionally stepped back from the day-to-day operations.The executives were capable.The departments were organized.The systems practically ran themselves.At least...That had been the plan.Reality, as always, had other ideas.Problems still found us.Every single day.Some were small.Others...Not so much.One afternoon, while I was reviewing the latest construction updates from the castle restoration project, my phone rang.Pamela.I smiled before answering."Please tell me you're calling with good news."Silence.That wasn't encouraging."Pam?"She let out a long sigh."We have a problem."I immediately straightened in my chair."What happened?""It's the media departments."I frowned."Phoenix Ashes?""And Asher Corporation."I rubbed my forehead."They're refusing
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Chapter: Another secretAmber POVHours passed as Jason and I searched through report after report. Financial records, security logs, communication histories, access reports—everything blurred together until I couldn't remember what I had already read.Nothing.There wasn't a single clue pointing toward whoever had exposed Iris as the Stanley heiress.I leaned back in my chair, rubbing my aching temples."There has to be something we're missing."Jason didn't look away from his monitors."We're assuming the leak came from the Stanley family."His words made me stop.Then, like a flash of lightning, I remembered something."Iris."Jason looked at me."What about her?"I sat up straighter."She told us someone had been following her."The room fell silent.Without another word, I opened the academy's security archive.Mrs. Sun had insisted on installing cameras throughout the school, something the parents had happily accepted after everything that had happened in River City. Every hallway, every entrance, ever
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Chapter: RedirectedAmber POVMr. Stanley had truly frightened the poor boy.The moment the press conference ended, Francis looked like he was reconsidering every decision he had ever made.I almost felt sorry for him.Almost.Mrs. Sun certainly didn't."Oh, this will never do," she declared the moment we returned to the castle.She immediately took Mr. Stanley by the arm."If you're inviting the Owens family to dinner, we're doing it properly."Mr. Stanley nodded with complete seriousness."I agree."Mrs. Sun smiled."I'll have the invitations prepared.""And the menu.""And the seating arrangements.""And..."She paused thoughtfully."...we should probably warn the poor parents before their son arrives believing he's about to be interrogated."For the first time all day, Mr. Stanley laughed."I suppose that would be the polite thing to do."The two of them disappeared toward the dining hall, already discussing guest lists, formal invitations, and whether seventeen-year-olds should be served wine.I smi
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