Adopted to Biological? Keep Your Golden Child Scapegoat Out novel Chapter 11

Chapter 1

“What brand are you using today? It feels so thin.”

I was riding my Delta Force Commander boyfriend, straddling his hips during our morning fuck-when something felt off.

He thrust harder, his voice rough.

“I’m not wearing one today. Let me stay inside you a little longer-these drills at Fort Bragg are killing me.”.

No one would believe it.

Commander Kaelan Sherwood-Delta Force’s most ruthless leader was underneath me right now, begging me like a starving

puppy.

His only stress relief was fucking me raw. All night. Every night.

I’m his childhood sweetheart, his subordinate, his dirty little secret.

But tonight might be our last time.

Because of one sick family rule: He has to draw a “Blessed” tarot card to marry me.

But five years in a row, Kaelan drew only the “Death” card-a curse in their eyes-earning him 98 lashes.

And tonight was attempt #99.

I was ready to take the punishment with him.

I’d beg his family to break the rule, bleed for us if I have to.

Then I saw it.

He drew the Blessed card.

FINALLY!

But before I could even scream with joy, he shoved it back and pulled out a Death card instead.

“Announce it publicly,” he told his uncle coldly. “This one’s cursed too.”

I stood there frozen, my mind completely blank.

Then it hit me-he never wanted to marry me!

That’s when my phone buzzed in my pocket.

Chapter 1

I answered without hesitation.

“Mom? I accept the contract marriage.”

Kaelan’s uncle took the slip, looking at Kaelan in disbelief.

“Kaelan, when you were a kid, you used to chase after Avelaine yelling that you’d marry her one day. Now you’re a Delta Force Commander, and you keep putting it off?”

“This is the 99th time you’ve switched a Blessed card for a Death card.”

So the previous 98 draws had all been Blessed cards too.

Inside the ancestral hall, Kaelan’s voice carried a hint of helplessness.

“My desire to marry Avelaine has never changed. But during those three years she was deployed in Africa on counter-terror mission, Betsy was the one by my side.”

“Betsy told me that the day I get married, she’ll request a transfer to the most dangerous outpost on the border. I don’t love her, but after eight years of life-and-death missions together, I can’t bear to let her risk her life like that.”

“And what about Avelaine?” his uncle pressed. “You keep swapping the cards, postponing the wedding-aren’t you afraid of breaking her heart?”

Kaelan fell silent for a moment, then picked up the whip from the corner and handed it to his uncle.

“That’s why I’ll never let Avelaine find out. Every punishment is my way of making it up to her. This time, follow the family

law too-99 lashes.”

Outside the door, my vision had already blurred with tears.

Just then, my phone buzzed in my pocket-it was my mother.

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