All Chapters of Punished by Husband, Forced by Biker Daddies: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

Betty's POVI sat with the folder open in front of me long after everyone else had gone to bed, staring at the list of names Lucien had pulled out. Six days. That was all we had before every Alpha in this country sat in the same room as the man who destroyed my family."This is bigger than just catching him," I said quietly, more to myself than anyone else, but Adrian was still there across the table, nursing his shoulder wound."It is," he agreed. "If you expose him in front of the full Council, decades of lies fall apart in one afternoon. Every pack that ever trusted him would finally see the truth.""And if we walk in there without enough proof," I said, "they'll turn on us instead. They'll think we're the ones lying."Adrian nodded slowly, his face heavy. "Your mother came close to that exact moment once. She almost had enough to bring it all down. But almost was not enough. It cost her everything."I felt something settle hard in my chest hearing that. My mother had gotten this c

Betty's POVI walked through the clubhouse that morning and barely recognized the place. Wolves from packs I had never even heard of a few months ago were sitting shoulder to shoulder, eating breakfast together, laughing over something one of the younger guys said, trading stories about roads they had traveled to get here. Packs that used to hate each other on sight. Packs that had probably spilled blood over territory lines decades ago. And here they all were, sharing coffee like none of that history existed anymore.I stopped near the doorway and just watched for a moment, something warm settling in my chest. Damon had done this. Without even realizing it, he had pulled together something nobody thought was possible, not with threats or force, but because people finally believed in the same thing."Betty," one of the older wolves called out, waving me over. He was from a territory two states away, someone I had only met the day before. "My daughter's about your age. She wanted to kn

Colt's POVThe room buzzed the second Adrian said the name out loud. Damon leaned forward, his hands flat on the table, eyes sharp with the kind of focus he got right before a fight."Who is he," Damon pressed. "How do we reach him."Adrian rubbed a hand over his jaw, his voice slow and careful. "He was one of the closest people to Elena. Before she disappeared, he was practically family. After she vanished, he joined the Council publicly. Everyone assumed he switched sides.""But he didn't," Blaze said, catching on fast."No," Adrian said. "He's been protecting whatever she left behind ever since. Hiding in plain sight for years."Damon was already reaching for his jacket. "Then we set up a meeting. Now.""No." Adrian's voice cut sharp enough that even Damon stopped moving. "He has survived this long because he trusts almost nobody. If we push too hard, too fast, we could scare him into silence. Or worse. We could get him killed before he tells us anything."I watched Damon's jaw tig

Betty's POVThe second Adrian told us about the Chairman killing witnesses, I felt something snap inside me. Not anger exactly. More like the last thread of patience I had been holding onto finally breaking loose."We can't wait anymore," I told Damon, standing in the middle of the room while everyone else was still processing what Adrian had just revealed. "People are dying because they helped my mother. Innocent people. And we're sitting here planning for the perfect moment that might never come."Damon looked at me, his jaw working the way it always did when he wanted to argue but knew I was right. "I understand how you feel, Betty. But running in without a plan is exactly what the Chairman wants. He's baiting us. Every person he removes is designed to make us panic and move too fast.""And every hour we wait is another life he gets to take."We stared at each other across the room, and I waited for the explosion. The old version of us would have started screaming by now, two stubb

Betty’s POVThe second we hit the ground I was running before anyone could stop me. Smoke poured out of the main building in thick black clouds, and through it I could hear screaming. Women screaming. Children crying. The sounds cut through me like knives because I had heard those sounds in my nightmares for months, only this time they were real and happening right in front of me."Betty, wait!" Damon shouted behind me, but I was already through the front door.Inside was chaos. Furniture knocked over, walls scorched black, a young woman crouched in the corner holding two children against her chest so tight their faces were buried in her shirt. I ran straight to her and grabbed her arm."Come with me," I told her, pulling her up. "Now. Don't look at anything, just follow me out."She was shaking so badly she could barely stand, but she moved, clutching those kids against her while I guided them toward the entrance. Another family appeared from a side room, an older woman carrying a to