Scars of Betrayal

**Zaire’s POV**

My hands gripped the steering wheel so tight the leather groaned under my knuckles. Every bump in the asphalt sent a fresh wave of white-hot agony shredding through my back. One hundred lashes. Alpha Gideon had shredded my flesh to the bone, and I had taken every single strike in human form. Suppressing Titan was a necessity. Alpha wolves were proud, territorial beasts. If I let m