Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 2

Seraphina’s POV 1

Ophelia dragged me back to her small apartment above the bakery, her eyes blazing with determination. “We’re not letting those bastards win,” she declared, pulling out makeup and rifling through her closet.

She spun around, holding up an emerald green dress that perfectly matched my eyes. “Tonight, we show them what they lost.”

The dress was beautiful-silky and elegant, with a flowing skirt that hugged my curves in all the right places.

As Ophelia worked on my makeup, carefully applying smoky eyeshadow that made my green eyes pop, I felt something shifting inside

“There,” Ophelia stepped back, admiring her handiwork. “Now you look like the goddess you are.”

I barely recognized myself in the mirror. The woman staring back at me looked confident, mysterious, beautiful. Nothing like the broken

omega who’d fled Gabriel’s house just hours ago.

“Come on,” Ophelia grabbed my hand. “Silver Moon Harbor awaits.”

“I can’t believe we’re actually doing this,” I whispered as we approached the grand entrance.

“Believe it, honey,” Ophelia grinned, straightening her own dress and passed me a mask. “Tonight, we’re not wolves from nowhere.

Tonight, we’re mysterious beauties who belong wherever we damn well please.”

The ballroom took my breath

Way. Crystal chandeliers cast rainbow patterns across marble floors, and hundreds of werewolves in elegant attire mingled beneath soaring ceilings. Everyone wore elaborate masks, adding an air of mystery to the already intoxicating

atmosphere.

I breathed, then immediately

pressed two tequila shots into my hands, raising her own. “To new beginnings and leaving the past in

burned down my throat, but it was a good burn-cleansing, like it was washing away

immediately ordered two more.

this much,” I

find your boyfriend screwing your sister either,” she pointed out. “Extraordinary circumstances call for

measures.”

the third round, I was feeling deliciously dizzy and incredibly free. The pain was still

into a corner of my

dance floor, and for the first time in hours, I

music, spinning and laughing like we didn’t have a care in the world. Other wolves watched us with

caught up in the moment

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was about to suggest we get some

breath caught in

an elegant silver mask that covered the upper half of his face, but what I could see was devastating. Strong jaw, sensual lips curved in a slight smile, and eyes… God, those eyes. They were the deepest blue I’d ever seen, so dark they were almost black, but when the light hit them just right, they seemed to shimmer with

the room wouldn’t refuse a dance, would she?” His voice was like aged whiskey-smooth,

make my pulse

that I’d just had my heart shattered. Instead, I

not?” I heard myself

I could feel the solid

since you walked in,” he murmured near my ear, his breath sending shivers down my spine.

captivating.”

empty-we were strangers, after all-but something in his

around here, are you?” I found myself asking, tilting my head back to look into

in his voice, and I could see his lips