Chapter 19

Damien’s POV 1

After our intense encounter in the car, Sera had collapsed against me, her breathing evening out into the deep rhythm of exhausted sleep. The drug, combined with everything she’d been through tonight, had finally claimed her consciousness. I held her for a long moment, watching the peaceful expression on her face, before carefully adjusting her torn dress and starting the car.

My wolf was restless, pacing anxiously in my mind. *She needs to be somewhere safe,* Alex insisted. *Home. She needs to be home.*

The problem was, I realized with growing frustration, I had no idea where home was for her. I’d hired her, worked beside her for days,

claimed her as my mate, and yet I didn’t even know her address. The realization sat like a stone in my chest, highlighting just how much I

still didn’t know about the woman who had turned my world upside down. 2

I pulled over and dialed Claire’s number, knowing she’d still be awake despite the late hour. She picked up on the second ring.

“Damien? Is everything alright? How did the dinner go?”

“Claire, I need Seraphina’s home address. Now.”

There was a pause. “What happened? Is she hurt?”

“She’s fine,” I said quickly, though the memory of finding her drugged and helpless in that bastard’s house made my hands clench on the

steering wheel. “I just need to get her home safely.”

“I see.” Claire’s voice carried that particular tone she used when she suspected there was far more to the story than I was telling her.

lives at 47 Maple Street, apartment 2B. It’s in the Riverside

working-class neighborhood, the kind of place where people minded

updated since the 1970s.

the business district where

I said

I was standing outside a narrow brick building that looked like it had seen better

yellow light on cracked sidewalks. A few cars

carefully in my arms, noting how her emerald dress-now wrinkled and

as I lifted her but didn’t wake, her

with an old-fashioned buzzer system. I found the button for 2B and pressed it, waiting in

air as footsteps

yoga pants and an oversized sweater that suggested she’d been waiting up for Sera’s return. Her eyes widened as she took in the sight of me-a stranger in an expensive

the hell are you?” she demanded, stepping protectively into the doorway despite being barely five and a half feet tall. “And what

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you do to Sera?”

wanting to wake Sera. “Seraphina’s… employer. Are

face to Sera’s still form and

to drink at the company dinner tonight. I wanted to

safely.”

torn strap of her dress that I hadn’t noticed in

not wanting to explain the full story while standing in

floor. The hallway was cramped and dimly lit, with thin carpeting that had seen better years. She unlocked a door marked 2B and gestured for me to

smaller kitchen, and I could see a single bedroom beyond.

bedroom’s through here,” Ophelia said, still eyeing me with suspicion as she

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