Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 19

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.

apartment 2B. It’s in

working-class neighborhood,

was cheap because the buildings hadn’t been updated since the 1970s. It was a twenty-minute drive

business

you,” I said

outside a narrow brick building that looked like it

yellow light on cracked

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

stirred slightly as I lifted her but

was secured with an old-fashioned buzzer system. I found the button

footsteps echoed

suggested she’d been waiting up for Sera’s

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

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you do to Sera?”

I said quietly, not wanting to wake Sera. “Seraphina’s… employer.

darting from my face to Sera’s still form and

too much to drink at the company dinner tonight. I

safely.”

studied Sera’s appearance more closely-the flushed cheeks, the disheveled hair, the torn strap of her dress that I hadn’t noticed in the dim light of the

to explain the full story while standing in a public hallway. “She needs

stepped aside, leading me up a narrow staircase to the second floor. The hallway was cramped and dimly

opened into an even smaller kitchen, and I could see a single

said, still eyeing me with suspicion as

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