Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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.

Maple Street, apartment 2B. It’s in

the area-older buildings, working-class neighborhood, the kind of place where people

because the buildings hadn’t been updated

the business district

I

minutes later, I was standing outside a narrow brick building that looked

on

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

stirred slightly as I lifted her but didn’t wake, her

door was secured with an old-fashioned buzzer system. I

air as footsteps echoed

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

are you?” she demanded, stepping protectively into the doorway despite being barely five and a

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you do to Sera?”

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

face to

to drink at the company dinner tonight. I

safely.”

her dress that I hadn’t noticed in the

interrupted, not wanting to explain the full story while standing in

up a narrow staircase to the second floor. The hallway was cramped and dimly lit, with thin carpeting

tiny but immaculately clean. A small living room opened into an even smaller kitchen, and I could see a single bedroom beyond. Everything was organized with the precision of someone who

still eyeing me with suspicion as she