Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

Anna Blackwood-was someone I’d hoped never to see again for the rest of my natural life.

The memories came flooding back with crystalline clarity, each one hitting me like a physical blow. Anna and Valerie, standing over me

in the high school bathroom during my sophomore year, their cruel laughter echoing off the grimy tiled walls as they shoved my head

toward the toilet bowl filled with murky water and discarded cigarette butts. 1

“Look at the pathetic little omega,” Valerie had sneered, her manicured nails digging into my scalp as she held me down. “Does she really

think she belongs here with real wolves?”

Anna had been right there beside her, recording everything on her phone while she giggled. “This is going straight to the pack forum,”

she’d taunted. “Everyone needs to see what happens to omegas who get too uppity.”

The taste of chlorine and humiliation had burned my throat for days afterward. But that wasn’t the worst of it. They’d made sure to time

their attacks perfectly-always when teachers were in meetings, always when the hallways were empty, always when there would be no

witnesses except their loyal followers who found omega-baiting as entertaining as a sporting event. 1

There had been the time they’d dumped my entire lunch tray on my head in front of the senior class, then forced me to clean it up while

they stood there critiquing my “technique.” The countless mornings I’d arrived at school to find my locker filled with rotting meat and

notes calling me “worthless breeding stock.”

Anna’s specialty had been psychological warfare. She’d befriend me for just long enough to learn my insecurities, then weaponize them

I had a crush on a boy in our chemistry class and had convinced him to ask

showed up to find them laughing at me in

really think someone like him would want damaged goods?” Anna had whispered

like acid. “You’re just a charity case, Sera. Always have

three endless years, they’d made sure I knew exactly where I stood in

nobody, a mistake that everyone tolerated only because the Moon Goddess apparently had a twisted

completely. Valerie had mentioned once that Anna was “sleeping her way to the top”

I’d assumed that was just typical Valerie venom. Now here

as if we were long-lost

other?” Anna’s voice pitched higher, that same theatrical quality I remembered from our school days when she’d perform

was available. “We were best friends! Isn’t that right,

indignation. Ayla was pacing furiously in my mind, her mental voice sharp

years. How dare she

pain wasn’t Anna’s presence-it was the golden pendant she kept waving

craftsmanship was exquisite,

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his voice carrying that same professional tone he’d used

working as a

With me.

life making me feel worthless-was being handed a position identical to mine. No interview, no qualifications check, no demonstration of ability.

word, apparently based on whatever sob story she’d fed

to say, my voice steady despite the fury building in my chest. “But did this…

to recall multiple rounds

I was deemed

Damien’s arm, her artificially plumped lips curving into a

same musical tinkle that had preceded so many of

of us don’t need to jump through

Damien, making sure her enhanced curves were pressed