Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 27

27 Chapter 27

Seraphina’s POV 1

For five years, my adoptive parents had vanished from my life completely-no calls, no letters. It was as if I’d never existed in their world,

which was exactly what they’d wanted when they threw me out.

The phone kept ringing. I let it go to voicemail, but immediately another call came in from a different number. Then another. My phone

buzzed with a text message, then another, the notifications piling up faster than I could dismiss them. 1

*Answer the phone, you little bitch.*

*I know where you work.*

*Nightshadow Industries. Don’t make me come there.*

My blood turned to ice. She was using different phones, probably borrowed from neighbors or friends, making sure I couldn’t just block

her number. And now she was threatening to show up at my workplace. I couldn’t let Elizabeth Knight storm into Nightshadow

Industries and cause a scene.

The phone rang again. This time, I answered.

“Hello, Elizabeth.”

“Don’t you ‘hello Elizabeth’ me, you ungrateful little bitch!” Her voice exploded through the speaker with such venom that I had to hold

the phone away from my ear. “Where the hell have you been for five years? Do you have any idea what you put us through? Disappearing

like some common criminal, embarrassing our family name!”

The familiar torrent of abuse washed over me like acid rain. Same Elizabeth, same vicious tongue, same complete inability to take

responsibility for her own cruelty.

“I’ve been building a life for myself and my son,” I said quietly, proud of how steady my voice sounded despite the way my hands were

trembling. “What do you want, Elizabeth? We haven’t spoken in five years. I assumed that meant you were done pretending to care about

my existence.”

But a harsh laugh that sounded like breaking glass. “Trust me, if I had a choice, I wouldn’t be calling you at all. But you need to come

home. This weekend. There are… arrangements to be made.”

“Arrangements?” I repeated, my voice rising slightly. “Elizabeth, I’m not coming back to Whispering Valley. Ever. I have a life here, a job,

responsibilities-”

have responsibilities to this family!” she shrieked, her voice reaching that familiar pitch that had preceded

my childhood

taking in an unwanted omega orphan and raising you like our own daughter,

Owe us!”

firmly, surprising myself with the steel in my voice. “You made it very clear five years ago that I

had been. You chose Valerie. You got exactly what you

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is about, find someone else to

up when Elizabeth’s voice changed, dropping to something

that made my skin crawl. “I know about your little apartment in the

my throat. “What did

Harbor Elementary. Such a sweet little boy, from what I hear. It would be such

if something were to happen

nerveless fingers, clattering onto my desk with a sound that

couldn’t do anything except stare at the device

that same

shaking so badly I could barely keep hold of

cut me off with a laugh that chilled me

exactly who you’re dealing with here.” Her voice was soft now, almost

“I’m the respected wife of a pack elder. You’re an unwed omega mother

think they’ll believe if something unfortunate

crushed in a vise, making it

Elizabeth’s voice was brisk now, businesslike, as if we were discussing dinner plans rather

even think about running, if you consider taking that little

have friends in many places. There’s nowhere you could hide that I

dead, leaving me staring at my phone in complete silence. The office around me felt surreal, like I was looking

the building-air

and far

after all, taught me exactly how far she was willing to go

woman who’d been capable of throwing out a pregnant

far

of barely controlled anxiety, jumping

barely sleeping.

Whispering Valley felt both endless and far too short. Every mile that passed on the familiar country roads brought back memories I’d spent five

pulled into the gravel driveway of the Knight house, my hands were shaking and my wolf was pacing frantically in

perfectly maintained on

appeared to be a welcoming gesture. She was dressed in her Sunday

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her makeup applied with

voice warm and bright. “Oh, darling, look at you! You

the porch steps and pulled me into what felt

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