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-”

she shrieked, her voice reaching that

my childhood

did for you, after taking in an unwanted omega orphan and raising

Owe us!”

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

had been. You chose Valerie. You got exactly

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someone else

to hang up when Elizabeth’s voice changed, dropping to something low and dangerous that made my wolf pace

a calculated quality that made my skin crawl. “I know about your little

my throat. “What did you

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

if something were

my desk with a sound that seemed to echo through

couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t do anything except stare at the

that same calm, conversational

grabbed the phone back up, my hands shaking so

but Elizabeth cut me off with a laugh

I think you’re forgetting exactly who you’re

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

you think they’ll believe if something unfortunate were to

chest felt like it was being crushed in

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

think about running,

say I have friends in many places. There’s nowhere

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

thick glass. The familiar sounds of the

muffled and far

better than that. She’d raised me, after all, taught me exactly how far she

out a pregnant

of far

entire week in a state of barely controlled anxiety, jumping every time

barely sleeping.

too short. Every mile that passed

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

looked exactly the same-small, neat, perfectly maintained on the outside while hiding

her arms open in what appeared to be

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applied with

called out, her voice warm and bright. “Oh, darling, look at

felt like a genuine hug, her arms wrapping

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