Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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38 Chapter 38

Seraphina’s POV 1

The silence in my small bedroom felt heavy and charged, like the air before a thunderstorm. Damien sat in the worn chair beside my bed,

his powerful frame looking almost comically large in the tiny space. His dark hair was disheveled from running his hands through it, and his expensive shirt was wrinkled from carrying Adrian through the forest. Even exhausted and worried, he was devastatingly handsome.

But all I could think about was Anna Blackwood, draped all over him in the lobby like a designer accessory, waving that golden pendant

like a victory flag.

“You should go,” I said quietly, my voice barely above a whisper as I focused on the worn pattern of my bedspread rather than meeting

his penetrating blue eyes. “Anna is probably wondering where you disappeared to.”

“Sera-”

“Really, Damien.” I forced myself to look at him, mustering what little dignity I had left after the evening’s disasters. “I appreciate

everything you’ve done tonight-finding Adrian, bringing him home safely, taking care of us both. But I understand the situation. Anna

has your pendant. She’s the woman you’ve been searching for. I won’t stand in the way of that.”

The words tasted like ash in my mouth, but I forced them out anyway. Better to end this cleanly now than to drag out the inevitable

heartbreak.

Damien leaned forward in his chair, his eyes blazing with an intensity that made my breath catch. “What if I told you that I don’t give a

damn about Anna Blackwood?”

kind to spare my feelings,” I replied, though hope fluttered weakly in my chest

your relationship-”

a pendant.” His voice cut through my words like a blade.

“Damien-”

me finish.” He stood abruptly, his movement sharp and predatory as he began pacing the cramped space between

room seemed to shrink around his imposing presence,

held that pendant,” he said, his voice rough with barely controlled emotion. “Financial

the time.” He stopped pacing and turned to face me, his blue eyes

made my breath catch. “But that was before I realized what

I whispered, my

out like a growl, raw and possessive and absolutely devastating. “Only

the past. Anna can have whatever money she wants, whatever job she thinks she

bed, close enough that I could feel the heat radiating from his body, could smell that intoxicating blend of sandalwood and masculine power that made

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said, my name sounding like a prayer on his lips. “I’ve wasted five years chasing

along.”

brushing against his hand where it rested on the arm of the chair. The contact sent electricity shooting up my arm, and I saw his

pain and exhaustion. His scent was stronger here in the confined space, wrapping around me like silk ribbons and making my wolf purr

had nothing to do with my injuries and everything to do with the way he was looking at me-like I was something precious and desired and absolutely essential to his

lips hovering just inches from mine. “I should let you rest,” he said, though his voice suggested that rest was the last thing on

tilting my face up

space between us crackled with electricity. I could feel his breath against my lips, could see the way his eyes had

small voice called out from the living room, breaking the spell that had been weaving

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Damien? I

of us breathing hard and staring at each other with

made no move to pull my hand

the way his broad

hallway,