Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The morning sun streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Nightshadow Industries, casting everything in a golden glow that should have felt hopeful. Instead, as I settled into my desk chair, I found myself bracing for whatever fresh hell Anna Blackwood had

planned for today.

I didn’t have to wait long.

“Good morning, bestie!” Anna’s sickeningly sweet voice cut through the peaceful morning atmosphere like nails on a chalkboard. She

sauntered over to my desk in a tight red dress that looked more appropriate for a nightclub than a corporate office, her platinum blonde

hair bouncing with each calculated step.

“Sleep well?” she asked, though her tone suggested she didn’t particularly care about my answer. “You look a little tired. Rough night?”

“Actually,” I said, looking up from my computer screen with a smile that was all teeth and no warmth, “I had a wonderful evening. Very…

therapeutic.”

Anna’s perfectly plucked eyebrows drew together in confusion. “Therapeutic?”

“Oh yes,” I continued cheerfully, turning my full attention to her now. “Sometimes a girl just needs to work out her frustrations, you

know? Get rid of some toxic influences in her life.”

Something flickered across Anna’s face-uncertainty, maybe even a hint of fear-but she quickly masked it with her usual superior smirk.

“I have no idea what you’re babbling about, Sera. Maybe you should focus on your work instead of whatever fantasy life you’re living in

your head.”

her take a

your dear friend Valerie

and delicious. Her fake smile faltered, replaced by something much more

though her

to my computer

friends, after all. I’m sure she tells you

to figure out what game I was playing. After a long moment, she spun on her designer heels and stalked away, pulling out her phone as she disappeared into

room.

as she apparently tried calling Valerie. Once, twice, three times. Each

room twenty minutes later, her perfect makeup couldn’t hide the pale undertone of her skin. Our eyes met across the office space, and for the first time since

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come near my desk for the rest

welcome and slightly unnerving. For years, Anna had made my life miserable with casual cruelty and calculated humiliation. To have her suddenly keeping her distance felt

to my wolf as I organized Damien’s afternoon schedule, “what exactly happened

her presence more solid and aware than it had ever been before. *I’m not entirely sure, she admitted, her mental voice thoughtful. *But something changed

“Awakened?”

paused, and I could feel her confusion mixing with my own. *It felt like… like some part of

had lengthened into deadly claws, how I’d lifted Valerie off the ground with supernatural ease. The memory should have terrified me. Instead, it filled

connected to my bloodline?” I asked.

adoptive parents never

just some orphan they’d taken in out of the goodness of

now…”

was eight years old, old enough to remember fragments of my life before. But those

“Seraphina?”

desk, her elegant face creased with

onto the floor. Even after everything we’d shared, everything that had been revealed between us, the sight of him still made

different