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.”

enough to make her take a small step backward. “That’s

your dear friend Valerie

delicious. Her fake smile faltered,

she asked, though her voice had lost its

my attention to my computer screen. “I just thought you might have heard from

friends, after all. I’m sure she tells

as she tried 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 the

room.

rising in pitch as she apparently tried calling Valerie. Once,

undertone of her skin. Our

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near my desk for the

was both 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 almost

I organized Damien’s afternoon

her presence more solid and aware than it had ever been before. *I’m not entirely sure,

“Awakened?”

wasn’t normal behavior for most wolves, period.* Ayla paused, and I could feel her confusion mixing with my own. *It felt like… like some part of us that had

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

you think it’s connected to my bloodline?” I asked. “To whoever

quieter. *Your adoptive parents never told you anything

bitterly. “Elizabeth always said I was just some orphan

now…”

when I was eight years old, old enough to remember fragments of my life before. But those memories were hazy, dreamlike, as

“Seraphina?”

Claire standing beside my desk, her elegant face creased with concern.

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

his gaze made my pulse quicken. There was something different about the way he looked at me now-something