Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

52 Chapter 52

52 Chapter 52

Seraphina’s POV 1

The morning air was crisp and carried the scent of approaching autumn as I loaded my overnight bag into the back of my modest sedan. The drive to the northern territories would take most of the day, but this trip couldn’t be postponed any longer.

“I still don’t like this,” Damien’s deep voice rumbled behind me, his arms wrapping around my waist as he pulled me back against the solid wall of his chest. Even through my jacket, I could feel the heat radiating from his body.

“You worry too much,” I teased, leaning into his embrace and tilting my head back to meet those devastatingly blue eyes. “Besides, I’m practically superhuman now, remember? I can heal people with my bare hands. A little road trip should be nothing.” I assured him,

turning in his arms to press a soft kiss to his lips.

Adrian came bouncing out of the apartment building, his backpack slung over his shoulders and his silver-blue eyes bright with

excitement for his day at school.

“Mommy, are you really going away?” he asked, his small hand finding mine as he looked up at me with those impossibly beautiful eyes.

I knelt down to his level, smoothing his dark curls with gentle fingers. “Just for a few days, sweetheart. Ophelia and Damien are going to

take care of you while I’m gone. You’ll have so much fun together, you might not even miss me.”

“I’ll always miss you.” Adrian said solemnly, throwing his small arms around my neck with the fierce intensity that only children could

manage.

I hugged Adrian tighter, breathing in his familiar little-boy scent of soap and sunshine. “You be good for Damien, okay? Listen to what he

remember that I’ll be back

sloppy kiss to my cheek. “And I’ll take care of Damien too, ’cause he gets sad

not here.”

still at Adrian’s matter-of-fact observation. Out of the mouths

settling on the small of my

So come back to us quickly,

“I promise,” I whispered.

north, the city skyline of Silver Moon Harbor shrinking in my rearview mirror. The

were pleasant enough-rolling hills covered in autumn foliage, small towns that looked like postcards, the

day wore on and I traveled deeper into the northern territories, the landscape began to change. The cheerful farms and quaint villages gave way to dense forests and rocky outcroppings. Towns became sparse, then

my phone had lost signal twenty miles back, leaving me to navigate by the increasingly unreliable road signs.

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I should be approaching the town of Pine Ridge within

at a

found myself on what seemed like an endless stretch of empty asphalt cutting through a tunnel of evergreen trees. The temperature was dropping as

the steering wheel.

saw the lights in my rearview

felt a rush of relief. Another car meant civilization, other

in the middle

fast, much too fast for the winding mountain road. As it closed the

my car with harsh white light,

possible, expecting the truck

rumble of its oversized engine over