Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

53 Chapter 53

53 Chapter 53

Serahina’s POV 1

When I came to, I was hanging upside down in my seatbelt, my head throbbing and warm blood trickling down my forehead. The car had come to rest on its roof in a shallow ditch, steam hissing from the crumpled engine.

Through the spider-webbed windshield, I could see boots approaching. Heavy work boots that moved with deliberate, unhurried steps.

Fear shot through me like ice water as I realized my situation. Alone, injured, trapped in an overturned car in the middle of nowhere,

with whoever had just run me off the road walking toward me like they had all the time in the world.

I fumbled for my seatbelt release with shaking fingers, gasping as the mechanism finally gave way and I tumbled down onto the car’s

ceiling in an undignified heap. Glass crunched under my hands as I tried to orient myself, tried to find a way out.

“Well, well, well. What do we have here?”

The voice was rough, amused, and completely unfamiliar. A man’s voice, though I couldn’t see his face through the damaged windshield.

“Looks like a pretty little thing got herself into some trouble,” another voice added, and I realized with growing horror that there were at

least two of them. “Good thing we happened to be driving by.”

I managed to crawl toward what had been the passenger side window, now partly open thanks to the crash. If I could squeeze through,

get into the forest, maybe I could hide until they gave up looking for me.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you, sweetheart,” the first voice said, and suddenly a hand was grabbing my ankle, dragging me back from the

window opening. “It’s dangerous out there in the dark. Bears and wolves and all sorts of nasty creatures.”

I was yanked from the car and hauled to my feet, swaying as a wave of dizziness nearly sent me back to the ground. Two men stood

before me, both wearing flannel shirts and jeans that had seen better days. The taller one had greasy brown hair and a scraggly beard,

while his companion was shorter and stockier with mean little eyes that reminded me of a rat’s.

livestock at auction. “She’s even prettier up close. Nice car

it up. Bet

steady despite the fear clawing at my

need. Just let me

forest. “Oh, honey, this ain’t

that made my skin crawl. “But a pretty little thing like you, all alone out here…

waste not to have

man, whose name I didn’t want to know, stepped closer and reached out to touch my

expression darkened.

“Don’t be unfriendly. We’re just trying to help a lady in

air. Another scent, cleaner and

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rapid footsteps made all three of us turn toward the forest. Someone was coming, moving through the underbrush with purpose and speed that

started to say, but his words were cut off as a

and a black

the darkness, catching the light like

carrying a cultured accent

would-be attackers take an involuntary step backward. “I

prefer that you leave her

your business, pretty boy,” the shorter man snarled, though I noticed he

pretend you

“I’m afraid I

terrible weakness for damsels in distress. It’s a character flaw, really,

the blade gleaming wickedly in the darkness. “I said back off. There’s two of us and one of you.

math.”

stranger replied, and I could hear the smile in his voice even though

always more of a

human eyes to follow completely. One moment the stranger was

next moment, Dale was on the ground, his

bent at

liquid lightning, intercepting him before he’d taken three steps.

struggle, a pained grunt, and then he too was on the

invisible dust from his jacket as he

out of and forget you ever saw