Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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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.

the shorter one said, circling me like I was livestock

up. Bet she’s

clawing at my throat. “I

Just

the sound harsh and grating in the quiet forest. “Oh, honey, this ain’t just about money. Though we’ll be

eyes traveled over me in a way that made my skin crawl. “But a

waste not to have a

stepped closer and reached out

expression darkened.

taking on a threatening edge. “Don’t be unfriendly. We’re just trying to help

something else in the air. Another scent, cleaner and more powerful, approaching fast through the

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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 suggested either

but his words were cut off as a figure burst from the tree

in dark jeans and a black leather jacket. But it was his hair that caught my attention

almost white in the darkness, catching the

stranger said, his voice carrying a cultured accent that spoke of education and

tone of barely controlled violence that made my would-be attackers take an involuntary step backward. “I believe

prefer that you leave her

your business, pretty boy,” the shorter man snarled, though I noticed he was keeping his distance from the newcomer.

you

as if considering the suggestion. “I’m

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

knife from his belt, the blade gleaming wickedly in the darkness. “I said back off. There’s two of us

math.”

strong suit,” the stranger replied, and I could hear

was always more of

fast for my human eyes to follow completely. One moment the stranger

on the ground, his knife spinning away into the darkness

was bent at an unnatural

stranger moved like liquid lightning, intercepting him before he’d taken three steps. There was

too was on the

the stranger said, brushing invisible dust from his jacket as he stood over the two groaning forms.

whatever hole you crawled out of and forget you ever saw this lady. Because if I hear about