Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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69 Chapter 69

Damien’s POV 1

By the time we reached my estate, the night had settled into that deep, quiet darkness that comes in the hours before dawn. The house loomed before us, all stone and shadow, its windows dark except for the security lights that automatically illuminated our path.

“Thank you for the hospitality,” Caleb said, extending his hand with genuine warmth. “And for the ride. That was… illuminating”

“More than you know,” I replied, shaking his hand briefly. The anger I’d felt earlier had transformed into something else entirely—a

mixture of hope and dread that sat in my chest like a living thing.

“Guest room is second door on the left upstairs,” I told him. “There should be everything you need.”

Caleb nodded and disappeared into the house, his footsteps echoing briefly in the marble foyer before fading as he climbed the stairs. I

stood in the entrance hall for a long moment, staring up at the chandelier that cast prismatic shadows across the walls.

Everything Caleb had said kept circling through my mind like a relentless tide. The description of the woman from that night—emerald

eyes, dark hair, petite build, that underlying strength. It was Sera. Every detail matched perfectly.

I made my way to my study, knowing sleep would be impossible. The room felt hollow despite its rich furnishings, the leather-bound

books and expensive art doing nothing to quiet the storm in my head. I poured myself three fingers of whiskey and settled into my chair,

staring out the floor-to-ceiling windows at the city lights twinkling below.

*Sera.*

Her name echoed in my mind like a prayer, like a curse. How could I have been so blind? The mate bond I’d felt the moment I saw her in

my office, the way my wolf Alex had recognized her immediately it all made sense now. She wasn’t just my fated mate by some cosmic

coincidence. She was the woman from that night, the mother of my child, the missing piece of my soul that I’d been searching for across

five long, empty years.

And Adrian. God, Adrian with his silver-blue eyes that matched my own, his natural charisma that drew people to him like moths to

flame.

my glass and immediately poured another. The whiskey burned, but it was nothing

up in Anna’s hands? The timeline made sense now—Anna working

left in such

been asleep when I left it

of what we’d shared.

the same air, and I’d been too blind to recognize what was right in front of me. Worse, I’d hired the woman who’d stolen our chance at finding each other sooner, given her a position of

lie.

bitter enough to choke

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phone and scrolled to Sera’s contact information. My thumb hovered over the call button. What would I

searching for her for

sleeping peacefully in her

Knight. Her employment file, her address, her schooling records. Looking for any trace of the woman I’d

much. She’d appeared on official records about five years ago when she’d moved to

that, there were scattered mentions of a Seraphina Knight from a small town called Whispering Valley, but

cold quickly.

finally claimed me. I fell asleep in my chair,

to Sera’s employee photograph and an

my phone dragged me from uneasy dreams.

neck from sleeping in the

me you have something,”

slightly manic edge he got when he’d been up all

yes, I have something, though I’m not sure how useful

suddenly fully awake. “What did you

the bad news. The hotel’s digital storage system had a massive failure about three years ago. Most of the older footage

lost. What we managed to recover is…

heart sank. “And

news is that I’ve got a guy who specializes in data recovery—the kind of guy

lightning. He managed to piece together a few minutes of footage

room that night.”

to me.

small, barely two minutes of grainy,

squinting at the

thirty seconds, just the familiar perspective of a security camera mounted high on the wall. Then a figure