Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

As we sat together in Sera’s tiny living room after Caleb’s departure, I found myself studying the cramped space with new eyes. The apartment was clean and well-maintained, but painfully small.

But it wasn’t enough. Not for my mate, not for my son.

“Sera,” I said quietly, my voice careful as I watched her help Adrian organize his dinosaur collection on the coffee table. “I want to ask you

something, and I need you to know that whatever you decide is completely your choice.”

She looked up at me with those beautiful emerald eyes. “What is it?”

I took a deep breath, suddenly nervous in a way I hadn’t been since I was a teenager. “I want you and Adrian to come live with me. Both

of you. Permanently.”

The words hung in the air between us, heavy with possibility and promise. Sera’s hands stilled on the plastic triceratops she’d been

holding, and I saw her throat work as she swallowed hard.

Adrian, who had been listening with the intense focus that children brought to conversations that might affect their lives, suddenly

perked up.

big house like in the movies?”

room?”

have the biggest room in the house if you wanted it,” I told him, my heart clenching at the simple joy in his voice. “You could have a playroom, and a library, and we could build a fort in the

voice cracked with excitement. “A real

could hear the emotion threading through her voice,

and I

sent a jolt of pure happiness through my chest, but I tried to

from the

at us both. “But I think we should live with Daddy. He

he disappeared into his bedroom, leaving Sera and me alone in the suddenly

twisted in her lap. When she finally spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. A single tear spilled down her cheek. “What if I’m not good enough? What if I can’t fit into your world? I’m just an omega from a small town, Damien. I don’t know anything about being the mate of an Alpha

voice made Alex snarl in my mind, furious at anyone who

was.

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are the strongest, most resilient woman I’ve ever known. You’ve raised our son to be kind and intelligent and brave. You’ve built a life from nothing, earned a business

crying in earnest now, tears streaming down her face as she struggled to process everything I

can’t just abandon her.

I assured her quickly. “She’ll always be part of our lives. In fact, I’d like to do

me.”

could ask what I meant, Ophelia herself appeared from the kitchen where she’d been giving us privacy, a knowing smile