Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

The words hung in the air like a death sentence, each syllable hitting me with the force of a physical blow.

Two distinct life signatures. Two.

My legs gave out completely, and I gripped the edge of Sera’s hospital bed to keep from collapsing to the

floor. The room spun around me in nauseating circles as my brain tried to process what Dr. Whitmore had

just said.

“What the hell does that mean?” I managed to choke out, though somewhere deep in my chest, Alex was

already beginning to understand. My wolf’s excitement was building like a gathering storm, hope and fierce

protectiveness flooding through our bond so intensely it made my hands shake.

Dr. Whitmore’s ancient eyes opened. His weathered hands continued to hover over Sera’s still form,

trembling slightly with either age or the magnitude of what he was sensing.

“There’s a second heartbeat,” he whispered, his voice filled with awe that made the hair on the back of my

neck stand up. “Very faint, very new, but definitely present. Alpha… your mate is pregnant.”

The words hit me like a freight train.

Pregnant.

“How far along?” The question scraped my throat raw.

Dr. Whitmore closed his eyes again, his hands moving in slow, careful patterns over Sera’s abdomen. “Based

on the life force I’m sensing… perhaps six to seven weeks. The pregnancy is very early, but the child’s essence

is remarkably strong.”

“Is that why she won’t wake up?” Panic clawed at my chest as new fears crashed over me. “Is something

wrong with the pregnancy? Is that what’s causing the coma?”

“Not causing it, no” Dr. Whitmore’s voice carried the patient authority of someone who had delivered

impossible news to panicked families for decades. “But it’s definitely related. Your mate’s body is doing

something I’ve never seen before, Alpha, She’s channeling every ounce of her considerable life force into

protecting the developing child.”

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water through my veins.

she performed on seventeen critically wounded wolves…” The elderly doctor paused, choosing his words carefully. “That level of energy

is

catch myself against

she should be dead?”

stared down at Sera’s peaceful face, my heart hammering so hard I could hear my pulse in my

so small and fragile lying there, surrounded by beeping machines and

is keeping her

corrected gently. “The child is lending

child with everything she

wake up?” The question burned my

his movements slow

is stabilizing her condition, and both life forces are growing stronger by

into the bedside chair that had become my second home over the

days. My hands shook as I reached out to place them gently on

I’d

whispered into the silence, my voice cracking with emotion. “You’ve

brother or sister in there, helping you fight

days, I felt something that resembled

feel like an eternity and every small sound from the monitors spike

rate into dangerous territory.

must have dozed off at some point, because the next thing I knew, Lucas was shaking my shoulder gently. Sunlight was streaming through the hospital windows, and the afternoon shift of nurses was making

rounds.

studying Sera’s face for

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pregnant,” I said

hitting the floor with a

tile.

words felt surreal coming out of my mouth,

unconscious so long. Her body is protecting the

sank into the visitor’s chair, his face pale

the improvement in Sera’s condition became impossible

had terrified me gradually giving way to a healthy

from within. Her breathing deepened, became more regular. Most importantly, when

could swear I felt the faintest return

to her knuckles. “I know you’re in

and I need you so goddamn much I

painting the room in shades of gold and

happened.

hand and telling her about Adrian’s day at school-how

how he’d asked his teacher if mommy

cubs-when I

slightest movement. Barely perceptible,

had

a violent thud that made my vision blur

can you hear

Then her eyelids fluttered-just the barest tremor of movement, but enough

close up with emotion so intense