Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV

The concern in Damien’s eyes was so profound it made my chest tighten with worry. Whatever had

happened to me, it was clearly far more serious than I had initially thought. The sterile hospital room, the

medical equipment, his haggard appearance-it all pointed to something significant.

“Damien,” I said softly, my voice still rough from disuse, “please tell me what happened. Why am I here?”

He squeezed my hand gently, his thumb tracing circles across my knuckles in a gesture that was both

comforting and nervous. The doctor beside him cleared his throat, consulting his clipboard with a mixture of

professional concern and barely contained amazement.

“Seraphina,” Damien began, his voice carefully controlled, “you’ve been unconscious for ten days.”

The words hit me like a physical blow. “Ten days?” I repeated, my voice rising in disbelief. “That’s impossible. I

feel like I just closed my eyes and had the most peaceful sleep of my life.”

“I know it’s hard to believe,” he said, leaning forward in his chair, never letting go of my hand. “But it’s been

ten full days. We’ve been here, waiting, hoping you’d wake up.”

I stared at him, trying to process this information. Ten days of my life, gone. Ten days where I’d been lying

here, unaware of the world around me, while Damien had clearly been suffering. The stubble on his jaw, the

wrinkled clothes, the exhaustion in his eyes-it all made sense now.

“But I don’t understand,” I said, struggling to sit up more fully despite the weakness in my limbs. “What

caused it?”

Damien paused, seeming to choose his words carefully. “You pushed yourself too far, Sera. Your body couldn’t

handle the strain”

The memories came flooding back then-the makeshift medical tent, the wounded fighters, the desperate need I’d felt to help them all. I remembered the feeling of energy flowing out of me, the growing weakness, the dizziness that had gradually consumed me.

“The soldiers,” I said urgently, gripping Damien’s hand tighter. “Are they all right? Did I manage to-”

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single one of them made a full

I had nearly died. For ten

beginning to blur my vision. “I’m so sorry for putting you

know… I didn’t think…”

from his chair and perched on the edge of my hospital bed, his free hand

my face. “Don’t you dare apologize. You did something incredible,

alive because of

haggard appearance. “You look like you haven’t

his lips. “Sleep wasn’t exactly a priority when the most

in his voice, the raw emotion barely held

of his palm against my

now,” I said softly. “I’m awake, I’m

in his expression-a

was more he needed to tell me. “But Sera, there’s

while you were unconscious.”

seriousness in his tone made my stomach clench with anxiety.

to memorize every detail. “The doctors ran extensive tests to figure out why you weren’t waking up.

how to phrase whatever revelation he was about to share. The

his expression

reason it took so long for you to wake up, is because you weren’t

hospital room burst open with such force that it slammed against the

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sound of running footsteps

really awake?” Ophelia’s voice,

room.

like a whirlwind, her hair disheveled and her eyes bright with unshed tears. Behind her, moving at the fast pace his little

cried, his voice

running

and confusion of the past few minutes dissolved in

tears streaming down her face as

of the

“We were

lose you.”

whispered, holding her as tightly as I

clambered up onto the chair Damien had vacated, his small hands patting

that

silver-blue eyes-so much

feeling better? Does anything

curls, marveling at how much

all but had apparently

better now that I can see you,” I told him

sleeping?”

he said solemnly. “I helped take care of you and Daddy,

little boy sitting beside my hospital bed, talking to my unconscious form. “Thank you, sweetheart. I think I could hear you, even while I