Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The first thing that hit me when consciousness crawled back was the smell.

Human waste. Unwashed bodies. Fear so thick it coated the back of my throat like oil. I gagged, my stomach

lurching as the full assault of odors invaded my senses.

I was lying on something cold and rough. Stone, maybe concrete. My body ached everywhere, but it was a

distant, muffled pain-like my nerve endings had been wrapped in cotton. The wolf poison. Still working its

way through my system.

*Ayla?*

Nothing. Not even a whisper of her presence. The silence in my mind was terrifying, like losing a limb I’d

never realized I needed.

I forced my eyes open, blinking against the dim light filtering through a barred window high above. The cell

was small, maybe twelve feet by eight, with walls that looked like they hadn’t been cleaned in decades. Dark

stains I didn’t want to identify marked the concrete.

But the worst part wasn’t the conditions. It was the people.

At least a dozen other prisoners huddled against the walls, their clothes torn and filthy, their faces gaunt with

hunger and terror. Though I caught the scent of a few wolves mixed in. All of them looked broken.

and forth,

her hair was already streaked with

breath-a prayer, maybe, or just meaningless words to keep the

against the wall. One had a bandage

had turned brown with old blood. The other kept glancing

terror,

beyond the cell door. The effect on the other prisoners was

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rocking woman stopped mid-motion, her

someone whispered. “Not

door swung open with a

Two soldiers entered.

one called out, consulting a piece of paper. His voice was flat, bored,

grocery list.

man with the head bandage went pale. His companion grabbed

friend whispered urgently. “Hide.

was already standing, his

stepped forward. One grabbed his arm while the

clamped the metal around his wrists. “I

the face, cutting off his words. Blood trickled from his split

for upstairs,” the

toward the door. His

you taking him? When will

cruel smile spreading across his face.

slammed shut. The lock

echoed down the corridor, growing fainter

Then silence.

reach for Ayla, desperate for even a hint of her strength, her courage. But the wolf poison had built a wall between us that I couldn’t break