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.

corner rocked back and forth, her arms

was already streaked with premature gray. She muttered

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

backs pressed against the wall. One had

that had turned brown with old blood. The other kept glancing at the

terror,

heavy boots echoed from somewhere beyond the cell door. The effect on the other prisoners was

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mid-motion, her eyes going wide with

whispered.

rattled in the lock. The door swung open with a screech

Two soldiers entered.

a piece of paper. His voice was

grocery list.

bandage went pale.

friend whispered urgently. “Hide.

he was already standing, his whole body shaking.

One grabbed his arm while the other unlocked

clamped the metal around his wrists.

him across the face, cutting off his words. Blood trickled from

it for upstairs,”

dragged him toward the door. His

you taking him? When

tall soldier paused in the doorway, a cruel smile spreading across

The lock turned with

growing fainter and fainter until they cut

Then silence.

to 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