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.

back and forth, her arms wrapped around her

already

prayer, maybe, or just meaningless words

near the door, their backs pressed against the

blood. The other

terror,

from somewhere beyond the cell door. The effect on the other prisoners was immediate. Everyone shrank back, pressing themselves against the

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stopped mid-motion, her

someone whispered.

lock. The door swung open with a screech of rusted

Two soldiers entered.

a piece of paper. His voice was flat, bored, like he was reading

grocery list.

bandage went pale. His companion grabbed his

whispered urgently. “Hide.

he was already standing, his whole body

soldiers stepped forward. One grabbed his arm while the other

metal around his wrists.

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

it for upstairs,”

him toward the

are you taking him? When will

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

door slammed shut. The lock

down the corridor, growing fainter and

Then silence.

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