Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The first thing that hit me wasn’t pain-it was the smell.

Death. Pure, concentrated death that crawled into my nostrils and wrapped around my brain like a living

thing. Sweet and putrid and so thick I could taste it on my tongue.

I gagged before I even opened my eyes, my stomach lurching violently. Something was pressed against my

face-something soft and wet and wrong.

I forced my eyes open and screamed.

A rotting face stared back at me, empty eye sockets crawling with maggots. I was lying face-down on a pile of

corpses, my cheek pressed against decomposing flesh.

“No!” I scrambled backward, my hands slipping on things I didn’t want to identify.

Bodies everywhere. Dozens of them piled like garbage in a massive pit. Men, women, some barely more than

teenagers. All in various stages of decay. Flies swarmed in thick black clouds. The stench was overwhelming.

I rolled off the pile and hit solid ground hard, fresh pain exploding through my shoulder. But I didn’t care. I

had to get away from the corpses.

My stomach heaved again. I vomited until there was nothing left, my body convulsing with dry heaves that

felt like they were tearing my ribs apart.

*Ayla?* I called desperately into my mind, searching for any hint of my wolf’s presence. *Ayla, please, I need

you.*

Nothing. Complete, terrifying silence where she should have been.

The wolf poison. It was still in my system, cutting me off from everything that made me strong. I was alone in

my own head again.

“Get up,” I whispered to myself, my voice shaking. “You have to get up.”

I tried to stand and immediately collapsed. My legs felt like water. Every muscle in my body screamed in

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Whatever they’d injected me with had left me weaker than a

myself and nearly vomited again. My clothes were in tatters, stained with blood and worse things. Dried gore caked

My heart was beating. Somehow, impossibly, I wasn’t

I realized with growing horror. *They thought I was dead and dumped

with the others.*

family giving me

home.”

tree trunk for support, I managed to pull myself

put weight on it. Definitely sprained,

looked around, trying to get my bearings. Dense

underbrush that could hide an army

my chest. *How far

a direction at random and started walking. Each

breath. The

should have been manageable.

out through our mate bond.

call through

poison

He had

of small animals. Even the trees

itself wanted nothing

I had to stop. I was gasping for air, my whole body shaking with exhaustion. My hands were

poison had stolen everything-my strength, my healing, my enhanced senses. I

newborn.

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step sent fresh waves of

sun was climbing higher, beating down through the canopy with

making everything itch and burn. My mouth was bone

had water?

shirt, yanking me backward. I stumbled, my ankle finally giving out completely. I

my vision

moment, I just lay there in the dirt and leaves, gasping. My whole

every ache amplified tenfold without my

back a scream as my ribs protested. My

torn clothing from

back on

couldn’t put any real weight on it anymore, but I