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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had left me weaker

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

My heart was

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

with the others.*

the thought of my family giving me the strength

home.”

I managed to

put weight on it. Definitely

bearings. Dense forest

of civilization. Just trees and underbrush that could hide an army of

to claw at my chest. *How far into rogue territory

and started walking. Each step was agony. My ankle sent lightning

breath. The

should have been manageable.

through our mate bond. *Damien,

trying to call through static. But it

poison they’d pumped

He had

quiet. No bird calls, no rustle of small animals. Even the trees

if nature itself wanted nothing to do with the horror behind

had to stop. I was gasping for air, my whole body shaking with

stolen everything-my strength, my healing, my enhanced senses. I was

newborn.

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step sent fresh

through the canopy with unseasonable warmth. Sweat

blood on my skin, making everything itch and burn. My mouth was bone

had water?

me backward. I stumbled, my ankle finally giving out

my vision going

dirt and leaves, gasping. My

every bruise, every ache amplified tenfold

a scream as my ribs protested. My hands were scraped raw from

through my torn clothing

managed to get back on my feet.

put any real weight on it anymore, but I