Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

The soldiers lifted the unconscious woman from the ground, her limp body hanging between them like a broken doll. Her matted hair fell forward, completely obscuring her face, creating a curtain of filth and

tangles that made it impossible to make out her features. But something about her size, her frame-

The way her head tilted at that angle. The curve of her shoulder, even beneath the torn and bloodied fabric.

I slammed my eyes shut for a moment, forcing myself to breathe. I was seeing Sera everywhere now. In every shadow, every stranger, every fucking female form that crossed my path. My desperate mind playing tricks

on me, torturing me with false hope when I needed to stay focused. When I needed to find my mate, not chase ghosts.

This was just another rogue. Another piece of garbage that might have information about Sera’s whereabouts.

Nothing more.

“Move her to the jeep,” I ordered, my voice hoarse from three days of shouting orders and calling Sera’s name into empty forests. “Carefully. I don’t want her dying before we can question her.”

My throat felt raw, stripped bare from the constant ache of loss. Every word scraped against my vocal cords like broken glass.

Lucas nodded, signaling to the soldiers with sharp, efficient gestures. They started toward the vehicles, supporting the woman’s dead weight between them, her bare feet dragging through the dirt and fallen leaves.

I watched them move, my silver-blue eyes tracking every step. The woman’s head lolled back, exposing the pale column of her throat. Even from this distance, I could see the dark bruises there. Someone had tried to strangle her. Recently,

My wolf Alex stirred uneasily in my chest, but I pushed him down. I couldn’t afford to lose control. Not now.

Not when-

That’s when it happened.

A sound so soft I almost missed it. A whisper barely audible above the wind in the trees, carried on a breath

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come from the very

“Adrian…”

My entire world stopped.

water, then immediately to molten lava. My heart

burst. Every muscle in my body went rigid, locked in place by a shock

like being struck

thing in my world, spoken with such aching longing that it made my

crushed in a

name. No one outside our pack, our family, our inner circle. Adrian

that might

my veins, followed immediately by fire. Pure, incandescent rage that started in

outward like poison.

knew my

so forcefully that the very air seemed

if hit by an invisible wave. Every

knee in submission, their heads bowed, their wolves cowering before

“Put her down. NOW.”

voice carried such raw command that even Lucas flinched. The soldiers holding the woman released her immediately, confused

crumpled to the ground like a discarded toy, her body hitting the earth

have

just fed

son’s name. She’d been sent here.

they

First they steal my mate, probably torture her, maybe kill her. And now they send this

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name like some

I’d ever experienced consumed me completely. My vision went red around the edges, a crimson haze

teeth ached as they tried to

of such primal rage that it made my skull feel like it might split apart.

wanted blood.

her, he snarled in my mind. *RIP HER APART. SHE THREATENS

distance in two massive strides, my body moving with the fluid

reached for her throat before I even