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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from the very depths

“Adrian…”

My entire world stopped.

ice water, then immediately

so hard I thought it might burst. Every muscle in my body went rigid, locked in place by

like being struck

aching longing that

crushed in

should know that name. No one outside our pack, our family, our inner

the kind of monsters that might use a

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

outward like poison.

bitch knew my son’s

I snarled, my alpha power exploding outward so forcefully that the very air seemed

by an invisible

their heads bowed, their wolves

“Put her down. NOW.”

The soldiers holding the woman released her immediately, confused and terrified

the ground like a discarded toy, her body hitting

that should have made me feel

just fed my

son’s name. She’d been sent here. Sent to hurt my

they took Sera from

they steal my mate,

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Adrian’s name like some kind

around the edges, a crimson

ached as they tried to shift into

primal rage that it made my skull feel like it

wanted blood.

in my mind.

body moving with the fluid

reached for her throat before I even fully