Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

Time crawled like a dying animal.

I sat in that godforsaken hospital waiting room, my hands clenched into fists so tight my knuckles had gone

white, watching the clock on the wall tick away seconds that felt like centuries. Each minute stretched into

an eternity of torment. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead like angry wasps, casting everything in harsh,

clinical white light that made my skin look corpse-pale and waxen.

*How long had it been?* Three hours? Four? A fucking lifetime?

The antiseptic smell burned my nostrils, mixing with the underlying scent of fear and death that seemed to

permeate every hospital corridor. My enhanced senses, usually such an advantage, now felt like a curse as

they picked up every nuance of suffering from the rooms beyond these walls.

The doors to the emergency wing remained closed, sealed against me like the gates of hell. Every few

minutes, I’d catch a glimpse of medical staff rushing past through the glass windows-scrubs stained with

blood, faces grim and focused, moving with the kind of urgency that made my stomach clench with dread.

But never any news. Never any answers.

Just endless, suffocating silence.

My wolf Alex was going insane inside my chest, pacing and snarling like a caged beast. He wanted to tear

down those doors, to find our mate, to protect what was ours. But I couldn’t let him loose. Not here.

*She has to be okay,* I told myself for the thousandth time. *She has to be.*

I buried my face in my hands, trying to block out the images that kept flashing through my mind. Sera

unconscious and broken at the border, The finger-shaped bruises around her throat.

“Alpha. Lucas’s voice cut through my spiral of despair.

chair beside me, two cups of coffee in his hands. His face was drawn with exhaustion and worry, but he was trying to project calm.

pressing one of the cups into my

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my eyes immediately returning to

tasted it. Everything felt muted, distant, like I was watching the world through

drowning in

was nothing compared to the agony tearing through

breath felt like swallowing broken

from Adrian?” I asked, my voice

him. He’s asking for his mom, but she’s keeping him distracted with

studying my face carefully. “Should I bring

exploded out of me with enough force

last thing I wanted was for my son to

dead than alive.

in my head whispered. *This

my

fault.*

hands around her throat made bile rise in my

The mother of

said quietly, reading the self-destruction in my expression.

couldn’t have known.”

my eyes, trying to push away the image of her battered face. The way she’d felt in my arms when

hands shook as I brought the coffee cup to my lips

I was trying

taking pieces of my sanity with them. Lucas tried

silence from the emergency

*What’s taking so long?*

felt like a

“Damien’?”

A

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up

surgical scrubs stained with blood that made my

exhausted, her silver hair escaping from its bun

around her eyes like cracks in

But she was smiling.