Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 126

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The morning light filters through our bedroom curtains, casting soft shadows across the hardwood floor. I’m

curled up in the reading chair by the window, watching Lily sleep in her bassinet, when Damien appears in

the doorway with two cups of coffee.

“You’re up early,” he says, crossing the room to hand me one of the mugs. His hair is still messy from sleep,

and he’s wearing just sweatpants, his chest bare and distractingly perfect in the gentle morning light.

“Couldn’t sleep.” I wrap my fingers around the warm ceramic, grateful for something to focus on besides the

knot of anxiety that’s been sitting in my stomach since yesterday. “Lily was fussy around three.”

“I didn’t hear her.” His brow furrows with concern as he settles on the edge of the bed across from me. “You

should have woken me.”

“You need rest too. Besides, it’s not like you could have helped. She was hungry.”

He takes a sip of his coffee and studies me with those silver-blue eyes that seem to see straight through all

my carefully constructed walls.

“I

got a call from Riley yesterday,” he says finally.

My heart does something weird in my chest. “Riley?”

“From the training camp. She wanted me to pass along a message.” Damien’s voice is careful, like he’s walking

through a minefield. “She and Lucas are getting engaged.”

The words slam into me like a punch to the chest. My heart does this weird little skip-part joy, part something that feels uncomfortably like grief. Of course Riley and Lucas are engaged. Everyone’s been

waiting for them to figure it out for years. I should be thrilled.

“That’s wonderful,” I say, and I mean it. My voice only wobbles a little. “They’re perfect for each other. Really

perfect.”

“They want you to come to the engagement party.” Damien sets down his coffee, his silver eyes studying my face. “They all do. The whole team has been asking about you.”

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I feel the blood drain from my face. “Damien, I can’t-”

“Why not?”

team, I almost got

memory hits me like a punch to the gut. The mission that went wrong six months before my capture. My

wasn’t your fault,” Damien

the coffee mug trembling in my grip. “I made the call to split up.

to the chair beside me, his hand covering mine on the coffee mug.

home. Everyone was fine.”

failed them, Damien. And now I’m not even a wolf anymore. What could I possibly offer them

feel him move closer until his heat is

could offer them the chance to see their friend again,” he says softly. “The chance to

someone they care about.”

hands settle on my shoulders, warm and steady. “Or you could be a

survived something that would have destroyed anyone

whisper.

makes my chest ache. “You’ll get respect. And

visit.”

lean back against his chest, feeling some of the tension leave my shoulders as his arms wrap around me. Lily stirs in her bassinet, making soft

and everything feels

is matter-of-fact, like it’s the simplest thing in the world.

you try!”

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and leather and something uniquely him that

to Riley and Lucas to celebrate this moment

myself

I say finally, the word

“Okay?”

arms, meeting his gaze. “But

devastating. “I can live with

standing in the parking lot of the Training Facility, my

car keys that the metal is cutting into

I mutter to myself, smoothing down the simple black

but it’s clean and fits properly and doesn’t have any stains

a familiar hiss, and

now, but still recognizable. Weapons

training

“Sera!”

turn toward the voice and see Jake from communications jogging

does something

it’s really you!” He pulls me into a bear hug that lifts me off my feet. “We heard you

you around. How are

I say automatically. “Much

are kind, but I can see the confusion there. The way he’s trying

me. “Thinner maybe,

to Riley

a mile away” Jake grins. “Come

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