Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

Something was off.

I’d been carrying this nagging feeling in my chest all morning, like a splinter I couldn’t dig out. It had started

the moment I woke up and found Sera already dressed, moving through our morning routine with that too-

bright smile she’d been wearing since yesterday.

I tried to focus on the quarterly reports spread across my desk, but the numbers kept blurring together. My

mind kept drifting back to the way Sera had kissed me goodbye this morning.

That should have been a good thing. Instead, it made me feel like I was standing on the edge of a cliff.

“Mr. Nightshadow?”

Emma’s crisp voice cut through my wandering thoughts. She stood beside my desk in another one of her

perfectly tailored suits, holding a stack of contracts that needed my attention.

She set them down with practiced efficiency. “They need your signature before the two o’clock deadline.”

I picked up my pen and started signing without really reading them. My mind was elsewhere.

“Also, I’ve rescheduled your meeting with the Seattle division,” Emma continued.

“Fine,” I muttered, scrawling my signature across another page.

She nodded quickly, gathering up the signed papers. “Is there anything else you need right now?”

“No,” I said. “That’s all for now.”

Emma hesitated at the door. “Mr. Nightshadow? If I may… you seem distracted today. Is everything alright?”

The concern in her voice sounded genuine, but it irritated me anyway.

“Everything’s fine,” I said curtly. “Just tired.”

She nodded and left, closing the door behind her with a soft click. I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my

temples, trying to ease the tension that had been building there all morning.

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fine. She’s home with Lily, probably napping or reading or

go away. If anything, it was getting stronger.I glanced at

Just to check in. Just to

myself out of it,

rang three times before

was soft, slightly

at the sound of her. “How’s your

she replied, and I could hear rustling in the background, soft baby sounds. “I’m just feeding Lily right now. She’s

cradled against her chest. The image made warmth spread through my

forced. “Fair enough. What about you?

I spun my chair to face the window, looking

keep getting

“By what?”

you. Always miss

feeling.” Her voice got

“Yeah?”

You know that,

too,

Lily making contented baby

back to work.”

to

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time. Adrian and I will be

Lily

“I will.”

there staring at my phone. The conversation had been perfectly normal. Sera had sounded calm, even affectionate. So why did I feel

losing your mind,* I told myself firmly.

trouble.*

focus on work after that, but it was hopeless. The afternoon crawled by at a snail’s pace. Emma came and went with updates and requests, her presence a constant low-level irritation.

office with that professional smile and perfect posture, I wanted to snap at her to

Probably more efficient than most assistants I’d had.

Sera.

o’clock, I’d had enough. The quarterly reports could wait until

to my family.

standing