Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 134

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Damien’s POV 1

The traffic on Highway 101 moved like molasses, each red light stretching my patience thinner. My hands

gripped the steering wheel so tight my knuckles had gone white, and Alex was pacing restlessly beneath my

skin like a caged animal.

Something was wrong. I knew it in

my

bones.

I’d tried calling Sera six more times since leaving the office. Every call went straight to voicemail, her bright,

cheerful voice mocking me with its normalcy.

*”Hi, you’ve reached Sera. I can’t come to the phone right now…”

“*

The recording played in my head on repeat, each repetition making the knot in my stomach twist tighter.

My phone rang just as I was merging onto the exit for Adrian’s school. Unknown number.

“Nightshadow,” I barked into the speaker.

“Mr. Nightshadow? This is Adrian’s teacher.”

My heart slammed against my ribs. “Is Adrian okay?”

“Oh yes, he’s fine! He’s sitting right here with me in the office. But…” She paused, and I could hear the

confusion in her voice. “We’re a bit confused about pickup today.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, it’s nearly five o’clock, and Adrian is still waiting. When I asked him about it, he said his mommy told

him this morning that daddy would be picking him up today instead of her.”

The blood drained from my face. “She said what?”

be picking him up. But we don’t have any change

a pickup before without

yanking the wheel toward the school, cutting across two lanes of

behind me.

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minutes away,” I said

He’s perfectly safe, Mr.

the call and floored the

Adrian. Never. Which meant she’d planned this. Told

knew she wouldn’t be

fuck

and was out of the SUV

the front door, her matronly

so sorry

“Where is he?”

“Right in here.”

the main office where Adrian sat in a chair

he saw me, his face lit up with

and ran into my arms. “I knew you’d come!

you would!”

against my chest while my mind raced. “When

buddy?”

at me, his silver-blue eyes-so much like mine-filled with

little late but not to worry. But all the

maybe you

about you.” My voice came out rougher than I intended. “Never, Adrian.

understand?”

solemnly. “Are we gonna go home now? I wanna see Mama and

buddy. Let’s go

pulled into our driveway with enough force to spray gravel,

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you’re driving

as I helped him out of the car.

Lily.”

pristine landscaping, same elegant stone facade, same warmth radiating from the lit windows. Nothing to indicate

immediately called out, “Sera? Baby, I’m

Silence.

response from upstairs. No sound of Lily crying or cooing. No familiar footsteps hurrying

out, dropping his backpack by the

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