Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

I stood at the bus stop three blocks from our house. My hands were shaking. My whole body was shaking.

What the hell did I just do?

The bus wasn’t coming for another fifteen minutes. I kept looking back down the street, toward our neighborhood. Toward the house

where Lily was sleeping in her crib, not knowing her mother just walked out on her.

My throat burned. I wanted to cry, but the tears wouldn’t come. It was like my body had shut down completely.

*Move, I told myself. *You wrote the letter. You made the choice. Now move.*

But where was I supposed to go?

I hadn’t thought about that part. I’d been so focused on leaving, on doing the right thing, that I never planned what came next. Now I

was standing here like an idiot at a bus stop, with nowhere to go and no idea what to do.

The small bag in my hand felt impossibly heavy. Just a few clothes, some cash I’d saved up, my phone. Everything I owned now fit in one

little overnight bag.

I couldn’t go to Ophelia’s. That would be the first place Damien looked. And Ophelia would take one look at me and demand answers.

She’d probably call Damien herself once she found out what I’d done.

north. The rogue wolves were still

Where does a human woman with no plan and

phone buzzed. My heart jumped so hard

*Damien.*

screen, it was just spam. Some

It was the only way to be sure I wouldn’t answer when he called. Because I would

was weak like that.

finding my letter made my stomach twist into knots. He was probably

book. Probably realizing I

for him. Now

bus finally arrived with a loud hiss of brakes. The doors opened and I climbed on,

a seat near the back and pressed my face against the window. The bus pulled away from the stop, carrying

everything I’d ever loved.

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and I had our first date. Past the park where Adrian learned to ride his bike. Past

gave

looked so normal. So

I wanted to scream.

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mile took me further from my children. My chest felt like someone was squeezing it in a

is for them,* I kept telling myself. *This is the

it didn’t feel right. It felt

had to get off at the next stop because I couldn’t breathe anymore. The bus pulled away, leaving me standing alone on a street corner

I didn’t

diner and ordered coffee. The waitress was human.