Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

I woke up to the smell of coffee and bacon.

For one perfect, stupid moment, I forgot where I was. Forgot what I’d done. My hand reached across the couch for Adrian, the way it always did in the mornings when he’d crawl into bed with me.

Empty space.

Reality crashed back in. The Morrison’s living room. Three hundred miles from my babies.

From my family.

*Former family,* I corrected myself, sitting up and wiping my face. *They’re better off without you.*

But the thought felt hollow. Wrong. Like trying to convince myself the sky was green instead of blue.

“Good morning, sweetheart!” Margaret’s voice floated in from the kitchen, bright and warm. “Coffee’s ready! Come eat before it gets

cold!”

I pulled on yesterday’s clothes and padded into the kitchen, where Margaret was flipping pancakes with the same easy efficiency she

probably brought to everything in her life. Robert sat at the table reading a newspaper, reading glasses perched on his nose.

“Morning,” I managed, my voice rough from crying.

“Sit, sit!” Margaret gestured to the empty chair with her spatula. “You look like you didn’t sleep at all. Here, drink this.” She pressed a mug

of coffee into my hands before I could protest.

Caleb appeared in the doorway, hair damp from a shower, looking disgustingly well–rested. “Morning. You sleep okay?”

“Fine.” I lied.

His eyes said he knew better, but he just grabbed his own coffee and settled across from me.

Margaret loaded my plate with pancakes, bacon, eggs–enough food to feed three people. “Eat up. You need your strength.”

a few bites to

Caleb’s voice pulled me back, “Where’d you go

said quickly. “Sorry.

of those parent looks–the kind that said they were

gently, setting down his paper. “We want you to know that

couldn’t-” I

interrupted firmly. “You absolutely could. In

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shook my head. “You’ve already done so much. I was thinking… maybe I could find work in the city? There must

that need-”

you wander off alone into some city where you don’t know anyone? Where anything could happen

a child-”

voice somehow carried more weight than any shout. “And family doesn’t abandon

a slap.

what I’d

don’t want to impose,” I

said. “Actually,

looked up at him. “Help with

leaned back in his chair, casual as anything. “Business has been picking up.

know

handle the front desk, answer phones,

organized, professional stuff you’re actually

“That’s a wonderful idea! And you’d be right

pay you much,” Caleb admitted. “But it’s steady work, and you’d have a place to stay. Free room

“I don’t want charity-”

working

at my untouched pancakes, my mind spinning. Stay here? Work at a small–town repair shop? It was so far

Moon Harbor. So far from

then again, I wasn’t that person anymore, was

finally. “I was thinking… maybe it would be better if I just disappeared completely. Went somewhere