Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 141

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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.”

the food, managing a few bites to be polite. Everything tasted like cardboard. Like

voice pulled me back, “Where’d

I said quickly.

and Robert exchanged one of those parent looks–the kind that

Robert said gently, setting down his paper. “We want you to know that you’re welcome

I couldn’t-”

“You

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

that need-”

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

not a child-”

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

like a slap. Family doesn’t

I’d

want to

Caleb said. “Actually, I could use the

up at him. “Help

casual as anything. “Business has been picking up. I could use

know anything

to. I need someone to handle the front desk,

organized, professional stuff you’re actually

wonderful idea! And you’d be right here, safe,

it’s steady work,

“I don’t want charity-”

if you’re working for it,” Robert

mind spinning. Stay here? Work at a small–town repair shop? It was so far from

in Silver Moon Harbor. So far from who

wasn’t

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

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