Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 147

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The darkness pressed against me like a living thing.

I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t think. My heart slammed against my ribs so hard I was sure they could hear it through the walls.

*Thump. Thump. Thump.*

Each beat screamed his name. *Damien. Damien. Damien.*

He was here. In this house. Looking for me.

I pressed my hands over my mouth to muffle the sound of my breathing. My whole body shook. Every muscle locked tight with terror

and longing and guilt that threatened to tear me apart.

“SERA!”

His voice boomed through the house, raw and desperate and so achingly familiar it physically hurt. “SERA, I KNOW YOU’RE HERE!”

Oh God. Oh God, oh God, oh God.

My knees buckled. I slid down the wall of the tiny hiding space, my back scraping against rough wood. The darkness spun around me.

*I should go to him. I should run out there and-*

No. No, I couldn’t. That’s why I left. That’s why I ran.

But hearing his voice after three weeks…

Footsteps pounded across the floor above me. Heavy. Frantic. The whole house seemed to shake with his fury.

“Your wife?” Margaret’s voice filtered through. High–pitched. Alarmed. “Young man, there’s no one here but family.”

*I’m sorry,* I wanted to scream. *I’m so sorry I’m putting you through this.*

More footsteps. Damien was moving through the house like a storm. I could track his path by the sound–kitchen, living room, now the

stairs.

*He’s going upstairs.*

My breath came in short, sharp gasps. The small space suddenly felt impossibly smaller. The walls closing in.

*What if he finds me? What if he doesn’t?*

I didn’t know which possibility terrified me more,

A door slammed open somewhere above. Then another. Then another.

“Who’s staying here?” Damien’s voice again, sharp as broken glass,

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from making a sound. Tears

was directly overhead now. In the guest room where

with those silver–blue eyes. Looking for any trace of me.

here.

*He’s so close.*

way his jaw would be clenched.

was

voice cracked, and something inside me shattered at the sound. “I heard a woman laughing. It sounded just like

here. I’m right

gentle. Patient. “We were watching

my forehead against my knees, my whole body curling in on

have I done? What am I

creaking. More footsteps. He was moving around up there, searching every

Please don’t look

also: *Please look here. Please find me. Please

barely a whisper now, but I heard it like he was right next to me. “Not until I find her. Not until I

she’s okay.”

throat. I stuffed my fist

Margaret said, her voice thick with sympathy. “I truly

know nothing about.”

lie hung in the air. I could feel

down the stairs this time. Each step taking him further away from

don’t go. Don’t

Started to push

*Stop,*

froze, my hand on the wall, my whole body trembling with

You’re not good enough.

close, hearing the

him standing at the front door now. Right there.

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something for me.”

Please.

“What’s that?” Caleb asked.

heart stopped. Time stopped. Everything

I’m not

hit me like physical blows. Each one a knife

day for the rest of my life

do

completely. “Tell her Adrian

The sob that wanted to tear

three weeks of running and hiding and

Oh God, my

tell her,” Caleb said quietly. “If

front door opened.

Silence.

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