Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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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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to keep from making a

head creaked. He was directly overhead now. In the guest

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

here.

*He’s so close.*

closed my eyes, I could almost see him. The way his jaw would be clenched. The

his wolf was close to

at the sound. “I heard a

here. I’m right here. I’m

“We were watching some

my forehead against my knees, my whole body curling in on itself. The guilt was

have I done? What

He was moving around up there,

Please

here. Please find me. Please make this

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

she’s okay.”

fist

said, her voice thick with sympathy. “I truly am. But we can’t

know nothing about.”

in the air. I could feel it, heavy

Coming back down the stairs this time.

go. Don’t leave me

started to move. Started to push myself

*Stop,*

the wall, my whole body trembling with the effort of staying

good enough. You’re human now. Weak. Broken. He deserves

close, hearing the

you” Damien said, and I could hear him standing at

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something for me.”

Please.

“What’s that?” Caleb asked.

stopped. Time

her I’m not giving

words hit me like physical blows. Each

for her every day for the rest of my life if

Please don’t do this

her…” His voice broke completely. “Tell her Adrian

bit down on my hand so hard I tasted blood. The sob that

weeks of running and hiding and pretending I was doing the right

Oh God,

said quietly. “If

door opened.

Silence.