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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making a sound. Tears

above my head creaked. He was directly overhead now. In

taking in the space with those silver–blue eyes. Looking for any trace of me. Any

here.

*He’s so close.*

could almost see him. The way his jaw would

meant his wolf was close to

inside me shattered at the sound. “I heard a woman laughing.

I’m right here. I’m

voice gentle. Patient. “We were watching some comedy show. Maybe the actress

my whole body curling in on

I done? What am I doing to

around up

here. Please don’t

me. Please make this decision for me because

can’t sleep.” Damien’s voice was barely a whisper now, but I heard it like he was

she’s okay.”

my fist harder against my

sorry you’re going through this,” Margaret said, her voice thick with sympathy. “I truly am. But we can’t help you with something

know nothing about.”

in the air. I

footsteps. Coming back down the stairs this time. Each step taking

don’t go. Don’t

to push myself up. Started

*Stop,*

wall, my whole body trembling with the

a reason. Remember? You’re not good enough. You’re human

close, hearing the pain in his

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

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something for me.”

Please. Tell me

“What’s that?” Caleb asked.

stopped. Time

her I’m

like physical blows. Each one a knife to the

search for her every day for the rest of

Please don’t do this to

broke completely. “Tell her

hand so hard I tasted blood. The sob that wanted to tear out of me was

and pretending I

Lily. Oh

Caleb said quietly. “If I

door

Silence.

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