Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 160

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Seraphina’s POV 1

“Next!” I called out, forcing my voice to sound cheerful despite wanting to crawl under the counter and disappear forever.

The customer-a middle-aged woman with a scowl that could curdle milk-slammed her items down so hard the bananas nearly bounced off the conveyor belt.

“This store is a joke,” she announced. “Twenty minutes in line! Twenty minutes!”

“I’m sorry about the wait, ma’am. We’re a bit short-staffed today-”

“Don’t give me excuses!” She jabbed her finger at me. “I’ve been shopping here for fifteen years, and the service gets worse every time!”

I scanned her items mechanically. Behind her, the line stretched halfway to the pharmacy, filled with equally irritated customers checking their phones and sighing dramatically.

“That’ll be thirty-two forty-seven,” I said.

“Highway robbery,” she muttered, slapping her credit card down. “In my day, you could feed a family for ten dollars.”

*In your day, people probably didn’t treat retail workers like garbage,* I thought but didn’t say. Instead, I smiled that fake customer

service smile I’d perfected.

“Have a great day!”

She snorted and stalked off with her bags.

“Next!”

This was my life now. Eight hours a day, six days a week, dealing with people who acted like I was personally responsible for everything

wrong with their existence.

But it was a paycheck. A tiny paycheck that barely covered my rent and ramen noodle dinners, but money nonetheless.

“Oh my God, that woman was such a bitch!”

I looked up to see Mia bouncing over from register two, her cotton candy pink hair catching the harsh fluorescent lights. She was barely

twenty-two, all energy and confidence and the kind of fearless optimism that came from never having your world collapse around you.

“Mia, she might still be in the store, I warned.

counter next to my register, swinging her legs. “Life’s too short to pretend mean

aren’t mean.”

see you sitting there,” I said. “He’s already in a mood about

a mood about something” Mia rolled her eyes. “Yesterday it was the bathroom supplies.

The man needs to

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“Mia!”

true! Sexual frustration

I could respond, my register beeped. Another customer approached-a tired-looking

said, shooting Mia an apologetic look. “They’ve been cooped up all

meaning it this time. At least he was polite. “Did

new kids’ cereal? The one with the

halfway down on the left,” Mia called out before I could answer.

One of

poop!” the kid

for that vital information,” the man said dryly, but he was trying not

about various breakfast cereals and their

good with kids,” I

learned to be assholes yet.” Mia slid off the counter.

buzzed with a text. I glanced down, hoping

Your car warranty is about

Even my phone was mocking

“Please tell me you’re finally dating someone. You’re way too

spam,” I said, shoving the phone back in my

That’s it? Just spam?” She looked genuinely distressed by this information. “Sara, when was the last time you went on

a slap. “I’m not really dating

studying me like I was a puzzle she

*You could say that.*

that,”

“Was he a total dick?

car.”

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“It’s complicated.”

That’s what makes it fun!” Mia’s phone buzzed, and she immediately perked up. “Ooh!

“Derek?”

be confused with Friday Derek, who’s a completely different person.” She was already typing back furiously. “Apparently his friend got last-minute tickets to some

at her. “You have two different

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