Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

Chapter 181

Chapter 181

Damien’s POV 1

The drive home was silent except for Lily’s soft sniffling in the backseat.

I gripped the steering wheel tight enough to make my knuckles ache. My jaw was clenched so hard I thought my teeth might crack.

*She was here.*

Maybe.

Probably not.

And if she was–if Sera was really here, in this city, close enough for Lily to see her–then what?

What did that mean?

That she’d been here all along? That she’d watched us from a distance but never bothered to make contact? That she’d moved on with

her life while we fell apart without her?

The anger hit me like a freight train. Hot and ugly and completely unwelcome.

Three years.

Three fucking years of searching. Of lying awake wondering if she was safe. Of telling my children bedtime stories about their mother so

they wouldn’t forget her face.

And she’d just… what? Been living her life somewhere? Happy? Content?

While I raised our children alone?

“Daddy?” Lily’s small voice cut through my thoughts. “Are you mad at me?”

The question was like ice water down my spine.

I pulled into our driveway and killed the engine, turning to look at her in the backseat. Her face was streaked with tears. Her pigtails

were a disaster. Those mismatched shoes broke my heart.

“No, baby. I forced my voice to gentle. “I’m not mad at you. Not even a little bit.”

“But you look scary: Her bottom lip trembled. “Like you want to hit something”

She wasn’t wrong, I did want to hit something. Preferably whatever circumstances had kept Sera away for three years.

“I’m just tired,” I lied. “Come on. Let’s get you inside”

The house was chaos within minutes.

“Adrian!” I called up the stairs. “Come help me with dinner!”

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drifted down from his room. “I’m at a really good

“Now, please.”

the top of the stairs, his dark hair sticking up in

glasses sliding down

we having?” he

in twenty minutes.” I headed toward the

feet. “Why can’t we just

had

“Pizza is nutritious!”

not a

doorway, still wearing those mismatched

table,” I told

seriously and ran off to grab the dishes. I heard a crash. Something

Deep breath.

voice rang out. “It

laughter. “She’s

nice to your

If I wasn’t being nice, I’d tell her she’s been crying about that fake

on the refrigerator

drawer.

left three years

“Adrian-”

mechanical efficiency. “I’m over it. Mom made her choice. We’re better off without

anyway?

“That’s not true”

devastating “She didn’t even say goodbye. Just wrote a stupid letter and disappeared. If she actually cared about

mouth. Closed it. What was I

maybe Adrian

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made her choice. And that choice was

finally. “We’ll talk about this

to talk about.” Adrian grabbed the salad

by half–prepared food, and let myself feel

The anger.

ago, I would have defended Sera to anyone. Would

But now?

I’d cleared out most of the rogue territories. Made our pack

hadn’t come back. Hadn’t even tried to make

she really didn’t care

thought made something dark and bitter twist in my

Dinner was tense.

plate, occasionally sniffling. Adrian ate in aggressive silence. I pretended

school today?” I

Adrian shrugged. “Fine.”

“Learn anything interesting?”

“Not really

today!” Lily announced suddenly.

rolled his eyes. “You saw some random lady who looked vaguely like

Defensive. “She had forest eyes and night

about a million

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