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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voice drifted down from his

“Now, please.”

Footsteps. Then my eight–year–old appeared at the top of the stairs, his dark

sliding down

we having?” he

throw together in twenty minutes.” I headed toward the kitchen. “You’re on salad

feet. “Why can’t

we had

“Pizza is nutritious!”

not a food

appeared in the kitchen doorway, still wearing

table,” I told her. “Plates, forks,

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

Deep breath.

“It was just a cup!

with laughter. “She’s a

nice to

being nice. If I wasn’t being nice, I’d tell her she’s

hand froze on

at the bakery: Adrian pulled vegetables from the crisper drawer. “Lily won’t shut up about her. She keeps saying

that’s obviously impossible because Mom left three years ago and

“Adrian-”

with mechanical efficiency. “I’m over it. Mom made her choice.

anyway?

“That’s not true”

it?” He looked up at me, and the anger in his eyes was devastating “She didn’t even say goodbye. Just wrote a stupid letter and disappeared. If she actually cared about us,

my mouth. Closed it. What was I supposed to say

maybe Adrian was

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choice. And that choice

the table,” I said finally.

Adrian grabbed the

there in the kitchen, surrounded by half–prepared food, and let

The anger.

would have defended Sera to anyone. Would have torn apart anyone who dared suggest she

But now?

Made

come back. Hadn’t even tried

really didn’t

dark and bitter twist

Dinner was tense.

around her plate, occasionally sniffling. Adrian ate in aggressive silence. I

school today?” I

Adrian shrugged. “Fine.”

“Learn anything interesting?”

“Not really

Mama today!” Lily announced suddenly. “She was really

rolled his eyes. “You saw some random lady who looked vaguely like the pictures Dad has

high–pitched. Defensive. “She had

do about a million other women in

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