Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother
Chapter 186
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Damien’s POV
The party was suffocating me
I stood near the refreshment table. Emma’s voice washing over me like white noise Around us, Chicago’s elite mingled and laughed, their champagne glasses catching the light from crystal chandeliers. Everything was perfect. Everything was fake.
Just like this whole goddamn evening.
Li and Adrian were running around with the other kids, their laughter cutting through the adult conversation. At least they were
having fun. At least someone was.
-don’t you think, Damien?”
I had no idea what Emma had just said. Didn’t care either.
But then-
Something shifted. A cold prickle ran down my spine, sharp and immediate. That old instinct, the one I’d honed in years of dealing with
threats and enemies, suddenly screaming at me.
Someone was watching.
My head whipped around, eyes scanning the crowd. Nothing. Just the usual suspects, the usual fake smiles and political maneuvering. I
turned toward the windows overlooking the street.
A sedan sped past. Tinted windows. Gone in a heartbeat.
Nothing else.
Just my paranoia, probably. The stress getting to me.
“Damien? Are you alright?”
Emma’s concerned voice grated on my nerves. I forced my shoulders to relax, unclenched my jaw.
“Fine. Thought I saw someone!”
“Daddy! Daddy, look!” Lily came barreling toward me, her party dress a blur of pink. “I won the ring toss!”
I crouched down, and for the first time all evening, something genuine broke through the numbness. “Did you now?”
She shoved a cheap plastic trophy in my face, beaming with pride. God, she looked so much like her mother when she smiled like that.
My chest constricted.
“That’s amazing, sweetheart”
“I had three cupcakes!” Adrian announced, finally acting like an eight–year–old child, appearing with chocolate smeared across his face
like war paint.
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I almost smiled. “I can see that,
handkerchief, wiping his face. These moments–these simple,
keeping me sane.
Forced smiles. Emma playing her role perfectly, laughing at
time she touched my
should never have brought her. But I’d needed someone to deflect
the
“Where’s your wife, Damien?”
it true she
“Are you getting divorced?”
been a
her eyes, and Adrian’s head drooped between bites.
played themselves out.
least they’d sleep
Emma said, reaching over to smooth Lily’s
daughter flinched slightly, pressing closer
to leave,” I said, checking
thought we might stay for
“The kids are exhausted.”
smile again. “Family
kids clutching their party favors like
pretending they weren’t gossiping about my failed marriage the second I turned my
Let them talk.
stepped outside. Lily shivered, and
one
already wearing
“Oh. Right.” 1
the SUV. I helped the kids into their car seats, Emma slid into
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seat.
even out of the parking
head against the window, plastic trophy still clutched in her little hands.
looked so small. So
light.
Toward home.
“Damien.”
voice had changed. Softer. More
muscle in
been thinking about today. About
“Raising them alone. Dealing with everything. You need someone, Damien. Someone who understands your world. Someone who
“Emma-”
everything in me not
time. And I’m good with Lily and Adrian.
The hell they do.
to be there for all three of you. I want to be the
stories. Your partner.”
Partner.
bile rise in my
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