Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV

The door to my apartment slammed shut behind me.

1 pressed my back against it, sliding down until I hit the floor. My hands were shaking. My whole body was shaking.

I couldn’t breathe.

The image was burned into my brain. Damien. Standing there with *her*. That woman with the perfect smile and the perfect dress and

the perfect everything. The way she’d touched his arm. The way she’d looked at Lily and Adrian like they were already hers.

My children.

*Breathe, Sera. Just breathe.*

But I couldn’t. My chest felt like someone had reached inside and crushed my lungs into powder.

The tears came hot and fast, streaming down my face before I could stop them. I wrapped my arms around my knees and let myself

break apart right there on the floor.

Damien had moved on.

Of course he had. What did I expect? That he’d wait forever for a wife who’d abandoned him and their children? That he’d spend the rest

of his life alone, pining for someone who wasn’t good enough for him in the first place?

The woman flashed through my mind again. Pretty. Poised. Put–together. Everything I wasn’t.

God, she’d probably been waiting for me to leave. Probably saw me as the obstacle between her and everything she wanted.

*Stop it. Stop torturing yourself.*

But I couldn’t stop. My brain kept replaying every detail. The way Damien had stood next to her. The way they’d walked together toward

that expensive car. Had they looked comfortable together? Happy? 1

Did he love her?

The thought sent a fresh wave of pain through my chest, so sharp I actually gasped.

I pressed my hands over my mouth to muffle the sob that tore out of me. The neighbors didn’t need to hear me falling apart. Again.

Lily and Adrian. Where were they?

Were they at home? With a nanny? Or were they *there*, at that party, and I’d just missed them?

Were they okay?

in my stomach like acid. Adrian would be eight now. Did he still love

obsessed with?

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when I left. A tiny, perfect baby who’d wrapped her little hand around my

she even

started shaking harder. I pulled my knees tighter to

she was tucking them in at night? Reading them bedtime

mean to

ill. I scrambled to my feet and barely made it to

on the cold tile, my forehead pressed against the toilet seat, and let myself cry. Really

deep and

children with

same way? Or would they become the reminders of his failed first marriage? The

broken past?

Stop thinking

and splashed cold water on my face. My reflection in the mirror looked like death. Eyes swollen

like what I was. A woman who’d thrown away everything good in her life and

the couch. My

empty without

saved before I left. Adrian’s first day of school. Lily’s first blink. The four of us

arm around my waist, both kids

We’d looked so happy.

Before I ruined everything.

I miss

was unbearable. Physical. Like someone had taken a knife and

left. Until my throat was raw

me. I didn’t bother turning

the couch,

he already

part of my brain whispered. *Maybe it’s better if he’s

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it didn’t feel better. It felt

because I woke up to sunlight streaming through the windows

barely move.

said

for