The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 102

Chapter 102

Kieran

The whiskey didn’t burn anymore.

I tipped the glass back, drained it, set it on the counter with a dull clink.

The paternity results sat on the counter three inches from my hand. I’d smoothed the paper flat after crushing it in my fist.

Not the biological father.

Four words that ripped my lungs clean out.

Cora paced inside me. He had been restless for so many reasons and I believed one was being fed those lies.

He hadn’t stopped since the doctor left. Back and forth, back and forth, claws scraping the floor of my ribcage.

He wasn’t angry.

Hepressed toward the bond, toward Aina, It pued the 57

way it pulsed when I hold Sorong in

the way it

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pulsed on the night we renewed it.

A wolf didn’t behave this way toward a mate who carried another man’s child.

A mate bond recoiled from betrayal – it twisted, soured, turned to acid in the blood. If Serena gave herself to another man and conceived his child, Cora would know.

Bu Cora didn’t recoil. He pressed closer. For him to not be revolted at her sight or smell another man on her, it only means that the baby is mine.

Something was wrong with the test.

I didn’t know what and I couldn’t prove it and the paper said otherwise, but my wolf disagreed with every fiber of his being and I trusted Cora more than I trusted any piece. of paper on this earth.

How did the results come back negative when every

instinct I owned screamed positive?

Who handled the samples?

Who ran the analysis?

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Who stood in the chain between my blood and that printed page?

Serena was a terrible liar. In all the years I’d known her, she couldn’t tell a lie without her voice climbing half a pitch.

But in that room, she told me the baby belonged to another man without flinching.

Either she’d gotten better at lying or she believed it herself.

But there was no way she would sleep with another man. Serena respected herself too much.

Perhaps she wanted to use this pregnancy as a way to get rid of me, thinking I would be repulsed by her when she tells me the baby wasn’t mine.

The elevator chimed.

Footsteps crossed the threshold. Short strides, the click of heels against hardwood.

¿didn’t turn around.

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“Kieran?”

Sophie’s voice filled the kitchen and my spine locked from base to skull. The whiskey turned to cement in my stomach and Cora snarled low.

I turned on the stool.

Her eyes were wide, scanning the apartment, taking in the layout, the furniture, the photographs on the walls, committing all of it to memory.

“What are you doing here?” The anger came flooding through my body. “How did you find this place?”

“I asked around.” She took a step forward with her fingers twisting the strap of her bag. “I haven’t heard from you in days. I was worried and I’m tired, Kieran. I just wanted to make sure you were okay.”

I stood from the stool and the legs scraped against the floor. “This is my matrimonial home.”

Her step faltered.

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“Serena and I live here.” I advanced toward her, each stride deliberate, until the distance between us shrank to

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nothing comfortable. “You can’t walk into someone else’s matrimonial home uninvited and act like you belong

here.”

“I didn’t mean to overstep—”

“You already did.” I took her arm, turned her toward the elevator, walked her back the way she came. My hand was firm around her elbow as I guided her.

Sophie dug her heels into the hardwood and twisted in my grip.

“Why are you defending this?” Her voice cracked at the edges but her eyes were sharp behind the tears that gathered there. “Serena cheated on you, Kieran. The whole world knows. The news is everywhere – people are talking about it, sharing it, laughing about the Alpha whose wife got pregnant by another man.”

My hand dropped from her arm.

“Who?” The word came out barely above a whisper, and the quiet in it was worse than any shout. “Who is spreading this?”

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Sophie wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.

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“Everyone. The news has spread like wildfire.”

“I’ll find every single one of them.” My voice climbed, vibrating with fury. “I’ll track them down and I’ll rip the tongues from their mouths myself.”

Sophie reached for my arm. “Kieran, please, calm down

“Don’t touch me.” I jerked away from her hand. “I’m not looking for comfort. I don’t want to hear anything from you right now.”

Her face crumpled and the tears fell faster, streaking her makeup in thin grey lines.

“I’m only trying to help.” Her voice was thin enough to snap. “I care about you, Kieran. Watching you go through this is killing me.”

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