The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 120

Chapter 120

Kieran

Serena turned back to me with a bright, performative

smile on her face.

She was playing a game.

“Kieran,” Serena said. Her voice was sweet. “Say hello to Sophie.”

I ignored her.

I turned to Sophie directly.

“What are you doing here, Sophie?”

Sophie blinked. Her mouth opened. “Oh. I…I came for Ethan. The doctor called me this morning. He is being released today, I came to pick him up, I just… I thought the caregiver could stay with him while-”

“I see.”

“Kieran,” Serena said at my side. Her voice driped with10

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released. You should go help Sophie. She cannot manage a sick child by herself. Go. I will find my way home.”

I turned to look at her.

Her smile did not waver. Her eyes were bright and hard.

I knew what she was doing.

She was handing Sophie to me, a gift I was supposed to take without thinking. She was saying, look, here is the woman you truly want, go to her, take care of her, leave me alone.

She was playing the generous wife.

Every move was a trap. If I went with Sophie, Serena won. She would text Misha in an hour, smile at her reflection, start counting down the days until I signed her divorce papers because I had proven her point about what kind of husband I was.

If I refused, Sophie would fall apart in public. She would cry. She would beg. She would make a scene that half the hospital would remember. And Serena would watch with that same bright smile and somehow still use it against

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“Sophie.” My voice stayed even. “I cannot help you today.”

Sophie’s face fell. “Kieran-”

“Mark will come to the hospital within the hour. He will help you collect Ethan, drive you both home, make sure the caregiver has everything she needs. If there is anything you need past that, you can call the house and Mark will handle it. Do you understand?”

Her eyes widened out of surprise. “But – but I thought—”

“Do you understand, Sophie?” I repeated.

She nodded.

I turned back to Serena.

Her smile had flickered. The bright edge of it was still there but something behind her eyes had shifted. It was clear as day that the last thing she was expecting was for me to refuse Sophie.

I reached for her hand and intertwined my fingers with

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A perfect fit.

“Let’s go home, Serena.”

I walked her out.

The car door closed behind her.

I started the engine. I pulled out of the parking lot.

“Why did you not help her?” She asked the minute I pulled out.

I did not look at her. I kept my eyes on the road.

“Sophie can take care of herself.”

Suddenly, a boisterous laugh broke out of her. She laughed for a good minute until it died down.

“Sophie can take care of herself,” she repeated. “That is interesting, Kieran. That is very interesting. Because when Sophie needed something, you were so sure she could not take care of herself that you moved her grief into our house. You rearranged our marriage around her needs. You answered her calls at three in the morning 3:10

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and ignored mine at three in the afternoon. Sophie, apparently, could never take care of herself then. But she can take care of herself now?”

I gripped the steering wheel.

“Serena. What do you want from me? I apologized. I have said it. I want to do better. Why can you not let it go?”

She turned her head to look at me.

“Why?” Her voice was quiet. “Why are you doing this, Kieran? Why are you apologizing? Why are you trying to do better? Why will you not let me go?”

“Because we are mates.”

“That is not a reason.”

“Because we are husband and wife. Alpha and Luna. I am not going to let you walk away from that.” I said firmly.

“Then let me give you a reason that is mine.” Her voice stayed quiet. “I wanted the love you gave Sophie, Kieran. I watched you pour it into her and I waited for you to turn around and look at me and give me some of it. Yo!!10 never did. And somewhere along the way I realized I was

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never going to get that from you. So I stopped wanting it. That is why I am leaving.”

“Serena.” My voice was rough. “I do not love Sophie. I never-”

“You treated her like the love of your life, Kieran. Whether you were in love or not, you treated her that way. I watched it. I lived through it. You do not get to rewrite history in this car.”

“I treated you well—”

She laughed again. “You treated me well.” She turned in her seat to face me.

“Kieran. I cut my wrists open to keep you from leaving me for Sophie. Do you remember that?”

My throat closed.

“So when you sit here,” she continued, “and tell me you apologized, and you want to do better, and you are trying, well forgive me if I do not feel relief. Taking me to jail is not doing better, Kieran. Keeping me locked in a marriage. with a contract is not doing better. It is just control. It j$10 just a new kind of cruelty.”

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I kept my eyes on the road.

“You should go back to the hospital,” she said. “Go help Sophie. I know you want to.”

“No.”

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