The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 122

Chapter 122

Kieran

The Alpha house was lit up.

Crystal lights along the driveway. Press cameras flashing at the entrance. Servers in white moving through the gardens with trays of champagne. Jenna had outdone herself, even if I would never tell her so to her face.

Serena walked beside me, her hand inside the crook of my

arm.

She was smiling.

Something I rarely saw in our home, but everywhere else, it was quite redundant. It seemed that her happiness existed simply anywhere that was not in our home..

Gerald, the Alpha of Moonlight, was waiting in the main hall. He was a man in his late fifties, gray at the temples, he was quite known for his fighting prowess when he was younger, stubborn and full of life, now, it was different. He was more of a politician.

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After his mate died in a rogue attack he lost all will to

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continue. He never bothered to move on, he rejected any mate bond that formed and just lived with no heir and no mate. And that was the only reason this partnership existed.

He smiled when he saw me approaching and quickly walked over planting a kiss on Serena’s hand and the man proceeded to clap me on the shoulder.

“Kieran. Beautiful Luna. Thank you for hosting. The pack is honored.” He said with a bright smile.

“The honor is ours, Gerald.”

Weeks ago, I had told him that this partnership would protect Moonlight’s name and territory in perpetuity. I told him his pack would never be absorbed, never be renamed, never be diminished.

I had no intention of keeping any of those promises.

The pack was mine. He just did not know it yet. His pack was blessed with natural stones and great wildlife and the people are quite loyal. This was a pack I had set my eyes on and if he agrees with it, so be it and if he doesn’t, then nothing would change.

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Serena and Gerald exchanged a few more words. She charmed him in three minutes flat. He laughed at something she said, his hand brushing the back of his neck before he excused himself to greet other guests.

Serena’s hand slipped out of my arm.

“I will go say hello to Jenna,” she said.

“Stay close.” I said after her but her eyes remained pinned

on Jenna across the room.

Hours flew by and I did my duty of working the room.

I shook hands, let the press take their photographs. I stood beside Gerald for the formal announcement, smiled when I was supposed to smile, said the prepared lines, raised the glass.

Across the room, Serena was a current of light.

She was talking to Trevor. Then to Jenna. Then to my mother. She laughed, she touched arms, she leaned in when people spoke to her.

This was the life she was supposed to live. Why would she want to spend the rest of her life with a man inferior to

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A man that could not give her half of what she needed..

And every time her eyes caught mine, the smile vanished.

In the middle of a conversation with someone else, her face would still be warm and bright. Then her eyes would meet mine. The warmth dropped. The brightness left. The face she gave me was a flat, expressionless thing she rebuilt back into a smile the moment she turned away.

I drank from my glass.

I was about to walk over to her, to break the pattern, when the room shifted. Heads turned toward the

entrance.

The conversations dimmed.

I followed the eyes of the room.

Sophie.

She stood in the doorway of the main hall.

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She is in a red dress. Lace running down the bodice. A cut

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that showed cleavage. Her makeup was heavy, eyes, lips, contour, the way a woman did her face when she wanted to be looked at. Her hair was loose. She walked into the room and the room watched her.

This was not good.

My legs started moving immediately, walking towards her direction, already scanning the environment for the

reporters.

“Sophie.” My voice was low. “What are you doing here?”

She turned. Her face lit up when she saw me.

“Kieran. I was invited.” She smiled at me.

I turned my head, looked just a few feet away from the

entrance.

Jenna was standing there with a champagne flute in her hand. She caught my eyes, and her face went pale. Her mouth opened. She started to shake her head before I had even spoken to her.

“Kieran, I – I can explain—”

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“It was not Jenna.”

I turned.

Serena was standing behind me.

“It was me,” she said. Her voice was clear. Loud enough for the people closest to us to hear. “I added Sophie to the list. I thought it was time, since Sophie is so important to this family, that she be eased into society properly. After all, she is your true love. It is only right that she be present at a celebration like this.”

The people closest to us stopped pretending they were not listening.

A reporter near the wall lifted a camera.m, already aimed

at us.

I grabbed Serena’s elbow.

I walked her toward the side hallway, away from the cameras, away from Sophie, away from the curious eyes of half the pack.

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“What does it look like?”

“You invited her. You. To my partnership

announcement.”

“To the partnership announcement of the pack, Kieran.”

I ran a hand through my hair. “Why?”

Sophie appeared in the hallway behind us. Her face was red, her eyes were wet, her hands were twisting the strap

of her clutch.

“Kieran.” Her voice trembled. “If you did not want me here, I will leave. Just say the word. I will go home. I do not want to cause any trouble-”

“Sophie, that would not be nice.” Serena’s voice cut across hers as she stepped forward in the speed of light. “There are reporters here. Imagine the headlines. The Alpha’s mistress was thrown out of his pack celebration. That is not the kind of press we want, is it, Kieran?”

She returned her gaze to Sophie.

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