The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 139

Chapter 139

Kieran

Trevor appeared at my side.

I heard the balcony door before I heard his footsteps, and I kept my eyes forward and took a long drag from the cigarette.

“You should be happy right now,” he said.

“Why?”

“Your wife and your mistress are getting along beautifully in there.” He leaned against the railing beside me. “Isn’t that what you wanted?”

I rolled my eyes and said nothing.

“I’m serious.” He was already laughing. “You don’t have to sneak around anymore, Kieran. Sophie is right upstairs. Serena is right here. What more could any man reasonably ask for?”

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“You keep saying that.” He turned to look at me. “But I don’t think you know what you actually want.”

I took another drag and held it.

“You killed her,” he said.

The cigarette stilled between my fingers.

His voice dropped and the laughter left it.

“The night she pressed a knife to her wrist and you still left. The night she ran into the rain after your car and called your name until her voice was gone.” He paused. “You killed her, Kieran. Over and over. What’s standing in that dining room right now, that’s what’s left.”

My fingers were shaking. I looked down at them. I couldn’t stop it.

“Our bond is real,” I said. My voice came out rough. “We’re true mates. Our wolves don’t just dissolve because things got difficult. That’s not how it works.”

“I’ve watched true mates divorce each other and spend

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the rest of their lives unable to breathe the same air.” His voice was flat. “Why would yours be any different?”

“Serena doesn’t hate me.” I said confidently.

“She hates you.” He said it without heat. “She loved you for years. She gave you everything and came running every time you didn’t deserve it. And then you chose Sophie and her son, again and again and again, and watched Serena absorb it.” He pushed off the railing. “She’s not angry anymore. She’s not heartbroken. She’s done. And the reason she’s done is you.”

I stared at the railing and didn’t speak. He clapped one hand against my shoulder.

“Agree to the divorce. It won’t kill you.”

He walked back inside.

I stayed.

The cigarette burned down to nothing between my fingers and I forgot to smoke it. I stood there and thought of the apartment, the one she’d bought upstairs, the one she arranged for Sophie and Ethan without a word to

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without a question, without a glance in my direction.

She did it out of hurt. She did it because hurt meant she still felt something, because hurt meant there was still a version of Serena in that body that cared enough to bleed.

But she didn’t look hurt at that table tonight.

She looked finished.

I crushed the cigarette against the railing and let the truth sit where it landed. I pushed Serena out while I was protecting Sophie. That was the whole story. Every time

the wh Sophie called, I left. Every time Serena reached for me, I wasn’t there. I told myself it was responsibility and while I was busy settling it, Serena was standing barefoot in the rain calling my name and I kept driving.

Cora scraped at my ribs, restless, pressing toward the bond. The thread between us was still there I felt it, alive despite everything but it had gone slack. It used to be the pull of two wolves running toward each other. Now it was a rope Serena had stopped holding.

“Everyone’s gone.”

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I turned.

She stood in the doorway with her arms crossed and her expression carrying nothing I could read. I knew that face. She’d worn it for months and I still didn’t know how

to get behind it.

“You weren’t kind to Ethan tonight,” she said. “He came to you. He pointed at you in front of everyone and said he wanted you, and you just sat there and then walked out.” She tilted her head. “Is that how you plan to father him?”

“The baby in your stomach is going to see a very different side of me,” I said. “I’ll give that child everything.”

She smiled at me, and the smile held nothing. “That baby isn’t yours.”

I crossed the space between us and took her face in my hands before she could step back. I held it gently and looked at her.

“I want to have an honest conversation with you.”

She blinked at me. “What are you doing, Kieran?”

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“I know you’ve lost faith in me.” I kept my voice low. “I know I’ve done things that should never have been done. But Sophie is my past. Ethan-” I stopped. I started again. “The way I handled all of it was wrong. I was guilty. I couldn’t see clearly, and I made choices that cost you things you deserved to keep. If you can’t live with them being here, I’ll send them both away. Say the word.”

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