The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140

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My chest dropped.

I took a step back and the railing caught me. I held on and looked at her; her jaw, her eyes, her hands at her sides and tried to find a crack in her. There wasn’t one. Her face was still, her mouth held a flat line. Her eyes moved to me and then past me.

“I did a lot of things but I never brought Sophie into this house,” I said. “You did. Twice.”

“So?”

The word had no edge and no heat behind it.

I stared at her. “How are you so nonchalant about this? How are you standing here like none of it matters?” I looked at her face and found nothing to hold onto. “Do you actually want this marriage or not?”

She held my gaze for a moment.

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“Do you want the truth,” she said, “or would you like me to lie to you?”

I crossed the balcony and put my hands on her shoulders. I held them there and looked at her directly.

“The truth,” I said. “Tell me what you actually think.”

She met my eyes and said it with her face still.

“I want a divorce.”

Cora surged up inside me with a growl that vibrated through me, he couldn’t fathom a world without Aina. He wouldn’t accept it. The idea had no shape he could hold.

Neither did I.

“That’s not what I want,” I said.

“I gave this marriage everything.” Her voice stayed level. It didn’t shake and it didn’t climb. “I spent months. keeping it running. Every dinner, every night I waited for you, every time I reached for you and you weren’t there, I kept trying. And while I was doing all of that, you paraded your first love in front of everyone.” She paused “I’ve

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stopped trying. Because it’s obvious you don’t want this marriage.”

“You can’t say that. I want this marriage.”

“I don’t.” She held my gaze without flinching. “When it was your turn to not want it, I let you be. I stayed, absorbed everything, and waited. I gave you that. Why won’t you give it to me?”

I stared at her.

She absorbed things I put on her that she never should have had to carry. She carried them without asking me to acknowledge a single one, and I repaid that by walking out the door every time Sophie called.

But she was angry. She was hurt and exhausted, and she was calling it done when it wasn’t done. She was throwing a tantrum and I was going to stand here and take it, because she was going to calm down, come back, and she was going to stay in this marriage.

I took her hand. “Come with me.”

She looked at my hand. Her eyes slowly rolled. She didn’t

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pull away.

I led her into the study. She walked behind me without a

word.

I went to the bottom drawer and opened it.

The documents sat where I left them. I looked at them for one second the agreement she signed to walk out of that cell, every clause I wrote to keep her tethered, I lifted

them out and set the stack on the desk between us.

She looked at the papers, then at me.

“What is this?”

“The agreement you signed to walk out of the holding

room.”

I watched her face.

Her eyes widened. Her chin pulled back, barely, and her throat moved. She looked back down at the stack. She stood there with her chest rising and then settling, taking

it in.

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have hard copies in three different locations and soft copies backed up somewhere I’ll never find. I’m not wagering my freedom on this stack being the whole thing.”

“Do you really think I’m a monster?”

She nodded without hesitating.

“Yes,” she said. “A man without a heart. And the thing I cannot understand is that Cora is supposed to be one of the most powerful wolves in this territory.” She tilted her head. “Nothing about you reflects that. Power doesn’t live in cheating on your wife or sending her to prison. Power lives in what you can’t seem to provide your word, your faithfulness, your presence. What you cannot give is exactly where your power should be.” She paused. “You’re a weak man. And I’m surprised every time I remember you possess such a mighty wolf.”

I exhaled.

Cora sank inside my chest and went still. His ears pressed flat against his skull.

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