The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 150

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Chapter 150

Serena

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The Cartridge house was warm inside.

Misha sat in the front room while I went up to see Elan. He

was already sitting up when I came through the door. His

posture was straighter than last time and the strain he used to carry in his shoulders was mostly gone.

“Dr. Serena.” He smiled when he saw me. “It’s been a while.”

“It has.” I set my bag down and crossed to him. “How have you been feeling?”

“Like a person,” he said, “which is an improvement.”

I ran through the standard assessments, wolf activity, vital

signs, the markers I tracked since his first appointment. The picture was clear by the time I was done. He was responding.

I made my notes. Then I sat back in the chair.

“I have a question,” I said. “You don’t have to answer.”

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He tilted his head. “Ask.”

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“What is the actual history between you and Kieran? The

tension between these two packs runs deeper than politics.

It’s personal.”

Elan looked at me. Then he laughed, it wss short and filled with surprise.

“Why are you asking?”

“Because I want to know.”

He leaned back against the headboard and looked at the

ceiling for a moment.

“Kieran should answer that question,” he said. “I find myself

curious about what he’d say.” He looked at me. “And what

you’d do with it afterward.”

I held his gaze. He held mine.

I let it go and leaned back in my chair.

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rather than impression.

I thought, briefly, maybe I could stay here longer.

“You could stay” Elan said.

I looked at him before shaking my head. “Misha is

downstairs.”

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“Misha can wait.” He gestured toward the chair I was already sitting in. “I’m not sending you away yet. You’re welcome here any time, Serena. Not only as my doctor. As yourself.”

I looked at him. He held the offer without leaning into it agenda in his face, no pressure behind the words.

“How did you lose your wolf?” I asked.

His eyes moved away from mine. A beat of quiet fell.

“That’s not a memory I enjoy going back to,” he said.

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“Then don’t.” I closed my notebook. “I don’t need to know.”

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A small silence settled between us.

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“What do you actually like?” he said. “Outside of medicine. What does Serena want when nobody’s asking anything of

her?”

I thought about it.

“Racing,” I said. “Games. New food from places I’ve never been. Just living. Moving through the world without the

weight of all of this attached to it.” I looked at my hands. “I’ve

missed that.”

“You can have it back.”

“Not for a while.” I looked at my stomach. “Things are about

to get much more complicated.”

He looked at me. His brow dropped slightly and his mouth

went flat.

“Is the baby really not Kieran’s?” he said. “That story has

been everywhere.”

“That’s a secret,” I said.

He waited.

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“The baby is Kieran’s,” I said. “But if Kieran finds that out, I have no way out of this marriage. And I need out of this marriage.” I held Elan’s gaze. “So the secret stays.”

“When you give birth,” Elan said, “what then?”

I looked at the window.

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Since the test came back positive because every answer I found had a problem at its center. If I kept the truth hidden

past the birth, Kieran might take the child to keep me in place knew him well enough to know he would. If I ran

before the birth, I’d deliver alone with nothing. If I claimed a miscarriage, I’d spend the rest of my life hiding a child from

its father.

None of it was clean.

“I don’t know yet,” I said.

“When the time comes,” he said, “you’ll know.”

I picked up my bag.

“Thank you,” I said. “For all of it.”

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He smiled. “Same time next week.”

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Misha drove me home and dropped me at the building. I stepped through the front door.

Kieran was waiting.

He crossed the room toward me before I could set my bag down, and the look on his face stopped me mid-step.

“Where were you?” He asked his eyes blazing with fury.

“Work.” I moved past him. “I told you I’d be home late.”

“Why was Misha dropping you off?”

“He drove me to the Cartridge house.”

“I don’t believe that.” He moved into the kitchen doorway,

blocking it. “I need you to tell me honestly what you’ve been doing with Misha.”

I turned and looked at him.

I let out a long breath and let the weight of the last several

months settle between us where he could see it.

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“You want honesty?” I said. “Fine. Yes. I’ve been spending

time with men outside this marriage.” I watched his face. “My first was you but you had your experiences with other

women. I’m choosing to have mine with other men. Misha

was one of them. Andrew is another.” I tilted my head. “I’m

open to more names after that.”

Just like me, Kieran liked things to be clean. If he thought

I had slept with other men, then perhaps he would feel so disgusted and hate towards me.

His eyes changed.

The color bled out of them and a burning red flooded in, his wolf behind his irises, close to the surface, pressing hard against the inside of his face.

“Stop joking,” he said.

“I’m not joking.” I held his gaze. “I’m tired of being the only one who stayed faithful. You had your experiences. I’m having mine. I won’t be tied down when you never were.”

Aina lurched, she slammed forward in my chest without asking, toward him, hard and involuntary, with a force I

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