The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 34

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Chapter 34

Kieran

In the study, Grandfather sat behind the mahogany desk with his hands folded. My father stood to his right and a servant hovered near the door.

I stood on the opposite side of the table with my fists at my sides and anger crawling through every vein in my body.

I had been pulled from bed for this. Dragged from the warmth of my wife’s body into a room full of men who believed they still owned me.

“You are the current head of the pack and the company, everything you do reflects on Crimson.” My father was almost as angry as I was. Staring at me with red eyes rimmed with rage.

“For Serena to be working at a hospital makes us look incapable. Other packs would see it as weakness and question whether the Alpha of Crimson can even provide for his own Luna.” He cleared his throat. “Perhaps, it’s tinge Serena produced an heir.”

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The words only boiled my anger over.

“Serena can do whatever she wants,” I said. “If she wants to work, she will work. If she wants children, she will have children. Nobody in this room will force her into anything.”

My father opened his mouth to argue but Grandfather

raised a hand and silenced him.

Grandfather looked at me, keeping his eyes pinned on

“Six years ago, I made Sophie disappear,” he said. “I can do it again. That woman and her child are liabilities. Other packs will hear about them. They will see a fractured household and they will smell blood in the

water.”

My jaw clenched hard. “Don’t push your luck.”

But of course, he wasn’t listening.

“You are the Alpha,” he continued. “If you won’t clean up your own mess, someone will clean it for you. Sophie and her son will be dealt with.”

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I knew what that meant. He hadn’t killed Sophie six years ago. He’d sent her away instead it was a form of mercy from his side, but I didn’t need him to be merciful

anymore.

Looking at the blood thirsty look in his eyes, there was only one solution to this problem,

“Ethan is my son.”

The room went dead silent.

My father’s face turned the color of ash. He crossed the distance between us and stopped inches from my face.

“How could you be reckless?” He yelled out. “You threw everything away for a woman who isn’t worth the dirt beneath our family name.”

I stared at my father with a face that showed him nothing.

“You had a child outside your marriage too,” I said. “What right do you have to stand here and lecture me?”

My father’s mouth opened and closed but no sound came

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Behind him, Grandfather’s expression didn’t change but his fingers tightened against the desk.

I turned to my grandfather. “I know what you’re capable of. But if anything happens to Sophie or her son, I will make both of you regret it.”

Grandfather studied me for a long moment. Then he

leaned back in his chair.

“Prove it,” he said. “Bring me a paternity test. If the boy is yours, I’ll spare them both.”

I nodded. A paternity test was manageable. I could figure

that out.

“You’ll have the results,” I said.

I turned to leave.

I hadn’t taken two steps when the study door flew open.

Serena stood in the doorway.

Her face was white. Her eyes were swollen and red and the tears hadn’t dried yet. They were still falling cutting

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lines down her cheeks.

My chest seized.

Our eyes locked and I felt the bond between us shudder. It was hanging by a thread so thin I could barely sense it.

“Serena.” I reached for her hand. “We’re leaving.”

She shoved me away.

Before I could react, she walked past me toward the desk and dropped to her knees.

Serena pressed her forehead to the floor in front of my grandfather, her palms flat against the hardwood, her body folded into a bow so deep it looked like surrender.

“What are you doing?” I grabbed her arm. “Get up.”

She pulled free and stayed on the ground.

“Please.” Her voice cracked down the center. “Let Kieran be with Sophie. I want to leave this marriage.”

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She crawled forward on her hands and knees until she

reached my grandfather’s feet. She gripped the fabric of his trousers and looked up at him with a face I had never seen on her before.

The look of desperation.

“I know my family owes yours,” she said. “I won’t run from the debt. I will work and I will pay back every cent. But please, have mercy. Let me divorce him.”

My heart was hammering. A feeling I couldn’t name was spreading through my chest, it was particularly unfamiliar and very negative.

“I won’t expose this to the pack,” she continued. “I won’t say anything to anyone. I’ll tell everyone that I was the one who cheated. I’ll say I destroyed the marriage. I won’t take a single thing from this family. I’ll leave with nothing.”

My grandfather looked down at her with an expression I couldn’t read.

I grabbed Serena’s arm and pulled her to her feet. “That’s enough. Stop this.”

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