The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 35

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She was thrashing in my arms like a trapped animal and I couldn’t hold her still.

Every time I pinned one wrist, the other came swinging. She clawed at my chest and shoved against my shoulders and screamed at the ceiling of the study with a voice so raw it didn’t even sound like hers anymore.

My father chuckled from where he stood.

He looked at Grandfather and laughed. “I am in support

of this divorce.”

My anger switched targets so fast it nearly gave me whiplash. I turned on him with a snarl.

“Who told you that you could have a say in my

marriage?” My voice filled the room. “This is my business. Stay out of it.”

But Serena kept going. She was shouting over me, over myofather, over everything.

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“Please set me free!” She yelled every word like she was hammering nails into a coffin. “Please help me!”

Then she suddenly stopped fighting.

Her body went slack in my arms and she slid to the floor. She sat on the hardwood with her knees drawn up and tears pouring down her face and she looked at me with eyes that held nothing but defeat.

“If we don’t get divorced,” she said, “I will just die.”

The words hit me in the same place the knife had. The memory of her pressing the blade into her own skin flashed through my head and the fear I’d felt that night came flooding back, thick and suffocating.

“Stop running your mouth,” I said, but my voice had lost its edge.

She dropped to her knees in front of me. Not in front of

Grandfather this time. In front of me.

“You love Sophie.” She said it like a fact, like something settled and finished. “You have always loved her. Marrying me was never what you wanted. Even inside 1:25 this marriage, vour heart staved with her.” Her hands

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gripped the fabric of my shirt at the waist. “Please. Just take this opportunity. Divorce me and go be with your true love.”

I stood there looking down at her and my chest felt like it was being crushed from the inside.

“You have a child together,” she continued. “That’s perfect. That’s what you’ve always wanted. I’m giving your happiness back to you. The happiness your grandfather stole.”

She had heard everything.

Every word I’d said in this room, she had been standing on the other side of that door and she had absorbed it.

“Have mercy on me.” Her voice splintered. “For the sake of every year I loved you faithfully. For every night I waited up for you. For everything I gave you. Please, Kieran. Let me go.”

I lowered myself to the ground and took her arms gently. I lifted her back to her feet.

“When we get home,” I said quietly, “we’ll talk.”

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She immediately exploded.

Her body jerked away from mine and the screaming started again.

“I want a divorce. I want to be free.” She kept yelling. “I am not going back to that house with you.”

Her fists connected with my chest and her nails raked across my forearms and she fought me with everything she had left.

I was done negotiating.

I bent down and lifted her over my shoulder. She kicked and screamed and pounded my back with both fists, but I didn’t stop.

I carried her out of the study, down the corridor, past my mother and Jenna who stood frozen with identical

expressions of confusion and horror.

Neither of them said a word.

I carried her to the car and set her down gently in the hackseat. She lunged for the door and I caught her waist25 pulling her back. I climbed in beside her and shut the

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door.

“Drive,” I told the driver.

He pulled out of the estate without a question.

Serena stopped fighting after the first mile. She pressed herself against the far door and stared out the window with her arms wrapped around her body.

Halfway home, she spoke.

“Stop the car.”

I looked at her.

“There’s a pharmacy.” She pointed at the building passing on our left. “I need to use the restroom.”

I told the driver to pull over. When we got out, I moved to follow her inside.

“You don’t have to come with me.” Her voice was flat. “I won’t do anything stupid.”

Lhesitated. Then I let her go.

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She walked inside and came out two minutes later holding a small box.

My eyes dropped to her hands. I recognized the packaging instantly. It was a morning-after pill.

My heart clenched so tight I thought it would stop.

Her words from weeks ago surfaced. I would get rid of it. I would walk into a clinic and end it without thinking

twice.

Last night had been the first time we’d touched each other in months. Now she was standing in front of me holding a pill designed to erase any trace of it.

She didn’t want my child. She didn’t even want the possibility of my child.

We got into the car in silence. I held my hand out.

“Give me the medicine.”

She shoved my hand away. In one quick motion, she popped the pill into her mouth and swallowed it with a sip of water.

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Immediately, I reached out and grabbed her jaw.

I pushed two fingers past her lips and pressed down on the back of her tongue. She gagged and fought me, her hands clawing at my wrist, but I didn’t stop until she doubled over and vomited across the seat and onto my shirt.

The pill came up with everything else.

I didn’t care about the mess. I grabbed the box from her grip and shoved it into my jacket pocket.

She was shaking. I pulled out my handkerchief and reached for her face.

She slapped my hand away. “Give me my medicine.”

I took her wrist instead. “Do you really not want to have my child?”

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