The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 41

Chapter 41

Serena

People told me once that marriage was a grave. That it was hard and heavy and most people didn’t survive it with their hearts still beating. They spoke of the trials women faced in marriage with men that found comfort outside. Many of these women had been chosen mates of their husbands, they regretted everything.

Sometimes, their husbands found their actual fated mates outside and forgets about their chosen mates at

home.

And there were some instances where a woman who was married to her own fated mate cried throughout marriage. Then, it wasn’t cheating, it was just as they had called it, life.

You hurt the ones you love sometimes.

I looked at those people and told them it wouldn’t be the same with me and Kieran. I told them that him and I would be different and they would all see it.

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wasnt a grave.

It was hell.

Every single day I woke up and cried for a man who didn’t care. Every single day I reached for someone who was already gone. And for what?

My dream had always been a husband who loved me, a man who was pure, only devoted to me, a man who carried me inside him like a second heart. A man who

treasured me and would always make me happy.

I got the opposite.

I got Kieran.

And I didn’t want him anymore. I couldn’t keep putting up with this treatment, this hate he was showing, I couldn’t handle this anymore.

Jenna was sitting in the chair beside my bed. She was watching my face but her mouth remained shut. I couldn’t blame her. We had gone through this same conversation so many times the words lost their shape weeks ago. She was probably tired of hearing it.

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I was tired of living it.

“Can I have my phone?” I said weakly.

She pulled it from her pocket and placed it in my palm.

I dialed my father. He picked up on the second ring.

“Dad.” My voice didn’t shake. “I want to come home. I’m at the hospital.”

He didn’t ask other questions. “I’m on my way.’

Jenna walked up to me and stood by the bed. “You’re leaving.”

I nodded my head slightly. “Yes.”

“Serena-”

“One way or another, I will find that billion.” I smoothed the edge of the hospital blanket between my fingers. “And I will free myself from him.”

I took a deep breath, tears already threatening to fall

from my eyes. “I regret marrying him. I regret every year, 378 every dinner, every night I spent pressing my ear to the

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front door waiting for his car. I regret every time we spent together.’

All of it.

Every single moment.

“I hate myself for staying too long.”

She didn’t say anything, just staring at me as tears pooled her eyes.

The door swung open and Kieran walked in.

He came straight to the bed. His eyes found mine and stayed there, I could not care if he had heard what I said or not, I truly did carry regret from the moment we got married.

Jenna didn’t give him the chance. “Serena called her parents. They’re on their way, I also texted mom too.”

His jaw went tight. He didn’t spare Jenna any attention but rather kept his eyes on me. “I know you’re upset. But we can sort this out without parents getting involved.”

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I turned my eyes away from him.

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I could not summon up any form of care or concern for

him at the moment. Even in such a time he wanted to

protect his image, he wanted to live like a faultless man.

I had cried every day since Sophie came back. I had screamed and begged and thrown furniture and pressed a knife to my own skin and none of it moved him. Not one tear softened his heart. My love was invisible to him. It always was.

So I let it go.

I was tired of doing all of these things, I was tired of always begging and getting nothing in return.

Kieran turned to the room. “Give us a minute.”

Trevor and Jenna stood. They moved toward the door but it opened before they reached it.

My father walked through first with my mother was right

behind him.

Kieran straightened. “You’re here already.”

My father didn’t look at him. His eyes went past Kieran

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and landed on me and he crossed the room in four steps. His arms came around me and I grabbed the front of his shirt and pressed my face into his shoulder. My teeth bit down on my bottom lip. My eyes squeezed shut. I didn’t want to cry, but my tears were just too much to hold back.

“I’m sorry,” Kieran said behind him. “I didn’t take care of her the way I should have.”

My mother didn’t acknowledge him. She sat on the other side of the bed and put her hand on my back and rubbed slow circles between my shoulder blades. She kissed my forehead but didn’t say a single word.

The tears poured out of me, but I didn’t bother wiping them away. I just turned into my mother’s neck and held on to her and let the sound of her breathing drown out everything else in the room.

“How did you get hurt?” she asked after a while.

I pulled back and dragged my palm across my wet face. “I slipped.”

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She didn’t ask me any other question and just kept her 678 hand on my back. Gently rubbing it.

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The door opened one more time.

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