The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 47

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Chapter 47

Kieran

I watched the car disappear with my wife in the passenger seat and something ugly settled in my chest.

She refused dinner with me. Then she got into another man’s car without a second thought. Just walked right past me like I was a lamppost.

I was about to leave when someone called my name.

I turned only to see Sophie standing a few feet away, her bag over her shoulder.

“What are you doing here?”

“I came for a checkup,” she said.

“Okay.”

She hesitated. “I saw Serena. Should I go talk to her? Maybe if I explained things, she would understand-”

“No.” I cut her off. “There’s no need for that.”

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Sophie’s face fell. “I’m sorry, Kieran. I just want to move on from the past. If it was just me, I would never have come back to disrupt your life. But I have a son. He’s innocent in all of this.”

Her voice was heavy with sorrow that made you feel guilty just for hearing it.

I softened my tone. “I know you and Ethan have been through a tough time. You’re a victim, Sophie. I’ve never denied that.” I paused. “But so is my wife. Your suffering wasn’t caused by her. But her suffering was caused by the

secret between us.”

Tears pooled in Sophie’s eyes. “I know. We’re just a burden to you.”

“Stop crying. You’re not a burden.”

She wiped her eyes and took a breath. “Since you already have the fake paternity test, why don’t you claim Ethan openly? Register him with the pack. That way he could get into a good school and have a real future.”

I didn’t like the sound of that. Claiming Ethan publicly was a different thing entirely from a document sitting in a drawer. That was permanent, a door I couldn’t close

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again.

“I help you,” I said. “But I have my limits.”

I said goodbye and walked to my car.

Pack duties ate the rest of the afternoon. Meetings with the elders, border reports, financial reviews. By the time I got home, the sky was dark and the house was darker.

I showered, changed into pajamas, and went to the study to go over some documents.

That was when I saw the additional document sitting on top of the table.

But my eyes went over to the paternity test I had kept there earlier. The one confirming Ethan as my biological son. It was slightly wrinkled and when I picked it up and looked closer, I saw the small warped spots on the paper where something wet had dried.

Teardrops.

My chest tightened.

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Serena had been here. She must’ve came over while I was

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gone. She had found the tests.

I put the test down and picked up the new document.

It was an official Divorce agreement. I scrolled through the document and then noticed an additional clause that had not been in the first divorce agreement. I had to read twice to make sure I was seeing it right.

She was selling the jewelry.

I leaned back in my chair, got up, and poured a glass of whiskey. I drank it in one go and poured another.

She was actually doing it. She was going to sell her family’s heirloom, the last thing they had left from Blackthorn, just to be free of me.

I grabbed my phone and called Mark.

“Keep an eye on my wife,” I said. “Track her movements. Especially anything involving auction houses.”

“Yes, Alpha.” He said obediently.

hung up and walked to the bedroom.

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The trash can caught my eye before I reached the bed.

It was full. Which was unusual considering Serena and I were hardly home to fill the trash up with nonsense.

But looking at it now, it seemed a bit unusual. There were some things that had been tossed outside, for example, toothbrushes. Her cosmetics. Bottles and creams and small things she kept on the bathroom counter. And sitting on top of all of it, face down, was the photo frame from the nightstand.

I pulled it all out. One thing at a time. I set the cosmetics on the dresser. I put the toothbrushes back in the bathroom. And I turned the photo frame over in my

hands.

Us. Our faces pressed together. She was smiling wide. enough to show her teeth and I had that expression I always wore in photos.

She threw this away.

I set it back on the nightstand where it belonged and stared at it.

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“Why can’t you just trust me?” I said to the picture. To

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her face in the glass.

The house was too quiet. I washed my hands, got into bed, and closed my eyes.

I turned over. Then turned again. I stared at the ceiling and then at the wall and then at her empty side of the bed. The sheets were cold and flat and the pillow still had the smallest dip from the last time she slept here.

I grabbed my keys and left.

The drive to her parents’ house qas lonely. I parked on the roadside across the street and cut the engine.

The house was small and the lights were off. Everyone was asleep. I rolled down the window and lit a cigarette and sat there looking at the dark windows and the closed front door.

My phone buzzed with a message from Trevor.

Where are you?

I told him.

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Fifteen minutes later, his car pulled up behind mine. He

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got out and slid into my passenger seat. He looked at

the house, then at me, then at the cigarette between my fingers.

He didn’t say anything for a minute.

“I’m a bit shocked you’re here,” he said finally. “Considering you won’t even tell the woman the truth.”

I took a drag and blew the smoke out the window.

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