The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 54

Chapter 54

My heart sank.

“Excuse me?”

He cleared his throat. “I said, I’m sorry I have to let you go.”

Again, my heart broke apart, shattering to a million pieces. “Why?”

His lips parted but nothing came out. He looked at his hands, then at the wall behind me, then at his hands again.

He visibly could bot find the words for it.

I could.

Crowley Thawthorne.

Kieran’s grandfather did not want the Luna of Crimson working in a hospital, and so he made sure she couldn’t.

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My head pounded and my body felt heavy. I needed a checkup. The stress, the pregnancy, the way everything pulled at me from the inside – my baby needed me to sit down and breathe.

I needed to calm down and take a moment. I needed to…

I stopped walking.

My already shattering heart turned to dust. The tears that had been burning the back of my eyes finally won.

Kieran stood in the corridor with his son in his arms. The boy’s head rested against his shoulder. On his side stood Sophie stood and her hand was curled around Kieran’s

arm.

A picture perfect family.

Something I would never have.

Kieran lifted his head and saw me.

His eyes widened slightly. In a quick move, he set Ethan down and took a step in my direction, but Sophie grabbed his hand and held him back.

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I had to strain my ears to hear what she said.

“We have to go. Ethan needs to see the doctor.”

He stopped and looked at Sophie, then at the boy, then back at me.

I couldn’t stay to see what decision he was going to make.

Aina was clawing at my chest, but I kept moving until I reached the back of the hospital where the air was cooler and the noise was far away.

The wind was crisp but did nothing to dry the tears streaming down my eyes.

One step forward three steps back.

I could finally sell my jewelry only to be fired and then had to see the man I have been married to for years gallivanting through the hospital with the love of his life and their son.

What had I done in my past life to be out through so much suffering?

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Was loving a person so wrong?

Why did I have to suffer this way when all I had ever done was genuinely love a man?

I stood there with my back to the world and my front facing the field of flowers. No matter how beautiful it looked, I could not see past the ugliness of my life.

Why was I even crying?

He chose Sophie again, that should not have surprised me; he did it a hundred times before.

I should be used to it now. I should be used to the feeling of being stabbed repeatedly by his actions.

I should be used to watching him pluck my heart just to play with it.

I would never have him all to myself, and my child would not change that.

“SERENA!”

slowly turned around.

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Kieran was running towards me. The air hitting his face and sending his hair flowing back. He looked different.

I had never seen him run. Especially not towards me.

All those years, I was the one who ran to him. I opened my arms every time, I waited every time, I loved him so desperately that it consumed me whole.

This time, he started to run.

But my heart did not beat the way I thought it would.

The expectation I had of this moment was gone. Perhaps he stabbed it so many times that it forgot how to react.

I could turn around and walk away. But there was no point; he would follow and cause a scene, and the embarrassment would fall on me.

He finally stopped in front of me, his breath uneven.

“I can’t explain what’s going on with Sophie.” He started after catching his breath. “But we’ve been married for years, Serena. Why can you not just trust me?”

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Aina pressed forward: she whined.

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I shook my head slowly.

“I was so heartbroken,” I said, feeling the moisture flowing from my eyes. “When you started to lie to me and you started to leave to be with her.” I swallowed. “And then I found out about the affair and it broke me,

Kieran.”

“No-”

I shook my head again. “How could I ever believe you?”

Tears slid down my face but I did not raise my voice. I was tired of screaming, tired of clawing at his chest, tired of begging him to listen. None of it ever worked.

I cleared my throat and wiped my cheeks with the back of my hand.

“I have been showing you how broken I am,” I said. “Every day. In every way I knew how. But all you ever did was dismiss me.” My voice stayed low, but was filled with the sobs I was choking on.

“You told me I was throwing tantrums. You told me I was dramatic. Even after I tried to kill myself, you did not

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