The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 64

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Chapter 64

Kieran

I knelt in the ruins.

The stuffed animal I won for her at the carnival was torn

in half; white cotton spilled from its belly. The music box she kept on her dresser lay in pieces and the tiny ballerina was snapped at the waist. A stack of cards, birthday and anniversary, were ripped down the center. Glass from the photograph frames littered the ground and the images

inside were cut in two.

She destroyed everything, before the marriage and after it, and she took pity on nothing.

I picked up the head of the stuffed bear and turned it over in my hand. The black bead eye stared up at me.

Sophie stepped forward and placed her hand on my shoulder. “Your wife destroyed everything.” Her voice was soft. “She has made up her mind, Kieran. These things won’t change anything.” She paused. “You should just agree to the divorce.”

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I rose to my foot

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I pulled out my phone and called the driver, then I turned to Sophie. “Pack your things. The driver will take you ‘home.”

Her face fell. “It’s late,” she said. “Ethan is tired. Can we leave tomorrow?”

I walked past her toward the back door. “This is my matrimonial home with my wife. It is inappropriate for you and your son to be here.”

Sophie followed me inside. “Serena has already gone this far. She gave me the house, and destroyed everything.” Her voice climbed. “Are you really going to hold on to her even though it’s clear she doesn’t want you anymore?”

I stopped walking.

Realization dawned on me.

I turned around and looked at Sophie.

“You knew,” I said. “You knew that everything between me and you was a misunderstanding. But you still agreed to move in here.” I searched her face. “Why?”

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She took a step back; her mouth opened and nothing

came out.

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“Are you blaming me?” she asked.

I looked away. “When you came back, the reunion made me foolish. I lied to my wife countless times to take care of you.” I faced her again. “But I never wanted a divorce. I never did and I never will.”

My wife was angry. She threw her biggest tantrum yet and she put on a good show, but she was not going to divorce me.

Even if she wanted to, she could not provide the billion

dollars needed.

Sophie did not respond. She turned and went inside the house, and a minute later she came back out and held something toward me.

Papers and a bank card.

“Your wife told me to give you these,” Sophie said. “She said there is a billion dollars on the card. You sign the gocuments to finalize the divorce and only then will she 50

give you the pin.”

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The anger was a fire; it started in my chest and spread to my hands and my jaw and the back of my skull.

I snatched the papers and the card from her hands and threw them across the yard. The pages scattered in the evening air; the card bounced off the porch railing and disappeared into the grass.

“The driver will be here soon,” I said. “Go pack your things.”

Sophie went inside.

I sat on the porch chair and lit a cigarette. The smoke filled my lungs and I held it there before I let it go.

She sold the jewelry in secret, behind my back. I blocked every auction house in the city and she found a way around me.

My thoughts were a storm; Serena sat in the center of it.

When did she sell it? How did she find someone willing to buy when I shut every door? Who helped her?

Sophie came back out and stood at the edge of the porch

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Ethan standing by her side, half asleep with his face against her neck.

“Why won’t you just admit that you still have feelings for me?” she asked.

The question scraped against something in my gut.

“What we had ended years ago,” I said.

“I know your family doesn’t approve of me.” Sophie rubbed Ethan’s head. “I know that’s why you can’t divorce Serena and be with me.” Her tone softened. “I understand if that’s the reason. I’m willing to wait. But don’t speak to me so coldly.”

I stubbed the cigarette against the armrest.

“Nobody can stop me from doing what I want.” I kept my eyes on the yard. “If I am not getting a divorce, it means I don’t want a divorce. I don’t need your understanding.” I looked at her. “The best thing you can do for me right

now is take Ethan and leave.”

Sophie stood frozen; her lips trembled and her eyes went glassy.

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“It wasn’t my idea to come here,” she said; her voice cracked. “Serena asked me. She invited me and my son ‘into this house and I only did what she told me to do.”

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