The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 65

Chapter 65

Kieran

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Sophie’s words hit me in the chest.

I looked at her; her eyes were wide and wet. She stood in front of me with her hands clasped together and her whole body leaned toward me.

“Did Serena tell you all of this?” I asked.

“How would I know if she had not told me?” Sophie’s voice trembled. “She told me everything.”

She stretched her hand out toward my face; her fingers hovered near my jaw.

“Serena has moved on,” she said softly. “She let things go. That makes it easier for us.” Her hand inched closer. “We

both still care about each other, Kieran. Why don’t we try again?”

The words were metal scraping against metal; they set my teeth on edge.

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his teeth.

‘Sophie leaned in. Her face tilted upward and her lips

moved toward mine.

I watched her close the distance. Her eyes shut and her chin lifted with her mouth parted.

I waited for something to stir inside me.

Nothing came.

There was no fire and there was no urgency. My blood did not move faster and my hands did not reach for her. The heat I knew, the kind that made my chest tight and my skin burn and my wolf claw at me from the inside, that heat belonged to Serena. It only ever belonged to Serena.

She was my mate for a reason. Cora wanted only her.

Years ago, when I first met Sophie, I did not feel the mate bond. She told me she felt it; she said we belonged together, that the pull between us was real. But I could not feel it then and I could not feel it now.

pushed her away.

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Sophie stumbled backward; her feet caught on each other and she nearly fell.

She broke into tears that tore out from the deepest side of her, reflecting the years or torment she had suffered..

“What did I do to you?” she screamed. “I loved you for years. Not just Serena, I loved you too.” Her hands shook at her sides. “I sacrificed so many things for you. I gave up everything. But you don’t love me and how is that fair?”

My guilt was a weight on my shoulders. Her life was ruined because of my family; my grandfather tore her away and she ended up in a marriage that destroyed her. She saved my life once. I owed her a debt I could never fully repay, and that debt pressed down on me every time

she cried.

But guilt was not love. It never was.

“I feel responsible for you and your son,” I said. “I kept your secret and I gave you everything I could.” I held her gaze. “But I will not sacrifice my marriage. I will not lose my wife because of you.”

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Sophie shook her head slowly: the tears kept falling.

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Then she lifted her hand.

‘On her ring finger sat a diamond ring. The band caught

the light and my heart stopped.

I knew that ring. I knew the cut, the weight, the way the diamond sat in its setting. I put that ring on Serena’s finger at the altar and she cried when I did it.

Cora snarled inside me; the sound rumbled through my bones.

“Who gave you that?” My voice came out rough.

“Serena.” Sophie held her hand up. “She gave it to me. She doesn’t want to be married to you.”

I reached for the ring but Sophie pulled her hand back.

Rage clawed up my throat and turned my vision sharp. I seized her wrist and pulled the ring off her finger in one motion.

“You were not supposed to touch this,” I said.

Sophie’s face twisted. “Serena already gave up on you

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Just accept it-”

“Shut up.”

I held the ring in my palm and pulled my shirt over my thumb and rubbed the band clean. Serena was a clean freak; she would not want Sophie’s fingerprints on her ring. I rubbed it until the metal was warm from the friction and my shirt had a dark smudge on it and the diamond caught the light again.

Cora paced inside me; every nerve in my body was on fire.

Sophie grabbed my shoulders and spun me around to face her.

“Your mate is me!” She screamed it into my face. “You love me too and you should let go of Serena in your head.” Her fingers dug into my shirt. “You and Serena don’t even wear matching rings. Your marriage was never

real.”

She gripped my shoulders harder. “You and I belong together, Kieran.”

pyshed her away and she stumbled back again

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I slipped the ring into my pocket; my fingers closed around the band and stayed there.

She was not wrong about the rings. They were not a matching pair. I told Mark to pick them up before the wedding and he asked if I wanted a pair that matched. I was so detached from the ceremony that I only said whatever, and Mark bought two different rings.

When I slid the ring onto Serena’s finger at the altar, she cried. She bounced on her toes and her face broke open with joy and she held my hand so tight I felt her pulse in her fingers. That day, something warm bloomed in my

chest.

And now she took the ring off and gave it to another

woman after she swore she would never remove it.

“Pack your things and leave my house,” I said.

I bent down and picked up the divorce documents and the bank card from the grass, then I walked toward the

car.

Sophie’s voice chased me across the yard. “Serena is already gone! She’s gone, Kieran!”

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