The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 78

Chapter 78

Serena

When I came back from the restroom, Crowley stood from his chair.

“You are not going home,” he said. “It is the festival and you will renew your bond with Kieran tonight.”

“I am not having sex with Kieran,” I said; the words left my mouth flat and blunt and every head at the table turned. “I will not be renewing any bond with him.”

Michael signaled to the guards near the door. “Lock the doors. She is not leaving this house.”

I looked around the room; Kieran’s chair was empty.

“Fine,” I said.

I walked past the table and went upstairs to the room I knew was Kieran’s.

The door was heavy when I pushed it open. His bed, his dresser, his scent embedded in the walls.

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I sat on the edge of the bed and pressed my palms against my knees.

The doctor’s voice echoed in my skull. Get ready to lose your baby.

If the moon set before I renewed the bond, I would lose my only chance. My baby needed this; my baby needed a mother whose body was strong enough to carry it and a bond that fed warmth into the blood we shared. The anger and the hatred and the pride had to go, because tonight was not about Kieran and it was not about me.

It was about my baby.

The door opened.

Kieran walked in; his tie was loosened and his sleeves were rolled to his elbows and his eyes found me on his

bed.

“If you want to leave,” he said, “you can leave now.”

I stared at him. The moon was already up in the sky, bright and full through the window behind him, and if the moon fell, I would lose everything.

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“I already told my parents I would be sleeping here,” I

said.

I walked past him toward the bathroom but his hand caught my arm and pulled me back.

“Do you hate me so much,” he said; his voice was low and rough, “that you won’t even eat what I put on your plate?”

I looked at his face and I kept my mouth shut. Getting him angry was a bad decision,

I pulled my arm free and walked into the bathroom.

I washed my face and my body and dried off and wrapped myself in a towel and stepped back into the bedroom.

Kieran stood by the bed; he adjusted the pillows and pulled the comforter back.

“If you want to sleep here, you can,” he said. “I’ll wait outside until you fall asleep and then I’ll come in.”

“Okay,” I said.

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He walked out and the door clicked shut.

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I lay on the bed and stared at the wall; Aina pressed against my ribs, restless and needy, and the bond hummed faint and desperate beneath my skin.

One hour passed and the moonlight shifted across the floor and my pulse climbed with every minute. I needed that mark; my body was not enough on its own and my baby needed the bond, needed the fire between mates to feed the life growing inside me.

The door opened and Kieran came in.

He went to the bathroom and the water ran for a few

minutes.

The bed sank behind me as he lay down. He did not reach for me and he did not touch me; his breathing was steady and his body stayed on his side.

The heat inside me was not mine alone; it was Aina, it was the pregnancy, it was the moon that pulled at the bond and demanded I close the distance.

I shifted closer to him. “I’m cold.”

“I’ll fix the air conditioning,” he said. 4/6

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