The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 80

Chapter 80

Serena

In the morning, I left the bedroom and went downstairs.

Kieran’s family sat around the dining table; breakfast was spread across the surface and the scent of fresh bread and coffee drifted through the room. Bridget saw me first and rose from her chair; she crossed the room and took both my hands in hers.

“I’m so happy you two sorted everything out,” she said; her smile was warm and wide and her eyes were bright

with relief.

The mark on my neck pulsed beneath my collar; the renewed bond hummed and every wolf in the house must have felt it reignite last night.

Aina pressed forward; the bond was alive again and the warmth wrapped around my ribs and sank deep into my chest. The ache was still there, the pull toward Kieran, the thread that tugged at me with every breath.

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lies or the months of misomy and my baby was safe now

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and that was what I came for.

I smiled at Bridget and let her hands go gently. “We did not sort anything out. We will be getting a divorce.”

Her smile collapsed.

I walked past her to the head of the table where Crowley and Michael sat, and I stopped in front of them and straightened my spine.

“I am going to get a divorce from Kieran,” I said.

Footsteps came down the stairs behind me; Kieran appeared in the dining room and his eyes found me immediately. He crossed the room and grabbed my hand.

“We need to leave,” he said. “You have to see your family and I’ll take you.”

“I’m not going anywhere.” I pulled against his grip. “I need to tell them the truth.”

“You don’t have anything to tell them.” His jaw was tight. “I’m taking you home.”

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I turned away from him and faced Michael. “I want to end

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this marriage.”

Crowley set his coffee down. “You renewed the bond last night. Everyone in this house felt it.” His eyes narrowed. “Why are you now saying you want a divorce?”

A laugh broke out of me; the sound was short and dry. “Even with the bond alive, I do not want a relationship with this man.”

Crowley’s face hardened. “You don’t know what you’re

talking about. Since the bond is renewed, you are staying

married.”

“You are not going to force me.” I held his gaze. “I will get a divorce and I will take this to court if I have to.”

Kieran’s hand closed around my wrist and he pulled me toward the door. I dug my heels into the floor but his grip was iron and his stride did not slow; he walked me out of the house and across the driveway and opened the car door and guided me inside.

I sat there and did not fight.

He got in beside me and the driver pulled away from the

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“What is wrong with you?” He turned to face me; the tendons in his neck were taut. “After last night, I thought things would be different between us.”

“You thought wrong.” I kept my eyes on the road ahead. “You never apologized for anything you did and you never promised me you would change.” I turned to look at him. “You do not deserve my forgiveness.”

“We renewed the bond.” His voice climbed. “We had sex. We are staying married.”

“That is not going to happen.”

“How can you say that after-”

“If you want to stay married to me,” I said, “then what about your first love?” He went quiet and I kept going. “You were with me last night when we renewed the bond. Was she not angry? Why did she not call you? Why did you not call her?” My chest burned but my voice stayed steady. “Isn’t she the one you’re supposed to be with? Why did you stop in my place?”

“I don’t love Sophie.” His jaw locked. “Stop bringing her 497

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He told the driver to change direction.

“Where are we going?” I asked, and he did not answer.

The car stopped in front of an apartment building. He got out and opened my door and led me inside and up to a unit on the fourth floor.

The door opened and I stepped in.

The apartment was a mirror of our old house. The photographs hung in the same spots; the curtains were the same shade; the furniture sat in the same arrangement, down to the bookshelf against the wall and the rug beneath the coffee table.

I shook my head.

Kieran walked into the study and came back with two things in his hands, the divorce documents and the bank card, and he set them on the table in front of me.

I watched him pick up the divorce agreement and walk to the corner of the room where a shredder sat beside the desk. He fed the papers into the machine; the blades chewed through every page and spat the remains into the

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bin in thin white strips.

“I don’t deny that Sophie and Ethan exist,” he said; his back was to me. “I’ve been helping them. But it is just help and nothing more.”

I laughed. “Stop deluding yourself. If the relationship is just help, then where did the child come from?”

He turned around and walked toward me and picked up the bank card from the table. He placed it in my palm and closed my fingers around it.

“I don’t need your money,” he said.

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