The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91

Kieran

Josh was still missing.

Whatever I told Serena about the divorce, whatever trick I pulled to get her on a plane, the boy walked off a school campus and disappeared and that part was not a game.

I drove to the school and asked for the security footage. The administrator pulled it up on a monitor in the back office and I stood behind his chair and leaned close to the screen; the footage was grainy but clear enough.

Josh appeared on camera at eleven in the morning. He walked out the side entrance with his bag on his shoulder

and his head down; his stride was fast and his arms swung and he did not look back once. He turned left at the gate and walked along the main road for three blocks before the camera angle cut off and he vanished from the frame.

I got back in the car and followed the route. Three blocks east, then south past the pharmacy, then west through themarrow streets that grew quieter and smalle with 2:45

every turn. The buildings shrank and the pavement

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cracked and the streetlights thinned out and I knew this road; it led toward the residential area on the outskirts of pack territory.

Toward Frederick and Sylvia’s house.

I pulled up to the curb and my knuckles knocked against

the front door.

Sylvia opened it; Frederick stood behind her and neither of their faces carried surprise. They knew he was here.

“Kieran, what are you doing here?”

“I followed the paths that Josh had taken from the school.” I said already peering into the house, “Josh came here,” I said. “Is he inside?”

Josh stepped out from behind his father. His jaw was tight and his eyes burned; the hatred in them did not waver, did not blink, did not shift an inch when they landed on my face.

“Why did you leave school?” I asked.

“I don’t want to owe you anything.” His voice was raw 2:45 and it cracked at the edges but the resolve underneath

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was steel. “You betrayed my sister and I don’t want to keep going to a school where you pay the fees. I can’t have any freedom and my family can’t have any freedom.” His fists clenched at his sides; his knuckles went white. “I don’t want to do this anymore.”

Sylvia placed her hand on Josh’s shoulder. “Just hold on. Serena is making plans and she’s going to take care of your school herself. You don’t have to worry.”

“No.” Josh shrugged her hand off. “Until Serena comes and takes me to school herself, I’m not going back.”

My chest ached; Josh’s grades sat at the top of his class; his teachers praised him and his mind absorbed everything it touched. This boy was brilliant, and he was willing to throw it all away because my name sat on his tuition receipts.

“You should try to convince him to go back,” I said to Frederick. “He’s a smart boy and it won’t benefit him if he

abandons school.”

Frederick looked at me; his face was stone and his eyes gave me nothing. “Whatever our family decides to do has nothing to do with you.” He paused and the pause carried more weight than the words. “Go find your way back to

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the woman you love.”

The venom in that sentence sat on my tongue and I swallowed it and nodded and walked back to my car. My hand gripped the door handle and my fingers ached from the pressure but I pulled the door open and got in and sat there for a moment before I turned the engine on.

My phone buzzed. A message from the Alpha house; Grandfather wanted me there.

I drove to the estate and walked inside.

Grandfather sat in the main room with Father beside him. Two glasses of brandy sat on the table between them; neither glass was touched and the amber glistened in the light and sat there untouched and waiting, the same way they waited for me.

“I spoke to the lawyer,” Grandfather said. “He will handle the divorce proceedings and send the documents

to Serena. There is no reason for her to come back and everything can be done remotely.”

My blood cooled; the temperature in my veins dropped and my fingers went cold. “I’m not doing that.”

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“It’s already in motion.”

“Then stop it.” I stepped forward and my voice hardened. “I never agreed to this divorce. I am not leaving Serena and nothing you say will change that.”

“What is the reason for all of this?” Father stood from his

chair. “Serena is not even an addition to your life. The only thing she has going for her is her beauty and there is nothing else.”

“You wouldn’t understand,” I said.

“I understand enough.” Father reached for a folder on the table and opened it. “There is a woman from the Greymoore pack. Talia Salazar.” He held the folder out to me. “She loves you. She wants you. Her pack is strong, her family is influential, and she has her own business.” He tapped the folder. “She is the right woman for you.”

The Salazar name sat in my ears and my jaw tightened. Father pushed Talia at me for years; he dropped her name into conversations and arranged coincidental meetings and praised her bloodline at every opportunity. He dangled her in front of me the way a man dangled a

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