The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 96

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Chapter 96

Kieran

A message from Father sat on my phone screen when I looked up from the documents on my desk.

Come home immediately.

I locked the phone and set it face down and turned back to my work.

The documents blurred in front of me; the numbers ran together and the words lost their shape because Serena’s belly sat behind my eyes and would not leave. The curve of her in that blue dress, the way the fabric draped over a life that grew inside her for months, the way she pressed her hand against it and her fingers spread wide and her face carried a calm I never saw on her before.

She was pregnant. My wife was pregnant. My wife was pregnant for months while she pushed for the divorce, while she screamed at me in private rooms, while she called our marriage a transaction and told me the baby

was not mine, when I knew it was.

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and warm and reached toward Aina and for the first time in months, Aina’s presence pulsed back. My child. My blood. My wife carried my child.

Mark walked into my office and shut the door behind

him.

“Your father wants you home, Alpha. He said immediately.”

“I’m not going.” I did not look up.

Mark shifted on his feet. “The news is traveling through the pack.” He paused. “People are saying you have a wife and another woman on the side with a son, and there’s speculation that the son might be the heir.”

The anger crawled up my neck so fast my vision narrowed; my hand tightened on the pen and the plastic cracked under my grip. “What kind of nonsense is that?” I pushed my chair back. “That’s not going to happen. Serena is pregnant and her child with me is the heir and nobody else.”

“You should tell your family that,” Mark said.

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I grabbed my jacket and drove to the Alpha house.

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Grandfather and Father stood in the main room; their voices were already raised and the shouting hit me the second I stepped through the door.

“Your actions are ruining this pack!” Father jabbed his finger toward me. “Other packs are looking at us with scorn. They’re laughing at us because the Alpha has a mistress and a bastard child and his wife is filing for

divorce.”

“Finalize the divorce,” Grandfather said; his voice was cold and flat. “End it with Serena and then do whatever

you want.”

“I can’t let go of Serena.” I held their stares and my jaw was set and my feet were planted. “Not now.”

Mother stepped forward from the doorway. “What do you mean, not now?”

I turned to Jenna; she sat on the couch with her hands in her lap and her eyes on the floor. “Didn’t you tell them?”

Jenna looked up; her face was pale and her lips pressed together.

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“Serena is pregnant,” I said. “I found out last night at the party. I saw her belly and she is carrying my child.” My voice filled the room and the words tasted real and solid on my tongue. “I am not letting her go.”

The room went quiet. Father and Grandfather looked at each other; something shifted behind their eyes, fast and silent, and the hostility in their posture drained and a new calculation took its place.

“You’re sure?” Father asked.

“I saw it with my own eyes. The baby is mine.”

Father nodded. “If that’s the case, don’t give up on her.

Get her back to the house.”

“I was never planning to divorce her,” I said.

Mother’s voice cut through the room. “That’s unfair to Serena. She doesn’t want anything to do with you and you’re forcing your way into her life.”

“Shut up,” Father said; his voice was sharp enough to crack glass. “You don’t understand what’s happening. It is critical that Kieran gets Serena back and they raise this child together.”

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“He’s been trying to bring her back for months.” Mother did not flinch; her spine was straight and her chin was up and she held Father’s stare the way she held it for decades. “She’s been pregnant this whole time and she still refused him. If she didn’t agree before, why would she agree now?”

“I’ll find a way to convince her,” I said. “I’m not giving up.”

Grandfather leaned forward in his chair. “If convincing doesn’t work, there are other methods. We can threaten her family-”

“Why would you threaten her family?” Jenna’s voice rose from the couch; her face flushed red and her hands trembled in her lap. “They have nothing to do with this. You’re all being cruel.”

“Mind your business, Jenna,” Father said.

Grandfather turned back to me; his eyes were hard and the calculation behind them was cold. “You have until the court hearing. Make sure Serena is back in the house and carrying that child under your roof before the date arrives.”

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“The hearing is not going to happen,” I said. “Neither is the divorce.”

The apartment was dark when I walked in.

I went straight to my office and pulled the whiskey from the shelf and poured a glass and sat behind my desk. The first sip burned on the way down and the warmth spread through my chest and met the warmth that was already there.

Serena was pregnant with my child.

The image from last night stayed green; the blue dress and the low neckline and the curve of her belly and the way her skin glowed brightly. She was a cathedral of a woman; she held my child inside her body and she carried herself with a grace that made the air around her thin.

Cora surged forward and pressed against my ribs and the bond hummed loud and warm and the thread between us pulsed with a strength I did not feel in months.

My wolf knew what my mind was still catching up to; Serena was mine and the child was mine and no divorce,

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no courtroom, no stack of paperwork would change that.

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