The Alpha Who Never Loved Me (Serena and Kieran) novel Chapter 97

Chapter 97

Chapter 85

Serena

My phone rang before my eyes were open.

I reached for it; Mark’s name sat on the screen. I answered, pressed the phone against my ear.

“Mrs. Thawthorne, the Alpha would like to speak with you,” Mark said. “He’s asking you to come to the house.”

“No,” I said.

“It’s regarding the divorce.”

My blood heated; my fingers tightened around the phone, my jaw locked. The audacity of this man to summon me to his house, to send his assistant on a morning I did not ask for, to dangle the word divorce in front of me and expect me to come running.

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He answered on the second ring

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“What the fuck is happening?” I sat up in bed; my belly pressed against my thighs. “Why am I coming to your house for a divorce conversation?”

“I’m handling some work matters, I can’t leave the house right now.” His voice was calm; the apology in it was measured, deliberate. “My lawyer will be on video call. I’ve been too busy to go anywhere, so I’m asking you to come with your own lawyer. We can meet here, talk about the divorce.”

“You expect me to come to you.”

“I’m sorry.” He paused. “I know you don’t want to do this, but it’s the only option. If we don’t meet today, it’ll be postponed by a month or two.”

A month or two. I did not want another month married to this man; I did not want another week, another day, another hour with his name chained to mine while my belly grew, while my freedom shrank.

“Fine,” I said. “I’ll come.”

“I’ll be waiting.”

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I hung up, threw the covers off, got dressed in under ten minutes. The divorce papers sat in the folder on my desk; I grabbed them, held them against my chest. These pages were my ticket out, my exit, the key to a door I clawed at for months. I texted my lawyer the address; he replied that he would meet me there. Today was the day this marriage died.

I told my parents I was leaving. My mother held my arm, searched my face, asked me if I was sure. I told her the divorce was happening today; I would be back before

evening.

When I stepped outside, Mark stood by a black car with the rear door open; his hands were clasped behind his back, his posture formal.

“The Alpha didn’t want you to trouble yourself,” Mark said. “He asked me to bring you, given your condition.”

My stomach turned. I did not want to ride in Kieran’s car, did not want his driver, did not want his courtesy wrapped around me, tightening with every mile.

But the ride would save me time, energy, money. If Kieran wanted to pay for the car that carried me to the2:50 end of his marriage, I would let him.

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“Fine,” I said, then I got in.

I walked into the house, found Kieran in his study.

No suit, no tie, no polished shoes. He wore grey sweatpants, a tank top that clung to his shoulders,

showed every line of muscle beneath the fabric. His hair was scattered across his forehead; a pair of glasses sat on the bridge of his nose.

My breath caught.

Those glasses. I did not see them in years.

I could remember when I was younger, maybe twenty-two; I walked into his office, saw the glasses for the first time, my entire body went warm. I told him we should have sex with the glasses on. He laughed, told me it was a silly idea. But he gave in; the glasses stayed on, one of the best nights we ever shared. The memory of it still lived in my skin, my thighs, my spine.

My face flushed; the heat climbed up my neck, spread across my cheeks. I pressed my teeth together, shoved the memory down. His tall frame, his jaw, his lips, the way the tank top sat against his chest; none of it helped, but !

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did not come here for this.

“Join me in the study,” he said.

I walked in, sat across from him. The desk between us was covered in papers, files; the laptop sat open to his right.

“We’ll wait for your lawyer,” he said. “Do you need anything? The housekeeper made tea, I can heat some up for you.”

“Fine,” I said. “I can’t have coffee anyway.”

He came back with a cup of tea, set it on the desk in front of me. The porcelain was warm under my fingers; the tea was sweet, light. I drank half of it in three sips.

He sat back down, opened a file on his desk.

“Why did you keep the pregnancy a secret from me?” he asked; his voice was quiet, his eyes stayed on the file. The calm in his tone caught me off guard; I expected anger, accusation, rage. Not this. Not a man who sat behind a desk and asked the question the way he asked about the Weather.

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“Why are you curious about another man’s child?”

He dropped his gaze. “Why can you not stop saying that nonsense?”

“You heard me, the child is not yours.” I held his gaze.

His face suddenly darkened, all traces of a laugh wiped out. “I know that child is mine.”

“I don’t know what you want me to say, I have told you the baby isn’t yours, why do you keep trying to delude yourself?”

“I do not believe you,” he said, his face still dark.

“It’s too late for that.” I picked up the tea, drank. “I am happy you agreed to the divorce, I can finally go be with the father of this baby.”

A yawn pressed up through my chest; my jaw stretched wide, my eyes watered. I blinked against the heaviness that crept behind my eyelids.

I looked at the tea.

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“Did you put something in this?” I asked.

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“No.” He did not look up from his papers. “I didn’t put anything in the tea.”

“I don’t believe you.”

“Same way I don’t believe you.” His voice was even. He was shockingly calm, this was not the reaction I expected from him. “You can relax, there is nothing in the tea.”

“And I will find out if that baby is mine or not.” He said darkly, his eyes placed on his documents.

“How?”

“You’re gonna see.”

I did not want to see. Kieran was a crazy man, whatever plan he had would be as psychotic as he was.

“I don’t know what you plan to d….” I yawned again. A strange feeling of fatigue washing over me.

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