My Sister Stole My Mate And I Let Her (Seraphina) novel Chapter 78

Chapter 78: Chapter 78 FAMILY VACATION

SERAPHINA’S POV

The gates of the Nightfang Packhouse loomed ahead the next day, their wrought-iron curves glinting under the bright morning light.

My hands tightened on the steering wheel, knuckles pale. I hadn’t been here since before Kieran and I got divorced, but even when I occasionally had reason to visit, I was treated with disdain—cold stares and sharp barbs—by the pack members.

After all, I wasn’t their Luna. I was just the woman who trapped their Alpha in marriage with my pregnancy.

But now, I was back.

For Daniel—nothing else. I forced myself to remember that.

The guards at the checkpoint stiffened as my car approached. They recognized me instantly, and one stepped forward, his hand lifted in a signal to halt.

I rolled down the window, my voice firm before he could say a word. “I’m here to see Alpha Kieran. It’s urgent.”

They exchanged glances. I caught the faint twitch at the corner of one guard’s mouth—a trace of unease.

“The Alpha’s in his office,” the older one finally said. “But he’s...occupied.”

“Then unoccupy him,” I said.

“Ma’am, we can’t just—”

“It’s about my son,” I said sharply. “You know, your future Alpha?”

That shut him up.

After a beat, the older guard muttered into his comm, then waved me through.

The long driveway stretched ahead, the main Packhouse rising at the end like a fortress of stone and glass.

‘I’m here for Daniel,’ I told myself as I stepped out of my car, my resolve outweighing my hesitation. ‘Nothing else matters.’ 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The place was buzzing softly—voices in rooms, footsteps in the distance—but the hallway leading to Kieran’s office was quiet.

The corridors of the Nightfang Pack’s main building always felt colder than I remembered—like the walls themselves had been built to keep out warmth, not just the weather.

Everything about this place screamed order and vigilance. I could almost feel the weight of invisible eyes following my every move, guards posted where I couldn’t see them.

My heels clicked on the polished stone floor, the sound sharp in the heavy silence that followed me. I ignored the glances from passing wolves, their whispers tucked behind wary expressions.

But after ten years, it all slid off my back like water off polyester.

Halfway down the hallway to Kieran’s office, my steps faltered, and my chest tightened.

Celeste stepped out from an adjoining hallway as if she’d been waiting for me, her heels clicking in a deliberate, mocking rhythm. She looked perfectly poised in a sapphire dress that set off her eyes like poisoned jewels.

Her lips curved in a smile that was all mockery. “Well, well. Didn’t we agree to be strangers, dear sister? Yet here you are, haunting these halls like an uninvited ghost.”

Ah, there it was. I didn’t know who that show of faked penitence she’d put on yesterday was for, but at least, here with just us two, she was being herself.

Unfortunately for her, I was still in no mood to engage.

I didn’t slow down. “Move, Celeste. I have no time for you today.”

She pushed off the wall, falling into step beside me. “No time, or no courage to admit you’re here because you can’t stay away from him?”

Her voice dripped with false sweetness. “You make such a show of severing ties, yet here you are, running back when you need something. What is it this time, Sera? Another crisis only you can dramatize?”

I kept walking. My patience had been ground down to dust long before this conversation. “Believe what you like. I’m here for Daniel.”

“Oh, of course,” she drawled. “Always the dutiful mother. Convenient. But Kieran doesn’t owe you anything—” She turned to the guards stationed outside Kieran’s door.

“Remove her. She’s trespassing.”

The guards hesitated. I may not have been Luna, but I was once married to their Alpha. Celeste was a glorified stranger, and if what happened at her party was any indication, I doubted many of the pack members actually liked her.

Celeste’s voice sharpened. “Now.”

One of them took a step toward me—then stopped as the office door swung open.

Kieran stood there, tall and sharply cut in a dark shirt, his expression cool until his gaze landed on me.

Then—surprise, edged with something unreadable. “Sera?”

It was downright maddening the way just the mere sound of my name from those sensual lips of his brought back a rush of the memories I’d tried so hard to suppress.

I folded my arms across my chest like that would stop my heart’s attempt to beat out of my chest. “We need to talk.”

He studied me for a beat too long, as though weighing the risk of whatever I was about to say. “About what?”

“Daniel.”

His entire posture changed—shoulders squaring, jaw tightening, eyes sharpening like a blade honing its edge. “Inside,” he said.

Celeste made a sound of protest, but Kieran didn’t even glance her way. “Not now, Celeste.”

I stepped into his office, feeling Celeste’s glare on my back like a hot brand.

The office smelled faintly of leather and paper—orderly, controlled, with not a single thing out of place. It was very Kieran.

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