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Chapter 26. Heated Argument.

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Sarah’s POV

The whispers had been carefully hidden from me.

For days, I’d been told I was to be Kieran’s soon-to-be wife, yet no one had spoken about another woman in his life.

Not my parents.

Not his Beta.

Not the council.

And most certainly not Kieran himself.

So when I heard what Joan said about some omega who held Kieran’s attention, I was furious.

Who was she?

Some disgraced concubine? A former lover he’d cast aside but refused to let go of?

I had every right to know. This was why, despite being explicitly warned to avoid that part of the estate, I was drawn to her like a predator scenting something out of place in its territory.

And when I finally laid eyes on her…

I realised I hated her immediately.

Not because she was beautiful—though she was.

Not because she carried herself with grace—though she did.

But because she was too calm.

Too collected.

And it infuriated me that someone of her status—an omega, a supposed discarded woman—could sit there, unshaken, while I stood befor
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