Fated To Not Just One, But Three

Chapter 5: what Happened

Chapter 5: what Happened

Lennox's POV

I could feel my heart racing in my chest as I followed the maid leading me to Olivia's quarters. I wanted to act nonchalant, like I didn't care, but I couldn't. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't hide the worry etched on my face.

Stepping into the room, I was met with the sight of Olivia lying lifeless on her bed. Her mother knelt beside her, crying uncontrollably, while a medicine woman attended to her. The moment my eyes landed on Olivia's pale, unmoving form, pain racked my entire body. My breath caught in my throat, and I pushed myself forward to the bed.

"Why isn't she breathing?" I asked, my voice trembling.

Her mother, wailing in anguish, stood up from the floor and rushed at me. Before I could react, her hands gripped my collar, and she yanked me down to her level, glaring at me with pain and hate burning in her eyes.

"Are you and your brothers satisfied now?" she spat, her voice dripping with pain. "Come, eat her dead body!"

I swallowed hard, unable to say a word as guilt clawed at my chest.

Her grip tightened as fresh tears streamed down her face. "How can you and your brothers hate Olivia this much?" she demanded, her voice cracking. "You used to adore her! When you were children, she was your world. She worshiped you, followed you everywhere. She would have given anything for you three. And you? You protected her. Cherished her."

Her voice dropped to a whisper, filled with agony. "But now? Now you despise her. Why? Because her father was accused of stealing? Because she's an omega? Because she's no longer the daughter of a gamma?"

My throat tightened as I swallowed the lump forming there. Tears burned at the edges of my eyes, and before I could stop them, they slipped down my cheeks.

That wasn't why I hated her.

Maybe my brothers had their reasons, their own twisted justifications for turning their backs on her, but me? My reason was different. A selfish, painful truth I could never bring myself to say aloud.

Another tear slipped down my cheek, and I turned my head away in shame.

Then—

small sound filled the

A sneeze.

my heart leaping into my throat. The medicine woman gasped,

Another sneeze.

And then, Olivia stirred.

eyes. Her mother, who still had her hands on my collar, let go of me and crawled over

anymore. Instead, I went back to my room and found Anita, Levi, and Louis on

me, they knew something

laced with concern as he sat up, reaching for his

a hand through my hair, exhaling shakily as I shut the door behind me. My chest still felt tight, my

again, his voice laced with worry. "What

couldn't. The image of Olivia lying there, motionless, haunted me. Her mother's words echoed in my

your

like I was suffocating under the weight of something I couldn't even put

died," I finally muttered,

up straighter, frowning.

I swallowed hard. "Olivia."

suffocating. I could see the way Levi's jaw tightened, his eyes filled with

finally asked, his voice controlled, but

throat tightening again. "She looked—" I stopped, shaking my head. I couldn't say

through his hair. "Of course, she

myself. Levi's eyes snapped to mine, and for a

slowly, swinging his legs off the bed.

away. "I left before