Fated To Not Just One, But Three

Chapter 187: Bad Father

Louis' POV

We left Anita at the hospital. The doctor said she'd be discharged later in the day, so there was no point sticking around.

The drive back home was tense. Heavy. Silent.

I was in the driver's seat. Levi sat beside me, and Lennox was in the back. I glanced at Levi briefly. He looked completely lost in thought, staring out the window like the road wasn't even there.

I wondered what was running through his mind.

Was he having second thoughts about saving the pups?

I gritted my

Hell no—not me.

I didn't care how loud their tiny heartbeats sounded on that screen or how weak one of them looked. There was no way I'd make Anita my mate. Not for them. Not for anyone.

Because doing that… would mean losing Olivia.

And I'd rather lose everything—my rank, my power, my pride—than lose her.

That woman… Olivia. I'd rip my own heart out before I let us hurt her again.

She already hates us for everything we did to her—for all the ways we broke her. For the pain we caused her just because of a stupid payback. And now, what? We're to mate Anita? Officially tie ourselves to the one woman who caused her pain, too?

No. Absolutely not.

I didn't care if the pups were mine.

I didn't care if they were all of ours.

There was no going back.

Suddenly, from the back seat, Lennox groaned.

"Ugh. This is a damn mess," he muttered, dragging a hand down his face. "I can't get the image out of my head."

"You mean the ultrasound?" Levi asked, finally speaking up, his voice flat.

"Yeah. That," Lennox answered grimly.

"They might not be ours," I snapped, gripping the steering wheel tighter. "We don't even know for sure. Until we do, we're not doing anything."

awkward silence filled the

back, rubbing his temples. "And if they are?

coldly. "But we are not making her

I don't care what the healer says. If those pups

deeply, jaw

to this," Levi muttered. "It

to live with it. We already made our

No one responded.

heavier with every mile

tried to crawl

Nothing—nothing—was worth losing Olivia.

we all

didn't say it out

just as the afternoon sun was dipping behind the trees, casting long shadows across the

of the car, I spotted our mother—waiting by the

from the staff," she said, her voice tight. "They said Anita was rushed to

now," I muttered,

added, "the doctor said there's a chance… the pregnancy

widened. "What? Why? What are you talking

I took a breath and laid

We told her everything.

to truly give the pups a fighting chance was for the three of us to mark Anita again—this time as our mate, not just

I finished, her eyes were

rising, "you would let your children

snapped, stepping forward. "We're

at us like we were

she's not a whore. She's not the kind of woman who sleeps

clenched his jaw

already growing inside her! And what do you do? Stand there acting like it's nothing? You're all cowards. Terrible

words affected me more than

beside me. Even

added sharply. "For letting innocent children die just so you can prove your loyalty to her? This isn't love.

of us with disappointment in her

will live," she said firmly. "With or without your mark. But when they grow up, they'll know exactly what kind of fathers they

on her heel and walked away,

long time, none

at the

Terrible fathers.

That part stuck.

were mine… and yet her