Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter 0005

[Xanthea]

Luna Meesa's face lost all color.

"What? Alpha..."

He raised his hand, silencing her.

"We don't have time for arguments. It's an order and I expect you to follow it."

With that, he left the room.

Luna Meesa shot me an outraged gaze. She flounced in front of me and slapped me across my face.

The stinging pain pulsed through my cheek like a thousand needles, overwhelming my senses.

"Are you happy now?" She snarled at me. "You've finally destroyed my family! You and your filthy blooded mother!"

I peered blankly at the floor. A mix of emotions crashed upon me, strangling my heart with their unforgiving claws.

Her grip tightened on my broken arm as I stifled my cries into mere whimpers. For the first time in my life, I felt as if I deserved the pain.

The royal doctor lowered his gaze. It was nothing new for him. After all, he was the one to heal me for eighteen years after every time they broke me. He never asked about my wounds. All he did was treat me, keeping his mouth shut just like today.

She grabbed my cheeks with her other hand, her nails dug into my cheeks. My eyes stung with tears at the pain. I clenched my jaws to arrest the sob in my throat.

"Useless and burdensome, as you always were..."

"Mother!" Nathalia burst into the room, breaking into tears. "I don't want to marry them! I don't want to die! Mother, please do something!"

I had expected Nathalia to unleash her anger on me, but she clung to Luna, sobbing bitterly. We shared the same fear in that moment and maybe that was what bound us. Nothing really matters when you can see your death right on your doorstep. Especially not when death was coming to marry you and take you away to the underworld as an offering. Another agonizing hour passed, with Nathalia's sobs and cries echoing the fatal silence of the palace. She was in another room, but I could hear her painful cries all the way to my room.

I didn't know what the royal doctor had injected into my hand, but the pain had lessened. I gently cradled my broken hand, wanting to feel relief, but restlessness gnawed at my chest with every passing second. The air inside and around the palace was thick with a kind of fear that came with the threat of an impending tsunami. A fear of destruction with no escape. All we could do was let the tsunami pass and hope to still be alive once it had.

I was left alone in the room, forgotten now that everyone's attention was on Nathalia.

The sound of the clock had become much more pronounced and so did the hurried footsteps in the corridors.

I rose from the bed and paced near the dressing table, fidgeting with my fingers as restlessness grew wilder in my chest.

I wanted to go back home to my mother, her diaries. Maybe then I would find some courage.

My head snapped up as my room door creaked open.

This is what I feared the most. He is going to be mad again! He'll hurt me again.

With bated breath, I looked at Nikolai, who wore a deep frown when he entered the room. But his face turned impassive as he took me in.

gaze traveled down my body to my

hammered against

He... sort of... found out on his own. I didn't tell him anything about you or the car thing..." I spoke in a breath, well aware of

shut my

is going to

he stopped. I glanced at him,

sneer he gritted his teeth and stormed out

a

What just happened?

in the corridors grew louder and more rushed. So did my

the watch. It was ten minutes

out of the room. Walking some distance in the corridor, I

Please... they'll kill me. You know them, they are devils," Nathalia

in a sparkly white wedding gown, adorned in the best of diamonds. Something she always flaunted, something that no longer held value.

to bear it silently. A knot formed in

the pack, you should... prepare yourself, Lia. Stop crying. You need to look... good for them," Nikolai said, clenching his jaws.

had been crying for hours now. Her eyes were red, her voice

all my mistake." Nathalia slumped against the wall. "It's karma. That is why this

a strangling pain throb in my

one to blame. It's all my fault..." she slumped against the

struck midnight, the main clock chimed loudly. Nathalia's eyes widened,

ran into her room,

the palace as the air crackled with power and dominance. The demon lords, the

banged on her door. "Lia! Open the door! Lia!

calm, probably mindlinking with the Alpha. Then, with a forceful push, he

longer screaming. Suppressed sobs were the only sound

watched it all hiding behind

and her face kept flashing in my eyes as if it might

my hands over my mouth, breaking into tears. Leaning my head against the wall,

in my hands, I cried until I could no longer fight the weight

wall, I got up. Lifting the hem of my wedding gown, I ran as fast as I could with my sprained ankles in the empty corridors of the palace. Everyone had gathered in the ballroom for the marriage ceremony. Even the maids were

through the

when I reached the backdoor of

place from where

would

the hall. I could feel the heavy

for a moment before finally making up my

waiting with sobbing Nathalia, hidden in the darkness. I didn't dare glimpse whatever ceremony was going on

the

in the sky with thunder and

parted

Meesa's bleary gaze fell on me, but she didn't

closer

my path to Alpha and

He spoke through gritted teeth.