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.

down my body to my

heart hammered

I didn't tell him anything about you or the car thing..." I spoke in a breath, well aware of what was coming regardless of my words. He wasn't going to

closer and I shut my eyes,

going to hit

stopped. I glanced at him,

a sneer he gritted

took a

What just happened?

voices in the corridors grew louder and more rushed. So

the watch. It was

out of the

please. Do something. Please... they'll kill me. You know them, they are devils," Nathalia clutched

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

to bear it silently. A knot formed in my

look... good for them," Nikolai said, clenching

sobs. She had been crying for hours now. Her eyes were red, her voice hoarse, but she kept pleading sometimes with Luna, sometimes with Nikolai. Both of them could only

Nathalia slumped against the wall. "It's karma. That is why this is happening. It's all my fault. I broke her hand. It was

widened my eyes, feeling a strangling pain throb in my chest at her

all my fault..." she slumped against the

chimed loudly. Nathalia's

ran into her room, slamming

as the air crackled with power and

Open the door! Lia!

he remained calm, probably mindlinking with the Alpha. Then, with a forceful push, he opened the door and dragged Nathalia

sobs were the

it all hiding behind

kept flashing in my eyes as if it might remain imprinted in

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

my aching head in my hands, I cried until I

sprained ankles in the empty corridors of the palace.

the web

when I reached the backdoor of the

from where the

would

feel the

for a moment before finally making

with sobbing Nathalia, hidden in the darkness. I didn't

decorated for the marriage ceremony, yet

the sky with thunder and lightning, adding

crowd surrounding Nathalia parted to make way

bleary gaze fell on me, but she didn't react with

stepped closer

blocked my path to Alpha and

through gritted teeth. "Came