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.

widened in a daze as his gaze traveled down my body to my wedding gown,

heart hammered against my

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 what was coming regardless of my words. He wasn't going to trust

shut my eyes,

is going to

he stopped. I

a sneer he gritted his teeth and stormed out of the room

took a

What just happened?

louder and more rushed.

watch. It was

could no longer sit back in that room. I walked out of

Please... they'll kill me. You know

best of diamonds. Something she always flaunted, something that no longer held value.

to bear it silently. A knot formed in my chest, tightening with

need to look... good for them," Nikolai said, clenching his jaws. An unfamiliar powerlessness lingered in his

eyes were red, her voice hoarse, but she

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

my eyes, feeling a strangling pain throb in my

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

the main clock chimed loudly. Nathalia's eyes

into her room,

the air crackled with power and

door! Lia! Don't do this! Shit!" He mumbled, punching

with the Alpha. Then, with a forceful push,

was no longer screaming. Suppressed sobs were the only sound that escaped her

it all hiding

she was dragged away, and her face kept flashing in my eyes as if it might

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

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

could with my sprained ankles in the empty corridors of the palace.

through the web of

when I reached the backdoor of the

from where

would

the

a moment before

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

for the marriage

thunder

surrounding Nathalia parted to make

but she didn't react with

stepped closer to

my path to

spoke through gritted teeth. "Came here to enjoy our