Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter 18

Chapter-18. Whispers of vines

[Xanthea]

An icy sensation crawled up my leg.

The din of my breaths and my heartbeats faltered in my ears as the sound of rustling grass, as if a serpent hastily slithered through them. I stood barefoot on the dewy grass, aware of every stir in the surrounding underbrush. Cold fog condensed on my skin like sweats damping my white gown.

Breathing slowly but heavily through my mouth, I kept staring at the grass apprehensively.

Subtle slithering sounds grew louder. Movement in the grass and bushes became evident. It was then I realized something was rumbling under the ground.

Unease knotted in my stomach and even before I could think about running, sinewy vines erupted from the earth all around me. I froze in my place as they whipped right before my eyes like the gigantic tentacles of an octopus. I fell on the ground, lying on my back as they coiled themselves all around my body.

I felt the movements of the vines against my skin. Their cold and damp touch as the vines slowly swallowed me into the ground. I knew I was being pulled underground, but it felt as though I was sinking. The faint light filtering through the grassy surface floated farther and farther away from me.

But there was no panic, just an uncanny peace.

There was a glow underground and a thick scent of soil and roots.

'Xanthea...' someone whispered my name in my ears. 'Come to us. Call us...'

"Who?" I mumbled with a groan.

"Xanthea?"

Moaning, I winced.

"Xanthea," the voice was close to my ears, yet I heard it as a distant murmur.

I parted my eyelids, staring at a familiar ceiling of my room in the Aile castle.

Were those the whispers of the vines?

I struggled with every blink, trying to navigate through what was real. The warm light in the room dispersed the fog before my eyes as though someone had just wiped the dew streaked glass.

"Xanthea..." someone called out to me again, but I couldn't make out whose voice it was until I turned my head and met Nesryn's eyes. Her expressions were a mix of relief and sternness. "You woke up exactly when he predicted you would."

I felt the same cold sensation on my leg. I turned my head to the other side and saw Mavka gently rubbing a sphere of ice over my leg, her gaze fixed on the task.

the last thing I remember was - I was in Raven's

a jerk. A sharp pain jolted through my head as it spun. Nesryn held me before my head

Your body is still healing from the poison," Nesryn said with a stoic face. She arranged pillows behind me to help me lean

you," I said weakly, with a dry

sat on the bed beside me. Her gaze was blank as she stared

away from Raven's plants,

gaze. She held my chin and made me look at her

to you. Why did you go near

my dress brushed against a plant... I

for

I nodded.

had never encountered

of hundreds of the mutated varieties, only one of such carvera survived. So I hope you can imagine how important

once, pursing

a plant! All you had to do was

its r-roots are its weakness," I said. "If we uproot them,

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huff as she ran her

is now dead anyway?"

"Y-yes..."

you uproot it? That's exactly what all of us want to know. When you knew how to save yourself from it, why didn't you?" she had a look of disbelief in her eyes. "I saw the plant's

ice on my leg. Gulping hard, I fidgeted with my fingers, still feeling the

to Alpha Raven. He loves his plants like his child. He cares about them more than anything else. So...

got down from

you fucking lost it? No matter what plant it was. It was still a plant. How can a freaking

settled a heavy feeling with an even more bitter answer. It was a truth that even Nesryn knew

I really thought I was going to die. And the strongest urge I

was already lifted to my hips. I saw the welts of vines tattooed on my skin, bruised

welts will leave a permanent scar. Be grateful they saved your leg. A second's delay and they would have to amputate

you for saving

you.

stiffened.

lips into a tight,

"D-does that mean..."

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