Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-51. Balance between

[Xanthea]

My eyes fell towards the breakfast table where Asher, Raven, and Ezra sat together.

Ezra almost spilled the coffee while placing it on the table, but Raven saved it with a deft swoop of his one hand, balancing the mugs on the tray.

"Woah, Raven. Have I ever told you that you should join the sin circus? You'd be a hot deal there just like your coffee," Ezra clapped as though Raven had just shown a magic trick.

"And have I ever told you that you should join the mental asylum for deranged demons? I can book a bed for you there in no time at all," Raven glared at Ezra.

"You think I am mentally sick?" Ezra growled, and there was a sudden shift in the gravity around them. The air seemed to have thickened with their overpowering auras.

"You can't do one thing properly. There's nothing about you I can say is perfect. You are full of flaws. So maybe, who knows?" Raven grunted with a scowl.

Ezra clenched his jaws. Glaring, he squared up before Raven. Breaking into a cold sweat, I stared at them, apprehension tightening in my body. And just when I thought Ezra was about to punch Raven across his face, Ezra grabbed the coffee mug from the tray in Raven's hand and sat on the chair.

The bloodlust vanished from the air like it never existed.

"Well, at least I am perfect at being flawed..." Ezra sipped in the coffee, making loud slurping noises which was clearly annoying Raven even more. "I am flawlessly imperfect." He continued in a dreamy tone, like he was reciting the hymn of the universe. "Imperfectum est perfectio. Perfectio est illusionis. Imperfection is perfection and perfection is illusion. So, you are an illusion, Raven." He pointed his finger at Raven.

Ouch. That must have hurt, and it clearly did. I gaped at Raven.

"Oh, cut the crap!" Raven banged the coffee tray on the table.

"Hey! Hey! Calm down, brother. Calm down. It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's all a predestined distraction." Ezra looked at the ceiling and I followed his gaze.

"Leave my ceiling alone," Asher cut in and I let out a silent chuckle.

"It's all her fault!" Ezra pointed his finger towards me and my reaction was so fast that I didn't even know when I turned my back towards them and concentrated on boiling the tea. "I was distracted because of her." "Leave my wife alone as well. You are just clumsy. End of argument," Asher said. I sneaked a glance at Asher.

Ezra opened his mouth, probably to argue more when Raven stuffed bread into his mouth.

Ezra sulkily chewed on the bread, the tension dispersing gradually. Raven's chuckle broke the remaining tension, and when Asher smiled, shaking his head in amusement, I knew I had nothing to worry about.

exactly where it was coming from. As much as I disliked admitting it, I couldn't deny that I had been alone for as long as I could remember. I had a father, but I always felt like an orphan and the family's touch, siblings' bond was a luxury orphans can't

Virgo palace, I often found myself pondering what it would be like to be Nathalia. Would I have a family that loved me unconditionally? Would I

protected her, creating a safe space for her. It was heartwarming to see how happy, carefree and fearless she was because she knew

to ease the heaviness building in

see others have something we desire,

too long, and now that longing was crashing on me all at once, threatening to drown

Forget about putting up a facade for others. I often

when I was blessed with things that many only dreamt of having. Food, water, clothes, home. And I always earned

tea, but for some unknown reason, I thought

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last night. Why

you have a problem with

have a problem? Enjoy yourself. It's just that they are

Raven. But Raven's

I have some funny poisons you could

full experience. You won't find the next chapter anywhere

"Sure! Hey! How about I suck life right out of their soil? Let them starve till

tone was charged with a subtle warning. "Do not toy with nature. You can make them suffer by staying in the limits the universe has defined for our kind. Like light and shadows, good and evil must persist together in the world. The universe always tries to keep the contrasts of life in a balance. Whenever there's an imbalance,

subtle tension building between them. It wasn't threatening like the strain between Asher and Raven, but it was just as heavy, even worse because it

He'll stay within his limits. No tampering with nature, Ezra. Just those vermin. So the poison I was talking about..." Raven interrupted, distracting Ezra with his conversation of

with their poisoning schemes. But

talking about? Who were they plotting against? And what did these people do

the teacup on the table in front

Asher said with

smiled back at

pacify the situation. I didn't even want to imagine a situation where all three of them were in conflict. I hesitantly went round the table and placed the teacups before Raven and Ezra. Thankfully, they were too engrossed in their poison talk to pay

back beside Asher and retreated from

with all their conflicts and disagreements and clash of thoughts and ideologies, they shared a bond among themselves, a connection that made them touch

outsider, I was glad to

be fun. Give me all those poisons," Ezra smirked with a menacing glint flickering