Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-57. Embraced darkness

[Ezra]

Xanthea groaned, clutching her head as she struggled to recover from the impact of the realm jump. Her heartbeats turned more erratic. She glanced at me before turning her frenzied gaze outside the window as she scanned the roads of the Virgo pack for any sign of danger. Taking a tight gulp, she remained silent, her fists tightly clenched on her laps.

"Alpha..." she said, almost out of breath.

I didn't reply and kept driving.

Xanthea's hands trembled as she pressed them against the window, her breath turning into subtle gasps. She appeared more alarmed and paranoid, as though she firmly believed that her family and pack would attack her the moment they saw her.

"What's the most luxurious mall in your pack?" I asked, breaking the silence between us.

She kept peering outside the car window. I bet the voices in her mind were so loud right now; she couldn't even hear my voice. "Xanthea!"

"Huh!?" she gasped, snapping her neck in my direction.

"What's the biggest mall around?" I reiterated, lifting a brow.

"Why are we here?" she asked.

Straight to the point, huh?

"Shopping," I said.

"Are we?" she asked, staring at me..

I sighed.

"Don't you wanna know what happened to your family after the fire?" I asked with a stoic face, staring at the road ahead of me.

Stalling her breaths, she peered at me, but I could tell in one glance she was zoning out.

"No..." Her voice came out fainter than a whisper. "I don't want to know a thing about them. I-I just don't wanna go back to them. Please alpha, take me back to the Infernal pack, please..."

"But I want your family to know what happened to you. They are way too happy thinking you are dead-"

"I don't care what they think!" she raised her voice, shutting her eyes tightly. "I have been dead to them from the moment I was born. It doesn't matter what they think of me now. It's good that they think I am dead. I just don't wanna go back there. Please alpha..." My jaws clenched at her words.

I could only imagine the horrors they put her through for hell to become a better place than home. The same hell that mortals feared by their wits.

we entered the city,

looked at me, clutching the fabric of her dress over her thigh in her fists. Her breath was rapid and shallow. "Are you going

because you don't want me to attend college, right?"

confused, and the sight of her terrified

I'll do anything you say, just... Please

down her face as she begged, and I

down this worthless pack again, then you worry for nought,"

you don't understand...

out to wipe off her

deep breath. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but it was necessary. Today might just be the most important day

eyes," I

bit down

me, Xanthea!" I

her body, she opened her eyes and

escape this place all her life. Just like a bird wouldn't want to return to its cage

or worst part of it all was, I could understand how numb she was right now mentally, how disturbed

I began, ignoring the churn in my stomach doing everything it could to stop me from sharing this part of my life with her "... when I was the weakest

aura came to a sudden standstill. For a moment, there was disbelief in

understand how you feel right now, then you are wrong. I have been through it all. I have been where you are. There is not an emotion you feel I haven't already felt. I have been unwanted, unwelcomed, an eyesore

and there was a shift in the way she looked at me. Although I tried to not look at her again, I

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to her on this level. I didn't want to reveal this part of me, but at that

I was never born, who hated..." I paused, taking a deep breath. "Who hated the mere sight of me because I was... weak. A mother for whom I was

smiled, rolling my tongue across my inner cheek before I

worthless? Incompetent," I chuckled, repeating my mother's words exactly how they were etched on

whether you existed or not, I had a father who made me

couldn't breathe. But this sensation had been so normal, it had lost all its power it once had over me. "But

was nothing I could do until I realized it was only I who could help myself. Only me. So I swore to myself

the disaster wreaking

madly, I needed this power, this strength. But there's still time

shuddering breath, covering her mouth with her hand as she looked away, as if it was too

it now, but you will need power in the coming future, especially to fight

me blankly,

I smiled faintly.

when the time comes, you will stand against us. You have already gotten opportunities the previous brides couldn't even dream of, and it was because you were somehow so fragile, yet so strong. Mentally, mostly. But

her until now, my thoughts about her had changed a lot. And maybe Asher realized it even before I could. That's why

I looked at Xanthea.