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.

the

over her thigh in her fists. Her breath was rapid and shallow. "Are you going to leave me with them?" Her

because you don't want me to attend

of her terrified expression pierced through me like a

do anything you say, just...

as she begged, and

are worried I'll burn down this worthless pack again, then you worry for

don't understand...

to wipe off her

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

into my eyes,"

she bit

me, Xanthea!" I

froze. Stiffening her body, she opened her

life. Just like a bird wouldn't want to return to

of it all was, I could understand how numb she was right now mentally, how disturbed she was psychologically and how desperate she was physically to just get out of her

began, ignoring the churn in my stomach doing everything it could to stop me from sharing this part of my life

a sudden standstill. For a moment, there was disbelief in her eyes and then sheer

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,

a shift in the way she looked at me. Although I tried to

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the steering wheel in

didn't want to reveal this part of me, but at that moment, it just felt like the

taking a deep breath. "Who hated the mere sight of me because I was... weak. A mother for

my inner cheek before I

your brothers? How did you turn out to be this? Why are you so worthless? Incompetent," I chuckled, repeating my mother's words exactly how they were etched on my mind. "I have been my mother's biggest failure."

or not, I had a father

my heart and ribs and no matter how many deep breaths I took, I couldn't breathe. But this sensation had been so normal, it had lost all its power it once had over me. "But that's not what matters. What matters is what I learned when I was below the rock bottom. Weak will always suffer, irrespective of their origin. Alpha omega doesn't matter. Kindness, smartness, purity. None of those matter." Licking

was nothing I could do until I realized it was only I who could help myself. Only me. So I swore to myself that I'd get stronger, no matter the price I paid, no matter how that strength corrupted my mind and soul.

back the

needed this power, this strength. But there's still time for you, angel. Your kindness won't save you, but your

covering her mouth with her hand as she looked away, as if

power in the coming

peered at me blankly, breathing

I smiled faintly.

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 you'll need more than just your brain to survive this marriage. Your life

it even before I could. That's

I looked at Xanthea.