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.

entered the city, Xanthea's restlessness

her fists. Her breath was rapid and shallow. "Are you going to

don't want me to attend college, right?" she asked, suppressing a

her terrified expression pierced through me

do anything you say, just... Please don't take me back

her face as she begged, and I felt something snap deep

worthless pack again, then you worry

you don't understand...

more. As I reached out to wipe off her tears, she flinched and my

wouldn't be easy, but it was necessary. Today might just be

into my eyes,"

her eyes, she bit down

at me, Xanthea!"

body, she opened her

to escape this place all her life. Just like a bird wouldn't want to return to its cage and a prisoner to his prison,

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

everything it could to stop me from sharing this part of my life with her "... when I

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

through it all. I have been where you are. There is

slightly and there was a shift in the way she looked at me. Although I tried to not look at her again, I couldn't help stealing glances at her in

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clenched the steering

at that moment, it just felt like the

I paused, taking a deep breath. "Who hated the mere sight of me because I was...

inner cheek before I bit down on

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

didn't care whether you existed or not, I had a father who made

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

I could do until I realized it was only I who could help myself. Only me. So I

holding back the disaster

too late to realize how desperately, madly, I needed this power, this strength. But there's still time for you, angel. Your kindness won't save you, but your corruption will. You'll have to pay the price, but it'll be

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

realize it now, but you will need power in the coming

blankly, breathing through

I smiled faintly.

so fragile, yet so strong. Mentally, mostly. But you'll need more than just your brain to survive this marriage. Your life is in your hands. Do what you may with it, but do

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

I looked at Xanthea.