Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-59. Greatest weapon

[Ezra]

After a relatively tense drive, I finally parked my car near the entrance of the Virgo palace. Xanthea hadn't said a word ever since we began our ride.

I knew she was sitting with her thoughts, revisiting her memories and reliving the pain.

I could read her eyes and how they lit up and dulled with the changing array of her thoughts.

Her breath had an irregular rhythm, but I could still decipher them as words on pages. And the screams she never cried manifested as the assault of her heartbeats against her ribs.

I had a conversation with her silence that spoke to me more than her words ever would.

Shutting her eyes, Xanthea clenched the fabric of her dress over her thighs.

I placed my hand on hers, feeling the subtle tremble in her fingers.

Her eyes, bleary with uncertainty and fear, met mine. She shook her head, her brows knitting together in a silent plea.

Intertwining my fingers with hers, I smiled slightly.

"You can do it. I know you can and you will. Because you know how to play your games with... shampoo poured all over the floor."

With the apprehensive look still sprawled across her eyes, she broke into a soft chuckle.

I smiled back at her.

"I mean, it was a brilliant idea. Stupid, but brilliant," I said.

She shook her head as her chuckles turned into half whimpers and half giggles.

"Hey! I am serious! I would have slipped right on the shampoo and fallen like a clown, given how impulsive I am. Might have fractured my tailbone and then Raven would have to heal my ass and I don't even wanna imagine Raven healing my ass."

"Oh, goddess..." Xanthea puckered her face, placing her hand over her mouth.

The second hand embarrassment had her cracking up badly, laughing while she gave me the weirdest, odd comedic look, as though I was really a clown.

I contemplated her with a subtle smile.

Once Xanthea had controlled her laughter, I licked my lips and said.

"Your smile is your weapon, angel. It's your greatest weapon. So keep it safe, hidden, but handy. Your laughter, your happiness, is what's going to kill them alive."

kissed the back

nod. She looked outside the car and

was not at all surprised to see the Alpha King, Atticus Dencruz, standing beside Nikolai. That

check on us and maintained some kind of balance between the three realms. Last time I checked, Asher just used him

He just stood aside and watched, praying to his

too, he had the same terror on his face. I could feel it from the way they stood to the way their petrified eyes hovered around my

when we returned the dead bodies of the previous brides and took over

as peacefully as we could, but the rumors that spread across the mortal realm romanticized how brutal and

I whispered. "They're waiting to see you dead, to receive your dead body. But it's time to show them just how alive you

We could see what was going outside, but outsiders couldn't look into the car. She took a deep breath and was about to open the door

as I emerged from the car,

sinister laughter, compelling him to bow lower. Nikolai stumbled under their weight and the force they put on him. My demons were clearly trying to bring

mortal eyes. Only the spiritually awakened mortals could see those demons with naked eyes. And it was the duty of us demons to stop the spiritual awakening in the mortals by influencing them with pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and

had been fighting them for ages with whatever little spiritual

strongest and most evil. If it had been a normal mortal,

face were all proof that my demons were influencing him deeply. From

Nikolai either had insane spiritual control,

see, Atticus," I greeted the Alpha King with a fake

his head and everyone else followed. "Welcome back to the earthly

you have been doing behind my

than the colors that drained

not even think of speaking behind your back, my lord. Our realm lives at your mercy," Atticus said with a nervous smile. "When I received the message that you would visit our realm shortly, I made sure to personally oversee preparations

I broke into laughter.

real traitors, neutralize the resistance, and maintain our authority and control over the fallen packs," I said, skimming my eyes

a smile onto his

think of the safety of my realm. After all, that's

I smirked.

bringing Xanthea here. He was ok with it. But he told me to stay alert and not leave Xanthea alone

think I

his throat. "My lord, pardon my insolence as I dare to ask if the Virgo pack has failed to provide you with a competent bride?" He inquired

fate other than death for a feeble, abused

I looked at the valets and cocked my

breath, Nikolai took a tight gulp as he looked at the gifts the valets unloaded

alpha check the gifts? The gifts royals receive goes through a screening process, right?" I asked, my gaze boring into Nikolai. "Or is it different in your realm?"

he took a gift

be in those boxes? It's not uncommon in our realm to receive mutilated body parts of our family members-" Before I could finish my sentence, Nikolai threw the box away. Clenching his fists, he stepped back, panting and shaking violently. Drawing

in the Virgo pack will receive a gift with the mutilated body parts of their family members. Let's start with your

pardon Alpha Nikolai. He is still a kid. He was just a little scared, my lord. I