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."

the back of her

a determined nod. She looked outside the car and

arrival. And I 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 moon goddess that we didn't

terror on his face. I could feel it from the way they stood to the way their petrified eyes hovered around my car.

when we returned the dead bodies of the

the rumors that spread across the mortal realm romanticized how brutal and gruesome it

receive your dead body. But

She took

I emerged from the car, every single soul went into a

shadowy, twisted forms writhed with a sinister laughter, compelling him to bow lower. Nikolai stumbled under their weight and

spiritual awakening in the mortals by influencing them with pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Making them seek

mortals couldn't see demons, they had been fighting them for ages with whatever little spiritual and mental strength they

and most evil. If it had been a normal mortal, they would have

restlessness and jumpiness in his eyes, the stiffness in his shoulders, and the weary look on his face were all proof that my demons

So, there could be only two possibilities. Nikolai either had insane spiritual control,

Atticus," I greeted the Alpha King

Atticus lifted his head and everyone else followed. "Welcome back

doing behind my

the colors that drained

lives at your mercy," Atticus said with a nervous smile.

I broke into laughter.

resistance, and maintain our authority and control over the fallen packs," I said, skimming my eyes to Nikolai. "After all, the

a smile

lord. I need to think of the safety of my realm. After all, that's

I smirked.

it. But he told me to stay alert and not leave Xanthea alone even for a second. As if I would. He also told me to seed a sweet little suspicion among the packs and

I think I did

the Virgo pack has failed to provide you with a competent bride?" He inquired cautiously. "Are you perhaps...

lowered his head. None of them expected a fate other than death

yourself." I looked at the

a tight gulp as he

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?" "Absolutely not, my lord. Alpha Nikolai,"

as he took a gift box from the valet. He held

royals. Who knows what might 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 rough breaths, he stared at the box with pure terror in his

parts of their family members. Let's start with your insolent young alpha, who doesn't know his place." Nikolai lifted his dread-filled eyes to me, but Atticus blocked

He is still a kid. He was just a little scared, my lord. I beg for your mercy, your highness," Atticus said with a bow