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

to see the Alpha King, Atticus Dencruz, standing beside Nikolai. That old man liked to pretend to be the one

kind of balance between the three realms. Last time

packs, he couldn't do a thing to help them. He just stood aside and watched, praying to his moon goddess that we didn't

face. I could feel it from the way they stood to the way their petrified

when we returned the dead bodies of the previous

but the rumors that spread across the mortal realm romanticized how

them, Xanthea," 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 truly

sided window glass. 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 when I held back her hand.

as I emerged from the car, every single soul went

their shadowy, twisted forms writhed with a sinister laughter, compelling him to bow lower. Nikolai stumbled under their weight and the force they put on him. My demons were

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

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

If it had been

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

two possibilities. Nikolai either had insane spiritual control, or he had already received some celestial

no see, Atticus," I greeted the Alpha King with a fake

Atticus lifted his head and everyone else followed. "Welcome back to the earthly realm,

Don't lie. I know what you have been doing behind my back,"

the colors that drained out of his

your mercy," Atticus said with a nervous smile.

I broke into laughter.

the real traitors, neutralize the resistance, and maintain our authority and control over the fallen packs," I said, skimming my eyes to Nikolai. "After all, the burden of the entire

a smile onto

of the safety of my realm.

I smirked.

I texted Asher that I was bringing Xanthea here. He was ok with 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 Alpha

I

if the Virgo pack has failed to provide you with a competent bride?" He

assumption was right. I glared at Nikolai, who immediately lowered his head. None of them expected a fate other than death for a feeble, abused omega with

gifts for my in-laws. Look for yourself." I looked at the valets and cocked my brow at the dickey

gulp as he looked at the gifts the valets unloaded

screening process, right?" I asked, my gaze boring into Nikolai. "Or is it different in your realm?" "Absolutely

noticed his hands trembled as he took a gift box from the valet. He held it as though he was holding a

the safety of the royals. Who knows what might be in those boxes? It's not uncommon in our realm to receive mutilated body parts of our family

pack will receive a gift with the mutilated body parts of their family members. Let's start with your insolent young alpha, who doesn't know

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