Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-100. Mother-2

[Xanthea]

'... to cure the curse your mother put upon us because only you can.'

Asher's words hit me like a blow to the chest, leaving me breathless and blank. I stared at him as thousands of thoughts rammed into my mind. I was scared like I had never been before. Although I couldn't decipher who I was scared for myself, my husbands or my kids?

I wanted to know more about the curse and how I could cure it, but for all the unsettling reasons, I wanted to know no more.

Asher stared back at me as though he was trying to find the Xanthea he once knew in the daughter of Cadence Starsoul, but couldn't. Then again, did he ever see me as Xanthea?

All this was happening in my head and, like he said, the Asher in front of me was just my imagination. But Asher had always been in my head - in my dreams.

"Before I tell you anything else about the curse, I think it's important you know the events that led to it," Asher said, returning his attention to the memories playing before us.

I bit down on my lips, a painful knot tightening in my chest, and I forced myself to watch the memories again.

As the memories played on, I realized that had Asher not been here, these memories would have assaulted their way into my mind in the most excruciating manner.

Real or imagination, I was glad Asher was here by my side. Although I wasn't sure if I didn't deserve his company.

I stood closer to him as years flew by in my mother's memories.

With two powerful alphas (Alpha Caelum and Alpha Deimos, triplets' father) supporting her, my mother soon had a team of healers, alchemists, and researchers working under her for her cause.

Amidst all those harrowing memories were gaps - pitch-black voids where nothing happened. These empty memories had been present from the beginning, but their frequency had grown, spreading like silent, unspoken shadows. It was as though my mother erased them on purpose,

It felt as though my mother had either erased those memories intentionally or she was in an extremely dark space-

"These memories are empty..." I whispered, a freezing sensation crippling me from within.

Asher's gaze was fixed on the darkness in those memories for a while, and then he said.

"Indeed."

Swallowing the lump building in my throat, I tried to look at Asher, but couldn't.

My heart knew he was lying, while my mind argued he wasn't. Yet my instincts led me somewhere far more unsettling - a place that had challenged and disturbed every all my six senses, just like these empty memories did. The dark room.

Asher's dark room.

hold his hand. I wanted to step closer to him, but I couldn't move an inch. I didn't have the courage to. I waited for him

his hand, to step

even though we stood side-by-side, we

with blank, cold, inscrutable eyes, silently waiting for

the dark room with him, trying to unravel all the secrets it hid - to the moment I saw Asher walk out of the door and felt

I am and everything I am not, I wanted to be with him.

things I wanted to tell him, and everything I couldn't, turned into a silent,

wavered, softening into something warmer - something lighter. The soft flutter in my chest instantly turned into electrifying goosebumps as he wrapped his fingers around

no explanations - just one touch, and in that moment, we were ours

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transitioned into busier ones, with a lot

of it all..." Asher said, his hands getting warmer

has led to this moment,' my

attention. Through the memories, I knew my mother had been planning something big

simple: to activate immortality genes in as many weak bloods

eyes, drawing

have a name

we are going for, but my top healers like to call it something fancier that suits the vibe of hell. They call it the... Forced Activation,' mother said with a smile. I swear I could have felt a lot of things at that moment, but I

walls. The sky-high walls my grandfather had built to isolate weak bloods from our society..." Asher said. "... would now

who looked like the demon lords, but was much older with more distant and weary eyes,

father," Asher said in a stoic tone.

do not care about anyone else, but my son should get out of those walls as an immortal,' Deimos said. 'In case he doesn't... well... we'll

am sure this will work. Don't worry, Alpha,' my mother

Horror drained into my eyes as I looked

deep

the First and the

the FA. The actual data

"So when he turned six, mother took

lowering my

she was crying when she told him she'd be right back. But I'm sure Ezra still wishes that our mother would have been honest with him back then, and

tell me, he..." I took a deep breath.

tell him the truth he didn't want to hear. But he kept waiting for her exactly where she left him. He wanted to prove the other weak bloods

weakly, I