Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter 125: Chapter 125: Waking Up From A Nightmare

My eyes cracked open. The first thing I saw was a blinding flash of sterile white. Panic instantly shot through me.

For a terrifying moment, I thought I was back in that facility—that everything had been a hallucination, and I was still trapped in one of Esther’s experiments.

My heart rate spiked, and I tried to sit up, only to feel a sharp pain in my abdomen that forced me back down with a gasp.

“Easy there,” a familiar voice said, and relief flooded through me as Matilda’s face came into view, her kind eyes crinkling at the corners. “You’re safe now, Hazel. You’re at the pack infirmary.”

I took a shaky breath, trying to calm my racing pulse. If Matilda was here, that meant that I was finally back in Emberfang grounds.

“How long have I been out?” I croaked.

“About twelve hours,” Matilda replied, checking the IV drip attached to my arm. “You collapsed from exhaustion, among other things. We thought it would be better to keep you here rather than in your bedroom. Those triplets of yours would never have given you the peace you need to heal properly.”

A small smile tugged at my lips. “They can be a bit... overwhelming.”

Except I had greatly missed this sort of ‘overwhelming’.

“That’s putting it mildly,” Matilda snorted, making notes on a chart. “I had to physically bar them from spending the night in here. Even then, they took shifts sitting outside the door like guard dogs.”

I glanced around the room, taking in the medical equipment and the sunlight streaming through the blinds. It was fairly empty, and the only thing I could smell was the antiseptic.

“What happened to me?” I asked, my hand instinctively moving to my stomach. Fear gripped me as I remembered the blood running down my legs before I passed out.

in your system. It’s

my skin again and again, injecting some

Matilda said, shaking her head. “That amount would have been lethal

my next question. My fingers pressed lightly against my abdomen. “And... did I... is

and her expression changed to one of

to deliver bad news? Had I lost the baby? The thought

suppose you might’ve already known about your pregnancy?”

intense I felt tears spring to

it banged against the wall. Three tall figures rushed in, their expressions a mix of

pregnant?” Lucas demanded, his

immediately, taking my hand in his. “Hazel, why

staring at me with his mouth slightly open before a slow, delighted

a stern expression. “I told you not to eavesdrop!

paper thin!” Levi whined. He turned back to me

to the other, caught off guard by their sudden appearance. “I—I only found out recently

the father?” Lucas asked, his voice carefully

it might be near impossible to check. Identical triplets share the same DNA. Unless we run extensive tests after the birth, we may never know which of

firmly, squeezing my hand. “The baby is ours—all of

as he looked at me. “Liam’s right. This child is a Sullivan, regardless of which

my bed and placing his hand gently on

I found myself laughing at his antics. “The baby can’t

with a wink, then leaned closer to whisper, “You look beautiful like this, you know. All soft