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.

system. It’s a miracle it didn’t kill you, considering the concentration. We’ve managed to purge most of it out

still feel the cold needle pressed against my skin again and again, injecting some unknown liquid into

as to how you survived it,” Matilda said, shaking her head. “That amount would have been lethal

My fingers pressed lightly against my

hand, and her expression changed

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

already known about

I felt tears

banged against the wall.

Lucas demanded, his green eyes

hand in his.

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

Matilda instantly wore a stern expression. “I told you not to eavesdrop! The

are paper thin!” Levi whined. He turned back to me with a delighted expression, like a

their sudden appearance. “I—I only found out recently myself. There wasn’t exactly time to share the news between kidnappings and

Lucas asked, his voice

it might be near impossible to check. Identical triplets share the same DNA.

said firmly, squeezing my hand.

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

on being the fun dad,” Levi announced, perching on the edge of my bed and placing his hand gently on my stomach. His

laughing at his antics. “The baby can’t hear you yet,

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