Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter 136

Chapter 136: Chapter 136: I Release You

I stared at Leo, my heart hammering against my ribcage.

“I asked you first,” I finally said, my voice barely above a whisper.

Leo’s lips twitched into what might have been a smile, but it didn’t reach his eyes. He turned away from me, running a hand through his dark hair.

“Always deflecting,” he muttered.

“I’m not deflecting,” I insisted. “I just need to know where you stand.”

Leo paced the small confines of the cell, his movements reminding me of a caged wolf. When he finally spoke, his voice was tight with restrained emotion.

“Where I stand?” He let out a bitter laugh. “I stand nowhere, Hazel. I’m a rogue with a faded mate mark and feelings for a woman who already has three mates.”

I flinched at his harsh tone.

“Is that all I am to you?” I asked softly. “Just Helena’s replacement?”

Leo’s head snapped up, his eyes flashing with anger. “Is that what you think? After everything?”

“What am I supposed to think?” My own frustration bubbled to the surface. “You admitted you wanted me because I looked like her. You tried to use the Vox Solis to manipulate our bond.”

Only ironically, there wasn’t even a need for it.

“That was before—” He cut himself off, jaw clenching.

“Before what?”

against the

I pressed, standing up from my chair.

us, thick with unspoken words. Outside, I could

to know you,” Leo finally said, his voice so quiet I barely heard him. “Before I realized you weren’t

admission. I took a step toward him, but he held up a

doesn’t matter anyway,” he continued. “Your mates would

don’t know that,” I argued,

the Emberfang Pack, would be willing to share their mate with a rogue? That all three of those

and shook his

Sullivan, but I am not one of them. You

protective the triplets were, how their eyes tracked Leo’s every movement when he was near me. But

I want,” I said. “If we’re truly

a brief moment before his usual

said, frustration building. “Stop hiding behind

off the

I first saw you, I was drawn to you instantly. I thought it was because you looked like Helena, and yes, I thought

sank, but he

he continued. “The way you stand up for yourself even when you’re terrified. How fiercely you protect the people you care about. Your stubbornness, your compassion even towards someone who stole you away...”

seemed unconscious. “And that scared the hell out of me, because it meant I wasn’t just trying

caught in

like betrayal,” he admitted, his voice cracking slightly. “Like I was betraying my chosen mate by feeling

the sarcastic, aloof Leo I knew. This was a man laid

to

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