Chapter 1: Not Thinking About Chasity
Joanna J
Hey everyone, I intend to write a sequel which should probably be posted as a separate book. The following is something I’ve wanted to do before the sequel: to retell the story through the eyes of the triplets because there is a lot in my mind that the triplets have done and felt for Chasity that the readers wouldn’t know yet. Hope you like the idea. Thanks for all the support! xoxo
Their Only Luna (Her Triplet Alphas from the POVs of Alex, Felix & Calix) Chapter 1: Not Thinking About Chasity Alex’s POV
Snow and frost covered every surface outside my bedroom window. I was used to it. Our pack lands were made up of the wintry, icy wilderness, sleepy towns and snowed-in cities. It never stopped snowing here but I was well-adapted to the cold. I was soon to be an Alpha after all. I was the eldest of three brothers. We were identical triplets and tomorrow, on our twenty-first birthday, we would ascend as Alphas of my father’s pack, the Winter Moon Pack. I looked in the mirror and sighed. The responsibility looming before me weighed heavily on my mind but I always refused to show it in the presence of my brothers or anyone else for that matter.
My younger brothers were called Felix and Calix. Felix was a classic middle child. He courted attention like nothing else and was forever filled with wise-cracks, jokes and comebacks. He was a lot sometimes but we were close. Calix was the youngest and I was naturally even more protective of him. Felix was so tough, I knew he could handle himself. It was Calix I worried about from time to time. He was sweet and sensitive, Mom’s favourite. Dad and Felix were always trying to “toughen him up” by encouraging him to be more aggressive. Mom loved the fact that he wasn’t aggressive, he was more of a charmer. I was Alex, the eldest and perhaps, the most serious. I intended to be a no-nonsense Alpha, neither too harsh nor too lenient. Our last name was Thorn and our Dad was Alpha Romeo Thorn. Our Mom was Luna Ronnie Thorn. We all resided in the Winter Moon Pack House, a colossal cabin which was really just a snow-topped mansion. We were quite wealthy like most Alphas of large packs were.
There was one other person who lived permanently in the Pack House with us. Chasity. She was the daughter of a junkie couple who had racked up huge gambling debts which had been paid off by my parents. The couple had still fled town, leaving Chasity behind when she was a little girl. Our parents ha decided to take her in with the understanding that she would do housework and chores for free as a way to pay off her parents debt. I always felt uncomfortable whenever I thought of Chasity. I didn’t really like the fact that she worked here. She was too young to have a job whether or not she was paying off a debt. It was not like my parents needed that money back. Everyone called her Charity, a mocking nickname Felix concocted, thinking it was hilarious. I didn’t like that either. Making fun of her lack of finances was kind of low but the name had stuck because it was so close to her real name.
It was her birthday tomorrow too. She would turn eighteen and come of age. We were three years older than Chasity but we were all born on November eleventh, just different years. It had to suck, sharing a birthday with the famous Alpha Triplets while she was the live-in maid and a high school student just trying to get by. I knew she was in a rush to graduate and run off, probably to look for her no-good parents.
I tried to stop thinking about Chasity. Once I started obsessing over her, there was no stopping. I hated to admit it but I found her so beautiful. I pictured her big brown eyes, her smooth golden skin and her long, shiny dark blonde ringlets. She was about a foot shorter than me and slender but shapely. The
tip of her nose was always a bit pink from the cold and I forever had the maddening urge to nuzzle her sol could make sure she was warm enough. Sometimes, I thought about calling a truce with her and telling her my parents’ malice towards her didn’t extend to me. I had been fantasising about her eighteenth birthday tomorrow, about telling her just how f*****g beautiful I thought she was. She would blush and look down. I would grasp her chin and make her look at me. I hated how she never paid much attention to me. Then when our eyes locked, I would kiss her. Ugh. What the f**k was wrong with me? I pushed those
stupid thoughts away. I forced myself to shower quickly and think of anything but Chasity.
Felix’s POV
Chasity. I was staring at the painting I had done of her, the one she didn’t know about, the one on my bedroom wall, the one all my girlfriends fumed with jealousy over. I wouldn’t take it down though. I refused to. I liked it. It was a good painting. She had a face that should be drawn and painted. Tomorrow she would be eighteen on November 11th and my brothers and I would be twenty-one. We were triplets and soon to be Alphas. We would take over my father’s pack officially tomorrow. We would be the Alpha Triplets of the Winter Moon Pack. I looked outside. It was like living in a snow globe here. Ugh. I got sick of it sometimes. I could use a tropical vacation or something.
I showered quickly and got dressed. I kept glancing at the painting of Chasity. She was a little maid my parents let live with us. She was working off the debt amassed by her gambling and drug addicted parents. It was a pretty raw deal but she had a sassy mouth so I didn’t always feel sorry for her. I smirked remembering one particularly savage comment she had made the other day. Ugh.
Snap out of it, Felix, I told myself.
I had f****d up yet again last night. My current girlfriend Tonya and I had been making out. Things had gotten heated. I was not gonna just wait for my fated mate forever. I was gonna have fun when I wanted to while I waited. Anyway, Tonya had been particularly enthusiastic. I had moaned and she had parted from me and looked at me totally horrified. I had moaned Chasity’s name not Tonya’s. The problem was that wasn’t the first time I had done that. It was the first time I had done it with this particular girl. I wanted to be indifferent to Chasity but as we got older, Chasity just grew more and more beautiful. She also hated me more and more as the days passed by. I knew I wasn’t exactly nice to her but I could be if she would stop being such a little brat. Last night, after Tonya had stormed off, I had dreamt that I had snuck into Chasity’s room after the birthday celebrations to wish her happy eighteenth. I smirked to myself. I sighed. That would never happen. I should not have given her that stupid nickname, Charity. It was so close to her real name that it had stuck. Everyone called her by the wrong name constantly because of me which was kinda hilarious and kinda awful at the same time.
Calix’s POV
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Waking up to a winter wonderland every morning was thrilling honestly. I was filled with energy. Tomorrow was my birthday! My brothers and I would turn twenty-one and take over the pack from our father. Finally, we would be Alphas, identical triplet Alphas. I showered quickly and looked in the mirror. My brothers and I had the same thick wavy black hair that fell just below our shoulders, the same blue eyes and the same olive skin and dimples. We were all six foot four and had muscular builds. We resembled our Dad a lot. I was extremely close to Mom though. She was petite with pale skin and long brown hair. She was always dressed up, morning, noon or night. She did not cook, ever. We sometimes had cooks hired as well as maids but most of the housework if not all was usually done by Chasity. Chasity, or Charity as everyone called her, was three years younger than me though also born on November eleventh.
She had been dropped off here by her parents who had amassed a huge debt through gambling. They were also drug-addicts so they wouldn’t be winning parents-of-the-year anytime soon. Our parents had paid off her parents’ debts and took Chasity in. She did housework to earn her keep and repay her parents’ debts.
sighed. My brothers and I were just one day away from being Alphas and we didn’t have a Luna yet. We were identical which meant that we had been the same egg or ovum that split into three or something like that. Essentially, Alex, the eldest, said that made us like one Alpha in three bodies, naturally occurring clones. For that reason, we would likely have just one mate, our one and only Luna and we had yet to meet her. We wouldn’t be able to pick up the smell of our ‘mate if she wasn’t of age yet so Felix’s theory was that she was younger than us.
I fought the urge to slide down the bannister when I met my brothers on the staircase. I was one day away from being an Alpha. I had to be a little more dignified. My eyes went to Chasity immediately. Her long dark golden curls were up in a huge bun. Her brown eyes were focused on setting the table nicely. I hated when she wore her hair in a bun. It was really beautiful and I liked it down.
“Did you make all of this, Charity?” I asked as I reached for her hair tie to let down her hair. She dodged my hand to my chagrin. The sudden movement made her bump into Felix. Felix’s POV
Chasity had made another feast for breakfast as my brothers and I were celebrating our “birthday week.” She bumped into me trying to get away from Calix. He had been trying to undo her hair tie. She had
her long dark blonde curls up in a bun. I smirked at her and quickly slipped her hair tie off. Her hair tumbled down around her. She looked gorgeous even when she was tired. I felt a pang of guilt as I noticed the dark circles under her eyes. My parents were overworking her. I intended to hire a cook again and a regular maid when I ascended to Alpha. It was too much work for one person with a house of this massive size.
“Stop!” Chasity whined as soon as I took the hair tie.
She was petite like an entire foot shorter than me so I held the hair tie high up in the air where she couldn’t reach it. I wondered if she would like me more after I hired more help. She was the only girl who never laughed at my jokes. She just scowled.
I had yet to find my mate despite all the she-wolves in our pack (except Chasity) throwing themselves at me. My brothers and I, as identical triplets, would most likely be sharing a mate. Chasity would be eligible to find a mate tomorrow at the age of eighteen. My wolf snarled at the thought of Chasity with some loser guy, probably some low-ranking pack member who wouldn’t be right for her. My wolf had a major thing for Chasity.
Chasity lunged at me, reaching for the hair tie. I quickly threw it to Alex who caught it and kept it out of reach. She tried to jump for it but I grabbed her. I pushed her towards Alex who pushed her back towards me and so on. She did not like this game.
“I give up! I give up!” She said. My brothers and I chuckled. Calix’s POV
Felix and Alex were going out of their way to annoy Chasity. My inner wolf snarled, sensing she was upset. They were too pushy with her. I never used to say anything when I was younger but we were all adults now.
“All right. Cut it out. Let her go wash the wares. Mom wants the place kept as clean as possible so there’ll be less to do tomorrow.”
I watched as Chasity scurried into the kitchen. My wolf whimpered. I quieted him. She would be fine. I wished our parents used to let her eat meals with us though. My brothers were already wolfing down everything in sight. I grabbed a stack of pancakes and some bacon before it all disappeared.
“Honey, aren’t you excited about being Alpha tomorrow? My little Calix a big Alpha!” Squealed Mom.
I grinned. with his fork. I slid my plate away just in time and his fork slammed into the table, the tines bending slightly.
Alex burst into laughter. Felix scowled. “I’m excited, Mom. I can’t wait to make you proud!” I said. Mom glowed. “You already make me proud, Honey!” Felix pretended to vomit.
“You all do!” Said Mom, narrowing her eyes at Felix. “Even you, Felix!” She specified, pinching his cheek.
Felix smiled.
“Alex, you’ll still need to guide your brothers. Although you’re all Alphas, you’re still the eldest! Birth order is important in packs,” said Dad.
“I know, Dad,” said Alex, nodding seriously.
I felt sorry for Alex sometimes. He had the least fun among the three of us and it wasn’t always by choice.
Alex’s POV
I wasn’t too excited about even more responsibility but I had been preparing for this ascent since was a child so I was ready. The pack was very important to me along with each member as an individual. I glanced at the table. We were a family of five werewolves with four alphas present so basically everything was gone. There was still a pancake left and some bacon.
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