Fated To Not Just One But Three novel Chapter 702

Chapter 702: Sacrifice

​"I’m so, so sorry..." she kept apologizing.

​But Lennox wasn’t listening to her anymore. His ears twitched, his eyes snapping toward the entrance door. "Something is wrong," Lennox growled, his muscles bunching to shift. "The air... it’s heavy."

​The front door didn’t just open; it was shoved off its hinges with a violent, magical force. Stepping over the threshold was a man who looked nothing like their father. His face was sharp, scarred, and framed by matted dark hair. This was Neon’s real face.

​Lennox roared and attacked, but halfway through the air, he hit an invisible wall. He crashed to the floor, his limbs hurting. Behind him, Levi and Louis tried to shift, but their bones groaned as if pinned by a mountain.

​"I can’t... I can’t move my light!" Olivia gasped, her hands trembling as she tried to spark a teleportation circle. A shimmering, oily barrier was absorbing her power before it could even manifest.

​Neon let out a low, mocking whistle. "Did you really think the ’Special’ girl could just pop in and out of my traps? I’ve waited ten years to get the Trinity in one room without their army." He looked at Selene with pure disgust. "You were the perfect bait, my love. I knew they’d run straight to the only person who knew the truth."

​"Neon, please!" Selene screamed, crawling toward him. "This is enough! Just let them go!"

​"Shut up!" Neon barked, kicking her hand away. "I tried to give us a kingdom, a life where we weren’t scavenging like rats in the dirt, but you didn’t want it. You grew soft. You grew ’guilty.’ If you won’t reign with me, you’ll die with them."

​Neon pulled out something that looked like a charm wrapped in red cloth. He opened the cork and poured a liquid out of it, and suddenly, fire erupted. This wasn’t normal fire; it was alchemist’s flame, green and hungry, licking up the walls in seconds. The smoke began to fill the room, but the brothers and Olivia were still frozen, pinned by Neon’s dampening spell. Neon stood in the center of the chaos, a transparent, shimmering wall protecting him from the heat.

​"You’re going to watch your family burn, Lennox," Neon sneered. "And when you’re ash, I’m going back for your sons."

​"No!" Selene’s voice shifted. The cowardice was gone, replaced by a mother’s final, desperate act to save her sons. She looked at her three sons—the boys she had failed for a decade—and then at Olivia’s pregnant belly.

I know this spell. Neon learned it from the Outlands. It requires blood to hold the seal." Selene whispered, her eyes meeting Lennox’s.

​"Mother, don’t!" Louis choked out, struggling against the invisible weight.

​"I loved you," she lied, or perhaps finally told the truth, as she lunged out from behind the barrier and threw herself directly into the heart of the green fire.

​The moment her body hit the flames, a high-pitched, glass-shattering sound echoed through the cottage. The invisible weight vanished. The dampening field evaporated.

​"Now!" Lennox screamed, grabbing Olivia. Olivia grabbed the brothers. Just as the roof began to collapse onto Neon’s protective shield, the space where they stood folded in on itself.

​In a flash of blinding light, they were gone, leaving the cottage—and their mother—to the fire.

​In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the master suite in the mansion. Lennox hit the ground first. His knees gave out, and he fell hard. He did not even try to stand up. He stayed on the floor, breathing fast and staring at his shaking hands. The smell of burned hair still clung to his clothes. It reminded him of the woman they had just left behind.

​The three Alpha brothers looked like broken boys sitting on the bedroom floor. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

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