Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 11

Chapter 11: First Meeting

The Blackwood estate appeared through the trees like something out of a nightmare.

Massive. Ancient. Built from dark stone that seemed to swallow light rather than reflect it. Three stories of Gothic architecture with towers at each corner, narrow windows that looked like eyes watching, and iron gates that opened slowly as the car approached.

Lilith pressed herself against the car seat and stared.

This was where she’d spend the next month.

This was where three Alpha wolves waited to exact their revenge on a traitor’s daughter.

The car rolled through the gates and up a long gravel driveway lined with bare trees. It was barely ten AM but the estate grounds looked perpetually twilight.....shadowed and cold despite the weak morning sun.

Marcus pulled the car to a stop in front of the main entrance.

"We’re here," he said unnecessarily.

Lilith didn’t move.

Couldn’t move.

Her entire body had locked up, survival instinct screaming at her to run even though there was nowhere to run to.

Marcus got out and opened her door. "Miss Thorne. The Alphas are waiting."

She forced herself to move. Got out of the car on shaking legs. Grabbed her small bag.

The front doors of the estate opened.

A woman emerged....older, maybe sixty, with steel-grey hair pulled back in a severe bun and sharp eyes that assessed Lilith in a single glance. She wore a black dress with a white apron. Head housekeeper, Lilith guessed.

"You’re the Thorne girl," the woman said. Not a question.

"Yes, ma’am."

"I’m Mrs. Hallowell. Head of household staff." Her voice was crisp and professional. "Follow me. The Alphas are expecting you in the main hall."

She turned and walked back inside without waiting to see if Lilith followed.

Lilith looked at Marcus one last time.

He met her eyes with something that might have been sympathy. "Good luck," he said quietly.

Then he got back in the car and drove away.

Leaving her alone.

Lilith took a breath and walked through the front doors.

The interior of the estate was just as imposing as the exterior.

High ceilings. Dark wood paneling. Expensive artwork on the walls. A massive chandelier hanging in the entrance hall that probably cost more than her entire pack’s annual budget.

Everything about it screamed power and wealth and a world so far removed from her tiny omega apartment that it might as well have been a different planet.

Mrs. Hallowell led her through a maze of corridors without speaking. Their footsteps echoed on the polished marble floors. Lilith caught glimpses of rooms as they passed, a library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a dining room with a table that could seat thirty, a sitting room with furniture that looked like it belonged in a museum.

Finally, they stopped in front of a set of double doors.

"The main hall," Mrs. Hallowell said. She looked at Lilith with those sharp assessing eyes. "The Alphas are inside. You’ll go in alone. I’ll be nearby if you need assistance, though I doubt you will." A pause. "Do you understand what you agreed to when you signed that contract?"

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