Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Strip

Lilith said nothing.

"Take off your jacket," Nicholas said.

She blinked. "What?"

"Your jacket. Take it off." His tone didn’t change. Still that same cold control. "We want to see what we’re working with."

Her hands moved before her brain fully processed the command. Slipping off the thin jacket she’d worn, letting it fall to the floor.

Nicholas’s eyes moved over her slowly. Memorising. "Turn around."

She turned.

Felt their eyes on her back. On her body. Assessing her like she was livestock at market.

"She’s wolfless," Lucian observed. "I can’t sense a wolf at all."

"That’s what the report said," Nicholas confirmed. "Completely wolfless. Which means she can’t shift. Can’t heal like we do. Can’t defend herself if things get rough."

"Good," Sebastian said. And there was something dark in his voice that made Lilith’s stomach twist. "Means every mark we leave will last."

"Face us," Nicholas commanded.

She turned back around.

He was closer now. Had moved while her back was turned. Close enough that she could smell him...pine and something sharp, something that made her hindbrain scream danger even as her body responded in ways she didn’t want to accept.

"Do you know why you’re here," he said quietly.

"To pay my father’s debt," she said. Her voice came out steadier than she felt.

"To pay for his crimes," Nicholas corrected. "Your father leaked the location of a treaty meeting to hunters. Because of his betrayal, my father is dead. Along with everyone else at that meeting." His silver eyes bored into hers. "Do you understand the magnitude of what he did?"

"He didn’t do it," she said before she could stop herself.

The temperature in the room dropped.

Nicholas’s hand moved so fast she didn’t see it coming. One second he was standing in front of her, the next his fingers were wrapped around her throat.

Not squeezing. Not yet. Just holding. A reminder of exactly how easily he could hurt her.

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