Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177: The Impossible Decision

When she’d arrived two months ago as a payment and all three of them had been quieter than they’d been in years. The feral edge that had been sharpening day by day and year by year, the constant pull of the curse pressing against their control like a living thing trying to break free, it had settled. Not disappeared, but calmed. Held back by something they couldn’t name or explain or understand.

His wolve had rested for few days when she had just arrived two months ago before they sent her back.

And now that they had just gotten her back, Sebastian had kissed her, and through their bond, Nicholas felt his brother’s desperation, his need, his nearly-completed transformation into something feral and possessive and absolutely claiming.

Nicholas leaned back in his chair, his silver eyes fixed on the blank pages of the oldest records, and he allowed himself to confront the situation with brutal honesty.

The four-day observation period had made sense when they’d decided on it. Give her time to adjust. Observe her readiness. Determine if marking her before the full moon was advisable or if they needed to wait until the next one, a full month away.

But with each passing day, the curse was building pressure again. Not because Lilith was failing to affect them, she was affecting them perfectly, too perfectly, her presence calming them in ways that made it impossible to imagine being without her. But because proximity to her without claiming her, without completing the bond and making it official, was becoming unbearable.

Sebastian had already crossed a line tonight. He’d kissed her. He’d nearly marked her in that library before forcing himself to stop. Nicholas could feel the effort that had cost him through their bond, could sense the tremendous restraint it had taken.

How long before Lucian reached his breaking point? His youngest brother had always been the least controlled, the most feral, the one most likely to let impulse override judgment.

How long before Nicholas’s own control fractured?

The full moon was eight days away. The four-day observation period would end in four days. But could they actually wait that long? Could they survive four more days knowing she was somewhere in this estate, close enough to touch but not yet theirs, not yet officially claimed?

He already knew the answer was no.

But more importantly, he knew what that meant.

He understood, in a way that few people ever could, the weight of decisions that affected not just himself but also his brothers The responsibility of leadership wasn’t something that could be shared equally among three brothers, it filtered down to him, to his shoulders.

Sebastian and Lucian would follow his lead. They always did. It was the way of their bloodline, the way of the pack, the way of the bond between three brothers who’d been born in tandem and raised to understand that Nicholas’s clarity was what kept them all functional.

But this decision, whether to accelerate the marking, whether to push through the four-day timeline, whether to complete the bond before the full moon made them lose all control entirely, this was a decision that would reshape all their futures.

And he wasn’t certain he could make it without destroying something in the process.

If he told them to wait, to maintain the observation period, to give Lilith the full four days to adjust and settle, and if one of them lost control before they could mark her, before they could anchor themselves to her through the bond, the consequences would be catastrophic. He’d seen what happened when Sebastian lost control. He’d felt what it was like when Lucian’s feral nature won. He knew intimately what happened when the curse won.

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