Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 192

Chapter 192: How Did You Get In Here?

Friday came earlier than she had expected.

Sebastian was already in her sitting room when she woke up.

Not in her bed.....just in the sitting room, in the armchair by the window with a cup of coffee and a stack of papers he was working through, like this was something he did every morning. Like he’d been doing it for years.

She stood in the archway in her sleep shirt and stared at him.

He looked up.

"There’s coffee," he said, nodding toward the side table where a second cup was waiting. Still steaming. He’d timed it.

"How did you get in here."

"I have a key."

"To my room."

"To the connecting door." He turned a page.

She looked at the coffee. Looked at him. Walked over and picked it up.

It was made exactly how she liked it....she hadn’t told any of them how she took her coffee, which meant someone had paid attention the first morning without saying anything about it.

She sat on the sofa and tucked her feet under her.

"I want to visit my mother today," she said.

He didn’t look up from his papers. "I know. Car’s ready at ten."

She looked at him over the rim of her cup.

"You knew I’d ask."

"You’ve visited her almost every day for one week." He turned another page. "You weren’t going to stop because she is stable now."

"Thank you," she said quietly.

He picked his papers back up. "Drink your coffee. Car leaves at ten."

***

She told the driver to drop her two blocks from the café, Wren had sent her the address last night.

It wasn’t suspicion exactly. It was more like an habit....the particular caution of a woman who had spent the past four months making sure nobody knew more about her life than they needed to. The black car pulling up directly outside felt like too much. Like an announcement.

She walked the two blocks in the cold and pushed open the door of Greer’s and spotted Wren immediately.

Ten years.

Wren Adley looked exactly the same and completely different in the way that ten years always managed simultaneously. Same sharp face, same dark eyes that moved fast and caught everything. But older now....filled out, more settled into herself.

She was already on her second coffee by the look of it and she stood up when she saw Lilith come through the door and for one strange second Lilith didn’t know what to do with her arms.

They hugged, but is was brief and it felt slightly awkward. Ten years of distance compressed into three seconds.

"You look good," Wren said, pulling back and looking at her properly. Those fast dark eyes moving over her face. "But.....Different."

"Different how."

"I don’t know yet." She sat back down. "Sit. I already ordered you a flat white."

They talked for twenty minutes about nothing important.

Wren’s mother’s new mate’s territory....four hours north, good land, pack that actually functioned. Her job, some kind of logistics work for a mid-sized pack out of the city.

The flat white arrived. Lilith wrapped both hands around it.

"So," Wren said.

The original post was still up. Beta Thorne’s wolfless daughter was sent to the Blackwood brothers has payment. Someone should ask what kind of payment it was. Below it now....comments. Speculation. Someone had added her first name. Not her last, but her first name sitting there in a thread being passed between pack networks made her stomach clench.

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