Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Something Is Wrong With Me

She pressed them flat against the mattress and then took several deep breath to calm herself down.

The warmth under her skin was worse than it had been when she fell asleep.

She looked at the connecting door.

Looked away.

Got up. Drank a glass of water. Stood at the window and looked out at the dark grounds until her heartbeat came back down to something manageable.

Then she went back to bed.

The moment she closed her eyes and the dreams pulled her back under again.

***

The second day was harder.

She could feel them before she saw them. That was new...a constand awareness of where they were in the estate, like something in her had been glued to them. She knew Sebastian was in the corridor before he opened the door. Felt the shift in the air when Lucian passed the library.

And when Nicholas walked into a room her entire body went tight.

She started avoiding them.

Not obviously. Not in a way she thought they’d notice. She rearranged her timing, came to breakfast earlier, left before they finished. Found reasons to be in different parts of the estate. Spent two hours in the kitchen with Agnes because the kitchen was the one room she was certain none of them would come looking for her.

Agnes didn’t ask questions.

Just put her to work chopping vegetables and talked about the estate’s history.

But even in the kitchen, even with Agnes’s steady presence and the smell of woodsmoke and herbs, the warmth didn’t ease. It sat under her skin like something with a pulse. Something alive and insistent and completely uninterested in what she wanted.

***

That night the dreams were worse.

She woke up at three in the morning with her hand already moving between her thighs before she was fully conscious.

She lay there in the dark and was breathing hard.

Her body was burning.

Not a fever.....she pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, felt her own pulse. Not sick. She didn’t have a fever.

She decided it was something else.

She took care of herself in the dark with the sheets twisted around her legs and her face turned into the pillow. Came so hard her vision blurred. Lay there afterward breathing like she’d been running.

Still the warmth didn’t go away.

She pressed both hands flat against her stomach and stared at the ceiling.

Then she came to the conclusion "Something is wrong with me."

***

The third day she could barely be in the same room as any of them.

It was Sebastian who noticed first.....not the way Lucian had noticed in the corridor. Sebastian noticed that she was acting differently, Then decided to find out what was happening. He walked into the sitting room where she was reading and stopped three feet inside the door and just....looked at her. His dark eyes moving over her face. Her hands. The way she was sitting.

"Lilith."

"I’m reading."

"You’ve been reading the same page for twenty minutes." He said it gently. "I walked past the door three times."

"Tomorrow," she told herself. "Tell Nicholas tomorrow."

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