Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224: The Next Morning

She woke on Nicholas’s chest with his arm was around her waist and his heartbeat steady under her cheek.

She didn’t move, she Just listened to him breathe.

The sky was grey, which means that it was almost dawn.

She could feel the bond now. Warm. Settled. Like it had finally stopped pulling and just had started existing.

She pressed her hand flat against his chest.

Felt his heartbeat under her palm.

Steady. Slow. Unhurried.

She lifted her head and looked at his face.

She had never seen him sleep before.

The mask was gone. The cold calculation he wore like armor. Just gone. His jaw relaxed. His face softer.

There was a small scar at the corner of his jaw she had never noticed.

She almost touched it, but she stopped herself, then she put her head back down on his chest.

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He woke maybe twenty minutes later.

She felt it first. The slight change in his breathing. The almost imperceptible shift in the arm around her waist.

Before he moved at all.

She considered pretending to still be asleep.

But she also decided against it almost immediately.

She lifted her head and found him already looking at her.

Silver eyes. Completely awake with his mask back.

He looked down at her and kissed her head.

"How long have you been awake," he said finally.

"For a while now." Lilith replied.

"You should have woken me."

"You needed the sleep," she said.

"Is that the only reason."

She held his gaze. "No."

He looked at her for another moment, then he sat up, bringing her with him. She was suddenly very aware they were both still mostly naked and the light was coming now, pale and thin through the sky.

She looked away from him.

"We should go back," he said.

"I know." she replied and then looked up at him and called his name. "Nicholas."

"Yes." he replied.

"What are you not telling me."

Nicholas looked at her face, reading the emotions on her face and deciding the information to share and to withhold.

"Many things," he said. "But i also can’t tell you any of them now."

She turned and looked at him and found that e was already looking at her.

"That’s not good enough," she said.

"I know," he said. "I know it isn’t, but i will tell you everything when the time is right. I promise." His jaw tightened. "But not now. Not yet."

She studied his face for a while and then shook her head.

"Okay," she said. "But Nicholas. When you do tell me. Whatever it is. Just tell me. Don’t sugar coat it it. Don’t calculate how I’m going to react and adjust accordingly." She held his gaze. "Just tell me the truth."

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