Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 247

Chapter 247: Thirty Minutes To Full Moon

Nicholas looked at him and he didn’t even care to dispute the claim.

He simply held Sebastian’s gaze with a look that said "Yes, and so what?"

The look that had ended more arguments than any words he’d ever spoken.

Sebastian held it for three seconds.

Then exhaled through his nose and looked away first.

"Lucian," Nicholas said.

Lucian didn’t respond immediately.

"How is Kael holding up," Lucian said, without raising his head. His voice was carefully measured, like he was choosing each word from a very short list of safe ones. "Is he giving you any sign that the curse will affect him tonight. More than usual."

"That’s what I need to know too," Sebastian said, straightening slightly in his chair. The laziness burning off him now, replaced by something more alert. "Because I need to understand what the next thirty minutes looks like, Nicholas. Are we going under together. Or will you have enough of yourself left to keep things in check while Rhen and Zev are...."

"I don’t know," Nicholas said.

The office went quiet around him.

"Honestly," he continued, "I don’t know. The mark has helped. The way Kael responds to the moon’s pull tonight...it’s different from last month, it....more quiet.

Like he has something to hold onto now that he didn’t have before." He paused, choosing his words with the same care Lucian had. "But the curse requires all three marks. Not one. All three. Until you’ve both claimed her the curse is still active. Still present. So whatever relief i feel right now....it is partial." He looked at them. "Which means tonight is still dangerous. For all of us."

Sebastian nodded once.

"So if anything goes wrong....if either of you feel Rhen or Zev going somewhere you can’t pull them back from, Callum and your betas will have the chains ready." Nicholas held Sebastian’s gaze, then Lucian’s. One after the other. Making sure they both heard this completely. "Because if we go under, we will kill her. All three of us. She will not survive it."

The room was very quite around them, outside the windows the sky had deepened to the unique dark blue that came just before full moon. The moon has not yet fully risen but Nicholas could feel it....the pull of it already sitting heavy in his chest, Kael pacing underneath his ribs with slow deliberate steps.

"She barely survived Kael," Sebastian said quietly. The humor was entirely gone from his voice now. "And the state she was in afterward...."

"I know." Nicholas said.

"She would not survive Rhen." Sebastian’s jaw tightened. "Not like this. Not with the curse running hot and the bond incomplete. He would not..." He stopped. Started again. "Rhen would not know to stop. He would not be able to."

"I know," Nicholas said again.

"She would break," Sebastian’s voice came out flat. "She would die, Nicholas. And we would not even...." His voice stopped.

He pressed his fingers to his mouth briefly.

Looked at the desk.

At the surface where she had been forty minutes ago.

Lucian had gone completely silent on the sofa.

He had been silent for several minutes now.

"Lucian," Nicholas called out to him, but Lucian didn’t reply.

"Are you all right?" He called out again

Lucian raised his head and Nicholas could see that his golden eyes were not entirely golden anymore.

The amber had bled into them....the unique shade that meant Zev was not close to the surface. Zev was already there. Had been there, Nicholas realized, for longer than any of them had acknowledged.

"Not really," Lucian replied.

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