Callum came through the door first, then Eli came in behind him.
Finn was last, he entered the room and stood with the other two betas.
"We have approximately twenty minutes before the moon is fully risen," Nicholas said immediately.
"Tonight is different from every other full moon we have experienced, Kael has marked our mate. The bond is incomplete...Sebastian and Lucian have not yet marked her, which means the curse is still active. Still pulling." He paused. "We do not know what that combination will do to us when the moon peaks. We do not know if the partial bond will help or make things worse."
Finn looked at Lucian again.
"What we do know," Nicholas continued, "is that our mate is in this building. Asleep upstairs. And if any one of us loses control tonight, if any of our wolves goes under fully and gets to her, she will not survive it." He said it plainly. "She will die. That is not speculation. That is the reality we are facing tonight."
The room was completely silent.
"So here is what is going to happen," Nicholas said. "All three of us will go to the lower level before the moon peaks. As you all know that there are chains already installed there from previous full moons." He looked at Callum. "I want them checked. All six sets. I want them checked personally by you in the next ten minutes, and I want to know if any of them have any weakness."
"Already done," Callum said. "I checked them this afternoon. All six sets are solid."
Nicholas looked at him.
"This afternoon?" he asked.
"Yes, Alpha." Callum replied. "I anticipated this might be the plan."
Nicholas held his gaze for a while.
Callum had been his beta long before he took over the pack, and there was not a single time in those years that Nicholas had needed to explain something to him that he had not already understood.
"Good," Nicholas said. "Then you know what comes next."
"One beta per Alpha," Callum said. "Inside the room. Armed with wolfsbane if necessary. Authorized to use it without waiting for permission if an Alpha goes under and the chains do not hold."
"Yes," Nicholas said.
Sebastian made a sound that sounded like a laugh.
"Wolfsbane," he said. "My own beta is authorised to use wolfsbane on me?"
"Your beta is authorised to do whatever is necessary to keep our mate alive," Nicholas said. He looked at Sebastian directly. "Including you."
Sebastian held his gaze for a while. "Fine," he said.
"Finn," Nicholas called out.
Finn looked at him.
"You stay with Lucian tonight," Nicholas said.
Finn nodded immediately.
"I want the mindlink open between all six of us throughout," Nicholas continued. "The moment anything changes, the moment any one of us feels control slipping past the point of return, you call it. Immediately. You do not wait. You do not give us a chance to pull back on our own, You call it and you act." Are we clear? Nicholas asked looking at all three of them.
VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABEL
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings