Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 249

Chapter 249: The Full Moon

Lucian looked at him and nodded his head before looking away.

"Let’s go," he said quietly.

They walked out of the office together, down the corridor, toward the lower level.

Outside the windows, the moon was almost fully risen, and the sound of the pack gathering drifted through the estate walls. Howls beginning in the distance. Voices. That energy of a community moving toward something ancient and inevitable.

Nicholas walked out of the room with his wrists already bound. Inside him, Kael was pressing heavily in his chest, as if telling him to stay inside the office because going out would make the smell of his mate fade away.

Nicholas didn’t answer him. He just kept walking, and he could feel the scent of his Lilith fading slowly with every step he took away from the office.

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The lower level of the Blackwood estate had not changed in years.

Same stone walls. Same reinforced door. Same six sets of chains bolted into the walls at intervals, three on the left side, three on the right. Each one tested and retested because the men who wore them were not ordinary men, and the things pressing against the inside of them on nights like this were not ordinary wolves.

Nicholas had been coming down here every full moon for years, and the visitation became more constant three years ago when the curse became worse.

He knew every crack in the stone. Every shadow the torchlight threw across the floor. The unique cold that lived down here regardless of what season it was outside. The way sound moved differently in this room...flatter, more contained, like the walls had learned to absorb things.

He stood in the centre of the room now with his brothers on either side of him, with Callum, Eli, and Finn behind them.

The chains were hanging from the walls.

The moon had not yet fully risen, but close enough that he could feel it in his jaw.

"Left side," Nicholas said.

He crossed to the wall and sat down with his back against the stone.

His brothers followed without a word.

Sebastian took the middle position. Lucian on the far end. Their betas moved behind them, Callum behind Nicholas, Eli behind Sebastian, Finn positioning himself directly beside Lucian without being asked.

The wrist chains that Nicholas had put on in the office were still on.

Now Callum added the wall chains...the heavy ones. Ankles first. Then a second set at the wrist, layered over the lighter ones already there.

The sound of the locks engaging echoed in the stone room.

Nicholas did not look at his brothers while it was done. He looked at the window.

A single window. High up in the wall. Too small for a man to climb through. Too small for a wolf. But large enough that the moonlight came through it in a single silver column that moved slowly across the floor as the night progressed.

The column was almost at the centre of the room.

Fifteen minutes. Maybe less.

Kael wasn’t pacing anymore now.

That was the thing Nicholas noticed. Kael had been pacing for hours, turning circles, pressing, restless in the way he got on full moon nights when the pull of the moon and the weight of the curse combined into something that took everything Nicholas had to manage.

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