Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 252

Chapter 252: The Morning After The Storm

Nicholas’s POV

The chains came off at five in the morning.

Callum did it without being asked, he moved through the room quietly and removed the ankles chains first then the wrists.

Nicholas sat with his arms free and his back against the stone, he didn’t move immediately, because his body needed that few minutes to re-calibrate.

Years of full moons and it was always the same. The aftermath sitting heavier than the night itself, the way everything felt slightly too bright and too loud in the first minutes after the moon.

He looked at his brothers.

Sebastian was already on his feet. Moving slowly and rolling his shoulders, he turned to look at the window where the sky had shifted from black to the deep grey that came just before dawn.

He still had Lilith’s underwear in his hand.

He looked down at it briefly then he tucked it back into his pocket without a word.

Nicholas turned to look at Lucian.

Lucian was sitting exactly where he had been for the last four hours. Back against the stone. Hands in his lap where the chains had been, his eyes still fixed on the floor in front of him.

Finn was still beside him, he had not moved from his position once through the entire night.

"Lucian," Nicholas called out.

Lucian looked up.

His eyes were back to it original color, The gold was clear and present and looked tired in a way that had nothing to do with sleep.

"I am fine," Lucian said.

"Good," Nicholas replied, then he stood up.

His legs were stiff from the stone floor. He didn’t acknowledge it, He Just moved to the door and waited while Callum unlocked it and pushed it open.

***

The corridor outside was grey with early morning light.

Somewhere above them the estate was waking up.

He didn’t tell his brothers where he was going to as he made his way upstairs alone.

The estate was quiet at this hour.

The pack had come back from the clearing hours ago, he had heard them through the stone wall, and now everything was back to normal.

He went up two floors, down the corridor and stopped outside her door.

Callum’s man, a young warrior named Dex who had been standing at the door for eight hours without complaint, He straightened when he saw Nicholas coming.

Nicholas looked at him.

"Anything?" he asked.

"She came to the door around two," Dex said. "And i told her everything was fine, then she went back to bed." He paused. "She didn’t sound like she believed me."

Nicholas looked at the door.

"Get some rest," he said. "I’ll take it from here."

Dex nodded and walked away down the corridor.

Nicholas stood outside the door alone.

He could feel her through the bond, and he could feel that she was currently awake.

He knocked twice and the door opened immediately.

Lilith stood there in her sleep clothes looking at him with eyes that still looked sleepy.

She looked at his face and he could see how worried she looked.

"You came to the door?" he asked.

"I heard the howls," she said. "I felt....." She stopped. Pressed her fingers briefly to her mark. "I felt something through the bond. I did not know what it was. I just felt like something was happening."

Nicholas looked at her hand on her mark.

"Something was happening," he said.

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