Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 253

Chapter 253: Thank You

Lilith woke up alone and saw that Nicholas was gone.

She knew before she even opened her eyes. The warmth behind her was missing, the weight of his arm no longer across her waist. Just the indent in the pillow beside her and the faint smell of him still on the sheets.

She lay there for a moment, looking at the ceiling.

The light coming through the curtains was proper morning light now. Not the pale grey of five in the morning. The time should be around eight o’clock maybe. Nine.

She got up, washed her face, and changed. Then went downstairs.

Agnes was in the kitchen.

Of course Agnes was in the kitchen.

She looked up when Lilith came through the door and pointed at the counter where a plate was already waiting, her steady eyes taking in Lilith’s face without saying anything.

Lilith sat down and pulled the plate close to herself and started to eat.

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She found Lucian in the garden later that morning, he was sitting on the low stone wall at the edge of the garden with his face tipped up toward the morning sun and his eyes closed.

Lilith walked over and sat beside him on the wall.

He did not open his eyes but his lips curved into a smile."I could hear you coming from the corner," he said.

"Good morning to you too," she said.

The smile on his face deepened, but he still didn’t open his eyes.

They sat there for a moment in the sun. The was garden quiet around them. Somewhere across the compound she could hear the pack moving through their morning....voices, distant activity, the estate resuming ordinary life.

"Nicholas told me," she said. "About last night."

Lucian opened his eyes and looked at her.

"How much did he tell you?" Lucian asked.

"He told me that your chain cracked," she said. "That Finn held you. and that he talked you back."

Lucian looked at the garden in front of them.

"That is accurate," he said.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

He was quiet for a while.

"Yes," he said. Then: "No." He exhaled and then said with a tired face. "I don’t know. Maybe both."

She looked at his hands where they rested on his knees. The wrists where the chains had been. She could not see marks, wolves healed too fast for that.

"Zev wanted to come to you," Lucian said. He wasn’t looking at her now, he was still looking at the garden. "That is the honest answer to your question. Last night when the moon peaked, Zev wanted to come to you, and I...." He paused. "It took everything I had to stop him, The chain helped. Finn helped. Nicholas helped." He glanced at her. "But mostly it was knowing that you were up there and that you were safe that got me through last night."

Lilith looked at him for a while and she made up her mind to tell him what she had been wanting to tell him for a while now.

"Lucian," she called out.

"Yes." Lucian answered.

"I am not afraid of Zev," she said.

He turned and looked at her properly.

"You should be," he said. "Last night, what Zev was trying to do...you wouldn’t have survived it."

"I know," she said. "I am not saying it was not dangerous. I am saying I am not afraid of him." She held his gaze. "I am not afraid of any of you."

Lucian looked at her for a long moment.

"That is either very brave or very stupid," he said.

"Probably both," she said, then she reached out and put her hand on Lucian’s arm.

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