Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 273

Chapter 273: What do you get out of it?

He stepped aside without a word and she walked past him into the room. It was larger than hers, darker, with heavy furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked the forest. The bed was unmade, and there was a half-empty glass of whiskey on the nightstand.

Sebastian closed the door and turned to face her, leaning back against it with his arms crossed. "You should be sleeping."

"So should you." she replied, looking at him

"Rhen won’t let me."

"The bond won’t let me either." She wrapped her arms around herself. "It pulls at me when you’re this close but not close enough. I don’t know how to explain it."

"You don’t have to explain it. I feel it too." He pushed off the door and walked past her toward the bed, sitting down on the edge and running his hands through his hair. "Three more days and it will stop. The bond will complete and the ache will go away."

Lilith walked over and sat beside him, close enough that their shoulders touched. "Are you scared?"

"Terrified."

She looked at him in surprise. Sebastian was always so controlled, so certain, and hearing him admit fear so openly made something in her chest loosen.

"Why?" she asked.

"Just because.....’’

He reached out and took her hand, threading his fingers through hers. "Come here."

He pulled her with him as he lay back on the bed, settling her against his chest with his arm around her shoulders. Lilith pressed her face into his neck and breathed him in....pine and smoke and something uniquely Sebastian.

They lay like that in silence for a while, just holding each other, before Lilith finally spoke.

"Tell me something."

"Like what?"

"Anything. I want to know you. Not just the Alpha, not just the bond. I want to know Sebastian."

He was quiet for so long she thought he was not going to answer, but then his hand started stroking slowly through her hair and he said, "What do you want to know?"

"What were you like as a child?"

He huffed out a quiet laugh. "Trouble. I was always in trouble."

"Why?"

"Because Nicholas was too serious and Lucian was too wild and I was stuck in the middle trying to keep both of them from killing each other." His fingers traced absent patterns against her scalp. "Nicholas was always the responsible one. The one who did everything right, who followed the rules, who made our father proud. Lucian was the chaos. He did whatever he wanted and dealt with the consequences later. And I was the mediator. The one who covered for Lucian when he snuck out and the one who got Nicholas to actually relax once in a while."

Lilith smiled against his chest. "That sounds exhausting."

"It was. But I wouldn’t change it." He paused. "Most of it anyway."

After a while Sebastian asked, "What about you? What were you like as a child?"

Lilith had to think about it. Her childhood felt like a lifetime ago, buried under years of struggle and loss. "Quiet, I think. My father was always working and my mother was always worried about him. I spent a lot of time alone, reading and wandering the pack lands.

"That must have been hard."

"It was." She traced her fingers over his chest absently.

"What did you want to be when you grew up?" he asked. "Before everything fell apart."

Lilith smiled at the question. "A teacher. I wanted to teach young wolves how to read and write. Help the ones who struggled the way I did."

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