Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 280

Chapter 280: Then Who Took Her?

Lucian stopped pacing and turned to look at Sebastian. "How long can you handle it?"

"I don’t know." Sebastian dropped his hand from his chest and clenched it into a fist at his side. "Days maybe. But not weeks. Not with the curse still active and the bond incomplete and her lying unconscious down the hall."

Nicholas felt the weight of that settle over all of them. Seven weeks until the three months deadline. Two incomplete bonds, one of them now half-finished and aching. And whatever had taken Lilith tonight was still out there.

"We need to talk about what happened," Nicholas said, straightening. "How she ended up six miles into the forest in the middle of the night."

"Victoria," Lucian said immediately. "It has to be Victoria. Who else could compel her like that?"

"Maybe." Nicholas walked around his desk and leaned against the front of it, crossing his arms. "The magic signature in that clearing was old. Powerful. Morvaine magic, certainly. But..."

"But what?" Sebastian asked.

"If it was Victoria, why did she leave Lilith there?" Nicholas looked between his brothers. "Think about it. Victoria hates us. She blames our family for what happened to Lilith’s father and her sister, If she had Lilith in her grasp....truly had her, why would she just leave her lying unconscious in a clearing for us to find?"

Lucian frowned. "You think it was someone else?"

"I don’t know what I think." Nicholas ran a hand through his hair. "From everything I’ve read about Victoria Morvaine, she’s ruthless and single-minded. If she got her hands on her niece, she wouldn’t let her go. She’d take her and disappear and we’d never find them."

"So what are you saying?" Sebastian’s voice was tight. "That Victoria wasn’t there?"

"I’m saying I don’t know." Nicholas pushed off the desk and walked to the map on the wall, staring at the markers he had placed tracking Victoria’s movements over the past weeks. "The magic was old. The compulsion was powerful enough to pull Lilith through our wards and out of the estate without anyone noticing. But the fact that Lilith was left there, alone and unguarded...that doesn’t fit what I know about Victoria."

"Then who?" Lucian demanded.

"I don’t know," Nicholas admitted. "But whoever it was, they did something to Lilith in that clearing. Something we don’t understand yet."

Sebastian’s jaw tightened. "She whispered a name. When we found her. She said ’Morvaine’ and then went unconscious again."

"Which means she knows something now," Nicholas said quietly. "Whoever called her showed her something. Told her something. When she wakes up, she’s going to have questions."

"Questions we can’t avoid anymore," Lucian added.

Nicholas nodded slowly. "We tell her the truth when she wakes up. Not everything....not yet....but enough. We tell her she’s not entirely wolfless. That something else is happening to her. That we need to look into her mother’s side of the family more than we have before."

"And if she asks about What took her?" Sebastian asked.

"We tell her we’re investigating. That we don’t have all the answers yet." Nicholas looked at both his brothers. "Which is true. We don’t know if it was Victoria. We don’t know what Lilith was shown. We don’t know what’s waking up inside her. All we know is that she’s not safe. Not here. Not anywhere. Not until we complete these bonds."

"Which brings us back to the problem," Lucian said. "Sebastian’s bond is half-finished. Mine isn’t started. And we have seven weeks before the curse takes us all."

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