Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 281

Chapter 281: We’re Fucked, Aren’t We?

Sebastian left without another word and the door closed behind him with a soft click.

Nicholas looked at Lucian and found his youngest brother staring at the floor with his jaw tight and his whole body vibrating with tension.

"Are you okay?" Nicholas asked.

Lucian looked up and his eyes were gold. "Do I have a choice?"

"No," Nicholas said honestly. "None of us do."

Lucian laughed again, sharp and humorless. "Seven weeks. Two incomplete bonds. And something out there powerful enough to steal our mate from right under our noses." He met Nicholas’s eyes. "We’re fucked, aren’t we?"

"Probably."

"And there’s nothing we can do about it except wait for her to wake up and hope she still wants us after everything."

"Yes."

Lucian nodded slowly and then turned and walked out of the office without another word, leaving Nicholas alone with his maps and his notes and the crushing weight of everything they stood to lose.

Nicholas sat down at his desk and stared at the map on the wall where he had marked Victoria’s last known locations. Seven weeks until the deadline. Less than that before whatever had taken Lilith came back for her. And somewhere out there in the darkness, enemies he could not see were moving pieces on a board he did not fully understand.

They needed to complete the bonds. Fast.

They needed to protect Lilith from threats they could not identify.

They needed her to choose them when she woke up and learned the truth, because they don’t even know how much information she now has about what they have been hiding from her.

And they needed all of it to happen before time ran out.

Nicholas closed his eyes and reached for the bond, felt Lilith on the other end....sleeping deeply now, her presence steady and warm and completely unaware of the storm waiting for her when she opened her eyes.

"Come back to us," he whispered into the empty office. "And please. Please choose to stay."

Outside the window, dawn was beginning to break over the forest.

And Nicholas sat alone in his office and waited.

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Sebastian POV

Sebastian walked back down the hallway toward Nicholas’s room with his chest aching and his hands shaking and Rhen clawing at him from the inside.

The incomplete bond was a constant pull now, sharp and insistent, dragging him back to her even though he had only been gone for twenty minutes.

He pushed open the door and found Agnes still sitting in the chair beside the bed, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes on Lilith’s sleeping face. Dr. Aldric was at the bedside checking Lilith’s pulse again, his expression thoughtful.

"How is she?" Sebastian asked quietly.

"Stable," Dr. Aldric said without looking up. "Her vitals are strong. She’s sleeping naturally now. The danger has passed."

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