Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282: Please wake up

"Then the woods. God, the woods." His voice dropped lower. "Watching you run from me. Chasing you. Catching you. Having you beneath me in the dirt and knowing....knowing that you were mine and I still could not mark you. Could not complete what Rhen was screaming for. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, pulling back from you. Leaving that mark incomplete."

He reached up and touched the partial bond mark on her throat again, felt it pulse under his fingers.

"And now I have done it again. Left you with half a bond. Half a claim. And you might hate me for it when you wake up."

The fear of that was almost worse than the incomplete bond.

"I need you to wake up," Sebastian whispered. "I need you to look at me and tell me you understand why I did it. I need you to choose me. Choose us. Because I do not know how to survive if you do not."

The silence stretched, Lilith didn’t answer and Sebastian felt something break inside his chest.

An hour passed. Maybe two. Sebastian didn’t move from the chair, didn’t let go of her hand, just sat there watching her breathe and feeling the incomplete bond pull at him.

The door opened and Dr. Aldric stepped back inside, his medical bag in hand. "I wanted to check on her one more time before I rest."

Sebastian didn’t protest, just moved aside slightly so the doctor could examine her. Dr. Aldric checked her pulse, her breathing, the temperature of her skin. He touched the partial mark on her throat and frowned slightly.

"It is settling," he said quietly. "The bond is incomplete but it is there. Stable."

"When will she wake up?" Sebastian asked.

Dr. Aldric was quiet for a moment, his eyes still on Lilith. "Her body needs to recover. The spell drained her significantly. The partial marking drained her even more. It could be hours. It could be a full day."

Sebastian felt his stomach drop. "A day?"

"Possibly. Magic like this takes a toll. She needs rest."

"And when she does wake up..." Sebastian hesitated. "Will she remember what happened?"

Dr. Aldric straightened and looked at him directly. "I do not know. Magic like this....compulsion magic, it leaves marks on the mind as well as the body. She might remember everything. She might remember nothing. Or she might remember fragments that do not make sense to her."

"The mark I left," Sebastian said quietly. "The rejection. Will she feel it?"

"She will feel the incomplete bond the moment she is conscious," Dr. Aldric confirmed. "It will pull at her the same way it is pulling at you. She will know something happened even if she does not remember the specifics."

Sebastian nodded slowly and Dr. Aldric gathered his things.

"Get some rest, Alpha Sebastian. You will need your strength when she wakes."

"I am not leaving her."

Dr. Aldric didn’t argue, just nodded and left the room quietly.

Sebastian returned to the chair and took Lilith’s hand again, and this time he let his head drop forward until his forehead was resting against their joined hands.

The fear was eating him alive.

He was terrified she would wake up and hate him for marking her without her consent. Terrified she would reject completing the bond. Terrified that whatever had taken her into the forest would come back and he would not be able to stop it.

"Please do not leave us," he whispered into the silence. "Please do not choose to walk away. I know we have kept things from you. I know we have made mistakes. But please. Please stay."

"She is ours."

"She will choose us," Rhen continued. "The bond does not lie."

"She rejected being claimed without choice. When she wakes, she will choose. And she will choose us."

Because I felt her in the woods. I felt her surrender. I felt her want us. That does not disappear because she was unconscious. That does not change because we made a mistake.

Rhen was silent for a long moment. Then: "Then we let her go. Because keeping her here against her will is not keeping her at all."

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