Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 283

Chapter 283: What Do You Remember?

Lilith woke up slowly, dragged out of darkness by something pulling at her chest. Not pain exactly. More like an ache. A hook lodged beneath her ribs tugging insistently, demanding her attention.

Her eyes felt heavy and her mouth was dry and everything hurt in a distant fuzzy way that told her she had been unconscious for a long time. She blinked against the light filtering through the curtains and tried to remember where she was.

Nicholas’s room. She was in Nicholas’s bed.

But why?

She tried to sit up and immediately a hand was there, warm and careful on her shoulder.

"Easy. Don’t move too fast."

Sebastian.

Lilith turned her head and found him sitting in the chair beside the bed, still holding her other hand like he had been there for hours. He looked exhausted...dark circles under his eyes, his hair disheveled, his shirt wrinkled. But when he met her gaze his whole face transformed with relief.

"You’re awake," he breathed. "Thank god you’re awake."

"What..." Her voice came out hoarse and broken. She swallowed and tried again. "What happened?"

Sebastian didn’t answer immediately. Instead he reached for the glass of water on the nightstand and helped her drink, one hand supporting the back of her head while she took small careful sips.

When she was done he set the glass aside and she saw him close his eyes briefly and reach for something she could not see. The mindlink. Calling his brothers.

"Sebastian?" Lilith tried to sit up again and this time he helped her, adjusting the pillows behind her back until she was upright. "What happened to me?"

"What do you remember?" he asked carefully.

Lilith closed her eyes and tried to sort through the fragments in her head. "I was... I was sleeping. In my room. And then I was walking. But I wasn’t awake. I was dreaming but also not dreaming and there was a voice and...."

The memories scattered like smoke the moment she tried to hold onto them. She remembered the forest. Standing stones glowing silver in the darkness. A voice calling her name but she could not remember whose voice or what it said.

"I don’t know," she whispered. "It’s all jumbled. I remember the woods. I remember being cold. But I don’t remember how I got there or why."

"You walked out of the estate in the middle of the night," Sebastian said quietly. "In a trance. Someone called you. Compelled you. We found you six miles into the forest lying unconscious in a clearing."

Lilith stared at him. "Six miles?"

"Yes."

"But I don’t..." She pressed her hands to her face and tried to breathe through the panic rising in her chest. "I don’t remember any of that. I don’t remember leaving. I don’t remember getting there. I just remember fragments and dreams and nothing makes sense."

Sebastian took her hand again and squeezed gently. "It’s okay. You’re safe now. You’re here. That’s what matters."

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