Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 286

Chapter 286: You Need To Get Off Me. Right Now

Sera was quiet for a moment, then leaned forward. "Can I tell you something?" she asked.

Lilith nodded.

"Bonds are about choice," Sera said. "Even fated mate bonds. Even when destiny or the Moon Goddess or whatever you want to call it puts two people together, they still have to choose each other every single day. The bond doesn’t take away your agency. It doesn’t make you less yourself. It just connects you to someone else."

"But the incomplete bond hurts him." Lilith said looking frustrated.

"Yes. But that’s not why you should complete it. You should complete it because YOU want it. Because YOU choose him. Not because you feel guilty or pressured or obligated." Sera’s eyes were steady on hers. "Do you want Alpha Sebastian, Lilith? Forget about the bond and the pain and everything else. Do you want him?"

Lilith thought about Sebastian in the woods, chasing her down and catching her and claiming her with desperate intensity. She thought about him in his room telling her stories about his childhood and holding her while she fell asleep. She thought about him sitting beside her bed for hours waiting for her to wake up, exhausted and terrified and refusing to leave.

"Yes," she whispered. "I want him."

"Then tell him that. And let him complete the bond. Not because he’s suffering. But because you choose him."

Lilith felt something shift inside her chest, something that felt almost like clarity.

"What if I’m not ready?" she asked, looking at Sera.

"You’ll never feel completely ready for something this big," Sera said gently. "But that doesn’t mean you’re not capable of choosing it anyway."

They sat in silence for a while, and Lilith felt some of the weight lift from her shoulders. Not all of it. But enough.

"Thank you," she said quietly.

Sera smiled. "That’s what friends are for."

***

Lilith stood outside Sebastian’s bedroom door at two in the morning with her heart pounding so hard she thought it might break through her ribs.

She had tried to sleep. Had laid in her bed for hours staring at the ceiling while the incomplete bond pulled at her chest with relentless insistence, a constant ache that would not let her rest. Three days of this. Three days of feeling Sebastian on the other end of the bond....awake, restless, suffering and knowing she was the reason why.

She could not do it anymore.

Could not lie in her bed one more night feeling the incomplete thing between them screaming to be finished.

So she had gotten up, pulled on her robe over her nightgown, and walked down the dark hallway to his room before she could talk herself out of it.

Now she was here. Standing in front of his door. And she had no idea what she was going to say when he opened it.

I want you to complete the bond.

I choose you.

I can’t live with this incomplete thing between us for one more second.

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