Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 298

Chapter 298: You Lied To Me

The sound Lilith made was inhuman. Pure grief and betrayal and rage all twisted together. She stumbled backward and Victoria caught her, wrapped her arms around her, held her while she shattered.

"You lied to me," Lilith sobbed. "All of you. You said you were investigating what happened that night. You said you didn’t know if he really betrayed the meeting, you said you didn’t know if he truly committed the offence you accused him of, when you were there, you would have known if he truly....."

"We are investigating," Sebastian said desperately. "We’re trying to find out exactly what happened Lilith. We didn’t understand the full picture..."

"You were there and you didn’t tell me!" Lilith’s scream cut him off. "You marked me! You bonded with me! And the whole time you knew you were there when my father died and you said NOTHING!"

"We were going to tell you," Nicholas said, and his voice was raw. "When the time was right...."

"When?!" Lilith demanded through her tears. "After the third bond? After you’d tied me to you completely? When I couldn’t leave even if I wanted to?"

"You can always leave," Lucian said quietly. "The bonds don’t trap you. You can walk away any time you want."

"Can I?" Lilith laughed bitterly. "Can I really? When I can feel you in my head constantly? When my body aches if I’m away from you too long? When the bonds pull at me every second demanding I come back to you?"

"That’s what bonds are," Sebastian said. "They’re permanent. They’re supposed to...."

"They’re chains," Victoria interrupted. "Beautiful chains wrapped in pleasure and destiny and lies. And they’re using you, Lilith. Using your power to break their curse while they lie to you about who killed your father."

"Enough," Nicholas said, and his Alpha voice rang through the room with enough force that even Victoria flinched. "Lilith is not a child. She’s our mate. And she deserves the truth. All of it. But not here. Not like this. Not from you."

Victoria’s eyes narrowed. "You don’t get to decide...."

"Neither do you," Nicholas cut her off. He looked at Lilith, only at Lilith. "We lied. We kept things from you we shouldn’t have. And if you want to hate us for that, you have every right. But come home. Let us explain. Let us tell you everything."

"Why should I believe anything you say?" Lilith whispered.

"Because the bonds don’t lie," Nicholas said. "You can feel us through them. Feel our emotions. Our truth. Come home and feel whether we’re lying or not."

"Don’t listen to them," Victoria said urgently. "Lilith, please. Come with me. Let me protect you...."

"Protect her from what?" Sebastian demanded. "From us? We would die before we let anyone hurt her."

"You already ARE hurting her!" Victoria’s power flared, the air around her crackling with magic. "Every day you keep her, every bond you complete, you’re destroying her! And I won’t stand by and watch you do to her what you did to Victor!"

The room was silent except for Lilith’s ragged breathing and the steady beep of the machines keeping her mother alive.

Nicholas could feel her through the bond, the war raging inside her between what Victoria was saying and what the bonds were telling her. Between the family she thought she knew and the mates she was terrified to trust.

"Lilith," he said softly. "Come home."

He held out his hand.

And waited.

Lilith looked at his outstretched hand. Then at Victoria’s fierce protective stance. Then at Sebastian and Lucian standing in the doorway looking like they would burn the world down before they let her go.

"I can’t," she whispered finally. "I can’t think here. I can’t....I need space. I need to process...."

"Then come home and we’ll give you space," Nicholas said. "We’ll give you anything you need. But please. Don’t let her take you from us."

"Take her?" Victoria laughed. "She’s not yours to lose, Alpha. She never was."

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