Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Rhen Has Been Quiet For Four Days

"Yes, Alpha." She began collecting dishes efficiently.

Nicholas’s hand wrapped around Lilith’s arm, and he pulled her up.

You can go to your room now Lilith. "We’ll call for you when we want you again."

Lilith didn’t need to be told twice before she turned and walked out of the room.

***

Nicholas’s office at midnight looked different from the rest of the estate.

No warm lighting. No careful arrangement of furniture designed to impress. Just a working space....maps on the walls, files stacked on the desk, three glasses of untouched whiskey on the table between them.

The brothers had gathered here without discussion.

No summons. No scheduled meeting.

Just the unspoken understanding that something needed to be said out loud before it consumed them all from the inside.

Sebastian stood at the window, his back to his brothers, looking out over darkened grounds. Nicholas sat behind his desk, his fingers pressed together, his expression the careful blank he wore when something was threatening to crack through his control.

Lucian sprawled in the chair across from him, golden eyes fixed on the ceiling.

Nobody spoke for a long time.

Sebastian broke first.

"Rhen has been quiet for four days."

The words landed in the room like stones dropped in still water.

Nicholas’s eyes moved to him slowly. "Since she arrived?"

"Since she arrived," Sebastian confirmed. He turned from the window. "Before she came....you remember what it was like. The restlessness. The aggression. The feeling of losing ground to something I couldn’t fight."

Lucian lowered his eyes from the ceiling. "I bit through a training dummy last week. An entire training dummy. Zev just....took over for thirty seconds and when I came back there was rubber and foam everywhere and three warriors refusing to make eye contact with me."

"You didn’t tell me that," Nicholas said.

"You had enough to worry about."

Nicholas was quiet. His jaw worked. Then: "Two days before she arrived, I lost four hours."

Silence.

Sebastian turned fully from the window. "What do you mean you lost four hours?"

"I mean I was in this office at nine in the morning reviewing border reports and then I was standing in the training grounds covered in blood at one in the afternoon with no memory of how I got there." Nicholas’s voice was perfectly controlled.

"Whose was it?"

"Nobody’s. Thank god. The warriors said I’d been fighting training posts. Just.... destroying them. For four hours." He met Sebastian’s eyes. "Kael, took over completely. In broad daylight."

The weight of that settled over the room.

The curse.

They’d known about it their whole lives, whispered about it, researched it, tried to pretend it wasn’t getting worse. The Blackwood wolves, going slowly feral. Generation by generation, the curse tightening its grip.

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