Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 342

Chapter 342: I Forgive You

Lilith felt the bonds pulling at her....all three connections strong and solid and getting stronger every day instead of weaker.

That was the problem.

The bonds were supposed to make this easier. Were supposed to guide her toward the right choice.

Instead they were just making everything more complicated.

Because the bonds wanted her to save her mates. Wanted her to sacrifice herself so they could live. It was biological. Instinctual. The mate bond’s entire purpose was to prioritize the survival of the bonded pair over individual survival.

And Lilith could feel that pull getting stronger.

Could feel herself wanting to choose death just to make the aching in the bonds stop.

Could feel her own desires and choices getting tangled up with what the bonds wanted until she could not tell where one ended and the other began.

"The bonds are getting stronger," she said quietly. "Not weaker. Every day I can feel them pulling at me more. Making me want things I’m not sure are mine to want."

Lucian was quiet for a moment. "What do you mean?"

"I mean..." Lilith pulled back to look at his face. "I mean the bonds make me want to save you. Make me want to sacrifice myself so you can be free. And I don’t know how much of that is actually me and how much is just biological programming."

"Does it matter?" Lucian asked.

"Yes!" Lilith said. "Because if I choose to die, I need to know it’s because I genuinely believe that’s the right choice. Not because the bonds are manipulating me into it."

Lucian’s expression darkened. "We would never ask you to..."

"You don’t have to ask," Lilith interrupted. "The bonds do it for you. Every time I think about you going feral. Every time I imagine you hurting people. Every time I feel your fear through the connection, the bonds scream at me to fix it. To save you. No matter what it costs me."

She could see Lucian processing this. See him realizing what she was saying.

"That’s why Victoria wants to sever the bonds," he said slowly. "So you can make this choice without the biological imperative clouding your judgment."

"Yes."

"But severing the bonds would kill you."

"Maybe," Lilith said. "Or maybe Aunt Victoria’s right and there’s a way to do it safely. I don’t know. All I know is that right now, right this moment, I can’t trust my own feelings. Can’t trust whether I love you because I actually love you or because the bonds are making me feel that way."

Lucian looked like she had just stabbed him. "You think the bonds created your feelings?"

"I don’t know," Lilith said honestly. "And that terrifies me."

Lucian was quiet for a long moment. Then he took her hand and placed it over his heart.

"Feel that?" he asked.

Lilith felt his heartbeat.....strong and steady beneath her palm.

"That’s mine," Lucian said. "Not the bond’s. Not Zev’s. Mine. And it beats for you. Bond or no bond. Magic or no magic. Cursed or free. It beats for you."

"How can you be sure?"

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