Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 84

Chapter 84: He Wants To Go To Shadowmere

He moved through the motions of getting out of bed mechanically. Pulled on clothes. Ran a hand through his dark hair. Caught sight of himself in the mirror and stopped.

His eyes were darker than usual. The strain showing in the set of his jaw. His skin had a greyish tint, like he hadn’t slept in days instead of just hours. Rhen was close to the surface, restless and agitated, making Sebastian’s movements slightly off....a jerkiness to his limbs that suggested the wolf wanted out.

"Not yet," Sebastian said quietly to his reflection.

Rhen snarled back.

He left the bedroom and headed downstairs.

The kitchen was empty. The dining room was empty. The hallway that led to the library was empty. Sebastian moved through the estate like he was searching for something specific, even though he knew....logically, rationally knew, that Lilith wasn’t here. That she’d left yesterday morning in a car that would carry her back to Shadowmere and a life where she would forget the Blackwood brothers existed.

Rhen didn’t accept this information as final.

The wolf kept pushing Sebastian toward the eastern wing. The garden. The library. The sitting room where Lilith had sat reading books she’d taken from the shelves. Every space that had held her was now painfully, impossibly empty.

Sebastian stood in the library and felt his chest tighten.

The book she’d been reading was still on the side table. Half-finished. Abandoned. He picked it up and could smell her on the pages, not in any obvious way, but in the particular way his wolf could sense her presence. Rhen whimpered inside his chest.

"Sebastian."

He turned to find Nicholas standing in the doorway.

His eldest brother looked like he’d been hit by a truck. His normally pristine appearance was disheveled...his hair uncombed, his shirt rumpled, dark circles under his eyes so pronounced they looked like bruises. Kael was visible in the set of his shoulders, in the raw intensity of his gaze.

"Yeah," Sebastian said, because there was nothing else to say.

"She’s gone," Nicholas said flatly.

"I know."

"The bond...."

"I know."

Nicholas moved into the library and sat heavily in one of the armchairs. His hands clenched and unclenched repeatedly, like Kael was trying to break free. "How long do you think he’ll wait?"

Sebastian didn’t need to ask who ’he’ was. Lucian. Zev. The youngest brother and his wolf, both of whom had been dangerously on edge since Lilith’s departure.

"I don’t know," Sebastian said honestly. "As long as he can."

They sat in silence for a moment. The quiet of two wolves in distress, contained in human skins that couldn’t adequately hold them.

"It’s worse than I thought it would be," Nicholas said quietly. "When she was here, the bond was incomplete but present. We could feel her. Rhen could find her. Now...." He stopped. "Now there’s just absence. A hole where she should be."

Sebastian understood exactly what he meant. The mate bond had formed between the three of them and Lilith during her time at the estate. But she didn’t know about it. Didn’t understand what it meant. And now she was gone, and the bond was screaming its incompleteness like an open wound.

"Lucian’s in the training grounds," Nicholas continued. "Zev’s been running the perimeter since dawn. He wants to go to Shadowmere."

"He won’t," Sebastian said, though part of him wondered if that was true. Part of him, the part that was Rhen....wanted to go to Shadowmere and take her back. Force her into acceptance. Make her understand what she meant to them.

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