The Shattered Dawn — Harvey Price novel Chapter 23

23/Caught you, bastard.

Lilith pov

“Dad, why do we have three Alphas while other packs only have one? Is it because they’re triplets? But can’t the Alpha just choose the strongest to inherit the position?”

That was the question I had asked my father offhandedly during dinner one day.

I had always wondered why we had three Alphas instead of just one. Fangspire Pack wasn’t the first to have twins or triplets as heirs, several packs before us had produced multiple sons but in all those cases, one Alpha was always chosen. 1 1

Usually, the strongest was picked through a match.

I’d heard that in such matches, the brothers would fight for the throne, sometimes to the death. But that was just the way of the werewolf world: brutal and unforgiving.

The strong ruled the weak, and the strongest ruled the strong.

So when everyone was debating which of the Alpha’s sons-Lucien, Silas, or Claude would be chosen as the next Alpha, no one expected what came next.

The Alpha made a shocking declaration: all three of his sons would inherit the position together.

“Lilith, do you really think the Alpha didn’t hold a match to decide who among his sons was strongest? He did,” my father had said that day. “But he couldn’t choose and do you know why?” 1

He took a bite of his food, then murmured under his breath And now that I thought about it, I realized he hadn’t spoken those words in awe, he’d said them with fear.

“Because none of them were stronger. Those three men were evenly matched. Throughout the entire fight, not a single scratch was made on any of them. But the arena they fought in? Completely destroyed. 1

If the Alpha hadn’t stopped the match when he did, I kid you not, Lilith… they would’ve taken down half of Fangspire.”

I’d thought he was simply exaggerating. My father had a habit of blowing things out of proportion.

But the aura radiating through the room, the killing intent coming off both Lucien and Silas sent shivers down my spine.

It made my skin crawl.

It made the air thinner, made it hard to breathe, and a heavy sense of dread fell over me.

If I’d thought what Lucien released that night was killing intent, then I was wrong.

Because now I knew…

Lucien hadn’t truly meant to kill me that day.

Lucien, dressed in a dark fitted suit, stood at the entrance with his arms folded, a cold gaze fixed on his brother and a slight frown etched into his face. His posture was nonchalant, almost lazy, yet there was nothing casual about the tension in the air.

Silas stood beside him in a sharp blue suit, his expression readable. Not a flicker of emotion crossed his face.

But as his gaze slowly shifted from Dervic to me, landing of the hand wrapped tightly around my throat, I saw it.

A dangerous glint flashed in his eyes. Just for a moment, his eyes gleamed white, and I could’ve sworn his aura

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intensified heavier, darker, more lethal.

Yet Dervic seemed completely unaffected. Their killing intent wasn’t even directed at me, and still, a crushing weight pressed down on me. But he didn’t seem fazed in the slightest, if anything, he looked irritated, almost bored. (1)

“You two couldn’t have taken at least an hour to get here?” Dervic was the first to break the silence, his voice dry. His grip on my neck had loosened, but he didn’t let go. As I gasped for breath, body trembling, Silas stepped further into the room that suddenly felt smaller with the presence of the three towering men.

“What are you doing, Dervic?” Silas asked, tilting his head slightly, gaze narrowed. “Are you forcing yourself on the she-wolf?”

The moment he said that, my face flushed bright pink. I glanced at Dervic, who let out a low chuckle, clearly amused by the question. 2

I wasn’t sure it could even be called forcing, my hand had been at the back of his head moments ago, pushing his face between my thighs. And honestly, if Dervic hadn’t taken over Claude… we probably would’ve kept going.

“Forcing?” Dervic hummed. His white eyes flicked to me, and my breath hitched as I trembled beneath his touch.

“I doubt someone being forced would moan like that. And don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t care less about some omega’s consent. But this one?” He held out a finger and gave it a slow shake. “She didn’t resist.”

As soon as he said that, I shut my eyes in pure mortification. It was one thing to know it, it was another to hear it said out loud like that.

“Is that really the question you should be asking the idiot?”

The cold, sharp voice made my eyes snap open. Lucien.

My gaze flickered to him, finding him now leaning against the wall, coldly glaring at Dervic.

“Change back into Claude. He broke the rule. We’d like to speak to him,” he said, not as a request, but as an order.

Dervic simply scoffed, rolling his eyes before running a hand through his long blond locs.

“Come back in an hour. Can’t you see I’m busy right now? An hour should be enough,” he said, before turning his attention to me.

He finally released my neck, only to reach for my chin, tilting it up slightly with a wicked smirk that sent a shiver down my spine.

“Do you know how hard it was to gain control over that bastard?” he murmured. “This girl keeps pulling me in… in ways I can’t even explain.” (1

I gasped as he leaned closer, his lips just inches from mines he whispered.

“I want to feel her insides again.”

The moment he said that, my body jolted, and that familiar heat, the one that had dulled suddenly began to spread through me again.

“Oh,” Dervic suddenly chuckled, turning to his brothers. “And did you know the omega’s in heat too-”

But he didn’t get to finish that sentence.

Because in the very next second, Lucien appeared in front of the bed-so fast, it felt like it happened before I could even blink. My eyes widened as I watched him reach for Claude’s shirt, ready to grab him.

But if Lucien was fast, then Dervic was faster.

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I swore to the goddess, even though Dervic had been right on top of me, I didn’t see the exact moment he disappeared. One second he was there, then gone-dodging Lucien so effortlessly that when I blinked again, Lucien was standing in front of me with his arm frozen mid-air… and Dervic? 1

Dervic was behind him.

My lips parted in shock and disbelief as I stared at the man who had been on top of me just seconds ago now casually standing behind his brother with an amused smirk He leaned lazily on Lucien’s shoulder, resting his head there, grinning as he looked at him.

“You never let people finish their sentences, do you? Don’t you think that’s rude, brother?” he teased.

But Lucien didn’t flinch. Unbothered, he lowered his hand and straightened, his expression cold and unchanged as he repeated: 1

“Change back to Claude. I want to speak to him.”

Dervic chuckled at his words, leaning back and tilting his head slightly, his hand reaching up to rub his chin as though he were actually thinking.

“Hm, let me think about that,” he murmured under his breath, then grinned and raised his hand in the air. ” Sorry, but no. I don’t think Claude wants to change back just yet. Just a while ago, while I was strangling that girl, he was trying to shift. But now? He’s begging me not to because apparently, he knows you’ll beat the shit out of him.” (1

He shrugged as he said it, and the tension in the air thickened. Lucien turned to Dervic, stared him dead in the eyes, and gave a single nod.

“Okay then. I guess I’ll just beat the shit out of you.”

That was all he said before vanishing in front of me again. He reappeared right in front of Dervic, reaching out to grab him but Dervic, the fastest of the triplets, was already gone, now standing at the far end of the room with a wide grin.

“Pfft, you’re funny, Lucien. You might be the strongest in terms of physical strength, but don’t you think you’d have to catch me first before you can lay a hand on me?”

He stroked his chin just as Lucien appeared in front of him again and aimed a punch at his face. But Dervic vanished once more and my heart nearly dropped when Lucien’s fist went straight through the wall.

He actually punched a hole in my wall.

“But too bad,” Dervic shouted, full of wild excitement. “You can’t because I’m the fastest!”

And just like that, the two Alphas began appearing and disappearing in front of me like blurs. All I could do was watch in horror as they tore through my room, wrecking everything in sight.

M-my room…

My eye twitched as I watched my drawer crash to the floor, hattering on impact.

The Alphas were fighting in my room…

Was I terrified right now? Yes-definitely.

But was the pain of watching my room get destroyed worse than the fear?

Oh goddess, yes it was.

“P-please stop fighting…” I whispered, my voice barely audible. I could’ve sworn I almost shed a tear as Lucien

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punched another hole in the wall.

Ah.

My landlord was going to have my head.

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I could already imagine that old man walking in here and seeing this wreckage. I was sure he’d have a heart attack.

“Please stop fighti-”

My words trailed off when I suddenly felt something warm wrap around me. Instinctively, I stiffened and jerked my head up.

Silas.

He casually draped it over my naked body, then sat at the edge of the bed, legs crossed, a book in hand and a nonchalant air around him, as though nothing chaotic was happening.

I blinked at Silas, my breathing still heavy as he stared at the book in his hand and then turned it around, holding it up for me to see. When I did, I realized it was one of my books, the one from the shelf Lucien had just broken.

Silas tilted his head slightly, voice low and emotionless as he asked,

“What is it about? Is it any good?”

He sounded genuinely curious, and even as I flinched at something shattering beside me, he didn’t flinch, his eyes were still fixed on me, waiting for my answer.

Before I knew it, I swallowed hard and found my voice, even if it was shaky.

“I-it’s about a girl who starts working in a company… and the man in charge becomes obsessed with her. It’s a good story,” I whispered, stammering.

Even though I had no idea what was going on right now, I knew I had to answer.

“I see,” Silas muttered.

And you wouldn’t believe it, but he actually flipped to the front page and started reading, his gaze locked on the book

Once again…

My eye twitched.

That was the moment I finally understood why I shouldn’t have gotten involved with the Alpha triplets.

Crazy. That’s what they all were.

Crash!

I didn’t even bother to look at what had been broken, I knew I’d only cry inwardly if I did.

“Haha! Why are you so slow, Lucien? You should move faster! You’ll have to be a lot quicker if you ever want to catch me–”

“You know, Claude,” Silas cut Dervic off, voice sounding almost bored as he flipped to the next page, not even glancing at the chaos unfolding. “You didn’t have to break the pact we made in the first place. If you’d just been a bit more patient, waited an hour before running here, we would’ve told you we’d decided to make this girl an exception.”

As soon as Silas said that, Dervic froze.

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And in the blink of an eye, the white gleam in his eyes vanished, replaced by the familiar look of Claude.

The air shifted. I could feel it.

Claude had taken over.

“Wait-what?!” he screamed, stunned.

Silas looked up from the book and stared at him, tilting his head slightly.

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“We decided to make her an exception from the others… since we were all craving her anyway, right before you snuck out.”

I blinked, trying to process what he meant by that.

But neither Claude nor I had a second to react because Lucien suddenly appeared in front of him, and his fist connected hard with Claude’s face.

Claude cursed under his breath as he flew across the room, crashed into the wall, and dropped to the floor.

My eyes widened.

But Lucien didn’t give him a second to recover.

He walked up to him, grabbed him by the shirt, yanked him close, and muttered under his breath,

“Caught you, bastard.”

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