Semua Bab CONSUMED IN THE TRIPLET ALPHAS' HEAT : Bab 51 - Bab 60

LIRAI woke up to pine and steel.The scent hit me before I even opened my eyes. My stomach did something strange and my wolf whined inside me.Kain.Kain. Kain was here. I kept my eyes shut because maybe this was a dream. It felt too real and that scared me more than anything.But someone was hovering over me.My eyes flew open.The bus station. Still under the bench. People nearby. Everything was blurry and I blinked hard.Kain. My heart kicked hard against my ribs. I jerked backward. The wall stopped me cold. I looked left. Guards .I looked right. More guards.They blocked every single exit. None of them looked happy. Their eyes said I was nothing but trouble.The cloak twisted around my legs when I tried to move. Kain's frown deepened. He never smiled much but this was different.Silence pressed down on us. I couldn't breathe right.He stood there, tall and dark-eyed and so real it hurt to look at him. I blinked because part of me thought he'd disappear if I did.He didn't.Dark

LIRAMorning crept through the window with fingers of pale light. The storm clouds had vanished overnight and left the sky scrubbed clean.Kain sprawled beside me with one arm thrown over his head, deeply asleep. That couldn't be normal for him. The way his brothers talked about him he barely rested on good days. I watched the morning light catching on his face. What comes next?The question circled but I stayed put. His breathing stayed steady so I shifted closer. Heat pressed against my thigh. Blood rushed to my face and I squeezed my eyes shut. Wetness pooled between my legs and embarrassment burned through me.Last night flashed back. The way he'd groaned when my period had stopped everything from going further.Kain had been ready to say to hell with consequences, but my body decided otherwise. He'd left sometime after. Came back with pads wrapped in brown paper and a tin of raspberry leaf tea.Last night I'd also noticed something else. Whenever he used the mind-link a low rumbl

Tova's words were supposed to calm me down. She'd said they wouldn't hurt me, that I was safe now. But I couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was coming.I lay on the bed now. It was softer than anything I'd ever touched. The mattress didn't creak or sag, and the sheets were heavy silk that slid cool against my bare legs.After the bath, the silence up here felt unnatural. No muffled chaos from the servant quarters. No distant clatter of pots from the kitchens. Just quiet.Moonlight spilled through the tall windows. A scented candle burned on the bedside table—beeswax, warm and faint.My heart pounded too loud in all that quiet.Peace felt wrong. After years of running, of being a slave, of threats and beatings—this calmness was dangerous.The door opened without a knock.I sat up fast, clutching the sheet to my chest.It was Riven.He closed the door behind him. The soft click of the lock made my stomach flip.My heart did that stupid thing where it raced not from fear, but f

JaxThe den ledgers were a fucking nightmare.I sat at my desk staring at the columns of numbers that refused to make sense. Housing allocations on the left. Food rations on the right. Repair costs scrawled at the bottom in someone's messy handwriting.The lamp beside me flickered. The oil was low. I'd forgotten to refill it again.I rubbed my eyes and went back to the numbers.Twelve families needed winter housing. We had nine units available. That meant three families would have to double up, and nobody wanted to double up because it meant sharing hearths and food stores and space that was already too small.The widows' fund was short by two hundred silver. Again. Because someone—probably Elder Terrin—had been skimming off the top. I'd deal with him later.And the Den kitchens were requesting more grain. More meat. More everything. Because we'd taken in fifteen refugees last month, and they all needed to eat.Kain was going to have my head.Not because he didn't understand. He did. B

LiraI woke up wrapped around Jax like he was the only solid thing in the world.His arm was heavy across my waist. His breath was warm against the back of my neck. The sheets were tangled around our legs, and I could feel every inch of him pressed against me.I should have felt trapped.I didn't.I felt safe.That was the strangest part. When I was with him, it was like the other two didn't exist. Not in a bad way. Just in a way that made my brain focus entirely on him. On his laugh. On the way he smelled like leather and pine. On how he made everything feel lighter.And then when I was with Kain, it was the same thing. All I could think about was him.Same with Riven.It was like my brain rewired itself depending on who I was with. The attraction and chemistry I felt for one of them would get so heightened that the other two would fade into the background until I saw them again.Maybe that was how the bond worked.Or maybe I was just broken."You're thinking too loud," Jax mumbled ag