All Chapters of Triple Temptation: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The Omega comes back, but not to save them.Theon Vale's voice was chill and heavy with a heart-stopping finality as he cried out in the room of the Council Hall. Rhea remained at the center of the Circle of Authority, bound with her hands, her body quivering with a mix of exhaustion and defiance. Theon sat upon his throne, his face a grim mask of power, his eyes fixed upon her like a predator.The corridor was filled with the scents of a thousand wolves. The atmosphere was thick with tension, with fear, with deep, abiding hatred. Her people, her pack, were there to see her judged. They were there to see her fall."Darius Blackmaw, the traitor Alpha," Theon sneered. "He says you are his Luna. He says you are his queen. He says you betrayed your pack, your mates, your home. What do you have to say to these accusations, Omega?"Rhea looked at her comrades. Ash, his face in a grim mask of anger and sorrow. Zane, his prankster smile replaced by a cold, icy gaze. Kai, his mind a sharp knif

"Your friendship with your friends, Rhea. It is a leash."Darius's voice rumbled in a low growl, thunder in the stillness of the war room. He stood at the window, his back to her, a shadowy figure against the moonlit fields. The air was thick with the scent of his power, the mixture of pine and smoke and something wild and untrammeled.Rhea, her breast a frantic drumming against her rib cage, stood by herself in the center of the room. The Mark of the Queen, a pulsating, see-through shroud of light, burned on her forehead, a sore reminder of her power. Her mates had departed. They had been summoned to the front lines, to fight a war they were losing. She alone was left with her enemy."They don't see you," he told me, his words dripping with a hard, cold reality. "They see an icon. They see a tool. They see a trophy. They see a Luna Omega. They don't see Rhea. I see Rhea."She was struck with a wave of doubt. He was right. Her pack, her mates, her existence, they all saw her as a tool

"What do you mean, you killed him?"My voice was a hoarse whisper, the words barely audible over the crackling fire in the hearth. The fire's dancing flames threw long, flickering shadows across the faces of my four alphas, but I saw just one. Ash. His face was a mask of granite, the same face he used when he pretended I did not exist."I didn't want to," he replied, his voice empty, devoid of emotion. "It was an order.""An order from whom?" I demanded, clenching my fists. "Theon Vale?"He was silent, his grey eyes unfathomable. But the silence was an answer in itself. The pieces of my past, the pieces of a life shattered by tragedy, were slotting into position. My father, Calix Mooncrest, dead in a hunting accident. My mother, Lira, dead in a rogue attack a few months later. The Alpha Council, so eager to offer sympathy, to take over."You stood there," I accused, my voice rising. "You watched my father die. You watched my mother grieve. You said nothing.""I was a boy," Ash snapped

"We don't have food. We don't have water."The gentle voice was that of Suri, a small Omega with eyes that were wide with fear. My sister, brother, and I huddled close to a meager fire, the flames casting leaping shadows on our faces. We were in a small cave, one that was well concealed on the lands of the Thornhide Pack. It had taken weeks since I had departed the Silverfang Pack. Weeks ago that I had been out of touch with my Alphas. Weeks ago that I had been part of a family.I was a Wolf Without a Pack. An unhomed queen. I had found Suri a few days back, hungry and homeless. She had been exiled from her pack for a blunder that she did not want to share, a secret that had destroyed her soul. I had also found Elya Thornfield, a former Omega of the Thornhide Pack. She was the one who had led me to this cave, a refuge for misfits such as ourselves. She was a stoic woman, taciturn and towering, her face a scowl of weary determination.I know where," I said to him, my throat sore. "My f

The city is ready. The Thornhide Pack and the Blackrock Rogue armies stand at my command," Rhea declared, her voice steady and unwavering. She stood on a rocky outcropping, her cloak lashing in the wind. At her feet were thousands of wolves, a brown and black sea of fur, waiting for her command.Darius Blackmaw, Rogue Alpha, stood beside her, his gaze full of a restrained reverence. "We are ready to follow our Queen. We are ready to take back what is ours."Rhea whirled to meet him, eyes dark with icy, hard resolve. "Theon's reign ends today. The Alpha Council's reign ends today. The Omega Laws will be eradicated. A new law will be written. A law of equality. A law of freedom."Darius knelt, head down. "We are yours, my Queen. We will fight for your freedom. We will fight for our freedom."Rhea's hand came out, her fingers cupping his jaw. "You are no longer an outlaw. You are my pack. My army."Darius looked up at her, his eyes meeting hers. "We are one, my Queen."Rhea nuzzled forwa