All Chapters of The Triplet Alphas' Forbidden Mate: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

~Elara~I was the only twenty year old in the world who had never been properly kissed.Not properly anyway. Not the kind of kiss that made your toes curl and your brain go quiet. That was my only thought as I glanced nervously around the party that I'd been forced to attend.The freshman mixer was mandatory. Three hours of forced mingling in the student center while everyone around me laughed and flirted like it was the easiest thing in the world. I stood near the exit with a cup of punch, trying to find the easiest way to escape this loud party and go curl up in my bed.That wasn't until I felt heated eyes on me.The little hairs on my arms stood up. My heart started beating faster and I didn't understand why, not until I turned my head and met his eyes.He was standing across the room and he was staring at me like I was a hallucination he was trying to make sense of. His lips were parted and he looked almost pained, as if my existence was hurting him somehow.He was the most beau

~Elara~FIVE YEARS LATER… The road ahead was already blurring as the rain spattered furiously against my windshield. Headlights from oncoming cars floated through the darkness like angry eyes. I gripped the steering wheel tighter, my knuckles pale against the leather."Mommy."Lily's voice sounded tiny from the backseat. I glanced at the rearview mirror. My daughter sat strapped in her booster seat, her little hands clutching her stuffed rabbit."Yes, baby?""My tummy feels funny."My heart somersaulted into my stomach. I knew that phrase. I had heard it dozens of times before something bad happened."We're almost home, sweetheart. Just hold on for Mommy, okay?"The therapy session had been useless. Again. Dr. Bennett had smiled that patient smile and suggested increasing Lily's medication again as if the pills had ever done anything except make my daughter drowsy and confused.Five years. Five years of doctors who couldn't explain why Lily's eyes sometimes changed color. Five years

~Elara~It's been seven days since the accident. Seven days of proof that whatever had happened in the car and in the hospital was a fluke. A response to trauma. A one-time thing that would never happen again.Looking at her now, I could almost believe I had dreamed it all."And then Mr. Whiskers said he wanted pancakes but I told him rabbits don't eat pancakes, Mommy. They eat carrots. But he said he's a special rabbit so he can eat whatever he wants. Do you think that's true? Can special rabbits eat pancakes?"Lily's voice filled the car like sunshine. She bounced in her booster seat, her braids swinging with every animated gesture, her little hands painting pictures in the air as she described the elaborate breakfast conversation she'd had with her stuffed rabbit."Mommy? Are you listening?""Special rabbits can eat whatever they want, baby." I smiled at her through the rearview mirror. "That's what makes them special."She beamed at me, all gap-toothed joy and dimpled cheeks, and