All Chapters of Triplet Alphas Want Me Back: Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

HaileyI got down four flights of stairs on a tremor and a locked jaw, and I do not remember any of it.Lucien had my good arm. Axel went ahead of us with two guards, and the healer came behind with her bag banging against her hip, cursing the stairs, cursing the pack, cursing me specifically for being out of bed.The cells under the east wing were older than the pack house above them. Stone laid by hands that had been dust for two hundred years; damp coming through the mortar; torches in iron brackets set too far apart so that you walked from light into dark into light again.I had been down here once, on the morning they took my father. I had got eleven steps before two warriors turned me around by the shoulders, and I had spent four years afterwards imagining the rest of it.Now I was going to see it, and it had nothing to do with him at all.Garrick, the warden, lay across the threshold of the guard room with his cheek in a puddle of spilled tea."Breathing," the healer said, knee

The healer gave me something bitter to drink, and I poured half of it into the wash basin while her back was turned, because I had four hours until first light and I intended to be conscious for all of them.At the fourth bell I dressed with one hand and Amanda's help."You should be in bed," she said, for the ninth time, kneeling to lace my boots.She tied off the second boot and sat back on her heels and looked up at me. She had been crying at some point in the night, and she had not asked me a single question about the cells."My brother says the eastern terrace has a gate that isn't locked," she said. "The groundskeepers use it. The third row is under the yew."I looked at her for a moment."Thank you, Amanda.""Bring me back," she said. "Whatever it is. Bring it back and let me be the one who knew first."They were waiting for me on the terrace steps in the grey before dawn, and there were three of them, and none of them had slept either.Axel had two shovels over his shoulder.K