บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha’s Secret Triplets: บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

Cindy’s POVThe silence of my bedroom was a lie.To Mom and Dad, I was just a girl sitting on her bed with her eyes closed. They saw a peaceful house in Oakhaven. Every refrigerator hum in the neighborhood sounded like a jet engine, every heartbeat in the house next door sounded like a drum.I leaned my head against the cool glass window, trying to find the one thread I’d hooked into earlier.Six hundred miles away.I let my breath out slowly, visualizing the sound as a silver wire stretching across the dark heart of the country. I bypassed the static of the local radio towers and the white noise of the highway traffic. I searched for the specific, filtered resonance of an air-conditioned room and the hushed, arrogant tones of men who thought they were invisible.“...the Alpha’s soul is a dead battery,” a voice hissed. It was sharp, like a razor blade. “But the children... the children are exactly what we need.”I shivered, as the cold from the window glass seeped into my skin. I cou

Zack’s POVI furrowed my brow, my confusion briefly overriding my desperation. "The mountain? What does that even mean? It's a rock.""The Silver-Crest house is built upon the bones of a sleeping god," the shaman explained, his voice growing solemn as he pointed to the granite wall behind him. "And the mountain is begging to be alive. It wants a voice, a heart. You, Zack... you can save your father’s life, but only if you make an oath to the mountain. You must promise to always appease it.""Appease it how?" I asked, finding the whole thing absolutely ridiculous. But my father's grey, lifeless face was burned into my mind, and I would have promised to jump off a cliff if it meant bringing him back."It will not need any appeasement for many years," the shaman said, his voice dropping to a whisper. "It will sleep, and your father will walk, and you will grow strong. But the moment the mountain starts demanding something from you... you must give it. “No matter what it asks. Do you und

Zack’s POV"I know!" I cried. "I know, Elena! I’ve lived with the guilt of it every single day!"A massive crack shattered the air. Colin’s wall exploded into a thousand fragments of flying stone. The Synthetics lunged through the gap, as their red eyes glowed in the dust, with their jaws wide.At the same moment, the ground beneath the triplets liquefied.The solid granite of the North Ridge began to turn into a swirling, hungry whirlpool of liquid black stone, pulling Colin, Cindy, and Caleb down. Caleb let out a terrified cry as the stone swallowed him up to his waist, his silver light violently being sucked down into the earth's crust."Mom! Dad!" Cindy screamed, her wind-shield collapsing as she sank into the ground. "It’s pulling us under! It’s heavy! It’s too heavy!"Elena lunged forward, trying to grab Cindy’s hand, but a Synthetic wolf cut her off, its titanium jaws snapped at her arm. She managed to dodge, but she was thrown back, away from the kids, pinned by the numerous s

Elena’s POVSoon enough, we arrived at Rashford territory; my childhood cage."Mom?" Cindy’s voice came from the back of the car seat. She had her knees pulled to her chest, her nose-canceling headphones resting around her neck. "The air... it feels thick. Like I’m breathing water.""It’s the swamp, baby," I said, my voice tighter than I wanted it to be. My hands were practically glued to the steering wheel, and my knuckles ached. "The water here absorbs the sound. It dampens everything. It’s... a quiet place."But it wasn't a peaceful quiet. It was the silence of a choked throat.In the rearview mirror, I saw Colin staring out the window at the dark, murky water flanking the road. The coppery glow in his skin had faded to a dull bronze. "The ground is soft," he muttered, his fingers twitching. "I can’t find a vein of iron or granite anywhere. It’s just mud. Decaying leaves. If I try to anchor us, the earth just... slips.""Don't try," I warned, my eyes darting to Caleb.My youngest t

Elena’s POVMy heart skipped a beat. “What does that even mean? What business do you have with Zack that you're being nice to us?“Zack saved me. That's all that matters,” Kael said, focusing on the road ahead.That piece of information didn't sit right with me. Even children felt the awkwardness as they exchanged wary glances.I didn't think any sort of explanation would justify Zack’s actions. He knew exactly how Kael abused me, how I ran for my life, and he still went ahead to help him? How?Or was Kael just making things up? I didn't know what to believe anymore.Zack had spent his life fighting the dark corners of the supernatural world. The idea of him saving a ruthless, parasitic sorcerer like Kael felt like a puzzle piece from a completely different set. But Kael refused to elaborate, his gaunt face hardened into an unreadable mask as he led us up the rotting steps of the Rashford Manor.The manor was just as I remembered it: a crumbling, grand structure of dark cypress wood,