Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 215

Chapter 215: Kael’s Frustration

"Your father’s name is in three threads now. People are connecting things. Someone found his Beta record and they’re putting it next to...." Wren stopped. "I think you need to know that whoever is doing this knows exactly what they’re doing. This isn’t gossip. This is deliberate."

Lilith said nothing.

Outside a group of pack members crossed the courtyard below. One of them looked up at her window, and then looked away again quickly.

They all did that now.

Looked and then looked away, like she was a plague they needed to avoid.

"Lilith." Wren’s voice was different now. Quieter. "What’s happening there. Really."

Lilith looked at her hand that’s her lap, which looks pretty normal to her.

"I can’t tell you everything yet," she said. "Not on the phone."

"Okay." Wren didn’t push. She never pushed. Just left doors open and waited. "Okay. But I need to know you’re safe. just tell me that you are safe"

"I’m safe, Wren" Lilith replied.

"Something in your voice is different," Wren said.

Lilith didn’t answer that.

"I’ll come Friday," Wren said. "Like we talked about. We’ll sit somewhere and you can tell me as much as you want and I won’t push for the rest."

"Wren...."

"I’m coming Lilith. Don’t argue with me."

"Okay i’ll be expecting your call on Friday," Lilith said.

"Okay that’s settled then, But then Lilith....whoever is pushing this post. They’re building something. I don’t know what yet but they’re building it deliberately and they want people to see it, you have to be very careful."

***

After the call ended.

Lilith sat there with the phone in her hand.

Looked at the courtyard below.

Then she looked at her throat in the window’s reflection.

The mark was there. Faint in the glass, still looking red with the bruised skin still raised.

She needed to tell Nicholas about the post immediately.

Nicholas’s Pov

He looked up.

She was standing outside his door.

He hadn’t heard footsteps, hadn’t heard anything at all...he’d simply looked up and there she was, a shape through the frosted glass panel, completely still, not knocking. Kael went silent. Not calm.....silent, the way an animal goes silent when it’s holding its breath, when one wrong move is all there is between stillness and something it can’t take back.

Nicholas set his pen down.

She still didn’t knock. He could see her outline through the glass, not moving, not leaving either, hand half raised and suspended somewhere short of the door, and he sat there for a moment watching her stand in that particular suspension before he pushed his chair back and stood and crossed the office in four steps and opened the door.

She was exactly as he’d seen her through the glass...hand half raised, almost knocking, her eyes coming up to his face and then dropping immediately to somewhere around his collarbone, and something moved through his chest that he didn’t really understand.

He’d been waiting two days for this. He didn’t trust himself to say anything complicated.

"Come in, Lilith," he said.

She nodded and entered the office.

She didn’t sit. She just stood in the middle of his office looking at the map on the wall, at the desk, at the window, anywhere that wasn’t him, and he went back to his desk and sat and watched her.

The way she was holding herself slightly too still. The way her hand came up once toward her throat and dropped before it reached there. She felt the bond....even without a wolf she felt it, and it was overwhelming her, and she didn’t know what to do with that. He knew exactly what it was because Kael was doing the same thing on his side of it, barely breathing, terrified that one wrong move would send her back down the corridor.

"Is there anything you need, Lilith," he asked.