The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 2: Traitors

​Scarlett’s POV

​"Lennox! Levi! Louis!" my father roared as the guards forced him to his knees. "Why are we in chains? What is the meaning of this?"

​Alpha Lennox stepped forward. He looked like a man on the brink of collapsing, but as an Alpha, he had to stay strong. "Last night, assassins broke into our chambers," he growled. "They slaughtered our Luna in her sleep. We killed two. The third we captured."

​Alpha Levi pointed to a man kneeling on the floor. His face was swollen, blood crusted around his mouth.

"Speak," Alpha Levi commanded.

​The man looked up trembling. "Beta Zane paid us," he rasped. "He promised gold. He said once the Alphas and the Luna were dead, he would take control. He serves the new Rogue King."

​"That is a lie!" my father roared. "I have been loyal to this pack for years!"

​"Silence!" Alpha Louis thundered, holding up the photographs. They showed my parents meeting a strange man in the dark woods. "Our guards have been watching you. That man is the new Rogue King, and you have been selling our secrets!"

​Everyone in the hall started screaming. They were all so angry.

​"No! Someone is tricking you!" I screamed. I ran past the guards. I ran to the triplets because they were my best friends. "Liam! Leon! Leo! Please help us!"

hand that had touched me

at their feet. "You know my parents. You

down at me and glared at me with pain-filled eyes. "Touch me again," Leon said quietly, "and I’ll have you buried beside

so tightly I could barely breathe. My heart ached, shattering into a million jagged

were bloodshot and filled with raw, agonizing pain, turned to the triplets. His voice was thick with grief as he

of those words crushed the remaining air from the room. My father didn’t stop fighting; he thrashed against the silver chains, his voice raw and loud. "I deserve a trial! I have served this pack for ten years! You cannot do this without a

and Leo, my eyes pleading, searching for even a flicker of the boys who had climbed through my window at midnight. Surely, for the sake of me—for the years we spent inseparable—they would pause. They would look into it. They would see

there was no mercy in their faces. Only

Leon said, his voice dropping to a rumble, echoing with the

Leon started, his

finished, his voice echoing through the hall like a guillotine blade.

from under me as the guards grabbed my parents, dragging them out

no!" I shrieked, reaching for the hem of his pants, but he stepped back.

I saw a

"We aren’t going to kill you. We’re going to make sure you live long enough to regret every

widened in fear, but I had no time to dwell on it as I ran after my parents, my heart hammering against my ribs. The guards dragged them toward the execution center in the middle of the pack square. I tried to reach for my mother, but a guard grabbed me, wrapping his thick arms around

I sobbed, kicking and