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!"

same hand that had touched me kindly only a few hours ago.

my parents. You know they would never

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

so tightly I could barely breathe. My heart ached, shattering into a million jagged pieces as I looked at the three boys I had trusted

triplets. His voice was thick with grief as

room. My father didn’t stop fighting; he thrashed against the silver chains, his voice raw and loud. "I deserve a trial!

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 the holes in the

in their faces. Only

his voice dropping to a rumble, echoing with the power of a future king. He didn’t even

is..." Leon

are to be hanged," Liam finished, his voice echoing through the hall

felt the floor fall out from under me as the guards

pants, but he stepped back. "Leon! Leo! Look

a split second, I saw a

of the pack. "We aren’t going to kill you.

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 my waist

Please, no!" I