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!"

tried to grab Liam’s hand. This was the same hand that had touched me kindly only a few hours ago. But

sobbed, collapsing at their feet. "You know my parents. You know they would

looked down at me and glared at me with pain-filled eyes. "Touch me again," Leon said quietly, "and

a million jagged pieces as I looked at the three boys I had trusted

to the triplets. His voice was thick with grief as he addressed them. "Sons, you

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

the boys who had climbed through my window at midnight. Surely, for

mercy in their faces.

Leon said, his voice dropping to a rumble, echoing with the power of a future king.

Leon started,

Liam finished, his voice echoing

I felt the floor fall out from under me as the guards grabbed my

shrieked, reaching for the hem of his pants,

a split second, I saw a flash of the boy I loved, but then he

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

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

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