The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 19: Who Was It?

​Leon’s POV

​The liquid in my glass was the only thing keeping my wolf from clawing its way out of my chest.

Tomorrow was the anniversary of my mother’s death, and the air in the packhouse already felt like a funeral.

But it wasn’t just the memorial that was making my skin crawl.

It was the girl standing in front of me.

​I could smell the fever coming off her in waves. It was sweet, like lilies and honey, but laced with a sharp, metallic tang that made my teeth ache.

Her shift was coming.

And In less than three hours, she would discover we were mates.

Then I would have to reject her.

This was the day I had dreaded and anticipated the most. I wondered what her face would look like when she realized the truth. The shock in her eyes. The pain.

For a moment, I wished she wouldn’t get her wolf.

Yes, it was selfish.

If she never shifted, she would never know we were fated mates.

But that wish was already impossible. Her body was burning with the early signs of transformation.

She was shifting tonight.

it came

her. I couldn’t. If I looked at those tear-filled eyes, I might break. I might pull her into my arms

to

last time before she discovered the

she whispered, her lips trembling. "I told you... I

how you felt," I snapped. I gripped my glass so hard the silver ring on my finger bit into my skin. "I gave you an order,

and began to undress

the scent of her

Warm. Floral. Alive.

the heat

My nostrils flared.

I turned my head.

naked, her

Then I saw it.

blooming against the pale skin

My stomach dropped.

A hickey.

inside my

onto the table with a

forward, pacing inside my skull and howling with

could feel the heat radiating from her small body. I

this, Scarlett?" My voice wasn’t even a whisper anymore. It was a low, vibrating growl that came from deep in my chest. She

shadow swallowing her whole. She tried to turn away, to hide the hickey by covering it with her hand, but I was faster. I shoved her hands away from her neck. My wolf was screaming, pacing behind my

yelled. The sound bounced off the stone walls, loud enough to shake the glass of

heaving, her skin burning with the heat of her coming shift. She looked like she was breaking

didn’t even feel like a man anymore. I was a predator, and my territory