The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 19

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.

sounding like it came from

look at her. I couldn’t. If I looked at those tear-filled eyes, I might break. I might pull her into my arms and confess everything—my love, my obsession with her, the feelings I had buried for years while

I had to be the

touch her one last time before

trembling. "I told you...

hard the silver ring on my finger bit

she bowed her head and began to undress

her bare

Warm. Floral. Alive.

the

My nostrils flared.

I turned my head.

stood there naked, her shoulders

Then I saw it.

mark blooming against

My stomach dropped.

A hickey.

exploded inside my

slammed my glass onto the table with a heavy thud and

wolf surged forward, pacing inside my skull and

stopping so close I could feel the heat radiating from her small body. I reached out, my hand hovering over her

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

stepped into her space, my 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 ribs, demanding

off the stone walls, loud enough to shake

trembled, but no words came out. She stared at me, her chest heaving, her skin burning with the heat of her coming shift. She looked like she was breaking apart, caught between the pain of her first shift and the fury in my

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

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