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.

I said, my voice sounding like it came from the bottom of

tear-filled eyes, I might break. I might pull her into

I had to be the

last time before she

her lips trembling. "I told you... I don’t feel well. The

didn’t ask how you felt," I snapped. I gripped my glass so hard the silver ring on my finger bit into

and began to undress while I

her bare skin still

Warm. Floral. Alive.

the

My nostrils flared.

I turned my head.

stood there naked, her

Then I saw it.

purple mark blooming against the

My stomach dropped.

A hickey.

exploded inside

slammed my glass onto the table with a heavy thud

surged forward, pacing inside my

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

from deep in my chest. She flinched, her small hands flying up to cover her collarbone, her eyes wide and wet with

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

stone walls, loud enough to

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

didn’t even feel like a man anymore. I

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