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.

my voice sounding like it came

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

to be

touch her one last

her lips trembling. "I told you...

gripped my glass so hard the silver ring on my finger bit into my skin. "I gave

began to undress while I forced myself to look

of her bare skin still reached

Warm. Floral. Alive.

pulsing with the heat

My nostrils flared.

I turned my head.

stood there naked, her shoulders

Then I saw it.

blooming against

My stomach dropped.

A hickey.

inside

glass onto the table with a heavy thud

pacing inside my skull and howling with possessive

so close I could feel the heat radiating from her small body. I reached

even a whisper anymore. It was a low, vibrating growl that came from deep in

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

me!" I yelled. The sound bounced off the stone walls, loud

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

man anymore. I was a predator, and my territory had

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