The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 40: Fighting Over Me

Scarlett’s POV

I froze.

The ringing in my ears grew so loud it drowned out everything—even the wind rustling through the trees.

His woman?

I slowly lifted my head to look at Ethan, searching his face for any sign that this was a joke.

But there was nothing.

His profile was calm. Cold. Unreadable.

​"What?" Alpha Lennox choked out, the word sounding like it had been physically punched out of him. His face shifted from rage to confusion. "Ethan, you cannot be serious."

​"I said what I said," Ethan replied, his voice authoritative. He didn’t look at the triplets, though I could feel their collective rage radiating off them like a furnace. "I bought Scarlett’s contract when she was being auctioned. Technically, she belongs to me. And since I am staying here for the next few days..."

​He paused, his grip tightening around my waist as he pulled me flush against his side. The heat of his body was overwhelming, making my head spin.

stays here.

where Ethan’s hand rested on my hip. Leo’s claws were fully retracted, but his hands were shaking so hard I thought he might shift right there

this," Leo snarled, his voice full of rage. "She’s not... you

know

shouted, stepping forward, but Ethan’s Obsidian guards instantly shifted, their hands

turned his back on them, dismissing the most powerful men in the territory as if they were nothing more than annoying boys. He began to

called out, his voice full of anger. "Ethan,

his shoulder. "As for Scarlett, consider her debt to this pack paid in full by the five hundred

three pairs of eyes burning into my back. I wanted to turn around. I wanted to scream that I wasn’t anyone’s "woman." But as the massive oak

until we were in the center of the grand foyer. He let go of my waist, but the heat where he had touched

whispered, my voice finally returning. "Why

respond, the massive oak doors suddenly burst

Before I could even blink, he was in

his grip tight as he snatched my arm and yanked me away from Ethan’s side. I stumbled, gasping as I was pulled flush against Leon’s chest. "We’re paying you double.

tightly I could feel the thundering rhythm of his heart. "Scarlett is not yours,"

the same man who had turned his back on me for two years, yet now he was holding me

didn’t even look angry. He remained terrifyingly calm, slowly straightening the cuffs

his head toward the

voice calm and composed. "Please tell your sons to return Scarlett to me. I don’t want to have to shed blood in my grandfather’s house