The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 109: Were All Lies

​Scarlett’s POV

​The darkness finally began to clear, replaced by a dull ache behind my eyes and the sound of hushed voices nearby. My head felt heavy, like it was filled with wet sand.

​"She’s waking up," a woman whispered.

​The voice was like a ghost from a dream—silky, gentle, and hauntingly familiar. It was a voice I hadn’t heard in two years. A voice I had mourned every single day. A voice I never imagined I would hear again.

​I forced my eyes open. Everything was foggy at first, a blur of white walls and expensive wooden furniture. I blinked, trying to clear the chemical haze from my mind, and saw a figure sitting on the edge of the bed. As the image sharpened, my heart didn’t just race; it tried to leap out of my chest.

​"Luna Olivia?" I gasped, my voice coming out as a choked sob. I tried to jolt backward, but my limbs were still sluggish. "Am I... am I dead?"

​Luna Olivia reached out, her fingers cool and soft as she brushed a stray hair from my forehead. She looked exactly as I remembered—beautiful, regal, and very much alive. "You aren’t dead, Scarlett. And neither am I."

​"No," I whispered, shaking my head violently. "No... this is a lie. A trick. Who are you? A shapeshifter? A hallucination?"

your painting wouldn’t dry in time to show the triplets before they left for their trip, and I sat with you in the

private moment between a girl and the woman who was like a second mother to her. "You’re alive," I breathed, the shock hitting me hard. "But if you’re alive... then my

drifted toward me. It wasn’t the chemical smell of the guards or the spicy scent of

it swung open. My breath hitched. My mother and father walked in, looking healthy, vibrant, and dressed in clothes that looked like

of the bed, my weak legs barely holding me up. "It’s not real! I saw the platform! I saw the ropes! I saw you

my mother whispered, her eyes brimming with tears. "It’s really

heart. They looked so beautiful. My father didn’t look like a broken prisoner; he looked like a high-ranking lord. Behind them, the room suddenly felt crowded as Sir Lennox, Levi, and

his voice deep and commanding. "You have questions.

were loose, Scarlett. We arranged everything with the executioner beforehand. The bodies that were buried... they weren’t your

"Why?" I whispered. "Why would you put me through that hell? Why let me live as a traitor’s daughter

her expression full of guilt. "Scarlett, three years ago, a prophecy came. It wasn’t just told by one seer, but by many. They all saw the same

the weight of the words sink in. "It is natural for triplets to share a mate, but the seers said these three were different. Their wolves are too dominant, their possession too dark. They said if you became

added, "was to make sure the bond never formed. We had to make them hate you, and we had to make you hate them. We knew the triplets loved you too much to ever hate you for no reason. So we planned my death. We framed your parents for treason and forced the triplets to order the execution themselves. We wanted the blood of your parents to stay on their hands so you would never, ever accept them