The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 116

Chapter 116: The Threat

​Leon’s POV

​I sat in the dark of my study, the only light coming from the glowing embers in the fireplace. The smell of expensive bourbon and stale grief hung heavy in the air. For a week, we had lived in a waking nightmare.

​The woman standing across from me was the sixth seer we had brought to the mansion. We had flown her in from the northern mountains—a woman rumored to see things even the Moon Goddess tried to hide. I didn’t care about the cost. I didn’t care about the laws of the pack. I just wanted one of them to tell me a different story.

​"Tell me again," I pleaded, my voice sounding like broken glass. "Look deeper."

​The Seer, a blind woman with silver hair, shook her head slowly. Her milky eyes were fixed on a spot somewhere behind me. "Alpha, I have walked through the shadows of the spirit realm for hours. I have searched for the golden thread of the girl you call Scarlett."

​She paused, and the silence felt like a physical weight pressing on my chest.

​"The thread is gone," she whispered, her voice filled with a pity I wanted to rip out of her throat. "The soul has crossed the veil. There is no spark left in this world. Scarlett is dead."

​I threw my glass against the wall, watching it shatter into a thousand sparkling pieces. The same thing. Every single one of them said the same thing.

seven days, we had torn the North Woods apart. We had sent out three hundred warriors to comb every inch of the ravine. We found more evidence—more blood-soaked fabric caught on thorns, a silver locket she used to wear crushed into the dirt, and the undeniable scent of her that lingered in the damp earth. Every piece of proof was

to come inside. Leo was worse; he had locked

it was still there. It was a constant, aching reminder that I was half a man. I had spent two years treating her like

go," I told the Seer, waving a hand toward the door. "My Beta will see

out, my father, Sir Lennox, stepped into the room. He looked tired—honestly tired—but

pour himself a drink. "How many more do you need to hear

just a girl, Father," I snapped, standing up. My Alpha aura flared, but it felt weak, drained by

mate. Not while Liam and Leo were suffering the same way. I still believed they were just hurting because they loved her, or because they were mirroring my own mate-loss pain through our triplet

the border again today," my father continued, ignoring my outburst. "It’s fading. Soon, there will be nothing left

my brothers were dying inside, just like me. We were Alphas of the

I whispered, more to myself

expression didn’t soften. If anything, it turned to stone. He stepped fully into the room, his shadow

used when he wasn’t just my father, but a former Alpha. "I have already given the order.

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