The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 133: Seeing Things before they happened

Scarlett’s POV (One Year Later). Total of three years)

​The sun was high over the Nigerian mountains, beating down on the red earth of the combat grounds as I watched a group of teenagers practice their defensive strikes. My skin had darkened slightly from the long hours under the sun, and my muscles were lean and strong from constant training.

I wasn’t the fragile, broken girl who had arrived here in the middle of the night; I was a warrior, a healer, and a woman who had finally learned to stand on her own feet.

​"Keep your guards up!" I called out, my voice carrying across the field with a strength that surprised even me. "The moment you drop your hands is the moment you lose your life!"

​As they adjusted their stances, the cellphone in my pocket began to vibrate. I didn’t even have to look at the screen to know who it was. Only one person in the world had this number.

​"Continue the drill," I told the pupils, waving them off before walking toward the edge of the clearing to answer. "Hello, Ethan."

​"How are you doing, Scarlett?" Ethan’s voice sounded composed, but there was a tension in it that I hadn’t heard when we spoke earlier this morning.

​"I’m doing great, Ethan. I just finished a session with the new recruits," I replied, wiping sweat from my forehead. "But you didn’t call me back just to check on my training. What happened?"

​Ethan sighed, and I could hear him pacing on the other end. "I know we talked this morning, but I just received some information that couldn’t wait. As you know, the triplets’ parents and your own parents have been breathing down my neck for months, asking about you. As always, I’ve told them that you decided to disappear and that I don’t know where you are."

we still haven’t found out for sure who sent those masked men to my apartment in France. Until we have a name,

just mind-linked me with some massive news. Apparently, Aunt Olivia—the triplets’ mother—is planning to reveal that she is actually alive. She’s going

​I froze.

me to inform you," Ethan continued. "He said that with Olivia coming back, the danger is over. He thinks you can finally come out of hiding now because they are going to tell the triplets that you are

walking back into that packhouse, seeing the triplets with their marked wives, and

my voice as sharp as a blade. "Tell them I don’t want the triplets to know I’m alive. Not

sure? You

and I’m not ready for that," I said, looking out at the vast African horizon. "If Aunt Olivia wants to come back from the dead, she can have her moment. But I’m staying a ghost. We still don’t know who wanted me dead in Paris, and I won’t risk

to keep hiding?"

sparring in the distance. "Let them

sounding very worried. "Scarlett, you have to start living your real life. You

from all my hard work. "I am doing that right here. I am helping people, I am training, and for the first time, I can breathe. I don’t feel

you," he replied quietly. "But the world is getting smaller. I will

​"I will. Goodbye, Ethan."

my pocket. I took a deep breath of the warm air. I turned back to the field, ready to finish