The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 160: The Prophecy

Liam’s POV

​The walk to the study was the longest of my life. The silence in the hallway was heavy, broken only by the sound of our shoes against the floor. Our fathers, our mother—the woman I had wept for—and Scarlett’s parents walked ahead of us like nothing was wrong.

​I felt like I was walking through a nightmare. My skin felt too tight, and my wolf was pacing inside me, snarling at the back of my teeth. We stepped into the study, and the heavy oak doors clicked shut, locking us in with the people who had built a kingdom on top of a mountain of lies.

​"Sit down, sons," Father Louis said, gesturing to the leather chairs.

​"I’m not sitting," I snapped. My voice was raspy, vibrating with a rage I could barely contain. "I want answers. Now."

​Mother sat behind the desk, looking at us with eyes that were supposed to be comforting, but all I saw was a stranger. "We had to do it, Liam. We received prophecies, sons. I saw it countless times in my dreams, and we visited seers. Numerous ones. We traveled across the borders in secret, and they all kept saying one thing..."

​"And what did they fucking say?" I roared, slamming my fist into the doorframe. The wood cracked under my strength. "What could possibly be worth five years of mourning? What could be worth the lives of the people we thought were hanged?"

​I looked at Scarlett’s parents. They stood by the window, looking guilty but remaining silent. Every time I looked at them, I saw Scarlett’s face the morning she watched them being executed. I saw the way her eyes went dead when she watched the hanging.

because of this lie!" I yelled, my chest heaving. "She spent years being the pack’s punching bag. She was mocked, abused, and humiliated because everyone thought her parents killed the Luna. And now... now she’s

had known, I would have protected her. I would have held her. Instead, I

voice dropping to a whisper. "The prophecy stated that the three of you—the triplet Alphas—would fight and eventually kill

that followed

too strong, and your desire for her was too chaotic," she continued, looking up at us with tears in her eyes. "They said the jealousy and the power struggle between the three of you would lead to a civil war that would

room went dead silent again. The air felt like it was made of smoke, pressing down on my lungs until every breath was a

with a coldness that made the temperature in the study drop. "What did you

prophecy was clear. It said you three were becoming so possessive of Scarlett that the obsession would turn

a harsh, dry scoff, shaking my head in total disbelief. "This is

remember? The way you would argue over who got to sit next to her, who got to walk her home, who got her attention. You hardly ever wanted to share her. Even as

want to share!" Leo snapped, stepping into the center of the room like a

refusal to give an inch. It was only going to get

I yelled, my voice booming against the walls. The rage was so hot in my throat I felt like I was choking. "That was not your place to decide! You should have told us! You should have laid the truth out and let us decide

who had been eerily quiet this whole time, slowly turned his gaze toward Scarlett’s parents. They were standing near the corner, shadows clinging

time. From the sidelines, you watched your only daughter go through years of pure agony. You watched her get mocked. You watched her get beaten down and humiliated. And for what? She died, Zane. She died in pain,