The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 196: The Shocking Realisation

​Scarlett’s POV

​The air in the room was so thick with Alpha pheromones and the heavy smell of blood that I could barely draw a clean breath. Liam’s hands were still cupping my face, his thumbs wiping away a stray tear I didn’t even know had fallen. He was staring at me like he wanted to swallow me whole, to hide me away inside his chest where no one else could ever look at me.

​"We are taking you home," Liam said. It wasn’t a question. It wasn’t an invitation. It was a final decree, spoken with the absolute authority of a supreme Alpha who had just reclaimed his most prized possession.

​"No," a trembling voice cut through the heavy silence.

​We all turned. Chen was standing up, his legs shaking so badly he had to hold onto the edge of a broken wooden cabinet just to stay upright. His face was completely white, but there was a desperate, stubborn bravery in his human eyes.

​"You can’t just... take her," Chen stammered, looking directly at Liam. "She doesn’t want to go with you. Look at her! She’s terrified of you!"

​Leonard let out a dark, low growl that vibrated right through the floorboards. He took a predatory step toward Chen, his claws flexing. "Shut up, human. You have no idea who she belongs to. If you say another word, I will rip your tongue out."

​"Leonard, stop!" I cried out, finally breaking away from Liam’s tight grip. I rushed over and threw myself in front of Chen, shielding him with my own body. "Don’t touch him! He has nothing to do with this!"

​Liam’s gold eyes narrowed into dangerously sharp slits as he watched me protect another male. The possessive rage rolling off him was suffocating.

​"You are protecting him?" Liam whispered, his voice dangerously quiet. "After five years of leaving us to rot in our own grief, you are standing in front of a human, defending him?"

my eyelashes. "And I didn’t leave you because I wanted to hurt you! I left to save you from the prophecy! But you don’t care

fury, Leo stood slightly back in the shadows. His face was full of pure conflict. He looked at the blood on the floor, then at me, and then at his brothers. He knew the real truth. He knew I had been alive for two years... If

in front of Chen. I wiped the tears from my cheeks and looked at the triplets. "You have seen me. You know I am alive, and you can see

eyes flashing with possession. "If you think we crossed the entire

coming with you!" I shouted back, taking a step away from them. "I built a life here. I am done letting

of pure anger and deep pain. He pointed a blood-covered finger at the dead assassin on the

what just happened?!" Leonard yelled, his voice cracking with emotion. "People are literally after your life, Scar! They just stormed a highly secured mansion

water, but before I could think of a reply, he took another step forward, his Alpha presence locking me in

the human world," Leonard said, his tone dropping into a desperate, possessive command. "You are coming with us, Scarlett. We are not letting you stay

the floor. Leonard’s words were totally true, and they felt like a bucket of ice water poured over my head. I was unprotected here. The human world couldn’t save

open my mouth to answer him, a

blood, his hand slowly crept toward his belt. He pulled out a small, hidden pistol and pointed

out!"

happened in a split

Moving together as one single unit, all three of them threw their large bodies right in front of me, completely blocking me from the gun. Their Alpha auras exploded into the room at maximum power,

​Bang!

the bullet just ricocheted off Liam’s heavy leather jacket as he dove forward, completely crushing the assassin’s skull into the

front of me like a solid wall of muscle and bone. They had put their lives on the line without a single thought, completely driven by their primal instinct