The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate

Chapter 244: Still Cold Towards Me

Leo’s POV

​It had been two days since Scarlett blocked our bond.

​Two days of absolute, freezing darkness. I couldn’t feel her. Nothing. No warmth, no sparks, no whispers in the back of my mind—just a massive, thick wall of solid ice. She had practically blocked me and Leonard out completely, locking her heart away where we couldn’t reach it.

​And my wolf? My wolf was going completely crazy. He was clawing at the edges of my mind, howling in pure agony at the sudden silence. A fated mate’s bond wasn’t meant to be shut off like this. Without her presence, my chest felt like an empty, bleeding cavern. The silence was driving me insane.

​To make matters worse, she only talked to Liam. She didn’t break his mind link. She didn’t shut him out. Somehow, she was always with him—eating with him, training with him, looking at him with the same soft eyes she used to use for all of us. Every time I saw them together, a vicious wave of jealousy and grief nearly choked me. She was protecting the brother who sold us out, while Leonard and I were treated like the villains.

​By the time night fell on the second day, I couldn’t stay in my room any longer. The walls were closing in on me. The heavy silence was eating me alive.

​Driven by pure desperation, I left my room and marched down the hallway to her bedroom. My heart hammered against my ribs, heavy and painful, as I stood before her door. I took a sharp breath and knocked.

​A few seconds later, the lock clicked. The door swung open, and there she stood.

look excited to see me at all. There was no warmth in her eyes, no familiar spark of love. Through the wall she had built,

throat, my voice rough and cracked from the

the doorframe. Her gaze was steady, cold, and

​"What?" she asked.

for another second. Without waiting for an invitation, I stepped forward, forcing my way past her into

me, turning around to face me with her arms still crossed tightly over her chest. The

a step toward her. I hated how desperate my voice sounded, but the pride of an Alpha meant nothing when my mate was treating me like a stranger. "Please. Just lower the wall.

decided to treat me like an enemy in front of the whole pack.

made the hot, ugly jealousy flare up in my blood

you say that?" I snapped, my fists clenching at my sides. "We almost died out there, Scarlett! The facts point straight to him. And yet, you spend every single second with him. You eat with him, you train with him... do you even look at Leonard and

yourself!" Scarlett yelled, her cold mask finally breaking as anger flashed in her eyes. "Liam is your brother! He is hurting just as much as you are, but instead of acting like a family, you and Leonard are acting like monsters. Liam is the only one using

completely losing control. I closed the distance between us and grabbed her by the shoulders, pulling her body

to calm down. I wrapped my arms around her waist, burying my face in the crook of her neck, begging silently for

​But nothing happened.

but she didn’t hug me back either. She stayed completely still, stiff as a board in my arms, like a statue of