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3rd POV.
Kyle, Kieran, and Kade are in media.
The brothers go to their study room, left stunned by the effect that a common girl, and a witch at that, had on them.
From recollection, the way their hearts had taken a beat, something that hadn’t happened in a very very long time. One can say they’ve even forgotten what it means to have adrenaline or other anxiety hormones run through their veins. It is distressingly for them.
A glass cup slams onto the table, raising Kieran’s and Kyle’s eyes at Kade. It is rather surprising that they’d ever see Kade in a non-collected way for the first time.
He’s only had everything figured out, calculated, and his facial expression is blank, but tonight, the side of his eyes wrinkles as his frown deepens and his fingers are twirling around the top of the glass cup. His brows are deeply furrowed with a wrinkle at the sides of his eyes, his jaw twitching from sides to sides. He remains lost in thought.
“Kade, are you okay?” Kyle asks and changes his position on the leather chair so he can properly face Kade.
Kade’s on the opposite side; his other hand rakes into his hair and grips the strands tight. His perfectly combed hair soon turns a bit messy, a few strands falling to his forehead.
“This is all your fault, Kyle. I can’t believe you put us in the mess, and you all messed things up even more. If you don’t have the guts to finish her off, you should have let me.” Kieran’s voice booms into the room as he charts his eyes between his two brothers. There is a fierceness in the tone he speaks with before he huffs and looks away for a second.
Kyle’s retort is almost audible until Kade spreads out his left hand at them, ushering them into silence and speaking as he stands up to his feet, leaving them rooted to the ground.
He begins with an unfazed tone. “We don’t have much of a choice here. I know we’ve always thought so; in fact, she’s even superior to the moon goddess, but if she’s decided to fuck with us now, she has messed up big time, and Kaya must suffer for the goddess’s errors.” As Kade declares, Kieran grins, his lips tugging tightly to the side.
Kade’s hands hide in his pockets. “We cannot afford to grow any form of sentiment towards that thing of a girl. She’s not even a she-wolf, but a witch! How absurd. So, yes, she must suffer for the errors in her fate. That is the only way we can distance ourselves from affection.”
Kyle clears his throat out of the blue, making Kade stop and drop his gaze on him. “So, I respect all the plans we’ve made so far, but think about how she affects our curses. There’s got to be something we have to understand about that. We can’t all be focused on punishing her for the affection she tries to arise in us without also working on that situation.”
“Yes, brother. You’ve said it well. We’ll work on understanding that part as well.”
“She might be using some witchy blah blah blah on us.” Kieran says with his back leaned against the recliner in the chair.
There is a little silence before Kyle laughs in a mild way and snorts it out. “I’m sorry, and brother, I love you, but trust me, don’t chime into this conversation. All your brain thinks of is mayhem, not how to make plans about something.”
“Fuck you, Kyle.” Spews Kieran, and he rolls his eyes at Kyle.
They grab each other and start to poke themselves in the stomach, gritting out their teeth as they laugh. Kade clears his throat just then. Shaking his head and slamming his hand into his face, he groans and sits back down.
“Are you both done being so stupid?” He asks and exhales a heavy breath.
“Yeah, bro.” In a simultaneous manner, they both say and sit down, still chuckling.
“Better.” Kade pauses and resumes. “So, we find out how she’s able to control and stop our curses; we know if she’s a gift we can harness, or maybe just nothing but a sex toy anyway.” Kade thinks he has finished until Kyle chuckles in a weird manner.
“Wait, I don’t understand. Are we taking a witch as one of our mistresses?” He darts his eyes towards Kieran. “That’s impossible. We cannot even afford to let anyone know that she’s a witch. They’d kill her right off before we could use her for whatever experiment we wanted.”
Kade’s voice tightens when he speaks, and his eyes are fixated on both of his brothers. “You both need to understand what’s important here; that’s us. Now, if we want to understand this situation, we have to keep her. She’s our mate, after all, and while that must be a secret between us, we must keep her by us, so no one can notice who exactly she is.”
He clears his voice and adds. “Our curses go as far back as forever now that I think of it, and being to her, I’ve never felt... whatever was that. And what is impossible here is how the moon goddess made us all have one mate, and she got to be a witch. So, yes, we make her our experiment, sexually, physically, and mentally.”
“I need a drink.” Kieran murmurs under his throat and goes to get himself a glass, and just as he turns back, the creaking sound of the door opening reaches their hearing.
Their mother, Emilie, peaks into the room before she frowns when she sees the triplets. “And why have you guys been hiding in here since forever?”
“Mother, we are sorry. The boys needed to have a particular conversation. We are sorry for keeping you waiting. How’s your celebration going?” Kade says with an official voice. His lips parts a little to form a small smile.
“Well, I need you guys to walk me up the middle stage to make my speech, but here you all are, having...is it about a girl the three of you want to fuck at once? I told you guys to stop that already. It’s embarrassing.”
“No, it’s called you being old-fashioned already, mother.” Kyle retorts with a sarcastic laugh, sounding quite hysterical.
“And now, I’m getting insulted by the boys that I raise.”
“Bother not, Mother. I have them under my control. Let’s go to your party.” Kade demands before he walks to their mother and hooks his arm with hers.
Her smile grows far more than elegant, after which he spreads out his other hand for her to proceed. “After you, mother.”
“Thank you.”
Then, his orbs turn to his brothers, squeezing them at Kyle and Kieran. They get the gesture and clear their throats, clearing any wrinkles in their shirt before they join Kade and their mother.
“By the way, I heard something about a witch in the kingdom. There’s no way that is possible, is it?” Their mother asks and makes eye contact with Kade.
If there’s a hint of surprise in his comportment, he doesn’t show it. His lips curve upward and state, “As you said, you heard, not saw. So, of course, you should know that’s absurd. If such a thing were to even occur, my brothers would have finished her.”
Kade’s tone rides smoothly, which causes Kieran and Kyle to look at each other.
The triplets have always had their three minds portrayed as one, which has gotten them closer than ever before. Their plans are more important to them than anything else, and they’d protect it just so they could find out the mystery behind what the moon goddess planned.
They’ve never been the type to “give a fuck” about the rules of being a werewolf, and that’s why they don’t also believe in the mate bonds, but with Kaya in the scene, perhaps things might begin to change for them.
As they walk their mother, they know this is just the beginning of something new they’ve never faced before in their lives.
5Kaya’s POV.I wake up to my senses informing my brain of a pain in my neck as I ruffle on a strange bed that I can’t remember when I climbed.It is indeed morning, and the sun has settled into the room, beaming in heat, causing me to yank off the duvet from my body.And just then, my brain reels back to what happened yesterday.I gasp as my face lights up in fear and my body involuntarily falls off the bed. It is as though time stopped for a second, ensuring that I remembered the horrors I’ve faced so far in this place.Grabbing myself with my palms to sit up, my eyes wander around the room, finding it all strange and simple.The interior decor isn’t anything too fancy, seeming like that of a dormitory for the royal college Werewolf kids.Standing in the middle of the room, accessing all that my eyes can scan, the hair at the back of my head stand at the sudden sound of the door opening.Snapping my head there, my breathing hitches as a figure walks in but when I see that it’s Melis
6 Kaya’s POV. The Triplets in media. My face is devoid of any emotion by the time Melissa and I arrive in the dining room. On the table, my sight catch the many fancy foods spread from one end to the other. The eclectic choices make me crave food, and I am now realizing how hungry I am. I haven’t eaten anything since yesterday, and considering all that has happened to me, there’s no way I could have gone hungry. I wish there was a way that I could get out of here. I don’t want to do these things, but instead, I want to be in my own house, reading a book while picking on the bad cookies that my brother made and watching as my father destroys the house while he claims that he is inventing something new. And only Williams and I would be the ones to applaud him when he finishes creating them. My lips almost tug up in a smile at the distant memory, which does make me feel like I wasn’t here anyone until I hear Kyle’s voice. “Kaya, you’re here. And you’re so beautiful.” He gasps at
7 Kaya’s POV. Kieran is boring his eyes into mine, which are widened out of fear. He’s acting like a monster with the way his jaw is twitching and his fingers are taking off some buttons on his shirt. Then he comes close to me and wraps off all the content on the table with his hands, his impatience obviously running thin. My breathing heightens with each barbaric action of his, my chest roving up and down right before he grabs each side of the chair that I’m sitting on and he speaks, his face inches away from mine. “You’re a toy here, an item, meaningless and disposable. You must understand that the hard way. My brother has attempted to go easy on you; has he not?” His voice is filled with malice, and in his eyes, I see no remorse. It’s like all he sees me as is a machine that he owns, and when it doesn’t do exactly what he wants, he punishes it. Grabbing me by my waist all of a sudden, he drops me onto the table. His hand has wiped off a frost from one of the cakes, and he li
8 Kaya’s POV. The silence treatment that comes from Melissa is beginning to feel more of a punishment now, and I don’t think I can bear it anymore. I don’t see any sympathy in her eyes towards how much I have suffered tonight, as she just moved swiftly around the room, preparing me for the night based on the triplets orders. Oh, goodness, mentioning their names even now is scary. A chill runs down my spine at the thought of it. Melissa clears her throat to call me back to life. As I blink up at her, she spews. “Your bath is waiting.” “No, I can’t take that bath. Who knows what will happen? Those guys are psychopaths. We really need to find a way out of here.” I want to say more, but when Melissa grabs me around the cleavage of the tattered gown, pulling me up to my feet so that my eyes pop out in fear of what she’s about to do, she shakes her head in disapproval. Before my brain can think of what she’s about to do, she sweeps me to the wall, making my back hit against it. Then,
9 Kade walks into the room with Kyle and Kieran behind him. On landing on his brothers, a squint forms at the side of his eyes, and instantly he gives entrance to his mind so his brothers can connect with him internally. With a smile on his face, when their uncle Jared sees them, he speaks inwardly. “Let me do most of the talking. There’s something fishy with Uncle.” Kieran takes a seat on one of the leather chairs, bringing his legs up to his uncle’s desk before he crosses his arms over his chest and stares ahead into nothingness. He looks like he isn’t in the mood for any of the conversation. Kade, on the other hand, has assumed every reason why their uncle has called them for a conversation, and he is assured that it’s related to Kaya. As their uncle clears his throat, Kyle makes his way to a small bar inside the room and opens a bottle of whiskey, which he gulps down into his throat. “Now, tell me guys, what was that nonsense I saw earlier in the dining room?” There’s a dar
10 Kaya’s POV. There was a time in my life when the rise of sunlight was a joy I could not fathom. It felt like a part of me that I always cherished. I would have woken up early, mesmerized by my thoughts, which were beautiful then. I’d run up the ladder to the roof of the cottage and watch as that yellow vibrance landed on my skin. Having watched as my skin glows, I’d smile and appreciate nature for creating such beauty in the midst of the darkness that lurks in this world. But now, here I am, lying on the bed with my eyes closed as I feel the rays of the sunlight beaming onto my skin. Yet, I do not stand up. I cannot bring myself to be happy about anything because my life is no longer mine. I am crush and doom from the moment that the people left in my love life were murdered by the ones who captured me. They’ve left me to be nothing. Suddenly, I reverse from the depths of my thoughts when I hear someone clear their throat. My eyes snap open, and my body bolts up from the bed.
11 Kaya’s POV. It is a dead end with the brothers. I have come to realize that. They want to destroy me totally, and maybe I should just allow that. But they won’t kill me. Would I be in excruciating pain forever? I’m not that kind of girl. I never thought that’s what fate has in store for me. A few weeks ago, my imagination of what the future holds was wild. I thought of a world where I am not exactly judged for who I am, where I don’t suffer for my kind of breed, but thinking of the reality that I live in now, perhaps I had asked wrongly. Perhaps I should not have wished for a better life. Maybe that way, I would still have a brother who keeps disturbing my life and a father who dreams of a world where invention reigns. “Your dress is here.” Blinking rapidly, I come alive to the voice of Melissa. She pats the side of the bed where she has placed the cloth before a smile emits from her lips. My eyes shift to the gown in a wrapped nylon bag, and upon opening it, my lips part o
12 Kaya’s POV. The ride has been going on for God knows how long, and it’s now tiring. My ass cheeks hurt from sitting in one position for the past half an hour that I’ve been inside this space. The triplets don’t say anything to me, which I’m glad for because I don’t think I can even hold a conversation. . Yes, I am still traumatized by what happened earlier. I thought Kieran was the only one capable of doing what Kade did, but then, thinking about it, Kade never showed me who he was. What am I even saying? None of the brothers have shown me their all. I don’t know what else they’ve got up their sleeves. Anyway, taking that off of my mind in the meantime, I have watched the beauty of the road as we passed by. It’s alluring how it’s filled with people beautifying nature, except those people are vile—they are werewolves. At this point, I am coming to the conclusion that all werewolves are cruel, uncultured, and savage. All of their eyes that have ever been placed on me reveal