42Kaya’s POV.I’ve wondered and wonder even more what the future holds for me. Every time that I get hurt by these bastards, I think it’s the worst that could ever happen to me until a much more hurtful event occurs.Raising my gaze, my insides burst into another fragment of tears, rushing to the outside, and I can’t control it.I’m hiccuping; my nostrils are wet and running with mucus. I can’t even bring myself to clean it off. Talk about my face?It’s all wet from tears. They’d dry, and I’d hiccup for some time before, again, I would start crying.I wish I could just die, but no, these bastards want me to suffer. And, coming to think of it, what did I ever do to them? What was my offense?That’s what pains me more. What did I do? What was my offense? Did I ever hurt any of them? Or is this some curse that is bestowed on me that I must continuously get punished by these bastards?I wish they could rot in hell. I wish they could get crushed within the wind, and I’d never have to see

443RD POV.Kade turns his back to his uncle when he reaches the arc, where he has rested his left arm, his eyes fixated on the ground. “You didn’t have to interrupt like that, Uncle. By the way, the reason you’re here is invalid.”“What have you all become?” Jared’s eyes shift from Kieran to Kyle, then lastly to Kade’s back. His mind is spiraling out of control, unable to comprehend the thoughts going through the triplets’ minds. “Have you really thought I’d allow things to go as easily this time around?”“What do you want?” Kyle chimes into the conversation, altering the motive for Kade to speak back.“I have said it many times. The girl must be killed. It seems she has had her presence rooted in your minds. The three of you have lost your minds.”Kade flips to face his uncle, his face lowered so he’s gazing through his lashes, and his voice is a low rumble, cold and toneless, “that is no way to speak to your Alpha, uncle.”“Only if it was the alpha I raised.”“And what are you tryi

46 Kaya’s POV. “Has there been any proclamation since our neighboring packs sent their letter of declaration?” Kade asks, chewing an apple in his mouth. His other hand is drawing at his chevon beard. Kieran shakes his head, “not another since then.” “And what else are we to be prepared for?” Kieran responds again, his voice a bit tightened. “For now, I have prepared the commanders to build a campsite at the borders linking us with the other five kingdoms.” “That sounds like everything that we need for now while we await their preparedness.” As Kade speaks, one can tell there’s a suspicion in his tone. Something is going on that contrasts his spoken words. “And why do I feel like there’s about to be a but in there?” Kieran observes as well.&nb

48 3RD POV. The sound of the horses whining soars into the wind, their stallion thumping and grazing into the field as the brothers ride three of them to the private camping site that they’ve created for the upcoming war. It is situated close to the borders leading their territory with the five neighboring packs. Since the five neighboring packs are working together, it is only common sense that they’d attack together, so that is the best place to have their camping site built. The brothers alight from the horses, and while the squires close by take over, they walk into the tent of their two commanders, who are planning the war strategy. “Tell me, soldiers. What’s the plan?” Kieran speaks the moment he walks into the room, breaking into the ongoing conversation between both commanders. Their attention shifts over to the brothers,

50 Kaya’s POV. I’m lying on the bed with my hands entwined as they rest on my stomach. My back is against the bad with my orbs counting the ceilings. By now, I know practically all details about it. But that is of no matter, anyway. Ever since the event at the triplets’ room, I have locked myself in here, fearful of what they have become. It’s one thing to know they are my archenemy but to know that it is coming from a place of sadistic love is nothing I never could have imagined. It scares me more than they like me so much that they would kill anyone or go against even their mother and uncle or fire their sex slaves from the kingdom or fight all five neighboring packs just because of an alter affection they’ve got for me, which in turn they barbarically punish me for. It’s not just saddening but frightful to the very core of my being. Plus, th