The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate-Chapter 31: Sent Her Away

Each of the triplets sat frozen, their faces pale as they desperately tried to mask their agony from the rest of the pack. They didn’t realize they were all feeling the same scream in their souls. To the crowd, they simply looked tired from the day’s long memorial.

​Liam was the first to find his voice. His throat felt as though it were filled with broken glass. "Father," he rasped, looking at Levi. "Where is Scarlett? Truly."

​Lennox spoke up before Levi could answer. "Your father already told you, Liam. He sent her out. Let it go."

​But the silence was broken by a panicked set of footsteps. Lana rushed toward the head table, her face white and her breathing heavy. She didn’t care about the hundreds of eyes watching her.

​"Father! Father, her room is empty!" Lana cried out, her voice trembling. "I went to check on her, but her clothes are gone. Everything is gone!" 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

​Leo stood up so fast his chair flipped over, the wood splintering against the stone. He ignored the pain in his chest and turned on his father. "What did you do? What did you do to her?"

​Lennox sighed, the weight of the secret finally becoming too heavy to carry. He looked at his sons—at the desperation and the hidden bond in their eyes.

​"She is gone," Lennox said, his voice deep and final. "We sent her away."

​The triplets gasped in unison, the sound swallowed by the sudden murmurs of the crowd.

​"No..." Leon whispered, his heart dropping into his stomach. "Where? Where did you send her?"

​"Why?" Lana asked, tears welling in her eyes. "Why would you do that today?"

​Levi set his wine glass down calmly. He looked directly at Lana, his gaze intense. "It was for the best, Lana. You understand why this had to happen, don’t you?"

​Lana flinched, biting her lip. She looked at her brothers and then back at her father, a silent, knowing look passing between them. It was clear: Lana knew something, something the triplets were still blind to.

​"I’m going to find her," Leo growled, his body beginning to tremble as his wolf demanded to be let loose. His eyes were glowing a bright, predatory gold. "I’ll track her scent until my paws bleed."

​"Don’t bother, Leo," Lennox said, standing up to face his son. He placed a heavy hand on Leo’s shoulder, holding him down with Alpha strength. "She is already across the border. By the time you reach the forest, she will be out of the country. She’s gone, and she isn’t coming back."

​The words landed like a death sentence.

​Each of the brothers wanted to roar. They wanted to scream that the girl they had just sent away wasn’t just a servant or a traitor—she was their mate. But the words died in their throats, choked by years of pride and the cold eyes of their fathers watching them for any sign of weakness.

​"Father, she hasn’t paid for the crimes of her parents!" Liam yelled, his voice cracking with a desperation he tried to disguise as justice. "Tell us where she is. She belongs to this pack’s judgment!"

​Lennox narrowed his eyes, challenging them. "We have forgiven her, Liam. Her service is done. Let it go. Or is there something else? Is there a reason you three are so obsessed with a girl you claim to hate?"

​The silence that followed was suffocating. None of them could say it. They couldn’t admit that their souls were being ripped out through their ribs.

​Shift! Go find her! The command from their wolves was authoritative.

​Liam turned on his heel and walked out of the courtyard, his pace quickening into a run. He reached the main gates, but as he neared, the heavy iron was locked.

​"Open the gate!" Liam roared at the guards, his Alpha aura exploding outward, making the guards flinch.

​"Orders from Alpha Lennox, sir," the lead guard said, looking at the ground. "No one leaves the grounds until morning. The gates stay locked."

​"Order them to open it!" Liam screamed, spinning back toward his father, who was watching from the balcony. But Lennox simply shook his head and turned away.

​Liam let out a frustrated snarl and stormed toward his quarters. He burst into his room, pacing like a caged animal. A moment later, the door flew open again. Leo and Leon charged in, their faces twisted in the same mask of agony.

​The three of them stood in the center of the room, the triple-bond vibrating with so much pain it felt like the walls were shaking. Their wolves were howling, clawing inside, demanding they go after her... find her... bring her back...

​Then, the realization dawned on each of them.

​The way Scarlett had looked at them today. The way she had held Liam in her room. The way she had thanked Leo in the courtyard. The way she had looked at Leon in the library with those sad, final eyes.

​That was her goodbye.

​Each brother felt a fresh wave of soul-crushing pain hit them. They weren’t just angry; they were terrified. They had spent two years making her life a living hell, and their very last moments with her had been filled with more rejections and coldness.

​Liam stopped pacing, his chest heaving. Leo punched the stone wall, leaving a crater in the masonry. Leon sank into a chair, his head in his hands. They were so consumed by their own individual grief and the screaming of the bond that they didn’t even notice the others were reacting in the exact same way. They were three separate islands of misery, all grieving the same loss, yet still too guarded to realize they were all sharing the same mate.

​The door to Liam’s room burst open once more. Lana ran in, her face flushed and her chest heaving.

​"I have her!" she shouted, her voice cutting through the heavy silence.

​The triplets froze. Liam stopped his pacing, Leo pulled his fist back from the wall, and Leon looked up from his hands.

​"What do you mean, you have her?" Liam asked, confused.

​Lana rushed to the center of the room and shoved the screen of her phone into the middle of the circle. "The phone I gave her for her birthday—I didn’t just give it to her as a gift. I installed a tracking app before I handed it over. I was worried... I wanted to make sure she was okay wherever she went."

​The triplets crowded around the small screen. A glowing blue dot was pulsing steadily against a dark green map.

​"She’s not out of the country," Leon whispered, his eyes wide as he tracked the coordinates. "Father lied."

​"She’s close to the Forest Pack." Lana said, her finger pointing to a dense area of neutral territory that bordered a neighboring pack’s lands. "The signal just updated. She isn’t moving fast. She’s on foot."

​"Close to the Forest Pack?" Leo whispered, panicking. "That’s rogue territory."

Then ​they each realized the pain they had felt earlier—that sharp, stabbing agony—suddenly made sense. She hadn’t just been sad—she had been in danger.