YOU’RE FUN. SURE. BUT SO IS A DISTRACTION.
THAT’S ALL YOU WERE, LOUIS. A MAN TO KEEP ME COMPANY WHEN THE REAL TWO WEREN’T AROUND.
I COULD NEVER TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY. YOU’RE NOT STRONG LIKE LEVI. YOU’RE NOT COMMANDING
LIKE LENNOX. YOU’RE JUST… LOUIS.
THIRD IN LINE. THIRD TO LEAD.
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IF I HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN YOU AND NO ONE AT ALL, I’D STILL PICK NO ONE.
BECAUSE PRETENDING WITH YOU WOULD BE
WORSE THAN BEING ALONE.
I stopped-but it wasn’t over. Not yet.
I unfolded the second part. The one that was meant to twist the knife deeper.
DON’T FLATTER YOURSELF.
YOU’RE NOT EVEN IN THE RUNNING.
LEVI IS STRENGTH. LENNOX IS COMMAND. YOU? YOU’RE WHAT’S LEFT. THE LEFTOVER SON. THE
SPARE.
I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU THOUGHT I’D EVER WANT YOU-NOT WHEN I COULD HAVE SOMEONE LIKE LENNOX, OR EVEN LEVI. ANYONE BUT YOU.
YOU HIDE BEHIND JOKES BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO OFFER. YOU’RE NOT SERIOUS. YOU’RE NOT POWERFUL. YOU’RE JUST THE FUN ONE-THE FILLER BETWEEN THE BROTHERS WHO
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ACTUALLY MATTER.
YOU SAY YOU’D PROTECT ME. WITH WHAT, LOUIS? A SMILE? A WINK? YOU THINK THAT’S ENOUGH?
I’D NEVER FEEL SAFE WITH YOU. NEVER FEEL PROUD TO STAND BESIDE YOU. YOU’RE NOT A WARRIOR. YOU’RE NOT A LEADER. YOU’RE A SHADOW THAT EVEN THE SUN FORGETS TO
TOUCH.
YOU WERE BORN LAST FOR A REASON. BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD TO BE. THAT’S ALL YOU ARE-THE ONE THEY HAD TO INCLUDE, EVEN IF YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO MATTER.
I WOULDN’T CHOOSE YOU, LOUIS. NOT IN THIS LIFE. NOT IN THE NEXT. NOT EVEN IF YOU WERE THE LAST MAN BREATHING.
I COULD NEVER BRING CHILDREN INTO THIS
WORLD JUST TO HAVE THEM TURN OUT WEAK LIKE
YOU.
SO MY ANSWER WILL ALWAYS BE NO.
The final word dropped like a hammer in the silence.
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I lowered the letter slowly.
Louis wasn’t even blinking. He stared down at the paper like it had just murdered him.
“I didn’t write that,” I said angrily. “Not one word of it.”
He didn’t answer.
Not with words.
His lips parted, then closed again.
I glared at the three of them, and anger flared inside me. “I can’t believe you three would believe I would say this to any of you.”
The three brothers exchanged conflicted glances.
I continued. “This?” I hissed, holding up the crumpled letter.
“This is why you hated me all those years?”
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“Really?” I asked, my voice trembling. “Because of this? This is why you three tormented my life for four fucking years? Because of this lie?” I choked on the words, the tears finally breaking free.
No matter how hard I tried to hold them back, they kept coming. I couldn’t stop.
It was painful-so painful-to realize they had hated me all these years over a letter I never even wrote.
Yes, the words in their letters were cruel. But how could they believe I could have written something like that?
How could a fourteen-year-old girl say such hurtful things to the people she worshipped?
How could they not know me?
Did they ever pay attention?
I practically adored them… every single one of them And still, they thought I could say something so vile.
Weren’t they supposed to ask me? To come to me and demand the truth?
But they didn’t.
They just believed it. Hated me. Rejected me.
They made me suffer for a crime I didn’t commit.
Lennox stepped forward, lips parted, like he wanted to say something-to plead, to explain-but before he could get a word out, the double doors burst open.
Anita was dragged in, still in her silky nightgown, her hair messy and eyes wide with confusion and rage.
“Let go of me!” she screamed, yanking her arms, the guards held her tightly. but
All three brothers turned to her like wolves who’d finally cornered their prey.
I clenched my jaw, my heart pounding, watching them, waiting to 20 what they would do to her. I expected
Levi or Lennox to move first, maybe even Louis to vell But before they could, Alpha Damien stepped forward.
His face was unreadable, his body calm.
Too calm.
Anita turned to him, confused, but before she could speak…
CRACK!
The sound of his palm slapping across her cheek rang through the room like thunder.
The room went still.
I gasped, stepping back in shock. Even the triplets froze, their eyes wide as they turned to him. None of us saw it coming.
None of us expected the man who had been silent all this time to explode like that.
Anita stumbled from the force, held upright only by the guards gripping her arms.
Alpha Damien’s voice came out low but angry. “How dare you sell her?”
Anita blinked, stunned. “W-what?”
His eyes were glowing now-sharp, wild, and full of anger. “Don’t insult my intelligence by pretending you about.” don’t know what I’m talkin
“I-I didn’t-” she started, but Damien raised a finger slowly, silencing her with just a look.
“If you lie to me,” he said, voice cold as ice, “I will not show the patience these three have shown you. I am not one of your Alphas. I am Alpha Damien of the Pearl Pack, and if you deny what I already know, I will rip your tongue out of your mouth myself.”
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Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.