Their eyes widened-Louis’s brows shot up, Lennox’s mouth parted in disbelief-but I didn’t stop.
“I realized that I never stopped loving her. And I never will stop loving her… I want Olivia back in my life.
The room fell into a stunned silence.
Louis was the first to speak. “Are you serious right now?”
I nodded. “Dead serious.”
“But after everything, she-” Lennox started, but I cut him off.
“I know what she did. I remember the pain. The heartbreak. The months I spent trying to hate her. But every time I looked at her… every time I saw how broken she looked, how lost she seemed-I just knew. I have hurt her too by my actions. I don’t know why she did what she did to me… why she hurt me so much, but I want bygones to be bygones. And I’m done punishing both of us for the past.
Louis ran a hand through his hair, pacing. “This is insane, Levi. You forgave her just like that?*
“No,” I said quietly. “Not just like that. It took time. It took everything in me. But yes-I forgave her. And I want to fight for her now. Not from the shadows. Not through tricks or games. For real.”
Lennox let out a breath, shaking his head. “You’re telling us this now… because you want us to? Join you? Forgive her too? Do you know what she did to me? I bet you have no idea.”
I looked at him, my voice calm but unwavering. “No. I’m not asking you to forgive her. That’s your decision to make. I don’t know what she did to you two, so I have no right to tell you what to do. But I’m letting you know-I’m going after Olivia. I want to love her the way a mate should.
I’m done living in the past.”
Their angry eyes locked with mine, but I continued.
“I know you both love her too. I’ve seen it. I feel it every time one of you looks at her. But I’m done sitting on the sidelines pretending I don’t care. I do care. More than anything. And if she’s willing to give me a second chance… I’ll take it. I’ll take her.”
Louis was quiet, his fists clenched. Lennox looked like he’d just been punched in the gut.
I took a step back, my voice softer now. “I don’t know what she did to you two, but I want you to think about it… Olivia was just fourteen. Think of it as a mistake of a little girl, not just as men. who feel hurt.”
Louis frowned. Lennox’s jaw tensed, but neither said a word.
“I’m not here to beg you to do what I’m doing,” I added, voice low. “But I am here to say that I’m done hating her. I’m done running. I still love her. And I’ll be damned if I lose her again without a fight.”
“I’m going to court Olivia,” I declared. “Openly. Honestly. No more secrets. No more games.” They both froze.
“I’m not hiding how I feel about her anymore. I’m going to show her that I still want her. That I never stopped. I paused, letting the words sink in. “And I’m telling you this now because I respect you. Both of you. You’re my brothers. I love you. I don’t want to do it behind your backs. Louis’s jaw ticked. Lennox’s brows were furrowed so deep they practically touched.
“I’m not asking for your approval,” I said quietly. “But I’m asking for your understanding. You want to keep hating Olivia-fine! But I’ve made my choice. I’m forgiving her”
After I spoke, I waited-for one of them to say something. Anything. But neither of them did. They just kept staring at me like I’d completely lost my mind.
Maybe they were right. Maybe I had lost my mind. I was going back to the same woman who had nearly destroyed me.
So yes, I was insane.
“With no comment, I’ll take my leave.
And with that, I walked out on them.
Olivia’s POV
I took a taste of the chocolate and smiled. It was delicious-just the way I had imagined. This was my favorite, and I wondered how they had been able to find it. Taking another bite, I crossed my legs and stared at the gifts spread across my bed. I thought of their words, how they promised this had nothing to do with the full moon. A part of me wan to believe them, but another part of me felt it was strange-so strange. These were men who had hated me for no reason, so why, all of a sudden, were they giving me gifts?
A knock landed on my door, and I straightened up, asking the person in.
The door pushed open, revealing the triplets’ mother. She flashed me a warm smile before stepping in.
Respectfully, I stood to my feet and slightly lowered myself.
“You don’t have to” she said in a friendly manner, “You are Luna… remember that.” She sat on the couch opposite me.
I nodded and sank back onto the bed, wondering why she had come. She didn’t speak immediately; instead, her eyes fell on the presents on the bed. A small smile curved over her lips.
“The Alphas got you these?” she asked.
I swallowed hard and nodded.
A bigger smile appeared on her face before she turned to look at me. “I knew they never stopped loving you,” she said in a tone that sounded certain.
I furrowed my brow. They never stopped loving me? What was she even talking about? The triplets hated me. They hated me because I was tagged the daughter of a thief. When I needed them the most, they disappeared from my life and inflicted pain on me.
“Sorry, but I think you’re wrong… the triplets never loved me,” I said with a murmur. “If they loved me, they wouldn’t have left me the moment I needed them. They wouldn’t have cut ties with me because my father was tagged a thief, and I was demoted to an omega. If they had loved. me, they wouldn’t have gone after Anita-my best friend. Hell, if they had loved me, they wouldn’t have fucked Anita right before me on our wedding night.”
The warmth drained from her eyes, replaced by something more serious-like she had waited a long time to say this.
“I understand your anger, Olivia,” she said gently. “But… are you sure you know everything that happened?”
I blinked, my heart skipping. “What are you talking about?”
She leaned forward slightly, her fingers lacing together. “I don’t know what exactly happened between you and my sons. They never told me… and trust me, I asked. But what I do know is that whatever it was, it broke them.”
I frowned, confused, “What do you mean broke them?”
“For weeks, Olivia.” Her voice dropped. “Weeks. Each of them locked themselves in their rooms. No training, no meetings, no food unless I forced them to eat. They were-gone. Like their souls had left them. I’ve never seen anything like it. They wouldn’t talk, not even to each other. All they did was sit in the darkness of their separate rooms.
A chill ran down my spine.
“Lennox smashed the mirror in his room,” she continued, her voice trembling with the memory. “Levi nearly shifted out of control during one of his episodes. And Louis… Louis didn’t speak a single word for ten days straight.”
“But…” I shook my head, a lump forming in my throat. “I was the one hurting. My father was arrested. I was cast out and made to scrub floors. They… they stopped talking to me.”
She looked at me with pain in her eyes. “I know what it looked like, Olivia. And I don’t have all the answers. But the boys I raised-those boys loved you. I saw it in them.”
I swallowed hard. “They didn’t love me. If they did, why would they do all that? Why would they throw me away like garbage?”
“I don’t know,” she admitted, sounding confused. “But they refuse to tell me what you did. “What I did?” My voice rose in disbelief. “I didn’t do anything-
“Then why, Olivia?” she asked, not accusingly, but with genuine confusion. “Why do they look like they’re punishing themselves every day? Why do they train until they bleed, until they pass out? Why do they all carry this… pain?”
Pain?
My head spun.
Nothing made sense anymore. I had spent all this time believing they had betrayed me… that they hated me. But now I was hearing a different story, one filled with pain I didn’t know they had suffered.
“I don’t understand,” I whispered, my eyes stinging with tears.
“I’m not asking you to forgive them,” she said kindly. “I just want you to see that maybe… maybe there’s more to this story than you remember.”
I looked away, unsure of what to feel.
Was there something I didn’t know?
Or something I had forgotten?
My fingers gripped the edge of the bed as I struggled to steady my breathing. Her words stirred something inside me-a memory, blurry and distant, clawing at the edges of my mind. I shook my head, trying to grasp it.
“…” I paused, blinking rapidly. “I remember the day my father was arrested. It was my fourteenth birthday.”
Her gaze sharpened, clearly surprised.
“The triplets came to see me,” I continued slowly, my voice dropping to a whisper. “Each of them brought a gift. Three little boxes, each wrapped differently. They smiled and told me not to open them yet. Lennox said, ‘Open it tonight, after the party. We want it to be a surprise.”
My chest ached at the memory-the way they had looked at me that day, like I meant the world to them. That day, I wanted to confess something to them, something I was scared of saying, but I decided to wait until I opened their gifts.
“I was so happy…” My throat tightened. “I remember putting the boxes on my table and rushing downstairs. I wanted to wait, just like they said. But that was the same day everything went to hell.
She remained silent, watching me intently.
“My father was accused of stealing from the Alpha. They dragged him in front of the entire pack. The triplets were there too. I looked at them-I looked at them- for comfort, but they wouldn’t even meet my eyes.”
Tears threatened the corners of my vision, but I blinked them away.
“I didn’t think of the gifts until the next day, I murmured. “When I went back to my room… they were gone. The boxes. All of them. Just gone”
Her brows furrowed. “Gone? Did you ask anyone?”
“I tried to go to the triplets,” I whispered. “I thought maybe… maybe they came to get the gifts themselves, or wanted to comfort me. But the guards stopped me at the gate. They said none of the triplets wanted to see me. That they gave orders to keep me out.”
That moment came crashing back into my chest like a blade. The confusion. The pain. The shame.
“After that, everything changed. I was stripped of my title. People stopped talking to me. And the… they were just gone from my life. Like I never mattered.” up
I looked at her, eyes hollow. “But now I’m wondering… what if something happened with those gifts? What if something was inside them? Something that… set everything off?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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.