Content Warning: Smut, Smut and Smut.

“Whose cock made you cry the loudest tonight?” Lucien’s voice was a low snarl as he gripped my jaw, forcing my mouth open.

“Yours,” I gasped, my voice wrecked from screaming. “Alpha, please—”

Silas’s fingers dug into my hips as he slammed back inside me, rough and unrelenting. “Liar,” he growled against my spine. “She sobbed on mine.”

“Should we make her prove it?” Claude said, his fangs grazing my throat. “Tie her up again. Let her beg with that pretty mouth until we decide she’s earned our knots.”

I was trembling, dripping, used—and all I could do was moan, “Yes, please. Use me again.”

And they did. Like they always do. Like they can’t help it. Like I belong to all three of them.

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Lilith used to believe in loyalty. In love. In her pack.

But everything was torn away.

Her father—the late Beta of Fangspire died. Her mother, heartbroken, drank wolfsbane and never woke up.

And her boyfriend? He found his mate and left Lilith behind without a second glance.

Wolfless and alone, with hospital debt piling high, Lilith enters the Rite—a ritual where women offer their bodies to the cursed Alphas in exchange for gold.

Lucien. Silas. Claude.

Three ruthless Alphas, cursed by the Moon Goddess. If they don’t mark their mate before twenty-six, their wolves will destroy them.

Lilith was supposed to be a means to an end.

But something changed the moment they touched her.

Now they want her—marked, ruined, worshipped.

And the more they take, the more they crave.

Three Alphas.

One wolfless girl.

No fate. Just obsession.

And the more they taste her,

The harder she is to let go.

01|Ultimate form of betrayal

What was the ultimate form of betrayal?

Simple. It was when the person you loved and trusted the most… was the very one hurting you.

Right now, I was living it and that betrayal came from the man I loved.

My boyfriend of four years wanted to reject me—for a woman he had just met. Yesterday.

I stood there, frozen in a daze, listening to him speak. I heard the words, but they didn’t seem to register.

Because none of it made sense. I couldn’t understand what he was saying… or maybe I just didn’t want to.

“Lilith, you need to understand,” he said, his voice steady—like this wasn’t shattering me. “I know I promised to mark you as my mate when we get married, but that was before I met Seraphina yesterday. She’s my real mate, and I can’t ignore the bond between us. I can’t reject her. So… I’m really sorry, but I have to break up with you.”

Before I could stop myself, a single tear slipped down my cheek. I took a sharp, ragged breath—my chest tightening like I was suffocating. I couldn’t breathe.

Kael had found his mate.

And she was right there, in his arms, as he broke up with me.

The day I’d always feared had finally come—the day I would be cast aside and abandoned by the man I loved.

But the saddest part? I knew this day would come sooner or later.

Still, I deluded myself. I told myself to trust him, to trust his words and believe in him, even knowing how powerful the mate bond was.

However, he had promised that even if he found his mate, he would still love me. That he wouldn’t leave me.

But it hadn’t even taken a day for him to break that promise, to destroy everything we’d built over four years.

It was almost amusing.

My nails dug into my skin as I forced myself not to cry. I lifted my head, my eyes flickering to the beautiful red-haired woman in his arms. Her gaze was fixed on me with a pitiful expression—like she was looking down at a wounded dog.

But the slight tilt of her lips told me everything. She was enjoying this, watching me fall apart.

Before I could stop myself, my eyes dropped to her neck—where his bite mark sat.

And in that moment, I felt my heart shatter into a million pieces.

He had already spent the night with her and marked her as his mate.

“Lilith…” Kael called out, taking a step toward me, his hands reaching for mine, his eyes filled with guilt but also, resolution.

“I know you’re hurt right now, but you know rejecting my mate would affect my wolf, and I can’t—”

“I don’t care about the mate bond, my love,” I cut him off with a bitter chuckle, repeating the words he had always told me. More tears fell no matter how hard I tried to hold them back.

“I don’t care if the mate bond affects me. The love we have is more than some mystical bond. I would never leave you. I want us to be together… to grow old together and have little pups who look like us!”

My voice rose with each word, every memory clawing at my chest, and I saw his eyes widen.

“So don’t worry. Don’t think about it,” I whispered now, my voice trembling as sobs began to break through. “I would never betray you…”

“Lilith…” he whispered, but I yanked my hands out of his grip.

Those hands I had once loved now burned me. Now, they disgusted me.

“Yet all it took was one night to throw away everything you said to me for four years, Kael!” I roared, raising my fist and hitting his chest.

“Four fucking years and you forgot every word you ever said to me just to sleep with someone else and mark her?!”

With each word I spat, my fists kept slamming into his chest, but he didn’t speak—didn’t argue.

His gaze only lowered in guilt as he let me hit him, over and over again.

“Why, Kael… Why did you have to reassure me every time? Why did you make me trust you when you were going to betray me anyway? Why? Why?!”

I shoved him back, falling to the ground as I broke into harder sobs, the tears blurring everything around me.

Why did he do this to me?

After the death of my father… after what happened to my mother…

He had been the only person truly there for me.

And now?

Now I couldn’t even bring myself to hate him.

That was the worst part.

I wasn’t even mad at him.

I was just… hurt.

“Please don’t be upset, Lilith,” a high-pitched female voice chimed in, followed by the click of heels approaching me.

“I know you have every right to be, but this really isn’t Kael’s fault, you know? You understand how strong the mate bond is, right? When Kael and I met, we couldn’t control it—we just had to mate. It wasn’t something we could stop.”

She paused, then added sweetly,

“But I guess it’s something you wouldn’t really understand… since you’re wolfless.”

I lifted my head and glared at her through the tears, my hands tightening into fists.

I knew who she was. Her name was Seraphina. She was once my friend before my life came crashing down that day. Before my father, who was the former Beta to the late Alpha, died.

My father was the late Beta of Fangspire Pack, but after he and the Alpha went to war against the rogues three years ago, they never came back the same.

No—they didn’t return alive.

They returned as corpses instead.

And as if that loss wasn’t enough, my mother tried to take her own life that same day using wolfsbane, a poison deadly to werewolves.

She didn’t die that day, but she’s been in a coma ever since, her life hanging by a thread, with none of the hospitals able to help. Since then, I’ve spent all of our family’s fortune on witch doctors, hoping that one of them could cure her.

With no money left and no one willing to help, Kael stepped in. He helped us because our families had always been close when my father was alive, and Kael and I were dating.

Everything that happened that day—the deaths, the coma, the heartbreak is the reason I became wolfless.

Because that day was my eighteenth birthday.

The day my wolf was supposed to awaken.

And according to one of the witch doctor I saw… the grief shattered my connection to her.

I never heard her voice. I never shifted. She never came.

“You know, it’s actually funny how you thought you could be with my mate,” Seraphina scoffed, her tone laced with mockery. “Even when he’s the Beta of the most powerful pack… and you’re wolfless. I guess it’s your fault for being delusional after all.”

I watched Kael reach for her hand, shaking his head slightly, as if trying to stop her.

Yes. Kael was the current Beta to the three Alpha triplets of Fangspire Pack.

After the death of the previous Alpha and Beta, the Alpha’s three sons had taken over, and since my father had no son, the Beta position passed to Kael’s family.

“What? Why are you still trying to be nice to her, Kael?” Seraphina snapped, glaring at him. “Didn’t you say you never loved her? That you only pitied her? I don’t like feeling like I’m the other woman when I’m clearly your mate.”

Kael looked flustered, glancing at me before quickly looking away, as though he couldn’t meet my eyes.

A bitter scoff slipped from my lips, and I bit my bottom one so hard I tasted blood.

“Seraphina, stop—” Kael called her name, but she scoffed and folded her arms.

“I don’t care anymore. I’m not listening to you. You promised to cut ties with her, and you're going to start by not paying for her mother’s hospital bills anymore.”

The world seemed to stop around me as my eyes snapped toward Kael in shock.

Even with everything happening… he couldn’t do that.

Kael could break up with me.

He could betray me.

But he couldn’t, he wouldn’t stop paying for my mother’s hospital bills.

Because even if the hospital couldn’t cure her, it was the only reason she was still breathing.

And if he stopped… then my mother would truly die.

Kael stared at Seraphina in disbelief before frowning.

“Seraphina, I can’t do that to Aunt. If I do, Lilith won’t be able to pay, and she won’t survive,” he said and for the first time today, a relieved breath escaped me.

For a moment, I saw the man I had fallen in love with.

The man who had sworn to protect me.

But that relief was short-lived.

Seraphina glared at Kael and scoffed.

“All right then, fine. If you won’t do it, then let’s reject each other. And the rejection will kill the child I’m carrying!”

I froze.

Her words hit like a slap and it seemed I wasn’t the only one stunned, because Kael’s eyes widened, and he took a step back.

“D-Did you just say… child?” he stammered.

I turned to Seraphina’s smug face, the words leaving my mouth in a daze.

“I-If you’re pregnant then…”

But as though she already knew what I was going to say, she raised her chin and smirked.

“Yes, Lilith. Yesterday wasn’t the first time we met and realized we were mates. We’ve known each other for a month but Kael didn’t want to tell you because he didn’t want to hurt you. But I am pregnant with his child. So… what can we do about it?”

I shook my head, squeezing my eyes shut, refusing to believe it.

“You’re lying… You’re lying…” I whispered breathlessly.

Then I turned to Kael, praying he would deny it. That he would tell me it wasn’t true.

But Kael didn’t meet my eyes.

He lowered his head—guilt and shame etched across his face.

A quiet gasp escaped me as I stared at him in disbelief.

It wasn't a lie.

Kael had truly betrayed me in the worst possible way

02|Cut off all ties.

It all made sense.

Now that I thought about it, it all did. The late-night meetings with the Alpha triplets that happened more often than they should, the unfamiliar female perfume I sometimes smelled on him when he returned home… and even the damn red lipstick stain on his shirt that I’d seen last week.

A disbelieving scoff slipped past my lips as I chuckled bitterly under my breath.

There were signs. So many signs. But I chose to ignore them. I’d told myself that Kael had helped my family and me enough, that he’d assured me of his loyalty and that he wouldn’t do something like this.

But that had only been a fool’s dream.

I should’ve listened to that nagging voice in my head. But I didn’t.

And now…

“S-So this whole time… this past month, you’ve been cheating on me with her? You found your mate and hid it from me? Is that what you're telling me?” I asked, my voice trembling as I stared at Kael.

He lowered his head in shame, refusing to meet my gaze, looking completely flustered.

“I—I didn’t know she was pregnant, I swear I didn’t—”

“But you do now,” Seraphina cut him off sharply. “So what are you going to do? Cut ties with her completely… or lose our child?”

Both of us turned to Seraphina at the same time. She had her hands on her hips as she glared at Kael, her red lips curled into a deep frown.

My chest tightened as I watched just how far she was willing to go to force Kael into cutting me off completely. I wasn’t even sure what I had done to her.

Even though we were never that close, I’d once considered her a friend, we had hung out together a few times. But everything changed after what happened to my family.

All of my so-called friends, including Seraphina, had outright distanced themselves from me.

According to them, I no longer belonged in their social class.

But this?

This went beyond anything I could’ve imagined.

To go as far as threatening Kael not to pay for my mother’s hospital bills, fully aware she’d die without them was something I couldn’t understand.

What had I done to her?

What did I do to deserve this?

The tears spilled freely down my cheeks, hot and relentless, as I lowered my head, already knowing how this would end.

There was no way Kael would continue helping me when his unborn child was involved.

“Seraphina,” Kael called her name breathlessly, and I watched as he stepped toward her, hand reaching out, his eyes pleading like he was desperate not to make this choice.

“Please be reasonable. Aunt is the only person Lilith has left in this world. The hospital bills are high, she can’t afford them alone. If she’s left on her own, Aunt will die. I promise to cut off all ties with her completely… but don’t make me do this.”

Seraphina’s lips curled into a snarl as she yanked her hand away and glared at him.

“What does that have to do with me? Why do I always have to be the one who’s understanding? Why should I care about her?” Her voice trembled with fury as she pointed at me, eyes burning with hatred and jealousy.

“I can’t believe that for a whole month, I let you hide me because you didn’t want to hurt her precious little feelings.” She scoffed bitterly. “You kept saying it wasn’t the right time to tell her, that her mother’s health was getting worse but enough is enough. I am your mate. I will never be the other woman. So it’s your choice, Kael. You either cut off all ties with her… or we reject each other.”

Kael looked slightly taken aback, as though he hadn’t realized she’d been feeling this way.

“B-but—” he stammered, trying to find the right words, but before he could finish, I inhaled a shaky breath and cut him off.

“Please…” I whispered, my voice barely audible.

Both of them turned to me at the same time, but I kept my gaze fixed on Seraphina. And as she stared at me in surprise, I slowly began to crawl toward her, stopping just inches away, catching her completely off guard.

At that moment, the world felt like a cruel joke as I slowly clasped my hands together and brought them up in front of me.

Yes, I was about to beg the woman who had been sleeping with my boyfriend for a month. I was about to throw away the last shred of my dignity and plead.

Ever since my eighteenth birthday, life had been nothing but a cruel joke, but no matter what happened, I couldn’t lose my mother. She was the only thing keeping me alive.

So… I begged.

“Please, Seraphina… don’t do this to me. I know you’re upset, but I promise, I’ll cut all ties with Kael. Just… please don’t let him stop.”

Especially not now—now that my mother needed surgery soon. Even if it wouldn’t cure her, it would keep her alive long enough for me to find a witch doctor skilled enough to help her. And with my job at the restaurant, there was no way I’d be able to raise enough money in time.

“P-please, for the last time… my mum needs this surgery,” I pleaded, my voice cracking. “He doesn’t have to give me the money for free—I swear I’ll pay him back as soon as I can. So… please, don’t do this.”

I could see Kael look away from the scene, his hands clenched tightly into fists.

Seraphina’s eyes narrowed at me, but her expression shifted in a blink. The corner of her lips twitched into an amused smirk as her gaze locked onto mine.

There was delight in her eyes as she watched me cry. Slowly, she curled her lips into a mocking smile and stepped toward me, hands on her waist as she looked down at me.

“Aww, this is really sad, and I feel sorry for you, Lilith,” she said in a sweet voice. “But I’m not the one who makes that decision. That’s Kael’s choice to make.”

She turned to Kael, who still had his head lowered.

“Right, mate? So, what will you choose?”

Her tone was confident as she asked Kael and rubbed her belly, clearly already knowing what his choice would be.

And as Kael let out a sigh of frustration and his fists slowly unclenched, I knew, he had already made up his mind.

Fresh tears blurred my vision as I lifted a hand to my face, my body wracked with sobs.

“Lilith…” he whispered, “I’m really sorry, but this is my child. I can’t—”

“Of course, you can’t,” I cut him off with a bitter laugh. “Of course you can’t reject your mate when she’s pregnant.”

I slowly rose from the ground, though my legs felt far too weak to hold me.

Anyone else would’ve made the same choice in his position. I hadn’t expected anything different, it would’ve been selfish of me to hope otherwise.

I drew in a deep, shaky breath and wiped my tears away before meeting his gaze. His familiar blue eyes held mine, and in them, I saw it clearly—pity.

Now that I realized it, that was the look he had always given me. When the tragedy struck my family… when he started helping with my mother’s hospital bills… when he whispered those words—

“I love you.”

“I’ll never leave you.”

“You’re enough for me.”

—It was always that same look.

The look of pity.

Kael had never loved me. No… he pitied me.

And I was the fool who had known it deep down but still chose to believe him.

“Lilith…” he whispered, but I reached up and wiped at my tears, shaking my head to stop him.

“Don’t say anything… please.” I took a step back. “Even if all you’ve done is hurt me in the end, I’m still thankful for the help all these years. So… thank you, Kael. And congratulations on becoming a father.”

That was all I could manage to say before I turned and walked toward the exit without looking back.

“Lilith…” I heard him whisper again.

But he didn’t come after me.

Not when I stepped out into the heavy rain pouring from the sky.

03|The Alpha triplets.

As I walked into the street, the rain soaked me from head to toe, and the cold air wrapped around me, making me shiver but I felt nothing.

No pain. No hurt. Just emptiness, as I wandered aimlessly with no destination in mind.

What was I supposed to do now?

I worked as a waitress at a restaurant, and that was only because my boss had been kind enough to hire me when no one else would.

After everything that happened, everyone seemed to believe I was a curse. No one wanted to hire me. They thought I’d jinx their businesses.

And it didn’t help that I was wolfless… or that my mother had poisoned herself with wolfsbane—something every werewolf despised. They saw it as a sin, an unforgivable shame and because she drank it, my family’s reputation was ruined.

Now I needed money to save her, and I couldn’t ask my boss for another advance. I had already asked last month, and even if I did again… it wouldn’t be enough. So…

“What should I do? What should I do? I’m tired… I’m so sick of everything. I just want to die,” I whispered under my breath, tears streaming down my cheeks, blending with the rain.

It truly felt like I had been abandoned—abandoned by my father who died and left me all alone, abandoned by my mother who chose to poison herself, abandoned by the one man I trusted who left me for his mate, abandoned by the world... and worst of all, abandoned by the goddess.

“Goddess…” I stopped walking and stared up at the sky, tapping my chest with a trembling hand. “Why am I alive? If this is the life you gave me, then why did you bring me into this world at all? Why am I alive if I can’t even be happy? Why? What did I ever do wrong?.

My voice cracked as it rose in frustration.

“Why are you letting me live like this? Why did you let him die?! Why are you so cruel? You couldn’t even protect him. You took the one person my mother loved most. And now, even though I know she wants to be with him on the other side, I can’t let her go. I know I’m selfish… I know I couldn’t even fulfill her dying wish.”

I muttered under my breath, my voice a whisper as I remembered the last words my mother said to me before she lost consciousness that day.

“I’m sorry, my child. I know this is wrong… but I can’t live without your father. Please don’t make me live without him. I want to see him again. Please forgive me, my daughter. Don’t cry for me.”

My fists clenched as I looked up at the storming sky. “But why are you just sitting there—doing nothing, no matter how much I cry out to you?! Why are you so cruel?!”

Thunder rumbled above me at my words, but I didn’t stop.

I didn’t care if I was committing a sin, speaking this way to the mother of all werewolves.

I just wanted to let it all out.

To blame someone for everything I’d lost.

“If this is the life you want me to live…” I whispered, breathless, my gaze dropping to the ground as I hissed out the final words, “then I’d rather die.”

A deafening clap of thunder tore through the sky, louder this time, as if it could crack the earth itself.

And before I could take my next breath, time seemed to slow.

A flash of light burst before me.

I blinked, glancing up, just in time to see a car speeding straight toward me, its horn blaring wildly.

My breath caught in my throat. I froze, unable to move as the car closed in, ready to hit me at any second.

I should move. I knew I should. But my feet stayed rooted to the ground, completely frozen.

And as the car came closer, I slowly closed my eyes, a single tear slipping down my cheek.

This was it. The moment I would meet my end.

I wasn’t scared. I wasn’t even sad.

The only regret I had… was leaving my mother behind.

As I accepted my fate, I prayed, hoped that if I died, Kael would continue to look after her.

I know it was foolish. I know I shouldn’t trust him, not after everything. But still… I hoped.

“I’m sorry, Mother,” I whispered, bracing myself for the pain.

Except… it never came.

Even after counting five seconds in my head… nothing happened.

My eyes snapped open.

The car had stopped, right in front of me. Just an inch away.

A shaky breath tore from my chest as my knees buckled, and I dropped to the ground, gasping, my hand pressed tightly to my pounding heart.

The sound of the heavy rain was all I heard as I stared at the ground, struggling to catch my breath. But as I tried to wrap my head around what had just happened, I felt a hand touch my shoulder and heard a voice.

“Are you okay, miss?"

The soothing voice of a man reached my ears, and the moment I looked up and saw the figure standing in front of me, all the air seemed to leave my lungs.

I was staring into a pair of completely white eyes, eyes that seemed to pull me in.

The world stopped again.

“If you want to kill yourself, I suggest you don’t do it in the middle of the road and inconvenience other people,”

An annoyed voice snapped me out of my daze.

I looked past the man in front of me and saw another standing behind him, wearing a cold expression, his lips tugged into a slight frown as he looked down at me with the same haunting white eyes.

“Aw, brother. Don’t you think that’s a bit harsh for a woman?”

I tore my gaze from the second man and turned to the third person who had just spoken, his eyes were fixed on me. The corner of his lips pulled into an amused smirk.

“And she’s pretty too,” he added with a lazy grin. “Drenched, but still pretty.”

I swallowed hard as my body trembled—not from the cold, not from fear, but from the realization that I knew exactly who they were.

The Alpha triplets.

Silas, Lucien, and Claude.

04|Give myself to the Alpha Triplets.

The cursed Alpha triplets.

That was what everyone called them.

They were the ones destined to die on their twenty-sixth birthday if they didn’t find, mate, and mark their true mate before then.

Everyone feared and respected them. Feared them because they were ruthless, they killed without hesitation, unlike their father, who had been known as a kind Alpha. Yet people respected them because they were unlike any Alphas the Fangspire Pack had ever seen.

They were powerful men, each blessed with a white wolf—the strongest breed there was.

And now, those very men were standing before me, white eyes locked on mine.

I wasn’t sure if it was the intensity of their piercing stares or the cold, heavy rain pouring down on me, but my body trembled, and my breathing grew heavy—almost suffocating. I clutched my chest and shut my eyes against the pain as the world blurred around me.

“Are you alright, miss? Do you feel unwell?” the man in front of me asked.

When I opened my eyes to look at him, his face was unreadable, not a flicker of emotion despite the concern in his words.

Alpha Silas.

Brown-haired, with eyes as piercing as the white moon.

“I don’t think she’s okay, Silas,” a low, lazy voice hummed.

I turned to the blond-haired man leaning casually against the car, arms folded, an amused smirk tugging at his lips as the rain poured down over him.

“I mean, we did almost run her over a few minutes ago,” he added with a low chuckle, water sliding down the sharp line of his jaw. “Pretty sure that’s the opposite of okay.”

My heart hammered against my chest as I met his gaze, and when his eyes narrowed on me, that smirk widened, his irises flashing whiter.

Alpha Claude.

I immediately lowered my head, looking away.

“If running her over meant not standing in the rain, I’d take that choice,” a cold voice drawled. “Let’s go. I’d rather not catch a cold after that boring meeting with that old man.”

I didn’t need to look up to know who had just spoken.

Alpha Lucien.

These three men stood before me, and I was in a daze—drenched, trembling, and unsure of what I was even doing.

But more than anything, what kept running through my mind was how I had almost died.

How I had stood there, frozen, as the car came barreling toward me… how I had nearly abandoned my mother.

In that moment, I had truly seen my life flash before my eyes but it wasn’t the bad memories I saw. It was the good ones, the ones from before my father died and everything in my life turned upside down.

And one memory had shone brighter than all the rest.

The day before my father left for the war with the late Alpha.

That day, it was just the three of us, my father, mother, and I—sitting together, smiling as we drank tea and talked.

We laughed, joked, and spoke about his return in time for my eighteenth birthday.

He had promised me he’d be home.

That promise never came true but I had also made a promise too.

Whenever he went off to war against the rogues, my father always made me promise that if anything ever happened to him, I would stay strong.

That no matter what, I would remain unbroken. That I would never give up.

At the time, I’d thought he was just treating me like a child.

I thought it was ridiculous.

But now I understood.

He knew the risks that came with his position.

He knew one day, he might leave… and never return.

A tear slipped down my cheek before I even realized it, and as I brought my hands to my face, more followed, my body wrecked with sobs. And as I cried, I could feel three intense gazes locked on me.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry,” I whispered, crying harder because I had almost broken that promise. I knew I wasn’t strong, but I couldn’t give up.

“Damn, is she crying? I think you made her cry, Lucien. That’s pretty mean of you,” I heard Claude murmur, followed by an unamused scoff.

“Can you stand up?” Silas, who was kneeling in front of me, asked. And as I lifted my head, eyes blurred with tears, I found a slight frown tugging at his lips.

“It’s raining,” he added, brown strands of hair clinging to his face as he reached his hand out for me to take. “Let’s get to the car, and we’ll talk.”

My lips trembled as I stared at him, but before I could say a word, the sharp ringing of a phone cut through the moment. I blinked, then shakily lowered my gaze to my pocket and instinctively reached for it.

I already knew who it was.

The hospital.

And when I saw the caller ID, I was right.

I didn’t think twice before answering, even though I was still in front of the three Alphas.

As soon as the call connected, the voice on the other end spoke urgently.

“Mrs. Lilith, we’ve been trying to reach you for a while now. Can you come to the hospital? Your mother—your mother—”

My heart dropped to the pit of my stomach as the voice became static and inaudible. My eyes widened in panic.

“My mother—what happened to her? Hello? Can you hear me?” I asked, my voice rising with worry, but the line had already disconnected.

“Hello?! Please, can you hear me? What happened to my mother?!”

No response.

I brought the phone to my face with shaky hands and saw that it had died.

Without thinking twice, I shot up from the ground and turned around, running through the rain, leaving the three men behind me.

As I ran toward the hospital, the only thing I could hear was the pounding of my heart in my ears as I silently prayed to the goddess that my mother would be fine—that this wouldn’t be the day I received the news I had always feared.

It wasn’t long before I arrived at the hospital.

By then, the rain had already stopped, and as I stepped inside, one of the receptionists who recognized me immediately stepped forward but I rushed past her, heading straight to the ward where my mother was staying, ignoring her as she called after me.

As soon as I reached there, I stopped.

The doctor was standing in front of the door, instructing the nurses around him.

“We don’t know when her body will start convulsing again due to the wolfsbane spreading fast, so make sure you check on her—”

“Doctor,” I cut in, stepping forward, my voice breaking.

He stopped speaking and turned to look at me, a sad frown forming on his face.

Ever since my mother had been admitted to this hospital three years ago, I had learned to read the doctors’ expressions and even without him saying a word, I already knew what he was going to say.

I bit my bottom lip and walked past him toward the window.

And as I saw my mother’s frail figure on the hospital bed, with life support machines hooked up to her, my heart cracked even more.

“Miss Lilith,” the doctor’s voice came from beside me, but I didn’t look away from my mother. Still, he continued,

“I’m sorry to say this, but your mother’s condition is getting worse. It’s beyond our control now. As you know, we don’t have a cure for wolfsbane yet. The only option is surgery to slow the spread but we can’t begin until you…”

His words trailed off, but I already knew what he meant.

Until I pay.

Silence stretched between us, heavy and suffocating. Then finally, I whispered,

“Give me a day… just one more day. I’ll have the money by tomorrow.”

My breath trembled as I closed my eyes.

I knew he wanted to say something but instead, he sighed and nodded.

“Okay, Miss Lilith. Please don’t be late. We can’t afford to delay the surgery.”

With that, he left.

I turned away from the sight of my mother and sank to the floor, curling in on myself, arms wrapped tightly around my head.

What was I supposed to do now?

How was I supposed to come up with that kind of money by tomorrow?

I couldn’t even cry anymore. I just needed to think.

I needed to find a way.

And right then, as if the universe had heard my desperate questions, two women passed by in front of me, their voices loud as they chatted.

“Did you hear that Stella got real gold just for spending the night with the Alphas?” one of them said in disbelief.

Lifting my head slowly, I watched as the other woman responded, “Really? Is it because of that ritual where the Alphas are sleeping with different women to find their mate? Even if she wasn’t their mate, they still gave her gold?”

As they continued walking away, the first woman nodded.

“She just had to offer her body for the night and they paid her.”

My gaze dropped to the ground, breath catching as my chest tightened.

That was it. The only choice I had left.

If I wanted to save my mother.

If I wanted to keep my last piece of family alive.

Then I had to give myself to the Alpha triplets. I had to participate in the ritual.

05|Pretty mouth to use🔞

It was a ritual.

One meant to find the right she-wolf who would be claimed by the Alpha triplets, Lucien, Claude and Silas.

Yes, the three ruthless men who practically ruled the entire werewolf world. They were powerful, as mesmerizing as the moon that hung in the sky. They were perfect... but they were cursed.

I had heard stories about these men, how the goddess herself had cursed them. Despite being gifted with powerful wolves, they were not the kind of Alphas she had envisioned.

They were heartless, they killed without remorse. But what truly disgusted the goddess were their carnal desires.

It was said that Lucien, Claude and Silas craved one thing above all— sex.

They used it to pass the time, indulging in pleasure without care. Being the fantasy of nearly every she-wolf, countless women threw themselves at them. And they didn’t care who they slept with as long as it satisfied their need.

But to the goddess, this was unholy.

Sex was sacred, meant mostly to be shared between mates, not treated as a fleeting indulgence.

And so, she cursed them. If they did not find and mark their fated mate before their 26th birthday, they would die.

But that wasn’t the cruelest part.

The goddess had given them a single mate to share— a woman neither of them could scent. They wouldn’t even know who she was unless they claimed and marked her.

And that explained why I was currently walking through the halls of the packhouse belonging to those very men, their attendants trailing behind me. Their voices faded into the background, drowned out by the pounding of my heart.

Today, I had been chosen to spend the night with the Alpha triplets.

They called it lucky—said that even if I wasn’t their mate, just one night with Lucien, Claude and Silas was every woman’s dream.

Everyone but me.

It wasn’t that I wasn’t mesmerized by their beauty like the others, how could I not be, when they looked like walking gods?

But the reason I was doing this… wasn’t because I wanted to.

It was because I had no choice, because if I wanted to keep her alive, I had to.

“Remember what we taught you, child,” Thalia, the head attendant, said with a sad smile as we stopped in front of a large golden door. Her smile was wide and well-practiced, like someone who had done this many times before (which she had).

“Don’t question what the Alphas ask of you. Don’t stare at them too long without permission. Refer to them separately as Alpha Lucien, Claude and Silas. And by all means, do not try to strike up a conversation with them unless given permission.”

I repeated her instructions word for word, just as she had taught me.

The corners of her lips curved into a smile, and she nodded, her hand reaching for the doors. As she pushed them open, she murmured under her breath,

“I wish you the best of luck, Lilith,”

“Thank you for helping me, Thalia.” I whispered, and gave her a small smile.

The moment the doors opened, I swallowed nervously and watched as the attendants turned and walked away without sparing me another glance.

For a brief moment, I stood still, staring into the space before me, cloaked in darkness. Taking a deep breath, I braced myself for the inevitable.

I was, in every sense, selling my body. So I told myself I’d close my eyes and let it be over quickly.

That was the plan.

But the moment I stepped into the room, the door slammed shut behind me but that wasn’t what made me freeze in place.

The reason my breath hitched and my body trembled was because of the three men in front of me, whose eyes snapped toward me the second I entered. Because of their beauty.

Oh, goddess.

How could anyone look so breathtaking? Even though I had seen them before, they were still utterly stunning.

They weren’t the muscular kind of attractive like most men. No, their beauty was something else entirely—refined, striking.

They were flawless without looking feminine. Their faces were identical, sculpted so perfectly it felt as though the goddess had taken her time crafting a masterpiece.

The only notable difference between them was their hair. Lucien had long black hair, Silas’s was brown, and Claude’s was a soft blond so I knew it was Claude on the bed, his lips curving into an amused smirk the moment he saw me. His head rested lazily on his hand, and as he spoke, he looked like something straight out of one of those fairytales Mother used to read to me, the kind of prince who would sweep you off your feet.

“Oh, this one is different. I’m not sure why, but she smells more delicious than the others, brothers. Something tells me she’s our mate,” he hummed, his tongue flicking across his bottom lip, his eyes trailing down my body like I was a meal he was about to devour.

“Didn’t you say that about the one we fucked yesterday? And the day before that?” a cool, unimpressed voice cut in.

I turned my gaze to the shirtless man seated on the couch, his eyes fixed on the book in his hand as he casually flipped through it.

As I stared at him, a thought flashed through my mind, if Claude looked like a prince, then Silas was a beautiful, brilliant man destined to destroy you.

“But you’re right about this one… she smells delicious,” he muttered under his breath, his eyes flickering to me.

For a brief moment, I saw recognition in them but just as quickly, it vanished. He closed the book and rested his head on his hand, narrowing his eyes at me, intrigued.

“It doesn’t matter if she smells good or not. What matters is finding our mate,” another deep voice echoed, and my gaze flickered to the third triplet, sitting at the edge of the window, sipping from a glass of wine.

Alpha Lucien.

A dark knight.

“We are not to enjoy them.” At that last word, his eyes flashed a bright, eerie white as he tilted his head to look at me.

Before I could even react, Claude was suddenly in front of me, making me flinch and nearly stumble. But his hand wrapped around my waist, pulling me closer, so close that a gasp escaped my lips as he stood just inches away.

He was watching me, studying me, and I couldn’t tear my eyes away from him.

“Don’t stare at them too long without permission,”

The attendants warning echoed in my head, making my eyes widen before I quickly dropped my gaze.

“Look up, little she-wolf,” Claude demanded, and I instantly obeyed.

This time, standing beside Claude was Silas, his eyes narrowed intently at me.

“What is your name, she-wolf?” Silas asked, circling behind me, and I inhaled sharply as he pressed up from behind, trapping me between him and Claude.

“Refer to them separately as Alpha Claude, Silas and Lucien.

“M-My name is Lilith, Alpha Silas,” I forced the words from my lips, my fists clenching as Silas leaned in, brushed my hair aside, and took a slow inhale at my neck.

But before I could even process that, Claude reached out and grabbed my chin, forcing me to meet his gaze. The amused grin that stretched across his lips and the eerie white of his eyes made my stomach drop.

“Lilth,” he murmured, then chuckled, his gaze falling to my lips. And just as Silas leaned away from me, Claude echoed,

“Well, Lilith. Kneel for me. Let’s put that pretty mouth to use.”

Just like that, those simple words made my heart feel like it was about to explode. But...

“Don’t question what the Alphas ask of you.”

So I did just that.