Alpha Triplets Claim

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Before any of them could respond, my emotions spilled over.

“And what about the missing years? The birthdays? The milestones I went through thinking I was utterly and irrevocably alone? Was protecting me really worth erasing yourselves from my life entirely?”

Just when I thought I had made my point, Damon interrupted, his eyes glowing with an intense luminescence that seemed almost supernatural.

“Phera, listen to me. We never, ever left you alone.”

My heartbeat skipped, the room blurring for a split second before snapping back into focus. Axel chimed in, his voice strangled, almost as if he were in pain.

“We had our pack members keep an eye on you from a

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distance. Every report about you your well-being, your happiness or lack thereof-was delivered directly to us. We were… always there, in spirit if not in form.”

Zane leaned in, the intensity of his gaze making it difficult to maintain eye contact.

“It destroyed us to be away from you, Phera. We may not have been there in person, but every fiber of our being longed to be with you. Our wolves howled in night because they were separated from their true mate.”

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The rawness in their confessions made my throat tighten further, my vision getting cloudier by the second. My heart, still thudding like a war drum in a battlefield, seemed to be pulled in multiple directions. On the one hand, I was struggling to come. to terms with the enormity of their sacrifices, the layers of complex motives, and their unquestionable love for me. On the other hand, there was a part of me-perhaps the damaged part -that still questioned whether love could ever justify years of imposed isolation and emotional turmoil.

For a moment, everything stood still-the room, the world. outside, even my own th

if pausing to recognize the gravity of what had just transpired. There we were, four souls

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bound by destiny yet riven by years of choices, both right and wrong. And for the first time, I wondered not just what love could destroy, but also what it had the power to heal. But for now, that question remained unanswered, hanging heavy in the air, filling the room with a silence that was both empty and unbearably full.

The weight of their words hung in the air, dense and palpable. I could feel their gazes on me, three sets of grey eyes that seemed to pierce through the very fabric of my soul, as if trying to read the scroll of emotions unfurling within me. Axel, Damon, Zane-each stood frozen, their auras intermingling in a complex symphony that filled the room with a static energy. The

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atmosphere felt charged, like the sky right before a storm, brimming with the promise of an impending deluge.

“We’re asking for another chance, Phera,” Damon broke the silence.

His voice imbued with a quiet desperation that set my nerves on edge.

“The situation has stabilized now. You don’t have to stay away any longer. Come back to the Red Moon Pack. Come back home.”

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Axel picked up where Damon left off, his words tinged with a raw vulnerability that rendered his usually confident demeanour unrecognizable.

“Your friends are there, your family. You belong with us.”

Zane added softly,

“You belong with your pack, with your mates. You belong with us, Phera.”

Their pleas swirled around me like eddies in a turbulent river, each word, each utterance tugging me this way and that, as if I were caught in a whirlpool of conflicting desires, fears, and uncertainties. For a fleeting moment, I felt like I was teetering on the edge of something monumental, something that could either liberate me or shatter me into a thousand unrecognizable pieces. I sighed, my exhale tinged with a blend of resignation. and reluctant clarity.

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“What’s the point in asking? Even if I say no, you’d make sure I get fired from ADZ Corp. No other werewolf company would hire me because of your influence. So, what choice do I truly have?”

My voice wavered, not with defeat, but with a newfound awareness of the invisible strings that had been maneuvering my life all along.

“You’ve already made most of my life choices for me,” continued, locking eyes with each of them in turn,

“So don’t you think I deserve the chance to think things over, to weigh my options before I decide? If you truly love me as you. claim, you’d give me that much. My consent, my choice-it should matter.”

Their eyes met mine, and for the first time, I saw a glimmer of understanding in those bottomless grey pools. As if they finally grasped the complex tapestry of emotions and needs that I was trying to communicate.

“We never wanted to strip you of your agency, Phera,” Axel finally responded, his voice tinged with a regret so palpable it almost hurt to hear it. “If we did, it was out of ignorance, and for

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that, we’re sorry. You deserve to make your own choices. We’ll wait for your decision, no matter what it is.”

The room was charged with a fragile stillness, the kind that precedes either reconciliation or calamity. In that moment, their acceptance of my terms felt like the first drop of rain after a long drought-both an end and a beginning. And though the storm of our shared past and uncertain future still loomed large on the horizon, that single drop was enough to let me know that perhaps, just perhaps, we might be on the precipice of something not only new but also profoundly healing.

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