Fated to the Alpha–And His Triplet Brothers novel Chapter 175

Chapter 175: Mate bond

*~Caspian’s POV~*

I was shocked to my very bones when I saw my brother standing there...his body cloaked in darkness, wings still fading, and Hazel by his side, clinging to him as if she could not see the nightmare standing in front of us.

I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. My heart pounded furiously as Hazel broke free from his embrace, and Cayden’s eyes finally locked with mine.

"What is this?" I demanded, my voice rough, trembling with disbelief. "Cayden, what is this? How... when...how did you become all of this? Who are you?"

"Caspian..." he muttered, his voice unsteady. "Trust me, I don’t know what this is. I don’t understand it either."

I scoffed, rage tightening my throat. "You don’t know? You just sprouted black wings like a demon horns starting to push through your skull and you expect me to believe you don’t know? What kind of power is this? Because it sure as hell isn’t the power of a normal wolf!"

He flinched, his eyes pleading. "I swear to you, I don’t know. I’m as shocked as you are. If I had known about this, don’t you think I would have used it to protect us? To find Hazel when she was missing? I didn’t ask for this...it just... it just suddenly activated."

"Activated?" I repeated bitterly, my voice laced with venom. "You killed a Crescent Alpha in less than a minute right before my eyes, and you want me to think this is nothing?"

Hazel tried to step forward, her voice soft. "Caspian, listen"

"Don’t." I cut her off with a raised hand. My eyes never left Cayden. "Are you seriously supporting him right now? Pretending not to see what’s standing right in front of us? Hazel...do you know about this?"

Her lips parted, trembling. "I don’t. I swear I don’t."

"Then why are you pretending?" I snapped.

"Because he’s still Cayden!" she shot back. "And he just killed a Crescent Alpha. We should be grateful...not tearing each other apart!"

"I’m not tearing him apart!" I roared, my voice breaking with frustration. "I just want the truth!" My chest heaved as I pointed straight at my brother. "You made this monster our Alpha. You could have told me all of this...you should have told me. Instead, you hid it from me."

"I didn’t hide it!" Cayden’s voice cracked with desperation. "I never knew it existed!"

"Bullshit!" I barked. The word echoed like a whipcrack. "How did you become Alpha at sixteen, Cayden? Tell me. You used this exact same power...this darkness...to make Father see you, to make the Elders bow to you, to make everyone believe you were worthy. You used this power to empower both me and Cyrius when we were nothing but shadows beside you. And now you want to stand here and tell me you didn’t know?"

His face twisted, pain flickering through his expression. "Yes..I knew I wasn’t a normal wolf. Yes I felt something dark inside of me. But I never knew what it was. I’ve never seen myself like this before." He glanced down at himself, disgust flashing in his eyes. "This... this isn’t what I wanted."

I shook my head, my chest burning with betrayal. "No. This is bullshit."

"Sorry, I’m out of here."

I turned to leave, fury boiling through me. My chest was tight, my head pounding—I couldn’t stand another second of this madness. But then Lilith’s voice rang out, low and deliberate.

"It is me."

I froze in my tracks. Slowly, I turned back to face her. "What?"

Her eyes darkened, guilt shimmering in them. "It is me. I am behind the facts. Cayden... he is not a normal wolf."

The air stilled. Even Cayden’s face twisted in shock, his jaw clenched as if he was just hearing the words for the first time. Hazel’s lips parted, confusion trembling in her eyes. Silence swallowed us whole, thick and suffocating, until Lilith finally spoke again.

"The night I gave birth to Hazel—the very same night you triplets were born—I went to the high house. Your mother had just delivered the three of you. You were newborns, swaddled in her arms. I went to your room, full of grief and vengeance. And in that moment... I killed Cayden."

The words crashed over me like ice. My body stiffened. Hazel gasped. Cayden staggered a step back.

"But then," Lilith continued, her voice trembling, "I woke him up. I revived him with dark magic. I expected the magic to make him a Crescent. But it didn’t. He came back... different. A wolf, yes, but not ordinary. I thought he’d burn out, or that the magic would devour him. Instead... he became Alpha. Even then, I could still sense the traces of dark power in him, faint but undeniable. He has carried it in his veins ever since."

Cayden’s voice finally broke through, guttural and enraged. "You... killed me? You’re saying all of this...this monster I’ve become is your fault? You cursed me. You made me feel like a stranger in my own body. You made me into this!"

The bond between us... is only dark magic.

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