Triplets for my mafia alpha

his black leather coat, but he barely felt it. His wolf clawed at his chest, a feral thing begging to break free, to chase the scent that haunted him...wildflowers and starlig

humans break. His silver eyes burned in the dark, catching the flicker of lightning that split the sky. Mud sucked at his boots, and the storm's

ng eyes green as the moon's edge, sharp enough to cut. She stood tall, he

voice steady, slicing through the win

o bear his heirs. He'd felt her then, the pull of her, stronger than any Alpha bond, her scent a drug he couldn't quit. And then she was gone, vanished with the newborns, leaving him with nothing but visions and a madness no one

as narrow, its brick walls slick with grime, neon signs flickering in the di

ren, Amara. You thi

beside her, a boy no older than three, his small hand clutching hers. Silver eyes,Lucien's eyes stared up at him, wide and wary, framed by dark ha

er hoods, their gazes too old, too knowing for their years. A girl with wild curls, her green eyes like Amara's, and another boy, thin as a shadow, his gray eyes fixed o

ened on the boy's,

he said, her voice low, trembling

e me unde

stood tall, her gaze unflinching, and that defiance ignited something in him,fury, yes, but also a hunger he couldn't name. No one resisted him. No one. Not his lieutenants, not

and it twisted something in his chest, a pang he hadn't felt in years. Not since he'd clawed his way to power,

s his

t she hesitated, her ga

word heavy, like it cost her

nd a warmth. He looked at the other two, the girl an

d t

l, whose curls bounced as she peeked a

t him, his gray eyes still in the sky,

chor him. His children. His heirs. But why were they here, in this filthy

at hit him harder than any command. "If you take us back, i

the underworld? His empire, his pack, th

demanded, his voice low, dangerou

e rain, but before she could answer, Kae

angry. Like

the boy know? He knelt, ignoring the mud

s softer than he meant, but the

ed, and he shrank back,

" he whispered. "I saw i

spine. Touched her? What was this? He looked a

g about?" he asked

wrong w

ng's w

ulled Kael closer, her arm around Lira and

ore than you know. And that'

ritual chamber. The Moon Oracle's light, her trembling under the moonlight, the contract's magic binding them. She'd been chosen, the only one to pass the Oracle's tests, her blood

er, his voice low, a lover's thre

, and he felt it again,that pull, that need to keep her close, to claim her in ways an Alpha shouldn

oo wrong. Lucien's instincts screamed, his wolf snarling. Danger. Death. The shadow's eyes glowed red, not wolf, no

triplets, but her eyes locked on his, wide with fear,not for herself, but for

ed, her voice raw. "You

wled, his claws extend

ng into him, its screech a claw in his mind. The tr

, it'

laws tearing through flesh that wasn't flesh. It screeched again, a sound that rattled his bones, and the storm swallowed them all. Amara's scr

, and pain seared through him, hot and blinding. He fell to his knees, blood mixing with the mud, his vision swim