[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-triplet-alphas-secret-mate":3,"chapter-the-triplet-alphas-secret-mate-the-triplet-alphas-secret-mate-chapter-5":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Triplet Alphas' Secret Mate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1745508,2230,"Chapter 5: His Secret","the-triplet-alphas-secret-mate-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>Liam’s POV\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I stood on the balcony, my knuckles tightening as I gripped the stone railing. Below me, Scarlett was a small, trembling figure kneeling under the merciless afternoon sun. My wolf was pacing in my head, a low, constant snarl vibrating in my chest. \"She is ours,\" he howled. \"She is burning. Set her free!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I ignored him, but the pain was clawing at my throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Yes, Scarlett was my mate. I had known the day she turned eighteen, two years ago—barely hours after I had dropped my hand to signal her parents’ execution. It was the cruelest joke the Moon Goddess ever played.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had spent years dreaming of the day I would finally be able to claim her. Before the betrayal, I had planned to pull Leon and Leo aside on her eighteenth birthday and finally confess that I wanted her. I was going to ask for their blessing to court her, to make her my Luna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​But then the tragedy happened. Her parents plotted my mother’s death and betrayed our pack. The love I once felt had turned into a poisoned well of shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​How could I admit that the girl I had sworn to break was the only person I was fated to love? If my brothers knew, they would look at me with the same disgust we reserved for rogues. I refused to be a laughingstock. I refused to be the Alpha who mated with a traitor—a traitor that filled my thoughts every blessed day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​My plan was simple: wait until she turned twenty and realized the bond, then reject her so harshly she would never dare speak of it. It was cruel, but it was the only way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I watched her palms hit the scorched gravel as she nearly collapsed. A sharp, stinging pain shot through my heart; that was the mate bond’s physical response to her distress. I had run into the yard the moment my wolf felt her being flogged, my blood boiling with the need to rip the guard’s head off. But I had to stay back. I had to play the part of the cold Alpha. If I showed mercy, the pack would whisper. They would say the \"Traitor’s Daughter\" had bewitched me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"What has the bitch done this time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leo’s voice dragged me out of my thoughts. He stepped up beside me, folding his arms across his chest as he stared at Scarlett, his expression cold and unreadable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between the two of us, I honestly don’t know who hates her more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leo doesn’t just dislike her—he seems to enjoy her suffering. Sometimes, the way he tortures her makes me wonder if he even remembers that there was a time he used to worship the ground she walked on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Not wanting to raise suspicion, I wiped the concern from my face and replaced it with a nonchalant one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"She was caught stealing the kitchen purse,\" I replied smoothly. It was a lie. I knew Scarlett wasn’t a thief; she was too proud for that. But I needed a reason to justify why she was out there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"I’m not surprised,\" Leon added, joining us on the other side. \"I caught her sneaking books from the library this morning. Once a rogue, always a rogue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I exhaled a heavy sigh, watching her head drop lower. She was sobbing silently. Every hitch of her shoulders felt like a serrated blade across my own lungs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Fuck this mate bond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Damn it!\" Leo grunted suddenly. He looked genuinely agitated, his jaw tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"You alright, bro?\" I asked. We were triplets, a single soul split into three. We shared everything—women, secrets, battles. Except this. I was the one keeping a secret now, and the weight of it was suffocating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"She looks like she would collapse soon,\" Leon commented, sounding somewhat worried, or maybe it was just me misunderstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Leo scoffed. \"She won’t die...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I forced a smirk back, pretending I didn’t feel the bond tightening around my heart like a noose. We stood there, watching the girl we once fought each other for going through such torture. If a seer had told me years ago that we would stand by and let tears fall down Scarlett’s cheeks without lifting a finger, I would have called them mad. From the moment she walked into our lives, we adored her. We protected her. We worshipped her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Sometimes I wished I could be nicer to her... but doing that felt like I was betraying my late mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Suddenly, her body went limp. She hit the gravel, her face flat on the ground, and didn’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Something is wrong...\" Leon said, sounding panicked, or perhaps I misheard again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​But I didn’t pay attention. The world went silent. The suffocating pressure in my chest spiked into a blinding pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"She’s not breathing!\" my wolf roared. \"GO TO HER!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​My legs moved before I could give them permission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Liam?\" Leo called out, his voice laced with confusion as I jumped over the two-story balcony railing and hit the ground running.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I reached her unconscious form, the heat radiating off the stones and burning through my boots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Get up,\" I growled, kneeling beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​No response. Her skin was deathly pale where the sun hadn’t turned it raw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I grabbed her arm and flipped her onto her back. Her lips were cracked and blue, her breathing so shallow I had to lean in to hear it. A terrifying, dark emotion flooded my chest as the thought of her dying made me unable to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Panicked, I scooped her up in my arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\"Liam, what the hell are you doing?\" Leo’s voice was sharp with suspicion as he and Leon caught up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​I turned to them, my body trembling, and for a split second I couldn’t hide my unease... but I forced the coldness back into my voice. \"She’s no use to us dead,\" I snapped. \"If she dies today, who else will we have to punish tomorrow? We aren’t finished with her yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​Leon furrowed his brow and shrugged, but Leo narrowed his eyes. He was looking at the way I was holding her—too close, too protective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t wait for his questions. I turned and walked toward the infirmary, her head resting against my shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​For the first time in my life, I wasn’t feeling rage or hatred. I was feeling something I had sworn never to feel again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>​\u003C\u002Fp>",1069,"2026-06-06T16:50:55.299Z",1,"novelbin.me","195ab77c0274db3cabf3dc9f29337755ffd7fb80c117cafd3c9c3e583e4de335","the-triplet-alphas-secret-mate-chapter-6","the-triplet-alphas-secret-mate-chapter-4",207,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-triplet-alphas-secret-mate-cover.jpg"]