Triplet Alpha: My Fated Mates

"Kara." Cole’s voice drops. "Are you—did I hurt you?" "No." "I'm fine." "*Fuck,*" he breathes. "You're—" "Don't." My voice cracks. "Please don't say it." "Aroused." He says it anyway. "You're aroused." "I'm *not*—" "Your scent." His nostrils flare. "Kara, you smell like—" "*Stop.*" I cover my face with my hands. "Just—stop." Then his hand on my wrist, pulling my hands away. "There's nothing wrong with wanting us," he says softly. "It's natural. You're our mate. We're *yours*." "I know." My voice is barely a whisper. I spent ten years as a ghost in the Sterling mansion—a debt slave to the triplet Alphas who made my life hell. They called me "Carrot," shoved me into frozen rivers, and left me to die in the snow when I was eleven. On my eighteenth birthday, everything changed. My first shift released a scent of white musk and first snow—and three former tormentors stood outside my door, claiming I was their fated mate. All three of them. Overnight, the debt vanished. Asher's commands turned to vows, Blake's fists became trembling apologies, and Cole swore they'd been waiting for me all along. They declared me their Luna and promised to spend their lives atoning. My wolf howls to accept them. But one question haunts me: *Would that eleven-year-old girl, freezing and certain she would die, forgive the choice I'm about to make?*