3RD POV.
“You cannot enter. That’s an order.” Says a guard at the entrance to the triplets’ study room, but Lyra isn’t planning on stopping.
“And someone as little as you would stop me?” Rather, she barges in, walking in with grace as though she owns the space.
Kade waves off his hand at the guard when he tries to hold Lyra back. The guard nods his head before he goes back to his spot.
“Your highness,” Lyra is just starting when Kieran halts her voice from coming out of her throat when he grabs her by her throat and runs her against the wall.
He holds her there, his eyes burning into her face. “It was an order that we did not want to be disturbed. What have you come here for?”
“My Lord, it is important. Something I am certain you want to be informed of, especially since it’s been happening right under your nose.” She speaks with a fire in her voice. She isn’t as scared as expected, which makes Kieran chuckle.
He releases his grip on her so that her reddened skin can heal back to normalcy. Once she’s okay, she swallows a lump in her throat and states her reasons for being there: “Your toy has a man friend. She’s been fornicating with him all these while without any of you realizing it.”
“Talk about us being incapable once again, and you’d lose all your hair.” Lyra gasps at Kieran’s words, who’s still towering over her with his hands brawled into a fist.
Lyra shrinks deeper into the wall, as though she wants to walk through it to the other side.
“Brother, haven’t you got quite the humour in you after all?” Kyle chuckles. “continue.” That is Kyle’s order, and she does it with a bright smile on her face.
“My sisters and I have been spying on her.”
“You mean stalking?” Kieran interrupts; his actions show just how obviously he doesn’t want Lyra or the other girls around him.
“At the end of it all, she’s cheating once again, just like she did with the guard. She’s a cunt, a whore. Or why else would she be with another guy, and a maid, for that matter?” Lyra’s tone passes venom across the room, and it is received just as she wants because the brothers’ bodies stiffen at her clarification.
“And where is she?”
“My sisters and I have done the work. As we speak, she is being taken to the dungeon with the guy. They were caught in the western forest, picking apples. She might be in love with that human; who knows?” Lyra has the intention of talking in this manner so she can fuel the triplets’ anger even more.
She and her sisters want Kaya to be broken to the very core, so she won’t have any more reason to live. They know they dare not try to kill her themselves, for if they are found out, the triplets will not hesitate to kill them off. So, instead, they would turn the triplets’ minds against Kaya, forcing them to kill her, or she kills herself.
Either way, they win, and that’s their joy.
Kade drops the paperwork in his hands and stands up. “Have the guy hung up in chains and our toy free to watch the scene. We’d be there right away.”
Lyra courtesy, “my Lords,” then she walks out of the room.
“She knows her game,” is all Kyle says just before he scoffs.
Kade, Kieran, and Kyle make their way to the dungeon, adjourning their work until another time. For now, once they’ve heard of Kaya, they cannot think of anything else.
Presently, Kade has his eyes fixated on Kaya, his brows slightly raised so he can take a look at her pain.
He could almost swear that he shares in her pain, as do the rest of his brothers, but he acts not like it. Neither does he even show it in his eyes. Perhaps that’s why Kyle isn’t involving himself in the punishment.
Kade is utilizing his Alpha aura on Kaya, forcing her to go on her knees and onto the floor. Her face is the only part of her that shows her pain. Her tears flow freely and her crying sounds, her throat vibrating as she sucks in air just so that her vocals can vibrate as another tear rips through her insides.
But Kade won’t stop. His monstrous personality won’t let him stop her pain. Neither Kieran nor Kyle would, either. She is to suffer for reasons blinded to her. She is suffering just because she is their mate, a truth that not even she knows about.
She is an inexperienced witch, so they are taking advantage of her, and she doesn’t even realize it. Maybe at the end of it all, she would kill them off, but do they really care about that?
Maybe everything—maybe all their plans—and maybe all the pain they’re making Kaya go through doesn’t even make sense anymore.
“Kieran, make it painful, deadly, and excruciatingly agonizing.” Kade’s tone is stable. That is all he has to say for Kieran to sharpen out his talons and strike Aiden on the chest such that his heart is plucked out from inside his sternum. A final end is put to his uneven breathing in less than a second, and he’s gone.
Kaya screams, unable to contain herself. At that point, she does not know what to do. Her feelings have crowded her thinking as she bends, positioning herself on all fours.
She can only cry, her tears ripping into the tiny space. She’s gagging at her sobs, screaming “no” continuously.
“Leave her alone here with the deceased.” Kade spills, and without a pause, he leaves the room. Kieran and Kyle walk in line with him before the girls follow behind them and the guards.
“No, this isn’t impossible. You can’t die.“Kaya stands up weakly, her arms jangling around like she’s dead herself and unable to control her limbs. She struggles to stand upright, her walk staggered as she nears Aiden’s body.
The chains are released, and he drops to the ground. Kaya sits next to him on the ground, gulping down her own saliva.
“No, Aiden, you were a replica of my brother. You can’t die the painful death that he did. It’s not possible. Oh, goodness, no!” Her face rises to the moon shining through the vent at the end of the block. “Why...” As she’s rocking his body back and forth with hers, her arms hugging Aiden’s body tightly, her tears pierce into every detail of her being.
She is more than broken; she is more than punished. She has taken Aiden as yet another family that she could grow with, that she could have a reason to live for, but she has lost him.
“Oh, how could I have failed you? I was supposed to protect you. I was supposed to protect all of you. Oh, why?” Shaky, her tone chills into the air, unclear and worn.
She just keeps crying in the pool of Aiden’s blood, which has wet the whole floor and tainted her body too.
In the midst of the silence, Kaya continues sobbing, finding herself unstopping her cries and every part of her wish that this is all a nightmare that she could wake up from.
In the hallway, the triplets can still hear Kaya’s wail, her anger, frustration, pain, agony, and cries filling the space with a somber aura. They can all feel it, surprisingly, and they’ve never for once felt so close to Kaya as they do now. Their emotions have never been disturbed by hers before, but this time, they can’t help it.
“My Lord, now that that is out of the way, what do you say we...” Alana just starts before Kieran grabs her with his claws, his palm covering her entire face, and slams her head against the wall.
Her sisters are still gasping when Lyra is grabbed, as well as having her cheeks cut by Kieran’s claw before he jabs her with his elbow, sending her head into slamming against the ground she’s fallen onto. Lastly is Clara, who’s trying to beg for forgiveness, but Kieran hesitates never to slap her so hard that her neck cracks and she drops to the ground as well.
When the three of them wouldn’t stand up, groan, or make any sound at all, Kyle spoke out, “bollocks, did you kill them?”
“No.”
Kyle clears his throat in Kieran’s response, “good, because I need to fuck tonight after all those shits you both performed.”
“Newsflash.” Kieran mocks, “go fuck someone else, brother.”
“These girls are the best of all the sex slaves we have.” Kyle is already walking away, to which Kieran tsks, shaking his head.