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3rd POV.

Kyle, Kieran, and Kade are in media.

The brothers go to their study room, left stunned by the effect that a common girl, and a witch at that, had on them.

From recollection, the way their hearts had taken a beat, something that hadn’t happened in a very very long time. One can say they’ve even forgotten what it means to have adrenaline or other anxiety hormones run through their veins. It is distressingly for them.

A glass cup slams onto the table, raising Kieran’s and Kyle’s eyes at Kade. It is rather surprising that they’d ever see Kade in a non-collected way for the first time.

He’s only had everything figured out, calculated, and his facial expression is blank, but tonight, the side of his eyes wrinkles as his frown deepens and his fingers are twirling around the top of the glass cup. His brows are deeply furrowed with a wrinkle at the sides of his eyes, his jaw twitching from sides to sides. He remains lost in thought.

“Kade, are you okay?” Kyle asks and changes his position on the leather chair so he can properly face Kade.

Kade’s on the opposite side; his other hand rakes into his hair and grips the strands tight. His perfectly combed hair soon turns a bit messy, a few strands falling to his forehead.

“This is all your fault, Kyle. I can’t believe you put us in the mess, and you all messed things up even more. If you don’t have the guts to finish her off, you should have let me.” Kieran’s voice booms into the room as he charts his eyes between his two brothers. There is a fierceness in the tone he speaks with before he huffs and looks away for a second.

Kyle’s retort is almost audible until Kade spreads out his left hand at them, ushering them into silence and speaking as he stands up to his feet, leaving them rooted to the ground.

He begins with an unfazed tone. “We don’t have much of a choice here. I know we’ve always thought so; in fact, she’s even superior to the moon goddess, but if she’s decided to fuck with us now, she has messed up big time, and Kaya must suffer for the goddess’s errors.” As Kade declares, Kieran grins, his lips tugging tightly to the side.

Kade’s hands hide in his pockets. “We cannot afford to grow any form of sentiment towards that thing of a girl. She’s not even a she-wolf, but a witch! How absurd. So, yes, she must suffer for the errors in her fate. That is the only way we can distance ourselves from affection.”

Kyle clears his throat out of the blue, making Kade stop and drop his gaze on him. “So, I respect all the plans we’ve made so far, but think about how she affects our curses. There’s got to be something we have to understand about that. We can’t all be focused on punishing her for the affection she tries to arise in us without also working on that situation.”

“Yes, brother. You’ve said it well. We’ll work on understanding that part as well.”

“She might be using some witchy blah blah blah on us.” Kieran says with his back leaned against the recliner in the chair.

There is a little silence before Kyle laughs in a mild way and snorts it out. “I’m sorry, and brother, I love you, but trust me, don’t chime into this conversation. All your brain thinks of is mayhem, not how to make plans about something.”

“Fuck you, Kyle.” Spews Kieran, and he rolls his eyes at Kyle.

They grab each other and start to poke themselves in the stomach, gritting out their teeth as they laugh. Kade clears his throat just then. Shaking his head and slamming his hand into his face, he groans and sits back down.

“Are you both done being so stupid?” He asks and exhales a heavy breath.

“Yeah, bro.” In a simultaneous manner, they both say and sit down, still chuckling.

“Better.” Kade pauses and resumes. “So, we find out how she’s able to control and stop our curses; we know if she’s a gift we can harness, or maybe just nothing but a sex toy anyway.” Kade thinks he has finished until Kyle chuckles in a weird manner.

“Wait, I don’t understand. Are we taking a witch as one of our mistresses?” He darts his eyes towards Kieran. “That’s impossible. We cannot even afford to let anyone know that she’s a witch. They’d kill her right off before we could use her for whatever experiment we wanted.”

Kade’s voice tightens when he speaks, and his eyes are fixated on both of his brothers. “You both need to understand what’s important here; that’s us. Now, if we want to understand this situation, we have to keep her. She’s our mate, after all, and while that must be a secret between us, we must keep her by us, so no one can notice who exactly she is.”

He clears his voice and adds. “Our curses go as far back as forever now that I think of it, and being to her, I’ve never felt... whatever was that. And what is impossible here is how the moon goddess made us all have one mate, and she got to be a witch. So, yes, we make her our experiment, sexually, physically, and mentally.”

“I need a drink.” Kieran murmurs under his throat and goes to get himself a glass, and just as he turns back, the creaking sound of the door opening reaches their hearing.

Their mother, Emilie, peaks into the room before she frowns when she sees the triplets. “And why have you guys been hiding in here since forever?”

“Mother, we are sorry. The boys needed to have a particular conversation. We are sorry for keeping you waiting. How’s your celebration going?” Kade says with an official voice. His lips parts a little to form a small smile.

“Well, I need you guys to walk me up the middle stage to make my speech, but here you all are, having...is it about a girl the three of you want to fuck at once? I told you guys to stop that already. It’s embarrassing.”

“No, it’s called you being old-fashioned already, mother.” Kyle retorts with a sarcastic laugh, sounding quite hysterical.

“And now, I’m getting insulted by the boys that I raise.”

“Bother not, Mother. I have them under my control. Let’s go to your party.” Kade demands before he walks to their mother and hooks his arm with hers.

Her smile grows far more than elegant, after which he spreads out his other hand for her to proceed. “After you, mother.”

“Thank you.”

Then, his orbs turn to his brothers, squeezing them at Kyle and Kieran. They get the gesture and clear their throats, clearing any wrinkles in their shirt before they join Kade and their mother.

“By the way, I heard something about a witch in the kingdom. There’s no way that is possible, is it?” Their mother asks and makes eye contact with Kade.

If there’s a hint of surprise in his comportment, he doesn’t show it. His lips curve upward and state, “As you said, you heard, not saw. So, of course, you should know that’s absurd. If such a thing were to even occur, my brothers would have finished her.”

Kade’s tone rides smoothly, which causes Kieran and Kyle to look at each other.

The triplets have always had their three minds portrayed as one, which has gotten them closer than ever before. Their plans are more important to them than anything else, and they’d protect it just so they could find out the mystery behind what the moon goddess planned.

They’ve never been the type to “give a fuck” about the rules of being a werewolf, and that’s why they don’t also believe in the mate bonds, but with Kaya in the scene, perhaps things might begin to change for them.

As they walk their mother, they know this is just the beginning of something new they’ve never faced before in their lives.