Fated To Not Just One But Three novel Chapter 242

242 A Letter

“So… are we finally accepting it now?” D

They didn’t say anything at first.

The guard bowed and turned on his heel.

Just for a second.

He didn’t take it back.

She nodded, and without another word, she left.

I nodded and stepped back. “Call Dustin.”

Neither of us responded immediately.

I shook my head hard. “Stop it, Lennox… she’s your uncle’s wife,” I breathed out with a broken sigh. What the hell is happening to me? Minutes ago, I realized Olivia–the girl I’d loved my whole life–might be related to me, and now I’ve kissed Rebecca, who’s family. My uncle’s wife. What the hell is going on?

Not her.

We didn’t want to say it.

I gestured toward the letter still held in the guard’s hands. “We need you to read it.”

I nodded slowly. “There’s more to this. There has to be.”

But when we finally pulled apart, both of us breathless, the silence between louder than anything I’d ever heard.

was

Louis shook his head. “It doesn’t make sense, man. None of it does. I keep going back and forth in my head. Trying to find a hole in the story. Something that would prove they were lying. Something that would make this all a sick misunderstanding.”

Levi looked down. “Would we, though?”

The kiss… it felt so damn good.

But what if she was really gone?

242 A Letter

Louis shot to his feet. “Don’t bring any more cursed letters near us. We’re done being manipulated.”

Both Levi and I looked at him instantly.

“If she was alive,” he continued, his voice low and bitter, “we would’ve had to cut ties with her. Let go of everything we felt. Of everything we ever were.”

I clenched my jaw, trying to hold in the chaos surging inside me.

Her lips were soft, warm–nothing like Olivia’s, yet somehow they still made my heart clench the same way. I hated it. I hated how my pain found comfort in someone else. But I didn’t stop.

1

We fell silent again.

Louis sat down slowly in one of the wooden chairs, elbows on his knees, head in his

hands.

Just enough to breathe.

Didn’t want to believe it.

Rebecca nodded slowly. “You’re hurting. I understand. I don’t expect anything from you, Lennox. I just… I saw you breaking, and I wanted to be there.”

They both wore the same worried, confused look.

I looked at him.

I looked away first, stepping back like I’d just been burned. The cold air rushed between us, but it did nothing to cool the heat rising in my chest.

There was silence again. This one heavier. Sadder.

“But they won’t tell us,” I added bitterly. “They’re still protecting some secret. Even

now.”

yes… my 1

I slumped against the wall, shutting my replaying that kiss over and over. Damn it, why did it feel so good and so right?

Olivia wouldn’t just die like that.

He bowed slightly. “A letter just arrived… addressed to the three of you.”

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242 A Letter

He blinked. “Me?”

I looked them in the eyes. “No,” I said. “We wouldn’t have. I couldn’t have.”

The library doors opened, and a guard stepped in, holding a folded letter in his gloved

hand.

“Yes, Alpha,” the guard nodded.

Was this betrayal to Damien?

“I don’t want to,” I whispered.

He examined the seal before he carefully broke the seal, unfolded the paper, and began to read.

Then Louis exhaled sharply and muttered, “What if Olivia was still alive?”

He met my eyes. “That she’s dead.”

“And Olivia…” Louis added quietly, “might be related to us.”

“Yeah,” I said slowly, rubbing the back of my neck. “That’s what makes it worse.”

“She could be our cousin, and I still wouldn’t have been able to let her go,” I admitted. My voice cracked near the end, and I hated it. Hated how broken I sounded. “Even when I tried to hate her… it didn’t work. Even after everything we did to her, all she had to do was look at me and I—” I shook my head. “I would’ve stayed.”

She didn’t either.

A pause.

God, I wanted to pull away.

Then Levi spoke, his voice quiet, almost hollow.

The door to the library creaked open, snapping me from my thoughts. I looked see my brothers stepping in.

Did I feel guilty?

“I… I didn’t mean to do that,” I said hoarsely, running a hand through my hair.

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