Chapter : Stolen Fate

Roo's body collapsed.

His knees buckled beneath him, breath ragged, vision spiraling into an abyss of fragmented memories—flashes of a life he didn't know he had lived.

Yet, it was there.

Lingering.

Pressing against his mind like a whisper of something stolen.

"Roo!" Alec's voice was sharp, but far away.

Ace was already moving, arms reaching out—

But the silver-haired Alpha was faster.

With inhuman speed, he caught Roo before he hit the cold marble floor, cradling him against his chest like something precious.

A deep, possessive growl rumbled in his throat.

The triplets froze.

"Get. Your. Hands. Off. Him."

Alexander's voice was no longer a voice—it was a command.

A command soaked in murderous intent.

The air cracked, golden flames flickering around his towering frame, barely restrained rage bleeding from his very being.

But the silver-haired Alpha?

He just smirked.

"Or what?" His hold on Roo tightened, fingers grazing his throat—right over the mating bond that tied him to the triplets.

"You'll kill me?"

His violet eyes darkened.

"Again?"

The room plunged into silence.

Alexander's jaw tensed.

Ace's fingers twitched, golden eyes narrowing into slits. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Don't you get it?" The silver-haired Alpha laughed—low, sharp, bitter. "You were never meant to have him." His fingers brushed Roo's feverish cheek, eyes flickering with something dangerous. "Because he was already mine."

Roo shuddered in his hold.

Because it was true.

He could feel it.

A bond—not new. Not recent.

But buried.

Lost.

Taken.

Ace's snarl tore through the air. "You're lying."

"Am I?" The silver-haired Alpha exhaled, gaze flickering to Roo's trembling frame. "Then tell me, piccolo…" His voice dropped lower, softer. "Why do you remember me now?"

Roo's breath hitched.

Because he did.

Flashes of laughter, whispered promises, a grip that had once been gentle, a bond that had once felt unbreakable.

Until—

Until—

Everything turned to blood.

His eyes widened.

There was a war.

There was fire.

And then—

They came for him.

Hands.

Chains.

And then—

The triplets.

Alec's grip on his wrist tightened painfully. "Roo."

Roo flinched.

Because suddenly—

The mate bond between them felt wrong.

Forced.

Changed.

And the silver-haired Alpha?

His smirk faded.

"You were stolen from me, Roo." His voice was a whisper of pain and rage. "And they never even told you."

The world tilted.

Everything Roo knew—everything he had ever trusted—

Crumbled.

Roo's pulse pounded in his ears.

The room felt too small, too suffocating. The bond he had with the triplets was a living thing, twisting inside him, resisting—fighting something unseen.

Or maybe… someone.

His fingers shook as he clutched his head, his body trembling against the overwhelming force pressing into his mind.

Memories.

Memories that weren't supposed to exist.

And yet, they did.

"Roo."

Alexander's voice was calmer now, but Roo could feel the underlying rage.

Not at him.

No.

At the intruder.

The Alpha who still had his hands on him.

The silver-haired Alpha.

Roo knew him now.

Or at least—his body did.

His scent wasn't unfamiliar anymore. It was buried deep in the recesses of his soul, like an old melody long forgotten. A piece of his past—

A past erased.

His breath hitched.

"You lied to me." Roo's voice came out weaker than he wanted, barely above a whisper.

The triplets tensed.

"We never lied to you, piccolo," Ace was the first to speak, his tone dangerously low. "We have only ever protected you."

"From what?" The silver-haired Alpha let out a humorless chuckle. "The truth?"

His fingers ghosted down Roo's arm, and suddenly, pain shot through him—

No.

Not pain.

Memories.

The scent of burning wood.

The sensation of chains tightening around his wrists.

A voice—soft, desperate.

"I will find you again. No matter what they do to us, I will find you, Roo."

Roo gasped.

It was him.

It was—

"Stop touching him!"

Alexander's command snapped through the air, the force of his Alpha aura crushing the space between them. The walls trembled. The temperature dropped.

But the silver-haired Alpha?

He smirked.

"Scared, fratellino?"

Alexander's golden eyes darkened. "Call me that again, and I'll rip your throat out."

The silver-haired Alpha tilted his head, his violet eyes gleaming with something almost amused.

"You already did."

Roo stilled.

Ace let out a low growl, his body coiled like a beast ready to attack. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"He doesn't know?" The silver-haired Alpha exhaled through his nose, his smirk fading into something colder. "Of course, he doesn't. That's the problem with rewriting the past, isn't it? Even the ones who did it forget."

He turned back to Roo, studying him, eyes dark with something unreadable.

"Do you feel it, Roo?" His voice dipped into something softer, more intimate. "The wrongness in the bond? The way it tugs and pulls, like something is missing?"

Roo shivered.

Because he did.

The mate bond—his bond to the triplets—

It was everything.

It was overwhelming, unbreakable, intoxicating.

And yet…

Something was off.

Alec took a step forward, his canines lengthening. "That's enough."

"Is it?" The silver-haired Alpha arched a brow, looking right at Roo. "You're starting to remember, aren't you? But let me make it easier for you, piccolo…"

Then—

Then he pulled Roo closer.

And kissed him.

Everything snapped.

The bond inside Roo screamed.

His mind fractured.

And suddenly—

He remembered everything.

Roo's world cracked open.

The moment the silver-haired Alpha's lips brushed against his, it was like a dam inside him burst.

Memories he didn't know existed came crashing down like a tidal wave, swallowing him whole.

Fire. Blood. Chains. A voice whispering his name.

His breath hitched. His body jerked in shock, every nerve in him screaming.

The bond—his bond to the triplets—reacted violently.

"Let go of him!"

The growl shook the ground.

Alec.

His rage was feral, raw. His claws extended, his golden eyes burning brighter than the sun.

The silver-haired Alpha barely had a second to react before Alec ripped him away from Roo.

CRASH.

The impact sent the Alpha flying, slamming into the opposite wall with enough force to crack the reinforced glass panels.

"Alec, wait—"

Alexander and Ace moved instantly, their bodies positioned in front of Roo as their wolves snarled.

But Roo—

Roo was somewhere else.

His hands trembled as he clutched his head, flashes of another life rushing through him.

—A darkened cell, his wrists bound in silver.

—A figure standing before him, purple eyes watching him.

—"I will find you again, Roo."

A different name echoed in his mind.

A name that didn't belong to Alec, Ace, or Alexander.

A name that felt like a knife to his soul.

"Lucien."

His voice cracked when he said it.

The silver-haired Alpha—Lucien—stilled.

For the first time, his confident smirk was gone.

"So, you do remember."

Ace's growl deepened, his body vibrating with suppressed rage. "Who the hell are you to him?"

"Who am I?" Lucien let out a sharp exhale, brushing debris off his shoulders. His violet eyes locked onto Roo, ignoring the triplets entirely. "I'm the one they stole him from."

The entire room froze.

Roo's breath hitched.

Alexander's entire body went rigid.

"What did you just say?"

Lucien took a slow step forward.

"He wasn't yours to claim."

Alexander lunged.

Roo screamed his name just as Alec and Ace barely caught him, holding him back before he could tear Lucien apart.

"You're lying!" Ace's voice trembled with fury. "Roo has always been ours! The bond—"

"The bond was rewritten."

Roo's heart slammed against his ribs.

The triplets stilled.

The entire pack house fell into dead silence.

Lucien tilted his head, his expression dark, something almost sad lurking behind his violet eyes. "You feel it, don't you, Roo? The missing pieces? The emptiness? The wrongness?"

He took another step forward, gaze locked onto Roo's.

"They erased me from you. They erased everything."

Roo shook.

Because…

He wasn't lying.

The bond inside him—his unwavering, irrevocable bond to the triplets—was fighting something.

Something old.

Something forgotten.

"No…" Roo's voice broke. His legs wobbled beneath him.

Ace reached for him instantly, but Lucien spoke first.

"Don't touch him."

Ace snapped. "You don't tell me what to do, you son of a—"

"He was mine first."

The words cut through the air like a blade.

Ace froze.

Alec stopped breathing.

Alexander's fists clenched, trembling.

Roo's vision blurred.

He didn't know what to believe.

The triplets… his triplets… They were his, weren't they?

They were the ones who saved him.

The ones who held him.

The ones who made him feel whole.

But…

Lucien's voice was there too.

A ghost in his mind.

A whisper in his soul.

—"I will find you again, Roo. No matter what they do to us, I will find you."

His stomach twisted.

"No…" His voice shook. "No, no, no—"

His knees buckled.

And everything went dark.