Mated to the Triplet Alphas

A deep silence followed my question. The guys shifted uncomfortably, looking away. I could almost taste their discomfort in the air. "You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to," I said quickly, shrugging nonchalantly.

"No!" Lucas countered immediately. "You said the answer is important for you to move on. We want you to understand us better. We’ll definitely answer you. I just needed a second to get my thoughts together. Please?"

I nodded nervously. "Take your time," I muttered. Silence reigned again.

Finally, Lucas sighed. "The truth is, I’m not proud of how we acted in the past, Hazel, but we didn’t know any better. We were raised to be future alphas. We were taught that the world was under our feet and that to prove our authority, we had to show our dominance every time."

"It’s true," Liam added. "We thought we were doing what we were meant to do. ’Let them know who is boss or they’ll begin to disobey you. Make sure the servants know their place’ That’s what we were taught."

"And we didn’t have any role models to show us how to act better anyway," Lucas added. "We learned everything we know from our parents. And you know how they are..."

I nodded without saying a word. Nobody knew how their parents were more than I did. Alpha Henry was not too bad if you stayed out of his way and did your job. But even with that, he was cold and unfeeling. He never tried to forge any kind of relationship with people beneath him.

Luna Evelyn was even worse. She was a disciplinarian to the core. She ruled over the household with an iron fist. Every mistake was severely punished to make sure it never occurred again. I shivered involuntarily.

With those two as role models, it was no wonder that the triplets acted the way they did. They were simply mirroring their parent’s attitudes.