Fated To Three, Betrayed By All… Until She Rose. Chapter 66: Beyond Logic

Leilani.

"Or what?" This ti, it was Kael who asked, taking a step forward as I retaliated by taking one backward. I ignored him.

And goddess, this was one of the tis I hated how weak I was. How scared I must look being cornered by these three wretched psychopaths.

Maybe it was the idea of being cornered in such an enclosed space... or the fact that this whole scenario made a swarm of mories I preferred buried rush into my mind, but I found myself shuddering.

My lips trembled when I tried to get words out, and as if noticing my plight, Caelum stepped forward to brush his fingers over my cheek, his touch creating a spark across my skin as his eyes drilled holes into my face. He drawled;

"You’re Frostclaw. Inc.’s leading engineer?"

I should say yes and get this over with. Or maybe I should push him off and storm out of here. But I found my tongue feeling stuck to the roof of my mouth. My knees wobbled from exhaustion and anxiety and I squeezed my eyes shut, praying for all of this to be over soon.

That prayer wasn’t answered.

"Are you just going to ignore us?" Caelum continued to pry, coming to shake my shoulder slightly.

From behind him, Zevran growled; "Caelum!" But his stupid brother wouldn’t listen. Instead, that seed to steer him on.

He tilted his head to the side as he watched with a comical grin on his face. And then he snickered; "You can bully Chalice, but cannot even manage to take a little scolding."

And that... that finally snapped my senses into focus.

I felt a sudden surge of rage burst through and I raised my head to et his glare with a cold one of mine. However, as soon as our eyes t, Caelum’s smile faltered slightly. He stepped back only for a brief mont, before another smile split his face.

"Ha!" He snickered, "...how are you suddenly bold as soon as Chalice’s na is ntioned? You hate her that much?!"

"I don’t." I snapped, "...but it doesn’t an I’ll stand by and watch you slander !"

That made Kael scoff derisively. He shouldered through the small space between his brothers to co stand in front of , and with his eyes glaring daggers at , he snarled; "Like you didn’t bully her tonight!"

"Is that what she told you?"

"She doesn’t need to tell us shit for us to know that you’re nothing but a venomous snake who jerks off on inflicting pain on her twin sister!"

I chuckled darkly. "Really?"

But they weren’t fazed. Caelum continued; "You know, we haven’t forgiven you for murdering our child in cold blood, and as if that isn’t enough for you, tonight you then decided to bully Chalice... not only that, but you ca for us too!"

"You snatched all of our investors from right under our noses. And I don’t care if you’re suddenly a lead engineer now or a bed warr, but you should know that that’s not how businesses are run!"

Oh, that insult stung.

It stung like a fucking wench.

I balled my hands into tight fists, my eyes seeing nothing but red as I seethed; "First off, I had nothing to do with your imaginary child. Secondly, I didn’t bully Chalice tonight or any other night and I don’t know why she would tell you that... but I did steal your investors. And I would do it over and over again as long as it makes you three as restless as you are right now."

"Leilani!"

"This is my karma for all the tis you’ve hurt in the past. And trust , you morons, I’m not done with you yet. I can never be done with you until you’re begging for scraps, and until you’re begging for a rcy that you’ll never get."

Their eyes darkened as they growled just like the beasts that they are. Kael however, wrapped his fingers around my neck, his voice dropping into a nacing whisper as he drawled; "Did you just call our child ’imaginary’?"

"Yeah!" I smirked, despite the searing pain at the back of my head. "Because that’s exactly what it is!"

His fingers tightened around my neck. "You’re despicable!" He growled.

"And you stink!" I fired back fearlessly. "You three disgust !"

A flicker of sothing strange crossed their eyes before they quickly clamped it down. Zevran, seizing that mont, pushed forward then to unclasp Kael’s fingers from around my neck, and surprisingly, the latter didn’t object.

He simply let his hand drop, his eyes filling with sothing that if I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought was sorrow. He whispered; "She’s beyond redemption."

"Let go." Zevran replied, not looking at .

"She just referred to our baby as ’imaginary’!"

"Yeah, let go!" Caelum muttered, "...she’s not worth our ti and I’m getting fed up with these petty fights."

"Oh, really?" I snapped, upon hearing that, "...really, you’re tired and you three have refused to reject ?"

Gosh, the nerves of these n! The effrontery of them to look hurt.

"Leilani, you’re taking this too far!"

"So you an, sleeping with other won while still being mated to isn’t far enough? Or do you guys just love being hypocritical?"

Caelum snorted. "We’re not rejecting you!"

"Yet you claim to hate ! Yet you claim to not wish to have anything to do with !"

A flash of rage fleeted across Kael’s eyes as he grabbed my arm, and I winced at the pain. "You think we’ve refused to reject you because we want to keep you stuck to our side forever? Dream on!"

Sothing about his words made the retort I wanted to say next die in my throat. My voice trembled as I whispered instead; "So why then? Why have you refused to do it?"

"Because we know how agonizing it is for you when we make love with other people. And as long as you keep targeting Chalice, we’ll continue to break you. We’ll continue to ruin you until there’s nothing left of you but your charred bones."

I froze.

My heart literally stopped beating for a minute. I couldn’t believe my ears but finally, it dawned on . It finally registered in my mind that they knew.

They’ve always known what their intimacy with other people does to this entire ti.

They knew about how agonizing the pain was for .

Yet they did it.

Over and over again.

Because they do not care.

God, I should’ve known. I shouldn’t have been stupid enough to think that they were clueless.

I drew in a shuddering breath as I raised my eyes to et their cold ones. And goddess help , I tried not to cry. I tried so hard and failed when a traitorous tear slipped down my face. I quickly wiped it off though, my chest rising and falling rapidly as I spat;

"Now, I’ll do you three a favor by warning you to reject as soon as possible— and if possible right now; Because when next I feel even the slightest hunch that you’re sleeping with another, I’ll go into a fucking sex spree and give you three a taste of your goddamn dicine!"

And with that, I shouldered past them and stord out of the restroom, ignoring the protests in my limbs as I pushed through the crowd back to my table.

By the ti I arrived, Jarek had a worried look on his face. He imdiately asked; "What happened? What took you so long?"

Just then, I looked over my shoulder to see that Zevran, Caelum and Kael had already stepped out of the restroom as well. They were standing behind , watching like predators would do to a prey.

And then I turned to Jarek and drawled; "I want to get out of here."

"Why? What happened?" He asked, but because I felt tongue-tied and I couldn’t respond, I did the only logical thing I could think of at the mont, I kissed him.