Mia
I felt bad for the triplets. They would never forget this birthday of theirs no matter how long they lived. Things had gotten messy and it was about to get messier.
The way Albert was looking at them, I was afraid he was about to fly off the handle and lash out at the boys. I had to talk. I had to do something. No matter how angry Albert was, I knew he wouldn’t lash out at me. I was the only one who could do this impending confession session without making everything go out of proportion.
“Don’t blame the boys. It is all my fault.” I confessed.
He looked at me, staring at me in disbelief. I knew he would find it hard to believe me. He would think that I was trying to protect them or worse, think that I had been threatened by them to lie on their behalf.
I thought hard, wondering what I would say to make him believe me. I didn’t know of anything and realized that I just had to come up with the truth.
“I met the dark wizard before your wedding. It was the weekend the triplets came home after their mission and they were the ones who had saved me from him.”
Albert looked at me and I could tell that he was listening to me. “How did this happen?”
“I couldn’t sleep that night and decided to take a walk. I saw a bat, it started chasing me and while running from it, I found the cave. I was curious and went inside it. I found the dark wizard. She talked to me and things got ugly eventually. She had her hand in a grip on my neck and was about to kill me when the boys came in to save me.”
“How did you know she was there?” Albert asked the boys.
“We heard her scream as we were coming in that night and ran to her rescue.”
“What did she tell you?”
“Some lies but Quinn already told me the truth.”
“What did she tell you?” Albert repeated, placing a huge emphasis on his words.
I shivered, shaking in fright. I could see why the boys feared him. He had only been acting as an adoptive father to me and that was why I didn’t know this other alpha side of him.
The boys knew of his alpha side and I realized that was what they feared. It wasn’t that they feared their father as I had assumed before, they feared the alpha.
He treated them as their father and also as the alpha of the pack that they belonged to. He hadn’t needed to treat me that way because I wasn’t part of his pack and he didn’t need to act that way to me.
Finally, I was about to get the alpha treatment dose and I was a bit intimidated.
I swallowed. “She said that she was the Luna and you killed her family and chained her after using her to rise to wealth.”
He hissed. “That crazy man.”
“Man?” I turned to Quinn. “I thought you said he is a genderless wizard.”
Albert nodded. “Yes, he is. Everyone just uses whatever form they feel comfortable with to address him.”
“She was in a female form when I met her and told me to let her go. She told me to pull away the talisman on the cage.”
“Did you do that?”
“I didn’t.” I shook my head. “I knew something was wrong even with her compelling voice and unbelievable story.”
“Did you give her your blood?”
“No.”
Quinn sighed. “He had his hands on her neck and I’m sure he would have drawn her blood.”
Albert winced. “That is not enough to set him free. He would have gotten stronger with Mia’s blood but someone else is in the picture. Someone else had set him free. Why didn’t you tell me of this?” He sighed.
“We didn’t want to worry you, dad.” John explained. “Your wedding was just few weeks away then and since we already had Mia safe, we felt there was no need to tell you and have you distraught.”
Jack sighed. “We would have told you if we knew the dark wizard was going to break free like this.”
Albert shook his head, smiling kindly at his sons for the first time since he came back that night. “It’s not your fault, sons. You didn’t break the seal. Someone else did.”
“Sasha.” I said now with confidence. She had to be the one who had broken the seal.
That explained her absence at the party. That had to be why she had left without anyone seeing her. She knew the dark wizard and she had escaped with him with magic. I remembered that I had found her on the way to the cave the first time she was here and had assumed that she had only been taking a stroll and didn’t know where she was going to.
She had known where she was going to. She hadn’t lost her way. She had known all along that the dark wizard was here. It wasn’t a mistake that she had always wanted me to invite her to the house.
I felt a shudder run through me that I had stayed in the same room with someone who was associated with the dark wizard. I gasped, scared at the thought that she had known of my affiliation with the werewolves and had sought me out because of that. I had become friends with the enemies and I felt like crying as I remembered everything I had shared with her.
I felt my heart breaking as I thought of her. I hoped that she wasn’t what I thought she was. I had told her a lot. I had told her everything about me, secrets I hadn’t shared with another person.
I was in trouble if Sasha was the one who had set the dark wizard free.
“Who is Sasha?” Albert asked.
“My roommate.” I sighed, feeling embarrassed in front of Albert that I had been the one to bring the intruder.
“I didn’t find her after the party and I suspect that she would be the one to let the dark wizard go.”
“Do you know if she is a witch?”
I frowned. How would I know someone who was a witch? Sasha, from what I had noticed about her was a sweet soul. Was she pretending to be?
“I don’t know. I never see her practice magic.”
Albert nodded and then turned to the triplets. “Did you see her?”
“We did.”
“Is she a witch?”
“I didn’t sense anything around her.” Quinn said and his brothers echoed what he had said.
Albert nodded. “It’s possible for you not to notice if they are not strong.”
“What of mum?” I asked.
Everyone was talking of the dark wizard but it was my mum I was concerned about the most. I didn’t think Albert was going back tonight and I worried about mum.
Albert smiled at me. “What a good day to have a daughter. Your mum is fine. She would be joining us tomorrow. I left her at the hotel and rushed over here. I couldn’t pack at all and that is what your mum would be doing before joining us.”
“Okay.” I was glad that mum was coming back tomorrow. I was shaken by what happened tonight and I needed someone to comfort me. I needed a hug and no matter how close I was to the males in the house, I didn’t think that I was going to get a hug from them. That would be weird.
Albert pierced through the thoughts in my head with his next words. “We can’t decide yet if her roommate is a friend of the dark wizard without proper investigation. I raised you boys to be better officers.”
The boys looked down at their feet with what he had said. “Yes, dad.”
He turned to me. “Mia, do you mind if your brothers go with you and search your room and question your roommate?”
I shook my head. “Not at all, sir.”
I didn’t want them in my room, making jest of where I lived but it was a small price to pay if that was what was going to help them.
I would do anything for the truth, even if I had to tolerate the presence of the werewolf triplets for a thousand years.