Avenging The Triplet Alphas

Chapter 5

Arielle’s POV

Luciana rushed over to my side of the bed where I sat wide-eyed, still panting from the nightmare I just woke up from. My palms were clammy and my heart was still jackknifing against my chest as I tried to stop myself from hyperventilating.

Luciana clasped her hand over mine forcing me to turn towards her. Her eyes were firm and kind, reassuring me that it had just been a bad dream.

“Take a deep breath.” She ordered, her voice soft but firm. “You need to take a deep breath.”

I nodded rapidly as I obeyed her command, taking deep measured breaths as she instructed, and within a couple of minutes, I was back to my normal self. It was then I looked around and found Ethan leaning against my bedpost and watching me with utmost concern in his eyes.

“Can you talk now?” He asked, clearing his throat as he clasped his hands behind him.

I nodded, looking between Luciana and himself. “Yes, I’m fine now.”

“What happened to you, child?” Luciana asked, squeezing my hand that was still in hers.

“It was a bad dream,” I whispered. “A really bad nightmare.”

Ethan’s mask of concern slipped into a mask of worry as he noticed the tears pooling in my eyes.

“Do you want to talk about it?” He asked, sounding unsure.

“I have a feeling that I’m cursed. Cursed to be alone for all of eternity because of some great sin I must have committed in my past life.” I suddenly blurted out after moments of silence.

Ethan furrowed his eyebrows. “What do you mean? That doesn’t make any sense.”

“That’s the best way to put it, Ethan.”

I began, the tears were threatening to fall but I had to be brave. “The only logical way to explain my recent tribulations is it’s almost like I’m being punished for something.”

“What was your nightmare about?” Luciana cajoled me, hoping I would open up to them. “We might be able to help you if you tell us.”

She was right. I was helpless myself and I needed clarifications from someone older and wiser, I had to understand what went wrong from the start.

“Before Ethan found me, I had been rejected by my mates on the eve of my wedding as you already know. They came up with a flimsy excuse that didn't make any sense and my dismissal had been hasty, it was almost as if I was in the presence of three different men compared to the trio I fell in love with.”

They both remained silent, giving me the time to express myself at my own pace.

“I cried and pleaded with them but it all fell on deaf ears. I hadn’t even broken the news of my pregnancy yet, it was supposed to be the perfect wedding gift but within the final stretch of our relationship together, I had gone from desired to rejected.”

Luciana rubbed my shoulders, offering me comfort in silence and urging me to continue.

“What hurt the most was that I had a nightmare or a vision about it before it happened.”

Ethan looked at Luciana before his eyes made their way to me. “What do you mean, Arielle? I’m finding it difficult to wrap my head around your revelation.”

I couldn’t blame him. I hadn’t made much sense of it either as well.

Growing up, my nightmares were far and few in between and a small part of me always knew I had possessed an uncanny ability—the gift or curse of premonition. Visions of future events would occasionally haunt me in my dreams and each time it happened, it always left me with a lasting thought of foreboding. It was a burden I had carried throughout my life and over and over again, it had proven its worth.

This was the shortest period between two nightmares, it had never happened like this before and it was making me lose my mind as I was unknowingly consumed by a vivid premonition—a looming darkness was the best way to describe how I felt. I couldn’t shake off this feeling of impending disaster.

An unexplainable weight had settled upon my shoulders and I could feel something terrible about to happen like it did before. I could feel it deep in my guts as my wolf senses went into overdrive filling me with a sense of unease that gnawed at my every thought.

With each passing moment, my intuition grew stronger leaving me the more confused.

“As I said, before coming here, I had a nightmare that I was rejected by my mates just before the wedding took place, and when I woke up from the nightmare, I was scared of the terrible vision I just had but I brushed it off, it was my wedding’s eve, what would possibly go wrong in a few hours?” I laughed bitterly at myself as a fresh wave of pain washed over me. “I had no idea that I was in for the biggest shock of my life yet. Just as it was in my nightmare, the triplets rejected me as their mate. Every detail was adhered to in the same sequence without missing any step.”

Ethan stared at Arielle dumbfounded at her revelation. He had heard of certain wolves being gifted with supernatural abilities but he had never seen one who could have visions about the future before now.

“What did you dream about this time?” He asked, eager to unravel the ongoing mystery.

“It was different this time. I felt the same gnawing feeling in my gut, the feeling of something sinister hanging in the air but the nightmare wasn’t as it always had been.

“I dreamt of my wedding to the Van Tyson triplets, it was unusual to dream about something that never happened and I won’t lie that it felt good, it was how it was supposed to be right from the start but something else happened. Unlike the previous vision where I was rejected before the marriage rites started, this time, I was rejected after it was all over and that was when I woke up screaming.”