Oliviaโs POV
We stayed quiet for a while. She just sat there, watching me, while my mind was full of thoughts. I kept asking myselfโdid something happen that I missed? It didnโt make sense. The triplets used to care about me. They didnโt care about ranks or titles. So why would they cut me off just because I became an omega?
The worst part was how much they changed. I didnโt see them for a whole month after everything happened. And when I finally didโฆ the way they looked at meโIโll never forget it.
It happened at the training ground. I had been told to bring water for the warriors. I was only fourteen, carrying two heavy buckets under the hot sun. My hands hurt, and my back ached, but I kept going. I had no choice. That was my new life nowโworking as an omega beside my mother in the pack house.
When I got to the combat field, the place was loud. Warriors were training, shouting, fighting. Thatโs when I saw them. The tripletsโLennox, Levi, and Louis. They looked older, strongerโฆ colder.
Then they saw me. And all three stared, right at me. Their faces were hard. Lennoxโs jaw clenched. Levi looked away like he didnโt even want to see me. Louis just glared, then whispered something to someone and walked off.
That lookโฆ it wasnโt sadness. It wasnโt even anger. It was hate. I froze in place. I wanted to ask them whyโwhat I had done to make them hate me so much. I wanted to scream, to cry, to ask them what I had done wrong. But I was just an omega now. Omegas donโt speak unless spoken to.
So I dropped my eyes and walked past them, pretending I didnโt feel like my heart was breaking. But deep down, I knew something wasnโt right. They didnโt just stop loving me; they acted like I had hurt them.
โSomething must have happened,โ my wolf whispered. I sucked in a deep breath, blinking back the sting in my eyes. Maybe something did happen. Maybe there was something I didnโt rememberโฆ something I missed. But even if that were true, nothing could excuse how they treated me afterward. Nothing could make it right. Because they didnโt just ignore me; they destroyed me.
Lennox was the first to lash out. One evening, I had just finished setting the table in the dining hall when he walked in with a group of warriors. I bowed my head, like I was supposed to, but he didnโt even look at me. When I stepped back to leave, he tossed his drink right at meโred wine splashing across my face and uniform. The warriors laughed.
Then it was Levi. He never touched me, but his wordsโhis silenceโcut deeper than any slap. One time, I was serving food during a feast. I placed a plate in front of him, and he looked up at me, then leaned to the warrior beside him and said, โSo itโs true omegas donโt bathe.โ Everyone around him laughed. I wanted to disappear.
And Louisโฆ Louis was the cruelest. He found me in the garden one morning, carrying a basket of herbs for the kitchen. He didnโt say a word. Just stared at me, then smacked the basket out of my hands. Everything spilled. He told me I should crawl like the omega I was. And when I stayed quietโrefusing to begโhe knocked over the water barrel Iโd just filled, forcing me to go all the way back to the well.
Every chance they had, they made sure I remembered my place. They threw things at meโdrinks, food, even a book once. They humiliated me in front of others. They used silence as a weapon, and when they did speak, their words were poison. I didnโt know what I had done. I still donโt. But whatever it was, it shattered everything. They hated me. And as if all that wasnโt enoughโฆ
They started dating Anita. My best friend. The one person I thought would always stand by me. I still remember the day I saw her wrapped around Louisโs arm, laughing like nothing had happened. Like we hadnโt made promises to always be there for each other. Like she hadnโt once giggled with me when I told her I was developing strange feelings for the triplets.
One by one, they paraded her around the pack house. First it was Levi, then Lennox, then Louis. She was always thereโwearing their shirts, sitting on their laps, kissing them in front of everyone. In front of me. They knew what they were doing. They knew it would hurt. And still, they did it anyway.
Anita never looked guilty. Not once. She smiled at me like sheโd wonโฆ like I was nothing. She even dared to call me โomega girlโ in front of others, acting like weโd never spent years dreaming about our future together, about growing up side by side, about mates. That betrayal cut deeper than anything the triplets did. Because Anita knew my heart. She knew how much I loved themโhow I waited for my fourteenth birthday so I could tell them about my feelings. And instead of standing by me when I was cast out, she climbed into their beds.
That was the final blow. Not the wine in my face. Not the humiliation. Not the silence. But herโfucking them while I was on my knees scrubbing the floors.
โOlivia, are you okay?โ the tripletsโ mother asked, and that was when I was pulled back to reality and felt the wetness on my cheek. I was crying. Inhaling deeply, I wiped my face with the back of my hand and looked up at her. I could see the pity and worry in her face, but I ignored it and spoke. โI believe this is not the reason you are here? Something must have brought you here.โ
She hesitated for a moment before nodding. โYes, Olivia. I am here because of the full moon.โ