River's POV.
"Stay away from them", my brother Ryan had warned me. The moment my eyes had opened heavy from sleep,
as I find him by the doorway, his frame leaning by my door. His eyes turn, and I pull up in confusion.
"What the hell are you talking about?" I call with a yawn, pushing out my red hair from my face. A stark difference from my brother's blonde one.
You know what I'm talking about. The Harper triplets. Stay away from them.
Now it came back to me. Yesterday was my first day back at college. And Elina, a beautiful girl with dark brunette hair, had come up to me begging me to join their club.
Elina was nice, and I loved her immediately. But what I didn't know was that she had three brothers, the same ones I had to hitch a ride with after the party yesterday.
And the same party where something happened between the triplets ...and me, one I didn't want to talk about and a memrory I wouldn't let my brother Ryan ever find out about.
You see, the Harper triplets were my brother's greatest rivals, not just in family rank, but hockey, the greatest games. And my family's prodigy.
His group of friends had held a stark dislike for the triplets. Not just because of hockey and hierarchy, because they were also alphas.
The same as my brother. And from a tale as old as time, alphas from different packs do not like each other. Especially us.
Their boyish Playboy charms were one that drove girls on campus insane as they all latched on the boys like hungry puppies. But recalling last night, was I any different?
Oh God, my head hurt from the hangover. And all the more from the laser stare my brother was giving me across the room. I just know their sister Elina. Nothing else. I lie. Okay? So just stop, Ryan. It's so early in the morning.
My head was aching from the hangover. It was my first time drinking, but I think I had gone overboard, Having so much fun with Elina,
I had taken more than I could handle. And I put myself in a deep trap. Biting at my lips that tingled.
And my lips faintly sore. As a blush spread through my cheek recalling what I did last night and whose lips I was on.
I tried to shake the thought of placing my most innocent smile towards Ryan, whose eyes: "I'm just looking out for you, little sis.
Be careful, okay?" He warns before he closes my door. That is when I have the strength to stand up. Running past, my clothes cut out of my flow and to the bedroom,
I checked the mirror a gasp escaped my lips when I see my neck, the hickeys around it. I grith out in annoyance "those bastards!"
But I knew they weren't just to blame. I had done it too. I had fallen into that trap because I of a stupid dare.
Just as I still groan and wail for my regrets of last night, I hear the dings on my phone. I race back to my room, searching for my phone through the pile on the floor.
As I raise it up, a text from an unknown number rolls out. But the sentence held such arrogance. I had a feeling Who it was from. Dimitri
My insides flipped as my heart lurched, just as I read the text. "Don't forget, we won. Little Snow, we own you now". And I knew it then, that I was fucked.