Bound to the Triplet Alphas-Chapter 73: Rising Strength

ARIA POV

"Duck!" As a wooden stick swung over my head, I screamed and fell to the ground. I fell to the side and jumped back up, facing the person who hurt me.

She smiled at me and twirled her staff. "You’re getting better, but still too slow."

As we trained, thirty omegas stood around and watched with wide eyes. A few looked scared, while others looked happy. They were all here to learn how to fight.

"Remember," I yelled so everyone could hear, "an omega’s best trait is being overlooked." Our enemies expect us to run or surrender."

When Mira fell for my move to the left, I snatched her legs out from under her. Her staff clattered to the ground.

"But we won’t give them what they expect," I ended, helping Mira up.

Exposition

Isla Bennett has spent her entire life working toward success. Engaged to Julian Mercer, she is weeks away from a major promotion at her law firm. Her world is structured and planned—until she wakes up married to Damien Calloway, a man she doesn’t even remember meeting

Damien is a cold, calculating businessman who trusts no one. The only thing he values more than his company is control, and waking up next to a stranger with a marriage certificate is the last thing he expects. Unlike Isla, he is determined to find out who did this to them

As they struggle to make sense of their forced marriage, both of their carefully built lives begin to unravel. Isla’s career is suddenly at risk, her engagement to Julian is shattered, and Damien’s business empire is threatened by the scandal. More troubling than the legal ramifications is the undeniable connection between them—one that Isla refuses to acknowledge, and Damien can’t ignore

Inciting Incident

A week after waking up married, Isla finds out she’s pregnant. The timing makes it impossible to determine if the father is Damien or Julian. This revelation forces her to stay in the marriage longer than she intended, if only to figure out the truth

Damien, still skeptical of Isla, insists on keeping up appearances in public until they can uncover who orchestrated this marriage. He demands she move into his estate to maintain control of the situation. Isla resists, but the increasing media attention and pressure from Julian, who refuses to let her go, makes her realize she has no choice

As she tries to uncover how this marriage happened, she starts experiencing strange flashes of memory—fragments of a past she doesn’t fully remember. At the same time, Damien begins to recognize Isla in a way that unsettled him, as if she is someone he should have known long ago

Rising Action

Julian, devastated by Isla’s sudden marriage, starts digging into her past and discovers something shocking—there are missing months in Isla’s history, gaps in her memory she never questioned

At the same time, Damien’s stepmother, Victoria, is oddly invested in keeping Isla and Damien together. She warns Isla not to leave, hinting that their marriage is tied to something far more dangerous than a simple mistake

Cassian Wolfe, Damien’s longtime business rival, begins to show an unsettling interest in Isla. He offers her a way out of the marriage, but Isla soon realizes that his motives are anything but noble

Elias, Isla’s estranged brother, resurfaces after years of absence. He knows more about Isla’s forgotten past than he lets on, but his true loyalty remains unclear

The deeper Isla and Damien dig, the more they uncover about their pasts—secrets involving their families, business empires, and a betrayal that links them in ways they never imagined. Someone wanted them married, but the reason is buried in a past neither of them remembers

Climax

Isla and Damien discover that their marriage was not an accident—it was orchestrated by a secret organization tied to their families. The missing pieces of their pasts reveal that they were childhood friends, separated after a traumatic event erased their memories. Their marriage was part of a larger scheme that involved both of their family legacies, and breaking it apart could have deadly consequences

Just as Isla begins to accept her growing feelings for Damien, Julian exposes a devastating truth: the real reason for her memory loss and the people responsible. Isla’s entire identity is thrown into question, and she realizes she might not be the woman she thought she was

Meanwhile, Damien learns that Victoria has been manipulating him for years, controlling his decisions under the guise of protecting him. When he confronts her, she reveals the ultimate betrayal—his entire life has been orchestrated, and Isla was always meant to be his downfall

Falling Action

Isla and Damien must decide whether to continue searching for the truth or to walk away from each other forever. Their enemies close in, and the only way to survive is to trust each other

As Julian and Cassian make their final moves, and Victoria’s true motives come to light, Isla and Damien realize they are no longer just victims of manipulation—they are players in a game far bigger than either of them imagined

Isla’s pregnancy, once a source of confusion, becomes the key to unraveling the mystery of their marriage. But just as they think they’ve uncovered the last of the secrets, another twist changes everything

Denouement

As the dust settles, Isla and Damien must choose between revenge and forgiveness, truth and love. With their lives permanently altered, they can no longer go back to who they were before

In the end, Isla must decide if she can truly trust Damien, while he must prove that their marriage—accidental or not—is something worth fighting for

1. Isla discovers that she and Damien were once childhood friends, but their memories were erased due to a traumatic event. Their marriage was orchestrated by someone in their past who had been trying to keep them apart for years.

2. Julian reveals that he has known about the accidental marriage all along but chose to manipulate Isla by pretending to be unaware, hoping she would return to him out of guilt.

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