The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 111

Erica’s POV

It is as if everything is moving in slow motion. I sit on the couch and watch as warriors check the house for anyone that isn’t supposed to be here. Wrapping my arms around my belly I try my best to protect the life that is growing within me.

My mother sits beside me and rubs my back but for some reason, it is only making me more agitated. My body is shaking uncontrollably from both anger and fear. Someone that wants to hurt my child was here in the pack house.

I make a running list in my head of everyone that would want to wish me harm but only one person comes to mind. Alice. Aside from her and Alpha Devin no one else knows that I am a white wolf.

Chris finally comes and sits beside me. He wraps his arms around me and the tingles from the mate bond soothe my anxiety slightly.

“We are going to find out who did this,” Chris assures me.

“I feel like I already know who did this,” I say hesitantly. The last time I accused his mother of something he ran off.

“I know what you are going to say,” Chris stops me before I can continue. “And the thought has crossed my mind as well.”

“Wouldn’t her scent be all over the pack house if she were here?” I think out loud.

Chris shakes his head back and forth. “Remember when I was in your apartment and you didn’t catch my scent right away? It is because I masked my scent with wolfsbane.”

“Wolfsbane is deadly,” I gasp.

“Only in large doses,” Chris tells me. “If you only ingest a small amount it can mask your scent but it also suppresses your wolf.”

I chew on my bottom l*p while I am lost in thought. Surely she wouldn’t have been able to sneak into the pack house completely undetected.

“How did she even know that I am pregnant?” I ask Chris. Fear begins to rise in my chest and it seeps through my pours filling the air around us.

“I don’t know,” Chris says with a concerned look on his face.

My mother gets to her feet and begins to pace the floor in front of us. “What if she isn’t working alone? Surely she has people within the pack that are still loyal to her.”

“That would mean that Alice has contacts in both the hospital and, here, in the pack house.” I choke on my words. Suddenly I don’t feel safe anywhere.

Suddenly, the front door of the pack house bursts open and a very naked Ace and Bryce come running inside. My mother squeals in shock and covers her eyes with her hands.

Ace and Bryce grab a pair of shorts from the hall closet and slip them on while mumbling apologies under their breath.

“We ran the whole way back,” Ace pants slightly.

“Where is Aaron?” My mother asks as she peeks through her hands, making sure that my mates are now covered.

“He decided to go ahead to the West Pack,” Bryce says as he makes his way over to me. “We thought that it would be for the best.”

“Do you think that they will accept him?” My mother’s voice is laced with worry.

“We called ahead to the acting Beta.” Ace tries to sound confident. “Hopefully there won’t be any issues.”

“So where is this letter?” Bryce asks he pulls me onto his lap and nuzzles his nose into my neck.

Chris hands the letter to Ace and then Ace hands it to Bryce. I hide my face in Bryce’s neck. I don’t want to see the letter again. It will only serve to give me more anxiety.

“We all know who did this,” Bryce says with a growl.

“Mother,” the three of them say at the same time.

I am a little shocked to hear them all agree that the three of them are so eager to admit that their mother is behind all of this. But she is honestly the only logical choice.

“What’s the plan?” Bryce says as he hands the letter back to Ace.

Ace’s eyebrows furrow together while he thinks of a plan. “It is clear that we cannot leave Erica unattended. Since we don’t know who we can trust and who we cannot, one of us has to be with her at all times.”

Every fiber of my body wants to protest. I am a grown adult that has been taught how to fight and protect myself, but deep down I know that the brothers are right. I will be safer with one of them by my side at all times.

“Secondly,” Bryce chimes in. “We need to find the rats in our pack.”

Chris shakes his head up and down in agreement. “Someone has been feeding our mother information and we need to find out who.”

“We could always use our Alpha aura and command them to tell us the truth,” Bryce says as he holds me closer.

“Dad always said to use that as a last resort,” Chris says with a worried look on his face.

“Father is no longer in charge,” Ace growls in Chris’s direction, “and our mate’s life is at stake.”

Chris snaps his mouth shut and knows better than to argue with Ace when he uses this tone. But he and Ace glare at one another for several seconds. Their eyes glaze over and I know they are speaking to one another through the mind link.

“We should start with the doctor,” Chris finally says aloud. “If anyone would know that Erica is having a boy it would have been him.”

I have been sitting on Bryce’s lap in silence for far too long. “If the doctor knew what we were having why wouldn’t he have told us?”

The brothers all look at me with confused looks on their faces. “What are you trying to say, Little Fox?” Bryce says as he holds my head up against his chest.

“What if she visited the oracle again?” I say hesitantly. “What if the oracle gave her another vision?”

“Maybe we need to visit the oracle as well,” Ace says seriously. “She may be the only one with the answers that we need.”