The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 116

Erica’s POV

I should run. I know that I should run but it feels like I am glued to the spot. I can feel my nervousness filling the air around me. There is no way that I can hide how I am feeling. Now that I am pregnant my emotions are much harder to control. I take in several deep breaths, trying to calm my anxiety.

‘Can we shift?’ I ask Envy, knowing that I will be much faster in wolf form.

‘Not while you are pregnant,’ Envy responds. ‘It would cause danger to the babies.’

‘Babies?’ I respond.

But before Envy has a chance to answer me, the figures coming out of the forest move closer to me. The setting sun reflects off the hair of one of the people walking toward me and a glimmer of red shines brightly in the light.

“Amber,” I grumble under my breath.

The other person that is walking with her is covered in a black cloak, because of the setting sun I cannot make out the face underneath the hood. I swallow the lump that is forming in the back of my throat as the two figures get closer.

Amber is wearing an evil smile on her face as she waltzes toward me. “Well, well, well. What do we have here?” She says loudly.

“Amber,” I say as sweetly as I can, trying to keep my nerves under control. “What brings you all the way out here?”

“I am here to collect what is mine,” she says in a matter-of-fact tone.

Laughter bubbles up in my chest. “What could you possibly be here for?” I laugh.

“I am here for my mate, of course,” Amber says as she comes to a stop just a few feet in front of the cabin.

“You must be mistaken,” I growl at her. “Bryce is my mate.”

Leaning my head to the side, I show her the glowing crescent moon mark on the side of my neck. Amber takes a step back in shock as she looks upon my glowing mark.

“The oracle said he would be mine,” Amber says as she looks at the cloaked person beside her.

Laughter bubbles in my chest once again. “This oracle is nothing more than a fraud,” I yell aloud but the words feel like a lie.

Amber gasps out offended. “How dare you speak of the oracle in such a way? She is the pride of our pack.”

Stepping forward, Amber lets her claws extend from her fingertips and I know that she is ready to fight. I can only hope that I can survive fighting as a human. Just as Amber is about to lunge for me the person in the cloak reaches forward and pulls her back.

“We need her alive,” the figure says quietly and I immediately recognize who the voice belongs to.

“Alice,” I say with a sneer on my lips. “Aren’t you supposed to be in the West Pack?”

“That is Luna Alice to you,” she snaps at me.

“I am afraid not,” I try to sound confident. “I outrank you now.”

Lowering her hood slowly, Alice reveals her face to me. Her eyes are sunken into her head and hollow. Her normally well-kept hair is knotted mess on top of her head. The cloak that she is wearing is tattered around the edges. She looks like she has been on the run for several weeks.

“After my son’s killed the Alpha of the West pack. I was no longer welcome there,” Alice snarls in my direction. “So, I came back to my home pack.”

“Your sons didn’t kill the Alpha of the West pack,” I chuckle. “I did.”

Alice growls at me before she takes several steps forward. “You have taken everything from me,” she says with tears in her eyes. “Now I am going to take something from you.”

“I would like to see you try,” I say finally finding the strength to get to my feet.

Suddenly, a foul stench fills the air. It smells like rotting flesh. “Rogues,” I whisper to myself as I quickly glance at the trees around the cabin.

“You didn’t think that I would come alone, did you?” Alice laughs as she glances at Amber.

With a snap of her fingers, Alice summons an army of rogues from the trees. The rogues begin to surround the porch of the oracle’s cabin. There is nowhere for me to escape unless I can make it into the cabin.

Spinning around, try to twist the door knob of the cabin door but it is locked. Balling up my fists I bang on the door as loudly as I can.

“Bryce,” I yell through the door. “Bryce, I need you. Help me!”

The cold and clammy hand of one of the rogues spins me around. He looks my body up and down before he runs his finger down my cheek, making me shudder in disgust.

“Don’t f*****g touch me,” I growl at him as I slap his hand away from my face.

“You will be fun to break,” the rogue says and bile rises in my throat.

“Now, now, Boys,” Alice’s voice comes from behind them. “We can’t play with her until she gives birth to the heir of the four packs.”

“Do you really think that I am going to hand over my baby?” I ask in shock.

“Do you think that we will be giving you a choice?” Alice retorts with an evil smile spread across her lips. “Now are you going to come easily or will we have to rough you up a bit.”

I think about the little life that is growing inside of me and concern fills my body. If I don’t go easily they could hurt my unborn child.

“You know the triplets won’t stop looking for me until they find me,” I tell Alice.

At the mention of her sons, the evil smile that is on her lips falters a little. “They are no sons of mine,” she finally says. “Amber, you better get back to the pack house. Bryce will need to be comforted when he finds that his mate is missing.”

Two of the rogues that are standing closest to me, grab me by the arms and lead me to Alice. She pulls a syringe from inside her cloak and I instantly know that it is wolfsbane.

“You can’t,” I cry out. “You will hurt my baby.”

“We have to mask your scent you fool,” Alice g****s before she jabs me in the neck with the needle.

The liquid burns in my veins as it travels throughout my body. I call out to Envy in my mind but there is no response. My knees feel weak and buckle underneath my weight. One of the rogues scoops me into his arms and takes off running through the forest.

I try to look over his shoulder at the cabin that is disappearing into the distance but my eyes feel heavy and darkness overcomes me.