The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 120

Ace’s POV

The flight to the East Pack is taking too long. I can’t seem to sit still and continue to fidget in my seat. Chris, on the other hand, is pacing the aisle of the plane. The flight attendant asked him to sit down several times and he only growls at her in return. The last time he growled it shook the windows and the plane plummeted several hundred feet. Now the attendant refuses to approach him.

“Excuse me, Alpha,” she comes to me hesitantly. “We will be landing in the next ten minutes.”

“Okay,” I respond, not really paying attention to her.

“Alpha,” she interrupts my thoughts again. “I need Alpha Chris to take his seat.”

I finally look up at the flight attendant and she is pleading at me with her eyes. I know that she doesn’t want to approach him again and I can’t say that I blame her.

“Fine,” I say getting up from my seat. I make my way into the aisle while gripping the backs of the seats. I hate flying and I hate standing on flights even more.

Chris tries to push past me but I stand my ground. “Move,” he growls in my direction.

“You’ve got to sit down. You are driving everyone crazy. Plus, they can’t land with you pacing up and down like a madman,” I try to reason with him.

The look in his eyes is manic. I have never seen him look so crazed before but he takes a seat in the empty seat beside him and buckles his seat belt. I let out a sigh of relief but I cannot ignore the look in his eyes. Taking the seat beside him, I decide to try and reason with him.

“What are you planning?” I ask him.

“Firstly, Alpha Jet has to die,” he says coldly.

“We can’t just go in there and start killing people,” I say, trying to be the voice of reason.

“Why not,” Chris says with a shrug of his shoulders. “He knowingly put our Luna in danger. That is an act of war among our kind.”

“Maybe this is what the oracle meant when she told our mother that our mate would usher in a war between the four packs. Maybe this is just the beginning of something bigger,” I think out loud.

“Are you saying that Mother will be the one that causes the war between the packs?” Chris asks thoughtfully.

The plane begins its descent and I grind my teeth and grip the armrests of my seat. “She was the one that visited the oracle after all,” I say through gritted teeth. “Maybe she got confused and assumed the prophecy was about us and not her.”

The plane bounces roughly as it lands on the runway and my claws dig into the cushion of my seat. Chris looks over at me and shakes his head as he watches me have a mini panic attack as the plane slows to a stop.

The plane door opens and I finally feel like I can breathe again. Once I have my mate we will be driving back to the North Pack. Grabbing my bag from the overhead compartment, I race off of the plane as fast as I possibly can.

As I walk down the stairs, I can see Bryce waiting for us with an ashamed look on his face. I know that he blames himself for what happened but we couldn’t have known what was going to happen. As far as we were all concerned, Alpha Jet of the East Pack was an unwritten ally. But after what happened we don’t know who we can trust. Who knows how far our mother’s reach is, and how many people she controls?

Bryce is shuffling his feet where he stands as we approach him. I move in to give Bryce a hug when Chris pushes me out of the way. Before I can stop him, Chris rears back his hand and punches Bryce across the face.

Bryce takes the punch but doesn’t attack back. It is as if he knows that this is his punishment for losing our mate.

“You were supposed to be f*****g watching her,” Chris growls as he rears his hand back to punch Bryce again.

This time I step in between them but not in time to stop Chris’s punch. His fist smashes into my cheek but I also don’t fight back. Bryce and I both know that Chris can be a hothead at times.

“Are you done?” I ask Chris as I rub my cheek.

Chris peers around me but doesn’t say a word, he only glares at Bryce.

Finally, Bryce decides to speak up for himself. “How was I supposed to know that it was a setup?” He asks angrily. “What would you all have done differently?”

“I wouldn’t have left her alone, to begin with,” Chris snarls at our brother.

“It was the only way to speak to the oracle,” Bryce tries to defend himself. “She wouldn’t see us at the same time.”

“Did you at least get a vision out of it,” I ask Bryce. “We need as much information as we can get about what our mother is up to.”

“About that,” Bryce scratches the back of his head awkwardly. “The oracle has been giving out false prophecies for years now, but she assured me that the prophecy that she gave to Erica was a real one.”

“So, you left our mate alone and she got kidnapped for nothing?” Chris begins pacing back and forth again.

“I wouldn’t say that I got no information,” Bryce says as he crosses his arms over his chest. “I found out that the oracle gave our mother a similar prophecy that she gave to Erica.”

“And exactly what is that prophecy?” Chris pauses in front of Bryce and snarls in his face.

Once again Bryce shifts awkwardly from where he stands. “I don’t know.”

“What do you mean you don’t know?!” Chris and I scream at the same time.

Bryce takes a step back away from the both of us. “The oracle said that once she spoke the words of a prophecy that could not be respoken.”

“Then I say that we go and visit the oracle,” Chris says as he cracks his knuckles.

“That isn’t possible,” Bryce hangs his head in shame.

“What did you do?” I g***n.

“She is dead,” Bryce whispers. “It was the only way for me to leave her cabin. I had to kill her to break the magic that was holding me inside.”

Chris and I both g***n outwardly and smack our hands to our foreheads. Once again, before I can stop him. Chris has tackled Bryce and is pummeling him on the ground. He lands punch after punch on Bryce’s face. I wait for Bryce to finally fight back but he doesn’t.

At this point, I am beyond frustrated with them both. Grabbing Chris by the shoulders, I fling him off Bryce and stand in between them.

“All of this f*****g fighting isn’t going to help us find our mate,” I yell at them both. “Now let’s go talk to Alpha Jet and see what he knows.”