The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 123

Chris’s POV

I am seething with anger. I want nothing more than to tear Bryce limb from limb for letting Erica get kidnapped. I keep trying to tell myself that Erica would be upset if I killed my brother but right now, I cannot see past my anger.

Ace, being the voice of reason as always, steps between Bryce and me to make sure that I don’t pummel him any more than I already have.

“We need to stop fighting among ourselves and get to Alpha Jet. We need to find out how much he knows,” Ace says logically.

Bryce nods in agreement but I don’t. I want to go find our mate, I couldn’t care less about what that traitor Alpha Jet has to say.

“We need to start looking for Erica,” I protest. “The longer she is missing the more danger she is in.”

Bryce takes a step back from me before he begins to speak. “I don’t think Erica is in danger until after she has the baby,” Bryce says. “I think Mother wants the baby.”

“Is that what the oracle told you?” Ace asks Bryce.

“No one told me anything,” Bryce says. “It is just a hunch that I have.”

“You can explain this hunch that you have on the way to the East Pack pack house,” Ace snarls in Bryce’s direction.

Bryce’s face is bruised and swollen from the beating that I gave him earlier. He tosses the keys to Ace, knowing that he is in no condition to drive.

Ace climbs into the driver’s side of the car and Bryce tries to get in the front passenger side, but I rip him backward by his shoulders and growl at him.

“You can sit in the back,” I snarl at him.

Once again Bryce doesn’t fight me. He knows that he has screwed up. Bryce climbs into the back of the car and doesn’t say a word.

As we drive down the road to the pack house of the East Pack. Bryce remains silent in the back of the car.

Turning around in my seat, I glare at my brother. Even though he is quickly healing, his face is bruised and swollen. He has a cut above his left eye that is dripping b***d down the side of his face. Guilt fills my mind as I look at Bryce. I probably should have heard him out before I beat him up.

“What did the oracle tell you?” I ask him.

Bryce looks up at me and wipes the b***d from the side of his face onto his sleeve. “She said that our marks would lead us to her,” Bryce says quietly.

“What does that even mean?” Ace snarls from the front seat of the car.

“I don’t know,” Bryce lowers his head in shame once again. “She didn’t have the opportunity to explain.”

“You killed her before you could an answer?” I g***n in frustration.

“You don’t understand,” Bryce says and tears begin to stream down his face. “Erica was banging on the door, trying to get to me. I couldn’t get out to her until the oracle was dead. What would you have done?”

Ace and I both sit in silence for a little longer. We both know that we would have done the same. Getting to Erica would have been our number one priority.

“She had to have told you more than just that,” Ace says as he looks in the review mirror at Bryce.

“She told me about how she grew up and how she was forced by Alpha Jet’s father and Alpha Jet to make up false prophecies when she couldn’t produce a real one.” Bryce’s head is still hung low, he refuses to meet my gaze.

“How do we know what prophecies she gave were true or not?” I ask Bryce.

“Only she knew,” Bryce shrugs his shoulders.

“And now she is dead,” I g***n in frustration.

“I know that what she told Erica and our mother was true,” Bryce says with hopefulness in his voice. He looks up at me and tries to smile but the swelling in his face won’t allow it.

“We just don’t know what they were told,” Ace says thoughtfully as he finally pulls in front of the pack house.

Alpha Jet is waiting for us on the front porch, pacing back and forth, wringing his hands together. When my brothers and I get out of the car, Alpha Jet plasters a fake smile across his face.

“The Alpha Triplets have finally arrived,” he says with what can only be described as fake enthusiasm.

Alpha Jet rushes down the stairs of the pack house and tries to help us with our bags. But as soon as he comes within a few feet of Ace, Ace growls at Alpha Jet. Freezing in his steps, Alpha Jet backs away from us. I look at Ace in shock. He isn’t normally the one to fly off the handle without cause. But Ace’s eyes are swirling from blue to black and I know that he is only moments from shifting.

Rolling my eyes at Ace, I step between him and Alpha Jet. Not used to being the one with the level head I am not sure where to start. Just as I am about to speak a voice rings out in my head. A voice that I was sure I would never hear again.

‘Boys,’ I call through the bond. ‘Boys, can you hear me? If you can hear me, I am in a cabin that is surrounded by impossibly tall trees. That is all I can tell you. But please, come for me.’ Erica’s sweet voice sounds like she is panicked and scared. I have never heard her this scared before.

‘Erica,’ I call back through the bond link. ‘Erica we will come for you.’

I listen carefully for a response from her but I cannot hear one through the bond. I spin around where I am standing and I look at my brother’s with wide eyes.

“Did you hear that?” I ask my brothers.

Both Ace and Bryce are looking at me with identical shocked looks on their faces. “We did,” they both say in awe.

I can no longer be level-headed after hearing my mate’s distraught voice in my mind. I spin around and look at Alpha Jet. Taking several strides forward I snarl in his face.

“Tell me everything you know.”