The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 124

Erica’s POV

I toss and turn all night in the bed that feels too small and empty. I have come accustomed to sleeping next to my mates and without them next to me it feels like my world is crashing down around me. With no windows in my room, I cannot tell what time of day it is. A small light shines from underneath the door and I can hear footsteps just outside of the door.

There is no knock on my door before the lock on the door clicks and it swings open. Rex waltzes in with a tray of food and kicks the door shut behind him. He sets the tray down on the edge of my bed and takes a seat beside me. His skin brushes up against my shoulder and it makes me feel like I want to vomit. I scoot out of his reach and look at the tray of food at the end of my bed.

It is filled with eggs, bacon, and hashbrowns. My stomach rumbles loudly as my mouth waters. Rex chuckles and pushes the tray in my direction.

“How do I know that you didn’t poison this?” I ask with a raised eyebrow.

“What good would poisoning you do?” Rex laughs loudly. “We need you healthy.”

I look at the food and my stomach rumbles loudly again. I cannot remember the last time that I had something to eat. Greedily I pull the tray toward me and grab a piece of the bacon off the plate. I take little nibbles off the edge of the bacon, not taking my eyes off Rex. I have yet to decide if he can be trusted or not.

“Once you are finished with your breakfast, I am supposed to take you out on a walk,” Rex says. There is a glimmer in his eyes that I do not quite trust.

“Is this turkey bacon?” I say as I wrinkle my nose.

“It is healthier than pig bacon,” Rex shrugs his shoulders. He grabs the bacon out of my hand and shoves it in his mouth.

“Hey,” I protest. “That was mine.”

Rex laughs loudly. “It’s not like you were going to eat it anyway. Plus, if you don’t finish your breakfast you will be punished.”

“Why are you worried about me being punished?” I ask between bites of my eggs. “I figured that you would be dying for me to slip up.”

Rex stiffens beside me. “To tell you the truth,” Rex says with a mouth says with a mouthful of my hashbrowns. “r**e isn’t exactly my thing. I would rather you come to me willingly.”

I snort with laughter and choke on my apple juice. “I will not be coming to you willingly.”

“We will see about that,” Rex says with a smirk on his face.

Leaning my head to the side, I show Rex the mark that glows on my neck. “I already have three mates,” I tell him. “My dance card is full.”

“What is one more,” he says as he winks at me.

“One more too many,” I laugh.

Looking down at the plate in front of me, I see that all of the food is gone. I have Rex to thank for clearing my plate. Maybe he isn’t so bad.

“Are you ready for our walk?” Rex asks me.

“Do I have a choice?” I g***n. My stomach is too full and the last thing that I want to do is to walk in the forest with a stranger.

“I am afraid not,” Rex says and I can almost hear a hint of guilt in his voice.

Reaching into his pocket he pulls out a pair of silver handcuffs. I look at him in horror. “What are those for?”

“Just to make sure that you don’t run,” Rex refuses to look me in the eyes. “Luna Alice insists that you be cuffed to me during our walks.”

“You know that she is no longer a Luna,” I snap at him as he places one of the cuffs around my wrist.

Placing the cuff around his wrist he gently grabs a hold of my hand and pulls me to my feet. “She is our Luna,” he says with his eyebrows furrowed together.

“How can you say that?” I ask him. “She despises rogues.”

Rex c***s his head and looks at me in confusion. “You don’t mean that,” he says quietly. “She has taken us in and made us like a pack once again.”

I cannot help but snort with laughter. “She is using you. How are you too blind to see that?”

“No,” Rex yells out in protest. “She cares about us.”

Once again I snort with laughter once again. “I was once a rogue and she treated me lower than dirt.”

Rex doesn’t respond to me but I can tell that he is deep in thought. While he is thinking he drags me out of the door of the small cabin.

I pause as soon as my bare feet hit the dewy grass, letting my toes wiggle amongst the blades of grass. I take in a deep breath and try to memorize my surroundings. The sun is barely shining over the tops of the trees, casting an orangish hue over the morning sky. I have been in the dark for so long that I have to squint against the rising sun because it feels blinding.

I don’t have time to relish the feeling of finally being outside before Rex is dragging me across the front lawn of the cabin toward the tree line. I trip over my feet trying to keep up.

“Would you please slow down?” I beg Rex. “I think I am going to be sick.” The freshly eaten breakfast sloshes around in my stomach and it is making me feel grossly uncomfortable.

Once we are under the cover of the tree canopy, Rex finally slows to a stop. I rest my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath.

“Tell me everything that you know about Luna Alice,” Rex says with a confused look on his face.

“Why would you care what I know?” I laugh. “You have chosen your side.”

“But what if I chose the wrong side,” Rex says with a weird look on his face.

I chew on my bottom l*p, trying to figure out what is going on. For the first time, I really look at the rogue that is standing in front of me. The morning sun shimmers off of his skin. He isn’t dirty like the rogue that sat beside me in the car. His hair is well kept and his skin is not caked with mud.

“What do you want to know?” I ask him.

“Does she really hate rogues?” Rex asks and I can see his face heating with embarrassment.

“More than anything,” I tell Rex.

Rex lets out a frustrated growl and I let him lead me farther and farther into the forest. While we walk I tell him about everything that I know about Alice and how poorly she treated me when I came to their pack for help. I explain how she promised her sons to other women when she knew that I would be their mate. Rex walks beside me and listens to everything that I have been saying.

Just as we are about to make our way back to the cabin, the snapping of a twig catches our attention. Rex spins around and places me behind him. A small figure steps out from behind a tree and my breath hitches in my throat. Alice has been following us this whole time. She heard everything that I said.

“I knew you couldn’t be trusted,” she snarls at Rex.