The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 136

Bryce’s POV

“How the f**k does this keep happening?” I say as I lunge for Chris’s neck.

Ace grabs me by the waist and pulls me backward and flings me across the hospital room and onto the couch. Landing on the couch, it hits the wall and my head smashes into the drywall.

Rubbing the back of my head, I glare at my two brothers. Both of them are glaring right back at me. Ace’s eye glaze over and he tries to speak to me through the mind link but I put up a wall and block him out.

“Anything that you have to say to me you can say out loud,” I growl at Ace.

Chris looks between us with hurt in his eyes.”

You guys were talking about me through the link?”

“He was trying to,” I gesture to Ace.

Crossing his arms over his chest, Chris sighs deeply before turning to Ace. “What was so important that you couldn’t say it out loud?”

Ace shuffles where he stands and looks down at the ground. “I was just going to remind him that you aren’t the only one that has gotten Erica injured.”

“Oh, so we are keeping score now?” I snap at Ace.

“If that’s what we need to do to keep Erica safe,”

Ace says with a smug look on his face.

“So are you saying that the only one of us that Erica is safe with is you?” Chris laughs loudly.”

The one of us that left her at the Bunny Club.”

“She wasn’t in danger at the Bunny Club,” Ace snaps at Chris.

We all begin to argue with one another at the same time. Screaming at each other about how we are all just as responsible with Erica as the others.

It isn’t until a little whimper from the corner of the room turns into a wail that we stop arguing.

“Great,” Chris says as he slaps his hand on his forehead. “You woke up the baby.”

“Me!” I gasp loudly. “We were all yelling.”

“But you were the loudest,” Chris whispers loudly as he walks over to the little crib in the corner of the room.

Chris awkwardly picks up Raven, like he has no clue how to hold a baby.

“For Goddess’s sake,” I say as I get up from the couch. “She isn’t a f*****g football.”

Reach for Raven but Chris holds her away from me. “I am not holding her like a football,” Chris says with tears in his eyes. I can see the guilt that is written across his face.

Erica must be able to sense his guilt as well. “It isn’t your fault,” she says as she swings her legs over the edge of the bed. She wiggles her ankles back and forth before she tries to step on the ground. When she puts her weight on her legs they-buckle slightly but Ace and I are at her side in an instant to help steady her on her feet.

“You shouldn’t be up and moving around yet,” I try to lead her back to the bed but she yanks her arms out of my grasp.

“I am not staying here another moment longer than I have to,” I laugh sarcastically. “We don’t know who we can trust.”

“If we don’t know who we can trust then we don’t know where we can go when we leave the hospital where you will be safe.” I try to explain to Erica as I try to push her back into the bed.

Erica sits down on the bed and pulls her bottom l*p into her mouth and begins to chew on it. Even though she is sitting in a hospital gown and her blonde hair is a mess, I want nothing more than to lean in and k**s her right now. But I know that now is not the time.

Releasing her l*p from her mouth, Erica sucks in a deep breath. “I have been thinking about that,”

she says quietly. “I want to speak with Amber.”

“Amber!” The three of us yell at her in shock.

“Yes, Amber.” She rolls her eyes at the three of us.

“She obviously had wanted to follow Alice’s rules in the past when it benefitted her but now something has changed. She didn’t run with Alpha Jet and Malinda. I feel like she knows more than what she is letting on.”

“I will talk to her,” I butt in. The thought of Erica speaking with Amber makes me uncomfortable.

“No,” Erica says shortly with her bright eyes staring into my own. “I need to speak to her woman to woman.”

“I think this is a bad idea,” I mumble.

“Why?” Erica looks at me with a bit of mischief in her eyes. “Are you afraid that we are going to

compare notes?”

My face blushes bright red at the memory of me betraying the mate bond. Now I really don’t want them speaking together alone.

Erica gets up from the bed and wobbly walks over to me. She places her hand on the side of my cheek and the tingles of the mate bond soothe my anxiety a little. “I promise Amber will not hurt me.” She whispers to me before she places a chaste k**s on my lips.