The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 145

Erica’s POV

Nurse Anabelle looks between Chris and me with a confused look on her face. “What does the child of light mean?” She asks innocently.

“It is not anything you need to repeat,” Chris snaps at her.

He pulls a lighter out of his pocket and lights the papers in hand on fire before tossing them into the fireplace. I know exactly what he is doing. He is destroying the evidence that Raven isn’t my child.

“How many people know about this test?” He asks Anabelle.

Anabelle shrinks down on the couch and refuses to meet his gaze.

“I asked you a question,” Chris snarls at her.

I watch as Anabelle swallows hard before her eyes flutter up to meet Chris’s. “I didn’t tell anyone else about it,” she stutters in fear. “I swear it. Please don’t kill me because I know the truth. I have a family.”

Chris laughs loudly. “If you keep this secret then I won’t have any reason to kill you. Make sure all of the evidence and samples at the hospital are destroyed.”

Anabelle nods her head furiously up and down. “I will head there right now and make sure that everything is wiped.”

Getting up from the seat beside me, Anabelle collects the papers that haven’t been burned and tosses them into the fireplace as well. Without another word, she heads toward the door. I watch her walk away and I am unsure if she can be trusted. If anyone finds out that Raven is possibly a descendent of the Moon Goddess people will never stop trying to take her from me. I am certain that the Moon Goddess gave her to me for a reason.

“Anabelle,” I call out to her just as she reaches the door.

Anabelle turns and glances over her shoulder with a worried look on her face. “Yes, Luna,” she forces the words to come out of her mouth.

“You said you have a family? Do you have a child?” I ask her.

“I do,” Anabelle says as she turns around to look at me properly.

“Imagine if someone took your child from you. This is what that secret means to myself and the Alphas. It is the difference between me keeping my child and her being hunted for the rest of her life. This is the importance of you keeping this secret.” I explain to her.

“You have my word that your secret is safe with me,” Anabelle says with a slight smile on her lips.

“Thank you,” I whisper.

Anabelle turns and leaves without another word and I let out a small sigh of relief. Even though Raven is not genetically mine, I still love her as if she was. I carried her within my body for six months. I watched my stomach grow as she and her brother wiggled and kicked within me. I run my fingers over Raven’s forehead and silently tell her that I will always be her mother. No matter what.

“What are you thinking?” Chris asks me.

I raise my head and find him watching me intently. “I am just thinking about how it doesn’t matter if she is mine or not. I will love her as if she is.”

Chris opens his mouth to speak but before he can the front door of the pack house opens and Bryce comes bustling in. He has a baby car seat carrier in one arm and a diaper bag thrown over the other. His hair is sticking straight up. It looks as if he has been running his hands through it all day. He looks utterly exhausted.

“It’s okay,” he yells loudly. “I will just carry all of this by myself. I have only been on a six-hour flight with a screaming baby the whole way.”

Chris rushes over to help him but I am frozen to the spot where I am sitting. I look at the baby in the car seat carrier and my heart jumps into my throat. He is the spitting image of the triplets, except with golden blonde curls. But a question is still nagging in the back of my mind. Is he not mine either?

I look down at Raven in my arms and back at the baby that Chris is now carrying toward me. They could not look more different.

Bryce rushes forward and holds out his hands, impatiently wiggling his fingers, waiting for me to put Raven in his arms. “I haven’t seen my girls in over a week,” he says with a giant smile on his face. “Let me hold Raven. I have missed her.”

Rolling my eyes at him, I gently place Raven in his arms. Bryce holds her close to his face and places a lot of little k****s all over her face. Seeing the two of them together puts a smile on my face. “I missed you too,” I say sarcastically.

Bryce stops kissing Raven, leans down, and gives me a chaste k**s. “I missed you too, Little Fox.” He winks and wags his eyebrows at me.

Chris approaches me with our baby boy and my anxiety fills the air. He holds the little boy out for me to hold and I shake my head ‘no.’

“What is wrong?” Bryce asks, clearly confused. “I thought you would be excited to see him.”

I ignore Bryce and look at Chris. “What if he isn’t mine either?”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Bryce laughs. “If he is ours then he must be yours too.”

Chris and I don’t share in Bryce’s laughter and my emotions become thicker in the air. The closer Chris comes to me with our son the more unsure I am about everything. What if he also belongs to the Moon Goddess?

Slowly Chris sits down beside me and just holds our son in his arms. He coos gently in Chris’s arms as he looks in my direction. Tears fill my eyes as Chris gently lays him in my arms.

“Remember what you said about Raven,” Chris reminds me. “It doesn’t matter that she isn’t yours. You will love her just the same.”

I nod and sniffle as tears run down my face. “I want to have him tested as well,” I tell Chris. “I need to know the truth about them both.”

“Anything you want,” Chris says sweetly. “I will call Anabelle back to the pack house.”

Chris gets up to make the phone call and I hold my son to my chest and sob. Bryce stands in the middle of the floor and stares at me with a worried look on his face.

Finally, Bryce snaps out of his trance and looks back at Chris. “Does anyone want to explain what the f**k is going on?”