The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 164

Raven’s POV

My legs and arms feel like they are made of rubber. I am dead on my feet but I have to do this. I have to reject Alpha Leo. After what I saw in my visions and what I have seen since being here, he is not the type of person that I want to be associated with. Not even as a close friend and most certainly not as a mate.

As soon as I got home from my first run, I covered myself with the robe and ran back into the pack house, on a mission to find Leo. With my nose lifted into the air I followed the scent of fresh grass to Alpha Leo’s office. I raise my hand to knock on the door but I hesitate.

‘Rose,’ I call for my wolf. ‘Are we doing the right thing?’

‘He is a scoundrel,’ she replies. She is as just disgusted as I am at the thought of Alpha Leo being our mate.

‘We don’t know that from just a few visions… Do we?’ I ask her but she has retreated to the back of my mind pouting.

Taking a deep breath, I pace back and forth in front of his office and rehearse what I am going to say when I finally get the courage to knock on the door.

“Little Bird?” My father’s voice comes from behind me. “What are you doing?”

Avoiding my father’s eyes, I look at his forehead instead. “There are just some loose ends that I need to tie up before we leave tomorrow.”

“He is your mate, isn’t he?” My father g****s.

“How…” I begin but my father holds his hand up and stops me from talking.

“Look,” my father growls as he looks back toward Alpha Leo’s office. “He is not who I would have chosen to be your mate. He is arrogant, cocky, and appears to be a bit of a ladies’ man.”

“He is nothing more than a tramp,” I confirm my father’s intuition. “I have seen it.”

My father sighs. “What have we told you about digging around in other people’s minds?”

“I can’t always help it,” I protest. “Sometimes it just happens.”

“Anyway,” my father continues. “I would ask that you not make a hasty decision. I know you have heard the stories over and over again, but your mother wasn’t always our biggest fan. She made us work for it. She set a number of ground rules and we all followed them.”

I raise my hands in the air. “Please stop,” I beg. “I worry about the direction that this story going.”

My father smirks and I can tell that he is thinking about the past with my mother. “I am just saying, maybe give him a chance.”

“Are you suggesting that I accept this bond?” I scoff.

“I am definitely not suggesting that you let him mark and mate you tonight, tomorrow, or any time soon,” my father shutters. “I am just asking you not to act on impulse.”

“Name one nice thing that he has done for me since I arrived in this pack and I will change my mind.” I cross my arms over my chest and tap my foot impatiently.

Suddenly, Leo’s office door opens up and the smell of fresh grass and alcohol comes wafting out. “I can hear you,” he slurs his words as he speaks.

“Are you drunk?” I ask him.

“Working on it,” Leo says as he gives me a little wink.

My father chuckles loudly and slaps me on the shoulder. “You can’t reject a drunk guy.”

Alpha Leo steps to the side and gestures for me to come into his office. “Would you like to join me?” He asks.

I step inside his office and the door slams shut behind me causing me to jump. “I would prefer it if you would leave the door open, please,” I say trying to sound confident in my words but I know that I am failing.

“I won’t touch you Luna Queen,” Alpha Leo laughs. “You aren’t my type.”

“Oh,” I whisper. For some reason, his words feel like a punch to the gut.

“Go on then,” he says drunkenly. “Reject me.”

“You aren’t of sound mind right now,” I tell him. “We should talk about whatever this is when you are sober.”

“I am sober enough for this conversation,” Alpha Leo says as he plops himself down behind his desk. He throws his feet up on his desk and holds a bottle of alcohol in his hands. He waves it around widely as he talks.

“Alpha Leo,” I begin. “I don’t know what you heard out there but I didn’t mean any disrespect.”

I raise my hands in the air. “Please stop,” I beg. “I worry about the direction that this story going.”

“f**k the pleasantries,” he bellows. “At least have the decency to call me just Leo if you are going to reject me.”

I swallow hard as I look at the man in front of me. If he hadn’t been so garish and off-putting I might have been attracted to him. He is devilishly good-looking, with his dirty blonde hair and piercing green eyes. His normal uptight attire had been put aside for the evening and he is sitting in front of me in nothing more than a black t-shirt and a pair of gray sweatpants. The muscles on his arms strain the fabric of the t-shirt and he looks delicious.

‘I think you are drooling,’ Rose laughs as she pushes forward to look at our mate with me.

Subconsciously, I wipe my chin. ‘Shut up,’ I hiss at her.

“It is impolite to talk to your wolf when in someone’s company,” Leo laughs as he gets back to his feet.

He saunters over to me and stops when he is just a few inches from me. I do not dare look up into his eyes for fear that my knees may go weak.

Rose is howling with laughter in my head. ‘What happened to him being a tramp?’

‘Would you shut up,’ I scream in my mind.

Leo places two fingers under my chin and lifts my head. Sparks spread throughout my body and seem to settle between my legs. His green eyes are studying me curiously.

“What is so important that you speak to your wolf right now?” He demands to know but I shake my head, refusing to answer. “Tell me,” he leans down and whispers next to my ear. “Have you ever been kissed?”

“I don’t think that is any of your business,” I snap back at him.

“I am making it my business, Luna Queen,” he says as he runs his thumb over my bottom l*p.

“Please don’t call me that,” I beg.

“What would you prefer I call you?” Leo continues to whisper next to my ear. “Little Bird? Like the rest of your family.”

“Anything but that,” I whisper in return. My nickname sounds so dirty on his lips.

“Whatever you say, Little Bird,” Leo chuckles as he pulls his hand away from my chin.