The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 218

Oliver’s POV

I heard rumors Raven’s wolf was an unusual color, but I never expected her to be gold. There is no mistaking her color. As the Texas sun beats down on her impossible coat, I cannot help but bow my head in respect to the Luna Queen. I glance at Leo, and he is bowing his head as well. Everyone on the airfield is submitting to Raven.

My wolf watches happily as Raven’s wolf prances around, showing off her coat to all those watching. Her wolf bounds over to Leo’s wolf and mine playfully, and she licks us both on the muzzle.

‘Let’s run,’ she says excitedly through the mind link.

I am shocked to hear her voice in my head. I didn’t think she would be able to link me until we marked one another. ‘How can you mind link me?’ I ask curiously.

‘I am the Luna Queen,’ she chuckles. ‘I can mind link everyone.’

Raven’s wolf is weaving her way in and out of Leo’s wolf and mine. Rubbing her body along ours, spreading her scent on us. The sound of a car horn interrupts the moment. The three of us look up and see the SUV pulling away from the airfield.

Leo’s wolf is wagging his tail excitedly. ‘Do you think you can keep up, Little Bird?’

Raven laughs melodiously in my mind, and she takes off running, following the SUV toward the South Pack pack house. She is fast. Faster than I expected her to be.

Raven’s Wolf runs as if she has never gotten the chance to run before. She has no problem keeping up with the SUV. Her tongue hangs out of the side of her mouth as she runs happily alongside it.

Leo’s Wolf sniffs the air as he runs behind Raven. He opens up the mind link between the two of us. ‘Do you smell that?’ He asks me.

Lifting my nose to the air, I inhale deeply as I run. The smell of a rogue is thick in the air. There is definitely one nearby.

‘I do smell it,’ I confirm what Leo already knows. There is a rogue waiting to attack the car that Raven is supposed to be riding in. ‘What do we do?’

‘What we aren’t going to do is panic,’ Leo says more to himself than to me.

I know that he has battled rogues for Raven once before. I wonder if he will be mentally able to do it again.

‘You will have to pick up the slack,’ my Wolf, Orion, says quietly.

‘I have never fought a rogue before,’ I say to Orion.

‘We are strong fighters,’ Orion assures me. ‘We can do this.’

Suddenly, Raven skids to a stop in the middle of the road. Her nose is in the air. She smells the rogues too.

‘How many do you think there are?’ she asks through the mind link. I can hear her fear in her voice.

‘At least one,’ Leo says, maybe more. ‘It is hard to tell because the scent is exacerbated by the heat.’

‘Raven,’ I say as I stand protectively in front of her. ‘Mind link your fathers and tell them to come back with the SUV.’

Raven’s wolf nods her head, and her eyes glaze over. Suddenly there is a howl from off in the distance. Three identical wolves are running in our direction. I know they must be the Alpha triplets. One runs toward us while the other two fan off on either side of us, checking the forest.

The SUV finally pulls back around, and Raven quickly shifts into her human form. I have to say that she is magnificent. Even under pressure. Alpha Fernando tosses her an oversized shirt and ushers her into the car for safety. He speeds off down the road with the Alpha triplets carefully following along.

Leo stays on the right side of the car, and I am on the left. I keep my ears and eyes alert. Listening and looking for anything that might be out of the ordinary.

The scent of rogues is still thick in the air, and it is impeding my ability to think clearly. Orion keeps growling angrily as he runs alongside the SUV.

‘What we aren’t going to do is panic,’ Leo says more to himself than to me.

That’s when I hear it. A snarl coming from the other side of the SUV and a yelp. Without hesitation, I jump over the roof of the vehicle and land behind a rogue who is attempting to take down Leo.

Leo’s wolf is snarling with his teeth bared at the rogue. The SUV speeds off without us, but I stay with Leo.

Orion lets a loud growl erupt from his chest and grabs a hold of the rogue’s back leg. Orion shakes his head wildly, and I feel his leg snap within my jaws.

The rogue howls in pain as Leo’s wolf lunges for his neck. Leo’s wolf snaps down on the rogue’s throat and b***d immediately begins to spurt from the rogue’s dirty fur.

He immediately shifts back into his human form as he lies on the road sputtering and gasping for air.

I hear bones snapping and look up to see that Leo has shifted back into his human form as well. “Who sent you?” Leo yells in the rogue’s face.

“Long live the Alpha King,” the rogue says before his body goes limp.

The Alpha Triplets approach us and look down at the now-dead rogue.

“You did well protecting our daughter,” Alpha Chris says.

“He was the only Rogue we found,” Alpha Ace says with a relieved look.

I shift back into my human form and stand naked in the middle of the road with the rest of the men.

“He said something just before he died,” I say as I look at Leo. Leo nods his head as if giving me the okay to go ahead.

“What did he say?” Alpha Chris demands to know.

“Long live the Alpha King,” Leo says.

“That doesn’t make any sense,” Alpha Ace says. “We are looking for someone who refers to herself as the true Luna Queen.”

“I think they were referring to your son,” I say in nothing more than a whisper.