The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 241

Raven’s POV

As I stand outside of the home of the oracle, a wary feeling rises in the pit of my stomach. The oracle’s home is nothing more than a single-room log cabin with smoke billowing out of the brick chimney.

“This feels like a mistake,” I say just above a whisper. “Maybe we should go.”

“Not until we get the information we came for,” Oliver growls.

“Oliver is right. We need to know what she has seen,” Leo says as he begins to walk toward the tiny cabin.

“War,” I say in a low voice. “She has seen war. I have seen it, too.”

Leo and Oliver glance at me with bewildered looks before deciding not to ask what I have seen or when.

‘It is better if they don’t ask,’ Rose says. ‘We only know of one date.’

‘My coronation,’ I say back silently.

The one dream that has plagued my nights for years. The day of my coronation is the only vision of the future I have had. The day the scarred woman comes for my throne. I think about the dream often and wonder how I can change the outcome of what is to come. But it feels like an impossible task.

“Are you okay, Little Bird?” Leo asks as he puts my hand in his.

“Hmm,” I respond.

Oliver takes my other hand, lifts it to his mouth, and places a gentle k**s on the top. “Are you okay?” He repeats Leo’s question. Leo watches Oliver’s tender affection with a roll of his eyes.

I shake the dream from my mind and nod. “I was just thinking,” I admit, but once again, neither of my mates ask me what I have been thinking about.

Leo raises my hand to his mouth. I think he is going to copy Oliver’s tender k**s, but his tongue darts out instead. Licking the palm of my hand.

“Ew,” I squeal, and I rip my hand away from him. “What was that for?”

“To lighten the mood,” Leo says with a shrug of his shoulders. “Are you ready to meet this oracle?”

Wiping my hand down my dress, I take a few steps toward the log cabin. I pause a few steps away from the cabin and look over my shoulder. My mates are following closely behind me. Looking back at the cabin, I hold my head high and roll my shoulders back.

‘We are not alone,’ Rose reminds me as I lift my hand to knock on the door.

I don’t know what I expected when the oracle opened the door, but I was not expecting someone who looked beautiful and youthful. Her chocolate brown hair is weaved into an intricate braid and falls over her shoulder. I watch as her eyes start at my feet, and she slowly raises her gaze until it meets mine. There is something familiar about her face, but I am unable to place it.

“Go away,” she says curtly before trying to slam the door in my face.

Oliver holds his hand out and stops the door. “You will speak to your Queen,” he growls.

The oracle looks me up and down once more. “I have no Queen,” she hisses loudly.

She tries to shut the door against Oliver’s hand, but she isn’t strong enough. I hear someone shuffling around in the cabin, and I grow curious. I try to look over the oracle’s shoulder to see who is in her cabin, but she shifts her body so I cannot see.

Leo steps forward and flings the door open with a single push of his hand. It sends the oracle flying backward. She stumbles over the rug on the floor and falls on her back. A rush of brunette hair flies across the room to help the oracle from her spot on the floor.

“Mother,” the brunette woman says as she tries to help her to her feet.

That voice. I know that voice, and I know that face. Elise.

“Elise?” I growl angrily.

Elise looks up from the oracle’s side, and her eyes grow wide with fear. “Raven,” she whispers. “What are you doing here?”

“What am I doing here?” My voice raises a few octaves. “What are you doing here?”

Elise rises slowly from her knees, and her eyes narrow in my direction. “I suppose I am waiting for your brother, my mate, to take his rightful place on the throne.”

“You are not worthy of my brother,” I growl in her direction.

“You don’t know your brother at all,” Elise throws her head back in a fake laugh. “He hates you.”

“Lies,” I scream as my claws break through the tips of my fingers. “My brother loves me.”

Elise shifts into a small gray wolf and growls over her mother. The oracle tries to scoot away from under her daughter, but Oliver rips her out from under Elise’s wolf.

Oliver’s claws extend, and he digs them into the shoulder of the oracle while her daughter watches on helplessly. “Shift back,” he commands Elise, but she doesn’t listen.

Elise lunges for Oliver’s throat, and he tosses her to the side with a single swing of his arm. Her wolf lands on the ground and skids across the floor, hitting the wall on the other side of the cabin.

Anger courses through my veins as I think about Elise trying to attack my mate. I can feel the shift beginning to take place, but I cannot stop it. A fearsome growl reverberates throughout my chest as Rose pushes forward.

My dress rips as my golden fur sprouts all over my body. My wolf towers over Elise’s tiny gray wolf, snarling and drooling onto her. Elise’s wolf cowers under Rose’s sheer size and the power radiating from her. But I do not have pity for the she-wolf beneath me. No, she was going to pay for what she had put me through.

Rose’s mouth opens wide as she bites down on Elise’s neck. Elise’s wolf whimpers as my jaws close down on her throat. The sound of the oracle’s screams echoes in the small room as I rip out her daughter’s throat.

B***d drips from my mouth as I turn my sights on the oracle. ‘How many lies have you told?’ I ask her through the mind link. But the oracle refuses to answer me. ‘Answer me,’ I snarl.

The oracle looks from the body of her dead daughter and back to Rose. “More than you could count,” she says with tears running down her cheeks.

I stalk toward her, putting one massive paw in front of the other. The oracle doesn’t bother to shift into her wolf. It is as if she has accepted her fate.

“Do it,” She growls.

I hesitate for a moment. Killing Elise had been easy. She had hurt me time and time again, but the oracle has done nothing to harm me. Rose takes a step back and c***s her head at the oracle.

‘Take her back to the pack house,’ I tell Oliver through the mind link, and he nods.

The oracle fights against Oliver’s hold. She growls and spits in my direction. A foul grin spreads across her face. “Long live the King,” she laughs as she repeats it over and over again.

Once again, my anger takes over, and I find Rose pouncing on top of the oracle. Before she has a chance to shift, Rose bites down on the oracle’s neck and shakes it violently. I can feel her neck snap, and Rose drops her lifeless body to the ground.

Suddenly, Alpha Blaire and Beta Sofia are standing in the doorway of the cabin. Shock is written across both of their faces.

“What have you done?” Beta Sofia snarls at me, and I turn my sights on my neck target.