The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 242

Raven’s POV

“What have you done?” Beta Sofia snarls at me.

Rose stalks toward her one step at a time like she is her prey. I have had enough of this b***h’s attitude, and so has Rose. Neither of us would have a problem ripping her throat from her neck.

As Rose moves closer to Sofia, Alpha Blaire steps in between us. Rose growls in warning, but Alpha Blaire refuses to move. “Please forgive my Beta, Luna Queen,” she begs. “She was close to the oracle.”

Rose sits back on her hind legs but does not take her eyes off Sofia, who is cowering behind Alpha Blaire. Oliver and Leo take their places on either side of Rose. I try to shift back, but Rose refuses to relinquish power back to me.

‘Rose, please,’ I beg my wolf. ‘Let’s try to be civil.’

‘No,’ Rose snarls. ‘This b***h wouldn’t hesitate to kill us if we were on our own.’

‘But we are not on our own,’ I remind Rose. ‘We have our mates and Alpha Blaire.’

Rose grunts in dissatisfaction before she finally gives me control over my body again. I shift back into my human form and try not to blush over the fact I am standing naked in front of the Alpha and Beta of the Crystal Lake pack. Leo shields me with his body and slips his t-shirt over my head. Leo steps back to my side and grabs my hand, giving it a little squeeze.

I take a deep breath and focus all my attention on Alpha Blaire. “Would you like to explain why you are housing recusants on your territory?”

Alpha Blaire swallows hard. “What are you trying to say?”

“Your oracle and her daughter,” I gesture to the bodies on the floor.

“How do you know they are recusants?” Beta Sofia grumbles.

“Because Elise pushed me down the stairs at the South Pack,” I hiss at her. “Not only did she try to kill me, she tried to steal my mate.”

Beta Sofia scoffs loudly. “That doesn’t mean anything.”

I pull up the memory of the oracle chanting, “Long live the King,” right before I snapped her neck. I push the memory out of my mind and into the minds of Blaire and Sofia.

It is the first time I have attempted to project a memory into someone else’s mind, but I assume it is working because the smirk on Sofia’s face falls. Tears begin to roll down Blaire’s cheeks. I don’t know if she is crying because she is witnessing me killing the oracle or because she feels betrayed.

I pull myself out of their minds and stumble back. Oliver catches me with one arm and pulls me close to him. The magical energy it took to project a memory into two minds at once was draining. The only thing keeping me from falling to my knees is Oliver’s touch.

“What do you have to say to say for yourself?” I spit out, throwing the weight of my Luna Queen aura behind it.

“We didn’t know,” Alpha Blaire whimpers under my aura. “I swear it.”

I nod my head and look at Sofia, but she isn’t responding. Though I feel weak, I hold my head high as I look at Beta Sofia. “What about you? Have you been keeping secrets from your Alpha?”

Beta Sofia looks to the ground, refusing to meet my harsh gaze. “I didn’t know,” she says, but the wavering in her voice tells me otherwise.

“Lies,” I yell in her direction. With the help of Oliver, I throw my aura over her, and she whimpers as she falls to her knees.

“You don’t understand what they are like,” she cries. “They offer you so much in return for your loyalty.”

“What exactly were you offered?” I hiss through my teeth.

A sneer crosses Sofia’s lips. “You don’t believe I didn’t know until you showed up that you had stolen my chosen mate, do you? Oliver belongs to me.”

I throw my head back and laugh loudly. “They offered you my mate.”

“He deserves better than you,” Sofia snarls. “He deserves a mate who doesn’t have to split her love between two mates. He belongs with me.”

“I love them equally and fiercely,” I retort. “Who are you to judge my love for my mates?”

Alpha Blaire doesn’t give her Beta a chance to respond. Blaire turns to Sofia and slaps her across the face. “After all we have been through to get to this point, you betrayed me?”

“I have not betrayed you,” Sofia says through gritted teeth.

“If you betray the Luna Queen, you betray me,” Alpha Blaire growls. “I should banish you from the pack.”

“Then do it,” Sofia says.

Alpha Blaire shakes her head. “The last thing this world needs is one more rogue recusant.”

Sofia’s eyes widen in fear as she takes in what her Alpha is saying to her. Alpha Blaire has tears streaming down her face as she looks at her Beta.

“You leave me no choice but to sentence you to death,” Alpha Blaire says, wiping the tears from her eyes.

“You can’t,” Sofia says in a panic. “I have always been loyal to you.”

“To me, yes. To the Luna Queen? No,” Alpha Blaire is choking back tears.

Sofia falls to her hands and knees to beg for forgiveness, but the damage has already been done. I watch Alpha Blaire’s claws extend from her fingers, and she slices Sofia deeply across the neck.

B***d sprays from Sofia’s neck as her body crumbles to the ground. A puddle of b***d forms around her body, and Oliver lifts me from the ground to keep my feet from being covered in b***d.

Alpha Blaire leaves the oracle’s cabin, and Oliver follows behind with me in his arms. Once we are outside, he tries to set me down, but I refuse to let go. After everything that happened in that tiny cabin, I want nothing more than to be close to one of my mates.

Alpha Blaire clears her throat awkwardly. “I am sorry,” she begins. “If I would have known…”

I hold up my hand, sensing her sadness. “There is no need for apologies.”

Alpha Blaire turns to walk away, but something stops her in her tracks. She turns to look at me. “You have a visitor at the pack house.”

“Who?” I ask curiously.

“Your brother, Kieran.”