The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 25

Erica’s POV

After an incredibly embarrassing display at the bakery where Ace forced the waitress to come back and take my order. I couldn’t eat the delicious food that was sitting in front of me. Even after the waitress apologized over and over again. I was certain that she spit in my food so Ace offered to eat my mine and gave me his. The old Ace would have spit in my food himself. I am still trying to get the images of everything that they used to do to me out of my mind.

As we are all piling back into the car, I decide to test the limits of this arrangement. “I thought Bryce was supposed to escort me to brunch.”

I look over my shoulder and Bryce’s eyes are opened wide as he slowly turns his head to look at Chris. “You sat on that side of the car on purpose!” Bryce yells at Chris.

I can’t help but giggle at the stunned look on Bryce’s face and the smug look on Chris’s face. “That wasn’t very nice, Chris,” I chastise him.

Chris’s smug smile drops until he sees me hiding my smile behind the seat. “It is not nice to pretend to be angry at us,” Chris lets out a sigh of relief.

As we pull into the driveway I can see that Luna Alice is waiting for us on the massive wrap around porch. “Why do I feel like I am about to be in trouble,” I m**n as I try to get out of the car but Chris shuts my door and holds it that way until Bryce races around the SUV to open it for me. I roll my eyes at them both but I am happy to see that they are getting along. The last thing that I would want is to come in between the brothers.

Bryce holds on to my left hand and Chris holds my right as we walk up the front stairs of the pack house.

“Hello, Mother,” the triplets all say at the time.

“We need to talk,” she says to the three of them while she glares at me. “Without her.”

“She goes where we go,” Ace says with a bit of an edge to his voice.

“Not this time,” Luna Alice says angrily.

“It’s okay,” I say as I pull my hands away from them. I press my hand against Ace’s chest and he looks down at me with a concerned look on his face.

“Are you sure?” Ace says as he looks into my eyes.

“Of course,” I shake the irrational thoughts that are roaming through my head. “These shoes are killing my feet.”

“Go up to my bedroom and wait for us there,” Chris says as he gives me a little peck on my cheek.

As I go to walk into the pack house, a set of arms wrap around my waist and pull me backwards. Ace nuzzles his nose in my neck and then places a small k**s on my shoulder before letting go. My face heats to a bright shade of red and I turn away so Luna Alice cannot see my embarrassment. Using my stray hairs as a curtain to hide my face I turn to run into the pack house again.

Only this time, Bryce catches my hand and pulls me backwards. “You didn’t think you could get away without a k**s from me now did you?”

Bryce pulls me in closely to him and places a k**s dangerously close to my lips. I didn’t think it was possible but my whole body begins to blush even more red than I was already. After he releases me from his grip, I can’t help but feel a little light headed at all the attention that I have received. A girly giggle comes from my lips as I look at the triplets who are all now grinning from ear to ear.

“And just what was all of that?” Luna Alice says with a scowl on her lips.

“We were just saying goodbye to our mate,” Ace says with his head held high.

“She cannot be your mate,” Luna Alice screeches. “She is nothing more than a rogue. Lower than an Omega.”

I hear Luna Alice’s words just as I am about to turn the doorknob to the front door. Taking a deep breath, I turn around and face Luna Alice. “What did you just say?”

“You heard me, you, Little Tramp,” Luna Alice’s words cut deep. “Your mother and father came up here every summer and forced their way into our home. Disrupting our lives. Of course Devin was too nice to ever say anything but neither one of us ever wanted you here.”

“Oh,” I say and I cannot keep the hurt from my voice. “I never meant to be an inconvenience.”

“You aren’t an inconvenience,” Chris says as he steps up beside me.

“Of course, she isn’t,” Bryce says, coming over to me as well. He wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me closely into him.

“Mom,” Ace says with a hint of warning in his voice. “Erica is the future Luna of this pack. You should watch how you speak to her.”

“I am the current Luna of this pack,” Luna Alice scoffs.

“No, boys,” I look at the triplets. “She is right. She never wanted me here but she can’t chase me away now. We belong together. The Moon Goddess put us all together for a reason.”

“No!” Luna Alice yells loudly. “I will not have my sons mated to a rogue.”

“I am not a rogue,” I spit back at her. “I am the daughter of the Beta of the West Pack. I am of Beta b***d. I am not a rogue.”

“Why don’t we send you back to the West Pack to see what they would have to say about it,” Luna Alice takes a step forward in my direction but her three sons step in front of me, blocking her path.