The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 26

Ace’s POV

I gasp at my mother’s words. How dare she speak to my mate in such a manner? I can feel my brothers tense up beside me and I see Bryce tighten his grip around Erica.

“Erica,” I say quietly. “I think you should go inside while we speak with our mother.”

There is an edge to my voice that I cannot control. I can see by the look on Erica’s face that she will not argue with me. Spinning in Bryce’s arms she places a quick k**s on his lips. Once she pulls herself out of Bryce’s arms she places a small k**s on both Chris and I’s lips as well. As she disappears into the house, my brothers and I share an identical grin with one another.

“I will not watch that again,” my mother interrupts our happiness.

“She is our mate,” Bryce butts in. “You will have to get used to seeing her around.”

“Don’t you understand that she is a rogue. She is lower than an Omega,” my mother repeats her insults towards Erica.

“She is of Beta b***d,” Chris reminds our mother.

“She is not any longer,” our mother hisses at us. “She is a servant in this house.”

A loud growl erupts from Chris’s chest and Bryce and I already know what is coming next. Out of the three of us, Chris is the quickest to lose his temper. Usually that growl means that he is ready to fight, but surely he won’t attack our own mother.

Bryce and I place our hands on Chris’s shoulders trying to hold him back. But he is too far gone in his anger. Shrugging his shoulders out of our grasps he takes a step forward and looks down at our mother with rage in his eyes.

“She will never be a servant in this house ever again,” he snarls at our mother.

Chris flexes his fists at his side, daring our mother to speak poorly of our mate one more time. Just when I am sure that Chris is going to lose control he takes a step backwards and lets his shoulders relax. Bryce and I share a relieved glance at one another before turning our attention back to our mother.

Her face is now as white as a sheet. This is the first time that we have ever stood up to our mother about anything. We have always been the good little triplets and done her bidding. Even when that bidding included tormenting a young girl in our house.

“We should be having this conversation with father present,” I try to reason with everyone.

My two brothers nod in agreement but our mother crosses her arms over her chest and taps her foot in anger. “There is no need to bring your father into this conversation.”

Bryce c***s his head to the side and gives mother a strange look. “Why shouldn’t father be part of this conversation?”

“It is because he has already given us his blessing,” Chris says angrily. “She just doesn’t want us to know that.”

Our mother turns from pale white to bright red within a few seconds. “I will not have my sons mated to a rogue.”

“If she was still a Beta would you accept her?” I ask, already knowing the answer.

“You should be mated to a she-wolf with Alpha b***d,” our mother mumbles under her breath. “And you all should have separate mates. This sharing business is disgusting.”

“We have all known that there would be a possibility that we would all share a mate,” I try to reason with my mother but she is too angry to listen to reason.

Finally I decide to bring my father into the conversation. ‘Dad,’ I call out through the mind link. ‘We could use your help with mom.’

‘What has she done now?’ My father’s voice sounds angry and annoyed as he answers me.

‘Besides threatening to send Erica back to the West Pack…’ I tell him with a sigh.

‘I will be right there,’ my father sounds tired.

Closing the mind link with my father, I realize that my brothers are still fighting with Mother. Now it is Chris that is holding Bryce back and I am not sure I want to know what Mom said to make him so angry.

“She belongs to us,” Bryce screams at our mother. “All of us.”

“This is sick,” my mother screams back at him. “How do you think the pack will accept this?”

“They will accept it because she is our mate,” Bryce growls angrily.

Finally the front door opens and our father is standing in the doorway with a very annoyed look on his face. His eyes flicker between the three of us and our mother. He lets out a frustrated sigh. “Everyone in my office now,” he commands.

“Don’t you try to use your Alpha aura on me,” our mother hisses at him.

“My office now,” my father repeats himself with choppy angry words.

My brothers and I walk into the house, and I can hear my father arguing with my mother on the front porch still. Not wanting to disobey orders we walk into our father’s office and sit down on the oversized couch that sits up against the wall. Silently we wait for our mother and father to come and join us.

Our father’s office door swings open and I can feel the anger rolling off of his body. “Your mother won’t be joining us,” he says shortly as he sits down behind his desk.

I can feel my own anger rising in my body as I think about the fact that our mother is avoiding the whole situation. “She needs to be here,” a low growl leaves my chest as I look at my father.

“It is going to take some time for your mother to come around to the idea that you are mated to Erica,” our father says quietly. “She has never been a fan of Erica and her family.”

“Then why were they here every summer,” Chris asks.

“Because Beta Frank is one of my closest friends and your mother didn’t have the heart to tell me no,” our father tries to explain. “But she never wanted you three to share a mate.”

“Well,” I say with a chuckle in my voice. “That decision was never up to her, was it?”