The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 45

Chris’s POV

“Don’t follow me,” Erica screams as she slams my own bedroom door in my face.

I hear the lock click and fury rages through my body. How dare she walk away from me without trying to talk this out?

Jiggling the handle to my door I try to push the door open but she has it locked. “Erica,” I scream through the door, “Let me in.”

“No!” She screams back at me.

“If you think that a silly lock can keep me out of my own room you are sorely mistaken,” I yell back through the door but there is no response.

Bracing my shoulder up against the door, I grab hold of the handle and twist so hard that the handle breaks off the door in my hand. The door swings open and Erica is staring at me with a shocked look on her face.

“You just broke the door.” She says in shock.

“I told you to let me in,” I growl back at her. “I am not finished talking to you.”

Erica growls in my direction and her blue eyes are swirling to black. “I have nothing left to say to you.”

“So what are you trying to say?” I growl in her direction. “Are you going to reject me if you don’t get your way? That is pretty childish of you.”

Erica scoffs in anger. “Childish! You are the one that just broke a door rather than give me a moment to calm down.”

Grabbing Erica by the shoulders I force her to look into my eyes. “We have to discuss this.”

“There is nothing to discuss,” she spits at me.

I am trying to keep my wolf, Cyan, under control but he wants me to mark her before she has a chance to do anything stupid like reject us.

“Put yourself in my shoes,” I try to get her to listen but she is too angry to hear reason. “If it were me accusing your parents of something horrible, how would that make you feel?”

Erica shrugs her shoulders out of my hold and stares at me with tears in her eyes. Closing her eyes she takes a deep breath and when her eyes reopen they are the sparkling shade of blue that I love to see.

“I guess you have a point.” Her teeth are ground together as she speaks to me. “But that doesn’t mean that I think any differently about your mother.”

Running my hands through my hair in frustration, I stare at my little mate. She is so angry at me right now but she has never looked more beautiful. Her cheeks are flushed and her eyes are sparkling with life, even though they are a little puffy from crying. The blue dress that she has on fits her perfectly. Even though we are in the middle of a heated argument, I want nothing more than to pull her to me and k**s her.

“I don’t want to fight with you,” I tell her as she continues to glare in my direction. “I want to be on your side, but you can’t ask me to choose between you and my mother. I won’t do it.”

“Then you have already made your choice,” Erica says as her eyes fill with more tears. “I would have done anything for you and you can’t open your mind enough to maybe think that your mother is guilty.”

“And you can’t open your mind enough to think that maybe your parents are guilty of what they have been accused of,” I hiss back at her.

As soon as the words left my mouth I knew that I had gone too far. None of us really believed that her parents were capable of doing what they were accused of. Why would the Beta of the pack steal from the pack school? It makes no sense.

“I think we are done here,” Erica says as she wraps her arms around her body. “I will move back into the Omega quarters. You can have your room back.”

“Erica, don’t be silly. This is your room now.” I try to plead with her. “I want you to stay here.”

“I don’t want to be near you or your scent,” she growls in frustration.

She storms out of my bedroom and tries to slam the door behind her but because it is broken it just flies back open. Peeking my head out of the door I watch her make her way down the hall and towards the stairs. Ace and Bryce pass her on the stairs and she growls at the angrily before continuing on her way.

“What did you do?” Ace says as he looks at the state of my door.

“I tried to have a civil conversation with her,” I shrug my shoulders.

“What the f**k did you say to her?” Bryce rubs the back of his neck awkwardly. “She has never growled at us like that before.”

“I just asked her to put herself in my shoes. I don’t want to investigate mother,” I tell them both honestly.

“I don’t really want to investigate mother either,” Ace says with a frown on his face. “But you have to admit that Mom has kind of had it out for her since she got here.”

“We all know how Mom is,” I say, coming to her defense.

“I don’t know about you two,” Bryce begins, “but Mom told me to make her life miserable while she was here so she would leave.”

“She told me the same thing,” Ace g****s.

Both Ace and Bryce turn and look at me and I sigh. “She told me a little more.” I admit. “She didn’t want her here because she was afraid that she would find her mate within our pack.”

“Why would mom care if Erica found her mate among our pack?” Bryce laughs uncomfortably.

“Unless she knew that we would be her mates,” Ace says.

I can’t believe what I am hearing. My brothers have lost their minds. “There is no way that Mom would try and keep us from our fated mate.”

“Why not?” Bryce asks. “She has dictated every moment of our lives up until now. Why wouldn’t she want to choose our mates for us too?”

“The both of you have lost your damn minds,” I growl at them.

“You are the favorite,” Ace says with a chuckle. “Why don’t you ask her?”

“What the f**k am I supposed to say?” I snarl at them. “Hey Mom, did you already have mates picked out for us?”

“That is exactly what you should say,” Bryce laughs. “She would tell you the truth.”

“Fine,” I say with a smirk on my face. “I will go and ask Mom what her plans were for our mates and when I am right you two can k**s my a*s.”

“We will be waiting here,” Ace and Bryce say at the same time.