The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 51

Erica’s POV

The apartment is a single room with a kitchenette and a tiny bathroom off to one side. There is no washer or dryer and a thin layer of dust covers everything.

“Ew,” Ashley says as she walks around the room. “Are you sure that you want to do this?”

“If I can’t have all three of them I don’t want any of them. Plus before I settle down and become their Luna I want a chance to find out who I am.” I say as I walk around the dirty apartment. “How much was this one again?”

Ashley pulls the advertisement out of her pocket. “$800 a month.”

I look around the apartment one more time. Chewing on my bottom l*p, try to do the math in my head. In my savings I have enough for the first and last months and maybe one more if I am careful enough with my money.

“I think I can make it work if I find a job,” I say to myself out loud.

“Are you really planning on living… here,” Ashley wrinkles her nose. “You are a Beta’s daughter for Goddess sake. You are mated to three of the most powerful werewolves in the world and you are going to give it all up to live here.”

“I am not marked and mated to the brothers, so technically I am nothing more than a rogue,” I tell her as I grab a pen from my purse and begin to fill out the application.

Ashley leans in and sniffs me. “You don’t smell like a rogue,” she says with a funny look on her face. “Aren’t rogues supposed to smell bad?”

“I think so,” I say as I look at the list of references. “Can I put you down as a reference?”

“You are really going to do this?” Ashely asks.

“Promise you won’t tell anyone where I am,” I ask her. “We both know that they are going to come to you first looking for me.”

“You are literally right outside the pack border,” Ashley scoffs. “It won’t be that hard to find you if they really look.”

“They won’t come looking for me,” I say and Envy howls sadly in my head. “I have blocked their numbers and left almost everything behind. I only brought what I came to the North pack with.”

I finish filling out the application and my pen hesitates before I quickly scribble my name at the bottom. Ashley lets out a frustrated sigh as she looks at me.

“It isn’t going to be the same around the pack house without you,” she huffs with her arms crossed over her chest. I can tell she is trying not to cry.

“Come on,” I say as I pull on her sleeve. “Let’s go find the building manager.”

Walking into the building manager’s office, I am pleasantly surprised. I was expecting a coat of grime and filth to be all over everything, just like the apartment, but it is clean and tidy. A little bell rings as the door shuts behind me. Ashley huddles close to me as if she feels like she is in some sort of danger.

Her mood instantly changes when a handsome man with dark hair and brooding features walks out of the back of the office. He is wiping his greasy hands on a rag that he just tosses to the side as he approaches us.

“Can I help you?” His eyes are focused on mine and it is my turn to feel uncomfortable.

Ashley pushes me to the side and bats her long eyelashes at him. “I am looking for your phone number,” she says in her most seductive voice.

He barely spares her a look and before he turns the intensity of his stare back on me.

“Umm…” I try to break the awkward silence in the room. “I am interested in apartment 2B.”

I hold out the paper for him to take from me but he only glances at it in my hand. “You don’t have a job and you only have one reference. No.”

I am taken aback. I cannot believe that he is telling me no just that quickly. He turns to walk back into the back room behind the office and I am still standing there in shock.

“I have the first and last month’s rent,” I yell out and it causes him to pause in his steps.

“What about the other ten months out of the year?” He says gruffly.

“I promise to figure it out,” I can hear the pleading tone in my voice. “Please.”

“You promise to figure it out,” he says with a little bit of a smirk on his face. “Let me guess,” he points to Ashley. “She is your reference.”

“I am,” Ashley says as she leans across the desk pushing her cleavage together.

“Is she even eighteen?” The man asks me with a chuckle in his voice.

I hang my head. “No she isn’t.”

“So you have no job and no references,” he laughs at me. “You can’t be serious.”

“Please, sir,” I begin. “I don’t have anyone or anything. I am just trying to find a place to start over.”

“What are you running away from?” He raises an eyebrow at me.

“You don’t want to know,” Ashley mumbles under her breath.

For the first time the man actually laughs out loud at the two of us. I can imagine that he was trying to keep a straight face watching the two of us.

Reaching into his pocket he pulls out a business card and holds it out for me to take. “Go here,” he says as I take the card. “If Romeo hires you I will let you stay in the apartment.”

I look down at the business card in my hand and there is a scantily clad woman on the front. In neon pink letters across the woman’s body is the name of the business, ‘The Bunny Club.’

I look at the card and my hands tremble slightly. “Is this a strip club?” I ask quietly.

“It is,” the man tells me. “But not all the girls that work there are strippers. They need servers and s**t too.”

Taking a deep breath I look at the card and swallow my pride. “Okay. I will go.”