The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 55

Ace’s POV

It has been two weeks since both Chris and Erica disappeared. My wolf, Azul, has been howling nonstop in my head, begging for me to go find my mate. To make matters worse, Bryce isn’t speaking to anyone. He is so deep in depression over the loss of our mate that he has barely left his room. I can only hope that Erica decides to come home soon.

To make matters worse our mother isn’t speaking to Bryce or me because her golden child ran off. She blames Erica for everything that has gone wrong and in turn blames us for taking her side. Our father is stuck in the middle. He wants to please his mate but he also wants us to be happy. He is in a no win situation.

Standing outside of Bryce’s door, I knock on it as loud as I possibly can, but there is no response. Lifting my nose to the air I can smell his sweet scent. I know that he is in there.

“Open up,” I yell through the door. “We need to talk.”

“Go away,” Bryce yells back through the door.

Twisting the doorknob as hard as I can I break the lock on the door and it swings open. I wrinkle my nose as soon as I enter his bedroom. There are dirty plates on every empty surface and disgusting dirty clothes are all over the floor. Bryce is sitting on his bed, in only his boxer briefs playing video games.

“What are you doing?” I say. I try to hold my breath because the smell of the bedroom is unbearable.

“Wallowing in self pity,” Bryce says as he shoves a bunch of chips in his mouth. Only about half of the chips make it into his mouth. The rest of them fall onto the bed around him. Bryce wipes the chips off of the bed onto the floor and continues to play his video game.

“You can’t just wallow in self pity,” I g***n. “We have a pack that we are supposed to be learning how to run.”

“We lost our brother and our mate,” Bryce chokes on his words. “What else would you have me do? I miss them.”

“I miss them too,” I tell Bryce. “But we can’t just continue to dwell on something that we cannot control.”

“I have tried calling them both,” Bryce’s voice is full of remorse. “Chris’s phone goes straight to voicemail and Erica has blocked my number.”

I wipe the chip crumbs off of the bed next to Bryce and sit down next to him. “I have tried doing the same,” I admit. “I’ve gotten the same response.”

“What are we supposed to do without them?” Bryce has tears swimming in his blue eyes.

“I don’t know,” I tell him sadly.

I look at the state that Bryce is in and I have to admit that I want to do the same. I want to wallow in my own self pity but we are the future Alpha’s of the North Pack. We have responsibilities. Bryce needs to pull it together.

“Come on,” I say I shove him to the side. “Let’s go interrogate Ashley one more time. Maybe we can finally get her to break this time.”

Finally a sly smile spreads across Bryce’s face. He knows, as well as I do, that Ashley is the one that helped Erica run.

Bryce hops off his bed and runs out of his bedroom not even bothering to put on clothes or wait for me to follow him. I chase him down the hall and we both stand outside of Ashley’s bedroom and bang on her bedroom door. Ashley answers the door and her blonde hair is a wild mess. She must have still been sleeping. She wrinkles her nose when she catches Bryce’s scent and his appearance.

“You aren’t coming in here smelling like that,” she says as she blocks her doorway. “And why are you naked?”

“We came to talk to you about Erica,” Bryce says, not bothering to beat around the bush. “And I’m not naked.”

Ashley rolls her eyes at us. “I already told you. We went shopping and she disappeared while I was in the dressing room. I was unable to track her down.”

“Did you even try to track her down?” I ask angrily.

“Of course I did,” she scoffs. “She was the only friend that I had in this Goddess forsaken pack.”

Bryce and I share a knowing look. We know that she is lying to us but we have no way to prove it. Father has forbidden us from using our Alpha Aura on her to get the truth out of her. His excuse being that if Erica really wants us as mates she will come back when she is ready and we shouldn’t track her down and drag her back like we both want to.

‘I think we should use our aura,’ Bryce says through the mind link. ‘Father doesn’t have to know.’

‘If you don’t think that she will run to Dad as soon as we are done you are wrong,’ I remind him. ‘Ashley has always been a tattle-tale.’

‘Only when it comes to us,’ Bryce growls loudly. ‘But when it comes to our mate she is surprisingly tight lipped.’

“If you two are done having a private conversation in my doorway, I would like to go back to sleep,” Ashley g****s. She slowly shuts her door in our faces and we look at one another with a stunned look on our faces.

“Did she just shut the door in our face?” Bryce asks.

“She did,” I say quietly.

‘We need to get her phone,’ I tell Bryce through the mind link. ‘I bet she has been texting Erica this whole time.’

‘She will never give up her phone,’ Bryce states the obvious. ‘It is practically glued to her hand.’

‘I think it is time that she starts training,’ I say with a smirk on my face.

“Could you two please get away from my door?” Ashley yells loudly from the other side. “You stink!”