The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 76

Erica’s POV

The drive back to the North Pack is silent. The only sound that fills the car is the woosh of the windshield wipers. Chris keeps his eyes glued to the road and I stare out of the passenger’s side window while the rain sprinkles from the sky. Every once and a while I glance at Chris out of the corner of my eyes. His knuckles are white from gripping the steering wheel so tightly. It makes me wonder if this is truly what he wants.

“Are you nervous?” I ask him to fill the silence in the car.

Chris’s jaw goes tight and I know that he is trying to avoid the conversation. He keeps his eyes on the road and doesn’t glance in my direction. Just when I think he is going to ignore me all together, he finally speaks.

“I don’t know what I feel,” he answers me vulnerably. “Part of me is excited but I am also very nervous.”

“What if they banish me from the pack?” I ask nervously.

“They can’t,” Chris says through gritted teeth. “The three of us agreed a long time ago that we all have to be in agreement for major decisions. I won’t let them.”

That makes me feel a little bit better but it doesn’t ease the dread that is bubbling in my stomach.

After what feels like forever we finally pull up to the North Pack pack house. As soon as we put the car in park Luna Alice is running out of the front door with tears streaming down her face. I look at Chris in confusion but he just shrugs his shoulders.

“I called ahead to let them know that we were coming.” His face blushes with embarrassment. “I didn’t think that a surprise would work well in our favor.”

Chris gets out of the car and his mother runs up to him and places little k****s all over his face. She checks him over like she is looking for injuries, then she pulls him in for a giant hug, but I do not miss the way that Chris doesn’t hug her back. He only pats her on the back a few times and then gently pushes her away.

Stepping out of the car, I stand there awkwardly while Chris reunites with his parents. I have to admit that I feel out of place at the moment. It feels like I don’t belong here. As I am watching Alpha Devin and Luna Alice chatter away at Chris I feel the hairs on my neck begin to prickle. I turn towards the pack house door and see my other two mates standing with their arms crossed over their chests. Ace is glaring at me while Bryce is glaring at Chris.

I raise my hand and offer them both a little wave hoping that they will come over to me but they don’t. Ace walks right past me and embraces Chris in a hug. “I missed you brother,” Ace says as he glances in my direction.

Turning my attention back to the front door, I see a beautiful redhead come up behind Bryce and wrap her arm in his. So, this must be the other woman. Her beautiful auburn hair falls in soft waves down her back. She is tall and lean with legs that are to die for. Everything about this woman screams Luna. She smirks in my direction before pulling Bryce back into the house behind her.

After seeing the other woman I feel self conscious. I always knew that I was a bit short for a werewolf and a bit more curvy than I should be. But seeing my competition makes me feel inadequate. I can’t say that I blame Bryce for finding someone that better suits the position of Luna.

Ace glares at me before he walks right past me, like I don’t exist, as he makes his way back into the pack house.

I am so focused on watching Ace walk back into the pack house that I don’t notice Luna Alice approach me.

When she begins to speak it startles me and I jump. “Don’t think that just because you are back in this house it means that you are my sons mate. Bryce has already moved on and I am sure the other two will move along shortly. Don’t get to comfortable.” Luna Alice turns on her heels and walks back into the pack house.

Alpha Devin approaches me with a stern look on his face. “You hurt my sons,” he says curtly. “Don’t let it happen again.”

The fake smile that I had plastered on my face falls into a frown. I had thought that if anyone would welcome me home it would have been Alpha Devin, but apparently I was wrong. It would appear that the person that is happy I am home is Chris.

Walking up beside me, Chris walks up to me and puts his arm around my shoulders. “Don’t worry. It will get better.”

I look up at Chris with tears swimming in my eyes. “I am glad you can be positive at a time like this.”

Chris grabs my luggage and begins walking into the pack house. I follow, silently, behind him, keeping my eyes glued to the ground. As soon as I step foot in the pack house I feel like I have made a mistake. Maybe Luna Alice is right. Maybe I should reject all three of the brothers and let them move on with their lives.

Just as I am about to follow Chris into his bedroom, I am cornered by the tall redhead. I g***n internally because she is even more beautiful up close. There is a tiny sprinkling of freckles across her nose that are mesmerizing. Her chocolate brown eyes bore into mine as she looks down at me.

“Don’t think I don’t know who you are,” she says with a smirk on her face. “I will be the Luna of this pack.”

“Oh,” I say quietly. I am not in the mood for a fight with some random stranger. “I don’t think that we have met. I am Erica.”

“I already told you that I know who you are and what a disgrace your family is to the West Pack,” the redhead crosses her arms over her chest trying to look intimidating.

“I guess you and I have different definitions of what a disgrace is,” I say smartly before I push past her and make my way into Chris’s bedroom.

I look around for Chris but he is no longer in the bedroom. Closing the door behind me I slide down the door and draw my knees to my chest. Rocking back and forth on the floor I try not to cry.