The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 97

Ace’s POV

My father shocks us all by walking into the living room of the pack house. The sun is beginning to rise and casting an odd glow over the room. Quickly my mother turns her tears back on as she runs to my father’s side.

“My Love,” my mother gently grabs a hold of his hand. “I thought that they said you would be in the hospital for days?”

My father ignores my mother for the first time in his life and turns to us. “Boys, I think I need to speak to your mother alone.”

“I don’t think so,” Bryce says with a smartass tone. “I think we would like to see how this plays out.” Chris and I nod our heads in agreement.

“Boys,” our mother puts on her stern voice. “Listen to your father.”

“No,” Bryce says again. “I don’t think we will. Not when it comes to our mate.”

We all cross our arms over our chest and wait for our father to answer. He stares at us with a sad look on his face. We all know that what our mother has done is grounds for banishment from the pack. But with her being the current Luna of the pack it makes things a bit more difficult.

Instead of responding to us, our father turns to our mother and lets out a heavy sigh before he sits down on the nearest chair. He is clearly on the mend but not well enough to deal with this mess as soon as he walks in the door from the hospital.

Our mother has decided that her best course of action is to pretend like nothing has ever happened. “Why didn’t you call? I would have come to the hospital to get you.”

“I don’t think that matters now,” Father says. “Plus, I assumed everyone would be sleeping.”

“Your sons have been busy marking that w***e of theirs,” our mother blurts out.

Father c***s his head to the side and looks at us with a smile on his face. “I am proud of you, but I don’t see a mark on your necks.”

“She will mark us when she is ready,” I tell our father.

“I can’t believe that you are condoning this,” Mother screeches. “It isn’t natural for them to have one mate between the three of them.”

“It is what the Moon Goddess wants,” our father shrugs his shoulders. “Who are we to question the path that the Moon Goddess has set forth for our sons.”

“Because she will usher in a war between the four packs,” our mother cries. “It has been foretold.”

“Nonsense,” Father huffs. “There is no reason for the packs to go to war. We have been at peace for hundreds of years.”

I look at my brothers and we all share an awkward glance. “Technically there is a reason for us to go to war with the West Pack. They tried to keep our rightful Luna from us and banished innocent wolves from their pack.” Chris says as he scratches the back of his neck.

“Uh, Dad,” I say, ready to back up Chris. “After everything that mother has admitted to it would seem that we have reason to attack the West Pack.”

“Why would the West Pack want Erica?” My father asks in confusion.

“Because she is the White Wolf,” I tell him. “Do you remember feeling a surge of energy while we were fighting that rogue? That was Erica. Somehow she made us stronger.”

My father turns an angry glare in our mother’s direction. “You were not meant to tell anyone that Erica was a white wolf. That was told to us in secrecy by her parents. How could you betray our friends like that?”

My mother finally drops the tearful act and scoffs. “They were no friends of mine. Only you would be friends with someone beneath us.”

A wounded look crosses my father’s face. He honestly thought that all of the years that they spent being friends with Erica’s parents our mother was being genuine. Beta Aaron and his mate Evelynn had been my father’s very best friends for as long as we could remember.

“Dad,” Bryce says quietly. “Mother has disrespected Erica, a future Luna of this pack. What is going to be done about it?”

Father looks at us with a shocked look on his face. He knows what Bryce is suggesting.

“You can’t seriously be suggesting that your mother be banished from the pack?” The tone in Father’s voice is hurt and scared.

“We have to protect our mate,” Chris says confidently, “and if Mother continues to be here then Erica will never feel safe here. This is her home now.”

Our mother lets out a scream. “I am your mother! This has been my home for my whole life. I can’t believe you are choosing your mate over your own mother.”

“You didn’t give us a choice!” Chris yells at her. “I left this pack to find out the truth and I was horrified when I had learned about everything that you had done. You tried to come between us and our mate. Our gift from the Moon Goddess herself. You don’t deserve to be part of this pack any longer.”

“Perhaps we can come to some sort of agreement,” our father interjects. “Don’t force her to go rogue. Send her to the West Pack instead and then I will join her there after I pass the pack onto you three.”

Our mother is standing with a stunned look on her face. “I cannot believe what I am hearing. I am being forced from my home?”

“Now you know how Beta Aaron and Evelynn felt,” Bryce says as he storms out of the living room.

“Where are you going?” I call after him.

“To be with my mate,” he snaps at me. “I suggest you two come with me.”

I look at Chris and he is already following Bryce out of the living room. None of us have slept in almost forty-eight hours. There is nothing that we want more than to curl up with our mate. I turn to follow my brothers out of the living room before I turn and look at my mother and my father.

“I want her gone by tomorrow and she is not to speak to our mate ever again.”