Owned By Her Triplet Bullies
Chapter 22

Emma's POV

My breath hitched as my gaze swept across the triplets. Are they about to say what I think they are? I had thought they would join in tormenting me and Alexander would stand by and watch coldly as he always does. I stood there in shock, unable to move as Julian carefully wiped my hair and clothes clean like I was a fragile vase that could break at any time and Alexander glared ruthlessly at the girls.

Hailey, who was smiling evilly when she, walked in, now had an ugly expression on her face.

"Julian, what is going on? Why are you cleaning up that pig?" she asked, glaring viciously at me. "Don't call her that!" Julian and Philip, but snapped at her. She gasped in shock. The triplets had neve She ran to Alexander like someone who had been wronged. "Alex, did you see how Julian and Philip ye "She is not a nobody," Alexander said coldly, brushing off Hailey's hand.

"She's our mate," he deadpanned.

I held my breath when I heard him utter the word 'mate', waiting for everybody's reaction.

Silence. Everyone was deadly quiet.

Hailey started laughing hysterically, breaking the silence.

to her like that before, even when they had pranked me to go to prom with them.

me because of that nobody," she said in a pitiful voice, clutching Alexander's arm.

"You are joking, right? Is this another prank? Is there a hidden camera somewhere? You can come out now," she said, looking around for someone with a phone. But the triplets all had calm expressions on their faces, not saying anything. "It's okay now boys, you got me, you can stop the prank now," she continued, her eyes darting around taurant.

Alexander walked past her towards me and held my hand. I felt tingles over my body and a sudden rush of excitement.

her, or even breath wrongly against her, then it would be the same as going against us," he announced coldly.

"Emma here is our mate and from now she has the same authority as us, if anyone dares to touch her "And I'm sure you all know what it means to go against us," Julian added, throwing the tissue he just in cleaning me up at one of my bullies. "M..mate? You are pulling my legs, right?" Hailey finally broke out of her reverie and stuttered.

"Are you still standing?" Philip growled at John's ex-girlfriend snubbing Hailey.

"We are sorry," she and her friends apologized to the triplets.

"Was I the one you threw ice cream on?" Julian asked harshly.

They all quickly knelt before me. "We are sorry Emma, it won't happen again," they plead clasping their hands in front of them. I opened and closed my mouth like a fish gasping for air. They were apologizing to me? Me? Emma Garcia is on their knees. It felt like a dream, I couldn't say anything but just stand there in a daze.

"Get lost," Alexander growled, and they all scrambled to their feet and ran out of the restaurant.

Alexander was still holding my hand. I tried to wiggle my hand free, he held me tightly, but not enough to hurt me.

Hailey looked down at our entwined hands and up at our faces. Her face turned ashen, and she looked livid with anger. "Boys what the hell is going on," she said, gritting her teeth.

"What you just heard," Philip simply replied.

"What...," she started, but Julian cut her off.

"Not now Hailey, we want to spend time with our mate," Julian said and gently led me to sit back on my chair, still holding Alexander's hand. John sat with a shocked expression on his face. "You didn't eat anything before leaving the house today, you must be famished," Philip muttered sadly.

Julian quickly called the waiter over and soon enough our table was filled with different types of food. I turned around and noticed Hailey had left.

"Eat your food, Emma, or it will get cold," Julian said sweetly.

"But Hailey mmmm...," Julian suddenly put some fries into my mouth, stopping me from speaking.

"Forget about Hailey and eat your food," he said, and I had no other option than to chew.

"Hey, Jack right?" Philip said, staring at John.

"It's J...john," he stuttered.

"John, it was nice of you to be here for our 'mate' but you can leave now, we will take it from here," he uttered, emphasizing the word 'mate'. John gave me an apologetic look and quickly left the restaurant.

"Why did you do that?" I asked, giving Philip a disapproving look.

"We want to spend time with our mate alone without any outsiders," Julian replies, still trying to feed me.

"John is not an outsider, he's my best friend," I explained.

"A boy and a girl can never be just friends, Emma," Alexander said. Wait. Is that jealousy I detect in his voice?

"Well, we are. He was there for me when nobody else was," I said, starting to get angry. How dare they question my friendship with John.

"Okay, calm down, we won't say anything about him again," Julian said. That was easy, why are they being so nice to me when they have another motive?

"Why are you being so nice to me all of a sudden? What do you want?" I asked suspiciously.

"It's simple, all we want is your heart," Alexander replied.

My heart? They have the nerve to say that after everything they have done to me.

"That's not possible, if you are doing all this because I'm your mate, you better stop," I said to them eating my food. I was angry at them, not at the food and I didn't want to waste the efforts of the cooks, so I ate it. "Why should we stop?" Philip asked.

"Because you are wasting your time and I will never accept you, go to Hailey," I said, but the mere thought of them going to Hailey left a bitter taste on my throat.

"Hailey is not our mate. You are. You are the one we want," Julian said, he looked hurt.

"What is Hailey to you, then?" I asked him, looking into his eyes, daring him to lie.

"Hailey is.....," he trailed.

"A friend," Philip cut in with a smile.

"Yes, a friend," Julian hurriedly added.

"Do you f**k your friends?" I'm surprised at how the words came out of my mouth and how bold I sounded.

Julian stared at me in shock. He thought I didn't know, all those times they kept me up with their loud voices all night.

"It was just a one-time thing," Philip said, but I raised my brows at him. The look I gave him told him I didn't believe a word that came out of his mouth.

"Okay, maybe too many times," he muttered. "How do you know anyway?

"She knows because she spied on us," Alexander, who had been quietly eating his food said. I stared at him in shock, my cheeks flushed, not believing that he would sell me out like that. "You did?" Julian asked, surprised. I didn't answer, but my flushed cheeks gave me away.

"Wow Emma, you really are something," Philip said and chuckled.

"But that is all in the past now, when we didn't know who you were. Now that we know, we are truly sorry, and we hope you can replace it in your heart to forgive us" Philip pleaded anxiously.

I stared at the three of them, and they all looked sad it broke my heart to see such expressions on their handsome faces. But what happened at Prom flashed before my eyes. The humiliation, the rejection.

Nice try. If they think I'm going to fall for that trick again. I've already been hurt too many times that I replace it hard to trust or believe them again.

"Can you forgive us, Emma, we are truly sorry," Philip begged again, holding my hand, hopefully.

"Sorry won't just make everything you've ever done to me disappear, it won't heal all the wounds you've inflicted on me. You guys didn't just hurt me physically, you also hurt me mentally and emotionally too. I always thought maybe something was wrong with me that made everybody despises me so much. The funny thing is there are other maids in the pack house, so it is unclear to me why you boys derived joy in making my life a living hell," I said, tears falling from my eyes painfully.

"You've broken my heart so many times that I don't think I will ever be able to trust you ever again, for all I know this could be another prank," I said, wiping my tears and standing up to leave.

"We know we've really hurt you Emma and we are not that selfish to think you would forgive us right away," Philip called out after me.

"But we will make everything right again, we will slowly win back your trust," Julian said with determination.

"At least, let us drive you home," Alexander said as they ran outside after me.

"What the hell?" Alexander cursed.

"Looks like your 'friend' took your car," I spat bitterly.