Owned By Her Triplet Bullies
Chapter 39

Alexander's

POV

"Guys, I think I found it," Julian said, running towards a tree happily.

"Oops, I guess I was wrong," he mutters, running back towards us. Philip and I sigh, Julian has been doing this for a while.

"What? At least I'm doing something, I'm not just taking a stroll like you guys," he said. We've been walking around aimlessly for a while. We don't have any interest in this game anyway. We've played it a hundred times before. "What?" I asked when I noticed the way they were staring at me.

"You and Emma, we saw her coming out of her room flustered," Philip said.

"Yes, I slept with her," I deadpan. They stopped walking, and I turned to see them staring at me in shock. I sigh.

"Not in that way, I meant I slept beside her to comfort her," I explain. They finally walk towards me.

"Comfort her? Why?" Julian asks curiously.

"She had a nightmare and her screams and cries woke me up. You should have seen her, she was in a terrible state," I said.

"Do you think the dream was about us?" Julian asks nervously.

"I don't know. She won't tell me about it," I reply.

"Emma's a very strong girl, anyone her age who had gone through what she did would have given up long ago," Philip said, and we all agreed. We continue walking around aimlessly until it starts getting dark. We weren't interested in replaceing any treasure anyway. "We should probably head back," I suggest, and we all turn around and head toward the blue moon pack. We met Hailey and Xander. I searched for Emma, but could not replace her anywhere. "Where is Emma?" I ask.

"Alex, won't you ask us how the treasure hunting went?" Hailey asks.

"I don't care. Why isn't she here with you?" I ask again.

"Why would I know? Am I her mom? She left before Xander and I said she was tired," Hailey replies.

"Emma said that?" Philip asks, surprised. Hailey scoffs and leaves us alone with Xander. We all stood until we heard the bell signaling that someone had found the treasure and that the hunt was over.

"See you some other time triplets and do bring Emma with you. She's such a sweet girl, and she has really grown on me," he mutters with a smile. We all glare at him. If it isn't already obvious, we are not really on good terms with Xander. We were all friends before, but something happened.

We walked towards the bus, we got on the one we saw Emma's friend on, but she was not on the bus. I could see her friend was also anxious, but he could not come to us. We went to him instead.

"Where is Emma?" Julian asks. The bus starts to move. He looks shocked and nervous.

"I...I thought she was with you," he stutters.

"Stop the bus!" Philip yells.

I knew something was wrong. We got out of the bus and Julian immediately dials Hailey's number since we are not on the same bus. He puts his phone on speaker. "Julian, what's...,"

"Where did Emma tell you she's going?" Julian asks, cutting her off.

"I told you I don't know," she replies.

"We can't replace her anywhere. Are you sure she didn't say anything?" Philip inquires.

"Did I come on this trip to look after her? She's not a kid. I'm sure she must be tired of you three always following her around," she utters and hangs up on us.

"Is Emma not on the bus?" We heard Xander's voice. We all turn towards him and Julian grabs him by his shirt.

"What the hell did you do to her?" he growls.

"I didn't do anything. I went in a different direction and when I came back, she had already left," he growls back.

"Look, do you guys want to keep fighting, or should we go look for her? It's already dark, and if she really is out there, then she might be in danger. We have news that rogues were spotted there some days ago," he said, and Julian slowly lets go of his shirt. "Follow me," he said and started to lead us to where they parted. We walked in silence until Xander decided to open his big mouth.

"So, I see Julian is still as hot-tempered as ever," he said.

"And I see you still have a big mouth," Julian retorts.

"Why do you care about Emma this much? I heard she is your maid," he said. He must have heard this from Hailey.

"It's none of your business, lead us quietly to the place," Philip said.

"I'm interested in her," he said with a smirk.

"Don't you even dare think about it if you don't want a broken jaw like last time," I said coldly, and I saw his smirk disappear.

"Are you that incompetent? That rogue can freely roam around your pack?" Julian asks tauntingly.

"We are not incompetent. We just have a situation," he answers angrily.

"Oh, it must be a very tough situation. Do tell us if you need a helping hand, we are very generous people," Philip replies, and Xander grits his teeth in anger. Suddenly, I caught a whiff of Emma's scent. "Can you smell that?" I mind linking Julian and Philip.

"It's Emma's scent," they reply.

"I take it this is where you parted," Julian said.

"Yes, how did you know?" he inquires.

"Emma!" we start to call out to her as we trace her scent. We continued moving forward and yelling her name.

"In here," we hear a faint voice reply.

"Emma?" We called out again.

"Yes, it's me," we hurriedly run towards the voice. We screeched to a halt right on time when we saw the ditch. We look into it to see Emma's tear-stricken face.

"How on earth did you get in there?" Philip asks, surprised.

"I fell," she replies. Her voice is hoarse. She must have cried a lot.

"Give me your hand. Can you climb and reach my hand?" Philip asks. She tries to climb but falls back on the hard floor, wincing and looking dejected.

"Don't worry, we will get you out," Julian promises.

"But how? Did you come up with anything that can help her? That ditch looks so deep," Xander asks.

"I have a rope in my backpack. Can that help?" she asks hopefully.

"It might. Why do you have a rope?" Julian asks.

"You told me we might be going hiking, so I came prepared," she replies, her voice echoing in the ditch.

"Where is your backpack?" I ask.

"It fell off while I slipped into this ditch. It must be lying around there somewhere," she replies. I turned around to search for it when I saw Xander pulling it out from under a heap of leaves. "Here it is," he said, and I snatch it from his arm.

"I will go down," Philip said, and we tied the rope tightly on his waist. We gently let him down as he used the side walls to guide his leg.

"I've got her. You can pull now," he screams, and we start pulling immediately. Their weight was nothing to us because we are three strong werewolves. I can see Philip coming up with Emma, but then the rope suddenly snapped. We totally were not expecting that, but it happened, probably because their weight was too much for the rope.

Emma screams out of fright. In lightning speed, I quickly grabbed hold of Philip's shirt, and he hurriedly grabbed my other hand and, together with Julian, we pulled them out.

"Thank you," Emma mutters panting.

I see dried blood on her hair.

"Were you hurt?" I ask worriedly. She touches it.

"I got injured when I bumped my head on the floor. It's nothing serious," she replies.

"Emma, I am so sorry I didn't know you were in trouble. If I had, I would never have left you behind. I thought you left," Xander said.

"It's fine, you wouldn't have known," she answers.

"Okay, let's get you home. You must be exhausted," Julian said and we all headed back to the pack, but it was so late that the buses already left.

"I can take you guys in my car," Xander offers.

"No thanks, we will replace our way," Julian replies.

"Are you sure we won't be a bother?" she asks. Is she thinking of going in his car?

"No, it's just a 15-minute ride," he answers.

"Thank you so much then," she replies and gets into his car.

"Are you not coming? Or do you have a way home?" she stares at us. She's right, it's no use being stubborn right now in the middle of the night without a means of getting back to the hotel. We reluctantly got into the car and Julian slams the door on purpose. Xander starts to drive. "I replace this weird, how exactly did you know where to replace Emma? And how did you know where we parted when you were not there?" he inquires curiously.