Pregnant With Four Alphas' Babies: A Reverse Harem Romance Chapter 234: Let Him Kill Her

*Rose*

I have three babies.

Three babies in my arms. Two sons and a daughter.

I love them more than anything in the universe. I love them so much my heart is heavy with emotion. Ethan does look different without his bright red hair, but I know that will grow back… eventually.

But… there’s also a hole in my heart, and that feeling of sharp pain in my chest will never go away when one of my children is still missing.

Granted, I have three babies, and that makes me happy, but my sweet, curly-headed, bright-eyed Trisha is not here. And without my little girl in my arms, I will never, ever be complete.

Tristan is still out there searching for her, but he hasn’t had any luck. Mark and Eli are going to help him now that they’ve found their sons. It took a bit of time for Eli to get those beasts who bought Ethan to admit it, but now, he has some of his people interrogating them, along with the chief of police from the town where Ethan was recovered.

So far, from the people who bought the boys and Reeva, all we’ve been able to gather is that a man sold them the babies. We have a decent description of him, and Mark has sent that information out with as many guards as he can get to come here to march through Amityville as he is convinced that this is where the man is located.

But if he is any kind of good criminal at all, he’s probably already left town one way or another.

And I’m guessing Retta has left town, too. Is it possible that she still has Trisha with her? I don’t know. I sort of hope so because then, when we find my daughter, we will find the person who is responsible for all of this, but I also can’t imagine my daughter with that evil woman.

At least she knows how to take care of babies. She has trained as a midwife and a nurse, at least, that’s what she convinced me of. I still curse myself for being so freaking stupid! How did I let someone who has always hated me fool me into letting her near my babies?

Ethan was so hungry, he’s been nursing nonstop for almost thirty minutes. Matthew decided he wanted to eat, too, so I’m feeding the boys while Reeva sits on my knees, sleeping. I know Shelby is itching to pick her up, but I haven’t let her yet. I want to hold all of my babies–but I still can’t do that.

Mark thinks we should go back to his castle now, especially since it seems like Trisha was never at the train station. But I’m afraid to go back there. I don’t want to return to the place where my babies were taken from me.

A tear comes to my eye and Shelby sees it as it spills over. “I’m sorry, Rose,” she whispers, squeezing my hand. “We’ll find her. Look how good of a job the Alphas have already done at finding these three.”

“I know,” I say, and I really do believe that it’s true that we will find her. But I just keep thinking about how I could’ve been a better mother and prevented all of this from happening.

“I should’ve been more careful,” I say, beginning to sob again. I don’t want to disturb the babies, so I try to hold back, but it’s hard. I feel so overwhelmed with sadness, thinking about how badly I messed up.

“Rose, this isn’t all your fault. A lot of people messed up missing this. You can’t blame yourself.” Shelby takes Ethan from me as he’s finished and just lying there. She lifts him over her shoulder to burp him. She’s going to be such a good mother one day.

“I’m not sure I can go back to Mark’s castle,” I whisper as I fix my top. “I’m not sure I can do it. I have the wonderful memories of birthing my babies there, but then, I almost died, and then my babies were stolen from me, and all of these guards were slaughtered. It was just so horrible, and going back there may make me relive all of the horror.”

“I know,” Shelby says, patting my son’s back. “You don’t have to go back there if you don’t want to. All of the other Alphas have castles. Granted, some of them are further away than others. But eventually, King Gene is going to have to either step down or be defeated because your son is the next Alpha King, and in the meantime, Mark will be in charge of the kingdom. So chances are that you will be able to return to the castle soon enough.”

I think about that for a moment. Do I even want to return to King Gene’s castle? He wanted me killed while I was there, and I’m guessing that he still does. In fact, I have to wonder if Retta and Barbara weren’t motivated or even paid by Gene to do this.

Suddenly, I do want to go back to Mark’s castle. I want to speak to Barbara myself.

“Shelby,” I say. “I think… maybe I should speak to Barbara.”

Her eyes bulge. “Why would you want to do that?”

“Because… I want to know if King Gene put her up to this,” I explain. “Where’s Adam?”

“He’s helping with the search,” she tells me. “But Rose, I don’t think you need to talk to Barbara about that.”

I hear a tone of caution in her voice. “Why is that?” I ask her.

“Because… a few minutes ago, Adam let me know that we had another visitor at Mark’s castle.”

My stomach rolled over, and I took a deep breath before I asked the question I was pretty sure I already knew the answer to. “Who is it?”

“King Gene,” Shelby told me, her eyes locked on mine.

“Was he there to try to break Barbara free?” I would be so angry if she got away with this.

Shelby shook her head. “No. Mark doesn’t think so. He thinks he’s there to kill her.”

I wasn’t sure how I felt about that, but part of me wanted to say, “Let him.”