The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 116
Jo-anne POV
Titan introduced himself to her and she shook his hand, “Thank you for helping me. I really do appreciate this, Luna.”
“You’re willing to have me pry through your mind?” she asked.
here about it either. I had an order put on me not to. Though that now confuses me too.”
it down.
na, she didn’t accept it either. I don’t understand that.” He shook his head as he sank down. “It’s odd, I know this, I’ve seen rejections before. Even just voicing it is painful. Before it’s accepted even, hu
ered if that was simply because of how she’d felt at the time. Likely because that last order he’d given her had been it for her, her decision had truly been made that day.
’t until she was 18 or he’d get into trouble with the Wolfen Council for something neither of them understood.
had cried for hours in T.J.’s lap and then had just sat there and taken comfort from him for who knew how long. Maybe she did suffer it j
he memory of her and West’s past, her Alpha’s Orders, and focused on the here and now. “I’d like you to tell me what you can, take your time, don’t co
Titan nodded at her an
thought had happened to him. It took a long time and he rubbed his temples a few times. She knew that it was causing him pain. A headache she knew, just thinking about it, likely some part of th
a glass of cold water from the bar cart that sat up against the wall between Rafe and Jacks’ desks.
est with herself.
t just animals when she was young, but pack children and others when she’d grown up. He’d told her it was who she truly was, a healer.
elp heal the little ones that had fallen down and got not only scraped knees and elbows, but broken bones from falling out of trees or off the playground equipment.
nt them to heal up was all, then they would just start to heal. Saw Titan blink right at her “You’re a healer!”
hings.” She smiled at him, knew he w
go to the kingdom.”
nce and West both muttered.
family. Had protected his sister and her children from threats against them.
eer in their minds since Christian had taken over as King. Apparently, he’d even apologised for it to bot
for the behaviour of the former King and Queen, himself.
everyone had protected, he was, she knew, a good king. He was compassionate but strict, he’d even offered her his own blood, had pricked his finger right in front of her and said, “Please princess, check my intentions.”
it was clear that there was a healthy bond between the two of them. If her mother trusted him, then so could she.
that is. As well as the Luna’s Order. Before I try and see into your mind.”
d the man’s mind.
er when he instinctively tried to pull away from her, saw the pain and latched right onto it as it rapidly spread throughout his mind, made him feel and she knew
felt her eyes were glowing too. She had them closed to keep focus, but could feel them hot under her eyelids. It was something she’d gotten used to. The heat that came with using her magic.
g and then crying out in pain. Felt the moment she had them all.
ggling tendrils between her two hands in front of her. Just floating there almost like a ball of witch’s light, but black and ugly.
gly darkness. She closed her fingers around it, touched it herself and saw a woman turn and stare right at her. She looked more than
had done it. They could see each other.
“No more from you.” Jo-anne told th
got back.
d to the other witch. Then she closed her fist and the ball of black tendrils evaporated in an instant. The spell was removed and broken to nothing.
watching her, hadn’t, she realised, heard her statement to that witch, their conversation it seemed, had been a completely private one.
she asked.
a bit confused.
.”
.”
didn’t see anything at all, just watched Tita
she asked instead, it had felt like many hours to her.
her, after checking his watch.
, drag out and you felt time moved slower than normal.
to wait for him to wake
ight?” West asked h
was. “Though that other witch not so much.” She smiled to herself, that woman was going to find herself powerless from now on. Just a simple human, old and likely alone and afraid, she had registered fear on the woman’s face right before she’d severed the link to her
with her, only that looking at that horrid ball of black tendrils, she’d wanted to know who had done it. Where the spell had come from, and then was just connected to the woman, had shocked that woman completely.
threshold was all.
if this was just a few memories for Titan over a few days, would it kill the Alpha and Beta to try and extract 6 and half years of memories from them. Wondered if they could recover them on their own, it did seem they were doing that. They had found something vital to