The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 117

Addison POV

It was amazing to see Lucian’s lake from the air. She’d always said that it wasn’t large, but it wasn’t exactly small either, she now realised. 8 miles long, Terence told her, as he flew them all the way along it. Before swinging around to come back, it was only narrow, perhaps that’s why she’d never thought it was large.

It was only a mile wide, and surrounded by mountains, the trees went all the way to the waters’ edge in places along the lake. It was a brilliant blue in colour and there was not a ripple on the surface, it reflected the sky perfectly back at them.

ed her to see the entire lake from above, not something she’d gotten to see when living here.

king down at the water itself, she couldn’t see anything at all, no signs of sirens swimming down there in the lake, but there

e’d told him, and he’d not said anything at all, but she’d felt his eyes on her.

was a beautiful sight

stroyed by the war that had come.

She stated.

d commented.

he’d grinned right at him.

He’d half smiled at her as she reached over and opened the

eak anything now.” He’d laughed, knowing she was just going to drop out and hit the ground. “A

?”

es, “I’ll call you in a few days, two or three, when I’m ready to be picked up.”

t.” He’d nodded “If there’s any trouble, call right away.”

iled back, she’d seen him laugh and then just head on back to the pack.

ake in the middle of a valley between mountains. She wondered what Alari had called her lake, must remember to ask her when she got back.

. Sirens didn’t need anything on land.

idn’t have clothes either, Lucian had always just been naked.

the humans in those closest campsites when they were there. Along with some bedding, he’d wanted her to be comfortable, he’d told her,

ed on the northern side of the lake. She had seen a few in her time out here, though for the most part, this particular place had been kept human free, by Lucian himself. He used that call of his to divert humans away from here and where she was.

might not even be in there anymore. Took a breath in and stepped over to the door, pushed on it.

ime and weathered over the years. Inside it was as it had been left, long ago. Two chairs that were now worn and decaying, just simple wooden folding chairs, something else Lucian had gotten for her.

re encroaching on his pack so he could encroac

his Mate. The very place he had marked and mated her.

ghter should have been born and raised in. She sighed sadly to herself, walked into her home, a place where she did not have one single bad memory. A place that was filled with love and saw right there next to the very decade mattress on the floor, the small hand-made crib where their daughter would have slept. It was still here.

lar in size and shape.

ng and putting it together. Had smiled right at her, when she’d watched him, he’d seemed to know their daughter wasn’t going to be like him, would need to stay on land.

it was a girl in two weeks of knowing she was with child. He just knew things, only ever smiled at her when she asked how he knew those things. Had once stated “I just know.” Another time he had just pulled her right into his lap and murmured “Because our child will look just l

eached out and touched the tiny crib,

once “We’ll know what to call her when we see her for the first time.” It was the Siren way, no names given before birth. Looking at the child would grant you its name. She’d named Luci after her father, a name sake, had known she would before the girl was born, how could she not.

ere showing off for her, or just being with the rest of their pack.

e to communicate with him.

little afraid of the thing in the lake, and hadn’t really known what it was, not until Lucian had appeared and told them.

had past, 11 months was all she had gotten to spend here with her Lucian.

ater for no reason, the occasional ripple of water with no signs of anyone out there to indicate the flicking of a tail which disturbed the water below. She just sat and watched for an hour, saw nothing at all.

ght and released it out into the lake. Just like she had done to call Lucian to her.

ounding on Lucian’s death she’d not been able to keep track of them all.

ough she also knew any siren old enough to produce a siren call was considered old enough to go to battle.

ugh there had been one pregnant siren here in the lake, who knew what had happened to her or her unborn.

as too dangerous to have Luci leave the pack yet.

t here by herself, needed it, wanted time out here. It was a place where she’d only ever felt loved and cherished, where no harm had ev

he knew it.