The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 12

Jack POV

Jack was prowling around at the edge of the lake, a mind-link had come through about a wolf on wolf fight, out by the lake. He’d peeled off from the pack run and taken half a dozen men with him. This was now becoming more than an annoyance. They were on alert for Victor Sampson to come back. Were not risking leaving the pack to go and attack him, when he was notorious for a second wave.

If they left it undefended and took the battle to Victor, which is what the pack’s warriors wanted to do, that man would swing round past them and attack their pack while the Alpha and his unit were away. It was the man’s style. They knew this from coming across him in the Nightfall Pack, over the years. They were both allied to the Nightfall Pack.

Victor, it seemed, though had not yet come back for them, as they expected, was likely waiting for them to make the first move and leave their pack unprotected. He and Rafe were not that stupid. But

Victor wanted an alliance with them solely because of Luci being in their pack.

ever even brought her up at all.

y shrugged off their, no to an alliance with him and his pack, and walked away.

ss Moon Pack. An odd name for a pack, which was so steeped in blood. They still didn’t even know what the man wanted.

m, or that they had overstepped somewhere. No warnings aimed at them and afterwards no communication about why or what he wanted. Not th

men found two dead wolves, and tho

meant the man that had snuck in and around their pack was likely to have been Victor himself. Searching for something or someone.

king for Luci in all likelihood, he had snuck in and tried to take her. He’d not known she wasn’t there. That was interesting to Jack. Being allied to the Nightfall Pack, he thought Victor would have heard she wasn’t here anymore.

there were plenty of bite marks and claw marks to denote that. Not killed each other either. There was another scent mixed in with the rogue, it was muted, and he couldn’t qui

melled soft and a little sweet at that. Breathed in deeply, realised he’d only ever smelt something that soft and sweet on one wolf before. Luci. He could also detect the pack’s scent, of pinecones on her.

ast as an Alpha Wolf himself.

er scent, had to get to her, had to bring her home. Came to a dead end, right at the lake. Her wolf Kali’s prints never even slowed down, she ran full tilt into the lake, it seemed. S

out at the lake, it was the last place she had been seen. Had gone in and not come out. Now wolf prints with the pack scent on them dove right into that lake. His eyes were on the water, searching for movement, looking for someone swimming, a wolf swimming eve

peaceful. Perhaps she’d gotten out already. He turned his eyes to look along the lake’s edges, checking the shoreline

human, two hundred meters in either direction.” he rapped out to his men. She couldn’t have gotten that far, there was no way he’d

fe only to have them hurt her terribly.

ake was Kali, she now smelled different to him, only slightly so, but out here tonight. There were no pack members off territory of lat

e Luci in his mind.

rch.

asn’t.

want to play under it, like most wolves.

stood and stared at the lake for a long time, nothing, she couldn’t hold her breath forever, unless she didn’t need to anymore.

she wouldn’t be. If she was that hybrid, then she had likely shifted to her Sire

ked right into it, it was still recording, raised an eyebrow at it. Then just pulled the micro-SD card from it and dropped it on the ground, smashed it with his foot. Did the same to the other camera.

e to see what they saw, get a good look at the wolf in question. He knew what Kali looked like, he and Rafe had been the very first ones to see her wolf Kali at that. And Kali was just as cheeky as Luci was, just as naughty. It made him smile, both Flare and Solar

to the pack, took those SD cards with him.

e interest.

ffice, sank down at his desk and up-loaded the video footage from the SD card. Saw the man fitting it to his chest, looked to be in a van of some sort. Not a rogue either. This was all planned. Had to b

wolf walked around, noticed that it kept its distance from his Pack’s border, came close

hat wolf stopped and turned around to face the wolf.

, he hit the pause button and let his fingers touch the screen, Kali. Luci’s wolf was frozen on the screen for him to

play button an

. While this one just seemed to stand back and watch the fight, it was interested in her, that was for sure. Sighed this wolf in particular had focused on Kali and he had a pret

, to give him a good strong heir.

ely that Victor was behind them being attacked so regularly, had been trying to get Luci out in the open for the past year and a half now. She’d not been seen in years, but it was unlikely Victor knew this.

when they had told them what had happened. That she had run off out of the pack, when the

ed to tell her mother and father, because he had not felt her sever from him or the pack.

d when they had met them. Had they informed Luci, prior to coming home? They had been honest with her, she’d sighed softly, sadness could be heard in that one sound, it still

after she’d been given to them. Her mother had always liked them, smiled at them, liked that Luci was always happy with them. But Addison had not once smiled at them since that day.

it, concubine. Seeing as they were not her Mate’s.

n.

r talking to it. Who knew what she had seen, though that man had not answered her questions, hadn’t been given the time to either. Rewound the footage and paused it on he

e same anymore, not to him. Smelled different. She could well be Marked and Mated, he supposed. Her long loose fallen hair did not allow for him to see if she bore a Mark. He sighed, it was likely though, if she smelled different, her mates’ scent would linger on her.

fight scene and bolted for the lake, like