The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 125

Luci POV

She didn’t sleep much that night, tossed and turned, her annoyance was more than normal, and she had gotten up early and made the boys breakfast, got them ready for their first day of school. They were excited to be going to the new school. Liked being with other children.

She’d left the house a good 15 minutes before anyone could get here to her place, had decided she didn’t want to walk the boys to school with everyone else. This was something she’d always done on her own. Why should she just give them what they wanted at every turn?

was just tired and cranky, which was actually true, just to ignore it. They seemed to just do so. Alari told her they could choose not to feel what she did, and were learning to do this.

agitated, sad or angry about something, and she was glad they were actively switched off to her right this minute, it might lead them to being cranky and ticked off themselves.

oming to walk them to school that morning. She told them she wasn’t in the mood for company and they had just nodded slowly. It was also something they were used to just her and them going to and from school.

rack. She’d wash their feet and put their shoes on at the school.

nd them, was not thinking about anything, trying to keep her mind clear.

r the first time since being here, didn’t bloody care what he felt come from her, told that man, ‘I changed my mind.’ Thought almost bitterly, just like you and your Alpha, but didn’t say that, snapped instead, ‘just like others do.’ And severed that connection to him herself. She didn’t even need Alari to do it for her, she was not the only one annoyed right this minute. Even Kali was frustrated at the lac

ld not only cut them off but also deny them in establishing a link to her. Alari could hold them all at bay, and currently Luci was telling her to do so, because both she and Kali were ticked off.

es on her and ignored it, knew who it was, the Alpha and Beta. Simply ushered the boys over to the bathroom and had them wash and dry their feet, put their shoes and socks on and headed for the schools office.

d to her boys as their eyes moved passed her to their fathers.

up when school is finished.”

They both state

ot want to do herself. She turned and walked away without so much as looking at either of them, even as she heard the boys greeting them, happy to see them.

red him.

to next week. If she’d learned anything from her mother, it was that one could and had the right to punish anyone, regardless of rank, over treatment and disrespectful behaviour to one’s own children.

they cared. If this was how it was going to be, then perhaps she would just out her shame and reject them.

her own mother punish Orien in many different ways during her childhood, more than once for his treatment of her, she wasn’t even the mans true flesh and blood, but her mother wouldn’t stand for him hurting her feelings, if tears fell from Luci, that man was punished by her mother.

l.

o view.

rogues were not a normal thing inside this pack, let alone to be chained up like that.

ecure life within this pack. It was an odd thing to see, that was for sure.

to the other shaming post and she was not wrong, the other she-wolf out there was Jack’s Mate.

as though she was still in charge around here. But was of rogue status, so couldn’t hold that title right this minute.

minute, it seemed. No wonder she’d not been able to feel those two out here, both of them had rogue status, which could only mean, they’d been banished and rejected by her Alpha and Beta.

he pack either, though she should have, she supposed, in some way. Normally, all pack members would feel the Alpha or Luna get severed from the pack.

l morning she now knew was displaced and she felt very confused herself about what had happened. Was also still mad at them, as well as now confused.

guard on duty, she knew, was watching over a group of mums and dads with toddlers learning to swim. It was busy in here at this hour. Those swimming laps were training and building their endurance, she knew.

Though she was a much stronger swimmer now than she had been growing up.

liking at all.

Luci and she sighed. Her throat and lungs felt itchy and hot, could feel Kali healing her already. Looked down at the state of her now soaking wet clothes, and realised the room was relatively quiet, looked around to see several pack members staring at her a little wide-eyed, and realised it was the snarl Alari had let out, likely shocked them, “Sorry.” She commented and walked over and got out of the water. She didn’t actually know how many here in the pack knew she was a double shifter.

know that they had all wanted to do. Had been ticked off with Rafe and Jack and taken it out on all of them, now for no reason at all, it seemed.

, handed her that towel. She took it, and dried her long hair with it.

erything alright?” he asked.

d, “Salt water does not suit her.”

at for her needs. I just need to know what her needs are.”

imply.

look into it.” He fell into step wit

othing.

t understand what happened.” He pr

door.

I ask why?”

re though. But she and Kali could see his neck was also bare of filigree, they were no longer Marked and Mated to those two outside, it seemed.

elves upon shelves of clothes neatly folded in that room for all to use after shifts.

tated.

or trying to hurt my sons, I couldn’t sense them out there on the shaming posts, where you said they were.” She stated flatly and pushed into the mudroom, and banged the door shut behind her to find dry clothes.