The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 13

Rafe POV

He saw Flare peel off from the pack run, knew why. A wolf fight had been heard not far from the pack out in the woods by the lake. But it was the night of the pack run and after the week they’d had here, inside the Pack. His wolves needed this, so Solar continued to lead the Pack with Melissa’s wolf, Rella, next to him.

Left it to Jack to sort out, he could handle it, was more than capable and knew he’d report it when he got back.

id not re-join the pack run. Tracked that man through his bond to him, went right to the packhouse to their office. He was likely already working on the report. He’d thrown himself into his work over the past week, researching everything he could get his

his own Mate at this point. Ninety percent of the time he was in the office at his desk, only with Maria when he retried for the night, and he went to bed late.

seem to mind it at all, she was just going about

office, he was typing away on his computer, looked to be composing an email. Odd thing to do at nearly 2 in the morning.

ack?

up from what he was doing.

t jump to conclusions.” He sighed.

he snapped right at Rafe, sounded very annoyed with him at this minute. Then p

ooking for her, let alone snapping pictures of her.

e would have picked her up and made her come home too. Likely she wouldn’t have gotten a say in it. Not with how he’d been this week.

olf. A pure-blooded Alpha Wolf, it was not her in the lake.

nto that lake or that’s what the tracks denote.”

fe sat dow

d, she killed him a few seconds later. Then fled the scene.” Jack’s eyes moved right to Rafe’s. “She went right into that lake, and did not come out, Rafe.”

prior to this event. But how could she be when both her parents were wolves?

. She didn’t surface, Rafe, not

in the lake. “You said she smells different?”

ck’s scent on her.” Jack nodded. “It’s odd, t

rom him.

I suspected. Not until I got back here and checked the footage did I confirm

ed, “stood back and just watched her.”

still wants her and has just located her.”

at happening.”

what he was seeing now on this footage, nothing had changed, still so very beautiful.

pack, always a happy cheeky woman. But the look changed from annoyed to cold when that man started laughing, like an Alpha when killing something. It did not mar her beauty at all, thoug

really was. Didn’t look to be emaciated or undernourished in anyway. He was also glad about that “She looks good.”

chair, “I just sent Alpha Orien, and Luna Addison the photos of Kali and Luci, though have explain we didn’t actually see her, or

appy about that,” Rafe nodded. “l

need t

ell like now?” He was curious, Jack h

allen rain, it used to be white tea and thyme.”

o smell like.” Rafe nodded. “Always soft and delicate to the nose. Liked it a lot.” and he had. Could drive him completely insane with wanton need some days. Never really understood why she wasn’t there Mate. They’d never had any inclination to have another from the day she came to the pack. Had known her since she was 18, not their Mate, but could and did have her like she was their Mate, more

.

had her. Sighed if her scent was different, she’d likely be mated now. Someone else got to enjoy her, felt a pull of pain insi

loody wrapped up in the Mate Bond love bubble to think about anything or anyone else.

to look, search the area. They were always so very close.”

Yes, they were.” He heard the smile in Jack’s voice “Always understood her daughter’s needs.”

shes at that.”

“That she did, always made sure we were invited to every Mating Ball she held.”

” Rafe was one hundred percent sure of this.

with their Mate’s and Rafe could not blame her. Neither of them could.

er be able to fix it. Wouldn’t even know where to start. How could he when he had a Mate, which had broken her heart! So callously and unfeelingly, he didn’t believe a simple apology wo

d on him and looked down at the man, shook himself, Jack had felt his sadness through their bond.

softly.

do it before Victor does.” Rafe muttered, that man was a complete brute, and he did not like thinking of what he would do

d recon on him and his pack now,” Jack stated fl

s, we do.” Rafe agreed, “though

athed.” Jack huffed “They’re not going to like it.”

odded “Allen is the only choice. We’ll tal

rhaps…”

r the man didn’t finish his sentence.

r.”

e allied packs Jack.”

” He looked right at Rafe point

h we will need to get Addison on the phone without Orien there.”

with no back up. But Allen couldn’t be harmed by anyone, not even in an unconscious state. Not by anyone. He was protected by his Mates.

ir fun toy a lot. And that spell they had on him, he’d agreed to it, had to, apparently, in order for it to work. Used all their blood plus Allen’s as well.

, pulling him from his thoughts.

n eyebrow at him “Th

r being like Rafe, needed that connection of sharing with Flare. His mating with Rella was always brief. He had never knotted her, not once, Mate and walk away, and only ever on a full m

women. Rella was closed off to him, always had been, in fact. Never one to just talk to his wolf, or even start something with Solar.

were as happy as if they were gifted to each other. They were Goddess Gifted Mates, but acted like strangers, it was unexplainable.

round his Beta than his own Mate. More connected to him and as the years passed, the gap between his and his Mate widened.

irs then.”

right back a little annoyed, then sighed “Sorry Jack.” he apologised.

ed, how about I get us b