The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 40
Addison POV.
Addison walked into the Black Forest Pack’s packhouse to find Orien standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for her, it seemed. He was looking right at her, obviously tracking her with that tether between them. She looked right at him with a raised eyebrow as she walked over towards him.
Saw him reach out both his arms as though he was going to hug her, or hold her in his arms, she simply side stepped him and his attempt to touch her. “If you think it’s going to be that easy, you’d be dead wrong.” She snapped right at him as she walked by him.
his to happen to Fallon and I, you and your wolf. Do you think a hug will fix it?”
di
ted to it, wasn’t going to deny it. “Tell me why I had to in the first place.” She shot at him, her anger showing. Clearly, he still thought it was all her
“We should discuss that in private.” He stated flatl
re knows you bound your own Mate with silver.”
his tone.
how I got it. My daughter didn’t look happy at all.”
ould hear him stomping up the stairs now.
t at him. “I just might, though with her next to me I feel much stronger, I think you felt that yesterday yourself. But you go and explain to Luci, why you wouldn’t let me, her mother, come here to help find her, bring her back into the pack. Your selfish needs to keep her away, so Thatcher will stay as the Heir.”
muttered.
you think you’ll say the same thing to her, under the full weight of her power? She made you bow down. If I’d not stopped her, you’d have been on the ground bowed with head to the
ed right away.
he told him.
?”
ey were all true and he knew it. “Is a Siren.”
d once held and then rejected “you never said.”
t she, and you rejected her. When you promised Fallon and I a long time ago, you would raise her and love her as your own.”
r, Addi.”
me way, now did you?”
n a handful, at the best of times.”
for you. Because you antagonised her at ev
ase, if you’d only told me, confided in me.”
han Mate her off, oh wait! You already tried that twice, to Victor of all people.”
up anyone else, only ever Victor. Not that she was having a bar of her daughter being mated off against her will.
hat person wanted. Ask Rafe who hurt little Jack, Luci’s son, with Beta Jack, who hurt him, uncaring that he was just a six-year-old boy and trying to protect his mother from being forcibly taken against her will. Then come and see me and tell me you think Vict
ice came down the mind-link to her.
r Mate or your Allied savage?’ she said softly in return and then
ack, how he had a loyal pack to him, likely she thought. They were all afraid of him, instilled fear into them so much so that they just fell into line.
ster has been found, is a mother of two. You might want to go and say hello.”
fit to impart the news to him.
even went that far, just stayed out of sight was all. Due to them both having Mates.”
t?” he asked.
ck there, once more. As your father always did, you might also want to tell your Mate about your father’s stupid rules where women are concerned.”
“Mum.”
Luci was found, but then ticked off by the thought I was going to bring her home and that would threaten your position as the Heir.”
r.”
inst her will.”
know.” He
ained till then, all that time. So, she trained just as hard as you have. Technically longer
um, that’s not true.”
ot his daughter.”
W…What?” Thatcher sta
w he was with her. Think about it…I don’t want you to become like him, in that way.”
verything, try to find answers?
about everything his whole life around Luci and his father. She was his half-sister, and she did know that Thatcher loved her. He had been more than sad and then just ticked off about what had happened to her here in the Black Forest Pack.
em had bothered to prewarn his sister, that she was not going to be theirs anymore, had been there for that conversation, heard them apologise for their own behaviour.
a double shifter, he did not need to know that right this minute, though it was highly likely that Or
pack but out there in that lake, outside of the pack territory, likely didn’t consider this pack her home at all.
got Goddess Gifted Mates, they were unlike other creatures. It was not as easy for them as just scenting out one’s Mate. Was going to have to sit down and talk to Luci. Though Addison had only knowledge of Kali and presumed she’d find
it was for her father. She might never have a mate, wolfen or otherwise. Sighed to herself as she made her way back to Luci’s cottage.
she’d come here earlier it had been open.
It was possible that Orien had requested a meeting with Rafe to discuss what she’d told him about Victor.
line it.
ment Rafe and Jack had brought her here after Orien had kicked her from Nightfall.
him at all either, rejected that man as much as he had her.