The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 45

Rafe POV

He saw Luci walk into the room and Jack was right behind her. Rafe knew Jack had likely come downstairs and waited for her out there in the foyer. He watched as she took in the room, as her brilliant green eyes moved about, the way her family were all sitting. Didn’t say anything at all, just went and sat right next to her mother. There was a clear-cut divide in their family.

Though Luci, he knew, was only related to Addi and Thatcher, something he and Jack had always suspected, they’d never truly believed Orien was her real father, now they knew it. She’d never looked anything like him, never even had any of the man’s traits either, and those brilliant green eyes, neither were Orien or Addi’s. Those eyes of hers had been what made them think it in the first place.

himself right next to her.

was not addressing him but her mother instea

oom, understood the nature of this meeting, and who had called it.

acing growl was issued from him. He’d not liked hearing that one little bit.

n. Rafe, however, was the first to speak. “Luci, you are not a member of the Nightfall Pack,” he told her. “I’m certainly not going to make you return to it. I and Jack are of the opinion you belong here. You are still a member of the Black Forest Pack; we’d like you to continue to be.”

ht to take her home,” Orien stated.

Luci.

rawn yesterday.

e to cajole her. It seemed he really had thought about how to approach her.

t once, have I asked for her to be returned to Nightfall. I also don’t believe you and I have had that disc

want, Addi, I know this.” Orien frowned at her, didn’t like her standing up to him, contradicting him.

he knew anything at all about her.

ght so very hard to co

bring her into your pack again. After your treatment of her!” Addi shot right at him.

seemed comfortable with letting them argue it out for now. Would, Rafe knew, step in if he thought it was warranted.

treated me so differently to Thatcher.”

ns was all.”

o, did he have to stay pure till he found his Goddess Gifted Mate?”

his place, it seemed.

.”

she used to be. “How old was he? I’m curious. I waited till I was eighteen, did he?”

en snapped.

han a little amused to his ear. There was a slight smirk on her face, she knew he couldn’t. But then it was gone a moment later. “How old was he?” she grated out once more.

“It’s

ve s*x.”

Luci, has needs, it’s very diff

“I’m Alpha-blooded, am I not?” she asked, though even Rafe had to smile, everyone in this room knew that. Orien was doing what he always did with the girl, contradicting

n all sides, mine and your father,” Addi confirmed for her.

ew my wild oats. Like Thatcher has, I’m sure. Like you did, I’m guessing.”

ir to the pack. You needed to present yourself as respectable. So, I could find you a good Mate.” Orien stated

Couldn’t wait to get rid of me and, yes, Mate me off. Not wait on my Goddess Gifted Mate. Mate me off you stated, so under your own rules, I could f**k someone you chose but not someone I chose. A f*****g hypoc

o find you a good Mate.”

I hated him, didn’t want it.”

Alpha Luci, he would have been able to handle you, your rudeness, pull you into line.”

forcibly been woken by a shot of adrenaline, after he sedated me. And you still call him a good man?”

..”

r now. “You clearly are no better than Victor himself.”

h out and pick up her mother’s hand, waved it right at him “Hurt your own mate, bound her with

ed at her, his temper flari

, cause Alari is going to explode that pathetic brain of yours, make it swell inside your skull till it POPS.” She roared right back at him.

t man was gonna die right here in their office. In a bloody mess by the sound of it. He had no idea if she could do that but it was by the sound of it ve

ut Victor being the one to attack her or her children. He walked over to her and stepped in front of her. “Luci, please sit down.” He asked her gently.

d tell, sat himself on the coffee table in front of her, “You can stay here, Jack, and I want you here. Addi is also welcome to stay here as long as she likes. Please calm down just a little. I do understand your anger. Jack and I feel it too.” And they did. It was their children in harm’s way, and she had been missing from them for so very long, he wanted to fix that as well.

ld do, but just couldn’t’ it seems, put his Alpha mentality aside.

ong with a large pack to be Mated off to.”

s anyone here but mother care what I want?”

and Jack stated at the same time

er and then just say nothing at all about that, and he wondered if she didn’t believe them, that they cared, likely at this point had no real reason to believe they cared about her at all. They had to work on that, were going to, would show her that they not only cared about th

“For your children.” Orien

nt of her right now.