The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 48
Luci POV
Luci watched everyone file out of her Alpha and Beta’s office, saw Jack was the last to leave, that he stopped and looked right at her. He’d been waiting for her outside the office when she arrived, had smiled at her even though she had noted he’d not looked happy. She’d know what ever was about to happen inside this very office he’d not been happy about. The way he had been out there waiting for her. She got the impression he was trying to let her know he was on her side of what ever was about to go down.
Now he stood and looked at her as they all left. He wasn’t at all happy with Orien’s trying to claim her as his daughter once more. Wanted to take her back to Nightfall, something she was never going to do.
ple. She had grown up and been trained to take over.
he was just trying to keep her mother happy. She had been to allied meetings, seen other Alpha’s disassociate themselve
k on his face before, she knew him well. ‘I won’t go back to Nightfall.’ She mind-linked right to him trying to ease his worry ‘Not ever.’
ed behind him so she and her mother could talk privately.
“I’m s
t offended, mother.”
s.”
ous about them. I never learned anythi
teaching you about them as well. Likely figure out what your father was.”
ever told him?”
heavily now, waved her hand around the room “for this very reason, Luci. He’s now trying to claim you as his, solely because of the power you or Alari hold. All Alpha’s want power, L
em.” Luci shrugged, and she didn’t, was already attached to two men she couldn’t have, was not about to let some other come along and try and claim her solely for her Siren gene’s “They’ll likely only want the power of Siren-blooded Heirs.”
ike other creatures.” Felt her mother’s hand slip over hers. “Sirens are not born with a
not gifted to you?”
t is how Sirens find their Mates, are always chosen.”
t needed anyone else in her bed. Now she understood why she was attached to them, how that had happened.
Rafe and Jack. That’s why your still a part of their pack.”
dly, still didn’t and she knew it. Had no desire to be with anyone at all anymore. Never even got that itch to scratch like she used to before them. They could never have another and she knew it, Kali knew it. Hell, even Alari knew it.
you…it’s why I let you come here to be with them, didn’t fight it. They could never keep their hands off of you,
ci nodded. “Not so much anymore.”
’t have babies with just anyone, only with their Mate,
“And?”
r’s Chosen Mate and when I chose him back, we were Gifted to each other. He knew, I did not. Was more than a shock to feel those Mate Bond sparks on my skin before he Mark and Mated me. Very cheeky he was.” Saw her mother smiling. “You’re just like him.”
very brief, but I still recall how he loved me, how much I loved him.”
Were Marked and Mated and had found their Goddess Gifted Mates. She was not theirs, never would be. Had a hell of a long life of loneliness ahead of her.
right now, but perhaps one day things will be different.”
ci sighed as she
veral minutes before her mother asked her quietly “Luci, h
ved back to her mother an
ghed “But how could you k
nly a Mated Siren will have children. No S
ed, aren’t I?”
mother’s very apologetic
my own happiness and reality smashed me good and proper.”
ou’re not stupid Lu
prick at her eyes “I can’t undo that, I’m stuck with it forever.” Felt thos
can’t leave.”
terribly.”
nd better.”
properly and, not being my Goddess Gifted, I suppose you could say the Goddess spared me that much. Should be thankful for it right.”
avily.
call it that.”
d back and looked at her.
how stupid I was. To think that I could keep them.”
to do right this minute. Due to being inside the actual pack itself. Having to smell them, see them, talk to them or hear one of them inside her head.
other they were. Really didn’t want to have to see that at all.
ut near the lake would be nice. “Do you think I and the boys could get a house near the lake?” she asked after some time.
and the boys.”
ci agreed.
e okay.”
f she wanted to ask them, she’d barely said a word to either of them, didn’t really know what to say. Didn’t even know if she should be apologising for
poke to the boys about their fathers.
with them and Alari taking over to get them through it, but they’d never thought of going back. Had a feeling until yesterday, Alari wouldn’t have allowed it. Only did now be
“Mum?”
, Luci.”
u know…Mated to them. Would I just be alone forever, with no Mate out
likely.” She heard the sadness in her mother’s voice.
the same?” Looked right at her mother now, she didn’t want them to always be alone, like she was going to be.
rue bond.”
from chosen to gifted?”
when I did, then claimed me properly.”
reminded me of Lucian all the time. I loved that. You, Luci, are my piece of him, like I guess the boys are for you and Kali, a piece of the men you love. But can no longer have.”
meet him.”
so do I.”