The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 6

Rafe POV

He was sitting in his office and once again he felt annoyed and partially hollowed out at the same time. He couldn’t understand it. The women were bloody twins and so very close. But neither of them would allow he or Jack to share them. It hurt every time they refused him. He also knew it hurt Jack, his Beta, every time as well.

Their connection to each other, had always been so very strong, gotten their wolves on the same day. Hell, they did everything together, including s*x with women, had shared damned near every woman they’d ever had.

but just him and his Mate, she alone, was not enough for him. Should be but wasn’t.

ual pain, always had likely always would. He wanted both women and he knew so did Jack.

into the Alpha office. “Just let it go Rafe. It’s never going to happen.”

.”

“I know, but it’s been years now, Rafe. We are not going to sway them.”

e had inside of his chest. That was starting to feel as though it was going to swallow him alive. It felt like his life was being slowly, agonisingly slowly at that, ripped away from him. He had no idea how much more of this he could take.

felt, that there was a connection so strong between them they needed to be in each other’s love lives, to feel whole.

lared at him and called him al

automatically opened the mind-link to Jack so he, too, could hear what was going on.

coming on the Eastern border. I don’t see anything, but!’

‘But?’

d is true.’

ld out there, not a place for an attack at this hour of the day, the sun was up and all.

not sure who from though. Fema

ed. I’ll send warriors now. Be careful

and response times, both he and Jack believed it was a prelude to being a full pack on pack attack. Though what they were after or who they were, was still yet to be seen.

the children to come to the packhouse for safety. For every warrior he had to head for the Eastern boarder, war with another pack was here.

to the man, and reached out to let him feel a link to them.

r.”

it was an odd feeling to be attached to a mind that felt loud and fuzzy, crowded even. He also did not recognise

ftly on the mouth “Stay inside.” he told her, then he left to head for the Eastern border.

ast a hundred warriors standing outside the pack border, stating he did not know the Alpha.

pha did not wait for him to arrive to take him down, the sheer volume of men he brought with him said it all. He was in this battle to take over the pack or out to destroy the

ld be able to talk the man and his wolf down, out of the war an

ugh it seemed even with his men well trained, they were out matched. This Alpha and his warriors did not fight like other packs. They were attacking and b

re trying to get to that bastards Alpha Wolf, didn’t recognise the wolf, hadn’t seen it before, but it seemed to be impossible, he had several units in front of him and if even one of those men fell, another from somewhere else appeared to take his place.

cy Rafe’s men, one by one, and seemed to be barely losing any of his own

shot down the mind-link.

y had to protect the pack’s women and children, their Mates, his Luna.

d, so much power rolled with it. Solar actually bowed his damned head, whoever it was, it was that weird link he’d felt before. The urgency and demand from her, and it was definitely a female voice, had him actually obeyi

d to look and see where she was, who she was, and noticed the woman in the water. Not a wolf, he realised, saw her stance, and the way she was solely focused on the enemy.

on?’

is wolf would look. There was a very pale opalescent scaled creature with long hair draped over the front of her body, had pure black eyes that radiated a slightly bluish colour, almost as if they were glowing. Distinctly female, it had

alled me Alpha though.’

ther of them had seen anything like her before.

suddenly issued from that creature, hurt his wolf’s ears and Solar snarled and snapped his teeth in its direction in response to the pain, wanted nothing more than to race down there and rip its h

he enemy.’ Jack shot to him.

y the pain of the sound directed at them. ‘Thank the Goddess, that thing is on our side.’ Rafe sent back.

ropping like flies. Blood was pouring from them, some of them were actively turning towards the creature and even moving towards it, like the sound was calling to them, drawing those wolves to her.

a dead give-away. He knew that man, ‘Victor Sampson’ had seen him with some of his other allied packs. His suspicions were now confirmed, he’d thought as much, though with no actual proof, couldn’t do anything about it, had even seen the man over the years down at Nightfall, he’d not seemed bothered by Rafe of Jack, had been respectful, wouldn’t say polite, always asked after Luci. Their only statement was she’s fine.

rs of the battles. He was just plain cruel and sadistic.

ntion moved back to the creature in the Lake, watched it shif

.

side.’ was his reply.

vate link from Jack ‘Luci? It looks like Luci.’

nd left. Presumed dead, drowned herself the day he and Jack had come home with their Mate’s, in that very lake.

bt Luci was a wolf. Whatever that thing was, was not wolf and the power it held, had made his own Alpha Wolf bow its head.

ght of them, were flying through the

ill had warriors joining the battle, those that were unable to keep up with him and his Unit or his elite warriors, his numbers were still increasing in size.

e for him.

did not send his men after that

pack’s territory the tether to it was gone as well.

was Jack again.

f, both link and tether, the second it left the pa

or the lake. There was no trace of it, whatever it was, he could not see it. Whatever it was, it lived here in the lake, somewhere deep down in the depths, he supposed.

ack wa

Luci.” Rafe sighed “She went in and never came out, Jack, no body was ever found, remember.”

se.”

and clear line to his patrolman and to him.

**t cleaned up before any bloody humans stroll through on their way to the lake…find me a live one, that was Victor Sampson.”

What?

ore. We need to prepare for another attack and likely soon. He’s the type to go gather and regroup, no time will be given for us to recover.”

r sisters out here to clean this s**t

emale voice, emotionless as always.

e and Jack turned and looked at her. “When

showed off what he could only think of as their coven markings, it was identical on all of them, moons that ran down their spines. Their feet were also bare, they never wore shoes, like to feel the ground under their feet always, connected them to their mother earth. They were the three witches allied to his pack. Never seemed bothered by the sight of a s*******r.

his pack always. Had not been sure why they had turned up out of the blue at first. Had just strolled right across his borders and waved any attacking wolf off into slee

s usually only answered to themselves or their coven leader. Though these three redheads looked no more than twenty, that’s how they’d looked when they had arrived, hadn’t aged a day in ten years.

as he knew, though he had declined an alliance with the man years ago when Luci had still been with them.

n it Alpha.”

you make of the girl?”

ot a girl.” the three of them stated in unison and then simply walked off to magic away the enemy bodies. They were ind

e Rafe had seen that, the man’s eyes lingered on the three hungrily, all three of them were his Mate’s, one wolf to three witches. It was likely he was the actual reason that they came. Had probably seen him, the full moon after they had arrived, that man had found himself staring right at the three of them, all of them had raised their arms up to him and called him Mine, his wolf and he had growled it right back without any hesitation at all.

find the answer.

their fun toy.”

ill in lock down mode, he mind-linked to Melissa that he was outside, and she should open the packhouse back up.

d day at all.

, though them standing along with no female meant no grandmother, could well be orphan’s.

was part of her Luna duties. He now had to record the battle, his lost men, make sure the clean-up was attended to properly. Would have to send someone into the human to

any that had been still alive had died on the way to the cells. That creature’s p