The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 64
Rafe POV
He watched as Addison walked the boys into the private dining room, knew that Luci was not with her, even before she walked into the room. He could feel Luci’s tether moving away from the centre of the pack, out into the western woods.
He’d sighed internally to himself at the knowledge that she had declined to have dinner with them. Even though she had sent the boys, it only made him feel worse about their current situation. She didn’t want to be around them, she was letting them know that. Also letting them know she would be giving them access to their children, but just not her.
ertainly couldn’t while they were marked and mated.
ey sat down, looking at Jack.
he was both their daddies. Heard Addison chuckle, “More attuned than you know.” She said simply and sank herself down into a chair. “Alpha, Beta, Luci sends her apologies, but she has declined your invitation. Needs more time, you both understand.”
ght back to the pack yesterday.
you go home later.”
?”
willingly and happily extend an official offer for you to reside here as long
g. He knew she would take up the offer. She already had plans of her own while she was here, plans that he and Jack had discussed and neither of them were doing so well with. But for now, were leaving it alone. It could take a while for her plans to come to
baked fish, freshly caught from the lake itself. With oven roasted vegetables. And she’d produced a dessert that was a strawberry tart, with a small drizzle of chocolate over it.
ed that it was real melted chocolate.
ost as if for permission. She’d chuckled “I think your mum would be okay with this tiny amount of chocolate
” She called out to him over her shoulder.
gone for a walk around the pack with their mother and grammy.
had loved climbing all over the equipment in the playground, and thought the boys might like to see the ag
can do that.” He nodded. “Let these two boys see the warriors race through it and see how it’s really done even.”
t?” both the boys a
er.”
” Little Rafe
than the playground.” Rafe answered him and got to watch both their eyes go really
.
at.” Addison lau
s, I see.” Rafe nodded “Now boys, I will rephrase that, not until
en he saw them both just frown up at him.
’m sorry boys.”
have wolves.” Little Rafe told
Yes,” he acknow
come and look at it. It’s very tall and some of the things you’re still too small to reach up and use, you’ll find.”
e boys pouted at Jack nearly instantly and
t you. We’ll go and look at it tomorrow.” Jack chuckled.
only ever seemed to get down if Luci was down herself.
rom just watching the boys, he realised. Or at least know when she was upset or ticked off, he supposed.
e where she truly belonged.
nking about when he’d shut him out completely. Finding Luci a place to live, he was willing to bet that man already had it in his mind where. He openly admitted to l
l. He’d not wanted Rafe to know exactly what he’d been thinking about. Luci and living with him, up on the Alpha floor. That man was rearranging somewhere on the top floor of the packhouse, inside his mind, to accommodate all of them in the one suite.
d he loved her, that Flare was itching to be all over Kali and Alari at that. That in itself was an intriguing thought. His Beta’s wolf
their bond was not complete. Thinking about that, the fact that they had agreed to claim Luci, Jack had brought it up after her going into heat with them. It wasn’t usua
r jumping on him with joy. They’d sat and talked, agreed to do it when they got home from the Wolf Valley Pack.
ming at him, racing a million miles an hour now. There was no way he would have forgotten that on his own.
xcited not just Jack had been, that he too had been, recalled kissing the man right on the mouth. It had shocked the pair of them, but then they’d just
left to go to the Wolf Valley Pack to assist. They had even decided they would do it, tell her and claim her on the f
her there. They had been planning it. Hadn’t told anyone, they’d wanted to surprise the entire pack. Had been going to call Addison the very day they got home and inform her that they wanted to claim Luci, and make her their Luna.
man who accepted both of them without question right from the day she’d met them. Denied them nothing ever, loved being with them both.
ddison look right at him. “What’s wrong?” she asked h
that he was.
l sadness to flow down the mind-link to her.
hen, all of a sudden, he had people connecting to him all over the place, many pack members sounding frantic and concerned. Luci’s link was gone in that moment from him as well. What he was getting was a bunch of mind-links about a massive ba
hat had his attention. They both started laughing, he stood himself, but was watching the twins “Mamma.” They both smiled right up at him.
di?”
honestly don’t kn
nked right to Hannah and her sisters “What is going on?”
pha, a little accident, no need to worry. Everyone is fine.”
t was it?” he
witch’s light.”
.
i is fine.”
oth boys smiled up at him.
hey seemed to know an awful lot.
e “We can go?”
k to their cottage. They knew where to go.