The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 68

Luci POV

They walked on in silence for many more minutes before both Rafe and Jack announced “Here we are.” And stopped walking at the end of a driveway.

Luci couldn’t see the house from here, just a nicely graded dirt driveway with dense forest on either side, it looked to be a very well maintained driveway, and there was a small sign on this road that stated “Forest Creek House.” It was definitely out here in the depths of the forest a good half an hour from the centre of the pack. Well away from the packhouse too, so that was nice. Good for her and Kali, perhaps this could work. She might never have to see them with their Mates, that would suit both her and Kali.

open.” Jack told the boys “Run on ahe

ng to go running in wolfen form, hadn’t come back for two hours, they’d been all tired and tuckered out, barely stayed awake for their bath. They’d had a fun time chasing their fathers’ wolves around, it seemed. Had enjoyed being chased by them, wanted, she had heard, to grow up and be big like Solar and Flare, they’d even used their fathers’ wolves names.

hat was all that mattered. They were also not used to living with others or in such a large place, so a house with just her and her mother, their Grammy, was completely normal for them.

ious to them that they were supposed be? That they were separated from what was their right.

ld they at some point want to be inside the packhouse? as was their right to be. ‘No’ both Kali and Alari told h

g about it.

double doors to enter the house, made of glass with wrought iron leaves in arching branches across them, much like the grand staircases inside the packhouse itself, it was beautiful. There were half a dozen sandstone steps that led down to the front entrance. This place looked like a mansion under an archway, she thought to herself. She even liked the red of the roof, quite artistic she’d thought as she looked at it.

rkened the front of the house. There were many down lights along the roof to lighten the houses appearance, and there were lovely knee-high lights all along the sta

were already inside. She could hear them running about in there. Luci followed her mother inside the house, as her Alpha and Beta stood outside to let them pas

raised eyebrow.

bout and looked at the things. “Why?” was the only question she asked. Knew they would understand her.

ed to. You should be on the Alpha floor in a fully kitted out luxury Alpha Suite, but…We understand why you don’t want

he five stairs and run all over the place down here, and then they were gone out the back door, to investigate the outsi

that.” Jack told her. She could even hear sadness in his voice.

se your guilt?” she asked.

xclaimed, shocked it seemed by her response to their apology.

d simply.

doing the same to her as Orien once had.

o she had once been, had realised herself she was quiet and more than reserved around them. Kind of become submissive and that was not her, she’d never been like that, she needed to pull herself together and get back to being normal.

how it created pain in her chest. Those smiles made her recall how they had once been with her, something she could never have again. Even just holding a conversation with them was hard for her. Or being near them, her mother knew why.

body. They had never truly been hers, she’d just been young and completely stupid had gotten caught up in a single moment and now suffered the consequences of her own actions.

as she stepped out the back door “Best for you two to just ignore it.” It’s what she was trying to do.

ind the house and looked at it.

s there, it seemed, and that made her a little happier. though not by much.

their clothing.

r the water, she was in no rush as she swam along the creek bed, just checking it out.

reached it, just swam along the bottom. Alari was happy here, the lake being her home. She didn’t care that it was mid-morning and she could sense there were humans up on the lake surface, she was swimming down in the very depths. No one would see her.

with, not to mention the boys were two perfect and deadly weapons as well.

ff of Alari because there was none of kind to mingle with. Something that she did want for herself. Perhaps one day they might come across another Siren or a few others.