The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 70
Rafe POV
He was in Luci’s room staring at the wall, debating with himself as to whether or not he should put up last nights revelation, about he and Jack and Luci. Had been debating with himself over it for a whole day now. He didn’t think that Jack had recalled that part of their life yet.
Knew that it was going to devastate Jack completely, he already knew that he and his wolf Flare had loved Luci, still did. He looked at those words written in Jack’s own hand, and sighed heavily to himself. Now knew that he himself had also once loved Luci. Had in fact wanted her for himself. To be not only his Mate and Luna, but Jacks’ Mate. He’d wanted her to be theirs, not just his.
te, and when he thought about it his own wolf had been quiet since dinner yesterday and his recalled memory. Realised that his wolf had watched Luci today as w
he asked.
ip.’ Came the reply.
i?’ Rafe asked the very question he’d been actively avoiding all night long, couldn’t ignore it much lon
at him.
not.’ Rafe pus
ig black head was just resting on his paws inside Rafe’s mind, looking at the words on the wall before them himself.
rk and Mate Luci?’
she was fun. Not our Mate.’
have been chosen, but you would have be
he got in return.
nd saw those three words, would be all over him about rejecting Melissa and Maria and claiming Luci.
supposed to be.
endeared herself to everyone else. It was he thought now, odd behaviour of a Luna. She didn’t have anything to do with Allen’s Mate’s. Well, he could put that down to them not really interacting with the pack for the most part. They were happy out there in the woods, they never offered to hang out with the Luna or the Beta’s Mate, as would be the standard custom within a pack.
d likely been out there teaching her how to use her witch bloodline. That was completely new behavio
that Hannah and her sisters had put some sort of restriction on Luci’s room itself.
’s room, and not just via the door either. The balcony door as well. He also knew they could not get past. This barrier als
alcony itself. The doors weren’t even locked. Looked at it, the next balcony over was only a short one meter away, an easy step for a wolf hell a human could make that with little effort.
t from the balcony.
e remembered asking her
there and that’s why I’m not allowed in there?” she’d accused him.
seen Addison collect all of Luci’s things and take them away, she knew that room was empty. Her jealousy was irratio
t to him unless his own Mate raised her name. Wondered if that was part of whatever they had done to them. Erased her, so to speak.
oom. Gloria was the omega in charge of keeping the rooms on the Alpha floor neat and tidy, head of her own team. Each floor had its own cleaning team, so the workload was never too much.
tock market, was considered the CEO of their brokerage firm in the human world.
a smil
room?”
boys?”
need our undivided and distraction-free attention.”
d.
like to know what it was that Melissa used to try and have you take into Luci’s room all those years ago, do you recall at all?” he asked her. He didn’t recall, probably wasn’t likely to if she didn’t
I recall correctly, she stopped trying after about a year or so, let me think about it a moment.” She f
ask. She was quiet for several minutes. “Oh, I got it.” she suddenly smiled at him. “It was just a small aroma sachet is all. They’re in all the rooms bar Allen and Ian’s. I don’t think they liked i
reason. Could be just that, he supposed.
led with aromatic flower petals. It’s quite pretty.”
seeing one in there.
for your heirs.” She nodded.
acks?” he qu
Very non-descript and forgettable.
eld it out to him but he shook his head ‘no’, had no idea if that was what Jack had been looking for in his suite or not, “That is
uldn’t.” he watched Gloria look down at it “It was
“Odd.”
t tried to walk in with it several times. I put it in my cleaning basket, and it just appeared to jump out of that as well, it never made it past the door.”
the balcony as well.”
h in every room even though you wouldn’t let her in there.”
tand. Didn’t like it.”
nced right off it, kind of like the room was rejecting it.”
m for Jack and I when Melissa threatened to gut it.”
would explain it.” she nodded. “I did suspect as much.”
na?” he questioned.
odded. “Thank you for your help, Gloria, could you please let the others know Luc
hey were larger, triple the size of the one he’d just seen. Checked all the other rooms and yes, they were in there as well. He didn’t touch any of them, didn’t think it was wise at this point.
was a large sack on the floor that was neatly folded over and had about two thirds of it used, but he thought it was filled with the same, was made of the same material. It was likely what they used to fill those pouches with on a regular basis.
at his own thought, and he chastised himself internally for thinking that Maria had done something to them.
the other rooms. He’d just rounded on himself for thinking not so nice thoughts about Melissa and her sister.
arker from the coffee table and wrote on the wall. Aroma sachets in all the rooms, not in Luci’s room, Melissa can’t get one in here. Hannah’s barrier to keep h
s and made me mad at myself for thinking Melissa and Maria wanted to do something to Jack and I, then after a moments thought, wrote for thinking Jack and Flare love Luci???
from the packhouse. Search them all out on all floors and remove them. He wondered just how many of them were in the packhouse itself. Did it include his parent’s suite, the old Alpha unit’s suite
they only up here? Or throughout the entire packhouse itself.
, he wondered if all those pouches got refilled when Melissa and Maria came home? Wrote that on the wall. He wanted to know himself now if they did that personally or had someone
e’d always wanted to as well. Practically craved her the moment she was kissing him, he’d just presumed it was because she’d been away from him for a week, had missed her…but now? He didn’t think that was it.
unding him in whatever it was she used to keep that hold over him.
choose Luci…