The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 72
Luci POV
Alari returned to the Forest creek House, to find both boys and her mother waiting for her by the creek bed. Alari lifted herself half up and out of the water, to look right at their mother, where she bowed her head slightly and greeted her “Mother.”
“You are beautiful my daughter.” Her mother smiled right at her and stepped forward to reach out a hand and touch Alari’s face gently “If you ever want to know what your father looks like. Just look at your reflection. You are all your father, you have the same hair, the same cream opalescent colouring, you are as large as he was.”
roud.
s asked, standing next to their grammy looking up at her.
the edge and watched as they stripped their shirts and shorts off and jumped on into the creek. Saw her mother sit and watch th
k itself. She was much too large to make big long sweeping turns, but she played about and splashed them with her hands as well as her tail. Let them sit right on her and swim up the creek a little way,
nside the pack, they had the freedom to do so, and there was a part of Alari that liked being inside the pack, just because of the freedom she had to shift and not worry about being caught.
zed swimming pool inside the packhouse. You could swim there.’ Luci told her.
a lar
ter?’ she asked
o and look at it though. Perhaps you’d like it. Could try it out and see.
d.
pool. I did like going to the ocean.’
nly comment.
d not get in, was it seemed, happy to just sit on the edge of the creek bed with her feet dangled in the water. She got splashed by the boys and Alari and kicked the water to
she came back. Luci showered and redressed, then strolled around and looked at the top floor of the split-level home. Looked out the window at the forest beyond, she did see what looked like a roaming patrol out there. That was new, hadn’t had one of them when she was here. But she did know that some other packs that were larger did have them, in
try and take over or destroy a pack.
icious. Would likely always take out the Luna, find a way to weaken a pack before going in to claim it for himself. His pack g
. It was not a nice thing to do, no one liked war, but Victor seemed to love it.
let it do its thing.
im.”
r mentioned his age? Not even once?
. Age is not really relevant, Luci, with
“was he an Alpha already or an heir when you met him?”
“So, he’
ly Luci, I didn’t think you’d come back, that Orien would tell me you’d been mated off to someone inside the pack. It’s why I always stated ‘no’, much to Orien’s annoyance.”
eeds, and has, from what I’ve heard, six or seven children to many different
not Mated to them?”
of woman who like him and are willing to produce him heirs.”
Luci shuddered.
mother chuckle now, “Luci, just because we don’t like him, that doesn’t mean he’s not nice to others out there.”
at.
very reason, if he is considered Mate-less.”
sup
Fleeing a pack and in need of a home and wanting security and safety, they might not have known him or his reputation. I also imagine that if deals were struck, those women and children would be very well looked after.”
?” Luci as
anyone. Never heard he has either.”
to agree to go with him.
mother stated.
tered “But it was only once.”
you?”
to him after that one time. He didn’t get angry or ticked off when he asked if I wanted to, and I stared at him and said No.”
sk you?”
d not like it, he held me down the whol
sigh, “He is a very controlling man in
but herself for that one.
i. We are safe here.”
ci asked. She’d had enough thinking about Victor for the day herself.
g. They had a massive rogue attack that breached the border defences on the western and southern sides of the pack
d?” she asked curiously. She’d never see
r nodded, “It was a long time ago and nothing
.” Luci sighed herself now
odded “They needed our help, were going to lose and to Victor.”
k?” her mother looked right at her.
Alari saved the
ari?” her mother frowned now.
one about her beasts connection to each other. Though both Victor and likely many in the Black Forest Pack had seen them uniting.
ood at keeping secrets.”
half breed a secret had never once uttered that Luci wasn’t Orien’s either. “Kali and Alari can come together as one.”
lf-shifted wolf with the scales of a siren and their eyes are of both…kind of like Astral and Sparks eyes, but black and green, not black and red.”
Lucian. Did Victor see you like that?”
ack for you. Don’t go telling anyone that.”
dn’t want to think about her own stupidity.
We’ll all be away from the packhouse, but close enough for the boys to attend school and visit their fathers. I also like it here, it’s quiet and I can sit and think.”
“What are you going to do? Thatcher is still in Nightfall.”
ross the room absently.
t come here?”
, things will change.”
her on that. Rafe and Jack want my opinion on severing from Nightfall.
ties with Nightfall Luci, it’s the safest way to protect yourself. Protect your boys, you never know who Victor will situate into
Luci nodded “And yo
ien wants to get it over and done with, he can come to us and reject us here. He knows where I am.”
d still keep your bond to Orien?”
s, I can. Wh
you love him, and he does love you. I don’t want you to have to give that up.”
muttered.
ys try to bring you back to each other? Help Orien to win you back. He may be an a*****e to me, but he loves you.”
nce. I nor Fallon feel that anymore, Luci. Don’t fight for us this time. Just let it be, if he loves me, truly loves me, he’ll fight for us. I guess we’ll wait a