The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Prologue

Luci knew they were back. She felt them arrive the moment that they crossed into pack territory, she was so very excited. Her Alpha and Beta were back, they had been away assisting another Pack for two whole weeks. Goddess, she had missed them so much.

Right this minute there was so much excitement growing inside of her, she knew they would come and find her. The two of them, to r****h her body for hours, the way they always did when they’d been gone for days to another pack.

She was getting all hot and angsty just thinking about them. Itching for their touch, craved it like no other. She had been their sole lover for just over a year now, shared herself with both of them, without hesitation. They were the only two men, wolves, who had ever been able to satisfy her s****l needs, right from the very first day she had shifted here in this very pack.

o the woods.

e was pregnant with twins. Kali had already told her they were both boys and there was one to each of them. Luci couldn’t wait to tell them; she was so very excited. Knew just how excited they both would be as well.

after the other and then together. Goddess, she ached for them both.

on her face waiting for them.

to the packhouse and her heart broke instantly. He was not alone, a woman on his arm, tears pricked at her eyes as she, even from up on the fifth floor, saw the filigree that adorned both their necks. Kali whined in pain inside of her. He was lost to them. Had found his Mate.

ed down her cheeks and Kali now howled in pain inside her mind, her hand fell from her stomach and hung limply at her side. As she watched the two of them walk into the Alpha’s office and close the door. Hadn’t so much as spared her a glance.

tion. It was too much to bare and not just for her but her wolf Kali, as well.

wolf. Now they were no longer hers, never would be.

de her mind.

li.

singing inside her mind.

ake, come to me my child.’

ll on the closed door to the Alpha’s office, pain tore at her heart, she was carrying their childr

everything would be okay if she got to the lake.

raw her away from this place, from her pain. No-one really went to the lake, it backed onto the eastern side of the pack’s border, and the humans loved it. Were always there on the weekends and school breaks. Only a small part of the lake was inside the pack territory.

home. Marked and Mated would have seen it, as they’d gotten out of their car the news would have travelled fast.

ly, she knew everyone here, had fitted in well. Loved being here in this pack. Now they were all looking away from her, and didn’t seem to know what to

into the woods, so they would hunt her and catch her. They loved the hunt and she had loved being their prey. That was now no more.

lonely walk out to the lake. Neither the Alpha nor the Beta had yet to even reach out to her, to tell her what had happened. They were to wrapped up in their love bu

d hesitated at the water’s edge.

ing her, and she saw pity in his eyes. “Are you alright?”

desperately.

his Pack that he had found his Luna, as had his Beta, that on the next full moon, just a few weeks away there would be a massive celebration, the Luna Ceremony to be held.

an sigh as he looked at her, “It’s okay.” She told him, even managed a small smile, didn’t even know how she did it, or where it

worriedly now.

is Alpha and Beta.

when they got back to the pack to tell her before they told everyone else, no she was informed just like all the rest. She loved them, thought they had cared, at least enough to tell her in private, but no. She was just their concubine

ime to meet me finally.’ that seductive voice inside her

i stripped off her clothes and stepped into the lake, ignored the border patrolman’s calls to come back, felt the minute she was out past the territory border and int

the lake, following that voice, nothing else mattered, not even the bitterly cold water on her skin. It was completely dark down here under the water, that song resonated louder with her, pulling at her every fibre, seducing her deeper into the

then it was singing a sweet sad song inside her mind and here under the water it was loud and so clear. A sad love tale of loneliness and betrayal, it was exactly how Luci felt, ‘Surrender to me child, and I will save us all. You, me, Kali and the pups inside of us. Surrender to me.’

duced into the water to kill herself.

ruggling and fighting to breath, then there was light, so very bright it was blinding, and she was spinning furiously below the surface, deep down in the depth of the lake and moving fast through the water, breathing somehow, exhilaration flooding her entire body.

was settled on the bottom of the lake, no long

e finally one now. Sleep my girl, I will take care of us.’

ly in her mind, and then her wolf howled inside her mind. ‘Complete.’ she whispered to Luci a moment later, an

n.’ she heard that voice in her head ‘We are a double shifter, very special. Sleep now.’

ing her Alpha and Beta.