The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 99

Rafe POV

He watched everyone file out of his office. Dinner wouldn’t be for an hour and a half yet. He turned his eyes on Jack. “Explain yourself,” he muttered.

“They want to manipulate us, so I decided to enact my plan. Remember I said I had one. I simply had Gloria remove all the aroma sachets from the packhouse. I figured this would help both you and I get out from underneath them, for Gloria to tell Melissa that they were filling those sachets with the new petals. Neither of those two up there liked my response to those petals. This is what I wanted, hoping to get them to hole up in my suite. Hopefully they would be too afraid to come out, in case it meant coming across me…oh, you should know that I stalked Melissa this morning, just like I did Maria last night. Told her she smelled just like Maria. She freaked out, thought I was going to mate the hell out of her, which was what I wanted her to think.”

Rafe raised an eyebrow at Jack, “Why?”

“I’m aiming to not only keep those two here inside the packhouse, away from Luci, but also locked in a room and away from you as well. Two birds, one stone, so to speak.” He shrugged.

Rafe sighed heavily “You didn’t think to tell me first?”

“No, I wanted to see what would happen. I was curious as to whether Melissa would call out to you for help and tell you what I did.”

“She didn’t.”

“I know…isn’t that interesting in itself.” Jack nodded “I think she now doubts what control she holds over you. Though she still appears to feel secure here at the moment, they haven’t bolted away, run back to their home pack for assistance or to come up with a new plan of attack. So, I think they are going to try and get to you again, otherwise they are risking being killed for their treasonous act against you.”

“Odd.” He stated, was really thinking about it now. “You letting them stew Jack?”

“Yes, for now. I want to see what they do. Can’t come out of that room now, without me scenting them and hunting them to mate them both now. So, they are currently stuck between a rock and a hard place.”

“Ah, even trying to leave the pack. You’ll smell them.”

“Yes I will. They are going to try and leave at some point.”

“I’ll help you.”

“No! I don’t want you going anywhere near Melissa.”

“No Jack. I agree on that. I’m not losing Luci again. I mean, let’s cut their pack funding off, rescind their cars, and limit their ways off pack territory, till we get those answers.”

Jack nodded “Alright.”

Rafe opened a pack wide mind-link, but made sure not to include their two boys. He did recall that Luci didn’t like it when he’d done that, and he didn’t want Melissa or Maria feeling them either. But he made sure to pull both Melissa and Maria into that link.

‘This is your Alpha, the fire that was started last night in the cottage that was allocated to Alpha Luci and her mother, Alpha Addison.” He could feel fury coming down the mind-link from his so-called Mate, kept hold of that tether to her in his mind, good and tight keeping the mind-link attached to them.

‘Which is a crime against not only this pack itself, but against pack members, as Alpha Luci and Alpha Addison and Luci’s two young sons, are pack members now. Point of fact, Luci and her sons were always pack members. Alpha Addison has now joined the pack to live here and be with her daughter and grandsons.

‘This crime was committed by your Luna, Melissa. She not only burned that house down, she believed that Luci and her entire family were inside it. The packs Luna, tried to kill four pack members for no apparent reason. Believes she is above being punished as well. She told me herself and I quote her ‘I’m the Luna, you wouldn’t dare.’ In regard to my punishing her.’

He still had hold of her and her sisters in the mind-link, she was fuming up there in that suite, with him outing her, to the pack. He kept the mind-link open for a minute as he thought about a suitable punishment. He also knew that by holding it open, some of his pack members would be able to feel that woman’s fury as well. Those more highly ranked would be able to pick it up.

‘Punishment will be dealt out regardless that she is the Luna. This behaviour is more than unacceptable. I would like you all as pack members to think about what you feel is suitable. I will take into consideration all thoughts on the matter and will serve her punishment up tomorrow morning.” He dropped Melissa and Maria from the mind-link but kept everyone else open to him ‘Firstly, her access to the pack funds will be rescinded, her pack car is now impounded as is her sister Maria’s. Neither of them will have the use of a pack vehicle from anyone to leave this pack in an effort to escape their punishment. All border patrols will stop them from leaving on foot. Are to alert the Alpha unit if they attempt to leave. The gates to the pack will remain closed to those two she-wovles as well. They are not to leave and no one from their home pack is to be allowed to collect them.’

‘The Beta’s Mate?’ a voice came down the mind-link, Petra and he knew it, she being Alpha-blooded herself, she could let everyone hear her question, would be he imagined.

‘She is guilty by association, knew what her sister did and did not attempt to stop it, did not report so it could have been prevented. So, neither may leave the pack and return to their father’s pack.’

He cut the mind-link and Jack smiled at him. “They have no idea, that is good. I’m betting they will try to leave now, though have to think it out, with me on the hunt for them both, choose a time they think I won’t be awake to scent them out.”

“So am I.” Rafe nodded “Now they will find it very hard to do so.”

“Will have to go on foot. That is a long way, 2 hours by car, but on foot, they’ll have to go around the lake and through the mountains, a full day at least.” He smiled.

“80 odd miles, and those two don’t walk anywhere, not even inside the pack.”

He felt a mind-link connect to him and Jack. It was Addison, ‘I would put those women on the shaming post for now.’

He smiled, he had two out the front, had never used them, only ever seen them used in other packs and rarely, so ‘I’ll take that into consideration, Addi.’

‘Have her admit to her crimes and then just leave her there for four days, seeing that there were four of us, supposed to be in that house. I’m guessing killing her is off the table?”

‘At this point, yes. But only until I get answers, Addi, then it will be treason and a death sentence.’ He told her, didn’t even bat an eyelid at the thought of killing Melissa or Maria. And right at that moment he knew those two upstairs had no hold over him at all anymore. Was glad of it.

‘As it should be.’ she cut the mind-link.

Jack nodded at him “They’re both going to die.” He stated flatly.

“Not just them, Jack.” Rafe grated out, “Everyone in the Wolf Valley Pack, who was in on it, will die.”

“Good, let’s make sure we find out who all of them are.”

Rafe nodded, walked out of his office to the pack’s notice board that was hung between his office and the Luna’s office, cleared it of everything, and then pinned up a large sheet of paper and wrote on it.

‘Packs thoughts on punishment for the Luna’s crimes against Alpha Luci and her family’ then wrote directly under that, ‘Shaming post 4 days. – Addison.’ So that everyone could see what Addison herself wanted. He would check it again in the morning.

Rafe left a bunch of pens and pushpins as well as more paper on the table under the notice board. This pack was large and there might be many of his pack members that wanted to right down their thoughts on the subject of punishment.

He turned to find Petra and Sara walking this way, picked up a pen and wrote a lashing with their cat of three tails, one lash for each of the pack member that was in the house, one lash for setting fire to the house, and one lash for believing she was above being punished for her attempt to mureder pack members. 6 lashes in total.

Sara wrote a score mark next to it, and also put a score mark next to what Addison wanted. Then she pinned up another piece of paper and wrote atop it, “Maria’s Punishment for not stopping her sister or reporting it.” under that wrote Shaming post 4 days, and he watched as Petra put a score mark next to that herself. He’d not gotten to that one himself yet but had been going to. It seems his elite warriors were all over it.

Petra looked right at him, “Your parents are coming home tomorrow, to a full shit-storm.”

“Yes,” he nodded, “they’ll be concerned with Luci and the boys though, Not those two she-wolves.”

“Oh, you think so, do you? Your mother is a Luna Ranked Wolf herself. Reading this, finding out about a full threat to your sons, it’s not going to go down so well.”

He could only agree with her statement, would wait for them out the front and speak with them first, felt Melissa mind-link to him ‘Are you so cruel?’ she grated out angrily at him.

‘I am responding as the Alpha to a crime that was reported to me. As any Alpha would.’

‘You have no evidence it was me.’ she shot at him.

‘Are you so certain?…what ever it was you did to me, to make me forget…’ he felt her sever the link to him, clearly didn’t want to hear what he had to say.

Rafe re-established the link and held it open so she couldn’t shut it down. ‘There are cameras all over the pack, or did you stupidly forget about them? Are you so dumb as to think Jack, Allen or Ian even wouldn’t pull them up and check them? Show them to me. Use them as proof that you did do something to me to make me forget everything you did?’

He severed the link as harshly as he knew how, knew it would cause her pain when he did it. She deserved it, this was just going to be the beginning. He wanted her to know and understand she’d done something to him and he believed Jack, when he’d been told about it, had backed it up with real evidence which he could do, didn’t need to, but there was actual evidence if anyone insisted on it being produced.

He and Jack returned to their office, but left the door open so he could see pack members strolling into the packhouse to write their own thoughts down, and vote upon what was there already if their thoughts were already listed.

Rafe did pull that evidence, checked those cameras and there she was caught in the act. Had been here so long she’d forgotten they were there, he supposed. He printed out several screen shots and went and hung them up for the pack to see her with that fuel can, and her lighting it as well.

Snapped a couple of pictures and sent them to her own phone, just so she did understand he had actual proof of her crimes. There would be no denying it. Not to him, not to anyone in the pack that she still had under her control.