The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 93

Luci POV

Luci was not convinced that attending any meeting within the packhouse was a good idea. Not after learning it had been the Luna herself, to burn down the very cottage she and the boys had been staying in. She did not think it was a good idea to take the boys anywhere near the Luna.

Kali was in full agreement, though they now knew what rank those two women had been, prior to being mated to her Alpha and Beta, and she did know how strong and deadly they themselves were. Also knew it would only likely take either one of those women stepping up to her or trying to get to the boys. To allow her own Alpha b***d to boil.

Alari, however, was of the opinion she’d just explode those two she-wolves brains inside of their heads if those women tried anything at all. She didn’t seem to care at all that it meant killing their Luna, or in Alari’s opinion, this packs Luna, she was not her Luna.

That if Rafe and Jack didn’t like it, they could lump it, that they should know and understand the ramifications of putting them all in a room together. It technically was their job to protect her and the boys as Thatcher had stated, not that she couldn’t protect herself from those women.

Alari was also of the opinion that if those two did not try and stop their mates from coming at them or her boys, they would simply up and leave the pack, and take the boys with them as well. She would show them just how much it truly hurt to lose something you love. Make them suffer like Luci and Kali themselves had.

They had spent the morning with Allen and their mother, who had severed ties and broken her bond with Orien. She was in agony and in need of a Gamma and the Alpha and Beta had sent her their Gamma to help ease her pain as best he could. The boys had stopped and stared at their grammy when she’d been brought back to the house.

They’d run right over to her and touched their grammy, in much the same way that they did her, when she was upset. Felt it right away, though only reacted once they saw it. Unlike with herself, they felt her, Kali and Alari, much the same way Alari did both the boys at all times.

She found Allen in front of her. “Luci, I have to go, one of the Alpha and Beta’s coming here, have gone missing on their way here.”

“Go,” she nodded “We can help mother a little.” And she’d seen him out before going upstairs to her mother’s room.

Found her mother just lying on her bed staring aimlessly out the window. Sighed softly to herself, she had always been the major contention between the two of them all her life. Even now, it seemed, it was her fault that her mother was now suffering the pain of having to reject one’s Mate.

She had not liked Orien from the age of 18, not clung to him as her father, had stopped calling him father, in fact, from the day they’d returned to Nightfall after getting Kali, here in the Black Forest Pack. He’d simply been Orien or Alpha to her after that day. She’d nearly seen her mother sever herself from him that day.

She herself had, had to stop her own mother from the actual trauma that her own mother had been inflicting upon herself, by lashing her own Mate that day. Every hit had been causing her own mother actual pain. Harming one’s Mate always caused pain.

Now here it was, that day had finally come, the day that Luci had really come between them, so much so that her mother had now rejected her Goddess Gifted Mate and was now suffering for it. She didn’t like it, knowing it was her doing, would never want to cause her mother harm.

Luci relinquished control to Alari, who lay down on the bed next to their mother and hugged the woman from behind, then just started to sing softly to her. They watched as their mother rolled over and looked at Alari, smiled a little sadly and then just leaned right into her and let Alari’s song of love and sadness wash over her.

Both the boys appeared by the side of the bed just a minute later. They had come to the sound of Alari’s song, they climbed up on the bed and snuggled on in as well, a little pile of bodies on the bed.

They’d yet to sing themselves but Alari knew that they would one day, when it felt right to them and not before. Likely not until they were a little older, maybe when they were of mating age. To draw a Mate to them, or perhaps when they felt heartbreak over the loss of a first lover or girlfriend.

Not even Alari knew if her boys would be gifted Mates by the Goddess, or if, like all Sirens, they’d have to find someone that loved them and was willing to choose them. So that they could be granted a true Mate Bond, being a true hybrid, anything was on the cards. Though even Alari wanted them to be spared that, wanted the Goddess to grant them Mates like wolves or witches even.

She had inherited knowledge of her kind, knew that a Sirens life could be long and lonely. Yes, they could and did sleep with whoever they so desired, but that did not mean love and a Mate for them. It was just a Sirens’ nature. They were s****l creatures, not that Alari herself had even gotten to experience that, couldn’t, not with Luci and Kalie attached to Rafe and Jack.

Knew their mother had fallen asleep in the bed with Alari’s song, it had not only comforted her but lulled her to sleep. They did not move from her and lay watching their mother just sleep. The pain was gone from her expression, ‘I can feel our father’s venom in her.’ Alari told her softly ‘Feels stronger to me today.’

“I think she has simply made the decision not to hide who and what she is anymore.’

‘That is the best thing for her.’ Alari agreed ‘She’ll be happier if she is true to herself and becomes what she should have always been.’

‘Not everyone likes half-breeds.’ Luci told her.

‘They can all shove it. Half of something makes for a stronger creature. Gives a chance of powers, more strength or special abilities.’

‘Some don’t see it that way, they are cruel and hurtful.’

‘Half-breeds are what create double shifters. Should be blessed by all and cherished.’ Alari stated in a matter of fact tone.

‘Double shifters are loved and wanted. Considered strong and powerful,’ Luci huffed ‘Even those that don’t like half-breeds, like or want double shifters.’

‘Are ignorant and stupid. How do they think a double shifter is created?’

‘Not everyone is accepting Alari. It’s just how the world works.’

She knew her mother had gone rogue once, to get away from her home pack. It was likely those there didn’t like half-breeds, and that she had left to find a better life for herself.

‘Found Lucian, our father. He loved her more than anyone else ever could.’ Alari told her ‘A Sirens love is true. Our love is given by choice, freely. Don’t need some Mate Bond to make you want them, Sirens love is true love.’ Alari told her again.

Luci couldn’t argue that she’d heard her mother’s account of her and her father, how a Siren got a gifted Mate, to love and be loved in return, to acknowledge that love and ask one to be their Mate.

She sighed, she was never going to have that. A long lonely life for the three of them. She lay there in the bed with her mother and the boys all curled around Addison, a nice little sleep pile as Alari liked to think of it and wondered how many Sirens out there were like her.

Attached to a man or woman or some otherworldly creature, that they could never attain for themselves and were now just going to be lonely for the rest of their very long lives.

It was Alpha Rafe’s voice inside her mind that pulled her from her thoughts ‘Luci, our meeting is going to be delayed till the afternoon.’

‘Fine.’ She commented, didn’t really care right this very minute.

‘How is Addi doing?” he asked softly and she actually heard the genuine concern in his voice.

‘Alari sang her to sleep.’

‘That’s good. I’d like to hear her sing one day.’

Luci didn’t say anything to that at all. Alari sang only when she wanted to, usually to comfort those around her, not because she was happy.

‘Are you alright Luci?’ he asked after a minute, when she didn’t say anything.

‘Fine.’

‘What’s wrong Luci?’ he asked with a sigh.

‘Nothing.’

‘It’s not your fault, Luci.’

‘Yes it is.’ She murmured and she knew it was. Her mother and Orien only ever fought about her, so it was actually her fault.

‘It’s not. This particular situation is Victor’s fault, maybe…he did this to pull Addi and Orien apart.’

‘Why would he?’ she frowned.

‘ To make sure he could get one of you.’

‘What?’ she was more than confused now.

‘It’s just a thought, Luci. But do not blame yourself for Addi and Orien rejecting each other, blame Victor. If he’d not tried to take you for himself, they would have worked it out, I’m certain.’

‘I’m not.’ She stated flatly.

‘I’ll link you about the meeting.’

‘I’m not bringing the boys to the packhouse Alpha. I don’t trust your Mate.’

‘Neither do I, where you’re concerned. I’ve not told her about the boys, nor has Jack his Mate. I don’t think we should at this point either.’

‘They come near the boys, you won’t have Mates anymore.’ She stated emotionlessly, didn’t want to talk about them having Mates.

‘I understand.’ He commented ‘Might just bring that meeting to you then. I’ll let you know what time.’

‘Fine.’ She answered and the mind-link was closed out.

All three of them found it a little odd, that even with the threat to his Mate and Luna, the man himself didn’t even react to it. There was no anger coming from him, it was almost as though he didn’t care at all. Just stated he understood. Who the hell did that? Certainly, no Alpha Wolf that she knew of, would take kindly to a threat to his Luna. Shook it off who knew what was going on inside of this pack.

All she saw since being here was that their Mates had not been here, and apparently that was the norm for this pack. That both her Alpha and Beta had lost weight and muscle tone as well. Perhaps something was really off here inside the pack.

Though she wasn’t about to start walking around asking questions about it either. She’d not been here in a very long time and was no longer their lover, so she had no right to ask them anything about their lives. She was just a pack member was all, one who’d borne them children, but that was all, and nothing more.