The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 132

Jo-anne POV

She was sitting eating a late breakfast with West in their suite this morning. She knew there were no meetings today until after Luna Piper had arrived, and Alpha Bradley had tended to her problem. Jo-anne had not met Piper herself yet. Had talked to her over the phone a few times, she appeared to be a lovely woman.

She herself had worn a Piper Harper gown, as had Ella, for their Luna ceremony. She also knew that Piper was still well situated in the human world, and ran her Goddess Gowns company from Helena now, out of Bradley’s head office there, and that she actually still travelled all over the world for Bridal shows.

Jo-anne had an art show currently on display in Seattle herself, and still had her human profile, though she was mostly back logged with painting portraits. She smiled at the thought of her art show, she had turned all those pretty pictures she’d taken of the Singapore solar trees through the bubbles floating up in the air, into a full series of art.

She’d liked how magical and whimsical they had been and had not stopped at just one, had painted 10 of them, though her favourite one was hung in her own Art Studio. It still made her smile every time she looked at it, even West liked it. She’d seen him stare at it a few times, just smiled at her and stated, ‘It’s got childlike wonder.’

Her head turned and she sighed, could feel pain practically radiating through the packhouse, got up and stepped outside her suite to see Rafe holding Jack, trying to contain him. It was Jack’s pain she was feeling, and she wondered how long Rafe was going to be able to contain Jack and his beast. It was both of them in pain.

The minute Jack and his beast recalled the truth, there was going to be no containing him or his beast, she didn’t think. She could right this minute actually feel his pain, his distress, where Luci was concerned. Wondered just what was going on, she couldn’t see Luci though. There wasn’t anything from Luci herself right this minute in the pain department, any more than what Jo-anne felt normally, but she knew something was going on. Had Jack just remembered? Was that it?

Watched on with full interest as Rafe pulled Jack into him to calm him, leaned down on the railing and just watched, smiled at the sight of the two of them, it was very much a mate thing to do, and so open for all to see and hear. Rafe had made his decision to claim his Beta, it seemed, and from what she was watching, Jack was or had willingly accepted his Alpha as his Mate as well.

Luci was what would bring them together. This was a good thing, they were back to their normal, or from what she’d heard anyway, Luci, it appeared, was really meant for them. She got to watch Rafe calm Jack considerably, but for how long it would last she didn’t know.

Every fibre of that man and his beast was screaming for his Mate. Putting the two of them in a room together alone would likely see Jack just blurt out he loved her, wanted her for his Mate even.

She knew Luci would like hearing it, but didn’t know if she would just accept him back, wondered, as she watched him pace around if Jack and Luci’s beasts would fight it out. She’d not met the Siren or the Wolf, but had gotten the impression her Siren was going to be a problem. She was very headstrong and only concerned about herself.

She left them alone. Rafe appeared to be handling things with his Beta for now, and returned to her suite. West was waiting for her in the doorway. “I don’t like not being allowed to fix it,” She muttered.

“I know, but maybe there is a reason it has to play out this way.”

“You sound like those witches, do you know that?”

He sighed “You’ll help when it’s time, Jo-anne.”

“Or I’ll tell Hannah to shove it and act regardless.” She muttered and walked into the suite, “That is Jack in full distress, it’s rolling off him in waves I can’t un-feel.”

She heard West sigh, “He needs to get himself under control, going into battle all emotional like that, could see him, get himself killed out there.”

Her eyes moved to West now, she’d not even considered that side of it. How they were all going to go into battle with all those emotions running so very high. That likely wouldn’t be good for anyone.

She sank down at the table and watched West make her a cup of tea, bring it over and place it in front of her, smiled up at him, “Thank you.”

He just smiled back at her and nodded, the distraction she’d asked for earlier was gone and she was back to being annoyed with the situation at hand. Though-honestly, now that she was thinking about that up-coming battle she wondered just how that was going to go.

Three witches, herself, who was a Royal Celestial Wolf, Luci was a Triune, a wolf, a witch and a siren, and then there was Alpha Addison, a wolf witch cross breed much like herself. There were six witches here inside this pack or had been till Addison had left to go visit her lake. There would be once more when she got back.

She knew just how powerful she was, the triplets were and she knew that both Luci and Addison had the power to be unleashed. Sat quietly thinking about that as she sipped her tea, it was a lovely blend of red berries and mint, quite refreshing.

Just sat and wondered, really wondered if a full blown war was needed at all? Saw that white haze around the edge of her vision and saw the six of them all together, all wearing the same coven clothing, she was in her Royal Robes, and Luci and Addison, though wore the same style of dress with hollowed out backs and a hood. Their dresses were green and white, not blue.

The six of them were all standing together. She didn’t know where they were or when it was, for that matter, but no-one else was around at all. Not West or T.J., not Rafe or Jack. It was just the six women all presenting as witches, they were out in the woods at night or at least she thought it was night. It was dark outside, though that didn’t mean anything here, it could just be in the forest here somewhere.

They were all standing around talking, she couldn’t hear what, watched as they all held hands and stood in a circle, then were just gone. Blipped away. Saw the suite come back into focus and found West looking right at her from across the table, “That doesn’t happen often.” He commented, “Important?” He questioned.

“Yes.” She nodded, “I dare say very important.”

“You going to tell me?”

Jo-anne thought about that for a long moment then sighed, “No, it doesn’t concern you at this time. Lets see how it plays out. It could be a very long way off.”

“Vision of the future?”

“I believe so. Didn’t have a time line or location even, so it could be years down the track.”

“Or it could be tomorrow.”

“It’s not tomorrow.”

“How do you know?”

“Addison was in it. She’s not here right now.” She stated simply.

It could simply be that it was the day Luci and Addison were brought into the coven was all. She’d not gotten a good enough look at Luci herself to see if there was a double mark on her, so she didn’t know if it was before or after all of this mess was sorted out. That would have been nice to know. But visions didn’t work that way, they could be as cryptic as the Goddess herself.

She was not like her mother, her visions were not always clear to her, their meaning couldn’t always be detected by her. It wasn’t something that happened often either. Belinda, however, could at will search for something specific to her needs, see pathways that would or could come from a single action, had told Jo-anne it took her years of dedication and training and all her focus to do it.

Jo-anne wasn’t that obsessed with knowing what was going to happen later in life. So didn’t focus on that. Her mother had, had a need to, to try and protect her, know when Hendrick or her own father, Sebastian, might be coming for Jo-anne, so her focus on that particular gift had made her very good at it.

She turned at the sound of a helicopter returning, T.J. was back, felt him fly over the packhouse itself and sighed as her head tilted up. There was sadness coming from the helicopter. Could she not catch a break at all. ‘T.J. what’s wrong?’ she mind-linked to him the moment she felt him go stationary and be on the ground.

‘Nothing with me, Luna Piper is upset.’

She sighed, ‘Do you know what about?’

‘No, but I could hazard a guess for you.’

‘No, I’ll hunt the woman down myself, after she’s had a chance to speak with her mate.’

‘He’s here waiting for her.’

‘Alright. I’ll stay put, kind of getting bombarded from everywhere.’

‘That can’t be good.’

‘It’s not.’ She sighed and closed out the link.

She couldn’t very well go barrelling on down there and try to fix everything, she might not even need to. It was likely that Bradley would be able to comfort his Luna. She didn’t know why she’d been brought here, no one did. Well, no one bar Hannah that was. That woman had her own agenda.