The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 133

Addison POV

It was interesting sitting listening to Zoe, and that woman was more than happy to give up whatever information she had on Victor and his pack. It was clear to Addison that Zoe did not like the man, and didn’t want to be here. She was even willing to give up which of the women down here with her were the mothers to the man’s children. Told her that they lived elsewhere, not information she actually had. Their actual location was unknown to her.

Told Addison that the longer she was there, that yes, there was a real possibility that Addison herself would hear him have s*x with the others at some point. That it did not in fact bother Victor, who heard or saw what he did. Then she had just leaned back on the wall and stared at the tank across from the cell.

“That one, however, has never not once seen him, in here, in my cell.”

“That is because you are different to the rest of them down here, to himself even. He doesn’t want her seeing that. I hope she’s not deluded enough to think that he hasn’t come in here though.”

“Who knows Addison, he uses her too. Before coming in here, then sends her up to his suite, only comes in here after she is gone.” Zoe’s voice was devoid of all emotion as she spoke.

Addison sighed and looked right at her, “He’d still smell like you though.”

Zoe just shrugged, didn’t care to think about it, she imagined, not likely any of the women down here did. “Has she got a name?” Addi indicated to the tank.

“Silla.” Was the simple reply.

“Her beast?”

“I’ve never heard him use it.”

“That is interesting. Have you ever seen her Siren use her call?”

“No, but I have heard a few of his pack members have died over the years. She only likes being touched by those she chooses to let touch her. Victor praises her for her deadliness in protecting herself, from my understanding. She’s not once gotten in trouble for killing pack members.”

That was not a real surprise to Addi. She saw the water move and ripple every now and then, it was a large tank and she didn’t believe the floor here was as deep as that tank went. Likely much deeper than eight feet. Victor had definitely modified his packhouse to build that tank down here. Only Silla’s tank could be seen from Zoe’s cell. She realised that Zoe herself couldn’t see the other women. Could hear them and likely talk to them but couldn’t actually see them. It had concrete walls on three sides and bars only on the front.

She got up and walked back to the bars, turned and looked down the hall as best she could. Couldn’t actually see the others in their cells, only down along Silla’s glass front of that tank. She sighed and shook her head.

“He doesn’t like the others looking at you, or him. Doesn’t want them watching the way he is with you anymore than he wants Silla to see it.” Sighed heavily, “You two might be rejected, but he’s still possessive of you, thinks of you as still his Mate, I would say.”

“I don’t really care what he thinks.”

Addi believed her, “You also can’t see him with them.” her eyes moved back to the tank. “Except for Silla.” That was a curiosity to her.

“He enjoys coming down here and doing her in front of me, all the time. Rarely takes her back to his bed.”

“Ah, I see. He’s trying to punish you for rejecting him. Why did you? out of curiosity, if you don’t mind.”

“You saw them all, right? I was not the first he put in here. I also seriously doubt he’d be faithful to me. Likely enjoy inflicting pains of betrayal on his own Mate.”

“Hmm, perhaps.” Addi nodded, though only Victor himself would know the answer to that one. “He presents himself to the wolfen world as calm, cool and collected, very imposing, to be feared, but never cruel to women.”

“He’s very strict even here with pack laws, especially when other packs are visiting and he announces every pack’s imminent arrival. Makes certain the pack is cleaned up, dressed up and behaves themselves. It’s a death sentence for those who cause trouble when others are visiting.”

Addi sighed, ruled by fear alone. She’d thought that before, now it was confirmed, “Not a nice place to live.”

“Only for those not loyal to him. I grew up here, my parents were loyal to him. They also grew up inside this pack. I knew how to be respectful, was taught early on, I knew when to work and when to train, when to bow my head. If you’re born here, you have rights and if your loyal and respectful, treated fairly I suppose.” She shrugged.

Likely didn’t know any better, had likely never been to another pack and seen how they were run.

“If you incur his wrath, it is not just you that’s punished, he’ll harm your family before your eyes, before he hurts you himself.” heard the heavy sad sigh, “I learned that, the very hard way.”

“Your father?”

“Yes.” She nodded.

“Your mother?” Addison asked.

“Is still out there. He dumped my father’s lifeless body at my cell and stated, I’ll go bring your mother now.”

Addi looked right at Zoe. “Did he harm her?”

“I told him I’d kill myself if he touched her, screamed it at him. He didn’t believe it though.”

“What happened?”

“He laughed at me, until I broke my own arm. My wolf, Halo, snapped it herself, right in front of him, it was the last time he saw her on the surface. She stared up at him and snarled, ‘I’ll snap my own neck’. She’s alive and unharmed, from what I can tell. I can feel her out there. Moving about every day. I don’t think he’s willing to risk it.”

“I doubt it. You, being his Goddess Gifted, gives you leverage over him, it seems. A weakness he probably doesn’t like at all.”

“Small as it is, yes it does. Mother shuts down all my attempts at mind-linking to her when Victor is in the pack. I only get to actively talk to her when he’s away.”

She stared right at Zoe now, full of curiosity, thought about that for a long moment. “She might have some sort of order on her.”

“He does have one on her. I was told I’m never allowed to talk to her. It’s another way of punishing me for trying to escape a second time. I can mind-link to her but she cuts me off.” Heard Zoe herself sigh, “She told me when he was gone once. Out of range of her himself. Not to talk to her, he knows when I do. She’s been ordered to include him into all mind-links from me each and every time. So I can only speak to her when he’s not here.”

“Cruel indeed.”

“Your daughter…he wants her to be his Luna?”

“Yes.” Addi nodded, “Since she was 18, 9 years now. It’ll never happen. She already loves other wolves, and Alpha and Beta at that. Has children to them even…She’ll kill him before he touches her.”

“I heard you state, he got his a*s handed to him by six-year-olds.”

Addison laughed now, “Yes, he did. My daughter’s sons, fully realised and pure-blooded at that. Protected their mother with a deadliness that comes from being a siren.”

“She’ll come for you?”

“If he tells her I’m here, he kidnapped me. He’ll die for it. Has me but now has to play a deadly game in letting her know he has me. What he doesn’t realise is he’s now the enemy in her eyes. Nothing will ever change that, and I mean nothing, not even trying to use me as leverage.”

Addison saw movement in the water and got a glimpse of that Siren over there, a pretty looking creature, not that it stopped and looked at her. It was just swimming about in there as it would in its natural environment. She could see it was fully grown, and if Victor was sleeping with it?

He had raised it, though that tank had been built during her and Orien’s Mate Bond, so he got her after Luci was born, saw her move about quite a bit and then she was gone, her dark green tail swished her away and in a hurry.

“Being called by Victor,” Zoe sighed. “She does like him, he’s never had to worry about that. Calls him ‘Vic Vic.’

Addison burst out laughing now. She could not imagine anyone calling Victor that. It was such a cute name, something a child would do, “Is like a father figure in other words.” Though even that was horrid to think about, he’d raised her from a child, groomed her more likely, so that when she was mature enough he could have her and she’d heard Zoe state that he did.

“How old are you, Zoe?”

“25, Why?”

“Is the Siren older or younger than you?”

“I don’t know.”

“Think about it, did you see him with her as a child walking about?” and she knew he would have. A young siren was attached to its parental figure.

There was silence for a long while as Zoe thought about it. “Yes, actually. She was a tiny little thing, on his h*p, he used to carry her like she was precious to him.”

“She is precious to him.” Addi nodded. “She is a perfect killing machine, so she’s younger than you then.”

“Why all the questions?”

“I need information to turn her against him, is why, if we all want out. She needs to want not to tell him, she is how he knows you or anyone down here try an escape, likely reports to him.”

“I don’t think she will listen to you, Addison, and won’t believe he’s not to be trusted.”

“She might be young Zoe, and act all innocent and sweet. It’s what they do, how they attract people to them. But she is still a Siren, a s****l creature and that beast of hers would understand what you and all these women are down here for. That, unlike her, none of you can move about freely. She just has no reason to leave him. Likely he’s got some hold over her, I just need to figure out what that is.”

“Good luck, that creature lights up like the sun when he comes, plays with him.”

“There is a bond of some sort, he was likely careful to make sure of that. Uses it to control her, perhaps she doesn’t understand that.”

“I don’t think she’ll ever leave him.”

“Never been out of the pack I’d bet.” She mused aloud and sank back down.

Everyone down here was brought lunch, by the Gamma at that. Likely no one else other than Victor himself was allowed down here.

“Addison,” Dane commented.

“Dane.” She stated right back, “I hope you’re ready to die along with Victor.”

“We’ll see, with you as leverage, it might just not turn out the way you think.”

“It might not go according to Victor’s plans either.” She smiled right up at him. “You might want to consider that yourself.”

Addison sat in the cell and just contemplated all she had learned from Zoe. That she-wolf wanted out of this place as much as those other women did down here she imagined. Silla might be Victor’s best weapon. But Zoe was the best leverage.

She was rejected, but still he couldn’t seem to let her go. He couldn’t harm her himself, which also meant that he couldn’t send anyone else down here to harm her either. Put that girl right in front of herself and she’d be safe from even Silla.

Though she wondered what would happen if Zoe changed her mind and offered herself up to accept him, would he accept her back and claim her? Take her for his Luna and give up on Luci? Who knew, she glanced at Zoe sitting on her bed reading a book. She didn’t think that she-wolf would take him back.

Her head snapped around hours later at the sound of that Siren singing, she even heard Zoe sigh, it was forlorn and heart breaking. She was sad, and not just a little bit either. That song Addison noted as she walked over to the bars and looked at the tank, was causing waves to ripple through the water and slosh over the sides every now and then.

Not likely a good time for anyone to be in the water. It would likely kill anyone daring to go in there. She was devastated that was a given and turned her eyes to Zoe, questioningly.

“I don’t know,” She said as she walked over to stand next to her, “But it happens from time to time and it always sounds utterly heart broken.”

“Because she is right this minute. Something happened today.”

“I’ve touched her face a few times, sometimes she actively seeks comfort, will take it from me on occasion.”

“That is good. Means deep down she’s open for others to be bonded to her, wants a family bond…” That thought stopped her and her eyes moved right to the tank. She knew that was it, she had no other Sirens, she was lonely. Victor had raised her since she was little, that Siren over there had likely been taken from her family, she missed them or they had all been killed and she was the only one left alive.

Little Silla was right now grieving the loss of her Siren family, something had happened to remind her of it. That part of her Victor could never take away. Sirens loved Sirens, that creature craved her own kind. If she could put Alari right in front of Silla, Victor was going to lose her.

She heard Zoe suck in a shuddering breath and knew that song was going to make her cry, like all down here would. The glass was dumbing down the sound but only to a level that didn’t harm them. The actual sadness and devastation, the grief in her Siren song, was rolling through this place for all down here to feel. Right this minute, Silla needed other Sirens to comfort her. Nothing else would do it.