The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 37

Jack POV

Jack was more than surprised to hear Rafe ask him to stay with him the night here inside the pack, and in the Alpha Suite at that. They often shared a room when travelling to other packs, but not here inside the pack, not since they were mated off. Their Mates wouldn’t have a bar of it.

He was showered and stretched out in Rafe’s bed, just staring up at the ceiling, had both his hands behind his head, and was currently smiling to himself. For though it had been a somewhat traumatising day for he and Flare, nearly losing their son, they didn’t even know they had. Little Jack was doing well now, and there was no bruising left on him at all.

Alari had healed him and then, with his first shift, his Siren-Wolf had fixed everything, now had healing abilities, and at just six. Little Jack was beautiful and precious, and he loved that he was so much like his mother when she’d been happy. Her real personality, couldn’t wait to truly see him really shine, and become everything he was meant to be.

He relaxed and thought about the last time he’d been in this very bedroom. Luci had been between them, she had often woken up between the two of them, though usually that had been in her room.

Rafe had caught her and Jack naked in her room and had stood at the end of the bed and stared at the two of them, stated “What is this, without me?” His arms had been folded across his chest and he’d looked all Alpha at the two of them.

Jack had not stopped taking her, not for one second, he’d been enjoying himself way too much, taking Luci all eagerly, hearing her crying out for him, but had looked right at Rafe, smiled right at him. He knew that Rafe didn’t like to not be involved. But sometimes Luci did like to just be with one of them and she had called to him via the mind-link, to come to her room all sultry like, telling him she had an itch that only he the Beta could scratch. He’d gone, how could he not!

He’d scratched that itch good too, and was still doing so when Rafe had banged the door open to her bedroom and seen them, Jack taking Luci from behind. He’d looked more than annoyed that he’d not been invited himself.

The minute Jack had sated her and his needs and let go of Luci’s h**s, Rafe had picked her clean up from the bed and tossed her over his shoulder, carried her out of her room across the hall to his Alpha Suite, dumped her on the bed and told her she was going to be punished. Jack himself had followed the man.

Gotten to see Luci kneel before Rafe on the bed, bat her eyelashes up at him and pout more than just a little “Alpha how will you punish me?” she’d said softly, she’d been all desire. The damned girl loved to taunt Rafe into mating the hell out of her.

Rafe had looked right down at Luci that day and stated “You’ll be screaming and exhausted when I am finished punishing you.” He stood staring down at her, his arms folded across his chest once more, rapped out “Undress me Luci.” Gone all Alpha on her, she had, all slow and fumbling like she was nervous, it was just another way to torment her Alpha, delay him from getting what he wanted and rile him up further.

Jack had known this, had sank himself down on Rafe’s bed to sit and watch her, loved watching her. Any punishment was fun for all three of them, especially when she had faked trying to run away and he got to snag her and bring her back. Pinned her right down on top of Rafe, hold her down on top of his Alpha and murmur “Take him Luci.” Right in her ear and then get to watch her take Rafe for herself. Which she always had, but had looked right into Jacks eyes while she’d done it, “Yes Beta.” She’d always say as though she’d been properly admonished.

He liked it as did Rafe when they were both on her, when she would ride Rafe while Jack knelt behind her and allowed his hands to roam over her body and touch her. It was never just his hands, Rafe’s as well. They would be on her h**s pulling her harder against him. Sometimes it would be Jack in control of her while Rafe’s hands wandered over her body.

They both liked to watch and Luci had seemed to really love it, never cared. Enjoyed both of them all of the time, one on one or at the same time. She could just get so lost in her own desires and needs that nothing was off limits. She was amazing, would sleep between them often and wake up all wriggling and teasing them all over again.

“Good thoughts Jack?” Rafe asked as he strolled from the ensuite, drying his hair.

“Mm,” Jack nodded “Thinking about you punishing Luci right here in this bed.”

“It’s been a very long time since then.”

“It has.” Jack sighed “But it was always fun.”

“I only needed to do that, because the two of you excluded me.”

Jack looked right at him, smiled. He knew that, laughed softly “I think she did it on purpose, to get punished. How’d you always know I was upstairs having my way with her?”

Rafe laughed now. “I always know where you are, and how you feel. It’s not hard, Jack, to know when you’re enjoying yourself, especially with Luci, kind of just rolled off of you the way you felt about mating her.”

Jack smiled, really smiled “I always did love being with Luci.”

“We both did.” Rafe agreed with him as he tossed the towel on a chair and got in the bed himself, and turned the lights out. Jack could feel how happy Flare was right this minute, just being there in their Alpha’s bed. Missed his Alpha’s company. Their relationship might not be s****l in nature, but they still loved being this close to each other. Luci had given them that, the three of them in the same bed all the time. They would wake up all arms and legs around each other.

Sometimes he and Rafe would wake up and just watch her sleep between them as they chatted quietly, just enjoyed lying in bed with her on their days off as well. Happy to laze about and just watch a movie with her as well, though that did usually end up with the three of them naked at some point, one of their hands would wander or Luci herself would start something. Or they would just scent her arousal out of nowhere and know she wanted them.

It was likely that he would wake up in the morning to replace himself curled around his Alpha or the other way around. This was their normal when in bed together, didn’t bother either one of them or their wolves. They did it all the time when off pack territory. It was the only time they could sometimes.

Going off pack territory for an allied pack meeting was a blessing for the both of them, over the past 6 and a half years, seeing that Melissa and Maria kept them separated from each other at all times. It was why they went off in wolf form to hunt together as well. To give Solar and Flare time together away from their own Mates. Not something that should be needed but had to be done to keep their connection to each other.

Though even sometimes when they did this, Melissa would demand to know where they were and tell them to come back. Was always unhappy even about their wolves spending time together. She really didn’t like Rafe and he together, it did make him curious if she felt threatened by the bond he and Rafe had.

Just how close they were, when it was clear that she was not as close with Rafe. Though he believed that was her own doing. If she just allowed them to be with her, or didn’t interfere with them trying to spend time together even, she’d likely have a better bond with her own Mate.

He would replace out soon enough just what was going on out there in their Mate’s home pack, though both of them should have come back today and had not. Likely having Titan with them was interfering with their usual plans, what they normally did out there.

Likely they were having to try and get around him. That wouldn’t be at all easy to do. At least not without Melissa actually dishing out a full Luna’s Order and if she did that, it would be very suspicious indeed. Why would she need to? What reason would she have to hide something from Titan, if it was just a regular family visit? None of that.

Jack, however, was betting on that was exactly what was going to happen, that Titan was going to come home, ordered by the Luna to not breathe a word to he or Rafe about what those two had gotten up to in their old pack. It was likely why he hadn’t heard from him at all either. He was under orders not to tell him anything that happened out there.

He sighed and tossed and turned quite a bit, unable to get comfortable or sleep. It was eluding him. “What is it, Jack?” Rafe finally asked him.

“Restless.” It was an odd feeling. He was usually calm when in bed with him or they were around Solar or Rafe, and could sleep like the dead with that man in his bed. He sat himself up and took his phone from the bedside table, clicked through till he got to Titan’s number and texted him ‘What’s going on out there?’

The man would answer if he could.

“Do you think something is wrong with Maria?”

“No.” and he didn’t “With Titan, to be honest with you.”

“Why did you insist on sending him with them, Jack?”

“To see just what they do out there, I’m curious.” He answered him, and he was.

“More than curious, I’m guessing.” Rafe stated, sitting up himself now.

“Yes, and I’m expecting Melissa to put a Luna Order on him, not to say what he saw out there.” He answered Rafe honestly, the man would replace out himself at some point.

“Why?”

“I just am.” Jack sighed “To be completely honest with you Rafe, I don’t feel at all connected to Maria right this minute. It’s like she’s not even my Mate at all.”

“Odd.”

“How do you feel?” Jack asked him, curious as to what he thought about it.

“I know Melissa is my Mate. But our relationship is not what it should be, it feels completely broken.”

“I’m betting, Rafe, there is a reason for that. For us to be like this. Both our Mate bonds so broken and our Mates have never been receptive to our needs. Something is not right. I know we have tried for a long time, still are, but something is not right.”

“That’s why you sent Titan, to replace out what it is?”

“Yes. To trail them after the attack here, I had a good solid reason to do so. They needed protection, never had that excuse before.” He looked at his phone. It was still silent, no reply text from Titan “That man wouldn’t ignore me. Something is going on.”

There was silence for a solid minute in the darkness of the room, then Rafe turned the lamp on and picked his phone up, dialled Titan’s number, got nothing either, it just rang out and then went to the message bank. He left a message for Titan to call him back.

But saw Rafe’s deep frown now, Titan would never not pick up the phone when his Alpha was calling him. He shouldn’t ignore Jack either. “Something is not right.” Rafe agreed. “He’s not picking me up either.” He was quiet for a good 20 seconds “His tether is still there, so nothing has happened to him.

“Something is deeply wrong, Rafe. I think it always has been.”

“I’ll call Melissa,” Rafe offered.

“Don’t, just leave it, wait until they come home. I want to see just what happens.”

He heard Rafe sigh “And if something is wrong out there in their pack?”

“They would have called for back-up. If something happened, that pack is tiny and always calling for help.” He was not wrong on that, they did call for all things, attacks and money. If they were in danger or that pack had been attacked, they would have called for assistance. Titan would have called instantly. It wasn’t that they weren’t in danger as far as he was concerned.