The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 38

Victor POV

He was standing in his office in front of the aerial view photo of the Black Forest Pack. It was updated regularly so he could keep track of their upgrades and know where things were. He was still more than angry that nothing had in fact gone his way over the past few weeks.

Nothing had gone to his planning and he was damned good at planning and strategizing. It was why he was a good ally, why his pack was intact and growing every year. How he managed to keep those rogues loyal to him all the time.

He stared at all the buildings, the largest being the packhouse itself, then the two buildings on either side of it, single dorms or accommodation for visiting packs. He wasn’t exactly sure of which, never having been invited into it, never having any of his wolves mated off into it even. That annoyed him greatly. Needed a spy in there. Just couldn’t get one, it seemed.

There was a circle around that cabin out in the woods, where those three witches lived, and he’d marked the area in the woods where he thought but had no proof of where those two pricks would house their cells and prisoners. It was where he would put it, had to be somewhere out there, he also needed to think about that. If he ever got caught and he or his men found themselves in there, they needed to have a rough idea of how to get away once he escaped.

Their pack was large and not being allied to them. He had no idea who those two pricks had allied themselves to either. But Victor was willing to bet that now they knew it was him that had attacked them. Then had tried to take Luci, they would be looking to bolster their numbers.

None of his rogues had returned alive over the past few weeks of him sending them in for recon, those two pricks had slaughtered all without hesitation. Likely had guessed that they were Victors and were showing him they were now prepared for another attack.

They were not dumb and now understood what he wanted as well. Knew that he was unlikely to give her up either. They might not be allied, but he’d seen them inside Nightfall often enough, for them to get to know him and he them. They both knew he’d been trying to get his hands on Luci for a long time, and he wanted her even more now.

He looked at his map of the United States and where he knew other packs were, always marked them here on this map for reference. It was a good idea to know what other packs were around, and therefore one could hazard a guess as to who was allied to who, even if you didn’t know them.

He was looking at those packs that were closest to the Black Forest Pack. It bothered him even more as he looked at one in particular, knew in all likelihood those two would have many allied to them. Not just the small packs they helped out, but larger packs as well, ones more like their own. Though there was only one he was truly concerned about. The Eclipsed Moon Pack, it was filled with the Royals, and his gut was telling him those two bloody pricks were going to be allied to that pack. They were only a few hours apart.

He had sent men up there now, they’d left this morning to watch for any kind of movement of other packs, anything that was headed towards the Black Forest Pack. He’d sent several teams out. They were watching the roads 24/7 in all directions or would be once they got to their designated destinations to cover the roads.

He needed to know who those two were going to pull to them, so he knew what his own strategy was going to be. What he would be up against and how many allied to him he would need, if he couldn’t get a hold of Luci or Addison outside of the pack.

He knew those twins were going to be inside that pack from now on, likely inside the packhouse itself. Protected at all costs, by their Alpha and Beta fathers. But he was willing to bet that Luci and Addison could come and go as they pleased still.

He also knew that the Luna and her sister weren’t currently inside the pack either. He had an in on that tiny pack. One that told him when they were there, though them coming and going was odd to him. Not even his spy knew why, had reports of them though every time they were there.

Mostly they just hung out with their friends, lazed about and did nothing much at all. Things they could do in the Black Forest Pack, and in much more comfortable surroundings as well. Victor didn’t understand them, though over the years those two had attended medical appointments on nearly every home visit. Were always at the packs hospital. Not that his one she-wolf could gain access to why. She was a lowly omega and not treated so well by that pack. She was compensated by her family here, being treated very well. Had a good home and were provided with all they needed. Even had nice easy jobs within his pack. She couldn’t get into the hospital. It was locked up tight and not where she worked.

Those two women were a curiosity to him, they’d left that pack after his attack on the pack and hadn’t even returned, stayed all of a week after his attack. Hadn’t even stuck around to help with the grieving pack members, that was a Luna’s job. It was almost as if the Luna didn’t care at all about that pack of hers.

It had been reported to him that Melissa and Maria had arrived and had lazed about the pool sipping on cocktails with their friends, were laughing and happy the whole time. He got the impression that the Luna and her sister didn’t give a s**t about the Black Forest Pack members.

He wondered just how he could figure out what was going on, could he help if it would bring those two pricks to their knees and get him inside of that pack, wondered if he could get them on their own and make a deal with them, if they didn’t actually like being mated to those two pricks, he had no idea, but anything was possible.

Thought about going directly to their home pack and seeing just what was going on, Victor turned and looked at his Gamma, Dane. “Put that pack on the next mating ball invite.” He tapped the women’s home pack. “I want a better spy. Let’s see if I can get someone mated off to a higher-ranked wolf. I need more information.”

“Yes, Victor.” He nodded, “The other packs you want have responded. Only two declined.”

“Which ones?” he asked.

“The Pale Moon Pack.”

“No real surprise there.” He shrugged, were not affiliated and he had no ranked members to mate off currently. That pack, though small, was strong. He left them alone, offered invites once or twice a year, but didn’t bother with them. All his wolfen strength alcohol came from them. He needed that pack intact if he wanted to have a drink and get drunk.

“The Cloudy Haven Pack also declined,” Dane continued.

Now he frowned. “Did they say why?” Victor asked.

“No, just got a polite ‘No thank you Alpha Victor, perhaps next time’.”

Victor turned and looked at Dane, sighed. He wanted a look at that pack. It was small and he could absorb it into his pack easily, he thought. Though had not yet been inside it to check it out. Which he would want to do prior to the take over.

He needed to go there for a mating ball, or get them here for a mating ball, so he could bed one of their she-wolves and get her talking about her pack. It was only small, he thought about 300 and only a third of them would be warriors. Easy enough to take over and absorb, he did need a few more wolves now, to train up and send out to be on the front line before his own loyal men. Had lost quite a few to Luci’s siren and then those two pricks afterwards while his men were recovering.

“Everyone else accepted?”

“Yes, but I’d be expected Orien to back out any minute now.”

“Perhaps,” Victor commented casually. He wasn’t concerned about Orien, he had plans for that man and his pack. Though he was expecting a call from him. His Mate was going to be upset about it being Victor who had tried to take Luci. He knew if Orien wanted to keep that little half breed happy and in his bed. He was going to have to call Victor and ask him to explain himself.

Not that Victor cared about explaining himself at all, but he would talk to the man. Orien didn’t care for Luci at all, was not attached to the girl and Victor knew why. Addison had never allowed Orien to bleed that child to him. There was no real father-daughter bond, she was just an annoying pack member to Orien or had been. He did not care for the girl.

Which had made Victors offers to take the girl off his hands easily accepted by Orien. That man wanted her away and gone from his pack, saw her as promiscuous and a disgrace. Wouldn’t if he knew what she truly had been back then. Hell, that man would have given her every man she desired to keep her at his side. Was a complete fool. Also wanted her gone, to instate his own flesh and b***d, Thatcher. As the heir to the pack.

“Dane get me new aerials on the Black Forest Pack daily. Twice daily, in fact. I want to try and capture exactly where my Luna is situated, will make getting to her much easier later on.”

“Yes, Victor. I’ll have Walter get on that right away.” Dane answered him and was gone from his office.

Victor didn’t think Luci would be in the packhouse, or wouldn’t be, the moment that Luna and her sister returned home anyway. Regardless of what was going on with those two women inside that pack. No Luna would stand for their Mates’ former concubine, who outshone her a hundred fold to be housed within their packhouse.

Victor also didn’t think that Luci would want to put her boys anywhere near those women either, likely not even want to put herself near them.

It annoyed him to know that all those years, he’d thought she was still inside that pack. Had attacked it and lost men on more than one occasion over the past few years, sent heaps of them off to that pack and lost over a hundred wolves during the past 6 and half years. Only now to replace out his future Luna hadn’t even been there inside that pack at all.

She had left them, lived within the lake and the human world, all his efforts now felt wasted. Sighed to himself, not even Orien had told him Luci wasn’t within that pack anymore. That man had held out on him. Why didn’t he know?

He’d made it more than clear that he wanted the girl for himself and Orien was more than happy to hand her over to him, or had tried to on more than one occasion. Not that Luci or Addison had wanted it. Perhaps Addison had told Orien not to tell him. Really thought about that, knew that was it. Orien also knew that he, Victor, would search constantly for Luci, would be relentless in his mission to obtain that girl for himself.

Perhaps Orien didn’t want her found at all. He returned to his desk and thought about that. He would have hunted Luci, brought her here and told no one. Certainly not her mother, though Orien and Thatcher did come here for mating balls and allied meetings. They would have seen her on his arm, bearing his Mark. Well, at some point, when she stopped fighting him and accepted her place here as his Luna.

Addison never came here anymore. Had been here once and to his surprise had felt a connection of some sort to one of the women he had down in the basement. Which one he didn’t know. She herself was a half breed. He knew that before she was even mated to Orien himself.

Though she was using that other half of her to hide her linage from her own Mate. Had learned how to do that from her first Mate, he thought. That lucky bastard had gotten the girl before Victor himself had gotten his hands on her.

He’d made a connection with her original home pack but had gotten it too late. Her stepfather was trying to Mate her off to some other pack, a large one for a strong alliance, seeing that she was so very beautiful. He wasn’t about to send his own flesh and b***d off to be a chosen Mate, not when he had a bastard daughter to get rid of, from his Luna’s r****t. One that the man hated even looking at.

Victor would have taken Addison off of his hands, but she’d gone rogue a week before he’d turned up for his alliance meeting with her original pack. He’d not made that alliance in the end, told her stepfather, if his own daughter felt that going rogue was better than staying within her home pack. That he didn’t think it was a decent pack, so it was not in his interest to be allied to them anymore. Then had simply left, had shocked that man completely.