The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 83

Jack POV

He was more than frustrated now. Melissa had gotten to Rafe, had barely taken 5 minutes inside that room, could well have been less than that for all he knew. Had warned him not to go in there. They both knew it was a bad idea. The only good thing he could see from it, was that now they had proof those two had done something to them, to get themselves Mated to them and were continuing to do it.

“You just went into your suite not 10 minutes ago, to get Melissa. She set fire to Luci’s house, if we’d not moved them. They’d have been in there, Rafe. Melissa would have set fire to Luci, Addison and the twins.”

“Addison is here?” Rafe asked. It seemed he’d forgotten that too.

“Yes.” Jack scrubbed a hand over his face, the man was in for a real shock. Not only was Addison here but a pack member as well. “What is the last thing you recall? Really remember?” he had to know where to start filling him in from. It was going to be a very long night.

He could see that Rafe didn’t really understand the question, but took a moment to think about it. “I guess we were looking for Luci, you sent Titan with Melissa and Maria to protect them. Yes,” he nodded, “Victor of the Bloodless Moon attacked us.”

“F**k.” He heard Allen and Ian state at the same time, he’d lost a lot of memories, practically everything to do with him and Luci, he realised.

“What?” Rafe asked.

“That was well over a week ago,” Ian muttered.

“Victor has been back since then,” Allen told him.

“What?” Rafe was really frowning now. “Jack, what the hell is going on?”

“I found Luci, that thing in the lake. It is Luci, she is a double shifter.”

“Triune.” Both Allen and Ian stated.

“One at a time,” Rafe snapped. Jack could see that the man was really struggling right that minute. Flare was also feeling for his Alpha, they could actually sense out that he was in pain. His head was starting to hurt from all the information he was trying to take in.

“Alright.” Jack nodded, he had to sort this out for Rafe. “You went into your suite just a few minutes ago, to get Melissa, she set fire to Luci’s house. You told her, you were there as the Alpha, to punish her. Now she has done something to you, to make you forget you were angry with her, forget everything over the past week and a bit.”

Rafe looked very confused. “I don’t think she did anything to me, we, just well you know…it’s been a week.”

“You had s*x with her!” Jack muttered, and was annoyed about that to say the least, because yes, he and Flare already knew that. They could tell when that happened, though it had not lasted long, a few minutes only. Could sense it as much as Rafe could when Jack had s*x. It was how he’d always know when he and Luci were off by themselves. Could feel it.

It was a weird feeling. With Luci it had been comforting to know her and Rafe were sneaking about trying to hide it from him. Had amused him mostly and he let them believe they’d gotten away with it. Though it annoyed Rafe when he and Luci snuck off, Rafe didn’t like to be left out.

But the feeling he got when Rafe was with Melissa was just annoyance for both him and Flare. They didn’t want to know about it, that feeling just annoyed them.

“Yes, she is my mate and has not been here in a week, so yes.” He nodded. There was nothing out of the ordinary about that to him.

Jack shook his own head now, there was nothing he could do about it. What was done was done. “You can’t go near her, Rafe. Nor can I go near Maria.” Jack walked over and tapped the wall, Rafe’s own handwriting; to show him they were going to choose Luci, the whole plan of how and when even. Written in his own handwriting.

“I don’t remember writing that.” He stated because he did not recall writing any of what he was looking at. Jack understood that now, it was all gone from the man.

“You told me just tonight. Wrote that tonight, right before Luci’s house was set on fire, by your so-called Mate. The Luna to this pack just tried to kill Luci, Addi and our boys.”

Jack felt Rafe’s head was suddenly pounding inside his skull, as he let his eyes move over everything again, watched him rub his temples and struggled with the sudden increase of pain inside his skull. The more he looked at the wall, the more it was hurting him. Jack realised. But he had to push on for now, he was an Alpha and should be able to push past it.

“In case we forgot it all over again, we wrote it down, in a place neither of our Mate’s could go.” Jack told him. “What is wrong Rafe?” He grabbed on to the man as he started to sway on his feet, steady him, could actually see real pain on his face.

“I have a headache, and it’s increasing rapidly.” He answered, could hear the pain in his voice now.

Allen reached out for him from behind. “Stop reading it, it’s hurting you.” Allen told him and turned Rafe away from the wall. “Breath and clear your mind.”

Rafe’s eyes moved to Jack. “I’m sorry Rafe, I tried to tell you not to go into your suite, you told me to bring you in here, if the worst happens and you forgot everything…which it appears you now have.”

He was staring at Jack. Rafe knew that he wouldn’t lie to him, but he was so bloody confused right this minute and that headache, that was splitting his skull, wasn’t helping him to think straight either.

“Rafe?” he saw Rafe turn and looked at Allen. “You told me to bring Melissa to your office, barely 20 minutes ago. She wouldn’t go, demanded you go to her in the Alpha Suite. Melissa did set fire to the cottage, her scent is on the trail. Jack tracked it himself. When I couldn’t get Melissa or Maria to come out, you told me to get Ian and come here to Luci’s room, that you and Jack may need our assistance.”

“I can see why?” Ian huffed himself.

“I didn’t understand it, Rafe, till I saw all of this.” Allen waved a hand at the wall, “You knew that Melissa had done something to you, was going to again. That’s why you told Jack to bring you in here. To remind you of what’s going on if they dosed you up once more, with whatever it was.”

Jack nodded, it was good to see that both Allen and Ian were here and believed everything, were willing to accept it all and help him try and convince Rafe of the truth that was going on around them. That their life had been a lie for the past six and a half years.

“That also accounts for the odd conversation I heard with you and Hannah.” Allen shook his head, not something Jack had been privy to, but heard about.

“What conversation?”

“Witches don’t interfere with witches.” Jack sighed heavily. “Hannah won’t get involved; we have to figure it out on our own. Is what my understanding of it is.”

“You are correct on that.” Allen nodded “They will only intervene for Luci herself, specifically at this point.”

Great, Jack thought to himself, but they were witches and Luci herself was also part witch. He wondered if those three were going to try and bring her into their coven at some point in time. It was always possible.

Jack watched as Rafe’s eyes moved about the room and he looked at his unit. They were all in agreement, speaking of the same thing, he was the only one that was not certain. “Then she did, do something to me. I don’t remember any of this.” Rafe sighed as his eyes moved right to Jack “Are you alright?” his voice was laced with concern.

“I’m avoiding Maria and my suite right this minute. Got to, that room is now even more toxic than it would have been a few days ago, I imagine. Will be avoiding that room at all costs, will likely stay in here in Luci’s room for a long while.” He sat the man down and sank down next to him, “Close your eyes or don’t look at it, it’s hurting you. The conflicting thoughts, I think Allen is right.”

“We have children?” Rafe’s eyes turned right to him now.

“Twins.” They all said at the same time. Jack smiled at him, “They love you, and you love them too.”

“She took them away from me, I don’t even remember them, Jack.” He could hear the sadness in the man’s voice. “What do they look like?” He asked softly.

“Like us at that age. Their six, little Rafe and little Jack, she named them after us, even.”

“How could I just forget them?” he heard the sadness now, felt it well off not just his Alpha, but Solar as well.

Jack got his phone out and brought up the few pictures of the boys he had, picked one of the two of them together. They were both smiling and playing inside the pack, out the back of the cottage.

“How long have I known about them?”

“Three days,” Jack told him. “Like the rest of us.”

“Have they always been here inside the pack? Only we didn’t know it. I thought Luci was dead.” He watched Rafe touch the picture of the two boys.

“Not dead, at the lake was all. She lived on the other side. She looks very different now too.”

Watched as Rafe looked right at him now “You said, she was the creature in the lake.” Saw a flicker of something, cross the man’s face and held his hand out to Allen and Ian, to stop them saying anything, Rafe was going to figure it out on his own, those memories were in there, he just needed to replace them himself.

It took him several minutes and then his eyes widened. “Luci is part Siren…is blonde and taller.”

“Yes.” Jack smiled with relief “A Triune, to be exact, also has witch b***d within her. Addison is half witch.”

“Really…well now that makes some sense to me, the way Hannah tried to touch Luci that first night she was here and Addi got in the way, bowed ever so slightly to Hannah and her sisters.”

Jack smiled. “I think you should sit and think about our past with Luci, it will help you regain your memories. Luci being here with us. That is what’s letting us recall and fight back against those two that claim to be our Goddess Gifted.”

“Our feelings for her, actually seeing her.” Rafe nodded, “hinders their what? Spell?”

“It is likely a spell, if Hannah and her sisters will not get involved.” Allen stated, “I dare say you have to break it yourselves or replace a way around it completely, to dissolve it.”

Jack looked up at Allen and wondered just how much knowledge he had about witches; it was not something they openly discussed. He knew Hannah and her sisters weren’t open to talking about themselves.

He felt Rafe’s hand on his face and turned to look at him, smiled, they didn’t really care what Allen and Ian saw go between them. “You kissed me.”

Jack snorted “You kissed me.”

“Na ah, you’re the bloody girl.” Rafe stared right at him but was also smiling, was still trying to piece things together. Could well have both those images rattling around in his mind, likely didn’t know which one came first.

“Petra will back me up. She saw it.” Jack smirked at the man, and heard Allen and Ian laugh now.

“Okay, I think it’s time for us to leave you two alone.” Ian murmured and was pulling Allen out of the room.

“We’re not like that,” Rafe commented.

“Not yet,” Allen laughed. “Once you two Mark and Claim Luci and she Marks you back, you will be.” he and Ian were both laughing as they left the suite.

“Hmm, food for thought.” Jack smiled at him.

“I guess so. Who kissed who first? I have two memories, both in our office, but different places.”

“That’s for me to know.” He got up “Though you did tell me I might just get humped by my Alpha if I wasn’t careful.” He snorted merrily.

“I would never say that.”

“You did.” Jack smiled, and the man had, though that comment about them Marking the same woman, and her Marking them back. He wondered if he was going to be Marked by his own Alpha? If he would Mark him back or would they both just Mark Luci? and she’d Mark the pair of them? If they all marked each other, he and Rafe could well end up naked together at some point, they would be drawn to each other through the Mate Bond.

“Stop thinking about it, Jack.”

“It’s an interesting thought. We’ve never.”

“No, we haven’t.”

“Come on, get your a*s in that bed, Alpha.”

Rafe snorted “Or what?” put Jack’s phone down and folded his arms across his chest.

Jack’s eyes moved right to the man. “Oh, you want to play who’s the strongest, do you? I think it is me right this minute, I got all my memories.”

Shot across the room the minute Rafe was up to get him, right into Luci’s bedroom laughing the whole way, they were going to be just fine. They would get Luci back and this pack would go back to being what it had once been.

With the pair of them happy and in love, with one she-wolf between them. Well, not just a she-wolf, or a witch or a Siren. No, they would have what they’d always believed they’d have. One Luna between the two of them.