The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 85

Jack POV

“We need to talk about a lot of things tonight to catch you up. West and Terence, Brad and Cooper are all arriving tomorrow lunchtime. They all know about Luci and the boys. Also, Alpha Addison.”

“Alpha Addison?” Rafe questioned instantly.

“Yes, she and Orien are sort of on the outs, it’s…” Jack shook his head “Goddess Rafe, where do I start with all this?”

“At the beginning,” Rafe stated simply.

“It’s going to be a very long night. I feel, your head is going to hurt a lot and first thing in the morning, before our allies get here, I want to put you face to face with Luci and the boys, though Luci is not comfortable with us, just a heads up. But I think this will solve the issue you’re having.”

“How?”

“The more time we spend with Luci and the boys, the more we feel disconnected from whatever it is our so-called Mate’s did to us back then. Did to you again tonight as well.” Watched as Rafe nodded slowly.

“Let me have it Jack, the good and the bad. All of it.”

‘Jack, when are you coming to bed?’ His tale was interrupted by Maria’s mind-linking to him.

Jack added Rafe right to that conversation before answering her ‘I’m not.’ He stated flatly ‘You’re not interested in me Maria. I understand this now.’

‘What? You’re my Mate…we just had a silly little fight was all…I know I was harsh before I left.’ Heard her huff and then her tone changed completely ‘I’m sorry Jack, I just get so frustrated…I want us to have a pup and I don’t understand why we can’t.’

Didn’t understand it! What a crock of horse s**t. He knew now she was paying some old hag to make sure she didn’t get pregnant, she wasn’t even his bloody Mate, had ruined his bloody life and for what?

‘We’re not having any.’ He told her point blankly ‘Go to bed, I’m not joining you.’

‘Well, if you’re going to be like that, perhaps I’ll just go back home.’ She threatened him, didn’t yet realise it wasn’t going to work.

‘Make sure to reject me first.’ He shot right back.

Heard her scream furiously down the mind-link ‘You’re with Rafe right this minute, aren’t you?’

‘Yes!’ he smirked ‘All snuggled up with someone that actually enjoys my company.’ He wasn’t about to deny it, hell took it a step further ‘in Luci’s room. Perhaps your sister should have thought through it a bit more, burning down her house out in the pack.’

‘Is she there with you?’ Maria grated out.

‘Where else would she be, seeing as the Luna tried to harm her, she needs the Alpha and Beta’s protection from her own Luna. So, yes, I’m with Rafe in Luci’s room…Oh, by the way. What the hell did Melissa do to Rafe? Lost all his memories.’

The link was severed, and he smiled “Lets just see what they do now.”

Rafe sighed “You’re playing with fire.”

“Well, I don’t want either of them two knowing Luci and the boys are elsewhere in the pack. Likely have another fire, only this time they’ll actually be there for it. Better she think they are here.”

There was a furious ringing of the doorbell to the room. “Oh, let me.” Jack smiled and stayed Rafe. “That’s Maria, I can feel it through my tether, you.” he pointed at Rafe. “Stay here away from them.”

“And if they dose you like they did me?”

“Call Allen and reach out to Terence before morning, to see if his mother Belinda will come to play inside my mind and hopefully yours, Titan’s too. But I have a feeling it won’t work on me.” And he did. He was their biggest concern ‘something is blocking the Beta.’ Titan had heard that old hag tell them.

He heard Flare snort inside his mind ‘We love Luci, Kali and Alari.’

‘Yes, we do. Hang on to that at all cost Flare, you might be needed more than me.’

‘I got you, I will never give up my Mate.’

Jack’s foot fall stopped as he closed the bedroom door. ‘What?’ but there was nothing but pure silence coming from his beast now, but deep down he now wondered if that was it.

Shook it off, had to go out there and deal with Maria, could come back to that one. Stalked over there and yanked open the door. “Back the hell off.” He and Flare snarled together “The children are already scared.” He played at Luci and the boys being in here.

“You come out here, I won’t stand for you being with another.” She yelled right at him.

Really? He thought, but you can, probably have considering he felt nothing at all when she touched another. Likely had been Goddess only knew how many times. “Go back to the suite and you and your sister stay the hell away from Rafe.”

He saw Melissa in the background and his anger flared over what she’d done to Rafe, made him lose all his memories. Shoved right past Maria and stalked towards her “What the hell did you do to him?” he snarled and watched her back up, though he could see she was carrying a handful of petals herself. Getting ready to do to him, just what she had done to Rafe, he thought.

Maria put herself between him and Melissa, then a moment later he watched as those petals went flying through the air. Flare shot him out of the way at full wolfen speed, they pivot turned on a dime and snagged her, before she could react to him. Shoved her up against the wall. Flare snarled right down at her.

They felt more petals roll over them, actually land right on him. His anger only increased even more, their anger did not abate with the petals as he suspected they should, but only incited more rage within him. He leaned right down to her, pressed his face to her neck and smelled her.

Yes, she smelled different to him, that scent she wore only seemed to make more anger roll off of him, yanked the collar of her shirt aside and looked at the Mark on her neck. It was there still.

“Get off my sister.” He heard Melissa yell at him.

He shoved his whole body up against Maria’s. “She is my Mate, she just asked me to come f**k her. Seems Flare is in the mood to f**k the hell out of her.” he snarled right back.

“Get off me Jack.” Maria gasped, trying to shove at him. Had no hope he was ten times stronger than she was.

“Why?” he asked her, “It’s what you want, isn’t it? For me to f**k you, put a pup in you. Maybe I can’t, because you never let us do it the way I want to.” He told her.

“Get off her.” Melissa yelled at him again.

His eyes moved right to the packs Luna. “Why, I love the new perfume she’s wearing, is riling me and Flare up so damned much.” He laughed, it didn’t do anything to them, other than tick him off. They’d already lost him. Something he’d done had gotten him out from under their spell, it seemed.

“I’m going to f**k my Mate, till I’m good and done.” His eyes moved back to Maria. “Oh, baby, this new perfume, is going to have you screaming for hours, it won’t just be me, Flare is itching to have you himself to, all of my wolfs pent up needs and power…Oh, we’re going to give it to you, so damned hard.” He could feel Melissa pulling at him trying to get him off of Maria.

He and Flare could smell the fear coming off her, their so-called Mate. Tears were brimming in her eyes. “Stop Jack, I don’t want that.” She half sobbed.

“Why not, as my Goddess Gifted Mate, your body is built to take everything I and my wolf can dish out. It won’t hurt, just give you immense pleasure, don’t you want that?”

Watched her turn her eyes to her sister “Help me.” She pleaded and he could feel Melissa pummelling him now.

He leaned right down to Maria’s ear and murmured “But I love the new perfume, isn’t that what you wanted, for me to smell it, be all turned on by it. Well, I am, so let’s go and do something about it.”

Felt a full set of claws s***h at him across his chest and smiled down at Maria, “You really don’t want to? Why not? You’ve been begging me all night for it, now you don’t want to? Why the change of heart?” he asked.

“Something is wrong with you, Jack.”

He took a step back and released her, watched as she fled into the arms of her sister. “You’ve gone crazy.”

“Hmm, it must be that new perfume of yours. Set off my animalistic side, real good.” Smiled right at her and her sister “I feel alive for the first time in years.”

He was standing watching them now, they were just staring at him, Maria looked terrified to him, and Melissa looked angry. He took a single step towards them and they both backed up very quickly. Maria darted right behind her sister and he smiled at them, really smiled at them.

“You might want to rethink your ways.” He stated and turned and walked off to Luci’s room, banged the door shut behind him, but then cracked it open just a fraction of an inch to listen to them out there in the hall.

“Call father now, Jack’s gone insane.” He heard Maria sob, she was, it seemed, actually afraid right this very minute, and well she should be.

“Come on, something is very wrong.” Melissa stated, sounded worried “You’re alright, take a breath.”

“Rafe?”

“He’s mine still. I have him under control.” She murmured.

“For how long? If Jack is like that.”

“Jack was always the problem, likely having that b***h in his sight has caused this, we can fix it.” he watched them go into his suite and close the door. Closed his own and stood there for a moment. Yes, they would have to leave to fix it though. And getting out of the pack might be that little bit harder right this minute. He could forbid it.

Jack looked at the wall. His anger, all the aggression he and Flare had displayed had come out of nowhere. It seems whatever they had done to Rafe was having the opposite effect on him right now.

That was good, he thought, he wouldn’t lose his memory over those petals, and he didn’t think that Maria or Melissa would throw them over him again. Wouldn’t risk him wanting to mate the hell out of Maria with all he had, all animalistic and all aggression. If she was not his mate, it would hurt her.

Though Flare was now inside his mind, all quiet, and he knew it wasn’t because they had just scared Maria or taken a full set of claws to their chest from her either. They were already healed.

No, it was Luci. That made his wolf quiet. Flare had called her his Mate, but they weren’t mated to her. It was an odd thing for his wolf to state ‘Flare?’

‘Don’t know,’ came the reply from his beast.

‘You’ve made your decision then?’ he asked.

‘No…already knew.’ Flare stated right back. Though even to Jack his beast sounded somewhat confused.

‘I don’t understand.’

‘Need time on it myself.’ Flare huffed and then his wolf turned around inside his mind and stalked off to the back of his mind. He’d never done that before. Something was really wrong, though he could still feel Flares annoyance right this minute. They were both confused about what his beast had said.

Walked back into Luci’s bedroom and looked at Rafe. “all is well, those petals only make me ticked off to no end,” shook his head “I don’t think they are going to want them all over the packhouse, will be looking to get rid of them.” smiled big now “Oh, I got a really good idea.” He laughed and climbed onto the bed “You want to play with them a little bit.”

“What have you got in mind?”

“We got their petals. Let’s tell them the omega’s have already put them in the rooms, when they are game enough to come out of those rooms. I think Maria will hide from me now.”

“What did you do?”

“Played with her, all angry horny.” He smirked. “Scared the hell out of her.”

“Explains the wounds.”

Jack smiled “Was worth it…Now where were we at?”