The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 90

Jo-anne Pov

Her eyes were on those three women standing along side Alpha Rafe, Beta Jack and his Delta Ian. She had not been here before, hadn’t really left the pack since the full truth of her linage had come out. Spent half of her days in her art studio, working as an artist and the other half, in her Luna’s office with Ella, attending the packs Luna Duties.

She had learned over the past three and half years since it all came out, how to control her powers, how to put them to good use, had become that healer her father had told her she would be. Healing the children of any injuries mostly.

Now here she was and to see those three witches and she knew that is what they were; triplets. West had sighed heavily at seeing them down there waiting for their arrival, and then he’d informed her of who they were, the Gamma’s Mates.

T.J. had been very quiet on the subject, but he had tried to tell her that she should stay home, inside their own pack, didn’t want her coming here. That there were witches here within the Black Forest Pack. She’d been sitting with her mother Belinda, they’d both been just chatting about which one of them should come here with West and T.J.

Jo-Anne had opted to come, something had happened the night before that, and not only had she felt it, so had her mother in fact. Something that had seen the pair of them snap their heads up and rush off to hunt each other down to discuss it.

Power had been felt by the both of them, Jo-Anne more so than her mother. They had come to the conclusion that one of them must come and check it out. Jo-Anne had stated where it had come from, not the pack specifically, but the direction, and they’d decided it was best for Jo-Anne to come herself, to replace out what they had felt.

The three witches bowed right to her and called her ‘your highness,’ she nearly cursed out loud. No one was aware she had royal b***d, but she did note that they did not bow to or address T.J. in the same manner. Giving her the distinct impression it was not the royal wolfen bloodline they were addressing.

Not from the way they were dressed either, and presenting themselves to her. Those hooded dresses, the celestial moons down each sleeve. She wasn’t stopped from touching it either, nearly sighed out loud as she wondered if the three of them were not only related to her but born of the same father. She felt them, there was a family bond between her and them, it was unmistakable.

She was more than shocked by the sight of their backs, when they all turned around to show her, and there down their spines, just like hers, was the exact same markings. The very same Celestial Moons, that had burned not only into her but into T.J. as well on her 18th birthday. Something she now knew was when a witch came into her full powers.

She’d thought T.J’s mark would go away, after she’d made the right choice. Releasing him from her as her protector, but no such luck. He still bore the mark down the inside of his arm, though it was no longer black like hers, it was blue in colour now, and he no longer bolted off to hunt her down if she stubbed a toe or got a paper cut.

It seemed now that although he still felt it every time she was in pain, her childbirth had not been fun for him, though Ella and West thought it was amusing, she nor T.J. did. He could now choose when to get up and come to help her. He had a choice, it seemed now, whereas before he’d never had that, where she was concerned. He was still her protector, as the moon Goddess Selena had called him, likely always would be.

Watching those three witchs bow all the way to the ground and then offer to serve her, made her sigh internally, but that was all. They clearly knew who she was to them, likely outranked them. She didn’t exactly know. They did look younger than her, but that didn’t mean much in their world.

But perhaps while here she could get some more answers as to her own linage, from these three women. Who knew what they knew, West had not told them she was coming, but here they were waiting for her and all dressed up to the nines. Had likely foreseen it, though she was not about to go prying inside their minds, that was rude and could be deadly. She wondered if she could get a sit-down chat with them in private.

They had just informed her they were going to serve her. If that was the case, then they should be willing to answer her a few questions. As she walked along she found them all walking behind her, felt Clova all happy about them inside her mind, she too could feel the family bond to them, like it, Jo-Anne realised, seemed happy to have more family even if they weren’t wolfen.

She frowned deeply at Alpha Rafe’s words, that his own Luna had burnt a house down, even deeper when she found out it had been where his missing pack member Luci; who they had come here to aid in protecting, had been living. Seems the young girl needed protecting not only from Alpha Victor or the Bloodless Moon, but her own Luna as well.

She did not like that at all, understood very well her Luna duties and that she, as the Luna, was in part here to protect the women and children. Did not like it at all, that a Luna would try to harm a fellow pack member. It was odd. For even though she knew this Luci woman was the mother to Alpha Rafe and Beta Jack’s twin boys and that clearly his Mate had not liked it at all, it was still unacceptable in her books.

Her opinion of the goings on here, children born outside of their Mate Bond, and she’d heard Luci had gotten pregnant prior to them replaceing their Mates, she had been missing for as long as they had been Mated. This was not a good enough reason to try and harm the woman or her children. Heirs to the pack even.

Jo-Anne was very curious now, wanted to meet this Luna, measure her up so to speak. She knew that if West had, had a child with another prior to her coming home and replaceing him as her Goddess Gifted Mate, she would have just accepted it. The child would have been before her and him, and there for so be it as the Goddess’s will.

If their Goddess had deemed fit to grant him a child to another, then that was what was supposed to have happened, and that was it. She would have gotten to know the child and been friendly. Because that is what the goddess must have wanted of her.

Walking into their packhouse she shuddered visually, something was wrong inside this place and she could feel it instantly. Had to shake it off, West and T.J. had been here plenty of times and no harm had come to them ever.

They were shown to their rooms on the first floor, visually relaxed as she crossed the threshold to their suite. This room felt very different to the packhouse itself. She walked around the room and looked at it, then turned and walked back out into the hallway, shuddered once more.

She knew that West was watching her, she could feel his eyes on her, though he’d not yet said anything, was just letting her be for the moment. Those three witches were still out there in the hallway, all looking at her “Your rooms are clean.” One of them stated, the eldest she was willing to bet.

“Your names?” she asked them.

Got that all important introduction “Hannah, Aaliyah, Giannah.” Each one stepped forward when they stated their names.

“The packhouse?” she questioned them.

“Will cause you no harm, though…”

She raised an eyebrow when the woman, Hannah, trailed off, she looked to be thinking about how to word it. It took a full minute before she spoke again. “Is tailored to the Luna and her sister. So that the Alpha and Beta will stay attracted to them.” and then they were just gone, vanished right before her very eyes. Blinked in surprise, she only knew of two that could do that. Her father, she’d seen in the vision when tasting her mother’s b***d, and Hendrick the royal warlock.

It was an interesting statement, so the Alpha and Beta will stay attracted to them? would have to think on that one. Come back to it she thought. Turned and walked back into her suite, where she found T.J. now standing next to West, looked right at him and he indicated to an adjoining door. “It’s our usual suite.” He commented.

“What’s wrong, Jo-Anne?”

“I don’t know, there is magic here, and not of those triplets either.” She sighed “I can feel the difference, from out there to in the pack, to the packhouse itself. Even in here.”

“The room was cleaned.” West remarked.

“By those witches no less.” She nodded “They didn’t want to offend me.”

Her eyes moved from West to T.J. she now understood that they both knew about those women, their markings. Understood now why they had both tried to talk her out of coming here even, sighed a little “Spill it.” she stated, looking from one to the other.

She sat herself down on the couch and motioned for them both to also sit, leaned back in her chair and stared right at them as they sat. “You’ve been here before, explain yourselves.” Looked right at T.J., he needed to explain himself to her.

“I didn’t know what it all meant, JoJo.” He sighed.

“But you knew about them, saw the markings.” She frowned right at him.

“I did.” He nodded.

“Who are they to you?” West asked.

“Family.” She stated softly “I don’t know how, what exactly the relationship is,” she shook her head “They are of no threat to me, I know that much.”

“That is good.” West nodded “You and Belinda though?” he questioned. “What was that all about, are you ready to talk about that yet?”

Jo-anne sighed “Both of us simply felt power coming from this direction. She didn’t come because I needed to. She saw that. I didn’t know it was this pack, but flying over it, I now know it was, likely Luci from what I heard.” She looked from one to the other. “Those witches helped her, maybe for a reason. To bring me here, they were waiting on me, knew I was coming.”

“I don’t like it, JoJo.”

“It’s not up to you T.J.” she stated flatly, “and I will be talking to them at some point, alone.”

Watched as T.J. frowned right at her “No.”

“Yes.”

“No.” he shot right at her, sounded angry even now.

“Yes, I will be. They are of no threat to me, bowed down to me. I need to understand that. I also need to replace out why and stop them from calling me your highness.”

He was glaring at her now. “I don’t like it, JoJo.”

“You want to fight me for it?” she smirked right at him. She still trained with Belinda and her sisters, Ella even, when she wasn’t pregnant. Even trained once a month with Jonathon and Damien. They both knew she could fight now, was actually really good. Could take down both of their fathers. Though neither West nor T.J. had ever sparred with her, both of them just stood back and watched her.

West himself hated her training, didn’t want her out there fighting if something happened or war came to their pack. He had now explained to her, it was why he’d never let her train in the first place during their first Mate Bond. That he wanted her to be inside the packhouse where it was safe at all times.

He really hated it when she was naked in front of others, even though it was perfectly natural for wolves to do that. Hated it so much so that they had gotten in a yelling match about it at one point. Then she had found that very after noon a small privacy room, as he called it, being built for her to use. To step into and shift into Clova, there was a door just for clova to push through to get in and out of the room on one side of it.

He had told her in his no-nonsense Alpha tone, that if she wanted Clova to train, then they had to use it to shift or he’d forbid her from training altogether, gotten shades of the old West that day. Jo-Anne had just stared at him then called him and a*s-hat and stalked off, but they did use it.

The man was never going to be happy or comfortable with anyone else seeing her naked. She’d had to learn to live with it and staying mad at the man was often more difficult than not. He used that bloody knowledge of her Shivers to his advantage all the time.

Her mother Belinda and Ella had both thought it was very amusing when they’d found out, so amusing that she’d been annoyed with the both of them, and muttered to herself as she’d stalked away from them and their laughing “See how you like it.” and then had stopped and looked back at them, smirked to herself “Yes mother, Ella. Let’s see how you like it, indeed.”

Then had turned and walked away once more, wanting nothing more right that moment for them to know just how it felt to have shivers. Hadn’t told a soul about it either, just sat back and watched and waited on the fall out. Fully amused by what she had set in motion.

Nearly laughed out loud only a few hours later, when she’d watched her own mother’s reaction to it for the first time. The way her eyes had rolled back in her head, and she’d m****d out loud all pleasure filled as Jonathon had walked right passed her and smirked at his mate. He’d stopped walking a second later and looked right at his Mate, could smell her arousal as well as see it and hear it.

He had snagged her and rushed her off to their suite, thinking she’d gone into heat, she hadn’t. Jo-anne had just smiled at her mother later that day when it happened again. Jonathon was nowhere near her. She had gotten a full blown shiver and not known what to do about it.

Jo-anne had walked over to her and put her in an empty room, “Enjoy mother.” She’d chuckled and left her there to get all hot and bothered, feel all the pleasure of it, knew that Jonathon was thinking about touching his mate, what he wanted to do to her, knew her mother would feel all of it as though it was actually happening to her for real.

It had taken her mother 20 minutes to come out of that room and hunt her down, understood what Jo-Anne had done. She’d simply smiled at her mother and stated “Well, now you know it ain’t so funny. Enjoy mother.” She still got those shivers to this day.