The Alpha & Beta's Regret -
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 91
Jack POV
He’d shown West, Luna Jo-anne and Terence up to the first floor towards their suite, found himself more than curious about Hannah and her sisters having bowed to the Luna. He knew they’d never met before, or not inside of this pack, in his presence anyway.
It was even more curious to him when Hannah herself put a hand on his arm as they hit the first floor and stated, “We’ll take them the rest of the way.” It had sounded almost like an order for him to let them do that. He’d stopped walking instantly and looked at her. She’d stated “Rafe needs you in the office.” And then, to his shock, Aaliyah and Giannah had turned him around and given him a push back down the stairs.
He’d sighed heavily at the three of them, didn’t really like being ordered around inside his own pack, but knew there was more going on around him right that minute and thought better of arguing with them. He did know that Jo-anne had touched Hannah’s sleeve, she’d recognised those markings, which made him even more curious as well.
They’d called her your highness, he knew something else was going on. Could actually feel how powerful Jo-anne was, kind of reminded him of how those three also felt to him, in fact, only she felt stronger, he thought, as he walked back down the stairs and headed for Rafe in their office.
Left them to it, didn’t think getting into it with them was worth it at this point. Also, noted Jo-anne herself did not have any objections to them. The words they’d voiced, Luna Jo-anne was likely to be their coven leader. He’d not, once in all their years here, seen those witches bow to anyone. Nor had he ever seen them be so polite and well spoken. It was unusual behaviour. No one could make those three do anything they didn’t want to. Certainly not bow down like that.
Not that, that had actually happened, they’d strolled themselves out there, presented themselves to Luna Jo-anne, dismissed both West and Terence, had no interest in those two men. Did this all of their own accord. That thought made him curious about Luci in itself as well.
The way Hannah and her sisters had known about her, told him to leave the Triune alone, that Hannah had willingly gone out there to help Luci with learning how to use her powers even…was there more of a connection here than even he realised. Frowned as he walked, he needed to really think about it. They wanted Luci left alone, needed her for something. He stopped at the office door and looked back to the first floor, wondering if there was a connection between Luci and Jo-anne even.
Knew that Jo-anne rarely left her pack, now Luci had been here just a few short days, displayed some sort of very strong witchcraft and now Jo-anne was here and their witches were bowing down to her and calling her your highness. Oh, there was definitely something else going on. Something those witches in all likelihood wanted. That was why they wouldn’t interfere.
He knew they saw all manner of things, but only ever said what they wanted, what they needed to, he thought, to get what they wanted. He wondered just how long those three had been waiting on this day. He’d never seen them dress like that before either, formal coven robes, he thought. It had not escaped his attention that on the base of their hoods was a crown inside a circle.
Shook it off for now, had to leave if for now, walked into his office to replace Rafe standing at his desk, his phone in his hand, a deep frown marring his face as “I’ll send men out right away Piper. We’ll replace them and call you the minute we know what is going on.”
Jack’s eyes met Rafe’s questioningly after the call ended. “Bradley and Cooper are unreachable to Piper or Hadley. Piper said they should have arrived an hour ago, left really early this morning.”
Jack sighed “Do you think it is Victor?”
“Probably,” Rafe nodded, “if he knows we are pulling our allies in, though how he would know who our allies are, and where they would come from, is the real question.”
“You try both Brad and Cooper once more and I’ll send Titan out to hunt the man. Did Piper state which route he was taking to get here?”
“The most direct route. She’s got him on that tracking app. His last known location is near Noxon, Montana.”
Jack sighed “That’s two hours away still.” If they were supposed to get here an hour ago, something happened to them three hours ago in all likelihood.
“Yes,” Rafe nodded. “Jack send a full elite unit for them. I’ll have Ian and Allen go as back up as well.”
Jack nodded and mind-linked to Titan, to get that full elite unit ready, Petra, outright refused, had protection detail for Luci and her family. She and Titan usually worked together, and were a solid unit. He didn’t argue needed that detail around Luci and the boys at the moment.
“Brad’s not severed from Piper?” he asked a moment later.
“No, just unreachable by phone.”
“I wonder if Victor is watching our pack, the roads in and out and the towns as well.”
“West might know,” Rafe nodded, “but I don’t know if they’d have taken much notice having flown in. If they’d driven and had trouble, I would say it was definitely Victor.”
“Agreed. But Goddess Rafe, I don’t want to think about that, Victor getting his hands on Luna Jo-anne.” shook his head “I felt power in her, so he would, and he would want that for himself.”
“Good luck to him, I don’t think that man would get past Terence, is a Royal, or West for that matter. I don’t see anything getting between him and his Mate, not after all that happened to gain her for himself once more.” He sighed “but no, I don’t like it either.”
“We’ll have to warn them, Victor may not know about the Eclipsed Moon Pack and all the Royals it houses.”
“Who knows what Victor knows?” Rafe muttered. “I really would like to get someone on the inside of that pack.”
“Not likely to happen now, he’ll be expecting it.” Jack nodded.
They both turned at the sound of a knock on the door. It was West and Terence. He waved them into the office, “We’ve got a bit of a hiccup.” He told them “Brad and Cooper are missing.”
“Should have arrived an hour ago, according to Piper. She can’t reach them.” Rafe added.
“Missing?” West frowned. “How?”
“Unknown, not severed is all we know. Piper stated their last known location is Noxon.”
“I’ll go,” Terence stated. “take the chopper, it’ll be quicker and I can take one of your units to drop in and assist if needed. The chopper’s fully kitted out for aerial drop-ins.”
Of course it was, Jack thought absently as he watched Terence leave the office right away, he mind-linked to Titan to tell him the change of plans to go and meet Alpha Terence at the training grounds. He was going to chopper them out there to survey the area. Got an affirmative and let West know, so he could relay it to Terence.
The three of them walked over to the map on the wall and stared at it. “Not much out there,” West commented.
“No, but that river, it goes all the way there.” Rafe stated, touching it. “Let Terence know, Bradley and Cooper might be using it, they’ll be able to come in wolf form along it, if they lost their mode of transport.”
West nodded and saw the man’s eyes glaze over.
“At least it runs along the road as well, they can check both at the same time.”
“Piper will be unhappy,” West commented.
“Yes, after all those two went through.” Jack nodded, he’d heard about it, the hunt and retrieving of Brads Mate. That their bond had been in a somewhat terrible state, and they’d been separated for 8 long years because of it. That she’d nearly died even, gotten attacked by a vampire and had fought it off on her own, managed to win against all the odds. That it had also taken quite a bit of doing to get their Mate Bond back on track.
It had been three years now and Brad and Piper were good and strong. His relationship with Brandon, his son he’d known nothing about, was even good as well. That boy was ten now, had his wolf, though it had not come forth, yet they were all just waiting for it, and their little girl, Winter, was 2 and a half now. Though they had no plans to have anymore from what he’d heard.
Though had found it amusing to hear Bradley had suffered the pains of childbirth as much as Piper had. Their bond was very strong, for one to feel the pain of another like that, likely to do with Brads insistence on not giving her up for anything. Wanted his goddess gifted at all costs, didn’t care how long it took to replace her and get her back.
It was a long wait for that chopper to come back, but there in it was Bradley and Cooper. He and Rafe, West even, shook the men’s hands, were all glad to see them alive and well. Although their clothes were a little worse for wear, they had been in a fight, that much was certain.
“Glad to see you’re alright. What happened?” Rafe asked.
“Set upon by a bunch of Rogues.” Bradley huffed, “Thankfully, Coop and I were able to handle them. Though my car” he shook his head. “Destroyed. I swear the goddess has got something against me owning a car.” Though he didn’t elaborate any further, Jack saw Cooper just smirk. Something funny between them about the man’s car.
“Those rogues,” Bradley huffed, annoyed.
“Were well trained,” Cooper muttered, “not only human fighting, and while we were fighting, several each at the same time, the others took it upon themselves to destroy our phones and gut the car completely.”
They were all frowning now. “Did you get any alive?” Jack asked, he’d like to interrogate one or two.
“No.” Brad shook his head “it was a full battle, they were looking to take us out altogether, I believe.”
“Well trained and waiting on us.” Cooper grated out “We found their camps, two of them, one on either side of the road.”
Jack sighed now. “Getting back could be deadly then.”
“We’ll fly them back to their pack when its time to go,” West stated.
He watched as Brad and Cooper nodded. “Thanks, we’d appreciate that.” Brad nodded “Need to go and clean up, got some clothes we could wear?”
‘Yeah, come on. Likely you should call Piper.”
“Already done, your man Titan, lent me his phone when I requested it. She’s aware of what happened. I’ve already spoken to my father as well, he’s pulling Alpha Timothy in as we speak to shore up the defences back home.”
Rafe took them up to their rooms and Jack headed back into the office. Things were starting to get out of control. If this was Victor, then that man was laying out pack members or his loyal rogues on the roads in and around their pack. Was trying to stop them or delay them getting allied assistance. This was not good at all.
He walked over to the map and put a pin in it, so he could easily see where those rogues were or had been. There were only two major highways off the pack itself, but there were many smaller roads that linked into those, and he wondered if all those roads were being monitored now.
He understood how to surveal a pack or think about where the enemies allied would come from even. It was all part of his training and now his job as the other leader of this pack. Getting him into Alpha College hadn’t even taken all that much, not once Rafe’s father had confirmed that both he and Rafe would be leading the pack together. There were not many Beta-ranked wolves allowed to attend Alpha College, but it did happen for varying reasons. In the 12 months that he had been there, he’d only seen two other Beta-blooded wolves there.
He stood back and looked at that map, snapped a picture of it and printed it out. Laid it out and drew a circle around the pack that correlated to where the attack happened. Then put x’s on all the roads that cross through it. He was going to have to send out warriors to each of the areas, to check them all.
He sighed heavily as he looked at how many there were. He was going to have to send two units to each place marked on that map. If Victor had a dozen men waiting in each location, then he had to send at least twice that. To make sure his men were all safe, lessening the risk of them getting seriously injured or killed.
He sank down at his desk and started working on the details of the plan, though he wouldn’t enact it without Rafe’s input. They also needed to keep enough warriors inside the pack to defend it at the same time. To keep Luci safe. They were also going to have to let anyone wanting to come this way, to bring a full unit for protecting themselves.
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