The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 113

Jo-anne POV

Prowling around in her suite, which she had to admit was bloody amazing. This was only the first floor of the packhouse, rooms for guests. She’d seen the ones back home, had lived in one before being mated to West again.

This room was pure luxury, and it had a fully stocked bar fridge and a fully loaded snack table, a massive king-sized bed and a huge soaker tub. It was ten times better than the room inside her own pack. Wondered if it was time to put Damien to work on upgrading them all.

But walking around in here, in circles inside this room did nothing for her. She knew West and T.J. were in a war meeting, she didn’t need to be there herself, was she now understood, not here to help with the planning of defenses, but here to help sort out the bloody mess other witches had done to this pack.

She was there to help fix the pain that Luci, Jack and Rafe had within them. That was her true reason for being here, why her mother had said she was the one that needed to come here.

So she had taken herself outside for a walk within the pack itself, headed off into the western part of the forest, and found that destroyed part of the forest she’d seen from the air. It was a perfect circle of destruction, though she had seen that from the air. Walked herself into the centre of it, and sighed a little as she looked around the area.

Every day since knowing what she was, truly what she was, her powers grew stronger, and she knew it, felt it. Even standing here she felt the residual magic left over. She wasn’t alone for long, and found Hannah standing by the edge of the circle.

“What happened here?” she asked.

“Luci, tapping into her witch’s bloodline, was supposed to be just a ball of witch’s light.” Hannah produced a small ball of light herself, “This was how it started, what it looked like.” Then the light disappeared with a wave of her hand. “But Luci was distracted.”

“It must have been some distraction.” Jo-anne looked up at the destruction.

“It was,” Hannah told her. “She was mind-linked by Alpha Rafe. I’d hazard a guess from the expression on her face and how quickly that ball of light grew she felt whatever he was feeling at the time.”

“How did a ball of harmless light do all of this?” she waved her hand up at the destruction.

“A witch’s light isn’t always harmless, it is a ball of energy, and well, all energy can be destructive, destroy things and harm others.”

Jo-anne looked at the woman and nodded “What happened exactly?” she asked.

“I’d hazard a guess that whatever she felt from Alpha Rafe down through the mind-link, affected her own emotions. All I know is that small ball of witch’s light that she produced, and it was small, only big enough to fit in the palm of her hand, expanded rapidly and pulsated rapidly. I used my own powers to raise it up, it…shot up into the sky all hot and super energised, that’s what destroyed everything in its path.”

“No one got hurt?”

“No, I made sure of that, cleared the area before even coming out here to help her. Though…she kind of…protected myself and herself from the actual event itself. Doesn’t know it was herself at this point. Glowed a lot for those few seconds.”

“Glowed?”

“Yes, she does that occasionally, only when it’s needed. It is subconsciously done. Will learn how to do it at will at some point, I imagine.”

“Powerful!”

“Yes, a Triune.”

“Do you think it is wise to teach her?” Jo-anne asked.

“Yes, it’s who she is.” Hannah nodded. “Just like you, Luna, who was out of control and couldn’t contain your own anger and emotions tapping into your new powers.”

Jo-anne frowned at her now.

“Yes, we’ve been watching you since you were 18, felt you appear to us, likely when you got your Celestial Moons.”

“How’d you get yours?” she was curious herself about that.

“Same way you did. When we turned 18, they just appeared. Celestial Witch’s. That is what the royal light witches were. You, though…a Celestial Wolf. Rare indeed. A Royal union of the two species.”

“I’m aware,” Jo-anne nodded. “Addison and Luci are the kin of the former Royal Warlock Hendrick.”

“Mm,” Hannah nodded. “Don’t let that effect your judgment of them. They like you, are good, unlike their kin.”

“Will be powerful.”

“Are both powerful. Addison simply refuses to accept her kin’s side and keeps it mostly at bay, fearing the darkness of her birth father, that the darkness will consume her. It, like yours, wants out of her, but she contains it. She doesn’t use her witch powers other than to hide who she truly is. How strong she is, though will at some point…Luci, is new to this and if she can replace happiness, like you yourself did. Will be just like you, Good and Light. She also fears the darkness within, and has always known it was there. Though at this moment she is just exploring it, if done the right way, she’ll be good and light.”

“You trust the two of them to stay light?”

“I’ve seen the light in them both,” Hanna stated simply.

“That doesn’t mean the darkness won’t take over, like it did with my father.”

“Then the same goes for you now, doesn’t it?” Hannah commented.

Jo-anne sighed, she couldn’t argue with that, “You’re going to train her then, I presume?”

“If she wants that.”

“You don’t know?”

“Not yet. She still has two paths.”

“So, my choice is still yet to be made then?”

Hannah stared right at her “I don’t know, is it?” then she was just gone, disappeared into thin air. Liked doing that, she thought absently.

Wondered for a moment if she should have Hannah teach her how to do that? It could come in handy one day. Or when West decided to annoy her with a Shiver, she thought with a smile. Though she did know he didn’t always do it on purpose, he just had little thoughts here and there randomly that affected her.

Though it was a nice little thing to have when he was away from her for Alpha Meetings or allied assistance. Was never lonely on those nights. Was always connected to him via that Shiver and he did like to spend hours late at night when away entertaining her.

Shook it off and strolled back through the forest the way she had come, noticed as she walked their helicopter was back, smiled T.J. had returned, liked that he was back. She strolled along to the packhouse but didn’t enter it via the omega stairs as she had left it. Walked the front of the building, stopped at the sight of the Luna and her sister naked on the shaming posts.

She saw them both look at her. She’d never met them before, they had never travelled to her pack, this was the first time actually laying eyes on them, knew who they were, she had seen photos of them once.

Had offered to paint their portraits like she did all, Rafe and Jack had both shaken their heads ‘no’ in unison. She’d thought it was odd, most Alpha’s wanted portraits of their Mates. Maybe deep down inside of them, on a subconscious level, they both knew those two women were not actually for them.

She herself had put the two of them in a single room when they visited her pack. They slept in the same bed together always on their visits. Yet she had noted that they did not share their two mates. Only one mark for each of them. Unusual for dual reigning packs. Especially where the Alpha and Beta were so very closely bonded as these two were.

Even West and T.J. had once told her they didn’t understand Rafe and Jack’s bonds, had told her those two like to share everything all their lives. Including their women, she’d heard about Luci once. A lover they’d once had.

Though both West and T.J. had thought they would claim the she-wolf themselves; they were in West and T.J.’s eyes, fully smitten with Luci. Then they’d found their Goddess Gifted and had separate mates, they had even found it odd when it had happened.

“What the hell are you looking at?” one of them yelled right at her.

Jo-anne tilted her head slightly “Garbage, I imagine.” She’d stated and walked away.

They had taken something that didn’t belong to them and she knew it. Hated that with a real passion, those two wolves were no different to Hendrick or her own father, Merrick himself, the only difference.

These two had found a way to get away with it, take what they wanted and make Rafe and Jack believe it. Merrick had not been able to do that to her mother. These two had made Rafe and Jack forget the truth, believe it was what they wanted, wondered if that was an even worse crime.

They had kept them drugged or bespelled the entire time, so they had no knowledge of the unwanted mating they’d been made to do. For six and a half years, now she knew, that was how long Luci had been missing.

Now Alpha Rafe and Beta Jack knew it, it must be horrible to feel that, to be awoken after six and half years and realise nothing around them was right, that everything was very wrong, that they had left the one they did love. Knew they felt terribly sad about it, though they hid it from all, they could not hide their pain from her. She saw all pain, in all its forms.

Her eyes moved back to those two she-wolves, they’d ruined Luci and Jack’s bond. It was incomplete but she’d felt it. Seen it almost, knew they were bound together. This thought was rising her anger within. She could feel it building as she stood there looking at those two despicable she-wolves.

They had caused so much pain to Jack, Rafe and Luci, and they didn’t even care at all, there was not one ounce of remorse between the two of them.

Jo-anne wanted nothing more right this very minute than to stalk over there and put her hands on them. See why they did it, what was to gain from it. They clearly didn’t love Rafe and Jack, but had been playing at being their Mates all this time, but still didn’t care at all for them, Why? surely six and a half years you could replace something you liked about the one you were with.

She stood staring at those two. Her anger was growing by the minute, she found herself prowling back and forth wanting to go over there and deal with those two, but knew she couldn’t, wasn’t allowed to get involved at this point. Wanted to but was refraining herself, though holding herself back was ticking her off twice as much and she didn’t want to get out of control.

Didn’t like the feeling inside of her when she got all angry, it still made her get hot all over and it concerned her, that she would lose it and unleash that power within her in an uncontrollable rage of Alpha proportions, the darkness that was her father, she supposed. She was just like Addison and Luci, she realized, knew there was darkness within and didn’t want it unleashed on the world.