The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 121

Luci POV

She was hugged by Diana and Florence, even Richard and Jonathan said that they were very happy that she was really okay, and she could see they were all smiles about the twins. Thought that they were not only adorable but that their wolves were so very unique, that had made her eyes move to the boys, questioningly.

They just grinned up at her, she jumped and shrieked as did nearly all in the house, as a massive c***k of thunder ripped through the sky, scared damned near all of them to death. “Do you mind if we stay till it passes?” Diana asked her as lighting streaked through the sky above and rain fell in a massive deluge outside.

Luci shook her head ‘no’ it was really crashing about out there, a severe thunderstorm had blown in during the evening it seemed. “I’ll make coffee for everyone.” She offered.

Knew it was getting late and that tomorrow was the first day of school for the boys here inside the pack. She really did need to have them bathed and put them to bed, but she also knew it was unlikely they would sleep alone with a storm like that outside.

Just sat and talked with Rafe and Jacks’ parents for the hour that it took for the storm to pass over them and calm down to just rain. Heard all about their travels all over the world for the past several years, surprised her a bit that they had not been here inside the pack. Though they had ended up in Spain for the past three months. Liked it there and were planning on going back for annual trips and were thinking of buying a nice house out there to stay in even. Had already decided that they would likely spend the winters over there.

Diana and Florence insisted on helping bath the boys and then putting them to bed, read them a story even. Told Luci that they would love to come and walk them to school in the morning as well. Luci didn’t object, she liked their company, they’d always been nice to her. Nothing, it seemed, had changed on that front at all.

She saw them out and headed upstairs herself. The boys were in her bed already, she’d closed the front door and heard them giggling as they tried to sneak from their room to hers, cheeky little boys they were, though not very stealthy it seemed. Both Kali and Alari chortled with amusement at the two of them, as she did, while heading up stairs herself.

She looked at them under the duvet in her room, they were completely covered under it and trying to hide themselves from her. “Jeez, I wonder where my boys are?” she asked, walking into her bedroom, and heard them both giggle and shush each other. Could see them moving under that duvet trying, she thought, to stop each other from being heard by her.

It was very amusing to her, “Hmm, so very good at hiding…not in their beds…where could they be? I don’t know where to replace them.” Luci walked to the foot of the bed and slipped under the duvet herself, crawled up the bed towards them, until she had them, grabbed each of them by the ankle and pulled them down the bed, kicking and laughing at being caught by her. “What is this in my bed?” she growled all teasingly at them, then let go and stood up, tossed the duvet all the way off the bed and saw them crawling up the bed hurriedly away from her laughing even more.

She crawled up the bed after them growling just a little and heard them squeal, watched them grab a pillow each and turn to hit her with them. Ducked and rolled out of the way, grabbed a pillow of her own and then they were all hitting and tossing pillows at each other, all of them laughing.

She played with them for 10 minutes before calling a halt to it and settling them down in the bed, pulling the duvet back onto the bed and asking them about their day. They were wide awake right this minute and too riled up to just settle down and go to sleep, and she knew it; part of that was actually her fault.

They were happy to lay there and talk about crawling all over that helicopter, and then playing with lots of other kids in the play zone, which they absolutely loved; so much to do, they didn’t think they’d ever get to try all of the things in there. Luci just smiled. It only seemed a lot to them because it was new to them.

They told her about meeting their new grandma’s and grandpa’s, that they had a yummy dinner with their daddies and grandparents as well. That Nadia had given them pancake stacks with fresh berries for dessert and that they had seen their daddies kissing.

That they saw their daddy get all angry and he snarled really loudly when grandpa’s had taken them into their office to talk to them, that’s where they’d seen them kissing.

That got her undivided attention, “Kissing who?” she had to ask, it almost sounded with all their giggling over it, that they meant Rafe and Jack had been kissing each other. She knew both their Mates were on the shaming post, or she’d not have let the boys go on their own to the packhouse.

She knew how a shaming post worked. Once, on it, no one was to pay attention or visit those to be shamed, not even their Mates. There certainly wasn’t to be any loving on that post. The boys had stated in their office, and she didn’t think those two were off the shaming post and in the Alpha’s office, where her boys were.

No, that would put them, regardless of them being her Alpha and Beta, under her direct anger and she would rip into them, and take her boys from them if they did that without her knowledge. Didn’t think they were that stupid.

“Daddy.” They both answered her question.

She stared at them for a moment only and then just chuckled to herself, “Rafe kissed Jack?” she clarified.

“Yes, and daddy growled really loudly, when grandpa let him know, we were there.” Little Rafe giggled.

“He didn’t look happy mamma.” Little Jack chuckled.

So those two did get along as she thought they always should do. Though that made her think about their Mates, neither Rafe nor Jack had a double mark, or triple for that matter. Wondered if those two out there would have felt that as a pain of betrayal, or did they do it all the time.

‘Not all the time, weaker now.’ Kali piped up.

‘Would make them stronger.’ Alari told her. Luci could feel Alari was really listening to the twins as they talked about their fathers kissing each other. Sirens were s****l creatures by nature, and most didn’t really care if it was of the same s*x or not. If they were attracted and the other wanted to, they just would. s*x in all its forms was a go. Alari had seen men kissing in the human world and always made her look, seemed to like watching it.

She’d not gone and seen those two she-wolves on the shaming post, but didn’t think Rafe would lie to her about it, would only risk her or Alari’s wrath. Knew if she wanted to she could pull on that tether she had as a pack member to them. Had never once connected herself to either of them, didn’t want to.

Could in fact disconnect herself from this pack at will, as well as anyone inside it. She knew who those two were, but those two had no idea who she was. So, without actually laying eyes on her and knowing who she was, they couldn’t connect to her either and she didn’t want them to, wouldn’t be allowing it, ever.

Luci settled the boys and reminded them they had school tomorrow, so they needed to go to sleep. She was just laying there herself staring out the window, it appeared the storm was once again amping up, they’d only had a short reprieve.

Those two she-wolves were out there in that storm, not even a storm would stop them from being on that shaming post. Just lay there and wondered if the Alpha and Beta would remove them from the shaming post due to the storm going on.

It pricked her curiosity more than a little and, in the end, tried to connect to the Luna of the pack, knew where she should be, felt for any pack tethers that were just outside the front of the packhouse. Nothing, there was no one out there, she sighed to herself. They had been removed because of the storm, she supposed, not even a full day of punishment had been dealt out to that woman for trying to burn the house she and the boys were in.

This more than annoyed her, but what could she do about it? Nothing was what. Unless, of course, she stalked over there and banged on the Alpha’s door and demanded an explanation from him. Knew it was not something she was going to do, could well see him try and punish her for disrespecting and questioning him and his choices, as the Alpha. It was his choice to dish out and rescind punishment as he saw fit.

Luci had to remind herself that she was nothing to them, just a pack member, nothing more. Looked over at her boys and wondered if she’d not been pregnant with them would she have left and just dealt with the pain inside her chest from being so far away from them.

She had no idea, though right this very minute, knowing that those two’s punishment was over, she wanted out and away from this pack. Perhaps she should have convinced her mother to let her go with her to that lake. Taken the boys with her too. There were only two weeks of the school year left, it didn’t matter if they missed that.

She got up out of bed and picked up her phone, walked from her bedroom and called her mother. It rang out. She left a message “Hi mum, just calling to see how you’re doing? Call me back when you can.” She had no idea if there was service up there in the mountains or at the lake itself, and hoped that her mother was alright up there. It must be hard for her to go back to the lake, a place lost to her for so very long a time. She would have so many memories to deal with, both good and bad, she knew.

Had been told she’d likely stay for two or three days, so not to worry about her, she wasn’t worried so much right this minute, just wanted to talk to her mother. She hadn’t even gotten a text message, to say she’d arrived safely.

Knew it had been Alpha Terence that had taken her there and she didn’t think he would have left her there if he saw anything out of the ordinary or that could be seen as a threat to her mother. He’d come back without issue. Had even let the twins climb all through his helicopter, so everything had to be alright, he’d not gone back with reinforcements.

She sighed to herself, realised she was concerned about her own mother’s wellbeing. Took a breath in and closed her eyes, focused on their family bond, it was still there and intact. It felt just as it always had, like she was just far away from her was all. Her mother was likely sleeping or had no service in the area.

Though Luci herself was too annoyed to go to sleep, she ignored the ache that welled inside of her for the lack of Rafe sticking to punishing that woman and her sister. Stepped outside with a cup of tea, under the covered back patio, and stood watching the storm.

Storms didn’t bother her, she actually quite enjoyed watching the light show that they put on, it was pretty at times, she thought absently, trying to keep her mind off of them and their Mates. Just stood and focused on the storm.