The Alpha & Beta's Regret
The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 84

Rafe POV

It was hilarious that Jack thought he was stronger than him. The challenge was accepted, not only by himself but by Solar as well. They let him keep his lead as they chased him all over that suite. Dragged Jack down to the floor next to Luci’s old bed and then it was on, the pair of them trying to out muscle each other, with all their skill and training they’d had throughout their lives.

Though the laughing did not help him to get the upper hand on his Beta, he did replace that his headache from before was now gone. A distraction was all it took for him to rid himself of the headache. Allen, it seemed, was right.

He was trying to pin Jack down, trying to get an arm bar move on him, only to have him twist and turn and get out of it the way that they trained to. Saw Jack just grin right at him “You gotta do better than that, Rafe.” He taunted him openly, as they stood eyeing each other off, hands at the ready once more. Their battle was not over yet.

“Oh, Jacki boy. Have you ever actually beaten me?” He taunted right back.

“Yeah, once or twice.” Came the cheeky reply.

“Before our wolves came along, maybe…I don’t recall though.”

“You liar.” Jack snorted and charged him. “You didn’t forget that.”

“I might have, you don’t know.” Rafe laughed as they wrestled about the room trying to take each other down, trip each other over and flip their opponent over onto the back. They were evenly matched, always had been.

“Dad will confirm it, when he gets home.” Jack shot at him. “His memory is just fine.”

Rafe blinked “What?” and then, to his shock, he was flipped over Jack and landed right on the ground and pinned down by Jack. Flare was assisting him in using all their strength to keep him down on the ground.

“Yep.” Jack chuckled, “their coming home, to meet their grandchildren, be here Sunday.”

“You cheat, used that to surprise me. I didn’t remember that, was distracted.”

“Haha, all’s fair in a fight, you gotta use the tools at your disposal.” Jack laughed, leaned right down to his ear and Rafe could even hear the smirk in the man’s tone. “Boy, aren’t you in trouble. Your mum is pissed.”

“What? No! she wouldn’t be.” he blinked again, there was no way she would be mad at him, would she be? No, he told himself, but…now was actually worried she might be. “I’m out Jack, let me up.”

“Hmm, I don’t know.” Jack chuckled softly “I might just have you where I want you…for the humping and all.”

Rafe laughed “Get up, you win.”

“Ah, sweetest words I ever heard from you.” he laughed and got up, even helped Rafe up as well, “See, I can out muscle you.”

“I let you win.” Rafe snorted.

“I call bullshit, so does Flare.”

“Ah, alright.” He laughed “Are mum and dad really coming home? How much do they know?” he couldn’t recall that, sighed heavily obviously had happened during the week he now no longer recalled.

“Nothing about Melissa or Maria, what’s going on with them. They do know we have twin boys to Luci. Their names, that Luci is a double shifter, but not what her other shifter is. You hung up on them, told them they could replace out when they got home.”

“I did?”

“Mm, you were tormenting your own parents and mine. It was Petra who tracked them down and informed them. Told us they were coming home. However, she left out the part where Luci was the twin’s mother.”

“Bloody woman,” Rafe murmured, “Does like leaving out the vital info, when it suits her own funny bone.”

“It’s fine.” Jack reassured him.

“How’d the conversation go?”

“Our mothers wanted to know about Luci, our fathers wanted to know about the pack heirs.”

“What a shocker.” He sat himself down on Luci’s bed, thought about all he was learning, knew that somewhere inside of him, he knew all of this already. Just didn’t understand how it could happen. “Jack, how long was I in that room with Melissa?”

“10 minutes, maybe less, the s*x?’

“Five minutes tops.” Rafe answered that question. “It’s never more than that, she doesn’t care about my needs in the bedroom.”

“I’m aware, neither does Maria,” Jack sank down next to him “What do you recall of what happened in your suite? Perhaps we can avoid it in the future.”

Rafe thought about that, made himself comfortable and leaned back on the headboard, shook his head “Not much past suddenly wanting her.”

“Anything Rafe, no matter how small or trivial it seems to you. Did she say something? A phrase perhaps? New perfume? Maria wanted me to smell her, when she got home, said she had a new perfume.”

Rafe frowned, didn’t recall that, though he was certain the two of them would have been there at the same time, tried to recall anything about their so-called Mates coming home and felt the first niggle of a headache once more. Ignored it, thought about him and Melissa in their suite. “I told her I missed her, we had s*x briefly, then she got up and showered. Left to see her sister.” He shook his head.

He heard Jack huff, then felt a hand on him “You can’t go back to your suite, you have to stay in here with me, from now on.”

“Melissa is not going to like that,” Rafe stated. She hated him just hanging out with Jack, knowing he was in here, sleeping with the man, was going to send her over the edge.

“Tough, if she doesn’t like it Rafe, she can come down to our office and discuss it. Our office and here in Luci’s room are the two places inside the packhouse that they can’t make us do anything against our will.”

“Did they try?” he asked. He didn’t bloody know.

“Yes, to hug and k**s us when they got home, were both unhappy to see we were still mad at them, had gotten closer to each other while they were away. We played it up a bit for them. Yet they both knew we would be mad, and should have expected it.”

“What for Jack?” he asked now. “I’m sorry.” He sighed heavily “This must be tiresome for you.”

“It’s not. I will fight for both of us. It is irritating, but I’ll not give up. Rafe ask what you need to, as for your question; They left against our wishes. Melissa Luna Ordered Titan not to say what he saw over there. We used Addi to get the answers from him. He couldn’t speak to anyone who was a pack member.”

Rafe rubbed a hand over his face. “Just great.”

“His memories are jumbled and fractured, we will need a seer to fix him. I think we should send him home with West and Terence. Let Belinda put hands on him, he’ll be open to it.”

“Yay, someone inside your brain.” Rafe shivered, hated going to the kingdom, thankfully it was only once a year. “I hate those seers and their ability.”

“Yeah, throw up a lot afterwards.” Jack nodded,

“Hang on, I know we have Alpha’s coming by, why? I don’t recall why?”

“For an Allied assist meeting. To protect Luci and the boys from Victor. He’s going to come back for her at some point. We just want to be ready.”

“Who’s coming?” he asked, hating not knowing it.

“West and Terence, in their new helicopter,” Jack smiled right at him.

“Goddess, those two should just grow wings already.” He shook his head, but did it really surprise him that they had more flying machines? No.

Jack laughed and nodded. “Brad and Cooper as well, Conner offered as well. From what you told me, you took that call.”

“Conner?”

“Mm, not even allied, oh he’s got his ascension to being the actual Alpha in a day or two, we had to decline attending.”

Rafe nodded, understood why already. “Has Eliza given birth yet?”

“No, any day now, I believe.”

“At least I didn’t forget that.”

“I don’t think you will. You only seem to forget who you love is all. Just Luci and the things around her.”

“Targeted to Luci?”

“I believe so, now that I think about it. There is a need for them that we do forget.”

Rafe frowned “It’s good that you’re back with me.” The words suddenly popped into his head.

“What?”

“that’s what Melissa said after the piss pour s*x we had, she touched my Mark Spot and said it’s good that you’re back with me.”

“Did you feel anything when she touched it?”

He thought about that. “No.” he shook his head, that was in itself weird. He and Jack alike used to touch Luci’s Mark Spot to incite more wanton desire from the girl, as she did them, smiled at that thought.

“What?” Jack asked.

“Luci, used to walk passed and touch my Mark Spot, trail a finger over it, would snap my head around and make me all hot and bothered.”

“Make you chase her all over the place, to have your way with her…Me too.” Heard Jack chuckle “She was very much the naughty minx at times.”

“That she was, fast too.” Rafe smiled. “Could make me stretch my legs real good in an effort to catch her, and Mate the hell out of her.”

“Don’t get that with Melissa.”

“No, I do not.” He stated “Curious, isn’t it?”

“Not really. You looked at my Mark, already had thoughts though kept them to yourself, do you recall?”

“No,” he sighed, “Willing to bet it’s the same thought now though.”

“Which is?”

“It’s not real.”

“Magically imbued to be there?”

“Yes, to help keep us convinced, just like those petals do…”

“Petals do?” Jack prompted him, sounded a little excited to Rafe.

“Ah, there it is Jack. You asked me for the details, no matter how small, in my suite there are dried petals all over the bedroom, said she was trying to be romantic.”

“She wasn’t, she has aroma sachets all over the packhouse filled with them, likely to keep us surrounded by the scent, to keep us interested and unaware, I guess.”

Rafe nodded “Have to avoid those now I guess.”

“Easier said than done, one in every room…although, not the new ones. The bag they brought home is in the Luna’s office.”

He and Jack looked at each other, “Let’s play a little game of our own.” He grated out, if they wanted to play with he and Jack’s minds, their lives. They should get a little payback at least.

“On it.” Jack nodded with a chuckle “I feel what you’re feeling there.” Then he was mind-linked to both Jack and Petra at Jacks doing ‘Petra where are you?’

‘Patrolling why?’

‘We got a real good job for you.’

Heard her snort ‘Sounds it, go ahead Beta.’

‘Take a stroll for me. To the Luna’s office and get rid of the bag of petals in there.’

‘Petals?’

‘Pot puri, I guess you could call it and when I say get rid of it.’

‘I understand.’ She stated ‘I’ll dispose of it too…say the cells shall I?’

‘That is a great place. Tell Emit to lock up anyone who wants it, regardless of Rank.’

‘On it.’ she cut the link.

Jack smiled right at Rafe. “Hardball it is, Petra is happy to lay our trap.”

“I heard.” He smiled, his cousin was good at following orders and when he pulled on that tether of hers, she was out in the eastern woods. “What’s to patrol out there where she is?” he frowned.

Saw Jack feel for her. “Ah, that would be Luci. Doing her duty as our top elite, protecting the future of the pack.”