Rejecting the Alpha Twins

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Xavier POV

I fling the hospital folder onto my father’s desk without announcing myself, startling him as he stares at me wide–eyed. Xander walks in behind me, his expression just as grim.

“What is this?” my father stammers, grabbing the file and begining to peruse it while my mother glances at it over his shoulder, her own eyes questioning.

“Regan’s hospital records for the last few years. All of the abuse he’s suffered and the treatments that have been provided. They were meant to be scaled and destroyed, but luckily for us, ene of the other doctors kept a copy on their computer at home. Who do you suppose ordered that Father?” I said sarcastically, glowering at them both.

My mother was busy reading, the blood draining out of her faces she saw the number of fractures, broken bones, and various other injuries that Regan had endured over the years. My father looked at me and my twin brother in disbelief “Surely it cannot be true” he began. “There has to be some sort of reason for all of this… he trailed off

“Believe it” I snarled, pinning him with my gaze and refusing to look away from him. “Beta Johnathon has been hiding this from all of us, for the last few years. I know you don’t like Regan I know the pack doesn’t, but we at least had some sort of duty of care towards her as a pack member” I shouted, losing control of my temper and exasperated with my parents who continued to ignore the obvious even when it was right in front of them.

My father’s mouth opened and closed, gaping like a fish. My mother’s voice was strangled. “Boys it’s not that easy to just simply” She whispered.

“What?” I interrupted her coldly, eyeing her with condemnation. “You are the Luna, it’s your job to protect the children and mothers in this pack. Did you just figure Regari wasn’t worth it because you blamed her for killing her mother? I can’t condone this” I gestured to the file sitting on our father’s desk, my throat seizing. “I can’t believe the level you went to ignore

it.”

I was still in a state of disbelief. How bould we have all been so bind for so long?

“I didn’t know” my father’s voice is grim. “Believe me, I have no qualms with Regan. I have never blamed her for her mother’s death. That was a tragic accident he said perplexed and glancing up at his wife who tightened her lips and avoided.

his gaze.

“Then why are you and Mother so cold towards her? Why have you let the pack abuse her so much? Why haven’t you stopped it?” I spat out, glowering at them.

“I find it hard to look at her because she is the spitting image of her mother” my father confesses, looking shame–faced, “but I did not know that I was being so harsh or that I was coming across as cold towards her. I guess I have been lost inside myself and oblivious to how the pack has been treating her. That’s no excuse” he said tightly “and neither is the relationship we have with Beta Johnathon preventing us from exploring this now.”

“I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding” my mother tried to protest and all of us stared at her.

Misunderstanding? What was mother trying to play out? She knew this was no simple misunderstanding. This was abuse. The worst kind. I could see my father regarding her in surprise and even Xander was studying her closely now.

“Abuse is no misunderstanding. Mother, why are you defending Beta johnathon so mich?” I snapped, feeling as though there was more to this than simply friendship but not sure if I was merely being suspicious.

She blinked. “It’s just that he’s a friend..” she continued to object

“Nonsense Jennifer my father growled, looking frustratedly at her. “If he’s abusing his daughter then it’s our job to step in and protect Regan. We cannot let friendship stand in the way of doing what is right and what is needed? he told her firmly.

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She flushed and bit her lip. “But think about what this will do to Babelle and Heather” she murmured.

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1 almost lost it right then and there with her. Where was her comer when it came to Regan, the one who had been abused Where were her priorities?

“Right now, my priority is Regan, who is my mate,” I told my mother icily, shaking my head at her “I do not give a damn about Heather and Isabelle

complicit by not saying anything” Xander’s voice is deadly quiet “and as such will also warrant punishment” he adds, causing the tension in the room to grow even

in, but I see now that I have become too lenient in the role of Alpha” he said, looking at us both. “Perhaps stepping back from the role in the near future will be a good thing. For now, let us discuss this” he said, frowning heavily “Beta Johnathon, his wife and stepdaughter will be required to explain themselves. It’s only natural that we demand they come here, in order to confront them before they can make up

more chance they had to concoct some fantasy instead of speaking the truth. We could use the Alpha tone, but that was always a last resort. Although I wasn’t opposed to using

that we are dealing with this too harshly?” I mean, this hardly needs to be dealt with immediately” she continued to

and she flushed, looking down at the ground,

feel enraged once more. “I don’t trust that man not to run or find

him Father, I will” Xander added in agreement, nodding vehemently and side–eyeing our mother

her strange desire to protect Beta Johnathon or why

was right there in front of her.

began to mind–link the Beta and his family. We waited feeling tense, while my mother folded her arms across her chest and

is about. Be warned, he is feeling on edge” he warned my brother and me “and therefore he will immediately be on the defensive. I am certain that he will be looking to place the blame elsewhere or to find excuses for Regan’s injuries, that prevent him from being punished. I wish I had seen this side of him sooner” he sighed, shaking his head and looking weary “but I am grateful

and I would have handled this in our own way and it would not be as merciful as I suspect you and mother are about

suspected that my father was about to prove me wrong in the best possible way. That is if our mother allowed

him to.

then you have a lot to learn about being an Alpha. Friendships cannot get in the way when it comes to leading the pack, no matter what Your mother understands that he looked at his ashen wife, and then back at us “and I hope that you never have to feel like this or do this when it comes to your

door and my father’s expression hardened while my mother blanched, her anxiety skyrocketing. I understood her trepidation when it came to pushing a friend, but this was dramatic even for her. We all steeled ourselves, my father nodding subtly to Xander and me, as the door began to slowly

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with his wife Heather and his stepelaughter Isabelle, his lips tightening as

this about Alpha Jackson?” he asked impatiently, while fought the urge to wrap my hands around his neck and teach him a lesson for being so disrespectful

him silently for a long thoment. Isabelle looked worried and Heather was trying to catch my mother’s eyes while she pointedly looked the other way, as

attention that you have been abusing Regan for the last few years. We

father didn’t bother to mince words. “How could you Johnathon? Your own daughter? Broken bones, fractures, the list goes on” he roaged in disgust, causing Heather

our father stood up to Beta Johnathon and showed him who was really in charge.

hold up the folder in

need to use the Alpha tone on you?” my father’s voice was cold. “On Heather, on Isabelle? Did you also hit Regan he growled, looking at both of

them out of it” Johnathon snarled stepping protectively in front of the women and staring hatefully at our father. “I was the one who did it. I beat Regan, constantly” he snapped “but she is the reason my mate died all those years ago and I retain the right to punish her for it, just like all the

up and towering over his so–called friend who trembled in the face of his wrath. “Regan is not to blame

we all

that forest” Johnathon snapped bark, seething. “She knew the consequences and she still entered it. If it weren’t for her, Celeste wouldn’t have died trying to protect her from a rogue attack. Celeste would still be alive and I would never have had to feel the pain of losing a mate

sounded incredulous as he studied Johnathon who looked as though he was beginning to lose it. “Have you been

entered the woods, knowing rogues were attacking and putting herself

tell the truth.

all of us to look at him stunned. “Either way she deserves whatever she gets. You loved Celeste, we all did he turned to my mother, spreading his hands out and appealing to her. “Why else would you have remained silent all these years? You agreed with what I was doing” he sneered, deliberately raking his gaze over everybody in the room “nobody here objected to

slightly nauseous, and movement and bring any attention to herself.

as

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