Rejecting the Alpha Twins

Chapter 38

Chapter 38

Regan POV

It’s dark. The torches are lit, lighting the dark dungeon as I slowly make my way down, assisted by Xavier, while Xander waits patiently down by the cell. Alpha Jackson is behind me, Insouth flat, a look of anxiety all over his face. I feel sorry for him. He’s gone through so much, the least of all which is the knowledge that Luna Jennifer slept with another man and betrayed him all those years ago. It’s a miracle he hasn’t broken down or lost control of himself or his wolf. I admire that because it shows just how much inner strength he possesses. No doubt Xavier and Xander take, after him in that respect.

The time has come. I have spent sleepless nights, tossing, turning, trying to come up with the perfect solution, only to realize that there isn’t one. I can’t try and please everybody, It will not work and part of me hurts at that realization, as Xavier begins to lead me to the first cell, where my father is waiting, hanging on the wall by silver restraints, his eyes murderous as he looks upon me. I try not to flinch as I rake my gaze over him, feeling the inner turmoil that often accompanies me whenever I get even remotely close to him. I could already feel myself starting to tense, in preparation for this confrontation, my body was used to the beatings he would foist on me for every little transgression. Even though he can’t touch me. J can’t help my body reacting automatically to his presence.

“You little bitch” he spits, pulling on the cuffs and wincing as the silver burns him “Release me from this cell so that I might get my revenge” he roars.

His anger towards Luna Jennifer and what she did, to him, and to us, is evident by the fury on his face and his blatant attempts to get free. He’s been stewing for days.

“Beta Johnathon, you have been stripped of your title, and I must ask you to remain silent as your daughter Regan gives us her ruling in regard to your punishment” Alpha Jackson’s tone is sharp as he reprimands my father.

My father gives an incredulous laugh while I stiffen, and the Alpha twins shoot him looks filled with daggers. “You’re going to let this useless bitch choose how to punish me?” he snorts. “Cowards, the lot of you” he shouts giving a little girl such power, I don’t believe it.”

I study him. For so long, I have fearell him. Feared his hand, the pain that always accompanies it as it connects with my bare flesh. He looks tired now. Weary. There are cuts on his skin from struggling with the restraints. He is pale and withdrawn. I study him even more closely. The Alpha twins and their father are silent, watching me. I give a small smile, feeling sad for some inexplicable reason.

“For the repeated physical abuse that I have suffered at your hands I sentence you to be lashed no less than thirty times.” I said quietly as his eyes widened in alarm and the Alpha twins nodded, a look of satisfaction on their faces. “I think it’s time you found out just how painful a whipping across your back can feel Father” I concluded, feeling a little morose.

As punishments went, it was certainly justified, but it did little to make me feel better.

“Bitch” he roared “No good, little whore. You think that I’m afraid of a little whipping?” he snarled “That’s nothing. I’ll kill you for this” he hissed.

I shook my head in resignation. “I think you don’t have the faintest concept of what a whipping will feel like. Once the first ten have been established, the pain becomes more excruciating. But I digress” I murmur as the twin’s jaws clench at my statement and their eyes begin to blaze in anger. “There is but one more thing of which you must be punished and condemned for.”

Had he forgotten the crime that had landed him in here, to begin with? He looked at me in dread and I knew that he hadn’t as he began to pale.

“When I get out of here” my father began to furiously shout and interrupted him, looking him directly in the eyes. This time, I would not let him interrupt me. I would make him sten. It was my time to speak and speak up 1 did. For the crime of adultery and sleeping with somebody else’s fated mate, that which happens to be the Alpha of the packs.

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the consequent lying and subterfuge and blatant attempt to cover it up, I sentence you…” I trailed off as my father glared and began to spit curse words at me.

“You don’t have the right he roared, trying to refute my claims

“On the contrary, I have given her that right” Alpha Jackson interrupts, staring at my father with hatred “and I will abide by whatever decision she has come to and support her. I did not trit myself with your punishment, for I feared that I might kill your with my bare hands” he growled, causing my father to silent, glowering at all of us.

“Go ahead Regan” Xander urged quietly “finish what you started

He made it sound so simple, but my heart felt like it was being smped over as I forced myself to repeat the words and stare my father in the face.

“For the crime of adultery and the lies, conspiracy to cover it up sentence you to become banished from the pack forevermore, destined to become a rogue and forbidden to step foot back in this territory ever again unless you want to forfeit your life” I finished, staring at my father, my body trembling slightly as his eyes widened in shock.

He hadn’t been expecting that. It was done. I had finished it. His punishment was concluded.

It had taken days to come to this conclusion. To come to some sort of fitting punishment. I had no love for my father, but I couldn’t stomach ordering his execution either. He hadn’t killed my mother, but his actions had led to it. He had betrayed his Alpha. This punishment would indirectly lead to his death unless he learned to survive as a rogue. He would never get to see Isabelle or Heather again. They would feel the sever of the bend when he was forced to cut it off with the whole pack. He would never be able to step foot on these pack grounds again

“You can’t do that” my father shouted, staring at me wildly “What about my stepdaughter? My wife?”

1 smiled tightly. “You won’t see them again. Maybe, without your influence, they might become better people.”

I highly doubted it. Isabelle was rotten to the core and Heather only encouraged her daughter’s antics, but there was still hope for the both of them.

“My daughter needs me” he shouted, and I gave a bitter laugh.

“I needed you to. I’m your daughter but I might as well not have been for all the love and the care that you’ve shown me. I have no love for you anymore Father I told him honestly. “You beat that out of me a long time ago, but I wish you luck on the outside regardless. You’re going to need it” I said with an exhale, trying not to break down or show any weakness in front of him.

“Fuck you, you little bitch” my father screeched, tugging uselessly on the restraints as I stared straight ahead “I’m coming back for you” he snarled, as I glanced up at him, his eyes narrowing on my face “I swear, I’ll come back to get you” he hissed.

“Shut his mouth” Alpha Jackson nodded to the guards who began to move in order to obey his instructions.

1 felt Xander grab my hand and squeeze it, reassuring me. I smiled tightly to myself, even as my body began to still, the trembling beginning to subside. Xavier moved to the other side of me, placing a hand on my shoulder, tingles running down my spine as I breathed shallowly, the mold and the metallic scent of old blood causing me to gag slightly.

“That was a fitting punishment Alpha Jackson murhured, eyeing me closely and nodding in approval, even as his tone was filled with grief. “But can you hold your composure enough to get through the next one?” he asked grimly.

I looked him in the eyes, I knew full well who the other prisoner was and who we were about to face. I had it on good authority that Alpha Jackson had not ventured down here since she had been placed in the cell and down here in this dungeon, I looked at him, taking note of the crease in his smile, the bleakness of his eyes, and the sudden stiffness of his demeanor. Perhaps he should not be asking me that question but asking himself that very same thing.

“Can you?” I asked, deciding to be blunt.

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don’t know” his answer was brutally honest as we headed down the lengthy hallway toward the very last

and we were about my father? I was about to

come face to face

the show. But

would she be harder to face than

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Xavier POV

hand, tone hing her, trying to be near her as we transversed the corridor until we found ourselves in front of the cell that had mine and Xander’s mother in it. Regan had dealt tremendously well with the punishment she had

mother

would do her little good to act this way now. She could not escape what was about to happen, no matter how

all of us to the front of the cell door staring down at her as she blinked at him in surprise. I could see Regan’s face drain of color while I and my brother stared down at the ground, knowing instinctively what our father was about to do. We would

words out, causing all of us to flinch, my mother’s face going white as snow as she gave a scream that was bloodcurdling, dropping to her knees as she felt the bond between herself and my father sever.

not to. My father

and we all watched as the mark disappeared from her neck and

again, without a mate. This had to be killing him inside and yet, he

mother glared at us, forcing herself to stand back upright, stiffening her spine

anyway” she sneered at my father, as I clenched my jaw and Xander shot me a that spoke volumes

here to discuss that, we’re here to witness your

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towards Regan. My mother looks taken aback. “You can to tell me that you gave the decision to her” she

remains silent which further

affected the most by your treasonous acts the decision, yes,” my father said quietly and

pretending to be Luna” she scoffed, causing me to flinch and Xander to

Regan

She was nervous and doing her best to hide it. Perhaps she was considering the repercussions of her actions and wondering just how far Regan would go in regard to her punishment. I could see

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whisper, and we have to crane our heads to hear her properly, even with our sensitive shifter hearing. “You committed adultery against your fated mate, the Alpha of this park and then continually ed about it. You hired an innocent girl into the forest during a rogo attack and as a direct result, her mother dieil protecting her. That girl was later declared to be

all. “This was just a mistake, a careless misunderstanding. You

her, shaking my head “we can’t. We have always looked up to you as a leader and today, we discovered you are nothing but a coward. You had a chance to make things right, years ago and instead, you covered it

innocent little girl rather than take the fall. That was more

and she looked on the

committed” Regan’s voice is wooden and emotionless “I hereby sentence you to be stripped of your title. You will be banished from this pack and turned into a rogue. To step foot onto these pack lands will mean

at Regan, recognizing the compassion she was showing. She could have asked for the death sentence, and we would have granted it because it was within her rights. I had the feeling she was

her lips quivering “I can’t leave this pack. Where would I go?” she turned and appealed to us, her hands

Asa Luna you have an advantage most shifters who are condemned to become rogues don’t

sentence as Beta Jolinathon, minus the whipping. Regan had shown true mercy. I looked at my mate with nothing but gratefulness in my eyes. I

my father turned his head and avoided looking at her “I don’t know anything else. I can’t do anything else.

hardened my heart. “Then you will have to learn. Step foot back on these pack grounds once we release you as a rogue and we will be forced to kill you” I said, glancing at Regan who

you. I was loyal to you for years” she yelled at my father who stiffened “and this is how you repay it? You are all monsters” she screamed hysterically “I did everything in my power to keep you

Xander POV

hand reaching out to lightly touch Regan who looked on the verge of collapsing, her expression one of devastation. This had broken her and affected her

get her to look at us,

looking away from both of us and breathing shallowly. “I just condemned your mother and…” she trailed off as I did something completely unexpected taking

as she gave a low moan of desire. Xavier moved

my brother and me. All of us were hurting at that moment. We all needed the comfort of each other, the type of comfort that only our mate could provide. I pressed against her, while her arms wrapped around Xavier’s neck, all of us embracing as one. I could feel Regan’s body trembling as I rubbed

around her waist while avoiding mine. “It’s okay” he whispered into her ear, while I stroked her hair, feeling the softness of its

kind of person” she mumbled,

watching as he picked up Regan by the waist and cradled her against his chest, holding her tight, causing her to gasp in surprise as she stiffened

shouted in surprise, “put me down” she ordered.

Xavier placing her tenderly onto the bed. She swallowed hard, her eyes widening in fear as she looked at the two of us, one on each side of her, What

trailed off I leaned down and kissed the nape of her neck,

sweet, delicious scent

eyes

delicate. The perfect combination for my mate. Our mate, I corrected myself, with a quick

slightly like a kitten’s, “now’s not really appropriate. I just…” she trailed off, unable

voice was low as he played with the buttons on her shorts, his eyes darkening slightly in arousal. “But we don’t want to

ber shirt, lifting it slightly, my hands keen to touch the soft skin that’s hiding underneath. She grabs both of us by the wrists preventing us from going any further, before scrabbling to sit upright and glaring at the two

I told you that I wanted to take this slow” she growled biting her

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