The Challenge Two Alphas, One Girl

Fang’s POV

I sat across from my Mom in the Beta dining room. Fallon and Fargo has showed up at the pack house looking for our parents and claiming no one had cooked their breakfast or lunch. They were too old for that bullshit but whatever. Didn’t they even know how to scramble an egg or something? They were identically useless sometimes but they were hilarious and we mostly got along well.

“Mom, why did you marry your mate’s Beta?” I had to ask her. I took a deep breath. “Was it for revenge?”

Fallon and Fargo were tense. I had never seen them resist a table filled with food before. My mother was crying silently.

“No,” she whispered shakily. “I love your father, differently. He’s my…he was like my best friend. He was there for me when Malachi rejected me and I was broken. I was trying so hard to move on especially when I heard that Malachi had proposed to someone. Elizabeth, a rich merchant’s daughter.”

“But Malachi and you kept seeing each other all that time?” I asked, feeling sorry for my mom and my dad simultaneously.

“Yeah,” my mom said, laughing sadly. She wiped her eyes. Theo handed her a tissue. I was opposite to her next to Fallon and Fargo while Theo sat next to her. He started rubbing her back with his palm to soothe her. She looked at him as though grateful.

“Malachi rejected me for being a rogue and therefore an unsuitable Luna,” my Mom explained.

I stiffened uncomfortably. The parallels between my Mom, Felicity, and Malachi versus Friday and Maze were astounding.

“He said his father wouldn’t approve of me. I was so heartbroken and offended and furious. I didn’t know then what I know now…that his father had threatened to kill me if Malachi didn’t reject me,” Mom said.

I growled. Maze’s grandfather was a fiend! I had never met him and I hoped we never crossed paths because it would not be pretty.

“But Malachi only actually managed to stay away from me for a few days, less than a week actually. He showed up on my doorstep. I had come to stay in Marigold and met your father. Malachi would meet me in secret almost every other night, bringing me gifts and sums of money. When he proposed to Elizabeth, I had been devastated. I refused to keep seeing him. He practically broke my door down. He had a diamond ring for me as well and a necklace and bracelet. He had spent a ton of money trying to placate me but it wasn’t what I wanted. I didn’t want to be hidden anymore. Malachi said he only needed Elizabeth for an heir and there was no emotion in the relationship. I didn’t believe him at first but now I see that he was telling the truth, not that it matters. It was still wrong and I do feel ashamed at times. I feel sorry for your father and for Elizabeth,” My Mom said, sniffling.

engaged to Farris shortly after Malachi’s engagement. He was furious! He threatened to kill your father and I actually smacked him. I was livid. I

I loved Friday but she knew how

didn’t break it off after he was furious about your own engagement,

Fargo nodded, curious too.

but he stormed off. He was back the next day and we began our secret affair again. We both got married. He soon had Maze with Elizabeth and he was relieved the first child was a boy so he could ignore her now. He claimed she was insufferably dull,” my Mom said, the guilt evident on her face for the hand

all relations with Farris after you

for a while and Malachi had been so upset when we found out it was a girl. I think he had secretly always wanted a little daughter to spoil after his son and heir. He treated Farris worse than ever. He refused to give him paternity leave so Farris never actually got much time with Friday as a baby. Farris had started drinking to deal with the stress at his job as well and money became tight because he spent it on alcohol. I drank

reunited, it was…explosive,” whispered

I flinched.

work. He would send his Beta, your father, on business trips far away to another pack and he would claim to be visiting a pack as well but really he was on vacation with me. We knew it was wrong but we were

the twins were small children. My father had been away on pack business and my mother claimed she had to go along with him. I though it strange how she would leave the day after him when they were supposedly going on the trip together. Now I knew why. It

arranged a rehab for both of us but he sent your father first to one place and after he left, Malachi took me to another rehab that allowed patients to have guests stay with them. He helped me detox and get clean. We became inseparable. I never asked him to leave Elizabeth. I was comfortable with the way things were, and him leaving her meant I would have to come clean to Farris and you kids and I couldn’t bear the thought. I

Fallon put his head in

talk

you, Mom,” chorused

said quickly to her. “We love you too, Mom,”

taken this better than I thought they would. Perhaps, I did not give them enough credit. Friday had not been a part of this family meeting but she was in heat right now and I was sure she would know most if

Friday’s POV

soundlessly straightened up from where I had been crouching on the ground. I had been eavesdropping on the conversation between my brothers and my mother in the Beta Dining Room. I crept back up the stairs quickly and sped back into my room. The patrol guards had agreed to let me out for a few minutes “to stretch my legs.” The pain was still there but it had lessened

under Thaddeus’ picnic blanket and began pretend-reading

Asked Fang, eyeing his