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.

father and I actually smacked him. I was livid. I couldn’t

mom slapping someone. She was so gentle, like Friday, but less whiny and annoying. I loved Friday but she knew how to push my buttons with her antics. I needed to get back

it off after he was furious

Fargo nodded, curious too.

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

relations with Farris after you were born, Fang, Malachi reasoned that now Marigold had a future Beta, Fang,

me. When I got pregnant with Friday, Malachi and I stopped speaking 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

it

I flinched.

pack as well but really he was on vacation with me. We knew it was wrong but we were

they were supposedly going on the trip together. Now I knew why. It was a setup, cooked up by Malachi to get Farris out of the way and his mate out of that house.

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

his head

muttered. I did not want to talk about this anymore. I got up to leave. My mother looked

hate you, Mom,” chorused

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

credit. Friday had not been a part of this family meeting but she was in heat right now and I

Friday’s POV

chair scraping the floor and I 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

blanket and began pretend-reading Maze’s journal, just as

eyeing his alphas diary. I