All Chapters of Female Alpha Twins’ Regret After Choosing Their Stepbrother: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

Three years after my best friend Caleb and I mated to the female Alpha twins of the Creek Pack, their stepbrother Victor — the one the powerful twins truly loved — came back.Caleb and I planned to run away, but the night before our escape, he was poisoned with wolfsbane. I called his mate Selene, but she didn't believe Caleb was really dead.I gripped the phone tighter, forcing my voice steady."Selene, I'm not joking. Caleb... he's really dead."A contemptuous snort came through the phone. "Is that so? He's really dead? Should I arrange his funeral then, and cry my eyes out?"Her sarcasm cut deep, but I pushed through it. "Selene. This isn't a game. He's gone.""Ryan, I call you brother-in-law, but you don't actually think you're family, do you? Tell Caleb to stop playing these little tricks."Despite it being summer, I felt cold all over.Selene didn't believe Caleb was dead. I should have known. In her eyes, Caleb was just a tool to keep the pack quiet about an Alpha falling in lov

Chapter 2

I unclenched my fists, keeping my breathing even. "He's not coming back."Selene smiled, but her eyes were ice. "Oh? Has he found another she-wolf and doesn't need me anymore?"Even now, after everything, Caleb was still nothing but a disgrace in Selene's eyes. Three years of devotion, of swallowed pride, of hopes repeatedly crushed — all worthless."Selene, if you despise him so much, why don't you just break the mate bond?" My voice was flat. "Or is having someone to torment too enjoyable to give up?"Selene chuckled. "Sounds like he really has found another Alpha."Her eyes glowed an eerie red, her wolf close to the surface.I didn't look away.I'm Beta-born. My father trained me from the time I could walk. I'd taken down rogue Alphas twice my weight in the pack's border raids. Selene might outrank me on paper, but if she came at me here, she'd get a fight she wasn't expecting.She seemed to remember that too. Her wolf retreated behind her eyes.I turned and walked past her toward t

Chapter 3

Caleb's room was just as he'd left it.A half-packed travel bag sat on the bed. His favorite hunting knife was on the dresser, freshly sharpened. The schedule we'd worked out for our escape was tacked inside his closet door, hidden behind hanging shirts.This wasn't the room of a man who'd decided to give up.I sat down on the edge of his bed and tried to think.Caleb hadn't been the type to keep a diary. He was a fighter, not a writer. But there had to be something in here that explained what had happened last night.I went through the room methodically. Drawers. Floorboards. Under the mattress. Inside the lampshades. Six years of pack warrior training kicked in, and I worked the room like a crime scene.I found three things.First: a small leather pouch tucked into the lining of his jacket. Inside were six dried herbs — antidotes for the most common poisons used in pack assassinations. Wolfsbane was one of them.Caleb had been carrying countermeasures. Whoever poisoned him hadn't giv

Chapter 4

I closed the bedroom door and locked it again.Then I sat down at the desk and started writing.A list of every Beta and warrior in the Creek Pack who owed my father a favor. A list of every Alpha in neighboring packs who owed me one. A list of Elena and Selene's political weaknesses — the contracts that were up for renewal, the alliances that were strained, the pack members who'd quietly complained to me about Victor moving in.By midnight I had a plan.By the time I went to bed, I felt calmer than I had in months.I slept hard for the first time in a week.I woke up to pounding on my bedroom door."Ryan! Open this door right now!"Elena.I checked my phone. Seven in the morning. The Pack Council had probably just delivered news of the investigation.I took my time getting dressed. Pulled on jeans and a clean shirt. Then I opened the door.Elena was furious."What did you do?""I filed an investigation request. What did you think I was going to do?""You filed a complaint against my

Chapter 5

I drove out to the seaside cliffs and spent the morning there.The wind off the water was cold and clean. It cleared my head. I sat on the rocks and watched the waves and thought about Caleb.He'd been the closest thing to a brother I'd ever had. We'd trained together as warriors before I was even mated to Elena. When the River Pack fell, I was the one who'd convinced him to bring his pack's surviving members under Creek Pack protection. I'd vouched for him to Selene.I'd handed him over to her.That was a debt I was going to spend the rest of my life paying.My phone buzzed around noon. Marcus, the Council investigator."Ryan. We searched the east wing storeroom. Found a vial of wolfsbane extract. The scent on it matches Victor's. We're picking him up now.""Selene and Elena going to interfere?""Selene tried. The Council Elder shut her down. She's at the holding cells now demanding to be present for the interrogation.""Let her be present. Let her hear every word of it.""Already don

Chapter 6

Elena came home that night looking like she hadn't slept.I was in the living room, sitting in her usual armchair, drinking her usual whiskey.She stopped in the doorway when she saw me."That's my chair.""I know."She didn't tell me to move.She walked over to the couch instead and sat down across from me. Set her own glass down on the coffee table. Stared at it."Victor's being held until the trial.""I heard.""The Council is moving fast. Trial date is in three days.""Good."She looked up at me."Ryan. I need you to withdraw the recording you threatened me with this morning. I'm not going to fight you on the severance. But that recording — if it goes public, it doesn't just hurt me. It hurts the whole pack's standing. Other packs will use it. Selene's authority is going to be in shreds already after Victor's trial. If mine collapses too, we're vulnerable."I considered that."Sign the severance papers tonight. I'll hold the recording. As long as my father stays Beta, my family kee

Chapter 7

Selene was waiting for me in the hallway upstairs.She'd been crying. I could tell by her eyes."Ryan.""What.""I want to be at the trial. I want to testify for the prosecution."That stopped me."Against Victor?""Against Victor."I looked at her for a long moment."Why.""Because Caleb deserved better than what I gave him. And the only thing I can still do for him is make sure the thing that killed him doesn't get to walk free because he had a pretty face and called me sister."I was quiet."You're going to lose Victor over this. You and Elena both. The pack will never see him the same way.""I know.""You're going to grieve him. Even though he killed your mate. You're going to grieve him anyway because that's how broken you are about him."She flinched."I know that too."I nodded slowly."Then testify. I'm not going to stop you. But understand something — me being decent enough to let you do this doesn't mean we're okay. We're not okay. We're never going to be okay. After the tria

Chapter 8

Caleb's funeral was small.I held it the next morning at the seaside cliffs, where I'd scattered the first handful of his ashes the day after he died.My parents came. A handful of warriors from our old training cohort came. The Council Elder sent a formal envoy out of respect.Selene and Elena came too. They stood at the back, the way I'd told them to. They didn't speak.I held the rest of Caleb's ashes in a small carved wooden urn I'd made myself the night before — sat up cutting and sanding it because I couldn't sleep and because Caleb deserved better than a store-bought box.I didn't make a speech.I just stood at the edge of the cliff and talked to him the way I would have talked to him in life."You were the best Alpha River Pack ever had, Caleb. You held that pack together with nothing but your own back. You signed a bad mating contract to save them and you never once complained about it where anyone could hear. You deserved a thousand years more than you got, and a thousand tim

Chapter 9

I spent the next two weeks in the northern mountains.I went alone. My father offered to come and I told him no. This was a thing I needed to do by myself.I climbed up to a high peak Caleb had once shown me on a map — a place he'd dreamed of seeing since he was a pup, before his pack fell, before any of the rest of it had happened. The wind up there was thin and cold and it cleaned out the inside of my skull.I scattered the last of his ashes on the summit.I stood there for a long time.Then I started down the mountain to figure out the rest of my life.I'd had a few offers already.The Crescent Pack to the northwest had reached out through Marcus. They needed a Beta-rank warrior with command experience. Their current Alpha was an old friend of my father's and the pack was on the rise — small but well-run, with a reputation for treating their warriors like family instead of furniture.A pack out east had offered me a contract position as a combat trainer, which would have paid well b

Chapter 10

I heard later that she'd thrown herself into pack business after the trial. Stopped sleeping. Stopped eating much. The pack healer had to step in twice. She was holding the pack together by sheer Alpha will and it was costing her.Elena was running the pack alone in everything but name.The Creek Pack was struggling but surviving. Their reputation was wounded but not destroyed. The other packs in the region had drawn closer in some ways, farther in others. Politics.Victor was dead within four months of his exile. He didn't survive the first winter outside pack territory. Marcus told me they found his body near the eastern border, frozen, alone.I didn't feel anything when I heard.I'd already let go of him on a cliff above Caleb's ashes.I joined the Crescent Pack the spring after Caleb died.The Alpha there — a man my father's age, who'd known me since I was small — gave me a warrior's welcome and put me to work. By the end of my first year I was running their training program. By th

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