Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter - Chapter 27: Chapter 37

Reagan’s POV
Everything was going perfectly tonight until I got approached at the bar by the Beta couple for Blood Walker.
I heard Cheryl causing the disturbance I asked her to do, and thought it was all perfect timing. She started it as I was speaking with Brandon.
I gave him the dosed glass of champagne, and I got away with it. No problems at all, smooth as silk.
I was just clapping myself on the back for a job well done when they stepped up to the bar, one on either side of me.
I smile and spoke nicely to them as more people poured out of the room we were in to go see who dared to cause a disturbance here at the ball for Alpha Cole’s daughter. I kept the smirk on my face.
The ball is being ruined, and she is about to lose her second chance mate, how much better will this be able to get?
They didn’t speak to me, and I was just waiting for another champagne from the bartender. Since I had given my spiked one to Brandon.
I texted Cheryl, “In 5 minutes you need to put yourself in Brandon’s line of vision. He will be overheating and tugging at his clothes when he is ready to go.
Approach him then” I heard a click to my right and see that Beta Timothy had taken a picture of the text that I was sending. Rude.
I put my phone up and look up at him to tell him that he can’t do that. “You are the most vicious girl that I have ever seen,” Beta Timothy said to me.
“I agree with you Timothy, she is absolutely disgusting with the lengths she will go to,” his beta female said, and they each took one of my arms and led me towards an emergency exit.
I struggled and looked around for help. Just when I thought all was lost I saw my husband speaking to Brandon. They were in a serious talk, almost an argument.
I called out Justin’s name to get his attention. He glances over at me and then looks right back at Brandon as they continued to speak. That son of a b***h. I am going to make him suffer for that.
I am screaming out for help as I am taken across the backyard to a little building about 2000 feet away from the venue. It looked like a small library or something, so how bad could it be?
I guess maybe they will have me sit here and call my dad to come out here to get me. When he does, I swear I am going to slap Justin right in his stupid, handsome face.
I am growling in displeasure, someone will be paying for the treatment that I am receiving right now. “My father will kill you for this Beta Timothy.
You better just prepare for it, because you are going to deserve it when it happens. He will make you sorry that you were even born. Don’t think I will forget it either.
I will be Luna at Silver Blade soon, and I will make it my business to get you back for shaming me like this. I am the daughter of an Alpha.
Do you know what the charges for attempting to hurt the daughter of an Alpha are?” I said to him in a threatening tone, as they let me go after the door was locked behind us.
“Do YOU know what the charges for intentionally hurting? Attempting to kill? And attempting to hurt the daughter of an Alpha is?” Beta asks me in a mocking voice.
I refuse to squirm under his gaze, it is like he knew what I had done to Raven. I am not going to let him know that I was scared, I am alone, and no one knows where I am.
Plus it was really her word against mine. The proof was gone from the pack hospital, dad took care of that after it happened.
He didn’t want to get into trouble if the word had gotten out that I tried to kill my sister. As long as I don’t admit it, they have nothing on me.
Most of the people ignored me when I was screaming for help when they took me out of the venue.
My good-for-nothing husband did nothing to help me either, I am going to make sure he knows what he did wrong when I see him again.
It was like he didn’t even care that I was being kidnapped, they could be going to hurt me to get back at what I did to Raven when we were growing up.
I wished I had trained now, I wish that I would be able to protect myself if it came down to it.
I take a few steps back away from the Beta couple and when the door opened behind them, I made a run for it.
I had to get out of here, I needed to let my parents know where I was, I didn’t belong here. I didn’t even make it through the door, three warriors entered with Cheryl.
She is screaming her head off and I backed up to get further away from them. What in the hell had they done to her?
I wonder if they are going to do something to me now, as they all looked pissed that I had tried to escape. The Beta couple was standing there, calm as can be.
Now I realized that even if I had tried to run, they train every day, they would have let me run, and they would have caught me well before I made it back to the venue.
I was screwed for the moment, I just have to play along right now until my dad comes to rescue me. I was confident that my parents would come to get me, they always do.
Then I will dole out the punishment that I needed, being put in the cells like I was a criminal. I am stunned to see that Cheryl has been hurt. Who would do such a thing to a she-wolf?
I mean, she wasn’t like a model before, but she was attractive, Now all you immediately see when you look at her, is the flaw on her face.
She will definitely have a scar that is at least an inch and a half in length after this. I say definitely since she is here, it is not being treated, the scar is inevitable.
It will be the first thing that people see when they look at her from now on.
I didn’t think she was vain, but I am positive that she will be very upset once she sees the damage to her face after she calms down.
“Don’t forget to tell your dad where I am, Reagan, so he can be sure to kick my a*s” Beta Timothy called out to me sarcastically, and then started laughing.
I flushed as I remember that he had told my dad to cross over onto Blood Walker land the night Raven ran away. My dad wouldn’t do it.
He was clearly intimidated by him, and that makes me embarrassed too. He wasn’t scared of my dad at all, he knew I was just full of empty threats and he wasn’t concerned at all.
The Beta for Blood Walker was as strong, or stronger than my dad, who outranks him as an Alpha wolf. Cheryl and I were escorted down to the cells and at least they weren’t horrible.
I have seen cells before, and they were not happy places, but at least these were clean. We each went into a cell and waited until we heard the doors shut upstairs leaving us in silence.
We sat there in silence for a few minutes, listening to make sure that we were totally alone down here, with no sounds heard other than our breathing. “What the hell happened to you?” I asked Cheryl.
“I was causing a distraction, just like you told me to, Reagan. It was working, and I was really going off on her. Then she started to clap back at me, being rude.
She was disrespecting me, I mean, I know it is her party, but I am a Gamma, and a good fighter. I wasn’t worried about her.
You said neither of you had been trained and I just wanted to let her know to stay away from Brandon. I was just trying to scare her. But you lied to me, Reagan.
Raven DOES know how to fight, and very well. I got my a*s handed to me in there, and she didn’t even break a sweat or start breathing hard.
Was that your intention, to make me look like a fool in there?” Cheryl asked me. I am shocked, when did Raven start mouthing off and knowing how to fight? She has been gone like three weeks.
How could she have changed so much in that short amount of time? I don’t believe it. I bet Cheryl can’t fight, and just wanted to save face by lying to me about what happened.
I have only known her a day, but I didn’t trust her, or her dad, Silas. I knew who they were. I heard how they spoke when they got to the pack.
They are both good at conning people, but you can’t con a con. I make a mental note to tell dad too because I don’t care why he wanted them at Silver Blade, they all three have to go.
I don’t trust them or want them there. I stepped out to do Cheryl this favor as a friend. To show her that I wanted to help her, yes, as well as hurt Raven too.
I went out on a huge limb here, much more than she did. All she had to do was distract Raven for 5 minutes, she couldn’t even get that done.
That is a good enough reason to not have them in the pack anymore, well, as far as I was concerned. She can’t follow simple directions. “I said a distraction, not a fist fight, stupid.
That was too much distraction. You could have just spoken to her, politely, for a few minutes before going to get your mate. Now Goddess knows who the hell he is with. I did my end of it.
He took the drink. Well, at least he could have found someone else there before he met Raven. It would have been you if you could follow simple directions, Cheryl. I stuck my neck out for you.
I mean if someone saw it, my head might be on the chopping block now. I am telling you now if I get busted, you will be busted too.
I will tell them how you conned me into helping you, because of how much you are obsessed with him, and forced me to help you. So, if I go down, you are too Cheryl.
So we need to figure out what we need to say to get out of here, as quickly as we can” I told her, and we both start thinking about a way out of our predicament.
I heard the door open at the top of the stairs and wondered who was coming now. I see Beta Timothy a second before I see dad and I fly to the bars to thank him for coming to get me.
Then I see that dad is cuffed. What in the hell is going on here at Blood Walker? Do they really think that we will allow this to go unchecked? My mom is right behind him, also cuffed.
I stagger back, I need to sit back down. How? How could this be happening to us? Dad starts playing twenty questions with me.
I already know the drill, I am NOT going to admit to anything, no one saw anything. I already know that it was my word against theirs.
I am about to become Luna, so if they know what’s good for them, they will just forget about something that just can’t be proven. Then dad drops the hammer.
No, I did my research, and they couldn’t have cameras. One of our pack members helped build this place. They just got done like 5 days ago.
He said they didn’t have any cameras in the venue when I asked him just yesterday. But they could have gotten someone else to come in and install them I guess.
I am such an i***t, I should have looked for them myself, I know better than to trust others. I know better than they do. What a freaking rookie mistake I had made. This is unbelievable.
I want to throw something, but I have nothing in my room to throw, just the mattress. I have no one to blame but myself in this. Goddess, I just told dad several times that I hadn’t done anything.
He knew I did, and I lied right to his face. He was testing me, he already knew I had done something, and that it was pretty big. Holy s**t, someone told on me.
They had a warning of what we were going to do. It has to be Justin. My parents and her parents didn’t know.
Justin wasn’t there with us, but he hates me now, and getting rid of me, quite literally, will allow him to go and try to get Raven back.
It will be over my dead body too, just like I told him that it would be. It has to be him, even though I didn’t actually see him.
I was on the Alpha floor when we went over the plans, very few people would have access to our floor. I bet it set him off thinking about how I had done the same damn thing to him.
That was probably why he did it, he was really pissed off about me doing it to him. He missed dinner right after we got the plans nailed down. He was nowhere to be found for hours.
I know it has to be him. Goddess, I am really going to kill him. His telling them about the plan, allowed them to be prepared to catch me. Everyone else knew much better than to cross me.
I can feel blood coming out from the palm of my hands because I am griping my hands so tightly that my nails are cutting into them.
I will kill him for his treachery if I find out that he had been involved. If he cannot be trusted, to follow the contract, to comply with being my mate, I will have no choice but to kill him.
I refuse to allow him to be the Alpha of Silver Blade, how I could reward him if he betrayed me?
I am an i***t, I mean I was dragged away from him, clearly in a lot of trouble, and he is going to just keep standing there talking.
Like he didn’t just look me right in the face and KNEW I needed his help. What could have been more important than me at that moment? I didn’t have any proof that he had done anything other than that.
He honestly had no reason to think that I was in any kind of danger. Taking me away or, more to the point, hurting me, would start a war between our packs. Alpha Cole wasn’t an i***t.
He would never do that to me. It may be that he had different crews do different things working on this venue. The cameras would logically be installed last, it could just be a coincidence.
Maybe I am getting paranoid now, dad had me creeped out. I mean I was freaking out for a moment. They have nothing on me, Alpha Cole was just bluffing.
He may suspect something, but I had heard that Alpha Cole was having Raven’s last name changed. From Sullivan to Walker, and I can’t say that I am unhappy about it.
Everything that they do gets me one more step away from Raven.
Yes, we had similar facial structures and features, they were from mom, but our coloring, and attitudes were completely different from each other.
If we weren’t near each other, people didn’t even notice how much we looked alike. I like that.
Soon, I will be their only daughter and dad will have to help me out, but for right now, I will be keeping my mouth shut about it. If I don’t admit it, they will have nothing on me. I am not an i***t.
Dad taught me that at a young age. Even if they did see me pour something into the glass, it wasn’t his glass at the time, it was mine. I can put whatever additive that I want, into my own glass.
I laid down on my mattress and turned to face the wall. My father is still staring at me as if he knows that I did something really bad and his stare was starting to get to me.
I don’t need the guilt he is giving me. I need to think up a plan, a good one that will work for me. I am pretty quick to think of a few defenses, for my actions.
I already know that I can outsmart Alpha Cole. He may be gung-ho over his daughter right now, but he can’t do a damn thing to me. As long as they can’t prove what was in his drink, I am golden.
My only saving grace here is the fact that the glass has already been washed by now. Brandon drank it, the evidence is all gone. That brings a smile to my face.
It is really hard to get it to pop on a test unless they go in there early, and test specifically for it.
It only lasts for a few hours, so that is why I took the bottle of wine upstairs with me and Justin. I knew that I needed to get him to keep drinking it, so he would be easier to manipulate.
I am still holding out hope that I am pregnant. I was so disappointed that the pregnancy test last week had come back negative. It has been almost 2 weeks since the last time we were together.
I have lined up two guys that look like Justin, so our pups will resemble him, but I don’t want to have to resort to that. I need Justin to just do as I say, and sleep with me.
We will need heirs, he has to be able to see that, to realize that we will have to pass the pack on eventually.
Wolves are protective of their young, so I guess when we get out of here, I will make that happen. I guess I will just dose Justin, again and again, until I get pregnant.
Goddess willing I can have twins, and only need 1 pregnancy. That way I will have done my job for the pack. I had thought it all out. Staying calm was the most important thing.
At first, it seemed like Justin had been a traitor. I will still keep an eye on him and see if I see any problems. But my head was telling me that I was overthinking things again.
Justin knows better than to cross me. He knows that I will willingly end him, and then replace him. Raven is too pissed at him to take him back, so he is stuck.
Stuck with me, until I am done with him, and not a minute before. He will stay with me, or we will banish his family, but in his heart, he knows what they will mean.
Dad will have his family killed, and Justin will never see them again. If I investigate and find out anything that suggests to me that he crosses me, then I will make him sorry for it.
He can watch his whole family die in front of him, and then he will be killed last. He will carry the weight of knowing that he was the reason that they died.
For his sake, or better yet, for his family’s sake, I hope he did not forget who he was dealing with. Because the cost of betraying me will be a high one.
I closed my eyes as I need to get some sleep, I am not going to worry about this anymore. There is nothing to be gained from it.
I just can’t see any of the people here at Blood Walker managing to outsmart me. They are strong fighters, but kind of stupid, so I am not worried about any of them at all.
I did make a mental note to tighten up and be more aware. No more slip up’s, I need to do this like I learned when I first started doing as dad told me to.
Mind what I say, do exactly like I was told, and look for cameras or microphones in the ceiling. I forgot about that one, I feel like slapping myself.
Look for cameras, I learned my lesson, I will never forget it again. I haven’t admitted anything, they don’t have a damn thing on me, and there is nothing that they could do to me.
I slipped off to sleep with a smile on my face. Tomorrow is another day. I will deal with whatever comes to me. I am certain that I will be walking out of Blood Walker tomorrow.
I didn’t do anything wrong, and there is nothing they can do to prove I did. I will stick to my guns, and they can just shut the hell up.
Because without a shred of proof of any wrongdoing, I won’t be going anywhere except back to Silver Blade tomorrow.
They can be mad all they want, but come tomorrow I will be free of this hell hole, and I won’t be coming back. Not ever again.
I don’t mind playing a dangerous game, I have never lost any of them so far, and I don’t plan on starting to lose now. Chapter 38
Justin’s POV
How could Raven be so f*****g heartless to me?
I loved her, why would she turn her back on me like that? I begged her to just give me some time, and she flat-out refused. That a*****e she is mated with needs to be taught a lesson too.
I mean I went out of my way to tell Alpha Cole about what Reagan was planning, so he could take care of her, and stop her from doing it. I need Reagan taken care of, so I can be free again.
I guess that I am going to have to try to get Reagan free from the cells. She is going to be pissed that I didn’t help her when they took her out of here.
I thought that they would be progressing faster, I don’t need this case to drag on.
I am going to have to come up with something that shows her I cared about her, but I was trying to handle business at the time.
Defend her, and her family, at least that is the line I am about to give them. OH s**t, her family. How much had they heard of what I said? All of it? None of it?
Just coming back into the room to see me with my arms around her waist. I need to know, so I know how to twist that around too. Goddess, why do I still want Raven so badly?
She is there in my mind all day, and even in my dreams. Ever since I stroked her face, I wanted to stroke every inch of her body. To worship it with my hands, and my tongue.
To make her scream my name over and over again. It never went away. I mean I felt terrible at the gate, she did her side of it right. For a brief time, I felt intense pain.
For about 30 minutes, then it went away, but I still had thoughts of Raven still running through my mind. She has had a hold of me since the moment I touched her.
I know that Luna Cassandra had caught some of it, but I don’t think that she will tell that I had announced it in front of so many others.
She knows that if she does tell on me, things will be bad for everyone. I will make sure that she gets no peace again if she does.
She was just mad and went to slap me, but what I said to her was the truth. Graham and Reagan knew it, as I had told them both. I wanted out of the contract, and they forced me back into it.
I don’t think that Graham was going to be that mad about me spilling the beans, as he had pushed Raven in there and she had announced it too. That she was my mate, and not Reagan’s.
It should not come as a shock to them that the word is spreading around. They pushed it onto me, and I am going to be pushing back from now on.
Dad is still angry with me, but he knew I had been put in a position that I could not get out of. He knew how Graham, and Reagan, were.
He had warned me about them, but I guess I thought I knew better than he did. I was an i***t, and I would be the first one to admit it.
I had just mindlinked dad to ask if anyone had asked where I went last night. Thankfully, no one had yet.
I told him to tell mom and my younger brother to tell anyone that asked that I was there with them. I do eat with them a few times a week, as I can’t stand the sight of Reagan most days.
I found out that mom made meatloaf and mashed potatoes last night, so if I were asked, I would know what to say. They all know what is going on, and how I was tricked.
They all have my back, and they are the only reason that I came back to the pack. I didn’t want them to be banished, or worse, killed.
My heart is aching in my chest as I went out to where I was told the cells were. I just wanted to see Reagan, and Graham, to see what they wanted me to do.
They think that they are so f*****g smart, but it is easy to trick a horny teenager. We are only focused on physical pleasure, not reading a boring contact. I learned from what they did to me.
I will never again sign a contract with them or anyone without making sure I understand it. I was in a hurry the last time.
Reagan was up in her room waiting on me, and I just gave a cursory glance at it. Didn’t see a problem and signed on the dotted line to go and spend some time with Reagan.
I have no idea what I ever saw in her, to begin with. Goddess, her only purpose for existing was to become Luna of this pack.
For the money she receives to increase, so she can have all her dreams come true, oh yes, and to hurt Raven as much as she can.
Well, looks like the joke is on Reagan now, because Raven is living her best life. I overheard some of the guys talking about how Raven took Cheryl down.
Looked gorgeous doing it, and never broke a sweat. They all wanted to see if they could be her mate. Every freaking one of them.
They made no bones about wanting her, and I almost punched one of them when he was talking about the kick raven apparently did on Cheryl.
Apparently, Raven showed a lot of leg while doing it, and when his comment involved her legs being wrapped around him, I couldn’t contain my growl of anger. That is my mate he is disrespecting.
He and his friends all took off as they knew I was pissed, and about to attack them. Only for me to suddenly remember that I wasn’t her mate.
That I am just the i***t who lost her because I was scared of the pack members coming after me too. I don’t know why, it was a well-known fact, that I was the strongest fighter, next to dad.
If I had been thinking correctly I would have realized that I may have had to fight a few of them, but they would have figured out really quickly that they were going to continue to get their a*s kicked if the bullying had continued.
I would have just told them that we were going shopping with her, or out to lunch, and rejected our bond with the pack. We could have run away together.
She would still be my mate, and bare my mark, instead of Reagan. It is eating me up inside that this happened.
I wish I could control how I feel, and I bet the Goddess is getting a good laugh off of me on this one.
Alpha Cole had given me permission to come down to speak with Reagan, and he had an escort come with me. I can understand why they would want that.
Graham and Reagan were not known for being trustworthy, and the rest of us were branded just like them. So I was not allowed to touch her, or close enough to touch the bars on her cell either.
I was to stand in the circle in between their cells to speak, and then leave with my escort.
He stayed back at the bottom of the stairwell giving me a little privacy, but I knew that he had a visual on me. I stepped into the circle and saw that Reagan was asleep, of course, she was.
Why should anything I do work out at any point? I start getting angry again, and it is because I know at this point that Raven is now marked by another man, and is no longer mine anymore.
My heart feels like it is being squeezed inside my chest by an invisible hand, and the pain of it causes me to make a low sob.
I thought I would be busted out for caring about Raven, when I heard Graham say, “I thought you didn’t care for her anymore?”
I am not stupid, I will play along with this.
It should be my get-out-of-everything card. Plus, if I sleep with her when she gets home, I should be completely in her favor again.
I stopped sleeping with her once I decided that I wanted to be with Raven. I had thought that Raven was going to wait for me, to be able to be with her.
But I underestimated just how pissed off she was at me. She doesn’t want a damn thing to do with me, she is way passed pissed off. She didn’t even stop when I begged her to not mark that a*****e.
She knew I was there, and yet she did it anyway. Another whimper of pain escapes me, and Graham steps towards the cell bars to speak with me, and I turned to look at him.
His blue eyes, which are an exact match to Reagan’s look back at me unblinking. Graham seemed to want to look into my soul. He can go ahead and do it.
My soul is in pain, and if he thinks it is because of Reagan’s dumb a*s, so be it. This whole family is driving me crazy, and I can’t get away from any of them. I had hope today.
Hope that I could speak to Raven, to tell her how I feel, how much I love and miss her. To show her that I had changed by telling her dad important information.
I thought that tonight, she might accept me back, and at least give me a kiss. Not for her to ignore me and mark another man right there in front of me.
She told me I hurt her, and I did, but thousands of men have hurt women through the ages. Done stupid things, but still loved their women.
I guess Graham saw what he wanted in my eyes and then looked over at Reagan’s sleeping form and said, “She really messed up tonight, Justin. I don’t know what she did.
She keeps lying to me and saying that she didn’t do anything. From the sounds of it, whatever it was, was not bad enough to interrupt her sleep from it.
I know it will be bad, but according to her, she is guilty of nothing. I am glad you will support her as well because, with the council involved, this will go sideways fast.
Cole said he has a video of whatever it is, we need to be able to downplay it, so we will have a meeting after we get out of here. By any chance, did she happen to tell you what it was that she did?
I have some free time to try to think of a way to spin it, while I am doing nothing here.
She is my only child and even though she can be a terrible handful, I just want what is best for her” Alpha Graham tells me, and I know he is upset by what happened tonight.
“She didn’t tell me either, I am sorry. I saw her being escorted out, but I was speaking with Brandon at the time, and he was being very ugly about Reagan, and something to do with a drink.
I did see her, but I was trying to set him straight before I went running after Reagan. Once I got outside, because the door they used was locked, I lost her and didn’t know where they had taken her.
I had been begging Raven to tell me where they put Reagan when you and Luna Cassandra came back into the room. I just found out about 15 minutes ago, where I needed to come to be able to visit you.
I wish I knew what was going on.
People are not telling me, and it worries me too, sir” I told him, and I think I did enough of a good job to escape any and all problems that would come with having been the one to warn Alpha Cole.
Alpha Cole and the council member still need me to tell them the additional information that I have on Silver Blade. They want as many charges as they can get, and for that, they need an inside man.
I admit that the only reason I had originally helped them was to curry favor with Raven. She is marked now and has her second chance mate.
She will be leaving to go to his pack soon, and I won’t be able to see her anymore. She will be his tonight, and my heart twists in pain again. I can barely stop the sound from escaping.
I just realize that since I still feel the connection, am I also going to feel it when they fully mate too? Is the Goddess that heartless to do that to me? “How is it heartless, Justin?
Didn’t she end up passing out in pain from you and Reagan having s*x out there in the forest? Wasn’t that the reason she fell out of the tree?” my wolf, Lorne, asks me in mindlink.
“For the Goddess’s sake Lorne, I didn’t know she was there for her to be able to scent me. She didn’t feel it any of the time before because she didn’t know that I was her mate.
If I had only known that she was out there, I would never have done it.
If I knew then what I know now, I would have never slept with Reagan in the first place” I linked back, furious that he has mentioned it again. I already felt incredible guilt over it, to begin with.
He knows as well as me that she could have been killed if she had landed wrong after she fell from the tree. The Goddess herself must have protected her.
“I can see that you are really upset by this turn of events, Justin. I will help you both out of whatever bind Reagan has put you in. I will see if I can’t get her to stop.
I had already told her to stop, and I know you had too, that she needed to leave Raven alone. She will have to now. I don’t want to be getting into it with Black Adder too.
We are already in the middle of it with Blood Walker. That is bad enough. Brandon will definitely not allow it, he is very possessive of her already.
Reagan better hope that whatever she did to piss him off, will pass quickly” Alpha Graham said. “What did you say? Did Brandon mark someone tonight?
Who?” I heard Cheryl speak from her cell next to Reagan. “Actually he allowed his mate to mark him first, I left to come and visit you, but I would assume that he marked her in return,” I told Cheryl.
I deliberately omitted to tell her who. I was going to prolong her pain as long as I could because she had helped to cause this.
If she were better at seducing people like Reagan was, she would have already taken Brandon out of the equation years ago.
Then my sweet mate, Raven, would still be patiently waiting for me to be able to claim her. “Who? Who is he mated to?” Cheryl almost whispers the question out.
I can tell she is upset, but no more than I was. “Raven,” I told her in a curt way, and she surprised us all by screaming out in anger.
She is cursing Raven and says all sorts of vile things about her. When she started on the threats on Raven’s life, I couldn’t contain my growl at her.
Forgetting who I was standing next to, but again he misinterpreted my growl at Cheryl. “Didn’t I just tell you both, that none of you need to mess with Raven ever again?
Do not approach her, do not hurt her. We are done, there will be no more. I will kill you myself if I find out that you didn’t listen to me.
We will all be lucky to get out of this mess with just a fine or something. We cannot afford any more charges levied against us. or incidents against us.
No more!” Alpha Graham roars out the last bit and Reagan ends up waking up and turns over to see what is happening.
Before she can open her mouth to see what is happening I hear a voice from right behind me, I almost jumped because no one was there before, but my escort comes sliding past me and stops in front of Cheryl’s cell.
“You are a real piece of work, and I see what I could have been condemned to now. I am glad to see your real feelings come through. I was going to give you a chance, despite what my father told me.
After seeing how much you care for the mate that you chose for yourself, I have changed my mind.
I, Joshua DeSavage, incoming Beta of the Blood Walker pack, reject you Cheryl Peters as my true mate” he tells her, and from the look on his face, he is almost too disgusted to look at her.
I see tears in Cheryl’s eyes as she sees him, and didn’t realize that he was there, or that she had a second chance mate.
She is done for now, as she had rejected her first mate, and her second rejected her, but I can’t blame him, she is obsessed with another man.
I feel like I need to help him out, I know the heartbreak he is going through while waiting on her to accept it. “Answer him! Now! Accept his rejection, right now” I yelled at her.
She needs to just accept it, she caused it to begin with anyway by hurting her second-chance mate like that.
“I Cheryl Peters, daughter of the Gamma of the Silver Blade pack, accept your rejection, Joshua DeSavage,” Cheryl said, and I could tell he instantly felt better, but her pain increased.
Seeing it play out in front of me I see it clearly now. Sometimes when the person who was in the wrong accepts the rejection, they seem to feel the brunt of the pain.
Joshua looks at me and nods as he passes me. I can tell that he was giving me thanks for forcing her to stop stalling and trying to find a way to talk him into it.
He walks back down the hallway to the stairs to stand again. I no longer want to be here with them.
Seeing Reagan, and the rejection that just happened reminds me of the pain I bear for doing the same thing.
“Why are you here you traitor?” Reagan yells at me and reaches out of her cell to try to punch me. Great, my mate wants to go a round with me now. Goddess, please just make this night go by quicker.
I am miserable here, and I just want to leave. Chapter 39
Reagan’s POV
My father’s roar wakes me up from my sleep, I am scared to hear it.
I was worried that he was being tortured and immediately jumped up to check on him. I see Justin standing there, looking handsome, and the only one of us that was not currently locked up.
I then remember that I owe him a punch. I walked up to the bars on my cell and tried to connect with his face when another guy walked past and starts to speak to Cheryl.
Great, I swear that Cheryl just can’t stop making problems wherever we go. She has caused enough problems already, but at least this one is going to really cost her, I should know.
She rejected her first mate, to see if Brandon would be her second chance mate, and that didn’t work out for her.
This guy was really attractive, and in normal circumstances, I would have flirted with him, but dad and Justin were both here. He was pissed and clearly disappointed in his true mate.
Plus, with him being a Blood Walker, it just wasn’t going to work out. I gnawed on my bottom lip, Goddess, I really hate that, as I can tell by how he moves he would be good to get tangled up with.
I looked away when he glanced over at me, as I didn’t want to get caught staring at him. I was actually surprised that Justin was the one to yell at her and tell her to accept the rejection.
I know that pain, and so does Justin, it hurts. It hurts waiting for them to accept it, and it hurts when you do accept it.
There was no real way to get around it, it was going to hurt you to your core. I knew she wouldn’t want to accept it, as this would mean that she had lost lose her second chance mate.
I am quite sure that she didn’t want that to happen. I know I hadn’t, but I had trapped myself in it. I am still kicking myself for it.
I would have loved to try to get a hold of Carter, at least for a couple of days. Just to get him out of my system, but he was right, he was her half-brother.
I could not stand to be around Raven, and it would have just been a train wreck. It would never have worked out, but it would have been a good week.
The hot guy passes me after getting his rejection, and he is really angry but glad that she had finally accepted it.
I was hoping that he would notice me when he passed by but he didn’t, he just nodded at Justin for his help, and went out of sight.
I knew he was still around as Alpha Cole wasn’t an i***t, and knows better than to trust dad. Dad happened to notice me checking the guy out and looked up at the ceiling in frustration. What?
I was just looking. Even dad strays, mom doesn’t, but she knows better. Dad is more of a “Do as I say, not as I do” sort of person.
He needs to calm down, watching him as I grew up, it just seemed like he had a better life for it, doing what he wanted, and with whom he wanted. I just kind of copied him. So far, I was right.
It is a better, and certainly a less boring, life. “Reagan, you need to show more respect. Justin was truly worried about you and came down to check on you, and this is how you repay him?
Trying to hit him?” my dad said. “Dad, he totally ignored me as I was literally being drug away like a criminal. I needed his help and he stood there talking to Alpha Brandon.
He should have been helping me” I cried out in anger. “Alpha Brandon was speaking badly about you and our family.
He was defending us, and immediately went after you, but the door they took you out of, was locked, by the time he got out of the place and started to look for you, you were gone.
He did come after you” my dad told me, and it was plausible. They did have to unlock the door to exit it. This building was not that far away from the venue.
It was very convenient, but also a good excuse. It sounded like he really did come after me, and I softened a little bit. “I am sorry, Reagan.
I should have left Brandon immediately, and tried to stop Beta Timothy, but I had no idea that they were really taking you away like that. You are soon to be the Luna of Silver Blade.
What possible reason could they have for putting you in the cells? I think that it is just a power play to embarrass the family.
I will work on getting you all free, but I wanted to check on you first, to make sure you are OK. I was so worried after I saw that you had really been taken away” Justin told me.
I can see the concern and sadness in his eyes. I believe him, he didn’t know what Cheryl and I had planned. I had just guessed that it was him, as I know how unhappy he has been lately.
He was not as affectionate with me as he had been before. He was easier to control back when he was sleeping with me. It seems like everything is blown all to hell lately.
Maybe he will bend, and come back to our room to sleep in the same bed again. “I will go speak with Alpha Cole, and see what can be done.
I will promise him that we will immediately leave, as I feel like we need to get out of here, and as quickly as we can.
I have no interest in participating in any more of this stupid celebration here at Blood Walker. This is all just an elaborate show, put on for us.
They probably came up with the ball just to rub our noses in it. We came, we saw, we can just get the hell out of here, as I see no purpose for us to stay.
Agreed?” Justin said, and I have to agree with him. I wanted to get the hell out of here. We have no strength here, away from our pack.
There is nothing good to come from staying here at Blood Walker any longer. “That is a great idea, Justin. I agree with you.
We will leave as soon as Cole will allow us to” my dad said and I nodded in agreement. I was ready to leave right now.
“OK, I will see if they will at least get you some food or something to drink, while I go and speak with Alpha Cole.
Don’t worry, everything will work out” Justin told us and walked back to the stairs to be escorted out. Maybe things will work out between us. I believe what he said.
I could tell that Alpha Brandon had an issue with me when I spoke to him. He had probably heard a lot of bad things about me from Raven. It is a pity, he is pretty attractive too.
Justin is really stepping up here for us. He is calm, authoritative, and commanding right now, and he has never been sexier to me. I sat back down on my bunk, steaming over what happened tonight.
Why is the Goddess blessing Raven with so many attractive men? She doesn’t deserve them. Justin, and Brandon both, were way too good for her.
The Goddess clearly messed up, and badly by giving her so many blessings. Raven was just a little pest that was truly undeserving. I deserved Justin, so I took him.
Raven wouldn’t have even been hurt like she had been if she had only listened. This whole mess has been caused by her not following the rules that my dad set in place for her.
If she hadn’t been out of her room, disobeying dad, she would have never realized that Justin was her mate.
She wouldn’t have caught us together, and we would have been mated and marked without her getting hurt like she ended up being. That was all on her, I needed a strong mate to help me run Silver Blade.
Yes, she had a crush on him, but none of us actually thought that they were going to be mates. Yes, I intended to take her crush, but the rest of the stuff was just a fluke, an accident.
I just needed to make sure that I got my legacy, that pack was my birthright, not hers. This pack was hers. If she wanted one so bad, she could have this one, but not Silver Blade.
That was mine, and if I need to, I will fight her for it. “Why was Justin being so mean to me? Why did he force me to accept my mate’s rejection?
That wasn’t fair.” Cheryl called out from the next cell. I can hear her still crying about it, and she is really getting on my nerves.
“Stop crying, if you weren’t so busy focused on getting Brandon, who is NOT your mate, you would have scented him when he brought us down earlier. Did you not even recognize him?
He scented you, and yet didn’t reject you. You did this to yourself, so stop crying.
He said it himself, he was going to accept you, but he heard you going off on another tangent over Brandon, and that was it for him.
I don’t blame him, it is hard to hear your mate wanting another man. You belonged to him, and yet you were so pissed about Brandon, you lost your second chance mate.
Brandon belongs to Raven, you lost, let it go. It is done now, and he was never yours. Justin did the right thing by telling you to accept it.
We don’t need any of our pack members to be involved with anyone from Blood Walker. Cole is looking to get anything at all on us, while he builds up his case.
He might have used your bond to get information from you. Suck it up and stop the crying, we need to get a plan together. Hopefully, we will be out of here soon” my dad tells her.
I agree, shut the hell up with the crying already. “Yes, I think we will be getting out of here tonight, or in the morning at the latest.
I know that Justin will get us out of here” I said, agreeing with dad. “Reagan, just watch Justin. Earlier tonight he was very upset when I tried to slap him for bad-mouthing you.
He went off on me about you trapping him, and him never going to love you. Just be careful, I don’t want him breaking your heart” my mom interjects.
She has been quiet this whole time, but I am glad she loves me enough to tell me that. Dad and I were both already aware of it, but she was trying to protect me.
“I know mom, I know that he doesn’t love me as he should. He has said that to both dad and me before. Justin may have changed his mind when he realized that I had been kidnapped.
The problem between us is all my fault. He hadn’t forgiven me yet for drugging him. He didn’t want to go along with the plan, and we had to use more forceful means to get it achieved.
I will be watching him, but I think he is coming around now. I will make sure to keep an eye on him once I get out of here.
The best news was that Raven is now claimed, and now that she is marked, Justin will have to let it go and move on.
She is not his anymore, so I really think that Justin will be more on board with being an actual mate to me from now on.
I will leave her alone dad, but if she starts to cause us problems, I won’t hesitate to teach her another lesson.
I already have the perfect plan in my mind, and I believe that Justin will be more than happy to help me carry it out” I told him and try to hide my smirk at the devious plan that I had just come up with.
As long as she stays in her lane, I will let her go. But if she causes me, dad, or our pack problems, I will make sure she gets the payback that she deserves.
Alpha Brandon is known for flying off the handle sometimes, so I know that he will fight back, I needed to take him out of the equation.
Make him mad at her, so he stays out of it, and my plan is absolutely perfect.
Although his mood swings could be because he has been abstinent for 6 years too, that probably played a role in it as well.
I think anyone would be snapping at other people if they hadn’t had s*x in 6 years. “I agree, Justin will be easier to control now that Raven is no longer available.
His wanting her, and her being so close to Silver Blade, was not ideal. He will finally have to admit to himself, that she will not be accepting him.
I think he just has a weird infatuation with Raven, probably because they had been mated. She didn’t encourage him, she was clearly still angry at him for choosing you over her.
No one knew that she would get a second chance mate so soon. I hope that this will end his own fascination with her. He doesn’t realize that she is done with him, or at least he refuses to accept it.
It is all in his head, him thinking that he still has a bond, or a chance, with her. He doesn’t, he just has a lot of guilt over what he did, and what we forced him into.
He had never done anything like this before, so the guilt is probably crippling him right now. That is all he actually feels, but he is thinking that it is love, he should be over it soon.
We will just watch him, as he might try to do something drastic to try to get her back. Reagan, you just need to work your magic on him to bring him back in line again.
We will need him to help us, especially if the council allows Cole to attack us” my dad said to us. I agree with that too, we need as many strong fighters as we can get.
Our pack needs to step up and train, we have to be able to protect ourselves, and soon. We have been lax, and now we need to get in gear if we are to survive.
What was the point in all of this if the pack gets wiped out before I can even take it over? I would be so pissed off if that happened. Raven gets to be a Luna, how unfair would it be if I didn’t?
I was raised my whole life to run this pack. I am so close to grabbing that rung, only for it to be snatched away from me. I feel like I could cry.
I have wanted this, and only this, for the last 8 years. I was born to be the Luna of Silver Blade, and I will let nothing, and no one, take it from me. I have come way too far now to just give up.
Whatever needs to be done to make sure that Justin and I get the pack from my parents, that is what I will do. “Whatever it takes to get us out of this mess dad, I will do.
I doubt that they will make us give up our pack. I think that we just need to train our members, and focus on the business end of this to build up our funds.
I honestly believe that they will just be fining us, and not allow war. War is not in anyone’s best interest.
I think that as long as we build up our money, then we will be able to handle anything that comes our way” I told him. I can hear him chuckling from his cell. “Dad, what is so funny over there?
Why are you laughing?” I asked him. Worried for his sanity now, as this was not a laughing matter. “You are, Reagan. It really isn’t funny, but you are now so into “fixing this” when you caused it.
You don’t take instruction, and you do what you want to do. I don’t know how long the pack can survive after you and Justin take over.
I told you to stop, and we are in this all because of your actions. You HAD to have Justin. You HAD to sneak out to have risky s*x in the forest.
Which ended up tipping your hand and letting Raven know that not only did she have a mate, but that you were stealing her mate. You telling me that Justin had rejected her when he hadn’t.
Which resulted in my being threatened with death, was on you too. You assured me he had, even knowing who her dad was and that their bond still being in place could kill her.
Now you pull something else. Cole is right, you are a real piece of work. You care about yourself, and what you can get, that is it. Justin was a means to an end for you.
A way to get the spot you wanted, but most of all, a way to hurt your sister. You need to focus on keeping your spot and the pack now.
You have got to leave Raven alone, or we will be destroyed” my dad tells me. I cannot stop my laughter from escaping. “Why dad, give me one good reason why.
She is weak, and yes she is getting back at us right now, but this is only because she is new to them. Her family will calm down soon. Her mate will too. A penny is only shiny for a little while dad.
Soon life will be back to where it was for her, and she will be treated like the mistake she is. I will not cower away from her.
There is nothing about her that impresses me, and soon others will figure that out as well. Stop worrying, everything will be fine” I told him, still chuckling at him being intimidated by Raven.
That is hilarious, dad must be losing it. “Everything is not fine, you spoiled brat. Are you hearing what I am telling you? Brandon is tearing up our treaty, he will no longer be our ally.
He refuses to continue on with it, as he is now aware of some of what she went through. When he goes, so do about 60% to 65% of our allies with him.
He just told me that he was going to make calls and let them know, that if they are with me, they are against him. He will tear up treaties with anyone who supports us.
We will be almost defenseless, and now is not the time for this to happen. The council WILL be ruling against us. We need to all pray for it to be only a fine, but I live in the real world, Reagan.
One where your actions have actual consequences, you have no idea how many times I covered for you. How many times I have kept you from being punished for things you really needed to be punished for?
I should have let you experience the punishment, I have created the very person who will end up destroying our pack. Please, Reagan, for the love of our Silver Blade, do not do anything else to Raven.
I don’t think that we can handle the consequences of it” my dad said, and my knees were weak. Realization set in. Brandon would do that for his mate.
Just like I can feel Justin’s emotions, and see some of his memories. I bet Brandon can do that with Raven too. So even if she didn’t tell him what happened, he could see what she went through.
I am so screwed, I already know with them being true mates it will be even stronger for them than it is for me and Justin.
He may be able to see more and know more, about what happened to her at Silver Blade. I believe dad when he said that Brandon will be tearing up the treaty. He will do exactly what dad said.
If that happens we will have very few standing with us in case of attack. The ones left would be weak packs, like ours, who will offer no real help or support for us.
We could be wiped out if we get attacked, the very real option of losing our pack is positively frightening. Where would we go? Where would we be able to live?
This is going to affect so many things in our lives. We would no longer live as well as we do. The possibility of us being broke, and homeless is looming over me.
I cannot live like that, I didn’t deserve to live like that. I refuse to do it. I have had a very comfortable life, and I can’t just go and lose it all. I won’t do it. I start making mental plans now.
Yes, definitely build the business up more. Get the pack in shape because a war is coming. I will train too, even if I am not going to participate in it.
Someone has to lead the women and children to the shelter. Yes, I need to build a shelter and stock it with some non-perishable food, and water.
I start to make plans in my head now as I am frightened of what is coming. I am their leader and I won’t lose the only home I have ever known.
Other packs are hesitant at taking in former Alpha and Luna ranks because sometimes their pack could get taken away from them when they do.
I need a notebook, or my phone back, so I can make notes of what needed to be done. I have to make some drastic changes so Raven’s family leaves us alone. I cannot allow it.
I will have to do something about this. I won’t stand by and watch as Silver Blade crashes and burns. I won’t take this lying down. My mind goes into overdrive trying to figure out a way around this.
With half the pack members at our pack, then Alpha Cole has at his, we are done for. I am not even taking into account all the people that Brandon has in his pack.
I really regret what I did to him now. I am quite sure that he will be furious with me and want to pay me back for it. He will have to suspect me of it, as I gave him the drink.
We are going to have to lay low for a while and think of a way out of this. Because if I can’t live in peace and happiness, then neither can Raven.