Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter - Chapter 31: Chapter 44

Raven’s POV
I never knew how it felt to touch your chosen mate. I never actually got the opportunity to put my hands on Justin.
As far as I was concerned, he was tainted by Reagan, and I would never accept him after the show that I got to witness.
Especially since he knew what all she had done to me at Silver Blade, he knew who she was, and still signed up to be with her.
But touching my mate now, I get why Justin was suddenly so in love with me, instantly. I am having a hard time holding myself back, I want this man in front of me, so much.
His placing my hand on his body was like granting me permission, and I enjoyed the tingles I felt. His jerking movements showed me that he was just as excited at my touch as I was at touching him.
I felt empowered, and I ended up adding my other hand, gliding them both on his impressive c.hest and abdominal area. He clearly works out a lot, and I am truly impressed.
I have never seen a more perfect specimen in my life. Brandon is giving me a low growl, and that turns me on even more. That I hold even a tiny bit of power over this large man, excites me.
I am ready to go to the bed, but I am shy. Do I lead him there? Will he just follow me there? He is blocking the exit to the closet, do I ask him nicely to move for us to go to the bed?
I don’t know what to do, and I can see his smile getting bigger and bigger as I am trying to figure out how to get us into my bedroom.
“Just ask, and I will move” I heard him say above me, and I instantly feel the red on my cheeks bloom up. He knew, he knew what I was thinking, and yet he let me agonize over it.
He isn’t playing fair. “Brandon” I hissed at him in embarrassment. He should do the gentlemanly thing to do and take me there.
I cannot look up as I know my whole face is red, I can feel the heat of it, right up to the tips of my ears. “I am sorry, my love. I was only trying to tease you, Raven.
I love you, I wouldn’t deliberately hurt you” He told me and swept me up bridal style into his arms.
He carried me to the bed, set me down on the floor, and asked permission as he leaned down and took the hem of my Bunny nightgown into his hands.
I looked up at him waiting to decide if I was ready or not for this. About four breaths later, he was starting to get nervous. I agreed and let him remove the nightgown from my body.
I am nervous, but I trust him completely. He is my mate, and I know that he won’t hurt me. I am just going to savor this experience.
I am excited to learn everything he is willing to show me, as I bury my heated face into his c.hest and let him carry me to my bed.
Brandon’s POV
Raven was wearing just her underwear, but no b.ra, and seeing her standing there, shyly in front of me, she is stunning.
She is absolutely perfect and I almost forgot to breathe while looking at her. She is still a little on the thin side, but after what I knew about her life at Silver Blade, that made sense.
I cannot stop myself from reaching out and taking a dusky n****e between my fingers and giving it a little bit of a tug and a small twist.
This resulted in a pleasurable gasp from my mate, and I stopped to place her gently on the bed.
I sat on my knees on the side of the bed facing her, and she was a Goddess with her hair splayed all around her.
Her black hair showed up against the white pillows as if she were some sort of an avenging angel rising up into the sky. I got right to work again.
I don’t have time to wait as I am already painfully hard. Thankfully, Raven hasn’t noticed it yet. My lounge pants are trying to keep it out of her line of vision so far.
I immediately got to work again, tugging one n****e into my mouth as I started playing with her other n****e again.
I need to get her relaxed before I start the next chapter of what we were going to do.
I need her to be w.et, to be able to accommodate me, so I needed to get her to c*um for me first, for natural lubrication.
The m0ans that are coming from her l!ps are making me impossible harder, and I feel like I am going to c*um myself, just like a young teenager with his first experience.
I straddle Raven, as I continue to work her n*****s which are hard nubs now. I start to l!ck her mark and then bite down a little on it.
When she cries out, I latch onto her mouth to k!ss her and run my tongue inside her mouth, as it was open from her cries of pleasure.
Raven winds her arms around my neck to hold my head down to hers and gives me a passionate k!ss back.
Raven is just as happy at our mating as I am and I know that I need to get the final step done before we can complete this.
I pulled back from her embrace and looked into her eyes they are glazed with pleasure and seeing her like that made me give a low growl of approval again.
My growl makes Raven shudder and I need to get this done now. I know that I cannot hold out much longer. I stand quickly and almost rip my pants off in my hurry to get out of them.
Raven is lying back against her pillow and glances back down at me when I settle between her legs.
I had to open them to get between them, and I can feel her already tensing up when she saw me in all my glory. I can only assume that she thought I was going to complete our mating now.
But I have another gift for her to take her over the edge before I complete the mating process. I lean down and her panties are w.et with her ar0usal. This is good, but she will need more.
I can feel her tense up again as she is now on her elbows looking at me, and she has a full view of what I am working with, and she is starting to dry up on me in her panic.
I can imagine that it is intimidating to her, but she will be able to take it, she was created just for me. “Baby, it is OK, do not be scared. I am going to get you prepared for it, just calm down.
I do not want this to hurt you, you might feel a little discomfort, a little full, but I will make this a very pleasurable experience. Just lay back, and trust me, OK? We are not mating right now.
I am just preparing you for when we do” I told her, and she did listen to me. She relaxed a little before she laid back on the bed, but she was not as relaxed as she had been before.
I have no time to waste here, I need to claim my mate. I use my claws to cut the seam on either side of her panties, and throw them off the bed. I will replace them too for her.
I lean down to scent her c0re and the vibrating growl that rips out of me makes Raven shudder in pleasure.
I settle between her open legs to give me more room and put her th!ghs over my shoulders as I dive in to taste my mate. She tastes so good to me, and even with her nerves, I am enjoying this.
At first, she was clenching up on me, I couldn’t hear anything as she kept attempting to close her legs on me, and was covering my ears.
She even tried to edge up and away from me, but I lifted her up and gave her cl!t a good s.uck and she cried out in pleasure and stopped fighting me on it.
As I lapped up her sweetness and toyed with her cl!t, I was circling my h!ps on the bed, as I needed a little relief too. I cannot wait to take my mate and show her the love that I have for her.
The time is getting close and my beautiful mate seems to be fighting the feeling.
Not knowing what it is because it is foreign to her, she is not slipping over and allowing the pleasure to wash over her.
I knew I needed to work harder and reached up to start teasing her n*****s again. She is singing out praises to me in her m0ans that filled the room.
Her head is moving side to side as she still tries to resist the sweet c****x that I know is waiting right there. Her legs are shaking and her breath is coming in heavy pants now.
I gently tug her cl!t back into my mouth and gave it a hard s.uck and she crashed over with my name on her l!ps, as she screamed out in pleasure. My name has never sounded sweeter.
I continue to work with her as I know that she is still riding out her high, and I ease forward to k!ss her l!ps and then l!ck her mark.
I am rubbing my c**k at her entrance to get some of her juices on it, and she looks into my eyes. Her lids are heavy and she is blissfully happy right now.
“I am going to take this slowly, let me know if you feel any pain,” I tell her as I start to slide in.
I feel her hands on my back start to bite as she starts digging in with her nails at the intrusion. She is tensing up again. The fear of what is about to happen is replacing her former relaxed state.
I slide in a little until I hit her h.ymen. “This will only hurt for a little bit,” I told her and pulled back to slide in further this time, tearing her h.ymen, but I stayed still for a little bit.
I k!ssed her face and see a tear escape her closed eye. I k!ssed her tear away, before k!ssing her l!ps, and then n!pping her mark.
I can feel her clench around me in pleasure at the n!p, and I decide to k!ss her, and then n!p her again.
I feel her push forward with her h!ps, and I slid back and then gently forward again as I am almost there. I can feel her gripping me, and she is so tight.
I am going at a slow pace to keep from hurting her. It was never like this with Liza, she had already had s*x when we got together and she showed me.
I leaned down and s.ucked a n****e into my mouth and then started to pull back, and then in again, this time to the hilt, and I saw stars. They are exploding behind my eyes as the tight fit.
I could come right now and be happy, but I wanted her first time to be good too. She has released her nails from me, but she needs more to start relaxing and enjoy it.
I need her to be able to c*m again. I braced my weight onto one arm and reached between us to play with her cl!t. She is m0aning again and I can feel her getting w.etter around me.
That is going to help, as I brace myself on both arms and s.uck her other n****e into my mouth.
I start an easy pace, to begin with, and as I rise up to k!ss her again she m0ans in my mouth as my c**k drags against her cl!t when I do that.
I stayed in this position as I continue to k!ss her, and speed up the pace, which causes her even more pleasure.
I will do anything to make her happy, and I am so glad that she lets me know what she likes. She is so w.et right now, and I cannot stop myself from pounding into her faster.
Her m0ans show her pleasure as they filled the room, she is making sweet nonsensical sounds now. I am amazed that I have even held out this long, but I wanted her to go over with me.
To feel the same pleasure that I do when we c****x together. I can hear her m0ans getting louder and louder.
I felt her legs, which she wound against me when she started to make the funny sounds, tighten up on me as she nears her c****x.
I feel her tighten up on me, as she screams my name out, as I go to bite down on her mark. She bites down on my mark too and I explode inside her.
I keep c.uming with rope after rope entering her, and Axe even howled in my head from his feeling the same euphoria that I am feeling.
I am done for, exhausted, and yet, I don’t want to pull out of her. I want us to sleep like this, but I know that I am too heavy to do that to her.
I slide out of her and pulled her tightly into my arms. I k!ssed her gently and l!ck her mark again. She is safe in my arms, I have never been happier in my life.
She is exhausted and is quickly asleep. I am tired too, this has been a long day, and I was worried that my nap earlier was going to keep me awake.
But with my beautiful mate in my arms, and her scent surrounding us. I fall into a deep sleep too. I wake up disoriented hearing the toilet flush a few hours later.
Raven quickly comes back to me and the sight of her n.aked body ignites my passion again. She snuggled back up to me only to find that something is poking her into her butt.
She goes to push it away for her to get comfortable against me again, only to realize quickly what it was that was poking her and immediately drops her hold on it. “Oh no, my beauty.
You woke him up, you are going to have to help me take care of this little problem” I told her with a smirk. I had reached around her and was using my finger on her cl!t to get her up to speed again.
This time I will go slower with her, as the matter is not as pressing as it was earlier. I lifted her leg and slide up to her entrance, as I continue to work her cl!t.
Raven had turned towards me and I was glad that she gave me a smile and a k!ss, before she said, “Gladly,” and pushed herself closer to me, which helped me slide right into her.
She gave a low m0an, as I gr0aned out loud. Raven was much more excited and involved this time around. She angled herself to make our connection even closer and I couldn’t hold my m0an back.
We were joined so closely, I have never experienced this level of intimacy before.
Raven was a quick study and was moving her h!ps in such a way that I could not continue to just glide in and out of her as I had originally planned to.
I had to stop and pull her up on her knees in front of me, and I gripped her h!ps to hold her as I slide my length back into her.
I stop for a second to make sure that Raven is OK before I continue on with my previous pace. I am definitely going to increase it, I was just waiting on Raven to let me know when.
I can hear her breathing increase, and her legs starting to shake and I slowed my pace again. I see her look at me in frustration over her shoulder and I give her a smile before driving back into her.
I am to the hilt and Raven is breathy in her approval, and that is so s.exy to me. I reached forward and using my hands pull her back into me with my last thrust before we both came undone.
I am holding her tightly to me, and my heart feels like it is going to explode out of my c.hest in happiness. Goddess, I love Raven so much. She is the perfect woman, and I am so proud to be her mate.
I release her and pull out slowly. “She will be the perfect mother too, Brandon.
I am quite sure that she is now pregnant with our pup” Axe tells me, and I cannot stop the huge smile that comes across my face.
“Even if she is already pregnant, I refuse to stop practicing to make pups with Raven, Axe. Practice makes perfect” I tell him and I can feel him agreeing with me about it.
Raven is it for us, and I cannot wait to take her home and introduce her to her pack. They are going to love her too. She snuggles back into me and I k!ssed the back of her head.
I love her so much, I hope she feels as safe and happy in her new pack, as she does here.
I pull her even tighter to me and I pray to the Moon Goddess Selene that her sister has the brains to leave Raven alone from now on.
I believe that with my reputation that Reagan will think twice before she tries to mess with Raven again. Unfortunately, I have seen some of Raven’s memories of what Reagan has done to her.
If she hurts her again like that, may the Goddess have mercy on her soul, because I certainly won’t. Chapter 45
Raven’s POV
We are a bonded pair now, and I could not be happier.
I can feel how much Brandon loves me. I am over the moon at the second chance mate that the Goddess gave me, I am so thankful to her for giving me such a good man.
He carried my bags downstairs and put them in the SUV for me.
Stella has quite a bit more stuff than I do, so it was a good thing that I only had a little carry-on and a full suitcase for all my stuff.
They had to set the back row down to get it all loaded in, and they still had to Tetris it in to get it loaded.
I feel much calmer today than I did last night, but I already know that I am going to cry again when we go to leave.
Carter and Simone will be following us back, as she needs to pack and come back with him. Everyone seems so blissfully happy this morning with their new mates.
We all had breakfast together, and our dry eyes remained until it was time to leave. But we needed to, word didn’t need to get out that the Alpha and Beta were both away.
Truett’s dad the former Beta, Edward Logan, was in charge along with the newly appointed Gamma, Leander, who apparently was Cheryl’s little brother. I don’t know what to think about that yet.
No one expected anything bad to happen, but you also don’t want to give an opportunity for anything bad to happen either.
Dad understood, and Stella and Lanie were super excited about going to see their new pack. I was a little less enthused, but I was happy to go with Brandon to his pack.
I love and trust him, and I know that he will not allow anything bad to happen to me at my new home. I hugged Austin and told him to come and visit me, and he promised he would.
He just got his license too, when I did, so he will be getting a vehicle of his own soon. Dad had told both of us that we would each be getting one.
I had been practicing in the SUVs for the driving test, and dad wanted us to have big vehicles to protect us. As children of an Alpha, sometimes we can be used as bargaining chips for deals, or money.
I see a shiny new SUV in front of the pack house, and dad and Olivia take me over to it. Carter is standing there with Simone and he is grinning at me.
Dad explains that he got two of them, one for me, and one for Austin. Carter still likes his flashy sports car, but I loved the new SUV.
I already had a name in my head already picked out for her, Black Beauty. “I will drive your SUV there for you, Raven, and we will bring Simone’s car back with her stuff.
Well, as much stuff as we can load in it. Then next week when her parents come to visit, they will bring the rest of it with them” Carter said, and Simone gave him a small push on his arm.
They look so cute together and they make me smile. Simone was very nice when I got to speak to her last night and at breakfast, and she was excited about getting a new sister too.
Simone is already 1000% better than Reagan ever was.
“Thanks, dad, thanks Olivia, I appreciate the new car, but you didn’t have to do that for me,” I told them both as they smiled at me, and tried not to cry.
“I know that we didn’t have to, but we wanted to. This way you can come back to see us when you want, or need to, without having to wait to get a ride.
I wanted you to have control over what you can do. Plus, Austin got one too, it is only fair. I did add something to yours though. I got a protective grill, a good one, installed on the front of it.
If anyone you don’t know ever tries to stop you on the road, just go ahead and hit their car, the grill is designed to push their car out of your path.
Just call me, or Brandon, so we can come to help you. We are going to miss you so much, my baby girl.
Even with knowing that this time would eventually come, this is so hard for me” my dad said, and I can see his eyes shining with tears that he is refusing to let fall. “I am going to miss you too.
You two have been the best parents ever, and I was going to see if Olivia was OK with me just calling her mom, from now on.
I don’t want to upset her, or my brothers though” I said, and cut my eyes over to Olivia to gauge her reaction to what I had asked.
Olivia gave a muffled cry and said, “Yes! Yes, sweet girl, of course. I considered you to be my daughter already the moment I meet you.
You don’t even have to ask, I was just giving you time to get to know me, I didn’t want you to feel forced or pressured into thinking you had to.
But you are mine, just the same as the boys are, I didn’t have to give birth to you for me to love you like I do”
Now she has got me crying too, and I feel Brandon’s hand on the small of my back rubbing it, to help to calm me down.
I love that he can feel my emotions, and loves and cares for me to help me when I need it. I love the bond between us, as I will know when he needs me as well.
There is no guessing, the bond is a powerful thing, and I am so glad for my second chance mate. I have never felt so loved and cherished.
I knew that Justin felt something after he touched me, I had felt the tingles on my face when he touched me too, but it was nothing like what I felt with Brandon.
Everyone loads up and I get into the front of the SUV with Brandon as he goes to take us home. Stella and Truett are in the backseat, and they take every opportunity to touch each other.
Holding hands, giving a quick kiss, a hug, and it is so sweet. Stella got what she had always wanted too, and I couldn’t be happier that we would still be in the same pack together.
There was a great deal of comfort in knowing that I wouldn’t be alone in my new pack.
That while I was still learning and meeting new people I will still have a group of people there to make it easier. Angie was ecstatic and wanted some grand pups as soon as possible.
I was thinking that it will be great for the children to be so close in age, more like siblings, than cousins. Stella talked excitedly all the way there, and Black Adder did not disappoint.
It was a huge pack. Brandon had filled me in on a few of the things that had happened due to what Cheryl and Silas did.
Things that cost him and the pack so much, and I could tell how frustrated he was about it. He felt like it made him look like a liar in front of his pack, as that is what they went around implying.
He told me they said that he was not dependable, and didn’t have the pack’s best interest at heart. He was the angriest that the original promises that he made, had still not happened.
He wanted his pack members to be able to enjoy themselves inside their own pack on their day off.
To be able to spend time relaxing on their own land, without the danger of being discovered if their child had an incident at the playground.
He cares about his people and I reached over to squeeze his hand. “We will get it done together. We will make the pack exactly what you want it to be, Brandon.
Our pups will play on that playground with their packmates. We will make that happen. I can see your vision” I told him and I can. I can also see us going even further.
It rains a lot in our area, and I think some indoor options would be a great idea too.
A center with a bowling alley, arcade, and maybe a rock climbing wall in it, and a separate building for movies would be nice.
It would give the pack members options on other things to do here inside the pack.
I will have to run it by Brandon, but I remember how boring it was for me to stay in my room all the time, with no other options for me, other than the occasional books that I could get my hands on.
That is another thing, I would like to see the library situation too. I would love for us to have a large library, one with a kid’s corner, and comfortable places to read in it.
The pack house was large, and there was a group outside when we arrived. The former Alpha and Luna, were in the SUV in front of us, with Krew and Lanie.
We were in the second SUV, and Carter and Simone were behind us in my SUV. The Alpha family was greeted warmly, and for the most part, Stella, Lanie, and I were as well.
There were of course some jealous she-wolves in the bunch, but they just watched us and then walked away.
Nothing bad was done or said to us, and I can take a little heat, especially since I won the best mate prize. They will get over it eventually.
I stayed with Brandon until everyone had left, and got my bags out of the back of the SUV.
Carter had given me the two keys that came with my SUV and I had given one of them to a warrior to move it to the garage for me.
I wasn’t planning on going anywhere anytime soon anyway, so it was not a problem to get it parked. Simone and Carter went up to get her packed, and Brandon took me up to his room for me to unpack.
His room was really big and very nice. He had decorated it in a smokey blue and dark gray color, which I recognized as the pack colors on the gate.
It smelled like him, and I was glad to not scent any she-wolves in here. I know what he said, but sometimes guys downplay when it comes to other women.
I was glad that he was serious about staying away from anyone that wasn’t his mate after Liza.
Brandon hugged me and gave me a kiss before he excused himself to go to his office and get caught up with his paperwork.
He had done it yesterday before he left, but there is paperwork every day, and he didn’t want it to get behind.
He promised me he would be done in two hours or less, and told me that the pack knew that I was there, and I was free to go wherever I wanted to.
I decided to go check out the rest of the packhouse for myself. I wished I had asked him where his office was, that is, which floor it was on.
There were 5 floors to this massive packhouse, and it was pretty large. I could smell his scent until I got on the elevator, and from there I would lose it as I didn’t have a floor.
No matter, I was not scared to be alone anymore.
I can defend myself pretty well now, I knew that Stella and Lanie were busy with their men, and then unpacking, so I was content to go on this little adventure by myself.
I am the Luna here, despite not having my ceremony yet. “You are never alone, Raven.
You have me, and I guarantee you that I can take care of any problem we run into here” Emerald mindlinks me, and she makes me smile.
She is right, she was my first friend, and she will take care of anything that happens to us. I had seen the dining hall on the first floor, and I knew that he was going to meet me there at noon.
So I decided to check out the other areas instead, as I would see the dining area at lunch. I walked around outside for a little bit, the landscaping was gorgeous, and the flowers were lovely.
I saw a vision of where I would like the buildings to go out there, from the playground to the other things that I wanted to get built as well. Dad had put some money into my account.
Ever since he got me back, he has been nothing but wonderful to me. He said that he had spent money on my brothers for everything he had bought for them their whole lives.
So he put the finds in there for emergency and had estimated what he had spent on my brothers and halved it. Austin is much more lowkey than Carter, and his tastes, as dad said, were less expensive.
He was so upset that I had been neglected and punished. He was convinced that it was his fault for not confronting them sooner. It was never his fault, it was always Graham, and Cassandra’s.
They started the downward spiral of my life by deciding that I needed to be punished for existing, despite it being their choice on how it played out.
I had no responsibility or blame for it, but just my being born made them instantly hate me. That shows the lack of understanding that they had.
They caused this whole train wreck, their own bad decisions. It never had anything to do with me, it was all on them regardless of whether or not they were willing to admit it.
I am glad that the therapy I received allowed me to think this through, and know that it had never been my fault. The blame always lay on them, for their own bad choices.
I had been getting a few curious looks, mostly from the unmated warriors. But thankfully no one had approached me yet.
I had gone out much further than I intended to, but I was just trying to get the lay of the land here.
Brandon was very proud of his pack and was telling me about the new land purchase as he had chatted excitedly on the way here. He wants to do the upgrades he was mentioning and a new packhouse.
He also wants to add more homes on the land so his people have options, to live in the packhouse, or to have some space away from the busy packhouse.
I liked that he wanted them to be able to decide for themselves and that he wanted his pack members to be happy.
I was heading back to the packhouse and passing the training grounds when I saw trouble coming my way.
This is not my first go-around with confrontation, and honestly, it probably won’t be my last, but I had a good minute before they can cut me off, so I continued on my path to the packhouse.
They managed to stop me about a thousand feet from the back entrance. “So, I see the pride of Silver Blade is our new Luna. How in the hell did you manage that?
From what I have heard, you are not worthy of getting an Omega as your mate” The leader of this group of four girls spits out at me. She is really angry at me for some reason, and I have no idea why.
I have never met her. I hope that this is not going to be the way my new pack treats me. I hope that this is an isolated incident.
But if she is implying that I will just take abuse as I did at Silver Blade, this girl is in for a surprise. “I am sorry, I do not know you. You are?” I asked her as I arched my eyebrow at her.
She is wrong if she thinks that she and her little group are intimidating me. They would have before, but I am not the same girl I was at Silver Blade.
The information that they got on me is outdated, and they are about to find that out.
Two of the girls with her, go to stand behind me, flanking me with one on each side of me, waiting on their ringleader to tell them to start. I already know what they are planning to do.
They are going to try to hold me for the angry one to hurt me. OK. I guess the time for talking is now done. The leader steps up to me, and we are almost nose to nose now.
She is just a little shorter than me, and I can tell that is it pissing her off to have to look up to me.
She was at a high point when she stopped me, and I guess when she stepped down to where I was she realized that I had been standing in a low spot.
I can see her eyes glaze over and the two girls immediately grab my arm that was closest to them, and the fourth girl keeps a lookout for them.
They all know that I am the new Luna and that what they are doing was punishable, yet they are doing it anyway. “You hurt my friend, my best friend.
You got her kicked out of here, and she let me know last night that you were coming.
It is only right that I do to you what you did to her” the girl said to me and I see a little paring knife in front of my face. “Ah, you are Cheryl’s friend. It all makes sense now.
She attacked me, she got some bad information and thought she would hurt me. Looks like you got some bad information too.
Or do you not get in trouble for assaulting your Luna here at Black Adder?” I asked her.
I felt the girls holding my arms stiffen up and their holds loosen on me, before she hissed at them both, “Hold her, you know what Cheryl said.” Their hold got tighter on me again and I almost wanted to laugh at them.
They must have lost their minds. This was a really bad idea, but I will play along. “What did Cheryl say?” I asked them in an amused tone. I really wanted to hear this.
“That you had Brandon spelled, and that by taking away your beauty, he will realize that Cheryl is his mate.
Then she will come back here, as Luna, and let me have anyone that I wanted as my chosen” the girl said. It was so messed up, I had to laugh. She cannot be serious.
This girl is just as delusional as Cheryl is, but that knife was real and getting very close to my face. Chapter 46
Brandon’s POV
I got through my paperwork in record time.
I wanted to get back to my mate again. I had missed her the whole time, and I should have just had her come to the office with me. So her scent could be in my office.
I file this away for the next time. Bring my mate with me so she can sit on my lap to make my work environment better. Then we could have done the tour of the pack, and grounds together.
I want them all to see me with her, so they know who she is to them. I can feel that Raven is happy through our bond and I wonder what she is doing.
I see her walking back to the packhouse, as my office is at the back of the packhouse, and provides the best view, with the most sunlight.
I watch her walk back and I get excited about going to meet her. I see some girls heading her way, and I know I need to watch this play out. The girl in front was Cheryl’s best friend, Harper.
She was the one who helped spread the rumor around the pack, all the lies to try to get the pack members against me.
I wanted to kick her out of the pack too, but she is a good fighter, just not the smartest of my pack members.
Plus, other than the rumors I had heard about what she and Cheryl had been doing, I didn’t have the proof I needed to kick her out of there.
I know she is wanting to confront Raven, Cheryl knew we would be coming back, so she probably called her to get her to start some trouble.
This isn’t good, and I linked Truett to come to the back of the packhouse, and let him know that raven was in trouble.
I took off to go downstairs to stop the fight before it even starts, I won’t allow it. Harper is delusional if she thinks that she and her little friends will be getting away with this.
Truett and Stella were already downstairs and heading to go exit the back door of the packhouse before I arrived.
We exited together and since the majority of the group was focused on what Raven and Harper were saying we managed to get pretty close to them to hear what they were saying.
Stella was pissed at what she heard Harper say, Cheryl was not going to be Luna, that whole thing was a pack of lies, but Harper was believing it as truth.
But her pulling a knife, to use on her Luna, was unbelievable. I am stunned into freezing in place. I don’t want to do anything that would result in Raven being hurt.
Raven is calm though as if she were not scared at all. Her heart rate is even, and she looks unconcerned. “You are wrong on so many levels, but Cheryl is gone forever from Black Adder.
She is banished, and that happened before I even knew of her. That was all based on her own actions. Second, I am not a witch, I don’t know any witches, and you need to make your own decisions.
You don’t need to risk your own banishment, or punishment, for attacking your Luna. This is of course your own decision to make, and from the looks of it, you have made up your mind.
I just have one more thing to tell you, well, actually two things” Raven told the leader with a smirk on her face.
She growls at Raven like she would like nothing more than to just end her right here, instead of just ruining her face with her knife.
“Sure, I have time, what is it that you wanted to tell me?” Harper responds with sarcasm, as she still thinks that she has the upper hand here when she never had it to begin with.
“Well, first you can’t force people to become your chosen mate. They would have to agree to it as well. Seems like if they wanted to do that, you would already be mated to them.
So, that won’t be happening. Secondly, Brandon will feel it when you try to damage my face.
He is actually already here and watching you right now” Raven told her and glanced over at us, standing next to them and watching this play out.
The girls holding Raven’s arms let go like she was scalding their hands.
They backed up, with one of them crying and the other saying, “Alpha, we are sorry.” I already knew that they would be blaming it on the leader, but they took part in it, all four of them did, and I am not letting them go.
There weren’t sorry for their part in this, they were sorry that I had caught them in the act. There is a big difference between those two things.
I can tell by how they are looking at me, that they honestly thought that they would be next in line for Luna, but getting rid of my mate. They were wrong.
Harper, sensing that she needs to get this done quickly and looks back at Raven with determination and raises the knife up to her face again, and stepped forward to try to stab her.
She never saw the front kick coming. She flies backward and the knife flew out of her hand to land on the grass several feet away.
She started crawling backward away from Raven and towards her weapon, but when she got to it, someone was standing on the handle. Harper looked up at Stella and I could feel her fear.
Stella wasn’t holding back her anger at this woman. Stella had heard what the woman had said and she was furious that she wanted to force someone to be her mate.
Stella had already heard stories about Harper too and knew who Harper was wanting to choose as her chosen mate.
The woman stood up and glanced hesitantly at Brandon and Truett and decided to defend herself, with them, ignoring us.
Even if she knew what she was going to tell us was all lies, which clearly she did, she just wanted the reward that was offered.
She wanted Truett, or another high-ranked wolf, and would do anything to get what she wanted. She didn’t know that Truett was not available anymore. “Brandon, I was just trying to save you.
Cheryl told me that you had been spelled and that you needed our help. I would not have done it for any other reason. You have to believe me” the girl told him and then knelt in front of him.
“Harper, I saw you coming to confront Raven, I heard what you said. You were playing let’s make a deal, to get the chosen mate you wanted.
You are well aware that both Truett and I, only wanted our true mates. You all knew that. You also know that Cheryl was just trying to get you to destroy my mate’s face because of her own jealousy.
You know I was not spelled. I found her more than two weeks ago. The pack was told that I found my mate. Please stop lying.
I have known you your whole life, and you were willing to hurt my mate, try to deform her, all for jealousy. I am disgusted by your behavior. I will not allow you to stay here.
You have all shown that you cannot be trusted around your Luna” I told them, and soon eight warriors arrived to escort them. “Take them to their rooms, and allow them to pack.
Two of you with each one of them.
Make sure if their families want to go with them they know that they have that option, but let the family know that they do not have to be included in the banishment with them.
I want them to make their own choices, but these four girls are gone.
They have 1 hour to get out of my pack, I will meet you at the gate” I told them, and Truett and Stella both nodded at Brandon, and follow behind the warriors as they pulled Harper away towards her room.
She is screaming out her apologies, but I saw her when she was coming to cut Raven off. Harper is a strong fighter, and she brought a few more strong fighters with her.
I saw their faces, they were planning on really hurting Raven. They can try to backpedal as much as they want, but I know the truth of what was about to happen here with them.
Every one of those girls was a part of our fan club. I was planning on going over this at the town hall tonight, but I cannot believe that my mate had been here less than two hours, and this happened.
I guess we won’t wait until tonight. I linked Truett and told him that at 2 pm, we are having a mandatory town hall after lunch.
Plus I am adding all three of our new members to the pack at that time, so they can l ink for help if anything like this ever happens again.
I am furious and I am shaking in my anger, and I feel Raven’s arms come around my waist. I have so many good people in my pack, how could she not be safe here?
I promised her father that I would protect her, and on her first trip through the grounds, this has to happen. I see Carter fly out the back door, with Simone hot on his heels.
My parents, my brother Krew, and his new mate Lanie is right behind them. How is Raven so calm about this? I literally want to just kill them for threatening their Luna. That is what I wanted to do.
I wanted to put them in cells for a month, and then torture them to death for their actions. But I don’t want them to be here a single moment more. They have to go.
I will make sure I am at the gate in 40 minutes to tell them all that if they ever return to Black Adder, they will die. Carter wants to check on Raven, but I cannot let her go.
She is the only thing that is keeping me sane right now. She is smiling at him and telling him that she is fine, that she took care of it.
But I already know from the look on his face, that he is horrified at what happened here. He is going to tell Alpha Cole, and I will be expecting a phone call tonight about it.
“I am conducting a mandatory pack meeting after lunch to make sure this never happens again.
Cheryl was best friends with the ringleader, and they apparently wanted some payback for what Raven had done to Cheryl at Blood Walker. It didn’t work out for them.
I have banished them all from my pack” I told Carter. He nodded his approval of what had happened and knew that I took care of it swiftly.
I wanted him to know that I took it very seriously, I take Raven’s safety as a priority. I hold her tighter to me and bend to take in her scent.
I am finally calming down, but the seriousness of this is upsetting me. Why would anyone attempt to hurt her? We don’t even have a coven near us. That doesn’t even make sense as an allegation.
I am positive that they were just looking to try to off Raven with the excuse, in an attempt to get with me or Truett. I underestimated the lengths that people will go to, to take a shot at Raven.
I really thought that as soon as she got here, especially after I announced that my mate was coming here, she would be as safe here, as she was at Blood Walker.
Clearly, that is not the case, so I need to take it to extra matters now.
I have Carter and Simone take Raven to lunch as I head back to the front gate to make each of the girls, and their parents, reject their ties to the pack.
I didn’t want Raven to have to see any of these girls again.
I also needed to make a call and was glad that I didn’t knee-jerk delete her information as I suspected that I might have to contact her again.
“Hello?” Cheryl answers, and I can hear the smile in her voice. She thinks what she wanted was done, and she couldn’t be more wrong.
“Are you with Reagan right now, Cheryl?” I asked her and I am fighting to keep the anger out of my voice.
I can hear a laugh in the background before I heard Reagan’s mocking tone through the phone, “I am here with her, why, what’s up Brandon?”
“Good, I wanted to speak to you both.
I just wanted you both to know if you try to hurt Raven again, I will kill you. The both of you, and without a shred of remorse for it. I swear to the Goddess I will.
So whatever plans you two have going on, they need to stop today. I promise you that if anything happens to her again, whatever you do, will come back to you tenfold.
Your packs won’t protect you either. That weak pack of yours will not stand a chance against mine, but rest assured that I will not be alone.
I will get Cole to help me, and your pack will cease to exist at that point. I am not as nice as Cole is, I won’t wait for the approval of the council.
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than approval.
Keep that in mind Reagan, before you make problems that you can’t come back from” I told them, and I know that my Alpha tone was coming through loud and clear for them. “What! Why Brandon?
What happened?” I can hear Reagan asking me, but she lost the mocking tone she had used earlier. “You both know what happened. Cheryl’s friend dropped her name after she was caught.
She and her friends are now all banished. So I guess your pack can pick up a few new members now. You are going to need all the help you can get if you don’t stop.
I will be calling your father, to tell him what you have done. This little incident also reminded me that I needed to tear up our treaty between us, and I will mention that to him as well too.
You are out of control Reagan, and if your father and your chosen mate can’t reign you back into behaving, I will” I told them both.
I heard the sharp intake of breath, and she clearly understood my threat. I had forgotten to tear the treaty up when I got back.
I was in a rush to get to Raven, and I forgot to do it while I was working on my paperwork. But as soon as these four are taken care of, I will get it done.
I will also be calling the rest of the packs that I have a treaty within a 100-mile radius of my pack. I was not playing when I said that they are either with me or against me.
I was telling the truth, they will have to make the choice, between us.
If they want to stay with Alpha Graham, that is fine, and their right to do so, but anyone who will stay with a snake like that, I do not want to associate with. I never knew he was like that before.
Until I saw some of what Raven went through, I would not have thought anyone could be so heinous to their own child. But now that I know, I cannot keep associating with them.
Reagan is no better than he is and she will also be a snake too, I am cutting ties completely with that pack.
I think it is a courtesy to my friends to let them know who you really are at Silver Blade. They may not know what kind of a man he is either.
But I am pretty sure that at least 60% of his allies will be dropping him like a hot potato, and soon. “But I didn’t tell Harper to do anything, Brandon.
You don’t need to be threatening us for something one of your pack members did. I don’t even know her to get her to do anything for me anyway. You need to think this through before you call my dad.
You might need us in the future, you don’t need to be so callous with how you are treating us with no evidence at all.
Do not forget that Raven is my half-sister, and our mother lives here at Silver Blade too. You don’t need to threaten us like this. We didn’t do anything at all to Raven.
I think you are just paranoid and assuming things that you can’t prove” Reagan said, and she is grasping at straws now, but she messed up.
I know they did it for sure now, and that proof was what I was waiting for. “Right, no proof. You keep on believing that Reagan,” I said, as I dropped the call.
I was glad that Truett and Stella were already heading my way in his SUV, with Harper following them in a vehicle behind them.
She is alone, I figured that her parents had warned her, and she decided to do what she wanted to anyway. That is usually what she did.
They are letting her leave on her own, she will have to face the real world without protection now. I linked Truett and told him to park in front of the gate. I needed to get Harper’s phone.
Truett walked up with her phone in his hand, and said with a smirk, “I had her unlock it already.
I figured you needed to look at something in there.”
“You are right as usual, Truett,” as I opened the texts between Harper and Cheryl.
I read the conversation and tried to control my anger at the exchange. I then sent the screenshots of the conversation to my phone. I checked my phone and when I had all of them.
I was walking the phone back to Harper when the ping of another text hit and I opened it when I saw it was from Cheryl. “Harper don’t admit to ANYTHING. Brandon has nothing to tie us to what happened.
Delete this message like you did the rest of them. Reagan said that you can come to live here with us at Silver Blade, as long as you didn’t tell him you had been talking to us.
If you did you are on your own” Cheryl told her. Cheryl is consistent in her behavior. Bossy, and controlling, and I bet having to listen to Reagan is probably driving her crazy right now.
I screenshotted this message too, forwarding the new message to my phone too. It named Reagan as one of the culprits, and that will help as well. “Harper, here’s your phone back.
I see you got another text from Cheryl. You might want to open that one up, it could be important.” I told her and turned to walk away. I don’t know where she is going now and I really don’t care.
She did this to herself. Chapter 47
Reagan’s POV
I am surrounded by idiots. I swear to the Goddess that I am. Cheryl absolutely swore that this Harper girl could handle this small thing.
Yet we get a call from Brandon so quickly. What happened there? We tried texting her to see if she got to cut Raven’s face, with no response back. In fact, none of the girls responded to our texts.
Cheryl knew all of them and said that they would be able to subdue Raven to get this done. I was so excited about my sister no longer looking like me.
Her face was going to be ruined, and that made me really happy. Justin won’t want her so freaking much if she was marred by a knife. Seeing Cheryl’s face had given me the idea.
She wasn’t a beauty queen, to begin with, but now when you look at her, your eyes go immediately to the scar on her face. Her wolf had healed her, well as best she could.
Without the wound being cleaned before it was healed, it was an obvious flaw to anyone looking at her. I figured after a few hints from me would make Cheryl “think of it” on her own.
When she did, I praised her for thinking of a great way to get Raven back, the same way that she had gotten hurt herself. It kind of kept me out of it, even though I planted the seed.
Cheryl was happy to do this, as her parents had both been horrified to see her scar at breakfast this morning.
Cheryl is getting madder and madder by the minute because people are looking at the mark before her eyes. She is furious that her face has been ruined by Raven, and wants to get her back so badly.
It was so easy to lead her where I wanted. The fact that we had gotten a call so quickly after the plan was supposed to be implemented gave me cause for concern.
Then we couldn’t reach anyone, and I had a sinking feeling. When Brandon called, I was hoping it was because he was going to cry over Raven’s ruined face, but he was calm.
I believe she got out of it again. I am pissed. The other girls called and said that they were headed our way.
The lack of response from Harper leads me to believe that the text that Cheryl sent her, tells me she did rat us out. Why am I surrounded by people who fail me?
Do I have to do it every time for it to work out correctly? I mean seriously. “You know that you could just stop, right? You have punished her enough” Lena, my wolf, links me.
“I know that, but why would I? She has too many blessings, she doesn’t deserve them” I linked her back. “She had nothing but heartache for her first 18-plus years. You know this.
You watched it yourself as you grew up. You have everything already. You have her mate, you are about to be Luna. What else could you possibly want to take away from her? You need to leave it alone.
You won, let it go” Lena replies back. “But I haven’t won. She got another mate, even more handsome than Justin. Her father has a bigger, more successful, pack. She needs to be punished for it.
She is not supposed to be better than me in any way” I linked back, and my jealousy at Raven has got me furious. “That was the Goddess. Raven had no control over any of this.
I have a bad feeling if you continue on, you are going to get us killed. Just do what your dad and Justin said, and leave Raven alone” Lena links back. She doesn’t know what she is talking about.
She is full of it, and I don’t want to freaking hear it. I blocked Lena and go back to my other plan. Clearly, Harper didn’t get what we needed to done, the other girls verified that for us.
I will go into town today and get a cheap cell phone. I will need it for my plan to work. I can have Cheryl use it when I am with Justin so he doesn’t think it is me.
It is going to take me at least a month to get my plan into action, but I can use that time to get ready. I am going to take everything she has, everything that she values, away from her.
I can only best her if she has nothing left. We head into town, and I need to get a few things done today. I have planned this out perfectly, and there is no way that this can go wrong.
Thankfully, Cheryl still has some friends at Black Adder, because I will need to be told when Raven comes into town.
I couldn’t get anyone at Blood Walker to accept a bribe to tell me anything about the Alpha family at Blood Walker.
But Cheryl said that she could strike up conversations with a few of her old friends to see if she could get one of them to do it.
This is only going to work if we can get Brandon to believe that it is true. His own jealous, and possessive nature will do the rest of the job for us.
I realize while we are out I need to pick up something else, as I have put a lot of thought into it. I go back through my phone to get ideas.
I hate that I need to get to this extreme to get this done, but apparently, I need to. This will be the last plan that I will be putting in motion. I will have complete deniability in it.
If it is successful, there will be nothing else that I need to do to Raven ever again. I will have completely stolen her happiness and joy away. I will leave her with nothing.
I smile in happiness as we come back to Silver Blade, right up until I pulled to the front of the packhouse.
My dad was apparently told by the gate guards that I had returned, so he was here to meet me. I saw his texts while we were out, but I ignored them.
I was not going to come back before I got everything that I needed to get this done. I have more stops than I first thought that I would. I also started the plan to work while we were at lunch.
I sent the first couple of texts. I was going to have Cheryl do the honors tonight while I was eating with Justin, so he would see that I was not on my phone.
Even if he checked my phone there would be nothing there. I was keeping the extra phone on silent, and I doubted that he would search for it.
Once I get him convinced that it isn’t me, he will want to believe in his heart, that it is her. I know why dad is out here.
He is really pissed this time, so Brandon must have called him, and started with his plan. Good, then I have the excuse that I need to go ahead with mine. That was the deal that I had made with dad.
But I never stopped, I just told dad I would. I already know he won’t fall for it though. He had taught me everything I knew.
He is just as deceitful as I am, actually more so, because he never taught me all his tricks.
He needed to hold something back, I think that dad worries about me killing him to get the pack, but I was perfectly content with waiting to be the Luna.
Well, I was content to wait now, knowing that the position was mine. It is confirmed, and I am good with doing whatever I want until I take over the pack.
I still get the benefits and respect, but I don’t have to do the work. Mom keeps doing all of it for me, she seems happy to do it, and who and I do deny her happiness.
“Come with me” my father demands, and I pass off the bags to Cheryl. I don’t want them to see what I have, and she was good with taking them up for me.
There is nothing in there that she wants or needs. Plus she will have the burner phone to send him texts.
We enter his office and I see Justin is already sitting there in one of the two chairs in front of dads desk. His posture is tense, and I can tell that the plan is working.
He is furious, and I have to hold back my smile. This is going to be so much easier than I thought it would be. I sit down in the other chair, sit back, and wait for them to start.
“Raven, what in the hell? Didn’t I tell you to leave Raven alone? I mean it was just last night.
There is no way that you could have forgotten, You think that you can just do whatever you want, but you can’t. Are you even serious about becoming Luna here?” my dad said to me.
“Dad, of course, I want to be Luna. That is all I have dreamed of for over 8 years. This is my pack. I picked my Alpha. I want to help run Silver Blade” I told him.
I am pissed that he would even think otherwise. “That seems incorrect, as you keep trying to get us attacked with your behavior,” dad tells me, in a little calmer tone. “Dad that was not me.
I don’t care what Alpha Brandon said. Cheryl and I were here, and I don’t know anything about whatever problem he had.
I told him that already, but he just wanted to blame Cheryl and me, for his pack acting up. That is on them, not us. He clearly has issues and just assumed it was us.
I am your daughter, you need to believe what I say, not what he is suggesting. I can’t help the fact that no matter where Raven goes, people end up not liking her. That is on her” I told him.
I am not getting mad, and I am not acting nervous. The most important thing about lying is to remember that as long as you believe it, it really isn’t a lie.
“Well, that makes what I have to say even weirder then. I was sent proof, and I was informed that he had also forwarded it to Alpha Cole. He wants the council to see what you have done, at his pack.
The day he brings his mate home. Goddess, I am so pissed off at you” dad tells me. Now I am getting nervous. I know better than to incriminate myself, so I stayed quiet.
I am going to let him tell me, I don’t want to admit to anything that he doesn’t already know. “Reagan, what did I tell you was the most important thing in any plan?” dad asks me.
“To not let anyone know it was you. Secrets are best kept to oneself” I told him. I suddenly realized where this was going. I am going to dump this whole thing on Cheryl.
There was nothing at all to tie me to this. “I didn’t do anything though dad. Brandon called Cheryl, and he wanted to speak to me too. I don’t know why. He assumed we did something to Raven.
I don’t know what he was talking about. I promise you I don’t know what happened there, or who did it.
I don’t have any control over what happens at Black Adder,” I told him, and I sounded sincere, even to my own ears. “You don’t know why? You don’t know why Brandon wanted to speak to you?
Are you insane, Reagan?
You have spent your life hurting your sister, but you don’t know why he would contact Cheryl and want to speak to the both of you?” Justin is so pissed off the veins in his neck are swollen in his anger.
I have never seen him this angry and when I glanced at dad, his veins are bulging too. “Look, I swear to you both, I don’t…” I started to say when I heard my own voice sounding out in the room.
That son of a b***h recorded the call. I am furious, but I listen along, and when it ends, I am glad. I don’t hear anything that links me to whatever Harper did at Black Adder.
I motioned towards dads phone and leaned back confidently in my chair and said, “See, told you.
I told you both that I had nothing at all to do with whatever it was that happened at Alpha Brandon’s pack.”
I feign hurt and give my dad the look that usually has him eating out of my hand.
But it isn’t working. I start working up some tears, because that always works for me, and still his face is a mask of fury. I don’t understand, this always works. Why is it not working today?
“Reagan, I cannot believe you. At all. I am so disappointed, I cannot even begin to tell you.
I have real concerns about how long Silver Blade will be able to continue on, especially after you take over. You have been getting away with murder, and you have no real care for anyone but yourself.
For someone who was demanding her “birthright” you sure seem to be determined on losing it” my dad tells me. I can hear the pain, frustration, and anger in his voice.
He is really upset, and I cannot figure out why. I am his daughter, his own flesh and blood. He has never gotten mad at me until that b***h left the pack.
If he thinks that I am going to take over the position of becoming the local punching bag and getting hurt, like she was, he has another thing coming. “Dad, I didn’t do anything.
He can accuse me, and Cheryl all day long. That doesn’t mean anything at all. You are smarter than this dad. You don’t need to fall for his trick. That is all this is, a trick.
We didn’t do anything, and he couldn’t prove it even if we had” I tell dad confidentially. I heard the recording, he has nothing. I have nothing at all to worry about, so he said my name, big deal.
It doesn’t matter, I didn’t admit to anything, so he has nothing. “I am smarter than this, Reagan. But even I slip up.
Cole didn’t notice it when I did, but I messed up when Cole came over after you tried, again, to kill Raven. I accidentally let it slip that I knew that he had called the council and reported us.
Thankfully, he was way too mad at the time. It hasn’t come back up, and I think we got a pass on it. But I am not sure about that yet. You see, Reagan, anyone can make a mistake.
I did, and you did too. I am going to play it again and listen this time, really listen” my dad tells me and starts the recording again. I am almost rolling my eyes in frustration now.
He keeps going with this, and clearly, he knows something that I don’t so I listen, and this time I freeze. s**t. I as good as admitted it right to his face.
f**k, they both knew and I have been sitting here lying my a*s off in front of them. No wonder dad is so disappointed in me. They both realized that I knew what the problem was now.
He never mentioned who the friend was, and I called her name, without knowing her at all. I as good as confirmed to him that we had done it. That is why he sent the recording. We are toast.
“Dad, wait, Cheryl came up with the plan. She told me after the fact. I couldn’t stop it if I wanted to, because I am not friends with them, she is, and she is the reason that it happened.
You can check my phone right now dad, I didn’t do it. I found out about it after she did it.
She told me when we were out to lunch” I told him scrambling to think because I wasn’t prepared for this right now.
I am caught and I am just trying to get free because dad is madder than I have ever seen him.
“Reagan, do you know why you have been successful, with your little plans up to this point?” My dad asked me, and I swear, I need a moment to give him an answer, but I don’t know what he is implying right now.
I am flustered, and I know that whatever I am about to say will not be the right answer for him. I shrugged, as I really have no clue. He knew it, as he scoffs the second I shrugged.
He expected me to do that or at the very least me to the get answer wrong. “Reagan, it was because I came up with them. I put thought into them and then brought them to you.
It was because I have much more experience in this than you do. You have made blunder, after blunder, and I am really concerned about what is about to happen. You pissed Cole off, really badly.
You just pissed Brandon off really badly. You talk too much and it is your downfall. Just because you didn’t hear it on the recording the first time, Brandon heard it. He knew you were lying.
Who else has it in for Raven? Just you two morons. I told you to leave it alone, and you refused. I guess you won’t stop until we are at war” my dad told to me.