Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter - Chapter 69: Chapter 104

Cheryl’s POV
Blake caused me a lot of pain before he came to bed. He visited her room, and they had a thorough session, if anyone would know that besides them, it would be me.
He always goes immediately to the shower when he returns. I am at least thankful that he has the decency to wash their scent off of him before getting into our bed.
He pulls me to him and nuzzles my neck, placing kisses from my jaw, down to my mark, and nipping it. He must have lost his mind, he just got his d**k wet, and he is coming to me for dessert.
I think not. I can feel the little bit of dinner I managed to get down, trying to fight its way back up. I can’t keep it down and I had to run into the bathroom to completely throw up my dinner.
I feel dirty now from his touch, and strip off to get in the shower again. I allow myself to cry over this situation, and just remind myself that it is almost over.
I then go to brush my teeth again after rinsing my mouth repeatedly in the shower. I got dried off and headed into my closet to find another set of pajamas.
I got back into bed, and he pulled me back into him again. I heard his low question, “Will we ever be OK again, Cheryl?”
“Blake, you chose to go outside of our bond.
Yes, we are chosen mates, but we marked each other. You have never felt that pain, you know that in your own heart. You would absolutely know if you had felt the ache in your heart.
The one that lets you know that your mate was intentionally trying to hurt you. That is all that you have put me through for these last 6 months.
But before that, you have called me a liar, almost daily, and been a horrible father to Kevin. You deliberately can’t, or just plain refuse, to see his resemblance to Forest.
I cannot be happy and be with you knowing how little I meant to you for you to be able to treat me like this. How you swore you loved me when you claimed me.
For you to just stop loving me, all because of a rumor by someone who was leading you to this very place. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean that I can’t.
It is going to tear your heart out one day when you finally realize what all your allowed Graham to do to our bond. What his involvement has truly cost you.
I am sorry, I could accept a lot of things, but the moment you started f*****g other she-wolves, we were done. You are getting plenty right now, so don’t act as if you need me anymore.
Sometimes the pain I feel is so bad, I can’t even stand up. You have made your choice. You knew my bottom line, and you willingly crossed over it anyway. That is all on you.
You are slowly killing me with your actions, but you seem to be OK with doing that to me. Please don’t give me a hard time over this.
I am sorry your little girlfriend isn’t going to get to go shopping on the pack’s dime again this time, but we both know that you will take her to the mall to reward her for betraying her Luna” I replied back to him, just as quietly as he had spoken to me.
“I was wrong, Cheryl, I messed up badly. If you will agree to come back and allow us to go back to where we were again, I will give them all up for you. I still love you, no matter what I do.
It is your face that haunts me in the night. It hurts me to see you so hurt over this, but I was angry at your actions too. I just cannot accept that you cheated on me.
You have hurt me just as badly, if not worse than I did to you. To have to see a child that you are still claiming is mine when I know in my heart that he isn’t. It just isn’t fair to me.
Just let him go to live in his father’s pack, and we can move on from this. I still want you. I need you, Cheryl, our relationship as it stands today is breaking my heart baby.
I won’t be able to survive without you. I miss how easy we were together. I want you back, and whatever I need to do to get that done, is what I will willingly do for you.
I want it to be just us again, and no one else” Blake said to me, and then had the nerve to kiss my mark again after saying it.
I have nothing else in my stomach to throw up, or I would be having a problem right now. I want to scream at him and tell him that he is 7 years too late for that.
That when I begged him to think for himself, and not be led, I only wish that he had listened to me then. There is no coming back at all from where we are.
The minute I found out that he had f****d Kara, he was past the point of no return. He can act like he doesn’t fully know that.
He can act like he isn’t completely aware that I told him when we got together that I can deal with anything, except cheating. He knows what my bottom line is and that he is well past it.
He just wants to think that he still has a chance. Well since he wants to hear things that are not ever going to happen, I will play his game with him. “I will think about it, Blake.
I guess we can sit together tomorrow, after I come back after the driving lesson, and we can discuss it then” I told him. Because I am absolutely done with discussing it now.
He released the breath that he was holding and hugged me tighter. He really thinks that is going to happen. He is more delusional than I thought he was. I have to stop myself from shaking my head.
No f*****g way will that happen, as I am never going to be coming back here to this hellhole again. He is still basically calling me a cheat in his little fake apology.
Him telling me that he is wanting to send our own son away from here. How in the hell does he think that I will ever be OK with that? He has indeed lost his mind. He is wrong on both counts.
He can kiss my a*s if he thinks that will ever happen.
Plus that “no one else” that he said, I could feel that it was deliberately aimed at me, for me to stop with other men, not him stopping with his women.
I almost want to find a random man to prove to him that he has never been cheated on.
He is basically wanting this because he knows that his wolf is about to be tearing his own pack apart if he doesn’t make changes right now.
If his wolf Kona does go nuts, I hope to hell he starts with Graham, as his first victim. No, I don’t. I want Graham to have to suffer for what he has done.
I want Graham to be blamed for whatever actions Blake is about to make. I want the whole pack to turn on him, and I want him to suffer like I have, for the last 7 years.
That would be what was fair if the Goddess will allow it.
“Cheryl, I appreciate you giving me another chance, and I just wanted to mention that Kara will be one of the two warriors with you tomorrow,” Blake said in an even quieter voice.
The guilt was back, and I knew exactly how she managed to get him to override me on it. I still felt the residual pain of it now. I immediately sat up and stared at him in disbelief.
“So that is what was happening tonight, Kara was convincing you with s*x to let her come with me. After I told her not tomorrow.
She could have waited two more days for the next driving lesson, yet she convinced you that she has to come now. I cannot believe you, Blake” I told him, and I really cannot believe the nerve of him.
This was the last slap on the face that I will allow. “You know what Blake, sure she can come tomorrow. That is fine.
I can wait until I calm down from being angry for us to talk again” I told him and with the ice in my voice, you would think a frost would be all over the room.
I laid back down and made sure I was right on the edge of the bed. He took the hint. I would rather sleep on the couch, but he would just bring me back. He needs me near him to keep Kona happy.
I was not able to sleep for hours to readjust my plan. I could tell that Blake felt bad for it, that he had agreed to it in the heat of s*x, and now that he had a clear head, he knew he messed up.
But he knew what she was doing before he went up to her room. He wanted her to con him into it, by using her body.
He hadn’t messed my plan up, because my plan worked regardless of who the warriors were. He chose her to be the second warrior, and I am actually glad for how it ended up playing out for me.
I think the Goddess is finally smiling down on me. I was glad that my knee-jerk response to him was an accurate one.
This is going to hurt him even more than it originally would have, and I smiled into the dark as I worked through my plan again.
Me learning how to check, and recheck again, was actually something I learned a long time ago. From Reagan of all people, with the very tips her dad gave her.
It is funny that I will be using his own information against him. Blake’s even breathing let me know that he was asleep.
I just kept running through my checklist of what I needed to get done before we leave.
I was running on about 3 hours of sleep when I got up at 6 am the next morning and went through my regular routine.
I went to my office with my backpack and got it loaded up after I got done with my training. I had over $40,000 put aside, hidden in a floorboard under the bottom desk cabinet.
I have to roll the bottom drawer out to even reach it. I was planning on asking Blake for $5,000 for us to go shopping with today.
I know that he will give it to me, as he feels really bad about allowing Kara to get her way by going. I will play on that guilt, as I haven’t committed to where I was actually going to land.
It was down to two places, and I knew which one I had to go to. I will take the hit, to save my son.
This is all for him, he deserves to go somewhere where he can truly thrive, and not be bullied or picked on. I gave a slight laugh as I realized just what the Goddess had done.
I just hope that she is with us today as we manage to break free from Black Moon. I went to Blake’s office and knocked. I waited, as he was having a meeting with his ranked wolves.
At least that was better than the alternative of one of the she-wolves that he usually has bent over the desk. I saw Kara coming this way and she knocked as well.
The door stayed locked and she was embarrassed. I guess she really thought that she was just going to sashay right into his office after he didn’t let me in.
She really thinks that she has his ear, and I guess she has for the last couple of months. But I have been the Luna here for 15 years now, her slutty a*s has nothing on me.
She was smart enough to stay back away from me while we waited. I might be too thin right now, but I can still kick her a*s. I made sure that both Kevin and I had a good breakfast too.
We are going to have to keep our strength up, and we did the normal routine this morning. I didn’t deviate from any of what we normally do.
I had taken my backpack right back up to our room from my office and hidden it in a drawer in the back of my closet. I needed to be ready to go with this, and I was trying hard at keeping my calm.
I was getting very anxious as we were leaving in an hour, and I was worried that something else was going to pop up on us now and ruin the whole thing.
I hear the lock disengage on Blake’s door, and his ranked wolves exited the office. They all nodded at me in respect, but then I watched as they also nodded in acknowledgment of her too.
Another slap in the face that lets me know that my decision to get the f**k out of here, was the right one.
She runs into the office ahead of me and is already asking Blake for money to shop with, as she sits on the corner of his desk with her regular pouty face on.
He sees me enter and the smile that he had on his face for her disappears quickly.
I want to say something to remind him that just a few hours ago, he was willing “to give them all up for me” and yet, he looked really cozy with her in here. “Good morning, Cheryl.
What can I do for you?” Blake asked in a pleased tone at seeing me in here.
Ever since I busted him and Kara in here that first time they were together 6 months ago, I had not returned to his office, for any reason.
“I was here for the same thing your special s*x friend here is, money to go shopping with. On a trip that I had specifically told her she wasn’t welcome on” I said in a hard voice.
I am reminding him of two things. He overrode me and allowed her to come, and that apparently her coming to get money from him was something she had clearly done several times before.
She is not aware that their relationship is in any difficulty probably because, until I agree to get back with him, he will not be dropping her.
That makes me feel sick too, and I have to step back away from them both. They completely disgust me. “Of course baby, I want you to get something nice while you are out.
You never leave, and you haven’t been shopping in a while” Blake told me and got into the safe quickly to give me money.
I am sure that he wanted me out of here quickly, as she probably has to earn her money, and I swear that if he does what I think he is going to, I am going to enjoy my day much more than I thought I was today.
I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t see her leaning into his body as he opened the safe like she was the Luna here. His allowing his men to respect her like that, made me furious with all of them.
I was fooled by my love for him, they may have always been this way. I linked Kevin and told him to meet me in the dining room as soon as he could get there. I just want to get on the road right now.
To hell with all of them. I just need to have some patience. “Cheryl?” I heard Blake call out to me, and I slowly opened my eyes.
I see her sitting perched on the arm of his chair now like she owns the place. She is smiling at me like she is the one being benevolent to me and personally giving me the packs money.
I smiled back at her, and I watched her flinch. I hope my smile was scary to her, and she has no idea how her day is about to go. “Yes,” I said to him and turned my head in his direction.
He has two stacks of bills sitting on the counter, the same height, and banded together with a strap. They are both a total of $4,000 in twenty-dollar bills.
I already know without asking that one stack was for me and one stack was for her, just like how he had them put out on his desk.
But I have the warrior, Kevin, my mother, and Cassandra on my end too, that I will need to take care of today. Her money will be just that, her money. But I am going to make him say it.
I want to hear him say the words. That way, I will have the strength to do what I needed to do today. I needed to leave, and I didn’t want to have any guilt in me about it.
I stare right into his handsome face, his silky dark brown hair, and those dark brown eyes with the long lashes that always made me think of melted chocolate stared right back at me.
Kara just looked at me, angry, like I couldn’t take a hint to leave. I heard a knock on the door and turned to see Casey standing there, That was good. I wanted to kiss her goodbye, and Robert too.
I don’t kiss Forest anymore. He has become a huge jerk where Kevin is concerned and became his biggest bully. “What did you need honey?” Blake asked her.
“Dad, we are going to go into the city to shop. Can I have some money for us to spend please?” Casey asked him with a smile on her face.
She is only 10, but she has him completely wrapped around her finger. She loves him as much as he loves her, that is why it was no surprise at her taking his side.
I know that Forest sent her in here because he never argues about giving her money, he just does it. She is no longer nice to me because she believes the crap her father spews.
She and her brothers also ignore Kevin. It is clear that with each passing year, the pressure on us gets much worse.
“Sure baby, who all is going, and are you taking any warriors with you?” Blake asked as he bent down and got money from the safe again.
Kevin hasn’t been shopping for a while now, the same as me, and Blake comes back up with a strap for each of them to be able to spend $2,000 each, they also had twenty dollar bills.
The difference was that my children get to go do this each month. It had been a very long time since Kevin, or I had gotten anything new.
My face is now completely red, with this new slap that I felt to my core, landing squarely on my other cheek now. The only people in this family that didn’t rate, were me and Kevin.
My work here is done, I gave him three pups that can lead this pack. They will, straight into the ground, after he steps down.
It will not matter to me, as I won’t be here anymore to be affected by it. Casey ran around the desk to grab the money and gave him a big kiss.
She then nodded at Kara, and then said, “Bye mom” to me before she raced back out of the office. I guess I didn’t need that hug after all.
It seemed like the care for her was one-sided, and not in my favor. I see where I stand now, and this is yet another reason that I needed to get out of here.
I focused my eyes back on Blake, and he smiled at me like he was expecting me to say something, and I will. I just want him to say what I need him to, first.
I need this one final blow to know that all 15 years of my life here were a complete waste of my time and energy.
Blake pushed one of the stacks to me and smiled again like he was the one doing me a favor.
“Did you need anything else, Cheryl?” Blake asked me and looked up at me like he was hoping for me to beg him to take me back.
I did need something else actually, a dependable mate, one who wouldn’t cheat on me, or believe others before me, but I cannot say that right now.
We will get into a big fight, and then he wouldn’t allow me to leave. It won’t matter soon, that was what I needed from him.
To let me know that he never intended to give anything up, he just wanted to have me, along with them. I gave him one last look and tried to control my anger as I did.
I cannot wait to get the f**k out of here and get my son to a place where he can be safe.
“No, I don’t need anything else from you, Blake,” I said and then gave Kara a scathing look as she was now sitting sprawled all the way across his lap.
I shook my head and exited his office hearing her laughter behind me as the door closed. Yes, I am really going to enjoy today. The days of Cheryl being pushed down are over now.
Whatever chapters are to come, I will greet them head-on and accept the punishment for my actions, and pray that the Goddess forgives me.
But whatever happens, I know for a fact, that my day will be a great deal better than Kara’s is going to be. I walked away from his office with a smile on my face.
I just need to go grab Kevin, get my backpack from my room, and get the hell out of Black Moon. Chapter 105
Cheryl’s POV
I barely made it to the dining room before the pain hit me.
I couldn’t stand anymore and had to grab the back of a chair to catch myself. I am wasting away here, and I have to get out of here now.
Kevin ran up to me to check on me with concern in his familiar blue eyes that match mine. It is me and him from now on, and I noticed that he has a mark on him.
He has a black eye that he didn’t have before. “What happened, Kevin?” I asked him.
I already am pretty sure that this is his brother’s handiwork, but as bullied as he has been getting lately by other jealous kids, I just don’t know. I am thankful that it is about to be over.
“It’s OK mom, I am alright. It was Forest, I beat him at sparring again, so he caught up with me with Beta Brady’s son Drew, and Gamma Marc’s son Dennis, to hold me so he could teach me a lesson.
He got one too, he now knows that he needs more friends, he has a black eye to mom” Kevin said, and I was so proud of him for not allowing them to take his spirit away from him.
I felt a little stronger after a few minutes and went up to our floor with Kevin to grab my bag and put the rest of my money in it.
I am actually OK with him giving money to Kara now, I am about to double my money before we bounce and get away from here.
I slid the letter I wrote to Blake between his pillows, he will find it the next time he goes to bed. Well, I don’t know about that, one of his little girlfriends might just find it first.
But I am sure that he will be getting tonight off. I think he might be too overcome with grief to want to f**k someone, but I am not 100% sure of that right now.
We headed downstairs for the driving lesson and I see the warrior that is coming with us talking and flirting with Kara. He has a good shot with her, just as any of them do.
I see her stiffen up and move away from him, and at first, I thought she did it because she saw me, but I was wrong.
She bounced up to Blake on the stairs behind me to give him a kiss, and I pinned him with my eyes while she did. I know it was petty, but I wanted him to see that I knew he had completely lied to me.
He was just trying to get me to comply with what he wanted and didn’t give a damn about hurting me. I see my mom and Cassandra walk up with their mates.
They hugged and kissed them before they climbed into the back row of the SUV to talk, while Kevin got his driving lesson.
Kara kept kissing Blake and the memory of her right on top of the warrior that was with us came to mind. I cannot stop myself from saying, “Wow, you really care about your packmates, Kara.
You were almost just kissing that warrior too, and that was hot on the heels of you having s*x with your Alpha.
Maybe when you get back you can see how many of the ranked wolves you can make happy.”
She froze mid-kiss on Blake’s face, and it was just as much an admission of guilt, as her saying the words.
Blake looked at her, and then at the warrior who had already turned red. Apparently, he didn’t realize that Kara was f*****g the Alpha on the regular.
“Cheryl, why would you embarrass Kara like that?” Blake asked me. “Why would she continue to embarrass her own self, Blake?
She was the one rubbing her body on him like a cat in heat when we came out of the pack house just now. I didn’t make her do it, and neither did he.
Apparently, he is just as much a victim of her s*x drive as I am” I told Blake and maintained eye contact with him as I said it.
My eyes flashed in anger at my knowing he had blatantly lied to me last night. He was never going to give Kara up, little did he know he already had with insisting that she come with us today.
It will be my pleasure to kill his #1 girl.
“Cheryl” Blake said to me in a warning tone, and I nodded for Kevin to go ahead and get in the truck, the warrior quickly ran to get in behind him and I rolled my eyes at Blake before I opened my door to get in.
Kara gave him another kiss and got in behind me. Blake held out his hand and stopped me from shutting my door in his face.
“Hey, are we still going to talk tonight like you said?” Blake asked me quietly, putting his body in the doorframe to keep me from being able to shut it.
“I see no reason to, as you clearly lied to me when you asked me that last night.
I just cannot trust you, Blake, as you took right back up with her today” I told him, and I see him draw in a breath to argue with what I had just said. “Yes, you did. I felt it.
Please stop lying to me.
I know you did, it doesn’t matter if it was o******x, or actually having s*x Blake, I feel it every time you do anything, with anyone” I told him and I felt my eyes feel with tears.
s**t, I am getting emotional at leaving him, and I am breaking down. I felt a hand reach on and grab a hold of my hand. Kevin is grounding me as he can tell that I am struggling.
I am doing this all for him, and I smiled at him through the tears in my eyes. “I am sorry, Cheryl, I didn’t realize” Blake started to say, and I held my hand up and stopped him.
“You didn’t realize because it has never been done to you. Once it has, you will always remember it.
Look at me, you are literally killing me, I am way too thin and almost a walking skeleton because knowing what, and who, you are doing is truly making me sick.
Let me get a break, and we can talk tonight. Because I do want to mention the double standard that you just showed me in the office.
You gave me and her the same about of money, but my money is for 5 people to be taken care of, and hers is just hers.
I mean I may not say anything, but you missed my birthday last month because you took her out shopping. How long has it been for me to get new clothes? Stop, please don’t excuse it, I know.
I already know everything and we are done with talking right now. We need to get on the road. We can talk when I come back” I told him and refused to look at him.
I knew he could see my eyes full of tears, and there was no comeback for what I had said. I knew more than he thought I did.
He was wrong all the way around, and there was no point in our conversation even continuing.
“Ok Cheryl, I love you,” Blake said, as he knows that he has royally f****d up and it hasn’t been 24 hours since he begged me to take him back last night.
“Please let me go, we need to leave” I replied to him, and thankfully his guilt kept him from realizing what I meant when I said that.
I couldn’t say goodbye, I wanted to, but I fought it off in the office, and I wasn’t able to do it here either. He shut the door for me, and he waved to me.
I saw it in my peripheral, but I kept my eyes focused on the driveway in front of me. I cannot look at him, as I will never see him again.
Kevin drove slowly up the drive and followed the road out to the main road. I told Kevin to be extra cautious and he was. We had a plan and we knew every step of it.
When we got to the point, Kevin said “There is something wrong with the back tire” and started pulling over to the shoulder of the road.
I got out with him to “check”, and since both Kevin and I were out of the vehicle both the warrior and Kara had to get out too.
They had to stay with us, but you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kara was going to leave me and Kevin with the warrior as she wanted to go shopping.
That was probably what she was flirting with the warrior about. Trying to con him into doing that while she spent her money. I got on my knees and waited for Kevin to get into position.
I had a bent nail that I picked up from the ground last week at Black Moon. It was rusted and twisted and I knew it would be a great distraction.
Originally I was going to have us fight them, and kill them.
But all that would do would allow them to have time to mindlink the others for help from our pack, and we have to get out of here I can see my mom and Cassandra get out and bend down like they were going to be able to help diagnose what the problem was.
I had passed the nail to Kevin and everyone was looking at it, and waiting for our tire to go flat.
I saw Kara’s eyes glaze over and I know that she is trying to link Blake to let him know we encountered a problem. We need to move now.
I shot her quickly, and then the warrior before I pushed their bodies with my booted foot down the slope, and into the ditch.
“We need to go, Kevin,” I told him and he ran to the front of the SUV with a screwdriver, while I finished up.
“I am sorry Cassandra, but since Graham is the very reason that Kevin and I have had to go through abuse for the last 7 years.
He will have to have punishment for it, as he did it with both intent and malice.
Killing you is not ever what I wanted to do, but it is the only way that I can make sure that he suffers for his actions.
Killing him would have been too quick, and he needs to suffer like he made us suffer. I have suffered more in the last 6 months as my mate slept with other women than I can bear.
The fact that Graham had encouraged him to do that to me as well has pushed me past my breaking point.
I will try to make this painless for you” I didn’t give her a chance to respond before I shot her too, right in her forehead, just like the other two. I wasn’t trying to make anyone suffer.
She didn’t, she was dead before she hit the ground. I couldn’t let her speak, the guilt of me having to do that was enough for me. I am desperate, and we need to move now. They will be coming.
I pushed her body down the slope too, and I could hear the faint sound of a wolf crying out several miles away. I knew that Graham knew his mate was gone now. An eye for an eye.
He took my mate away, and I took his. I bet he will learn this time. He needed this lesson to know to leave people alone.
I looked at my mom and said, “You have 1 minute to decide if you want to stay here, or go with us.” I walked around the SUV to the driver’s door and got in, I will not be waiting around for her to make up her mind about this.
“Get in, if you are coming mom, or stay right here for them to find you if you want to go back to dad. But I am sure that things will be much, much worse now that I am not there to keep him calm.
But Kevin and I are done with Black Moon. I love you, mom” I told her and shut my door. She stood there on the side of the road looking stunned. Mom always did what she was told.
She didn’t come up with any ideas, she was beautiful, but not the smartest person. She followed what my dad told her too, and he loved her for it.
I started the SUV and looked at Kevin, he was stunned at what I had done too. I have to admit that it was much harder than I thought it would be.
Talking about it, and doing it, were two very different things.
I was glad that Kara had tucked her money into the pouch on the back of the passenger seat, I didn’t want to have to go down into the ditch to get it. Kevin nodded to me and I took off.
I knew mom was in shock as she watched me drive through the median to the other side of the road and then start heading back toward Black Moon.
Each SUV had a tracker on it, just in case one was stolen, just like I just stole this one.
Kevin took the tracker off with the screwdriver I gave him, and then he pried the front plate off the front of the vehicle too. It was highly reflective and had the pack symbol on the center of it.
You could see it coming from a distance. I handed my phone to Kevin and said, “Send them” and I drove the speed limit back the way we came.
We had passed them and were just going over the last hill about two miles away.
I glanced up to see four SUVs flying out of our packland heading to where the tracker was currently laying on the side of the road.
Kevin had thrown my phone out the window after he sent all of the messages out to Blake and the video that I wanted him to send.
It was ironic that my phone had landed dead across the street from the entrance to our pack. I know that he will be tracking it next when he gets to the tracker, and we are not there.
I almost wish that I could be a fly on the wall to watch him when he finds his precious little girlfriend is gone. I am sure it will hurt him to his core.
I was glad the plan worked, but I felt horrible about taking two fairly innocent lives. That warrior didn’t deserve it, but he would have fought us to the death to keep us from leaving, Kara too.
Too bad Blake hadn’t sent me out with three of his girlfriends. I wouldn’t have minded taking out his whole squad of sluts.
Plus think of all the extra money I could have had from taking their money too. We picked up speed now that we had gotten past the pack.
They wouldn’t have looked twice at us, as we didn’t have the tracker, or the plate, on this SUV. Cassandra wasn’t entirely innocent, but out of our group, she and mom were the least guilty of us all.
I bet if she knew where I was headed she would have come, but I couldn’t tell her.
Mom can’t keep a secret, and Blake may go crazy enough to want to torture her over it, but I am sure he will know that there was no way that I would have let her know anything.
I am in the wind, and as far as I am concerned, I will never return. An hour later when I got to the city I stopped and got a new cell phone. I got one for Kevin too, and he was really happy about it.
All his brothers and his sister had one, he was the only one who didn’t. I need to make a call that I never thought that I would have to, and I braced myself for it.
I had memorized his number long ago, and I was hoping that it would still be the same number after 15 years.
It rang four times, and just when I thought he was going to forward my call, he answered the phone. “Hello?” I heard through the phone, and I burst out crying. I missed him so much.
“Hello, are you OK?” I heard and I tried to control my crying but I was ugly crying. “Leander?” I said to him, and I heard his gasp of surprise. He knew it was me from that one word.
I was banished, but I needed his help. I needed him to be able to take care of my innocent son. “Leander, can you get a meeting with Brandon and Raven, please?
I need help, and I am willing to help you all in return. Call me back, at this number and tell them that I can tell them where everyone is. They won’t have to search anymore.
I will turn myself in, but I kind of need a favor in return” I told him, and I am still crying. “I am here with all of them now, Cheryl.
Hang on, don’t hang up, give us a minute” Leander said, and I could tell that they were heading out of a crowded area and probably going up to an office.
I was right, I heard the door shut, and everyone settling down before I heard Brandon’s deep voice say, “Cheryl, are you OK?” which set me off into more crying.
“I am OK, thank you, Brandon, but I had to do something desperate to escape. I have a son, and he is in serious need of protection.
He is innocent, and all I need is for you to allow Leander to raise him in Black Adder. I will turn myself in to you, so the council can come and get me. I will accept my punishment for running.
My only request is that Kevin be taken care of, please. I need your word that you will do that, and I can be there soon. I know that you are an honest person Brandon.
If you tell me you will do it, that is good enough for me. I can be there in less than an hour” I told them, and I know that they can all hear the tears in my voice.
“We will take you both in, if you are in danger, Cheryl, you need to just head here right now” I am surprised to hear Raven’s clear voice coming through the phone.
“Thank you, Raven, I know that they are still looking for me right now. I can accept my fate, but I just need confirmation that my son will be taken care of.
He cannot go back to his father, he will never survive it” I begged them on the phone. “We will take you both, Cheryl. Call us when you get close and we will meet you at the gate.
I will accept and take care of your son, just come on now, you will be safe here” I heard Brandon’s voice strong and calm, coming through the phone.
He is sincere, and he has always been a man of his word. I let out the breath that I was holding, and took Kevin to a drive-thru to grab food before we headed to Black Adder.
“Mom, I don’t want to be without you. That wasn’t our deal. You are supposed to be with me. I do not know any of these people that you were talking to, I won’t be safe with them.
They will not care about me. I would rather take our chances in the human world than go to Black Adder” Kevin told me. “I know baby, but I need you to be safe. You will be safe and protected there.
It is where I grew up. It may be OK, the people searching for us were really after Graham and Reagan. I may just get a slap on the wrist, or I might really be punished, but either way, I made a deal.
I trust Brandon, and I know that he will take care of you. You are about to meet your uncle Leander. He is my little brother, and he is the Gamma there.
the pack is strong, your father will not be able to get to you there. We will be safe living there.
I promise you, you are my son, and I would do anything to protect you” I told him and we sat in silence as I drive the last few miles in.
I could see black SUVs a few miles behind me, and they are flying my way. I called Leander back and said, “I am here, but someone is coming this way very quickly.
Please let us in, I do not want him to find us here.
I should have known that he would check here first after I escaped.”
“We are already at the gate, Cheryl, come on in, and park along the wall, we will protect you,” Leander said.
I can see the gate opening for me, as I pull up. I barely slowed down as I drove in and then turned to park right along the wall, about 50 feet up where they wouldn’t be able to see me.
My heart is racing so fast, and I cannot catch my breath. How did Blake find me so fast? He would have had to drive straight here. Is there a second tracker on the SUV?
I am white-knuckling the steering wheel as I look into my rear-view mirror at Leander, Brandon, and Justin all at the gate.
I am sick with worry, as I wonder if I have brought war straight to Black Adder’s gate. They certainly won’t be letting me stay, if I have.