Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 110

Brandon's POV

We waved Chery's truck through my gate, and it was immediately shut and locked back behind her. We could see several trucks in the distance coming our way and she was right, they were traveling at a high rate of speed. Cheryl was right to be scared. My men are armed, but we do not show our hand until we need to. With this type of situation, it is best to try to de-escalate it, instead of starting with threats. As they pulled up to the gate, we all calmed down because it was Cole arriving from Blood Walker. Raven had texted him when we got the call from Cheryl, and he hauled a*s to get here, clearly. I see that he has council member Emerson with him, and I was glad that he was here too.

I started walking toward Cheryl's truck and when I got closer I could hear her son frantically calling out to his mother. I hurried my steps, as I don't need her to die on us, she had really looked bad when she got here. She was obviously under a great deal of stress, and I was not going to add to it. She was passed out at the wheel, and unresponsive. Her son was clearly very upset, with worry etched all over his face. He looked just like her with his hair and eye color, but he was already bulky even at his young age. He clearly trained well, and he looked like he was going to be a powerhouse by the time he was 18. His clothes did not fit him well, and I wonder what happened to them to get them to this state. They have been gone for 15 years, and I wonder if she suffered the whole time, or just recently This was a nice SUV, so the pack she came from had funds, yet they both were not dressed very well. Maybe they were servants and had to steal the vehicle to get away. We will have to take care of her first. I called back to Leander who was approaching. I stepped back so he could pick her up from the driver's seat, and put her in the back seat to secure her. He ran around the SUV and got in behind her son, and I drive us all to the pack hospital. Justin had run to Cole's waiting SUV to tell them what had happened and they followed us there.

I mindlinked Raven for her to meet us there and asked her to bring our four oldest with her. She told me that they would meet us there, and broke the link. I knew she was already going to link them to come with her. I can see the young man turned in his seat watching his mom with anxiety, and my heart breaks for him. From the looks of it, it is only him and her in this life, and he will be crushed if something happened to her. We have excellent doctors here, some of the best, I will not let her die here now that she has returned. I went ahead and lifted her banishment from Black Adder. Her actions, although frustrating, were forgivable in my opinion.

I knew the day I banished her and her family that she was just doing what her father had told her to do. He conned her into it and took advantage of her crush on me to get her to comply. The worst part was that he had set her up to take the fall using her password information, to try to dodge any punishment on his part. He was the problem, Cheryl was just expendable to him. Silas always had a better opinion of Leander, than he did Cheryl. I no longer felt that she was a threat to me or the pack at all. I was going to be talking with Raven about letting her off of the wanted list and allowing her to come back. I wanted Raven's opinion first before speaking to Cole and council member Emerson. I pulled right up to the front of the hospital, where the doctor I had mindlinked for an emergency was waiting with several nurses and a gurney to get her to an emergency room for treatment. Leander had immediately gotten out and came around to get her. I opened the door for him to be able to get her out, and she looks like she has wasted away. Her son is standing there next to the gurney as Leander gently lays her on it and her son starts off with the medical team to go with her. I hated stopping him, but he cannot go back there, he will just be slowing them down. My hand on his shoulder stops his forward motion and he shrugged my hand off and started off again. This time both Leander and I stopped him. "Son, I know that you want to go with her, but you can't. You will only be in the way. Our medical team is one of the best in the area, she will be OK. Let them see what she needs them to do to help her, and as soon as they allow us back, I will have a second bed brought in so you can stay in the room with her" I told him.

I could see them thinking about what I had told him, and his piercing stare as he looked like he was checking the validity of my words. He grudgingly nodded his acceptance of my words. This young man is very cautious, and I can see the black eye he is sporting was new, as it was healing quickly, and we didn't carry bruises for long. He had to have been hit this morning and I wonder if that was the reason for their leaving the pack they had been living in. He is going to be my height, and I knew he would be about the same size as my Jax, or the twins, who were basically the same size as Jax. I could hear them before I saw them, and they were hugging Justin and Cole before heading over to us. I can immediately see the interest in my son's eyes at the young man standing next to me. He didn't say anything to them though, he just stood there next to me quietly. I know that whatever they had gone through, it was bad. Teenage boys are loud and rambunctious, but not this one. This one was on guard to be attacked, and watching my sons very carefully.

I was going to start introducing them as they walked up with Raven, Justin, Cole, and council member Emerson, but Jax beat me to it. "Hi, my name is Jaxon, but you can call me Jax. These are my younger brothers Liam and Chase, they are twins, and our younger brother Dexter. we call him Dex, but he hates it now, so he wants to be called by his middle name Conrad now" Jax told him and at the end, he concluded with an eye roll over how silly he thought Dex's request was. That got a little snort of laughter from the young man. Jax put his hand out to shake the young man's hand and I was proud of my son for helping to take some of the stress off this situation.

"Kevin," the young man said and reached out to shake Jax's hand. He shook hands with all four of my sons and they did what they do best, teased and messed with each other. They were willing to wait here with Kevin, but the doctor came back out to speak to us about an hour later.

"Alpha, this she-wolf has been through a lot. She is completely dehydrated, which is probably why she passed out. She is severely malnourished and dangerously thin. I haven't seen this kind of abuse, really ever, in one of our kind. If her wolf weren't so strong, I am confident she would have died by now. She needs rest, she needs to not be given any stress. She needs time to heal, and at this point, I am thinking at least three weeks. I will have to wait for her to wake up and get better before we can run tests to see if she will have to suffer from any long-term issues from what she has had to live with. I will not sugarcoat it, I am concerned for her heart, I can tell that she has been in this state for an extended period of time. I am hoping that with her being in a better environment, and working with her, we can get her back to where she needs to be. As small as her stomach is, we will have to work hard to just get her to eat again. We are feeding her intravenously now, and I am hoping that after a week, we can remove the tube, and see if she can eat some soft foods to start with" the doctor told us.

I thanked him for his help and asked that she be taken to the VIP area for her treatment. I was going to keep my promise to Kevin, and she needed a bigger room for another bed to be brought back in for him to stay with her. Kevin is clearly upset, especially after he heard that she could have died by now. With the tube down her throat, we won't be questioning her now. I don't know what to do and I looked over at Raven. She is upset at what she heard too, and Cole is clearly upset as well. This was serious, and she isn't out of the woods yet. It may take a long time to get her to where she is healthy again, but we will get her there.

Justin speaks up, "Kevin are you hungry? How about you come and get something to eat with us? They will need a little bit of time to get you set up in your mom's room, and they will have to move her from where she is anyway. We have at least another hour before the room will be set up. Would you like to eat with us?"

Kevin waited about a minute before he nodded in agreement, and I had one of the warriors pull her SUV to the parking garage on the side of the packhouse. I do not know who is after them, or if they will show up here to look for her. I do not want any obvious signs that they are here. At Kevin's confused look, I explained that to him, and he nodded again. He saw the logic in it, and I can't stop myself from asking him, "Kevin, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?" It is impossible for him to be over 15, they have only been gone for about two months over 15 years.

"I will be 14 and a half in less than a month," Kevin told me in a serious tone. This poor kid had even less of an opportunity to be a kid, than my own children. My heart is breaking for him, as I know that it could go either way for Cheryl. I hate that he is under this kind of stress at such a young age. I sent up a quick prayer to the Goddess to not take his mother away from him. He is scared and trying to pass it off as being standoffish, but I can smell the fear coming off of him. I wanted to know why he was so scared. Is he worried his dad is after him? Did he get abused at his old pack? What has happened to his mother? So many questions and I don't know if I should even ask. Kevin stayed between me and Leander as we walked to the packhouse. We are early for dinner, but I knew that food was already ready for us. I asked them to go ahead and start putting some of what they had ready to go out. They were already on it when we entered the dining room. I see Kevin's interest in how the dining room is set up and thankfully Jax, and the boys step up to go take him around to see what all we had. I was glad because I wanted to speak to Raven and the group now.

"Raven, I lifted the banishment on Cheryl when they got here. It has been 15 years, and she was acting on what her father told her to do. He set her up, and used her crush on me, to try to take over the pack. She was used, and I was going to see if it was OK with you if she and Kevin stayed here. I want to drop the charges against her, but only if you are OK with me doing that. If not, I will find her somewhere else to go" I said to the group as I watched the boys move from area to area as they showed Kevin around. "I am fine with that. I can tell that she has been tormented, and for Goddess knows how long. I cannot imagine how hard her life has been since they went on the run. She can stay here with her son. I can tell that she risked her life to get him to safety, and I am glad that our boys already like him. They are being gentle with him too, surprisingly enough, so I know they like him" Raven said with a slight laugh at how much the boys already liked Kevin. Yes, I have noticed that too, and I thought it was odd, as my boys, although friendly to all, do not connect so quickly to others. They are cautious, and watchful before they make their decisions, and it was almost instant when they met Kevin. I think that is the Goddess giving them a nod to their friendship.

"I am fine, she was just wanted for what she did trying to drug you, but Reagan was the one who bought the drugs, and delivered the drink to you. We have always been more interested in getting Graham and Reagan, than any of the others. We were going to interview them, but for Billie, Cheryl, and Cassandra it was just going to be a slap on the wrist. The real charges are against Graham and Reagan. Silas was just going to have to pay the fine of 20% of the loss to your pack. Their judgments had all been determined when they all of a sudden disappeared. We just put them on the BOLO because we figured that they were all holed up together somewhere, and were trying to force their hand" council member Emerson said.

"Cole, I would like your opinion too on this. I do not want to step on your toes at all. I value your opinion, and if you want some form of punishment to be carried out, I will defer to you" I said to him.

"I saw her where she got here, and I agree with the doctor, I am surprised that she is alive myself. I am sure that she has probably had a very hard life, and she was the lesser of my concerns. It is Reagan, and Graham, that I was after. Not any of the others. I didn't even know Silas and his family. My only issue with Cheryl was her attacking Raven at her coming out party and trying to drug you. Raven had already punished her at the party, and we avoided the other incident. I am good with what you have all agreed on. I would like to be there when she is interviewed though" Cole said to us. I breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't want any upset with her staying here, but if Raven had been upset by it, I would have allowed her to go to Cole's pack to live with her son. But Black Adder was where Cheryl grew up. This was her home for the majority of her life. I don't think that she has anywhere else to go.

"It may be a while before we can question her, Cole. She has a tube down her throat" I told him and he lifted his phone up and shook it. Yes, that is smart. We can use texting to question her. That will totally work. We need to find out just how serious this situation is that she is in. I need to know if men are on their way here, as I want to protect not just her and her son, but my entire pack. I will not allow them to be put at risk. We need to know, and we need to know soon the threat level that we are at. I don't want to stress Cheryl out. I heard the doctor's warning, but I am sorry, this has to be done.

We watch the boys heading back towards us to sit at the table. That reminds me of something, and I looked down at Raven, who was sitting between me and Justin. Before I could open my mouth to say anything, Raven said, "I will take care of it. He is roughly the same size as Jax, we will go up to our room first, and get him more clothes so he has something to wear until I can take him into the city to get him taken care of." I gave her a hug, I should have known that she was already on it. She is a mom and saw the problem right off the bat. The fact that she bore no grudge against Cheryl lets me know how good a person she is. Raven is very secure in her knowledge of how much I love and care for her. I know that she feels the same for Justin as well.

The boys all started eating, and Kevin was hungry. He was also watchful like he still expected something to happen even at the dinner table. The fact that such a young man has to keep his guard up all the time lets me know that it wasn't just Cheryl living with stress. Kevin was too, and a great deal of it from what I can see. I wonder what could have happened to them both for them to get to this point. It makes me very concerned about an imminent attack on Black Adder, and I mindlinked Justin to what his thoughts were on it. He was thinking the same thing and had replied, "I already increased the patrols to double up. I also doubled up on the gate guards as well, and I told them to put the additional gate in place. No one was getting in here unless they scale a wall". "Thank you for doing that. I appreciate it, I have no idea if someone is coming here or not, but better to be safe and ready, than wait for them to get here and set it up" I linked him back.

"You were busy and it is my job to help keep the pack safe as well. I have got your back. We will get this sorted out today" Justin linked me again. I have to say he is right. He always helps keep the pack safe, and I don't have to ask him to do it. He is invaluable to me, and honestly, we work in sync with each other all the time.

The secondary gate was something that Justin had come up with several years ago. We had been conducting training sessions here and had a few incidents from it, so we stopped the training. No strangers were allowed to come here anymore. Justin felt that although our gate was strong, it could be rammed, and then wolves could slip in through the gap in the gate, so we added extra security measures. We have two solid gates that can be slid into place, one on either side of the wall, just inside our normal gate. We also have retractable barriers that were installed as well. A total of four of them had been buried in the ground and were 6 inches behind the solid gate. These could be used to pop up in place to make sure the solid gate was not crashed through. Even if they did, it would not move far due to the retractable barriers. There were two 50-foot solid beams that can be put into brackets one 2 feet up from the bottom of the solid gate and one two feet down from the top of the solid gate.

This made our entrance almost totally impenetrable from even the largest SUVs. They would literally have to have a tank, to be able to get through it. I thought it was brilliant and had one crew build the sliding gate doors, and made sure that we paid the extra

expense to make it bullet-proof. If we ever needed to use it, it meant that the chance of us being under attack was here. It was a heavy and massive gate, and well worth the money we paid to get it installed. Justin has had several great ideas, and the pack is much more secure with the plans we have implemented and put in place. If someone wants to get in here, we are not going to make it easy on them.