Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 111

Cheryl's

POV

I woke up alone and scared. I cannot see Kevin, and there is a tube in my throat. I pressed the button for a nurse, and one came quickly to me. She could see the panic in my eyes and spoke to me in a calm tone. "You are going to be fine. Your son will be back soon, and we just moved this bed in here for him to be able to stay with you here." I glanced over to where she motioned and was glad to see that she was telling the truth, if he wasn't coming back, they would not have put it in here with me. This room is huge and I glanced around it again, this time with less panic. "I will go get the doctor for you now, just stay calm, and he will explain everything to you, OK," she said, and I nodded at her, and appreciated how kind she was to me. I guess I have gotten accustomed to being treated badly for the last several years. I feel tears fill my eyes and I blink rapidly to try to fight them off.

I appreciate that I am not in the cells here at Black Adder. I was half expecting to be in them when I woke up actually. I do not know how this is going to work out here. But if Kevin is OK, and can live here in peace and be taken care of, I can deal with whatever they hand out to me. I heard the door open again and a handsome man walked in. He had a white coat on, so I am assuming that this is my doctor. I know that he already knows my condition is bad, but he was kind when he spoke to me as well. I guess they don't know that I was banished from here over 15 years ago. I am sure that when they are told about it the guise of friendliness will be gone then.

"Cheryl, your condition is very serious, and the tube is to make sure you get the nutrients you need. You are lucky to be alive. I can assure you that it is only because of your wolf's strength and your Beta blood. You are seriously malnourished and dehydrated. If you had gotten here two days later, I believe that your organs would have started to shut down because of it. We will get you back to health, but I want you to cooperate with us to do that. Your son is getting dinner with Alpha Brandon and his family. I just notified them that you were awake and they are heading back here now. I want you to stay calm, and not get stressed. I can assure you that you are safe now. They have already put us in lockdown mode and no one will come here to harm you. Your son was very worried about you. He wants to stay here with you in your room, and Alpha Brandon set that up for you too. So just relax, and try to stay calm. You have been overstressed for way too long, and it can cause long-term ill effects for you" my doctor told me.

I felt the tears sliding down my face from the corners of my eyes. I am stunned that Brandon and Raven are willing to take care of my son like this. It takes a lot of worry off of me to know that if I do have to be imprisoned by the council, Kevin will be kept safe. That is all I wanted. That is what I needed to hear and I am very grateful that he put my mind at ease by telling me that. I guess he could see the worry I had and wanted to make sure I was not stressed out.

"Are you OK, Cheryl?" he asked with concern all over his face.

I nodded to him and gave him a thumbs up. This was all I could have hoped for, and I can take anything after hearing it. He nodded back and smiled at me and said, "OK, I will be back later to check on you. Stay calm. Everything will be alright, I can already feel it." He then gave me another smile before exiting the room. I was calm now, my main goal had been done. Whatever happens next, I can live with it. I just needed to protect my son and keep him from being killed. Graham didn't beat me, I ended up beating him, at his own game. Did he cost me everything? Yes, yes he did. I still cannot believe Blake and what he has done to me. I stared at the ceiling and tried to stay calm. I did, but I miss my mate.

I loved Blake with my whole heart. I could have dealt with, and had dealt with way too much for one person to handle. What Blake and Graham didn't know was that they had already broken me. I just never let it show. I wasn't going to give them the satisfaction of knowing that they had broken me completely apart. I was not a bad person. I was not a killer, and yet I had to do just that for me to be able to be free of my tormentors. The guilt I had for that young warrior, who just lucked out on going with us, and over Cassandra was the last straw. I was alone now, and I could let it all out, we were safe and I didn't have to be strong anymore.

My sobs rang out in the room as I cried even with the pain of the tube rubbing and causing me pain. My anguish at what I had been forced to do to save my baby boy, was pressing on me hard. I couldn't stop or control them as they needed out. I was so overwhelmed as I realized that I was going to have to tell them what I did. I am sure that Raven will never be able to allow me to stay here after I killed her mother. No matter what the reasoning behind it was. It was us or them, and I knew that Graham was going to be at his end game soon. We had to get out of there, my choice in the matter taken away. Graham had a solid plan, and it was set in stone. Kevin was going to be killed, and Graham was right. I couldn't have lived with myself if I had stayed there and allowed it to happen.

I had never shown Kevin any favoritism until Graham got Blake to deny him, in front of the pack. I loved and doted on all of my children. I will miss them so much, but what they have become lately is not good. Blake had been spoiling them with money for years, and would not listen to me when I demanded that he stop. Reagan's entitled face would always appear before me as the cautionary reason why it shouldn't be allowed to occur. Graham created that monster and was doing it to my other pups. It caused a gap between us as they felt that I was trying to punish them by taking away their opportunity for them to get what they wanted. It made them angry and frustrated with me for asking Blake to stop spoiling them. It also made them rub it into Kevin as they showed him what all they had gotten, and then pretended to be sad, as he didn't get anything.

My whole family has been changed, and not for the better. I had to pick my battles in this. Kevin's life was what I had to choose. The punishment for their greed and gluttony would show up and Blake would see how they ended up. Not like how we raised them. But as selfish teenagers, and young adults who always wanted more, and were never happy with what they had. My sobs continued to ring out in the room as I feel that I am finally safe enough to stop pushing my emotions down and finally be able to express them. I cried for Kevin, for my other three pups, for Blake, and finally for myself. I had lost the love of my life because he clearly never trusted me. He never listened to my side of anything and downplayed the pain I felt at his cheating. I know he "thought" that he was trying to keep us together. But he knew exactly where my bottom line was. For him to voluntarily cross it to break me. That was more than my heart could take. I believe that was more than any heart could take. I remember him doing that very thing to me while I was in the dining room for lunch. The now familiar pain caused me to almost fall to the ground. I heard someone sit down in the chair across from mine and when I looked up, I saw Cassandra was sitting there.

I tried to smile through my tears, but she held her hand up to me, palm toward me, and said, "No need to speak. I know what is happening to you right now. I also know that Graham has caused this. He has done a lot of wrong in his life. He felt like it was appropriate for him to get vengeance for Reagan. He fails to remember that she earned her punishment. Graham used to do the same thing to me, back at Silver Blade. Once he started cheating, I refused to sleep with him again, too. He loves me, but he also covets being with other women. He hurt me for so many years, so I know what you are experiencing, Cheryl. I didn't sleep with him for a long time. But he has proven himself to me. He has not slept with anyone here for the ten years that we have been here. I finally allowed him to have s*x with me again. I hadn't slept with anyone for over 22 years while I waited for him to get his head out of his a*s. I am so sorry for what you are going through. I am just mentioning it to you for you to know that one day you too might be able to get past it. To forgive Blake too, if he puts in the work and goes back to the man you fell in love with. Being chosen mates doesn't make it easier, it makes it a great deal harder. We don't have the pull, the sparks, the goosebumps that you get when your true mate, your true love, touches you. I wish I had not been a foolish young girl back when I met mine. I was spoiled, and I wanted things, stuff. I allowed Graham to take me away from my true mate for the promise of being spoiled. Graham is not even half the man Cole is. I was wrong in the choices that I made. Graham has ruined so many lives. He has hurt so many, but the biggest regrets that I have stemmed from picking Graham to be a chosen mate. Losing Cole as my mate, and not speaking up to protect Raven. I will never recover from those bad decisions. I would apologize to them both if I could. But nothing I could say would take the pain I caused them away. I see you, Cheryl, I know how you are doing everything you can to protect Kevin. Soon you will have to make a hard choice. I support you in whatever path you decide to take to make things right again." Cassandra gave me a soft smile, and then a pat on the hand to show her support. She walked away from my table with her head high, looking like a regal Queen. You would have never known what hardships she has faced, just by looking at her. She has never come to me like this before, she has never spoken to me like this. It was kind of unusual from start to finish.

I was too stunned to speak. I never expected her to sit down and say what she said to me. It was a great distraction from my pain, which stayed in the background as she spoke to me. I had just remembered hearing my dad mention to mom about Graham's girlfriends helping us escape as we were running from Silver Blade. I just never realized he had betrayed Cassandra so many times. I hated that she had to go through all of that. I heard the pain in her voice as she told me her greatest mistakes. As I lay here in the bed and go over it in my head, it hit me that she knew. Why would she bring all of this up after almost 15 years at Black Moon? It is almost like the Goddess herself had let her know what was going to happen. The tears come back harder as I remember me apologizing to her before I killed her, and she never say a word to me. She could have used that same time to beg me, argue with me, plead for her life, but it was like she knew that this was going to happen. She knew her fate, and she allowed it to happen, even though she knew it was going to end in her death for us to be free. She knew that the end result was the only thing that would cause Graham the pain that he deserved to feel. Graham only loved a few things: Cassandra, Reagan, his fancy things, and his money. Not necessarily in that order.

My guilt takes a huge spike, as I realized that she knew it was coming, and still begged me to come on the trip. To allow me and Kevin to be able to break free from Graham and Blake. She gave me her tacit approval to do it. Goddess, please forgive me for what I did to Cassandra, I begged the Goddess. I begged for forgiveness for my actions. It seemed like her coming to me to be so brutally honest about her life with Graham, was almost like she knew I was going to end up here. For me to relay how deeply sorry she was to Raven. I thought I was all cried out, but clearly, I am not. I cannot stop the realization that there was no way that the Goddess didn't show her what was about to happen. At that time I was the only one who knew we were about to escape from Black Moon. I hadn't even told Kevin yet. It had to have been the Goddess to do it. But who would believe such a crazy story? Should I even tell Raven? Would she hate me forever for killing her mother? I do not feel comfortable admitting to killing two innocent people all to get my son out of a certain death situation. But it is hard to argue that the Goddess did that for me. She got us just to safety before I passed out. I could have killed us both if I had been driving when I passed out. The Goddess's hand has been on us this whole time. The door flies open and my son enters the room. He looks so much better. The strain around his eyes is almost gone. He is smiling and happy, and he is dressed nicely. How long was I out? He hugs me tight and tells me how happy he is that I am awake now. I hugged him back, and tears keep pouring down my face. I am so happy to see him, and I realized that he is exactly where he needs to be. I am smiling at him and trying to stop the tears that continue to fall, when I see Raven at the door, with Brandon and Justin right behind her. She smiled at me, and it was a true smile, not a fake one. I know she knows how truly worried I was about my son when I woke up and he was not here. I smiled back and said, "Thank you" as I knew she was the one to help take care of him. She nodded and said, "Of course, you are our pack members, and we will always take care of you. As soon as I can I will take you and him into town and we can get him more clothes. It is then that I see a duffle bag with him. He has more than just this outfit on, and I see four teenagers in the hallway looking in at me.

All four of them are big, and strong, like my son but were respectful of me, by staying in the hallway. Kevin places the duffle bag under his bed and took a blanket that he had on top of the duffle bag, and laid it across the bottom part of the bed. I can see excitement shining in his eyes as he turns to me and said, "Mom, this place I great. Is it OK if I go run their obstacle course with the guys? You have got to see it, they have one for kids and adults. They said I could run both of them if I wanted to." It had been years since I have seen him so excited about anything.

Leander stepped into the doorway and put my backpack, new phone, and my SUV keys on my legs. "They put the SUV in the parking garage as we didn't know who was after you and we didn't want anyone to see it. I do not know if you are aware, or not, but we are on lockdown. Justin upped the gate guards as well as the patrols, and our secondary gate is in place. No one will be able to get onto our property. I will take the boys with me down to run the course, so you can talk. You are safe now. Do not cry, we will protect you" Leander told me, and my tears still fell.

"Is it OK mom?" Kevin asked me and I squeezed his hand and nodded at him. He bounced out of the room and I could hear the boys running down the hall to go to do whatever it was he was so excited about.

My little smile, which could not be a full one because of the tube, decreases as I now see Cole, and a member of the council enter the room. I am now suddenly terrified of what is about to happen. But I always knew this day was going to come. I was a wanted person and had been for a long time. I just killed two innocent people, so it is time to do what I said. This was the deal that I made to allow Kevin to have a good life. I was willing to do exactly what I told them. I will tell them everything, as long as they make sure that Kevin is protected from Blake, Forest, and Graham. I made the deal, and I will honor it. They even went the extra mile of setting up a lockdown at their pack to keep us safe. Whatever happens to me, it will be completely worth it for my son to be able to be safe again.