Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 114

Blake's

POV

I had gone upstairs after I was able to gather some strength, to look at the note she left me. It wasn't just a note. But a note, and DNA test with results. Apparently, she had sent one of my water bottles, a hair from my brush, her brush, and Kevin's brush too. I cannot get over what has happened today. Graham has been in the cells for over 2 hours, and he was still knocked out. I was both happy and sad that he was still unconscious. I was glad that Marc had really punched him hard, but I wanted to get my hands on him myself. I wanted him awake and aware that his life was now in my hands, and that I wanted him dead for what he did to me and my family.

I have been staring at one of the pictures of our family, back when we were happy. It was really the last one taken of us all together. After this one, no more family pictures had been made. It was either because I refused to let Kevin in the shot with the rest of us, or Cheryl refused to participate without him in the picture. Back before Graham decided to completely f**k my family up for no reason, we were so happy. The proof of Kevin being mine was right here in front of me and was a complete punch to the gut. Forest and Kevin looked exactly the same, with my face, my square jaw, and even down to the shape of my ears. It was just the fact that Forest had my coloring so he looked more like me, and Kevin had Cheryl's coloring. Graham was right to pick on Kevin. I would have balked if he had gone after one of my babies. Cheryl was right, she never left here one time in her first 5 years here, because she was terrified of being caught and imprisoned. There was no way any of my children were not mine. The pain in my heart increased as I realized that I am the reason for all of my pain. Everything that our family has been put through was because of me.

I rubbed my face with both hands, and I have been doing that a lot for the last few hours, I am under a lot of stress right now. I have been waiting on a call from the council, but thankfully that has not happened, yet. Silas and Billie had come to speak to the children earlier, and that had not gone very well at all. Silas started it out by calling his own daughter a murderer and blaming her for everything. Billie was still in shock and was not really speaking. None of the children acted like they even cared that their mom had left us. But they were all angry about her killing three pack members without cause, at least that was what the whole pack was talking about. The pack member were all talking about it, they all thought she did it for no reason because she was angry and jealous of Kara. In fact, Forest even went straight on the attack and said, "I don't care about her anyway, she can stay gone. She cheated on dad and caused this whole thing. How could she kill innocent pack members like that? She will not be getting away with it. I hope the council catches her and puts her to death. I have been disappointed in her for years. I won't miss her or Kevin."

I am stunned at how mad he was at her. I am sick that he is just repeating some of what he has heard me say over the last few years. Goddess, I messed up so badly. I see Casey and Robert open their mouths to chime in with him and I have to hold my hand out to stop them. I cannot hear anyone else condemning Cheryl right now. With each hateful and angry word, it hits me more and more what all I have put her through. There was nowhere in this pack other than this bedroom where she could be free of the ugliness that I allowed to follow her wherever she went. With each step she took, she was ridiculed and scorned for something that she never did. Graham was absolutely brilliant in playing on my fear's so much that I just accepted it all as truth. I have to straighten this out, and I guess that I will be starting with my own family.

"Don't speak about your mother like that. I was wrong. I was lied to and deceived by Graham Sullivan. Everything that I did was because of him. He lied about Kevin & he lied about your mom, too. She never cheated on me. Kevin is your brother. I allowed my possessiveness and jealousy to blind me to what I was doing to your mom, and to Kevin. I was wrong, and I caused this. I have proof that she was innocent, and I will clear this up tomorrow at a town hall meeting that I am going to hold for us after our dinner. I just cannot do it today, my heart is hurting at the loss of my mate and pup. I want your mom back, no, I need your mom to come back. Do not ever let me hear you repeating any of the crap that I have been saying these last years. I was wrong, and I will admit just how wrong I was. I have locked Graham up right now. I will be interrogating him either tonight, or tomorrow, but Kevin is your brother, he IS my son. I was wrong, and that is all you need to know right now. I will pray to the Goddess every night to bring them back to me" I told them, and their stunned expressions did not help me feel any better about this. Even Silas and Billie were shocked at my words. They had believed it too, her own parents condemned her, just like the rest of the pack did. I poisoned my family, my ranked wolves, and my entire pack against a she-wolf that had truly loved and cared for. I never had any proof at all of her deceit. Yet I made sure to tell anyone who would listen, that she has betrayed me in the worst way. Cheryl didn't do anything wrong, but I condemned her as if she had. I cannot wait for Graham to wake up. As soon as he does, I will be there for a visit. My children at least had the grace to look upset over how they treated Kevin. Especially the two youngest. I didn't want to kick Casey while she was down, but she had an opportunity to hug her mom goodbye and she lost it. I remember the pain showing on Cheryl's face when Casey actually greeted Kara first, and then chose not to hug her mom, as shopping was the most important thing on her mind. One of these days Casey is going to feel really bad about it. It just shows the pack mentality when one member is ganged up and picked on. Everyone always takes sides with the stronger one. Because they don't want to be the one who stands alone or gets bullied themselves. I had seen the black eye on Forest and at first, he didn't want to admit to what had happened, but he finally did. He had been ashamed that he was bested by his younger brother. He hadn't realized that Kevin just put in more work than he did. Forest just kind of went through the motions, and never applied himself, because he was the heir. Kevin worked out harder than Forest did, not for the position, but for my approval. Forest knew he had my approval, so he didn't care to work hard for it. I am ashamed that I have failed my whole family, and changes are going to be made here and soon. No more getting expensive shopping trips, from now on they will have to work to earn money. I am ruining my children just like Graham ended up ruining Reagan. The pain that she felt, the helplessness that she had here in her own home, in her own pack. She was trapped here to continue to suffer at my hand, basically a prisoner in her own home. I knew that she was mad enough to run away from me, but I knew that she would never leave Kevin. So I made sure that anytime they left, they had several warriors with them. I gradually pulled back on the warriors that I had on their security detail. They were there to protect them, but they were more there to actually prevent either of them from being able to leave Black Moon. I let Graham do more and more to try to get Cheryl back. Back to where we were before I f****d everything up. No wonder I couldn't do it. I was listening to the very man who wanted to destroy us both. How Graham thought that he could get away with it, I will never know. The sudden realization comes to me that he had probably planned for that too. He wanted her to die, that is what he was pushing her to do. I already know that if she had died, because of what I had done to her. I would have gone insane. They would have had to kill me to stop the rampage that I would have been on tearing through this pack. Graham would have them just put someone in my place and he would have used them as a vessel to be able to run the pack himself. How could I not have seen it before?

He would have bossed Garrett around, as Garrett would have gotten the job of interim Alpha. All while Graham ran the pack behind Garrett's back. Graham would have kept working on Forest and kept planting seeds into Forest's head. Just like he did to me. Graham would have had full control of my pack. He would never have let go, and Forest would have been too young, and inexperienced to have stopped him. The level of deception that Graham was working at, amazes me. I see now that he had been on his very best behavior here at Black Moon, at first. He needed to learn all the ins and outs, how I ran things, who I trusted, and how they were too before he could make a move. That took a while for him to learn. None of us trusted him at all, especially for the first 5 years. He got very little information garnered from any of us during those first 5 years. He as patient, and cunning, and I never saw it coming. He played on my very worst fears, losing Cheryl, to do that very thing.

I doubt he even factored in or thought of a possibility like this one. One where she would strike back as hard as she did to him. To hurt him almost as badly as he had hurt her, and our son. I saw how shocked he was over it. He honestly thought that she would just give up, and bow down under the pressure of it. I honestly think that he wanted her to die from the stress and pain of it. He failed to factor in how strong she actually was. How much she loves those pups of ours. She never wanted to give up on me, until I forced her to by crossing over her bottom line and dismissing her core values.

My selfish acts as the person who was most important to her. Showed her time after time what I thought of her and made her feel insignificant, and unimportant to me by putting my other women first. At that point, she was only protecting Kevin. It was why she had him next to her at all our meals. Because she could not trust him to be safe anywhere else. The fact that I had put Kara, and those other girls across from her, was the biggest slap in her face. One that I did with my whole pack watching it play out. How I took her spot as Luna, sitting at my right hand, and gave it to another woman. It didn't matter that I was wanting to hurt her back for picking Kevin, and Brandon over me. Graham, of course, had mentioned that. He sat where he could watch the pain that she went through at being dismissed, and disrespected each and every night. I know he enjoyed seeing it. It makes me sick to think of what all I did to her, and when the time comes and I feel her betraying me, I hope I have as much strength to be able to endure it. I have a very bad feeling that it will be much worse than I ever dreamed it would be.

"Alpha?" I get a mind link from Garrett. They have been leaving me alone for the last few hours as they all know now that I am shattered. They all are stunned at how the day has gone. The things that we thought we knew, were all wrong. The fact that he and Marc played such an instrumental role in getting me to where I am now, has not escaped me. They know punishment is coming, but I have to deal with other things first. Like clearing my mate's name, and dealing with Graham. I know what he is going to do, and I have a little something up my sleeve for him,

"Did you need something, Garrett?" I am not happy with hearing from him.

"You wanted to know when Graham was awake. I was letting you know he is" Garrett replied. He is right. I did need to speak to Graham, and I am happy that he is awake now.

"I am on my way. Thank you Garrett" I told him, and broke the link. A smile is finally on my face. I finally have a little good news and something to look forward to as well. I am looking forward to letting him know that until my mate comes back he will be wishing that he had never set his sights on hurting either one of us. He thinks that he has the upper hand like he always had. I want him to know that from today forward, he no longer has anything at all left to look forward to, for the rest of his sorry life.