Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 122

Reagan's POV

I felt better after I cried in the shower. I let out all my anger, and frustration at this situation. All of the sadness and despair that I felt because I didn't really get to say goodbye to my mother. My heart is broken, and knowing dad had something to do with it, is making me angry at him. Both mom and I have told him over the years since we got here to stop. To stop trying to control things, to stop trying to lead them where he wants them, to stop trying to get vengeance for me. To just enjoy time with mom, in their new home, and just relax. Mom was finally happy again after getting dad away from all his girlfriends. He had finally gained her trust again. I had heard rumors from other pack members at Silver Blade that had mentioned what my dad did back in the day when I was still a child.

When I got older I knew about it firsthand, and I didn't like it. It was disrespectful to my mother. Plus, I looked just like her, if she couldn't hold his attention, what hope did I have to be able to do it when I met my own mate? I remember realizing that I would need to have my mate tied down to be able to control him. I didn't want to be seen as weak by my pack. I wanted them to all think that whoever my mate was, that he loved me, and only me. That ended up blowing up in my face, but I have a chosen mate now, and he has been loyal, and loving, to me the whole time. I knew I could trust him, in fact, he refused to leave the pack for any reason, just in case he ran into his actual mate. He wouldn't meet her here, he felt safe in that. He only wanted me, and I have to say that we both loved each other very much. We may not be true mates, but I am OK with what we have built together. We have marked each other, and I want to grow old with him and watch our pups give us grand pups. We already know that it is me and him together, no matter what comes.

I was glad to see that my mom was finally happy again lately, and thought that things were really good between them. For the last several months, mom has been happier and more open to me. We are having nice conversations with each other like we never had before. The last several visits here with me were a more special time together. We have never been this close. What I liked best about our relationship over the last few years, was that she was proud of me, she was finally proud of me. I hated to know that was not going to happen ever again. No more conversations, no more support, no more hugs that let me know that she loved me. No more giving me advice on raising my pups, or what to do in case of situations like we are currently facing. It was all gone, over, and I can feel the change in me. I was angry already. I wanted to punish someone for taking her away from me. I wanted the person who had done this to suffer for taking my mother away from me.

I was hoping that my parents would be able to grow old together at Black Moon. To be happy as they entered their golden years, traveling, and experiencing life together. Dad had built mom her dream home and she has been a lot happier for the last 12 years. I know that she had finally forgiven dad and they have been a lot closer over the last 6 months. Who knew her happiness would be so short-lived? I needed to know more. I needed to know why. What in the hell could have happened at Black Moon to have resulted in my mother being killed? I am sure that if dad is locked up, he clearly had some part in it. Probably had a big part in it if I am being honest, but I will never believe that he would kill her. Dad loved mom, and I know in my heart that he is suffering a great loss now. It is killing me to not know what happened there. All I do know is that if I can, I will kill the person responsible for her death. I will take away someone that they love before I do it, so they can feel the same suffering that I do right now. Earlier I had things to focus on, like getting my house secured. But now, with nothing but my children's breathing going on around me, I have time to think. It is not good for me to think, because all I can think about are scenarios to avenge my mother. I cannot stop my mind from going there. Jeremy spent the last two hours watching for them to come back into the camera shots. We knew that they had gone to the hospital, and then back to the pack house again. We were kept up to date on their movements through the mindlink between the warriors. It seemed like they were avoiding this house, but I didn't know why. I was thinking that they probably felt like they had a larger number of easier-to-handle victims at the hospital. They had more windows at the hospital, and now that we knew the holy water was useless against them they were stretched even thinner. There were more total potential victims at the packhouse. I knew before the warrior watching the cameras announced their arrival that they were here. I could feel it, and when I heard the feet hit the shingles outside my window, I knew. I already knew which one of them it was. I felt like he was bolder than the rest of them and was being deliberate with messing with me. I feel like it was because I had shot him, numerous times. He clearly has an agenda now. The other two went around and tested all of the windows on the first floor while the flirt wandered around on the abutment trying all the windows on the second floor. It was a short shingled area slanting away from the house it extended out about 6 feet from the house. It went all the way around the home and the occasional rain would land on it, and let the gutters take it away from the foundation. What I didn't know was how good his senses actually were as he came right back to our window, and tapped gently on the glass like he already knew that our children were with us in there.

"I know you are there lovely. I will not hurt you, you are probably the only one safe here in this pack" he said to me and Clive gave a warning growl to him. I had already stood up from sitting on the floor, got my gun off the nightstand, and started getting my extra magazines out. I will not be playing with him anymore. If I have to shoot him, I will make it a much better shot than I did last night. This is life and death for me and my family. I made a mental note to get more magazines for the gun tomorrow, and bullets too. "Why are you here? You need to leave. I will not allow you to hurt my children or my mate. You need to go somewhere else, or I swear to you we will do what we need to, to survive. Nothing personal. This is your last warning. Please leave us in peace" I told him in a low tone. I will not wake my children up and Jeremy had come upstairs to allow the warrior that was at the door guarding us to take a break. Jeremy had the sword for upstairs with him, in his hand as he crossed over the children to get closer to the window. I knew that if this guy wanted in the house, it would probably be to come into this room. The other two were outside the first floor and were just nosing around.

"I scented you the first night, lovely. I can sense your power. I have lived for over 400 years, and I have never sensed anyone else with your level of power. If you are willing to come with me and leave here with me willingly. I will leave your pack alone and safe. If you decide to not come with me, we will come back every night until I have leveled the pack. Do not doubt that we will do it. I would like you to voluntarily come with me, as you will be mine for eternity" he told me. Is he insane? What would possess me to leave my children and my pack, for him? He must be mad.

Clive growled even louder, and I had to put my hand on his chest to calm him. "I will not go my love" I whispered to him, and he wrapped his arms around me and took a deep breath at my neck to calm himself down.

"That is the wrong answer my lovely. But I am sure you will change your mind soon. I will give you another chance, but you only have three days to decide. You will either come with me willingly, or I will make you watch as I kill your mate, and your children right in front of you before I take you away. We do not have to go that route. It will cause us to lose years with your needless anger over me killing your family. You will be mine, there is no other way around it. I want you to willingly come to me, with me, and your loved ones will be left alone to live out their lives. As long as you make the right choice here love" he told me.

"She will never leave with you. She is mine, and I will not let her go. I love her, her children love her, and she will be safest here. She will not survive very well in your world. Do as she asked, and leave. She will not willingly leave here with you or them. You are disgusting bloodsuckers, and she is a she-wolf. You do not belong with her, she was not made for your world" Clive told him and we both were surprised to hear him growl back at Clive.

"Love, I will be back soon for you, and I will be needing you to leave with me at that time. If you don't come willingly, then I will take you by force. I have had years of experience in getting my way, much longer than you have. You need to heed my warning as I do not give threats lightly. So you need to think about whether you are willing to lose such precious little ones, for no reason. When you can just stop the whole thing, and just come to me willingly. I will take you as my own, and turn you so you can live forever with me. No one will ever treat you better than I will" he cooed at me in a gentle voice that was almost hypnotizing. The way he was speaking was so soothing to me, and I believed him. I believe in my heart that he would love and take care of me. Plus, my pups would be safe, and so would Clive.

"Beauty, do not listen to him, he is just trying to charm you. You need to fight it, baby. He is trying to lure you into agreeing to go with him. He needs you to agree to it, don't. I would rather die protecting you from him than you go along with him to Goddess knows where. He is not to be trusted baby. There is no better place for you than here with me, safe in our pack. I want you to stay here with me forever baby, I love you, and the kids love you. It would break my heart if you left" Clive told me and gave me a little shake to clear my head. He is right, the way the vampire was speaking to me had me convinced that his offer was a good one. But I need to see my pups grow up. I want to grow old with Clive. I will never leave here with him, not willingly. He needs to know that. "Look, whoever you are, it is not going to work. I will never agree to leave here with you. My mate and my children are here and they need me. I do not belong with you, no matter why you want me. Please leave, and do not come back. I swear to you, that if you hurt any of my children or my mate, I will kill you myself" I told him. My voice did not show any of the fear that I was actually feeling when I said it.

"My name is Draven, love, and it doesn't matter to me at all if you are not willing to come with me. As soon as I caught your scent I knew that we had to return here to find you. I was lucky to catch your scent on the second day and found you soon after. I am not going to leave you here. I have finally found you after all these years of searching, and you belong to me. There is no way that I will be leaving you here, especially with him. I have already completely forgiven you for shooting me last night. You will not have to worry about anything. I have money for three lifetimes, and you are my mate. I have searched for you for hundreds of years. I cannot leave you, I can only tell you that you will be coming with me. Happily or not, you will. I just need to push you far enough for you to be able to accept it. I do not care about your little mate here, or anyone else. I do not fear anyone here, as I said, I have lived for over 400 years. There is nothing that you can do to escape me. Even if you chose death, I would feel it and immediately come and turn you right then. You need to give up being childish, and just choose to come with me. Soon I will mean everything to you. You will be mine forever, my love" Draven said to me, and I felt my heart rate increase. That is scary that not even my death is going to stop him. "Oh, I can feel your heartbeat race. I hope it is in excitement, but I know that it is from fear. But you never have to fear me. I swear to you that I will take perfect care of you. Just trust me, and it will make this easier for everyone involved. You are meant to rule at my side. I am not trying to scare you, I do not want to force you, but you will have to come with me. Now that I have found you I will never be able to leave you alone, I can't. It is exactly why I had to come back last night. You felt me, you felt my presence here. You came to the window and saw me. You knew I was here, without me even letting you know that I had returned. I stayed here watching over you, protecting you, even when your own mate was not here. I will bring more of my people with me when I come back. I have many more people in my coven. We originally came to feed off a few of you, as we found your pack accidentally. But once I caught your scent, I knew I could not leave without you. It is not up for discussion. You will be coming with me, or I will be bringing more of my people and we will make sure that the pack knows that you are exactly the reason for the attacks. You will be surprised what people will do to their own, to protect the greater good" Draven tells me, and I already know that he is wearing a smirk in saying it. I can hear it in his voice which is rife with cockiness. His confidence is overwhelming in this situation.

He thinks that he has won. It really looks like he has, but I do not want to lose Clive or my children. I do not know what I am going to do. I guess we will have to have a meeting tomorrow to discuss the next steps. There is no way that we can beat a number of vampires. Three of them alone are causing havoc here at Blood Tracker. I could not imagine what would happen if it were 10 or 15 of them. They would be getting in, despite our safety measures and they would be hurting us. The casualties alone would be large, especially if they got into the hospital. The injured would not have a chance against fighting them off. If they managed to get to the third floor of the pack house again, they could take out those two guards and the people on the 4th and 5th floors wouldn't stand a chance. It would be a bloodbath up there. I shudder to even think about it. I will have to reason with him. He cannot be correct in this.

"I have already had two mates. You are not my mate. Please, just leave us in peace. You are mistaken. We do not want to fight you over this. You can find another, I am sure that there are women who are fighting over you in your world" I told him. I tried to give him a compliment, to acknowledge that he was an attractive man.

"I have several mistresses, some have been with me for over 100 years, but you are special to me. I cannot ignore the pull toward you, and I know that you feel it too. You are my mate, and it is different than your mate's pull. You werewolves can manage to ignore it, but in my world, we cannot. You are going to have to come with me. There is nothing that I can do about this. You need to accept it and come willingly with us when we return. No more attempts to stop us, or kill us. One of yours stabbed Corbin tonight, and he is furious. Both he, and his sister Nyx, are now looking for blood on the man who hurt him. They have his scent, he will be the first to be killed when we return unless you are ready to accept my invitation to come with us. You will be my right hand, my most precious treasure, and you will rule the coven with me. As a beautiful jewel at my side. Do not doubt that I will take you, one way or another because I will. The amount of damage done to this pack is solely up to you. I do not mind fighting for what is mine, my lovely. I will see you soon. You need to make a good decision here, not just for yourself, but for your pack, mate, and children. I will not hesitate to kill everyone here just to have you" Draven told me.

The room is completely silent as I know my heartbeat is giving away exactly how terrified I am right at this moment. I feel a tear slide down my face at his words. He is right, someone would tie me up to leave me in the woods for him, especially a member of Michael, Jennifer, or Tabitha's family. They would like nothing better than to do just that and make me suffer in a coven, all alone, with a man who just admitted that he had plenty of women just waiting for his attention. I would not be safe at all. I shudder at the thought of what happened to me at the hands of two jealous she-wolves. What would happen at the hands of who knows how many angry female vampires, or would it vampiress, what the hell is the correct name for their females? I doubt that I would make it a week before they killed me.

"I will never let him have you beauty. Never," Clive tells me and then kisses me. I know that he is trying to comfort me, but he heard what that Draven guy just said the same as I did. I think that the decision has been taken out of his hands. There is no way the pack will rally behind me. They will have to give me up to save the rest of the pack. Draven didn't sound like he gave a damn about doing it either. He wants what he wants, and apparently, he wants me. I just don't see any way around it.