Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Chapter 139

Aaron's POV

Holy s**t, they brought vampires with them into my pack. I have fear for my children who were currently upstairs, and I am hearing some of them heading our way. Before I can even mindlink them to stay upstairs, I see my two oldest sons come down to the landing. They froze at seeing Raven standing next to their mother. They had never been told that their mother had a twin and the shock of seeing someone that looked almost exactly like her had them stop and do a double-take. I moved closer to the stairs to try to protect them by stopping them from coming down the next set of stairs. I do not know these men and women at all, and our children are defenseless against them.

"No one is here to harm you. They are actually here to protect you. You need a vampire Aaron, to go against a vampire. We all thought it was best not to mention the vampires coming with us. We knew that after your experiences with them, you may be fearful about having them here. This is the only real way to get rid of a vampire issue. Plus, you will know why they are here, in just a few minutes. They are here to help you and your pack, Aaron. You need to be introduced to them, I think that you will be quite interested in who they actually are in relation to your vampire problem. They are more than what you think they are. I have known them for a long time, they are good and I trust them with my own family" Brandon stepped forward to speak to me, as he saw my movement to go and protect my sons from them, it was an automatic response. Trevor and Henry have a lot of curiosity for the vampires standing in their living room and do not seem to be afraid of them at all. They stepped the rest of the way down the stairs and headed right for them, as I was reaching out to stop them.

"Dad, we researched vampires, these are not the ones you need to worry about. Their eyes are yellow. That means that they drink from animals, or from blood bags. Not from people. They are safe" Trevor said and Henry nodded in agreement. "Are you sure?" I asked them before I thought about it. I am quite sure I offended their whole group, it was unintentional, but I was worried about my family. I don't see Brandon's children here to prove to me that they are safe to be around my children. I have never dealt with vampires, other than the ones who just showed up killing off pack members. That is all I have to go by right now, and all I know is that I cannot trust the ones who will be coming back to attack us and attempt to take Reagan. "Your sons are correct. We do not feed from people. We run a business where people can donate blood, but we pay them to donate it. The blood gets tested, and if it is disease free, they will be paid for the donation. It works for them, and us. We will drink from the bags, but not people. Your sons are very intelligent" their leader spoke. In his comment, he clearly complimented our children but called the rest of us who were scared of them out for our ignorance of that fact. That was embarrassing, but I was glad to hear that they were safer to have around. I just didn't know, I hadn't done research on them, and it is in my nature to want to protect my children.

"Oh, NOW you want to protect them, after what Eloise put them through" I heard my wolf, Roman, ask me through our link.

"Shut up Roman, I get it, I just didn't know. I was wrong for allowing her the opportunity when I could tell what she was about from the moment Austin was born. I just never thought she would go that far" I answered him back through our link and then paid my attention back to our guests.

"I am sorry for offending you, and your people. I appreciate you coming here, especially not knowing us at all. I have never met or dealt with vampires before, only the three that showed up this week. I am sorry for my lack of knowledge of your people. I truly did not mean to offend any of you. I was only trying to protect my sons" I told them and they nodded to me. It doesn't seem like I truly offended them. It seemed like they let it roll off of them, as I am sure I am not the only one to have made a careless comment about them. "My name is Alexei, but you can call me Alex while we are here. I understand that when you haven't been around us, it can be scary. But you are all much safer now than you were, with us here. I know you have tried to prepare for their return, but the honest answer is you can't. You will need us to take care of the problem, and we will. I had Raven call earlier as I wanted to make sure that it was him. It appears that our half-brother Draven is the one here causing you problems. He has lied to you from the start. He had a mate, and he killed her, over 200 years ago. He has quite a violent temper. He probably saw your she-wolf and fell in love, or wanted her to make hybrids. He would sense the power you have, and he wants to create strong babies. He wants to have more control, and power than he currently has and will do anything to make that happen. He is prone to doing exactly that, lying to get the upper hand, I will help you with this, as he is our problem as well. He is my and Anton's half-brother" Alexei motioned to another man near him, one who also had blonde hair and honey-colored eyes.

Anton nodded and gave a slight bow toward me, and straightened back up. I cannot read any of them. I can tell that they are indeed killing machines. They all stood there tall, and confident as they looked around the room. They were sizing us up as well. They stood watching us as carefully as we were watching them. That seemed to shake Reagan out of her frozen state and she stepped forward and said, "I am sorry. I was caught off guard, I didn't know you were coming. Please have a seat and we can go over what we have been doing so far, and what we have settled on to do, for us to be as safe as we could be for the last few days."

Reagan brought them up to speed, and they nodded some at her choices that she had made and nodded at the stake ideas. They nodded at Trevor who was proud that his idea had merit. They were surprised at our buying the swords. One of the women said, "They are very effective to remove heads, but you have to swing very hard with a sharp sword to be able to do that. It was smart on your part for you to think to incapacitate them before you attempted to remove their heads." There were a total of 5 male vampires, and 4 female vampires in their group. They all seemed to move with grace and looked fairly normal, and all were strangely attractive. Other than their paler skin tones, you would not know that they were vampires. The leader Alexei, his second was called Dmitriy, but they don't call them that. Both men look very strong but are built more like a swimmer's build, rather than bulky with muscles like we are.

We learned that they all live in the same coven and that they don't make up even half of it. Alexi and his brother Anton both had blonde hair and honey-colored eyes. Dmitriy had dark brown hair and eyes that looked more yellow, than golden. These three men were the biggest of the group. Ivan had brown hair and seemed to be younger than most of the group. Adrik had dark hair and the same yellow eyes. He was the quietest of the group and was still a fledgling, he had only been a vampire for about 10 years, and this seemed like his first big opportunity to participate in something like this.

The four women were all beautiful, but their paler skin seemed to suit them better than it did the men. It gave them a more delicate look, whereas it had given the men a slightly unhealthy appearance, with them not being able to tan. The women all stood up to be introduced and the one that had spoken earlier was introduced as being named Kira. She had long red hair, that she had fashioned into a long braid. Her black one-piece outfit made her seem like a total badass. She was not concerned about what they were about to be doing. She seemed rather bored with it all like it was already done, and they could leave. Irina was next, and she was the shortest of all of them at either 5'7 or 5'8. She seemed fragile and delicate and smiled a lot, which put people at ease. Polina was the next woman in line, and she had brown hair, she had the same one-piece outfit on and she also seemed ready to fight. The last woman was the tallest, and she had long black hair, to her waist. Her pale face worked well with the black hair, and she was the tallest of all the women at 5'10". She was introduced as being named, Nadia, and I had already seen some of the warriors from Blood Walker checking her out. She ignored all of the looks in her direction. She was ready to get this over with too. I do not think that she is a big fan of werewolves, but she is not being rude, just quiet.

Hearing that they were brothers to the vampire here causing problems made me feel better about this. Clearly, their brother was the problem child, and that was probably the reason that they would drop everything to come to help us. I am absolutely glad for their help. I heard more noises coming from the landing as Clive and Reagan's oldest, Tatiana, with her younger brother Atlas hot on her heels came flying down the stairs. I bet her older brothers told them that there were werewolves here and they wanted to see them

too.

Tatiana was not scared at all as she came down the stairs, just as bold as her mother. I see Clive give them both a look, probably telling them to be good but never stopping them from coming down. He just moved closer toward the vampires. He knew where they were going, straight up to the vampires, to get a look at them. I see the women's mouth twitch almost in a laugh as Tatiana came right straight to them to introduce herself. She had no fear and even held her hand out to shake their hands. From the looks of it, they had never seen such a forward little she-wolf in their lives. She didn't seem to be worried about them at all. They were impressed by her boldness, as it was clear on their faces. They even introduced themselves to her, and Atlas, who stayed behind her, and didn't shake hands, but did want to meet them.

"You do not fear us?" Nadia asked her when she got to the end of their line.

"No, you do not drink from humans. You are the good vampires. Why would I be afraid of someone who is good?" Tatiana answered her back. Nadia gave a laugh at Tatiana's innocent, but truthful response, and said, "An excellent answer, but you must always be cautious little one. Some can never be fully trusted."

"I agree," Reagan said, and the room seemed to relax even more.

When they were told how the pack had been split up into being secured in three areas, they nodded. "It is better to have only three places to guard, rather than 50. That was very smart on your part. What we will do, is have two guarding the hospital. We will send Nadia, and Polina there, just in case they get in there. Kira and Irina will go to the packhouse, in case one of them gets in there. Irina tends to make people feel more comfortable being around her than the other women. I will have Anton stay here in your home with you, Reagan. He will have the strength that you need to beat Draven, if he does manage to get past us, to get to you. The rest of us will be out there with Justin and Brandon. We will take care of whoever he comes with, he should not be able to get past us to leave your land. Draven is smart, but he will not know that we are here. The outcome is going to change for him and his people because of it. Our scent is masked, and he will not be expecting us. We need to make sure that Justin and Brandon take them out if they try to get away from us. I will tell you now as soon as they are aware of our presence, they will be trying to escape. That is why we need to stay back until we have a count on exactly how many of them there are. We need to dispatch all of them tonight, they need to be neutralized here, and not allowed to escape. I am sure that you want the same thing, for them to never be able to return. I plan on us taking care of each one of them tonight, so you do not have to worry about them anymore. Anyone who comes running back out the way they came in, needs to be shot with the arrow. We need to dip the arrows in wolfsbane, as I know you have some, and it works on Vampires too. It will take them down, and give us enough time to kill them" Alexei told us, and I feel a whole lot better he is here now. He is probably correct in his thinking that it takes a vampire to end a vampire. But I just want my pack to be safe from now on. I believe with their help we can make it through the night safely.

One of the warriors from the Blood Walker pack, one of the men who had been eyeballing the female vampires asked, "Don't the females need a male with them, at the packhouse, and the hospital? Won't they be at risk of being attacked?" Laughter was heard from the group of vampires, and Alexei responded, "I am sorry for the laughter. It's just that they are almost more ruthless than we are. They will fit in better in the pack house and hospital because they are less threatening than we are to you. You were probably thinking the same thing yourselves. He was just the one to ask the questions on all of your minds. Do not worry about them, they will not be hurt, and it will be easier for your pack to stay calm with them being women. I brought 9 of us, we will be fine, even if he brings double digits, we have the element of surprise. He will most like have fledglings or Neonates with him. They are newer vampires and are not as experienced in what needs to be done, as the rest of us. It is Draven himself that poses the most threat to you in this. He is our brother, and his mother was one of the few humans who could carry a baby for our father. He is strong, but nowhere near as strong as Anton and I are. He will probably come with more than half his coven as he has his sights set on your beautiful she-wolf here. He will want to take her, and he will come early, you were right to get prepared. If he gave you three nights, and he gave you the first night of peace, you will be wanting to catch up on your sleep tonight. You probably stayed up half of last night waiting for him to show up, so you didn't get much sleep. He is very intelligent to plan it out this way. After you got the first night off, he will come the second night, and you will have lowered your guard. It just makes sense, because you are exhausted from him coming this week, and then having to prepare for their return during the day. He hasn't been in California for over a hundred years. We banished him for his actions. I am actually glad he is back, we need to end him. He is one of the reasons that vampires get a bad name, with what he and his coven does".

The children edged even closer to the female vampires, even though they were warned that they were just as dangerous and Alexei's smirk at me let me know that what he said was entirely correct. The pack members would not like any of the vampires being here, even with them here to help us. The women staying at the other locations will allow them to stay calm, while they are being protected from the group that has singled us out for attack. The women seem to be very patient with the children while the kids fired off question after question at them. They seemed amused by how interested the children were in them. Reagan mentioned that the children down here were the same ones to help her research vampires with her. The men were basically silent, just watchful, as they watched the interaction of the children getting closer and closer to the women, with no fear showing on them at all. Their clear interest in them washed away any fear they might have had toward them. I was glad that Anton would be staying here to help Reagan, as Draven has claimed her as his own. I didn't want her to be left alone without one of them here to help protect her.

I was thankful now for Reagan reaching out. We did need more hands on deck for this. I was not expecting the bulk of the hands to be attacked to actual vampires, but I can see where this will work very out in our favor now. I approached Alexei, Brandon, and Justin who were speaking to each other. I had a few more questions that I wanted to ask, and not where everyone could hear me. I know that Clive had the same questions to ask. We had fought them, they were not weak by any stretch of the imagination. Clive fought Draven and I fought the other male, and neither of them was weak. I could have gone longer but I got that punch to the side of my head, and that was it for me. These vampires must be very strong indeed for them to consider Draven and his coven to be weak. I am even more thankful that they are here now, as I had no idea the kind of strength that they had. No wonder they didn't look worried about fighting Draven and his coven. Who knows how many we would have potentially lost tonight without them here? I guess it was the Goddess herself that set this up. My friend who lives in a nearby pack, the ones who were going to help us out, decided earlier today that we were on our own. He said that he would take the chance on them coming to his pack, but that he would not be coming to help us out. I guess our treaty means nothing to him, or he was just too scared to help. I can't blame him. This whole thing scares the hell out of me too. I just can't wrap my head around the fact that I have 9 vampires inside my pack, and I am not terrified. After speaking to them, I know that the only way that we have any chance at all is by them being here to help us out. If we succeed tonight, it will only be because they were here to help us out. Otherwise, we would probably be just as ruthlessly killed as my mate and son were.