Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Chapter 156

Chery's

POV

Sure enough, the SUV was waiting for us when we exited the woods. Brandon and Justin were in the front seats and tried not to look at us, but Anton got in and then pulled me into his lap. It wasn't a long ride, but I cuddled into him, as he is a comfort to me, and I know that this a*****e at the gate is going to try to ruin my night. I have got news for Blake. I am not going to stop now, I am going to sleep with Anton tonight, no matter what Blake has to say about it. He can go kick Graham's as if he needs someone, besides himself, to blame for it. I was taking in deep breaths from Anton's neck and then nuzzled his neck and he shuddered at what I was doing. Raven looked like she had never been happier, over the two of us getting along so well. The trip was way too quick and I almost wanted to whine in disappointment at having to get off his lap and go to the gate. I can see that they opened the secondary gate just a little bit, as Brandon was having all security on alert tonight. There was about a 5-foot wide spot there in the middle of the main gate that allowed you to see who was there, outside the gates. All the security precautions had been taken tonight because they knew that Anton and I could possibly be starting our relationship tonight. They all knew how Blake was, so Brandon was not taking any chances. I let out a sigh, I could see him standing there, right in the center of the opening with fury radiating off of him. I reluctantly got out of the SUV and I was glad that Anton got out of the SUV right behind me. He took my hand in his and walked with me to the gate. Anton had no fear at all in him, he radiated calm to me, and I needed it. It wasn't that I was fearful of Blake, I just knew that he was going to go off, and I really didn't want to hear it. I heard the doors of the SUV open behind us. They all got out and stood behind us in a show of support, but none of us spoke.

Blake was fuming, and then ground out, "Cheryl, you need to go get your s**t, and come home with me right now before you do something that I can't forgive you for."

"I am not coming back to Black Moon. I have told you that I refuse to return. Plus, according to what you told the whole pack, I have already done it. So, I am just keeping you from being a liar right now. Just accept my rejection, or else I can guarantee you that you are going to have a really bad night" I shot back at him. I was not scared with Anton by my side. Anton looked down at me and kissed the top of my head, and then moved to stand right behind me to wrap both of his arms around me, and put his head on my shoulder. It had the desired effect. Blake lost his mind.

"You piece of s**t blood demon. Don't you dare touch her. She is my mate. She doesn't belong to you. She is just mad at what I did, she will eventually forgive me, she just needs time to get over it. Do not put one hand on her again. I know you are trying to charm her. I saw you on the balcony with her, you need to remember that she belongs to me. You are not to put one finger on her" Blake yelled at Anton, and shook the gate in his frustration. Anton didn't say a word, just lifted one hand and ran a finger down my arm from my shoulder to my wrist. He then lifted my hand up and leaned over to give it a light kiss, and then wrapped his arms right back around me. His intention was clear, and I couldn't hide my smile from Blake. Blake roared out in fury at the disrespect and tried to reach through the gate to try to grab me, but I was over 5 feet away from him. I was not going to get within arms reach of him. I know him well, and I am not stupid, but I couldn't control myself as I reached up and cupped Anton's cheek and turned his face towards mine. I am going to enjoy this. Anton knew what I wanted and he gave me a thorough kiss right in front of Blake, who was literally stunned that I would do that right in front of him. "You are becoming a slut, Cheryl. You do not need to cheat on your mate. What are you thinking? And with him? Why are you lowering yourself to get with a disgusting leech? He is not worth it. If you return now with me, I will forgive you for messing around with him. I am sorry that you felt like he was a good option for you to be with. I know that I hurt you badly with my actions. I was out of my mind, and the only reason that I was even with them, was because they drugged me. I couldn't resist. It was not my fault. I still wanted you. You know that. They were not good enough, and I still needed you when I got back to our room. Please, I will do anything you ask, just please come back to me" Blake begged and went down on his knees again.

"Blake, I am sorry but I will not return. You do not love me, and honestly, I don't think you ever did. You didn't mention love in what you said at all. You just want me back to try to force me to do what you want again. You liked the fact that I submitted to your power, and did what you wanted me to, just to keep the peace. You like the fact that I was an effective Luna. But you never really cared about me. You were glad that I have only been with you, you did love that, but I am just an accessory to you. Something to be used when needed, not something that needed to be loved or cared for. It was your lack of love for me that resulted in you being led against me. I love you, and I shot down Graham when he approached me. But you were only too happy to oblige him. Accepting his lies for truth, and willing to hurt me so badly just based on his word. You never stopped to think for yourself, or even try to sit down and talk to me" I replied to him.

"Baby, I am sorry. I swear to the Goddess that things will be different. I will treat you like you should have been treated this whole time. I do love you, you should already know that. I have not slept with anyone for over a year, because I am waiting for you to forgive me. I only want you. I had made a lot of mistakes, and I am paying for them. It hurts my heart that you are not there leading the pack with me. I am weaker than before because you are not by my side. I need you, the pack needs you, and our children need you. Please, just give me a chance to prove to you how much you mean to me" Blake asked and kept trying to reach for me through the gate like his words are going to make me overcome with guilt at what I have done to him. Right, what I have done to him. This man is a master manipulator.

"Blake, you act like it was my fault it happened. This is my point, you do not listen to what others say to you. I just told you that Graham tried his bullshit on me first, and I shot him down. Because I knew what betrayal felt like. You still don't. I have only been around Anton a little while over the last year. He never fails to show me care and compassion. He treats me so much better than you did on your best day. I had to submit myself to countless acts of anger and violence towards me over the years, and I got used to it. I should never have had to get used to it, Blake. I should have mattered enough to you that you would care about what you did to me, but you never did, and you still don't. Countless memories stay with me on a daily basis. Like today, I got made up and got my hair and nails done, I felt so special just with that, but then I was also given this dress. I have never looked more beautiful in my life" I told him and was interrupted mid-sentence.

"You do look beautiful, but you should have done this for me. You never did anything like this for me. Why would you do it for him?" Blake spits out and gives a disgusted look at Anton who now has his hands threaded through mine to anchor me with comfort for us to go through this. They are like night and day from each other. They are totally different men. "He is not your mate, I am. Yet, you didn't even try to look nice for me."

"I did try to look nice for you, but let me point out that I was not allowed to go and get a Luna dress, or be able to have my hair and makeup done. I don't know who you asked to get the dress but it was hideous and way too large, I was swallowed up in it and I did not look my best. How was that my fault when you had someone else in charge of it? You know I didn't leave the pack for several years because I was scared of the council finding me. Someone who clearly had it out for me had to have picked out the dress, probably an old girlfriend. At the time I didn't care, because I loved you and was happy for us to officially start our lives together. To become your Luna, and there is no higher title for a woman than that. But you probably pawned it off on someone who didn't like me, like one of your ranked wolves, to get it done. It didn't matter that it looked like it was put together by a 10-year-old with no taste. I was still so proud to become your Luna. I put up with too much in our 15-plus years together. Some things you put me through, I will never be able to get over. But I am so done now, I gave up. I do not care if you take another, because I have found my forever after. Anton will be the man that I grow old with. The man that I choose to give my heart, and my body to" I told Blake, and he growled when I mentioned that I was going to give my body to Anton.

"Do NOT sleep with him," Blake growled out at me. He glared at our entwined hands and got up from his begging position.

"Kara" Anton said in my ear, and Blake froze.

"You put Kara, who hated me, in charge of my Luna ceremony? No wonder it was horrible. So many times things went wrong, things that I didn't do, that you personally blamed me for. Things that I always suspected that she did, and you have no problem at all taking it out on me, every single time. You disgust me, Blake. You probably knew it too, but you didn't want it to get out how you really are, under the cover of civility. Well, I won't be taking it anymore. I will not be leaving here with you. You can forget my number, you can stop visiting, you can just give up. I am done playing along with you. You have hurt me more than anyone else in my life has, and you have met my father, so you know what a douche he is. I am glad that Reagan reached out. I will be forever glad for it because I got to meet the man of my dreams because of it. I know he is Goddess sent to me, as a reward for all that I have gone through and suffered in my life. We will build our home together, and live here as a family. Don't bother coming back here Blake. I will figure out how to get rid of your mark on my own because Anton's mark will be residing there very soon. Spoiler alert, I will be marking him back. You can just keep your perverted eyes peeled on my balcony if you want because you are about to get an eyeful" I told him, and I am pissed.

It just hit me that the growl I heard when Anton put his jacket on me, was him watching us, just like a creeper. He is a sick bastard, and he needs to leave me alone. I already know he was probably out here with binoculars watching us. I was just joking about the eyeful, but Raven's laugh about it, and Anton giving me a squeeze with his arms made me feel good. He got excited with me talking a bunch of crap to Blake. He was letting me know he has me, in whatever I want to do. I will not in fact be doing anything risqué out there on the balcony, but we can surely make out some, just for my little Peeping Tom here.

"I will never allow that to f*****g happen, Cheryl, this piece of s**t cannot have you. I refuse to allow it. You belong to me, and I have clearly been way too lenient on you for far too long. I will get you to come back to Black Moon. You have made your point, but I know that this pack will not want to be involved in a war with us, over you and our son. We are a family, and I will not just let you go over some trivial s**t that we should just be able to talk out. Don't just throw away 16 years of our being mated on this fanged demon. He is already dead, he cannot give you his heart because he doesn't have one. Stop being led to do this, and make the right choice. You belong with me, so stop right now and come back to me. I am clearly the better choice here. I love you, and we have a bond together. Don't ruin that by being a petty b***h" Blake told me. There he is, the Blake that I know so well. His "I have changed" completely out the window because I wasn't going to fall for it like he thought I would. The speed with which he changed up was amazing. He was just on his knees begging me 2 minutes ago. My head is spinning with how fast he changed up with this, but at least he is showing his true colors.

"You can just go now, Blake. You have said your piece, and so has Cheryl. She is staying here, with me, and we will build a nice home together. She doesn't need you coming around to force her into doing what you want her to or tear her down anymore. I will be the one to take care of her from now on. She no longer requires anything from you. She only needs me, and Kevin in her life, not you. I will make sure that our home has enough room for her other children to visit if they wanted to, but I know that you are paying Casey to come here, it is only Roberts that likes to come to visit. I will make our home exactly how she wants it to be. Her happiness is my priority, and I plan on making her very happy. You may already be aware of that. I am sure you have been out here a while now, so I am also sure you heard her screams of pleasure calling my name out a little while ago. Just as sure as I am that you have been blowing her old phone up to try to get her to stop. She left it in the room, you haven't stopped anything from happening with your childish behavior. You had to resort to calling Brandon or Raven to reach out. Let me let you in on a secret Blake. You didn't stop anything, you just postponed it for a short time. Feel free to stay parked out here. I will see if I can coax a few more screams of pleasure from her, as it will be the last time you get to hear it coming from her lips. Accept her rejection, now, or you can deal with the same consequences of pain that you gave her over and over. If I remember correctly, you then had the nerve to tell her that she was weak and that was why it hurt her so much. Well, I guess you are about to find out for yourself now, aren't you, Blake," Anton said with confidence, and I couldn't stop the shudder that ran through me at the thought of getting another o****m or two tonight. That really pissed Blake off and he started to climb over the fence. Brandon told the gate guards to start shutting the secondary gate and then called over the fence, "Blake, I have been more than patient with you. I have allowed you on my packland and treated you as a guest. That was all despite the disrespect you, and your Gamma Travis, had shown us here in our own pack. Please think carefully right now. I will not be scared or intimidated by you. If it is a war that you want, you WILL get it, and you will be the one to lose. You put Cheryl through enough pain, just let her go, and move forward with your life. It sounded like you have had no problems replacing her at Black Moon. It seems the women are just lining up to be with you, so start looking for a new Luna for your pack with that group of women. I would suggest that you accept her rejection now, it sounds like you are in for a very painful night if you refuse."

I could see Blake at the top of the fence. He looked like he was contemplating jumping from it to the next fence to come onto our land. I knew I needed to stop him. He was going to get himself killed, for no reason. "Blake, use your head. If you come over that gate, you will be at war with us. I guarantee you that Anton will kill you if you try to take me or harm me. Just leave, but go ahead and reject me first. You spent so much time telling me just how much I disgusted you, on so many occasions before. I wasn't pretty enough, I wasn't strong enough, and I didn't dress nicely enough. But you forget I cooked, cleaned, and helped all around the pack. The list goes on, you hated to do anything for me, yet I did everything for you. I kept hoping against hope that each day when I woke up, it would be the day that you would realize what a mistake you made and correct it. But you never did, you never stopped to think about what the alleged charge against me was. Yea, it hit you after the fact. After I pointed it out for the thousandth time. You were only able to realize it AFTER I was gone. But what about the 100's of times I said it to you while I was still there? Do not try to do this now. This desperate show of "I love you" is not working, no one on this side of the gate believes it. It is just your hurt pride, you don't really want me, you just hate that I ran away from you. You gave me too little, too late. I am absolutely over it now, Blake. I learned the lesson that you were making sure that I got. I didn't matter to you then, so you need to just go away now. Before you get injured, because I can assure you that I will attack you if you drop down here on Black Adder packland. I believe that Brandon said that he would consider it an act of war. Are you sure you are willing to do this all alone? Who will run your pack? You need to put more thought into this before you make a really stupid decision here" I told him. I wanted him to calm down and think because Anton was ready to pounce the moment Blake landed on this side of the fence.

"I won't lose you, Cheryl" Blake said looking down at me, and he looked like a beaten man. His shoulders are down, and he looks crushed by what I said to him. I had to be harsh. He is making a stupid choice. He should have put some thought into what he was doing this whole time. Not just after he crushed me into bits, and then decided that he didn't actually want to lose me. It is far too late for him to make that decision.

"You already have, Blake," I told him gently and turned away to walk back to the SUV. Raven got in the backseat with us, while Brandon and Justin walked up to give orders to the men at the gate. We all watched the final barrier being put up into place. I could still hear Blake calling out to me begging me to come back home with him, but he failed to realize that I was home. This is my home, and I will not be going anywhere with him. I was relieved when Brandon and Justin got in the SUV and we turned around to go back to the packhouse. No one spoke. Enough had been said at the gate. I didn't want them to go to war over me, but it was nice that Brandon told Blake in no uncertain terms that he would not hesitate to defend both me and his pack. I need to shake this off because I am still on the best date that I have ever had in my life. I want it to end on a good note, and not with Blake's final plea for me to forgive him ringing in my ears. He knew I wasn't coming back, this desperate attempt at the gate was just for show, he wanted to act like he tried and tried, but he knew as well as I did that I was done when I rejected him a year ago. He was just too prideful to acknowledge the fact that I left him. I did it for a reason, as I was backed into a corner. I had to make a choice, and I chose to leave him to save our son. I would make the same choice over again.