Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Chapter 171

Cheryl's

POV

Three days ago we had a meeting at Black Adder to discuss the upcoming attack. Graham, it seemed had run out of ideas, and he had definitely run out of money. Raven, and her mates, Anton and me, Reagan, and Clive, Truett and Stella, former Alpha Cole, and Alpha Carter, as well as Leander, Alexei, and Dmitriy, were all present for it. We needed things to progress and they weren't right now, as Graham was at a stand-still. Cole, Raven, and Reagan wanted this over and done with the most. None of us wanted it hanging over our heads. They were absolutely done with Graham as he needed to be dealt with, and as soon as possible. All the ideas were put on the table to see what would work best.

"I know Graham. He cannot stand to look weak, or bad, in front of others. He is failing at this, and that makes him angry. I know him better than anyone here. He cannot allow anyone to one-up him. He had a mate, but she wasn't attractive enough for him. He felt that he should have the very best of everything. She was an attractive lady, she just wasn't a stunner, which was what he wanted. She was a great fighter, but she didn't take his s**t, and he didn't like that either. He wanted to control her, he wanted to make her fully submissive to him, which she refused to do. So, he rejected her. I am sure that he didn't get a second chance mate because of his heartless actions towards her, but she got her happily ever after. The Goddess pairs us for specific reasons. She knows our strengths and our weaknesses. She knows who will bring out the very best in you, and you in them. He just wanted to have better than everyone else, no matter what it was. His bottom line was and still is for people to be jealous of him. It was my mistake not to mark Cassandra before I stepped out, but I could have never suspected that I would lose her in less than 5 minutes. I guess the Goddess knew what she was doing because I still got Raven out of the deal. What we have to do now is piss him off. He doesn't think things through when he is mad, he just reacts. You end up making bad choices at that point. We have to push him hard to get him to react. We do not want to have to wait a year for him to get his men completely trained. We need to make it urgent, and it needs to be something that will work him up very quickly" Cole stated and we all had to put some thought into it.

"Well, he hates me because I took his mate away. It would piss him off to know that I got married and am doing so much better than I was. That should infuriate him to no end. He hasn't liked me since I told him how ignorant he was when he came to me to allege that Blake had cheated on me. I knew that feeling, and Blake hadn't done it. So I didn't fall for it, but clearly, Blake did" I said to the group.

"I hate saying it, but I think that is the route we need to take. Give him just the information that we want him to have. Imply that we are ALL spending the money as a group. That should send him into a fury with just that. He doesn't know that Anton is using his money, which should be a double blow seeing that the woman he wants dead, is not just being taken care of, but that Anton is spoiling her. Be sure and take pictures of both the game room and the theatre room. He is going to think that we all built homes like that and that I am spending his money as fast as he can make it. He will have to leave Black Moon to go get his funds back. As far as I can tell, only Blake has any common sense there in that pack, and he will get it done" Reagan said to the group and they nodded. "I will get in touch with Council member Arnold Emerson so he can also help us get this done. He was in on it from the beginning, and the council had let him take care of it this whole time. He can give us some help too, but the only wild card here is Blake. We won't know if he will be with them or not. I can't imagine that he will give Graham, or Forest a pass on this. Blake is a vengeful man, and I cannot believe that he will not make them pay got what they did to him. It is obvious that he still has some kind of attachment to Cheryl here. He may just play along with them to get her back, and then leave them here high and dry. I don't know how this will play out as I don't know where his head is at. I can assure you that after seeing the pictures that we saw of his terrible treatment his mind is probably not in the right space. There is no way that you get tortured like that, and you are the same after it. Graham is a sadistic bastard, and he needs to be ended and soon" Cole told the group. Brandon and Justin were both nodding in agreement and so was Anton.

We all knew that we had to send out a test probe to see where Graham was, as we have not heard anything from Black Moon for a year when Blake left here after accepting my rejection. So, I took some pictures of our wedding pictures on Robert's cell phone. Kevin took pictures of their rooms and all around the house. I had him take some of the downstairs too, and I made sure that Anton and I were in the background for a few of them. We needed to make sure that Graham was still going to go ahead with his plans. It almost seemed like he had given up. We felt like we were just in limbo, waiting to find out when they were going to be coming. I knew Graham would be furious with finding out that we weren't miserable here. The fact that we were flourishing was going to hurt him, and we also wanted him to think that we were frivolous with his funds.

I was well aware of the level of hate for me that Graham had. I also knew just how petty and vicious Forest was, and I knew for a fact that is not how we raised him to be. I knew that Casey had been telling and showing Forest about the texts she got because sometimes Forest would send a nasty text to Robert's phone. He didn't have Kevin's phone, so he sent all the negative messages to Robert. It got so bad, we have to open the messages now before we let Robert see them. The fact that he allows us to do that shows just how heartless Forest has been to his younger brothers. The funny part is that if they were face to face he would not say the same hateful things he does through text. He is scared of Kevin, whether he admits it or not. Kevin is looking forward to the coming altercation, as he will be finding Forest, and beating some sense into him. Forest is unbelievably hurtful to both his younger brothers. It was his telling them both in his last text, that he doesn't care if some report said they were both related to him, he only claims Casey as his relative. That is why we are now checking the texts first, if Forest continues to be so despicable, we will block him.

Both Casey and Forest were more like Graham, than me or Blake, so I knew that our plan was going to work. They can be manipulated too, and after the last meeting we had, we knew we needed to see what was going to happen to push their hand. We wanted them to at least have a fighting chance against us, otherwise, it will be a m******e that Graham had engineered. It was not the warrior's fault, and some were definitely going to lose their lives during the fight. It needed to be Graham, and his ranked men who were killed, not the innocent men and women who were just following their orders.

We were all surprised at how quickly the plan had actually worked. Aaron's spy at Black Moon advised that she saw Forest and Graham go down to the cells on Monday, and 20 minutes later both Blake and Brady had been released from their cells. She was the one that was sent out to get clothes for Blake, at Garrett's request. She told Aaron about how Forest had taken over the Alpha suite, and how pissed off Blake was when he found that out. She was really smart to change her look while she was out to get him new clothes. She had cut her hair and changed the outfit from the one she usually wore. She always wore the same uniform when going down to the cells to take him food and medicine. Blake didn't recognize her when she took his clothes to him, and the name she had been writing down for taking him his meals while he was in the cells, was not correct. She slipped right through the cracks and could keep at least a little surveillance going at Black Moon for us.

I knew that the pictures I sent Forest would piss them all off. I also knew that my having married Anton, and being pregnant with his child would incite fury in all of them. They were judgmental and felt that they were superior to other species. Thinking about how the meeting went, we accomplished what we intended to. We wanted to push them into moving forward, not knowing that we had eyes on them. Reagan had plenty of money stored away, and they had built a home here too. Their children loved it here, and they figured that they could split their time between the packs after this gets resolved. Reagan knew that Graham had hit Aaron up for the money she gave him so she replaced it, and he put it into another account so Graham couldn't take these funds so easily. Brandon knew that Graham was frustrated by the men not listening to him. Also, Brandon and Cole had put pressure on the council to start giving Graham a hard time at Black Moon. They knew Blake was locked up now, as he was never going to let Graham go. He would have kept showing up here too, trying to cause problems for me here as well. We knew that when he didn't come back we suspected what happened. When Graham had shown up the next day at Blood Tracker we knew for a fact that Blake was either dead or locked up in a cell. We all assumed that it was going to be the latter. We all knew that Graham would be wanting revenge on Blake for punishing him. But from what Trevor has said, Forest is mad that he doesn't have more control over the pack. Trevor doesn't go over often, and they usually meet somewhere else to have lunch. Forest had no idea he is leaking so much information, but for the last 2 months, nothing has happened. Forest is going to keep it up though, because we all knew that Forest would start bragging again, and we needed to know what he would be saying.

We knew we didn't want the threat of war looming over our heads waiting for them to come to us whenever they wanted to. We figured that we should move it along a little quicker, as we were prepared and ready to go now. The less prepared they were would be best for us in this fight. So we omitted a few things, I also made sure that they were not aware I was no longer a she-wolf. They will find out that little surprise on their own when they come here. We also didn't mention that Anton has more money than Graham could ever dream of and that Anton had paid for our home. We knew that Graham would assume, and we wanted him to.

His only love now was money, and that is the way to push him. Plus, I have to say that I felt a lot of guilt for poor Blake being beaten every day. I saw the pictures that the lady got for us. He looked terrible. He has lost weight, and he had given up hope, you could tell that he had nothing to live for anymore. I also saw that Graham had done to Blake, exactly what Blake had done to him. He had hung up pictures of me on the wall. I was stunned to see that because I am sure Blake isn't hung up on me, at all. He never was in love with me, as far as I could tell from how he used to treat me. It was clear to me now that I was the fool in love with Blake, but he had never been in love with me. Now that I have been treated so well by Anton, I know what it feels like to be loved, to be needed, to be wanted, and it is wonderful.

We found out last night that they were moving forward with their plans. I knew that Graham would be furious to see Reagan in the pictures. So after speaking with them, and then with Brandon and Cole, I made sure to send a picture with both her and Raven included in the background of it. It was a big F you to him and we just couldn't resist doing it. We knew he had been trying to find Reagan for a year now, with no success. He suspected that she was here, but had no proof of it. The warriors he sent to spy on our pack for her, were tramping through the forest, and not even trying to hide their locations. If they had even suspected how many times they could have been killed by one of our marksmen, they would have never returned here again. Graham's men were not trained at all. We all knew that as soon as Graham could get his hands on his money again that his confidence in attacking us would grow, and we needed him to be bold enough to attack quickly. He had no way to know that Black Adder had been training this whole time, all because the Goddess gave them a heads up.

I was not aware of the fact that they were descendants of the Goddess. All of this came as a surprise to me, just like how prepared they were here. I first learned exactly how well-prepared they were when we went to Blood Tracker to help them with the vampires that were after Reagan. I was so glad that I went, as originally Raven wanted me to just let her stop Blake from using the girls as bait. I knew he would not listen to her at all, and that I had to go. I knew that he would try to still use them to lure the vampires, as he was willing to blame anyone but himself for what had happened to us.

We were heading into the meeting today, and we needed to find out how things were progressing. It was Wednesday and although it has only been two days, they were very busy on Tuesday. The council had notified us that 6 SUVS had left the gates, and they could only get 4 of them stopped to be searched. That was smart of Blake, and they had no way to stop the last two, who went in opposite directions. What they didn't know was that there were more council warriors present, but not in the marked SUVs. They had followed them right to the corporation and watched Blake escort Graham into the building with the rest of his ranked wolves. We saw the pictures, and although Blake looked slimmer than he normally did, his commanding presence was still clear for anyone to see. The council notified Cole and Brandon of it last night and sent the cell photos to Brandon. Reagan was smiling as she started the meeting off.

"So, Graham went to his closest business for a surprise inspection yesterday. He went through the process of checking the plant quickly and he also stopped by HR to speak to them about changing accounts and also taking my name off of his businesses. I was expecting it and knew it was a matter of time. They sent me the notifications this morning. I made sure to check my account daily, so I could transfer any available funds and not leave anything behind for Graham. It was my gift to him, so although he got it put into another account, he won't have any money for almost a few weeks. I know that he is happy with getting this done. Clearly, Blake is much smarted than Graham is, as he got it handled in less than 24 hours out of his cell. I bet that didn't go over well as no one else had figured out what they needed to do to get it done in months. I know they all have to be feeling pretty stupid right about now," Reagan announced to the room.

"Aaron called me and said that he was going to wait and see if Blake was going to come to him first. Aaron doesn't know how to approach Blake right now because this is a dangerous situation to be in. Blake was with Aaron and Reagan at first, but right now none of us know the headspace that Blake is in. With this going on, it is safe to say that since Blake is the smartest at Black Moon, he will be able to get them straightened out. Plus, I believe that we all know what Graham has promised him, out of this" Brandon spoke out in the quiet room. I could feel their eyes on me, and I hate to admit they might be correct in their assumption. I could feel Anton's fingers tighten up on the hand that he was holding, and he murmured to me "I will never let him take you, my love."

"I know what kind of a vicious man Graham is, we all know what he is planning to do. He will want to kill every single one of us in this room, including me. We need to get our people practicing with their weapons, as well as training at least 4 days a week. Hopefully, we will still get a heads up on when they are coming, before they hit the gate" Brandon stated to the room. We all agreed with his assessment, we have got to be prepared, as we will only be getting one shot on this. We have to protect our children. We have to protect our pack. We have to be ready to go at any time.