Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Chapter 173

Blake's POV

I am trying hard to control my rage, and it is just day two. I tried to contain it, but them thinking that I am so stupid that I will just follow them like a little lamb after they all betrayed me we ridiculous. They must have all lost their minds. I cannot, I will not allow this to pass without a great deal of punishment. I am praying that they will be killed during the attack, and honestly, I might be the one to do it. I needed to speak to Aaron, but they are always around, wanting to watch me. They wanted to know if I had forgiven them for the daily abuse. Right, I forgive you for all the broken ribs, bruises, torn ligaments, and all the horrible treatment that I had to suffer through here. Dirty sheets that were covered in my blood.

The only reason that I agreed to this whole thing was that I wanted out of that f*****g cell. The fact that none of them were smart enough to try to outsmart the council outside was the most ridiculous part of it. The council only had like 4 SUVs, so common sense told you to use more than 4 of our SUV's to get Graham out of here. Their lack of critical thinking really drove home just how ignorant they all were. The fact that Graham and Garrett kept telling me what I great job I had done for us to get free really took me by surprise. They were not paying attention at all. We had a tail, one that I was 100% sure had been tailing us the whole time, even though I had lost sight of them in traffic twice. The fact that the same men passed us when we were pulling back into the pack, allowed me to know just how clueless they truly were. They never saw them. The tail was that obvious, but when you expect one to be on you, you should be looking for it the whole time.

I look forward to when I can go and meet up with Aaron, but I know that I will never be going over to visit him alone. There are things I need to discuss with him, privately, and I already know that I won't be able to do it. I don't have a phone, and I doubt I will be getting one on one time with Aaron any time soon. They know that he is my cousin and my friend. So I will just throw myself into working my anger out during training. I needed to whip my men back into shape anyway. I will not be forcing Graham, Forest, Marc, or Garrett to participate in it. My whole goal is for those 4 to be killed during the attack if anyone does happen to get killed, but I hope not any of my warriors. It is my job to take care of and protect them. The less prepared those morons are for this attack, the better. Graham may have been an Alpha before, but I am 100% sure, he wasn't a good one. Forest is naturally lazy, and doesn't even realize just how bad of an Alpha that he already is. Garret and Marc still trained, just not as hard as they used to. I will not ask any of them to come to training with me, as they all seemed to think that they are strong enough.

The steps that I am putting my warriors through are a lot harder, but they are up to the challenge. Brady is training them with me and we had both been doing what we could while we had been locked up in the cells. We prayed that one day we would be able to be free, but really didn't think that we would see the light of day again. His wife was so happy to have him home, and I told Graham to put him back on salary again. Graham had plenty of money right now. Our showing up there two days ago to change accounts had come at a perfect time. There were large quarterly bonuses that went into his account and our showing up when we did, had earned him a windfall today. He had been busy spending money all day long. Weapons, ammunition, new clothes, and new art for his home, and then started ordering a new vehicle, for himself. He had received a large amount, a little over four million dollars, and he had gone through half of it today. He is spending money left and right like he doesn't have any sense at all. He is planning an attack and needs to have the funds available to make sure it is successful. But he is just pissing it away almost as fast as he got it. He is absolutely ridiculous, and I prayed that the Goddess would be giving them all that they deserved. Graham had a town hall meeting for the pack last night. He announced that we three, him, Forest, and I were all Alphas for the pack. What a f*****g joke, three of us, we can not all be Alphas of Black Moon. He really is delusional with the amount of crap he is talking about. It was confusing to the pack members, and to Forest who was obviously the most shocked that Graham would allow me to be Alpha again. The fact that Forest was surprised about it, showed just how spaced out he was about this. Forest really thought that Graham respected him. He believed all the bull that Graham had told him. He wanted to believe him as he wanted everything that Graham had promised him. Things like that car that we both told him that he was not ready to drive. We were right about it too. I had heard Brady's wife mention that Forest was on his second new car after he wrecked the first one.

I didn't care if Forest got hurt in the accident either. I had heard it messed the car up, but that Forest was unharmed. I just couldn't bring myself to care after how he betrayed me. He was dead to me now, and he probably would be soon. The fact that he showed those photos to Graham, his intent was clearly apparent to all of us. He wanted to get Graham pissed off. He wanted Graham to be pissed off and mad at his own mother. I have no idea how Forest managed to become so despicable, but I know it was before Cheryl ran away. Cheryl may have been able to put a stop to it if she wasn't having to focus so much energy on protecting Kevin all of the time or dealing with her own tormentors. I know I missed it because I was so focused on punishing Cheryl, that I didn't see it myself. I was blind to what my own children were becoming because now they are spoiled brats. Cheryl had both of our good children with her, and I was left with the children I had given too much to them and ruined them with all the spoiling I did. No teenager needs $1,000 a week, not for spending money. Cheryl warned me over and over again, and I ignored her. The fact that Forest got Graham focused on Cheryl again. I swear, I wanted to kill them both before they could get near her again.

I did get to speak to Brady though, on the way to training today. They do not worry about him yet. He is planning out heading out into the city tomorrow with his wife, they need to get some stuff, and he needs a haircut and shave. They will be able to travel freely and I am going to have him get me a cell phone. One that I can send messages to Aaron with. I cannot allow Graham to hurt my family again. I know that he is gunning for Cheryl and my children. I know what his evil little mind is thinking, and I can't let it happen. I have hurt them enough already, I can't let it happen ever again.

I do still want to speak to Cheryl. I would love to have her come back to Black Moon to be my Luna. I will offer it to her again, but having had time to stop and think while I was in the cells, I knew I had lost her. I had time to reflect on each of our interactions. Ones where I was reacting in anger, and not seeing her hurt and confused face looking back at me. She honestly didn't know what I had been implying about her. She kept trying to tell me, to straighten me out, but I trusted that piece of crap, instead of my mate. The blame was on my shoulders, and I would bear it. I was not acting when I saw the pictures. Seeing her so happy without me, had hurt. She deserved every happiness, and if that was with him, I will leave them alone. I saw his face in the pictures too. He looked like she had hung the moon for him. His love for her was apparent to anyone who was looking at them. He didn't try to hide it or downplay it.

She deserved someone like that in her life. I cared for her, I may have even loved her, but I never treated her like I did. I was always tearing her down, instead of building her up. Whatever Anton was doing for her, it looked good on her. I see how she looked now that she is taken care of. I almost wish I had a way to be able to see the picture again. I know that when I do get a phone, I will be sending all the pictures to it, and then delete the evidence from Casey's phone. I cannot give anyone here an inkling that I am just playing along with them. I guess the pain and frustration on my face showed them what they wanted to see, that I wanted to punish Cheryl. I was upset, but it was because it was clear from seeing them that it was done. I will have to see if I am willing to extend the offer when the opportunity comes. I don't know if I am willing to embarrass myself by asking her to come back to me again. I already know the answer. Even if her mate gets killed in the attack, I know in my heart that she will never come back here again. At least, not voluntarily.

I am heading to go eat lunch when I saw Forest and Graham at the head table eating. I just do not want to deal with them, so I walked over to the warrior's table to sit with them. I heard Graham call across to me, "Blake, come sit with us. I would like to speak to you." It may have sounded polite, but we all knew it was an order, not a request. I excused myself and headed to the head table but sat a chair down from Graham. I could not sit right next to him. I might try to choke him out, and I am aware I am nowhere near my full strength. But I will be, and soon if I can keep this pace up. Then no one can stop me when I go to teach him a lesson. It was coming, and one day, he will get what is coming to him. If the Goddess is willing, it will be by my own hands. "Blake, I wanted to thank you for all your help. I cannot believe how quickly you got it done, and honestly, I feel like I need to give you some kind of reward for it. Is there something that you would like to have? A new car or truck? A new SUV? I want to do something for you as you showed up at the right time, or else that ingrate I raised would have gotten that bonus for herself. I made sure I have plenty of weapons and ammunition coming our way. I also paid someone to come out and train us on how to use them as well. I just wanted to show you how much I appreciate your help. Without you, all of that money would have been lost to me," Graham told me with a smile on his smug face.

How about my mate loving me again? Can you do that, Graham? Can you fix what you broke? These were the first things that sprang into my mind. We both knew he couldn't, especially since he was the one to break them in the first place. I knew I couldn't ask him for any of that, so I kept my mouth shut for a minute, chewing my food and thinking about what it was that I wanted. I can't give him even the suspicion of me not being on board with him. I needed him to be thinking about the upcoming attack, not doubting me at all. I also know that Graham would think that I owed him something for this, and I won't. Not after the year that I have had getting beaten up by him every day. I owe him nothing, and I never will. He owes me a debt that can never be repaid. Because he didn't just break up my mate and me, he crushed our relationship under his heel. He made sure that it was so destroyed that it couldn't be repaired, no matter what I did.

"I wouldn't mind having another truck again, Graham. A quad cab with a protective grill on it" I told him. I could see he remembered I used to have one when they first arrived. I needed it as the road into the pack was horrible back then. But after Cheryl and I had four children, we needed to transport them around in an SUV.

"I think you should get a sports car, Dad, one like my Audi. I have no problems picking up girls in it. You should get a car, you still look good for your age. I am sure you can do the same" Forest told me. The desire I have to punch him right out of his chair runs through me. I cannot believe that this douche canoe is actually the sweet boy who couldn't wait to grow up and be just like me. How did he miss the mark so badly? He was nothing at all like me, he was like Graham. I guess being around Graham his whole life, obviously had a bigger impact on him, than it should have. Cheryl and I raised him, and yet he is not like either one of us. He was like Reagan used to be. Condescending, petty, and entitled, like others were not worth his time.

I remember Cheryl begging me to stop giving him money for him to go out shopping. She warned me he was getting too cocky, and she wanted to stop rewarding him for bad behavior. She saw it coming, she told me to stop. I was just so impressed with Forest, I could see nothing at all wrong with his behavior. I was too busy praising the wrong son to see that I was wrong for it. It was just another way for me to put Cheryl in her place.

"I don't need a sports car son, I can take care of myself, thank you" I managed to say, as nicely as I could. But he needed an attitude adjustment in the worst way. He really thought that he was above everyone else. He also was enjoying speaking down to me. He tried to play it off as funny, or sarcastic, but he wasn't smart enough to pull it off. He was mad that I was not only out of the cells but also noted as being Alpha again. I held the title here for almost the last 20 years, of course, my pack was going to look at me like I was in charge. They had been following me for a while.

"I was just saying it to try to help you, Dad. You have to let Mom go, she doesn't deserve you anymore. She has lowered herself too much for you to ever be able to accept her again. The fact that she is with a vampire should be a line crossed that she can't come back from. I am ashamed of her being my mother. I will not admit it if someone asked me about it. I have not mentioned it only because I do not want my reputation besmirched by anyone knowing that my mother is a blood w***e for that leech. She should truly be ashamed of herself for what she has done. The fact that she would bring such an abomination into the world. What the hell is she thinking? The baby will be nothing but a freak, and unaccepted by wolves, or vampires. They should have thought about what they were doing before that happened. I don't know how in the world the Goddess allowed that to happen. It is a travesty if that atrocity even draws a breath. Someone needs to kill that disgrace before people find out about what she had done" Forest said to us, and my stomach turns at his only concern is what people will think of him. I am very disappointed in him.

"I don't think you need to talk about your mother like that. I doubt she would be super proud of you, and your actions either. So just calm down, because no one knows. Your reputation, what there is of it, is safe from her making you look bad" I told him. If anyone is going to make him look bad, it will be him.

"You won't have to worry about it much longer Forest. We will deal with her lover and that bastard child. It would be wrong to allow such a creature to live. What would it even look like? Or take after? It might be some kind of a hybrid that goes around having to drink from us. We just cannot take the chance. Your father can bring her back here. No one has to know. He can give her another pup, to replace the one she is about to lose. It wouldn't be right to allow it to live. What kind of a life would it even have? No, the best thing to do is to kill them both, the leech and the baby, and bring your brothers and mother back here to live. I am sure your father will be fine with giving her another child. I think that would be best for all involved. You don't have to be here to even see her anymore Forest. You will be Alpha for Black Adder. So, you don't even have to worry about anything here" Graham told him. Forest was happy because that pack was a lot bigger than my pack. I was angry at the way they were both speaking about an innocent baby. Obviously, the Goddess allowed it to come into existence, it had a purpose. What right did they have to decide its future like that? I watched as Graham de-escalated Forest while telling me what he thought I wanted to hear. Graham is a master manipulator. I have to say that it was both weird and impressive how effortless he made it look as he tried to con both of us at the same time.

Forest promptly agreed with Graham and they started discussing something else. But I didn't care enough to listen to either of them. I just finished my meal quietly and went to take my tray back. I have to make more of an effort to avoid them from now on. I know I can't keep from seeing them again. We live in the same pack, so I have to see them. But I will start coming down to eat either earlier, or later for my lunch and dinner. I can grab a quick breakfast as I usually eat that pretty quick and then head out to train. I cannot let Graham get my focus off of what needs to be done here. He has enough control over others, I cannot let him be successful with what he wants to do. Regardless of whether Cheryl has moved on, or not. I care about her and our children. I cannot allow them to be hurt because Graham is clearly unhinged. I know that the Goddess will be giving him what he deserved to get a long time ago. I just have to be patient, and keep training. I cannot allow him to catch me unaware again. This can only end one way. I refuse to allow Graham to carry out his plans successfully.