Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Chapter 177

Graham's

POV

I have been having Blake followed since he agreed to help us. I don't trust him, at all, but I need his help with this freaking pack. The change in the pack members was immediate as soon as I released him. He will speak to Brady voluntarily, but not the rest of us. I already know that he is angry as I had really hurt him during our daily interactions. I intended to do it, it was payback for all the times that he punished me while I was locked up. I was angry and needed an outlet for all the s**t he did to me. He deserved it, the same shame and pain that he put me through, let alone stealing my money. He needed to help me get it back because it was his actions that cost me everything, to begin with.

I knew he was mad when we went down to the cells to show him what all his precious chosen mate had done. I saw the anger in his eyes at her moving on like that. That was really the only reason I allowed him to be set free. He is different now though, he is quieter than I have ever seen him. I hope it is because he is planning on ripping that leech's head off his shoulders. We need as many strong fighters as we can get in order to get this done. I have drummed up numerous rouges to go in there with us. There are almost a hundred of them ready to go right now. I don't expect any of them to make it, as I am sending them in first, before us. The vampires too, I figure they can take out as many as they can before they are stopped. But I knew I needed them to keep the other vampires busy.

I was a little frustrated that Blake seemed to know what I was planning to do with Cheryl. I was indeed intending on killing her. That is, after I killed everyone she cared about, right in front of her. I guess I will give her a pass though, as she will already be miserable anyway. She will have lost everything that mattered to her, including her baby, and she will be brought back here to Black Moon. Her life will be horrible until she dies, so that is an acceptable punishment to me. This pack still hates her, as do her parents, and Forest. Her daughter is still on the fence about it, but she is still young, and impressionable. She will quickly get on board with what everyone else is doing and fall in line with hating her too. I will not allow her to go on and live a good life, not after she took my mate away. She deserves to suffer the rest of her life for it.

I watched as Brady and Blake lead the warriors through training earlier this morning, and I have to say that they are both very strong teachers. They watched the group, and show the warriors the correct foot placement, and techniques. They have already improved so much in the few months that Blake had been freed. We needed this, it was like a shot in the arm for the pack, and you could tell how much Blake cares for his pack. He wants them to be strong enough to be able to defend the pack against any attack. He is already healed from his imprisonment, he filled out quickly with regular meals, and he is the first on the training field, and the last to leave it. He is focused on getting himself stronger, and it shows. I will not say anything about it as it causes the rest of the warriors to push themselves harder too.

I know why Blake is pushing himself so hard, I had heard that he tried to fight that bloodsucker for Cheryl, and he lost. That had to be embarrassing as hell for him. Blake was a strong and proud Alpha. That loss, in front of his mate, had to have been humiliating for him. I was honestly surprised to have heard it as Blake was one of our stronger fighters, an Alpha thru and thru. If he struggled and could not beat her new mate, then we didn't need to fight him, we just need to shoot him and try to slow him down, to decapitate him. I have been researching how to beat vampires and had asked the rouge vampires too. They did not really want to give me that answer, as they quickly assumed that I just wanted to know to try to end them. They were suspicious of me too, but they liked the money I gave them, so they stuck around. I had rented them a home, as they knew we still have about 2 months to go. They had picked up a few more rogues to their group, so we were up to 6 vampires now.

I was glad about that as we needed some good numbers to even try to approach Black Adder. I have just been buying what I needed to for the last month, based on the archive information that I have found. I don't know what will work, but it is best to just cover all of the bases. I plan on getting rid of the rogues who survive the fight anyway, so I made sure I had plenty of supplies. I only needed them to help us with the coven, once this fight is over I don't plan on needing them anymore. Plus, even if I did, I could just find some more of them willing to help me at that time. I have the funds to support me in being able to do that. I have found that in my life there is not much that I can't fix by throwing money at the problem.

I notice that Blake has not gone to visit his cousin voluntarily, he has only gone the one time that I took him there. I knew they were close before, and I need to see how close they are now. I needed to test him by sending him over there with Garrett, Marc, and Forest and I will stay behind. He is the most wary of me, and I know why. Out of all of us, I am the most observant, and the smartest. I need him to lower his guard and show his hand now before we are going into the heat of battle. I need to be able to trust him, so I have to test him now. I plan on attacking in a little over 2 months. I need to know if Blake needs to go with us, or if I need to kill him off as a threat. I can't risk all of my plans being shot to hell if we are walking into a trap. I want to catch them unaware, that would be the best and most successful route. No one except me knows the exact date I have chosen for the attack. I will not allow Blake to ruin this for me, he has cost me enough. I feel the pain in my heart as I remember my sweet Cassandra. I tore up the letter I found from her addressed to me. I prefer to remember her as the kind and loving woman that I chose to be my mate. I didn't want to feel guilt over what I had done to her, or that I was the root cause as to why I lost her. I refuse to accept that my actions had anything to do with her death.

I called Garrett and Marc to the office and told them what I needed to do as far as them watching Blake to see if he would speak to Aaron privately, or try to make plans. I warned them to keep a distance from him because I needed to make sure that he was truly on our side in this. I needed to fully vet him before we started to allow him fully into our plan-making. If we couldn't, I needed to know that too. o I will test him today, and then I will test him when it is closer to the time we will attack. We will let him keep training and motivating the warriors. I will then load him up with a lot of bullshit plans for him to give them false information. If I find out that I can't trust Blake, then I will come in a week early to attack so it will be a surprise to them. I just need to know what I needed to do next, to make this work out to my advantage. I called Forest into the meeting a few minutes later. I don't want him accidentally spilling the fact that I am testing his dad. Forest has been known to blurt things out, important things, and I can't take that chance. Garrett and Marc knew what needed to be done. They know how serious this is, as they both know that if Blake is not on board with us, they will be dealt with by him too. They are just as interested in finding out where Blake's loyalties lie, as I am. Trust is a hard thing to come by. We also know that jealousy and greed are two of the main reasons for loyalties to suddenly change. I have already given him his new truck. He loves it, and he owes me one for it, as far as I am concerned. I was glad he got my money back, but he was the f*****g reason that I even lost it in the first place. I didn't get that truck for him to reward him, I did it to have something to hold over him. He owes me now, and I will not be letting him forget it. Plus, his b***h of a mate, killed mine. A fact, that I will never let slide, I plan on using him, and Forest, until my goals are achieved.

I have some very definite plans for my future. I plan on using Blake's pack, and whatever is left of the Black Adder to attack the Blood Walker pack. I know that Cole will be wanting to get me back for killing his daughter in this attack. We can't rest on our laurels. If Cole doesn't come to the rescue during our attack, we will have to go to his pack and fight, and I don't want to have to do that. I would rather deal with him as he comes to rescue Black Adder. Two birds with one heavy stone. That is why I am sending in the rogues first. I need them to start silently taking people out as they get to their positions. The first thing they need to do is to take over the guard post at the gate. I need them to let us in, unannounced. That is the best way to deal with this. We will have the upper hand before her father could even be called to show up. We will let him come into our trap after we have killed the ranked wolves. I will deal with Cole too, whenever he arrives to try to help them out. Hopefully, his son Carter will be with him, and I can kill him too. It will be easy to take over Blood Walker after that. I have very clear plans for taking over both, and all we need is the element of surprise.

I made some backup plans for Blood Walker, as I am sure that they will be locked up like a fortress after we attack Black Adder. There should be like a month in between the attacks, as Blood Walker is a very strong pack too. We will just wait outside their gate, as Cole did me, and keep any shipments from getting into them. With no food deliveries coming, they will have to give up much sooner than later. I cannot stop my smile as I think about this, I had time to think about all of my plans as we wait for Blake to arrive. He is the last person, as I needed time to give my instructions to Garrett and Marc first. I then gave the information that I wanted Forest to know, which was different than what I told Garrett and Marc. I know Forest, he will just be wanting to hang out with Trevor, and he loves to brag. I suspect that he talks too much, so I gave him some bad information. I need to test out if Forest is a leak, and I am already seventy percent sure he is at the moment. I may have to deal with Forest sooner than I thought if that is the case. I will be giving the same incorrect information to Blake when he gets here too. Just testing the waters. I need to know what they are going to do with what I give them. I am giving them the date of the attack today, well, not the actual date of the attack. The date I am giving them is in a month's time. We will actually be attacking Black Adder in a little over two months. I know how they set up each day, with the main gate in place. The heavy-duty security gate only gets put in place if they are on high alert. I send my men out there each and every day to note what is going on there, unknown to Black Adder. I know if their heavy-duty gate is suddenly closed on the date I gave them, it will mean that either Forest or Blake, gave them a warning that we were coming. I gave Forest one date, which was the day after the date that I am giving Blake. Two different dates, to see who I can trust. If the security gate is locked and in place on either of those dates, then I will know which of them had given the warning. It won't hurt to find out, I just need to know that they can be trusted. It will also let me know if I can trust Aaron and Trevor at the same time. If not, I will take care of them too, after we attack Black Adder.

I didn't get to where I am in life by trusting very many people or rushing into things. The only thing that I ever rushed was taking Cassandra, that was it, and I had to do it. But these plans cannot be rushed, I need to take care of Black Adder first, it is the most important thing to me. Raven is the main reason that I was forced into this predicament in the first place. Her escaping, and being found out, was my downfall. I knew I should have ignored Cassandra and killed Raven when she was a baby. None of this would have happened to me if I had just done that. I knew I shouldn't have listened to her begging me not to kill Raven. We both knew she belonged to Cole the minute she opened her eyes, but I knew it would have broken Cassandra's heart. So I spared Raven, and what did that ingrate do? She ruined me. I lost my pack, my family's pack because I wasn't ruthless enough. I am where I am now, instead of living my best life, with my mate, at Silver Blade all because of Raven running away like she did. Instead, I am here, alone, and absolutely disgusted by my surroundings here in this backwoods pack. I am miserable, and I cannot even function like I used to. I have given up trying now, as it makes me look like less of a man to the she-wolves. I see them looking at me like they want to say something, but they are at least keeping their mouths shut about it. If I ever hear it come out, I will not hesitate to kill every single one of them. It won't matter who the one who told, as the whole pack would all know my ugly little secret. Maybe after this attack is over and done with I can find a willing she-wolf at the new Silver Blade pack. Maybe, I will take Cole's mate as my new chosen mate. Wouldn't that be another blow to their pack? I didn't just kill Cole, I took over his life. That is the best idea I have come up with this week, and I felt myself shift in my pants at even the thought of it. That made me smile even bigger, it could be the stress of everything that is the problem. Clearly, my d**k thought that this was a great idea, and Olivia was a very beautiful she-wolf. Not quite on Cassandra's level, but then again few were.

I heard the knock on my door and had Blake come in. He didn't take a seat, he just stood behind Garrett and Marc, who were now on edge at his position behind them. They didn't trust him either, and it was an aggressive move. His power still radiates off of him, and I launched into my practiced speech. I saw Forest smirk when I gave his father the wrong date. Forest liked to think that he was on the inside with all of us, but no one but me knew the actual date yet. It wasn't that I didn't trust Garrett and Marc. It was just the fact that I was not going to be telling anyone until we entered the 5-day mark. None of these assholes were really trustworthy. I bought Garrett and Marc with my money, so out of the four of them, they are the only two I could trust.

Blake seemed surprised that I had mentioned the date and the surprising part was he told me as much in the next moment, "Why would you announce it so far ahead of time? You need to keep that information secure. Also, why do you want us to go to Blood Tracker with this information? I believe that Aaron told us that we were on our own with the attack. He told you that since Reagan and his other children were potentially getting sanctuary there, he couldn't risk their lives fighting against Black Adder. I can understand, my sons are there too, as well as my chosen mate. I don't want them to get hurt in the attack either. I am holding you to the contract, Graham. I want them to all three come home safe. I do not mind helping with this fight, but I need them to be off-limits and remain uninjured."

"I am giving Aaron the opportunity to do the same thing that you are doing, helping us with the attack, and getting Reagan back to Blood Tracker. I know he loves her too, he can take this opportunity to kill Clive and get her back. He can make her the Luna that she was always supposed to be. Have all his children back until his roof again. I know that he misses them. They have been gone for well over a year now. He would be lying if he said he didn't love her. Just tell him when we are attacking, and see if he wants to cooperate with us by sending about a hundred warriors to go and fight with us. If he can do that for us, then we can bring his mate and pups back home. We are close to time, and I wanted to give him another opportunity to get her back into his pack. She and Cheryl are friends again, and they can visit each other as the packs are right next door to each other. I think that it would be a good thing for the both of them" I told him.

I can see tell that Blake was not convinced, but he nodded at me, and they all left my office to go to Blood Tracker. I leaned back in my chair and allowed my thoughts to go back to Olivia again. She will do very well as my next Chosen mate, she is very smart, and helped Cole to make Blood Walker into what it is today. She comes from strong Alpha stock, and I think that I may have to try to have another pup again. One that can grow up and take over the new Silver Blade pack when I decide to retire. I smile as I can tell that would be the best outcome for me in this. I will get another mate, and hopefully, a strong son to be able to take over the pack when I decide to step down. I hit the electric lock for the door to the office as I feel myself get hard at the idea. I am not going to lose this moment, and I quickly let myself free as it is getting painfully hard in my pants at this point. I close my eyes and think of Cole's mate, as I stroke myself, and just the thought of taking his mate away from him too allows me to finish. I cleaned up and straightened my clothes again. I guess taking mates from Cole is going to be a thing for me now, as I resume making additional plans for the attack. I cannot stop the smirk that is on my face as I know that I only have a month before I figure out if I can trust the men around me, or if I need to kill one, or both of them.