Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Chapter 186

Raven's POV

That disgusting p****** Travis was headed straight for us. We saw him coming and he made no effort to hide his lecherous intent from us. Reagan shook her head to warn him, but he refused to back down or get away from us. He was trying to get his hands physically on us, rather than trying to actually fight us. We were landing blows on him, but he was still pretty strong as a Gamma-ranked wolf. I was honestly shocked to see Graham come out of hiding first, but we all know that he will have a trick up his sleeve, he always does. But this p*****t was right there behind Grahm when they came out of the tree line. The moment that he caught sight of us, he headed right toward us. He was spouting off about the fact that we now belonged to him, which stunned us both. I had two mates, and she had a chosen mate, neither of us was going to voluntarily leave with him. Apparently, Graham had promised us both to him, for joining in this fight. Travis could not stop himself from telling us all the things that he was going to do to us, and we could not stop the disgust that rolled through us. There was no way that we were not going to fight to the death against him. As soon as Travis was finished off by Clive who thankfully came to our rescue, I turn to look to see who to fight next. I see my father being stabbed in the side by that a*****e, and I screamed out for help as I ran to him. Thankfully, Kira had heard me scream out and she rushed over to help.

She put her healing hands on him and got to work, I was so thankful for her. She was working the knife back out of him as she healed him, and I knew that she was going to be weak from helping him. I know that his injuries were probably pretty bad because Graham buried that 6-inch blade all the way into him. I got up and stood behind her, guarding her, so no one could stop her from healing him. I watched as Reagan and Clive stood with me as we formed a triangle around them and waited to see if anyone was going to attack. I heard gunshots in the distance and knew that more of the rogues had tried to backtrack and escape, and were cut down. One of our warriors linked to us, "We got another 13 of them trying to sneak back out of the pack." I was glad that our plan to put a group of armed warriors there at the wall where they came over, to stop them from being able to leave had come in handy. We gave them all a chance to throw down their weapons, and the ones that didn't happen to have made the wrong choice. They won't be allowed to leave to terrorize anyone else again.

I linked Brandon and Justin to tell them that as anticipated, Graham was still armed and had stabbed my father. I heard growls roar out as Brandon and Justin both killed the men that they were fighting and turned to see when Graham had gone. I can see him trying to creep up on Anton and I called out for him to turn. I mindlinked the men in the eagle's nests that we made up and told them to go ahead and take the shot on Graham when they had it. I heard Blake roar as he killed Marc, and he looked over and saw Travis was dead too. I could see that he was going to let Forest get the rewards that he deserved for what he chose to do to his father. I am glad that my sons stepped in because Kevin would not be able to recover from killing his own brother.

I saw when he noticed that Graham was trying to get into position to try to shoot Anton. I linked the men in the towers where Graham was for them to go ahead and take him out. I heard two shots ring out and I see Graham go down, but I also see Blake, who was standing in front of Anton, go down to the ground as well. I see Anton yelling for Alexei, to come over to help Blake. Graham is still moving, and I ask the shooter to take another shot at him. Not to kill him, but to keep him from taking another shot at anyone. I heard the second shot ring out and Graham is now screaming out in agony. I see that the battle is slowing as the bodies of rogues are littered all around all over the place. I see that Dex had just knocked Forest to the ground with a spinning round kick, and Forest was surprised at his lack of defense against someone younger than himself. Forest still has an attitude that he can win against Dex and jumped back up from the ground. He should have stayed down, as Dex was just toying with him. I heard Forest as he taunted Kevin when he got up from the ground. I guess he felt that he couldn't beat Dex in a fight, and was gunning for trying to hurt Kevin. Kevin finished off the rogue he was fighting against as he heard Forest's voice call out, "Just because you can't beat me, brother, that is no excuse not to fight me." The bad part of it was, he honestly thought that it was the truth.

Forrest straightened all the way back up and while he caught his breath he couldn't stop himself from saying, "You are weak, just like our mother. You two couldn't take a little teasing at our pack and ran away like the cowards you are. She wasn't strong enough to deal with it, and neither were you. It wasn't that big of a problem, yet you two were totally willing to kill three of our loyal pack members, just to escape. If you had been stronger Kevin, you two would have just been able to beat them up, instead of kill them. It was disgusting what you two did, and I am glad that neither of you came back to Black Moon. You are just a weak, pitiful wolf, that will never amount to anything. Stop being so jealous of Dad loving me more, and go ahead and fight me. This is your time to shine, isn't it, brother?"

The taunting and dismissive way that Forest said brother, let everyone within earshot know that he still didn't consider Kevin to be his brother. No matter what the DNA test determined, Forest was implying that he didn't consider Kevin to be his brother no matter what. I hate that Kevin feels that he has to do this, but hopefully, this will provide him some closure from all the torment that Forest had given him.

I see Kevin tell Dex he has it, and Dex stepping back from Forest. Forest smirks at him while Kevin walks over to him. Forest really is an i***t. Kevin is a very strong fighter. Forest couldn't beat him up at 14 without having the beta and gammas children holding Kevin still for him, what hope does he have now? The fighting is slowing down with only a few still fighting in the pack. I heard Brandon tell half of the warriors to start collecting the weapons on the side where the Black Moon warriors entered. The other half were instructed to stay at the wall where they the rogues entered the pack, and take care of any stragglers that might have escaped our notice. The weapons were collected quickly, and the warriors then started a search from the wall, back to our location, to make sure that they caught them all. He told them to kill any rogues that they found in the woods. Some of the warriors with us, started to enter the woods to help them, linking them to tell them that they would meet them in the middle.

I turned back to watch as I heard Kevin tell Forest, "I haven't considered you to be my brother for about 9 years now Forest. We are nothing to each other, but you are wrong. Our mother is not weak, she is a strong woman who put aside everything that our father threw at her, and survived. She was never weak, you are the weak one. Depending on others to protect you, not training properly when you knew that you were supposed to take over the pack. You are not meant to run any pack, you are a spoiled brat, that values things, more than people. Graham bought your loyalty with money and things. Take those things away and you don't have anything worthwhile about you. You speak ill of us, never once thinking about what you helped to put us through. You were never strong enough to take over for our father. He made mistakes, but at least he realized he had made mistakes, and tried to fix them. I will give Robert and Mom your best wishes when I see them again, Forest."

I see the smirk on Kevin's face and watched as he kept encouraging Forest to attack him. using both hands to motion Forest to come on with it. Forest is slow to learn a lesson. He kept rushing in to take a shot at punching Kevin and just getting punched himself. Forest is either poorly trained or just didn't care to learn how to fight. I watched his father fighting, and Blake is a strong fighter, he killed quite a few ranked wolves for us tonight to help out. I look back towards Blake, but I cannot see what is happening, I just have to trust that he is being taken care of. This fight going on right now, and I feel like I needed to be here to support the boys. Kevin and Forest fighting each other is one of the last fights of the night. I see our men going around and collecting the rogues to take away and burn their bodies. The ground was literally littered with rogues, and I am glad that it is getting cleaned up. I can't walk away from the boys right now, in case they can't end it. I know Kevin is a strong fighter, and I knew each of the boys had fought and killed a rouge already. But this being Kevin's brother may make this a lot harder for them to deal with. In that case, I will do it for them, if I need to. I knew Blake had help from several of our pack members right now, I just hope that he is OK right now. I am proud of Kevin for not rushing this fight, it has to feel good to be able to get your tormentor back. I have heard about how badly Kevin was treated in his own home, with Forest's name mentioned over and over again as the transgressor. Forest was the golden child, and I guess that is why this hits home so much for me. I lived it myself, I know the feeling of not ever being good enough for my parents, at Silver Blade. It made sense after I found out why, but it still hurts to see someone treated so much better than you on a daily basis, especially when you are trying so hard. It chips away at you, taking away all your joy to know inside your heart that you could disappear, and they wouldn't even care. To know that no matter what, nothing that you do will ever be good enough. That kind of pain stays with you, even when you are an adult. Mocking you as being unworthy, and making you strive to have someone, anyone, find value in you.

I watched as each blow lands on Forest. We are all seeing his surprise at his younger brother landing these powerful punches. He shouldn't be surprised, he is not protecting himself or trying to guard against the blows. He is acting like he has no clue how to truly fight, it is unfortunate how this will need to play out. Forest is very much like Graham, wanting to hide behind others for protection. Lashing out and hurting others, while staying in the shadows. Letting others do his dirty work, while he manipulates the strings. Graham knows that he is not strong enough to beat others fairly, so he has to cheat. They are indeed very similar to each other. I will go check on Graham in a minute, but I don't want to leave my father while he is being tended to, and this fight needs to be supervised. I need to make sure that Forest doesn't pull out a weapon himself. I am glad that Kevin has the opportunity to get Forest back for all the dirty things that he had done to him over the years.

Kevin is slowly dealing with Forest, as we all know that although Kevin is a machine with training, he has a big heart. I can tell that he doesn't want to be fighting Forest and certainly doesn't want to kill him. Kevin just couldn't stop himself from taking up Forest's challenge to him. Forest is down and is smart enough to stay down for now, but this needs to end. Forest will need to be ended. Just when I am about to go over to Kevin and see if he wants a warrior or myself to step in and finish this for him, Jaxon steps to Kevin's side to speak with him. I sense someone step up to stand next to me and my father seems to be fine now. I can see that his wound is fully healed when I looked at it. I go to thank Kira, but she is off running toward where Blake is still down. I want to go check on them, but this fight needs to end.

"Can't finish me off, Kevin? See what I mean, weak. You have always been weak. This is why you will never be successful in anything," Forest tells him and starts laughing at him.

"So you call caring about your brother weak? I knew you had issues, Forest, but that is a pretty big one. It is not weak to care about others, to take care of others. It is in fact something that strong people do. They don't puff themselves up as valuable, they actually are valuable. Because they care about and help others, I can look at you and see which one you are" Jax told Forest in a low tone.

"We have never met, and you know nothing about me. So you can keep your opinions to yourself there, OK. I don't want to hear you babble on about what a great guy Kevin is, because it is a lie. I have known him a lot longer than you all have. You will learn, he is not as valuable as you seem to think he is, and neither is our mother. She was absolutely worthless and weak, as both a mother and a Luna. Just ask our dad, and he will tell you, even though he still seems to be hung up on her. She was not good enough to have been given the title of Luna. She will never be good enough, no matter what she does" Forest spit out at them, and he is now surrounded in a circle by our boys, the Beta's sons, and warriors that fought with us in this battle. The group now included Robert entering the circle as it got larger and larger with the younger warriors coming over to watch after searching the woods. Jax is their next Alpha, and they need to see how he will deal with the threat Forest was to our pack. He had to be dealt with, and they wanted to see what Jax was going to do. The time for surrender was long gone at this point.

I glanced over and see Cheryl looking at Forest as she stepped up to his side. Jax looked over at her to see if she wanted to speak to him before he took care of business. She had left the twins with me before she stepped through the circle and up to Forest, I could tell from how sad she looked that this was going to be hard on her. She knew that she and Blake had actually lost Forest a long time ago. He laughed when he looked down at her and said, "What? Mom, do you have a problem with what I said?" He said "mom" in a mocking tone to let her know what he thought of her too. The disrespect was unacceptable, and I am glad that this young man will be getting his punishment soon.

"I do actually, Forest. You are absolutely incorrect. I wasn't weak, and neither was Kevin. The daily abuse that we suffered not just from Graham, and your father's hands, but from the entire pack. It ended up wearing us down over years, and years of abuse. You stand there with your spoiled little attitude looking down on everyone else when your little brother just took it easy on you. He didn't have the heart to end you, because he, and I, still have love in our hearts for you. You don't really deserve it, but it is there nonetheless. Forest, you are absolutely clueless as to how the world works. You take so much for granted, and you appreciate nothing that you have ever been given. You don't work, and you could care less about learning how to be a good Alpha. You would have torn the Black Moon pack apart if you had actually been allowed to become the next Alpha there. I cannot kill you myself, although you certainly deserve it. Despite what you did to your brother over the years, or for the ultimate betrayal that you did to your father. The fact remains that you came to a pack that had never done anything to you because you wanted what wasn't yours. I am telling you now, Forest, that you have truly earned what you are about to receive. Your father could have been killed down there in those cells, it is a miracle that he even made it out alive. You let him know that you didn't give a damn about anyone but yourself, by putting him there. But this young man who is about to take care of you will do it swiftly because he doesn't like for people to suffer. He will probably be one of the best Alphas that I have ever seen in my lifetime. I will be very sorry to lose you son, but we cannot allow you to live. We all know that you would come back years from now, like a cockroach coming out of hiding, to kill us all. May the Goddess have mercy on you and your wolf. She knows exactly why you came here today, and your lies won't work on her" Cheryl told Forest as she turned and walked back out of the circle.

The circle then closed back to keep him inside, and I now hear Forest speak for the first time with no cockiness in his tone. "Look, guys, you can just let me go. I didn't kill anyone here. I didn't hurt anyone from the Black Adder pack, and you have no right to kill me now."

"Actually, that isn't true, Forest. In the announcement that was made by my father that came through the loudspeaker before the fight, everyone was offered an opportunity to put down their weapons. That included you as well, everyone was told the same thing. Several people from your group took us up on the offer, and they will all live to see another day. The problem is that the offer had a time limit with it. You had a weapon that you were fully intent on using, you trespassed onto our lands with the intent to kill, and you refused to surrender. I will make this easy for you, as your mother was correct, I do not like to cause others to suffer" Jax told him.

"Hey, I was forced to come here, I wasn't going to kill anyone" Forest started whining now. We all heard Graham start laughing as if what Forest said was the funniest thing that he ever heard. It reminded all of us that Forest was indeed planning on killing us while he was here. He wouldn't have come here if he wasn't. Before Forest can open his mouth to say anything to reply to Graham, Jax did a spinning jump to create momentum and landed a hard punch to the base of Forest's skull. Forest's head snapped back quickly, and he hit his knees before falling to the ground without making a sound. Forest was dead before he even hit the ground. Jax was very good with this move, called a rabbit punch, and had mastered it knowing exactly where he needed to land the punch.

Jax had hit Forest's neck very hard, causing the brain stem to detach right at the top of the spinal cord. It was a very quick way to die, but it is still hard to see a young person killed for his actions. I am still impressed with the skill that Jax has, as this was a difficult blow to land. You have to hit it in a very specific spot, with a lot of force to get it separated like that. But it wasn't drawn out, Forest didn't even have time to be scared that he was about to die before it was done. He would have suffered more being beaten to death, or having a weapon pulled on him. In a way, what Jax did was the most merciful ending that Forest could have been given. He never even knew what was about to happen.

Jax had been preparing for this battle his whole life. All four of our older boys had been. All of our children trained, but we always knew that the oldest four boys would be directly involved in this battle. We believed that we would be fighting two packs in a battle for most of his life, as that was what we had originally been told. Justin took Jax, the twins, and Dex to every training that he could, to make sure that they all were properly trained. We had specialty instructors come and help train the boys here in the pack. We knew that the boys were absolutely prepared for what was to come. Although Kevin was upset by what Forest had said and done to him, he still loved him too much to be able to do what needed to be done. We needed to end it, and we did. We now only need to deal with Graham, and I know that my father, me, and Cheryl all probably wanted to finish him. There is only one fight remaining, and we just need to power through and get this done.