Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 25

Reagan's

POV

The ball is tomorrow, and I am not as excited about going, as I was a few weeks ago. Back then I had ruined her life, but in just over 2 short weeks, it turns out that mine is the one that is ruined. In my hurry to make sure that I "found" my mate first, I decided to take the man who was supposed to be hers. It was brilliant, both dad and I thought so. I would find mine "first" and take Justin away from her, which served both purposes. I had always thought Justin was cute, but back in school he never gave me any attention and on the two occasions I did approach him, he very politely told me that he was waiting on his mate. It was his loss back then, and I moved on to the next guy. I knew that I was on a timeline and that if she actually managed to find her mate, and the pack knew she had, I could lose Silver Blade, and that was never going to be an option for me. It was my birthright, simply because she was not my father's child. But according to werewolf law, as firstborn, it was supposed to go to her.

I found out about the whole scandal at 16 when dad brought me to his office and told me what had happened. I was shocked, I mean she didn't look like dad, but she had moms face. We shared some facial features, like our high cheekbones, mom's nose, and eye shape. I had dad's eye color, and our maternal grandfather had black hair, but I had no idea where she got her eye color from. Even with a bare face those piercing green eyes were stunning, it was the only thing about her that really ever stood out for me. I envied nothing else of hers until the meeting with dad. After he told me what had happened, I realized that Raven's dad was strong. His pack was much larger than ours, and he was much richer than we were too. That made me angry, how did that happen? How did she deserve that? But I realized that if mom had stayed with Alpha Cole, I would not have existed. So I was OK with what she had done. Dad still has a lot of money, but he is more careful about spending it these days. He refused to let me get the car I wanted and made me pick a much cheaper one, but he made sure that I got everything that I had wanted other than that. I will make do though, after I get to be the Luna, I will get my dream car then, and be blissfully happy. Or at least that is what I thought. At first, I really thought that Justin was just mad at me and that when he calmed down he would go back to normal. I mean we had been sleeping together for months, and we had a lot of fun doing it. I failed to take into account how odd he was acting after Raven fell out of that tree. I saw him touch her, and I knew he felt the tingles. I wasn't worried though because he had decided to accept me, and he had already signed the contract. It was a source of embarrassment to him. I could hear it in his voice that night that he had found out that she was his mate. The shame he felt at getting her, and I knew that she could tell the same as I did, that in his opinion, that she was not worth battling the pack to claim. Neither of us knew she was there, we were in an area that was studiously avoided, which made it the perfect place to go and hook up. I honestly wished that we had just stayed in my room like we normally did, none of this would have happened. Raven would still be here, rejected, and not causing a problem. Then sometime after I took over as Luna, Raven would end up disappearing, gone for good.

It had all fallen apart that night. His touching her made him want her, enough to claim her, and that couldn't happen. So her running away from Silver Blade was the best thing that could have happened. I honestly thought that when she trespassed over there that would be the end of my sister, yet they didn't hurt her. In fact, quite the opposite, they stood up to defend and protect her, even not knowing who she was, but it seemed like their Beta did. Even with me knowing Raven's story, I also knew that they didn't allow people to come onto their land, not without a reason to be there. Until she showed up to reject Justin, I honestly thought that Raven might be killed by the Blood Walker pack. Now it seems like she will be taking it over, as the firstborn child of Alpha Cole. That morning was the start of a really bad day for me.

I scented a musky, masculine scent as soon as I approached the gate. My eyes were immediately drawn to him, and my stomach dropped. My second chance mate was here, and he knew what I had done. He knew that I had betrayed him, and in hearing what Justin had admitted to Raven, he knew that I had even gone so far as to force him to mark me. It really looked bad, and I could see the disgust all over his handsome face. I wanted my mate, he was gorgeous to me with his black hair and green eyes. He was strong, even stronger than Justin. I wanted to tell him that my dad forced me to do it, but I knew that dad would point out my lie in it. This whole thing had been my idea since he told me that he suspected that Justin was Raven's mate. I felt much more connected to him than I was to my first mate. I had been sleeping with my first mate for a year, off and on, drawn to him for an unknown reason, until I turned 18. The s*x we had after that was the best I had experienced, but I had already had dad put the contract together, and Justin was hotter than my mate was. So even though it was painful and sad, I rejected Marco and he ended up leaving the pack after he found his second chance mate. It hurt when he left, but I knew as soon as I looked into my second-chance mate's eyes, that this rejection was going to hurt me so much more than the first one had. This bond was much stronger, and I think it was because he was supposed to be the one for me. All through the conversation, I kept feeling his eyes on me as I tried to look anywhere else but at him. I didn't want to say that in order to hurt or kill, his new sister, I willingly went to those extremes. I already knew that he cared for her, and that would have gone over even worse to hear me say that. But from the expression on his face, I knew that he already suspected that was my goal in getting Justin to mark me, while still bound to her. I wanted to beg him not to reject me, that we could figure out a way to get me and Justin unbound, but I doubted that could even happen. We were both fully mated and marked, and the rumors of it would cause shame and judgment to Silver Blade. We would never live it down. My dad would kill me himself for doing it.

I was drawn to my mate like an invisible rope was pulling me to him. I wanted him, more than I have ever wanted anyone in my life. The worst part was that I knew that it was going to hurt me a lot more than when I rejected Marco, and I kept having to wait for it to happen. The agonizing slow wait for the tremendous pain that I knew was heading my way. It was nerve-wracking, and this was all Raven's fault. If she hadn't run over there, I would have never met him when he came with her to get the rejection complete. I was trying to figure out a way to talk to him privately, and convince him to give me a chance before he rejected me. I was OK with switching him and Justin out if he was OK with it. We just needed to figure out a way to get it done. I just needed time to contact an Elder to see if his marking me, would erase Justin's mark on me. The other problem was Raven had just rejected Justin, so she couldn't just mark him to erase my mark. That was why it was all her fault. If she hadn't been so gung ho on being petty to him and rejecting him for one little mistake, she could have worked this out with him. I know she had a crush on him, the mate bond had to have still been there. I mean, technically his foot only slipped with me, he hadn't slept with anyone else. She shouldn't have been so heartless to him, he was her mate, and she should have given him another chance.

I would have loved to have ripped her apart for the situation that I was now in. I still feel a residual burning feeling in my heart from losing Carter. He was supposed to be mine, and because Raven was angry at Justin, I had to lose my mate forever. The day it happened I was so numb I wasn't able to do anything. I was just in a state of shock. The next few days, I just went through the motions, and now a little over two weeks later I can see how my life will truly be, absolutely miserable. For the last three days all Justin does at me is glare, and occasionally answer the questions I give him. He doesn't respond to me saying good morning, or good night. Oh, and he refuses to sleep in the same bed as me. As far as he is concerned, he is fulfilling his side of the contract. He actually read through it, and he seemed surprised that it so heavily favored the Sullivan family. Who did he think it was going to favor? That was a dumb assumption on his part. But he managed to find some loopholes in it, I found that out when I got a knock on my door ten minutes ago.

"Good morning, Justin," I told him, even though I didn't feel like greeting him.

"You can stop with any extra greetings, or comments to me. I do not want to interact with you, Reagan, the less I can, the better" Justin tells me as he brushes by me to enter my room. "Why are you angry all of a sudden? I asked him, frowning at his bad attitude so early in the morning.

"No need to exchange pleasantries, Reagan. We aren't friends. Also, it isn't all of a sudden Reagan. Ever since I touched Raven I knew that I wanted to accept her as my true mate after feeling our bond. You knew that, so you and your dad forced me to come back here after I left to try to get Raven back. You threatened my family, so I had to return. But I just wanted to set a few things straight between us" Justin told me, and this is making me frown more. There is no room for conditions or allowances in the contract, so what is he trying to pull?

"What is it that you want?" I asked, thinking that it was going to be a new vehicle or a high-dollar item.

"I want you to know that I refuse to sleep with you again. It isn't in the contract, neither is having children. Your coming onto me made me betray my mate. I wanted her, I needed her, and you forced me to lose her. You can't sugarcoat it. This was no one's fault but yours and Alpha Graham's, as this is what you wanted. The only feeling I have for you now is hate. I will stay with you as a figurehead, and Alpha to this pack, but that is it. I am going to find a way to keep the pain of your upcoming betrayals from hurting me so much. I know you, so I am fully aware that you will find others to sleep with, I knew that it would be a matter of time before you did it anyway. I am going to get a witch to block my bond with you. I already know that in the long run, this will help me get past the pain that I know is coming. You are the worst type of person, and I cannot love you, no matter what you do. This relationship is NOT going to play out like you imagined it would. We won't have feelings for each other. I will never love you, or have pups with you. If I could leave here with my family I would, as just the sound of your voice now disgusts me. I just want you to know that all your plans for us, do not exist. We are only together on paper, I refuse to be with you any other way" Justin tells me, and my knees almost gave out on me. I am already hurt from losing Carter, and now Justin is mad. Can I not be happy too?

"Are you serious right now, Justin? I don't think you are right about that. My father wrote it, and he is a master at contracts. I think you might have missed something. I will speak to dad and read it myself to see because that cannot possibly be right. I think that you are incorrect about the requirements that are included in it. I am pretty sure that pups were included in it. If not, they should have been. Either way, I will bear your pup, as we will need an heir for Silver Blade. So, I am sorry that you are mad, I lost my mate too, Justin. I am hurt too, but we just need to go through this together. I like you, and I am sure that I could end up loving you one day. We should be comforting each other, not hating each other" I told him. I refuse to beg, but he was on board with him being Alpha, now that we are in the middle of it, he acts like I made him sign the contract, when that was all on him.

I refuse to feel guilty about it. I just presented him with an opportunity and warned him of who his potential mate might be. He should have been smart enough to tell me that he wanted to see if she actually was his mate before signing it. That would have been the smart thing to do, dad and I could have been wrong in our suspicions. Dad was pretty sure of it, but I wasn't, I had only seen her stealing occasional glances at him. I just thought she had a crush or some interest in him. I didn't wait for my mate, and she might not have wanted to wait either. Regardless, it was all on him. He made a knee-jerk reaction to not wanting to get stuck with Raven.

He traded his mate for a title, and he is still getting what he wanted out of it. I am sorry he is so upset about hurting her by taking me as a chosen mate, but it sure seemed like she bounced back quickly at the gate. He took it much worse than her, and I have to wonder why? The way she stood her ground and told us all what she really thought of us, was a first for her. It really pissed me off that she got the better of me and made me look like an i***t at the gate. I have been practicing my comebacks now. She won't make me look stupid at the ball tomorrow night. I am going to show Justin that he still has a better sister.

"Maybe one day I will get another chance, Reagan. I can only pray that the Goddess will forgive me one day and give me a second chance mate. I assure you if that happens, I won't be losing her. I will drop you faster than you can take a breath to stop me. I messed up. It is on me, the bulk of this. I let all of the bad things that I had heard about Raven from the pack help make my decision for me. But that goes back to you and your parents too. The Alpha family allowed her to be picked on and hurt. I don't know how you all can hold your head up in pride knowing what all you did to an innocent girl. You are the worst member of the family, Reagan. I was there at the bridge 4 years ago, I saw the whole thing. I never told you, as I knew what would happen to me if I had. Everyone knew that your father would believe you, and your version of it. I was younger and naïve about the inner workings of the pack. I don't want to be a part of this pack anymore. I will stay, for the time frame stated in the contract. Your dad only put a time frame of 5 years in it. I guess he thought that I would decide to stay with you after that. But he was wrong, so I am warning you now. You had better stop all your planning, and all your efforts to try to hurt Raven. Because if you don't, I will make sure that all the wrongdoing that you have managed to dodge through the years, will be brought to light. I will make sure that you get what is coming to you. I make that promise to you now, listen to me and leave her alone, from now on, or you will be the one to suffer for it" Justin tells me, and I can't believe what he is saying to me.

He is threatening me with the council. How dare he? I am in charge of him, not the other way around. I want to scream in fury at him, but I need to remain calm until I see what the contract actually stated. I will go and speak with dad about it, and then we can decide to go from there, and what my next step needs to be. I wanted to go to Blood Walker for the ball with Justin and make sure that we are looking gorgeous together. I made sure to get a strapless dress so I can proudly bear his mark, and upset Raven, but his letting me that he will not go along and won't play the part is causing me some concern. My dreams of making her green with envy are fading fast now. I can see what is going to happen as clearly as if I were watching a movie. He is still pining for her, it is Raven that he still loves. I toy with the idea of not going, but I know that would bring her joy, and I can't allow that. I need to go, and I will play the part for us, of the happy couple.

I got him, she lost him, and I bear his mark, and potentially his children. I could be pregnant already from the night he marked me We had s*x twice that night and again the following morning. I can still make this play out in my favor, I refuse for her to think that I am lesser than her in any way. We will go to the ball no matter how he feels about it, and we will dance and act like a loving couple. He has to at least do that, I know that he was aware of that fact. I can wear him down on the rest of it later. Tomorrow I will make sure that Raven knows that she is still the twin that wasn't wanted. I just need to not make it as obvious as I was going to originally. I have to make sure that her introduction as the daughter of the Blood Walker pack, doesn't go as well as they all wanted it to.