Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 35

Brandon's

POV

Alpha Graham has lost his freaking mind. I cannot believe that he said that to her. How much has my mate had to put up with living at the Silver Blade pack? I don't even think as Graham crosses the 8 feet between him and Raven with his claws out, his intent is

clear, he is going to try to kill her.

His focus is solely on her, and it is like he forgets that there are hundreds of people here at this event. He is so angry that he is just reacting without even thinking that there will be consequences for his actions. I stepped in front of Raven shielding her from him, and his claws dig into my upper chest, about two inches underneath my collarbone. I punched him hard in the side of his head, and only wished that I had put more force into the blow, as my new intent was to kill him. Graham was knocked out and his claws retract back into his hands as he falls to the floor. He was obviously aiming for Raven's neck, and I knew he was planning to cut her artery and make her bleed to death right here in front of us.

Since I am taller than her, his aim was off, and where he dug in would heal. It was not serious, and I have been hurt way worse than this before. Things explode after that, with Alpha Cole yelling out orders to put silver cuffs on Graham and take him to the cells. Luna Cassandra jumps forward to try to keep anyone away from Graham, and Cole asked for a second set of cuffs, and for them to be put together in the same cell. Cassandra's crying and begging for them to let them go, and that they will leave right now, but that won't be happening. I wasn't focused on any of that happening, it was all background noise to me as my mate comes around me to start unbuttoning my shirt to see how badly I am wounded.

The concern in her eyes is evident, and as she touches my chest she takes my breath, and my pain, away. She is the only thing that I am focusing on, and she is asking for a medical kit. Even though I knew that Carter had already announced that he had linked for their pack doctor to come. The whole family was quite efficient as they all went into dealing with the effects of what had happened. Beta Timothy and his mate Amanda were ushering everyone from the room, with Austin helping them. The room was cleared except for their families, and mates. I saw warriors coming in and people were still trying to look into the room. Alpha Cole walked to the doorway and instructed everyone to go get their dinner, and that we would be continuing the party shortly. They all knew it wasn;t a request and left the area.

My mate sat me down in a chair and was currently on her knees, between my legs as she cleaned my wounds thoroughly. It was like she wanted no remnant of what Graham had done to me to remain. I will heal, and quickly. My wolf, Axe is very strong, and he was already working on it. I felt no pain at her actions. Axe was present, and almost purring at the touch of our mate. We were both enjoying the view of our beautiful mate with a frown on her forehead at the damage Graham had done to my chest. I can see her concern for me, she is very upset, and I know already without her saying it, that she didn't want me to jump in and help. She may have had a plan, in fact, since she knew him so well, she was probably anticipating his reactions to her words, to get mad enough to attack. I think she might have even been baiting him to do it. I hate that I took the opportunity away from her to do what she was wanting to do. I will even apologize to her for it, but I couldn't stand by and see her get hurt hurt. That was not going to be an option for me. I would rather do this 100 times before I want her to be hurt once.

"I am sorry, Raven," I tell her in a low tone, trying to keep it between us. Everyone is in the middle of doing something in the room, and it is just us together in the corner, alone.

I see surprise cross her face, and she blurts out, "What are you sorry for, you have done nothing wrong. If anything I am sorry for this whole thing. I baited him into attacking, and I was planning on taking him down when he tried. I am still new to being able to defend myself and having people who are willing to protect and defend me. I am hoping that getting this treated quickly will allow your wolf to heal you completely, with no scar" Raven tells me, and she is spraying my chest with a strong antibiotic to help promote healing. I have felt nothing that hurt or stung me, through this whole process. I don't know if it was the result of my mate's touch, which was so pleasing to me, or her beauty that had captivated me, but she was almost done now. I made a mental note that from now on if Raven were available, she would be the one to treat me for anything.

"Our mate is wonderful" Axe links me, and I agree.

"I knew you had a plan, I figured you were just telling your truth. I couldn't let him touch you though. You are my mate, and I already loved you when I saw you in the mall. The last 2 weeks have been killing me. I wanted to see you, to touch you, but I knew that you needed time with your family. You had just arrived here, and I felt guilty for taking you away from your family. I wanted them, and you, to have time together. So I tried to be patient, and deal with the problem at my pack before coming here to get you after your party. I hope that you will be happy with coming with me to my pack, the Black Adder. You are my Luna, and I could not be happier for the Goddess giving you to me as my mate" I told her. I was being honest with her, and I was hoping that she would be happy with coming with me back home tomorrow.

I see Raven bite her lip in nervousness, and then look up at me and nod. She was happy with being my mate, and I leaned forward and said, "Since my shirt is destroyed, go ahead and give me my mark, and then I will mark you in return." Normally the male marks first, but I wanted her to take the lead in this. I was letting her know that the ball was in her court, and she was in control of how this proceeded. I am sure that was not something that she had been given a lot of, knowing just a little of her history. I wanted her to realize that I was happy with letting her have control over me, of us, and that I loved her deeply already. The smile that spread across her face because I wanted her to take this first step, was radiant. I smiled back at her, and she rose to her feet, and I stayed seated. I was going to let her run this herself. I was just going to make it easier for her to mark me.

I saw Justin watching us in the doorway still, he had been ushered out of the room too with the rest of the guests. He had been shooting daggers at me the whole time that Raven was treating me. That was going to be nice too, a bonus, watching him see that it was absolutely over between them. That his actions had cost him a wonderful woman, and once she marked me as hers that he would have no further recourse to getting her back. It simply wouldn't be happening. I see him stiffen up as Raven gently pushes my shirt over. When he sees her partial phase to allow her canines to elongate to mark me, I heard him call out, "No, Raven, please don't mark him."

Raven never hesitated, her bite sank into my skin, and I had never been happier in my life. But then, I felt her emotions, all her fears, and doubts, and that all she really ever wanted was to be loved and protected. My jumping in front of her to take the attack had shown her that I loved her and that I would be protecting her, and I will It helped me to bypass a lot of her fears. I will love her the way she wants to be loved her whole life. I will be glad to show her every day. My eyes rolled back with the pleasure I am now receiving from her mark, and I can't stop the shudder as she gently licks my wound, soothing it from her bite. She is a very caring woman, she didn't want to hurt me, even with the bite to mark me. I am now overcome with her emotions, but the biggest one is love. She loves me too, and that makes me euphoric. I will be finishing our bond tonight as soon as I can. I know that this party is for her, but I am sure we can be excused at a normal hour.

Justin screamed out in pain, "Why, Raven? I asked you to wait on me. Why would you do this to me?" I glanced over at him, and I see Luna Cassandra raise her hand to clap him on the face for saying it. He catches her hand and snarls at her, "This was all your family's fault. Your husband and daughter colluded to set me up. Yea, I fell for it, but I had wanted my mate, I had been waiting for my mate. Reagan reminded me that I couldn't safely have Raven. Because of you, and Graham. You two allowed your pack to torment and abuse her from a very young age. It is a wonder she is even functioning properly. I swear I will never forgive any of you for it. She is all I can think about, all that I want. I know this is the Goddess's punishment for me. Raven feels nothing towards me, and yet I cannot let her go." He releases her wrist and walks briskly away. I know it is because he cannot bear to watch me mark Raven.

I bent my head down to her and licked her marking spot making her shudder in anticipation before I let my canines elongate. I gently moved the thin strap on her dress over with my thumb and she gave a shiver at the brush against her skin. I bit down and felt her blood in my mouth as I accepted her as my own. I licked her wound too, to help it heal faster, and felt my world balance around me. I was calmer than I have been since I became an Alpha. I felt stronger, and more centered than ever before. She was the perfect she- wolf, and I cannot wait to introduce her to my pack. I am so proud of her being my mate, that I want to tell everyone here that she is mine. I turned around and I see heated glares from angry unmated wolves that felt like I stole her away before they even got to meet her. Jealous glances from the unmated she-wolves that wanted to try to get with me. They are all looking in the room, angry at us for sealing our mate bond. I could care less, I have my beautiful mate, and this is truly the highlight of my life. They all turned to leave now, as they have lost their chance with either of us now.

I felt a little bad for Justin though, who wouldn't? He was led to exactly where they wanted him to be, to accept someone who was nowhere near the level of the girl he had lost. I know exactly how Reagan got him there, I had the same thing happen to me. I too had been led down the same path because of s*x. It was a powerful way to control someone. So hard to break away from the one who is doing it, to get you to do whatever it is that they want. I had experienced it firsthand myself. I was only 17, and I had fallen for it completely. I think she loved me too, we were each other's firsts. Then I heard her with her actual mate. They both broke my heart that day, and I vowed never to be with another until I found my mate.

Liza was the daughter of an Alpha, she was perfect, or so I thought. Long brown hair, smokey grey eyes, and a strong body. She trained hard, and I thought that we would be mates. So much so that I had slept with her two weeks before I turned 18. She had turned 18 the month before and said that although I was not 18 yet, she felt that we were going to be mates. I was thrilled, I was convinced that we were mates. Nothing my parents said could convince me otherwise. Liza was my world, until the day I overheard them in the woods. Axe was pretty stealthy, and I had scented her, so I was going to surprise her in the forest. Only I was the one who got the surprise.

My stomach sank when I discovered that she just wanted to be Luna. He was always with her, protecting her, as she was an Alpha's daughter. She had two warriors who were her security team, and they were with her almost all the time. They had just had s*x and were laying there wrapped in each other's arms. Happy to be alone together, even for just a short amount of time. I had learned to hide my scent a long time ago, and they never knew I was there. I was just going to leave them alone and go back to the packhouse when I heard what he was asking her.

"Why won't you let me mark you, Liza, it doesn't have to be on your neck. I was thinking inside your thigh, somewhere he won't see it" Merrell asked her.

"Soon. I can't take the chance right now. Just give me one more week here. I just need my own bank card after we are engaged, and then I can get us the money we need to run away together. I will not reject you like my dad said to do. We can live very well off a million dollars. Buy a nice house and put the rest in savings. We can both get jobs and live in the human city. They will never find us. I just can't take the chance of dad finding out before we can safely get away. I won't risk you like that. Dad needs to believe that we rejected each other. It is only for another week, two tops, ok baby?" Liza's soothing voice trying to calm her mate was hard to hear. She had never spoken so sweetly to me. I knew their plan, and I was done with it. She wasn't going to be getting a penny from me. They could certainly head out now, to go put their plan into action.

I told my parents when I got back to the packhouse. They had both suspected that something like that was going on between her and Merrell, but it had fallen on deaf ears. I wasn't going to tell her dad, but I was also not going to allow her to stay at Black Adder and try to keep playing me. When they returned to the packhouse, my dad motioned them toward their SUV which was already packed up, and asked them to leave. We would take the second man back to her pack, I knew that they would have to run away quickly and couldn't do it with the second warrior present. I believed that Merrell would be willing to kill him to keep him quiet, dad did too, and neither of us felt he deserved that. Her father's pack was 2 hours away from us, so that would give them a couple of hours head start on her dad.

They were actually grateful for our allowing them to leave like that. Liza wanted to hug me, but I never wanted her to touch me again. I felt dirty from being used like that. I know her dad forced her to come to me, he wanted to have an alliance with our strong pack and he didn't think that her warrior mate was good enough for her. But she clearly loved him and accepted the bond. I heard that eventually, her dad relented, as Liza was his only heir. The warrior is now the Alpha there at the Falling Water pack. The warrior was pretty strong, and her father was glad that it all worked out. But the clues had been there I just didn't notice them. Since I didn't know I thought I was her first, but Merrell was. I was so embarrassed, and angry, after that whole situation. I vowed for it to not happen again. I kept all the she-wolves that let me know that they were good with getting together with me to know that they weren't my mate. I wouldn't be getting into a relationship, or anything at all, with them. Most figured it out quickly, and moved on, but not Cheryl. She wanted to just keep it up, day after day, she knew we weren't true mates. She was just hoping that I would be desperate enough at being 24 years old, to be willing to change my rule for fear that I would never meet my mate. I am so glad I waited. I leaned down to kiss the top of Raven's head. She was so worth the wait. She is perfect for me, fitting against me showing that she had been made just for me. Raven looks up at me and smiles a bright, beautiful smile. She is happy too. She is not giving me the same smile she had used earlier while meeting everyone who came in here to meet her. She gave me one that showed just how happy she was for having me as a mate too. I hugged her tightly to me. I cannot wait for this party to be over, it cannot end soon enough for me. I cannot wait to sleep with my mate in my arms, tonight, and every night thereafter. Alpha Graham just made a powerful enemy in me. I can feel her emotions, I can see her thoughts, and her looking at him is bringing up some really bad memories. I am destroying our treaty, the minute I get home, but I will let him know about that right now. In front of witnesses, so he can't say that he wasn't told about it.

I looked at him, still on his knees on the floor, and said, "Oh, by the way, Graham. You can go ahead and destroy our treaty. It is no longer valid anymore. In fact, we will never have a treaty together again. I know who you are now. You are a pitiful excuse for an Alpha, and I will be only too glad to let my friends know exactly who you are. Do not be surprised to find that a great number will also destroy their treaties as well" I told Graham.

"You don't have to do that, Brandon I will never bother Raven again. She is your mate, I got upset and I reacted badly. This was all my fault. Raven, I am so sorry for what I just did. I was just so worried about Reagan, and then you were flirting with Justin, and trying to take her mate. I didn't know that you had a new mate. I am sorry for what I did. I will never do it again. Please just let me be free to leave, I will never return here. I still want to be in a treaty with you Brandon. Please don't let one bad decision on my part ruin years of our packs working together" Graham said to me, and I scoffed. He hasn't done anything to benefit anyone but himself. He is a bad Alpha, and his pack needs to be taken away from him, and Reagan.

"It will be done tomorrow, Graham. You can beg others, but it won't be working on me. But I can guarantee that your pleas will fall on def ears" I told Graham, enjoying working him up.

"Why is that young Alpha? You are not in control of everyone. They are free to choose who they have an alliance with, Graham scoffs at me.

"Because I will let them know that if they are with you, they are no longer with me," I tell him simply. The look of horror on his face is almost comical. But I did not laugh. I was serious, and I wanted him to know that, to feel the true threat in my words. I was absolutely going to do this, and there was nothing that he could do to stop me. The full weight of all the mistakes that he has done to Raven, is now crashing down on his head. He doesn't even know half of it yet. I hope that both Reagan and I are present when he does find out that he has a world of problems that he had no inkling of.