Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 56

Justin's

POV

I don't know fully what the hell is going on yet. It seems like Alpha Cole just took up for me, when he made Brandon put Raven in the middle of us, instead of allowing him to keep her from me. I was willing to fight to be near her, and she stepped between us to stop us. I can be calm, as long as I can touch her, and holding her hand is good enough for me right now. I was only really half listening as I was glaring back at Brandon during some of the meeting. He is pissed off, and that only makes me happier. He thinks that she is just his, but I know what I felt. I know that Raven felt them too, I heard what she said to Brandon. He can hate this all he likes, but this was over both of our heads, the Goddess did this, I know she did. I begged her for another chance and she is giving it to me. I will not mess up again, I know that I screwed up before, but Brandon did too. I could hear the hurt in her voice last night when we talked before she fell asleep. It looks like we are both on even ground now, I bet that is killing him. That does make me happy. My dad nudged me to pay attention, and I could see Alpha Cole watching both of us glaring at each other. I don't need to get caught being disrespectful, or not listening to what he just told us. So I did tune back into what was being said, I don't even know what a Sigma wolf is. Never heard of one, don't really care about it either. So, I tuned out again. I knew that Raven was pregnant. After they got her stabilized last night she was put on a fetal heart monitor to check on the baby. I was sad that the pup wasn't mine, but maybe one day she will carry my pup too. I am just happy that she is safe, and that I might just be allowed back into her life. I will take that for now, and be happy about that. It is driving Brandon crazy that I am even here, so that is a win for me. His condescending attitude toward me pisses me off. He needs to lose some of it before we really do tangle because I can take a lot of things, but for Raven, I will show him I am no pushover. He thinks he can easily beat me, and I cannot wait to let him know that it won't be as easy as he thinks it will. I won't just give Raven to him, I am willing to fight for her to be mine.

Alpha Cole stands up and clears his throat, "I would like to make a response video. In it, there will be a total of 4 people. I will speak first and let Graham know that I have them cut off, and no one will be leaving his pack. That we are officially at war. His family will be staying there. The Sullivan and Peters families will no longer be allowed to come up with another plan for anyone else. I then need you two" Alpha Cole stops and points at me and Brandon, "To get along for the entire video. We need to show a united front. I will tell them that it was Reagan in the video with Justin, not Raven and that we have proof. Raven will stand up and turn around with her arms up to show that she doesn't have a mole on her side, like in the video. That is the reason she is in her sports training outfit, so everyone can see in a live video that it wasn't her. I will then come back on and tell them about how desperate Reagan was to make Raven look bad that she did this" Alpha Cole stopped and looked around the room, all eyes were on him and he nodded at us all. He went and got a map out, and it had markings on it, and it was the area outside Silver Blade, with X's noted at certain points around their pack. "This is where we are currently set up. I also have two teams heading there now. They will be relieving the teams that have been there the last 8 hours. Silver Blade did not know that they were being watched. I am increasing the perimeter now because when we announce war, they are going to want to leave the pack. I am not allowing anyone to leave Silver Blade. I want to make the video, and with the information that we know now, I am OK with announcing that Raven has been given two mates, instead of one. I will have council member Emerson give the quick, quick version of it, including that the bond had been rejected, and then was repaired by the Goddess. I don't want people talking badly about Raven. None of us chose this to happen. Honestly, it is almost unheard of, which is why I am having Emerson do that part himself. He has the documentation on it. I want to get this announced for several reasons. I am sending this video out to all the packs, just like Graham did. I need it to be just as shocking so it will go viral, just like the first video. I wanted to take the heat that is coming off of you three, by showing that this has been blessed by the Goddess. I want people to stop the horrible comments they are making about Raven. She is innocent in all this. Getting ahead of it is the only way. Finally, seeing you three together will hurt Reagan. She wanted to take everything from you, and the Goddess prevented it. She lost, and you won, and this fact will drive her over the edge" Alpha Cole finished his talk and looked at everyone waiting for someone else to speak.

"I can send some men too, I can get 150 warriors here in an hour to help with the perimeter, to make sure that no one escapes. I think that it is a good idea to prevent anyone from leaving. They can also help us fight tomorrow" Brandon finally said. "I have spoken to the other 2 neighboring packs to Silver Blade, they both have men stationed at the perimeter of their borders as well. That will help us to concentrate on just the main entrance and our side of their pack. I appreciate the manpower, I know that when it gets announced, they will indeed try to escape. We also need to assign who is going to take care of each one of them. We need to make a plan, so we aren't all attacking the same people, basically Reagan and Graham. I am taking care of Graham, and Olivia is taking care of Cassandra. That leaves Reagan and the three members of the Peters family. Does anyone have someone that they want to engage with?" Alpha Cole asked.

"Reagan, I will kill Reagan," I told him, and he nodded at me. I am pretty sure that he expected me to say that. After that dirty trick, she pulled on me, drugging me to get me to mark her. That was bad enough, but filming me yesterday, setting me up to be killed by Alpha Cole and Brandon, she deserves this.

"Since he chose Reagan already, I will take Cheryl. Before she dies, I need to get the name of the pack member who tipped them off that Raven was leaving the packland. Without her doing that, this plan could not have been carried out. I will take care of Silas too" Brandon said to Alpha Cole.

"You just deal with Cheryl, she may not want to give up her informant so easily. I will deal with Silas. I want to get this straight as soon as possible to apologize to Raven, and Stella, for not trusting them. The video was bad, but it was worse that we didn't take the time to listen to our mates when they were begging us too" Truett said. I could tell he felt bad about it now, but he really hurt Raven with his true opinion of her. He is the beta, he is supposed to have faith in his Luna until she is proven to not be trustworthy. "I can deal with Cheryl's mother then, whatever her name is," Stella said.

"No, you cannot go into the battle," Raven told her and pulled her hands from ours to reach towards Stella.

"Sure I can, what, you think I can't take her? Please, I was just toying with Joshua in that fight. I could have dropped him in the first round. I was just playing with him. Even if she trains, she would be no match for me" Stella stated. She is very confident, and I would really like to see her fight now. She sounds like she can do some damage.

"No, you can't fight for me. It will be OK, someone else will. You already fought for me." Raven breathed out in a low tone.

"You think just because I am pregnant, that I suddenly cannot fight? Are you serious, Raven?" Stella asked, and her mate Truett froze and looked up at Stella sitting in his lap.

"Are you pregnant, baby?" Truett asked her.

"Yes, but what does that have to do with it? I could probably beat her just using one arm" Stella tells him and gives a laugh. "No baby, no you can't go. It isn't safe. Why didn't you tell me?" Truett asked in a reproachful tone.

"Did you listen to anything I said yesterday? Anything at all? With your snap judgments against us? Plus, if you knew I was pregnant, you would have tried to stay by my side, and frankly, I needed to get a night away. I needed to come and check on Raven because she could have died last night. She is my best friend, and if you knew me at all, you would have known that I don't lie. Raven doesn't either. We are learning about our mates, but it seems like you, and Brandon, are not learning about us. We need you to do better, and have the same faith in us, that we have in you" Stella told him, and she is right, but secretly I am glad that Brandon messed up. I reached out for Raven's hand again, and she allowed me to go back to holding her hand. Brandon saw what I had done and immediately picked up her hand on his side. I could barely contain my eye roll. He is super competitive, and he needs to calm down.

I would have been the "bad" mate in this little equation. Now, we are kind of on equal footing. I was tricked into a relationship a month before I knew Raven was my mate. Yes, I found out she was my mate a few hours earlier that night, but I hadn't really made my final decision yet. I was just telling Reagan what she wanted to hear like I usually do when we have s*x. I had no idea that Raven could hear me. My heart bleeds for her pain, I never meant to hurt her, I felt it that day. When she passed out, all her emotions hit me like a tank. It was why I couldn't finish with Reagan. I needed to go check on Raven. The pain she felt had made me feel worthless, and like I was the most horrible mate ever. After Raven left, I didn't want to go ahead with the contract. I told Reagan that very thing before I left to go find Raven. Then a few hours later the ultimatum came in from Alpha Graham. They were not joking about hurting, or banishing my family. I couldn't get the gate guards to get Raven to come to the gate at Blood Walker for me to talk to her. I had to resign myself to not being happy for the rest of my life, or at least for the next 5 years. But I read the full contract when I got back after Alpha Graham pointed out his little clause. I made sure that I followed it to the letter, but I refused to touch Reagan again. She might have been able to force me to come back, but she couldn't for me to sleep with her again. At least that part of the whole thing made me happy.

Yes, getting to make Reagan as unhappy as she made me, was the only thing besides texting with Raven, that had brought me joy lately. Only to find out now that it wasn't even Raven in the end. I am so going to enjoy killing Reagan, and I wasn't going to make it quick either. I just hope that she didn't show up looking like Raven again because I didn't know if I could handle that. I might have to trade out with someone then. I may have to mention that to Alpha Cole because I would not be able to do it. I cannot hurt Raven ever again. Seeing her in pain from my actions was worse than the painful rejection was, and believe me it was painful. Seeing her eyes looking at me like that, hurt by my betrayal, and her anger as she hardened her heart to me. I hurt her so much, and I just cannot do that ever again. I will make sure that I show her and Goddess willing our pups, how much I truly love them. I get to thinking about what our babies will look like until I get nudged by my dad again.

"I am sorry what? I was thinking about something" I said.

"I know exactly what you were thinking about you a*****e, and you can't have her," Brandon said and put his arm around her to pull her away from me.

"It doesn't seem like it is going to be up to you Alpha," I told him, and I showed my opinion for him as I mocked his title as I said it. He doesn't intimidate me. We are evenly matched, and I will fight for my Raven. I slid over on the couch to cover the gap, as she was half pulled onto his lap, and when I slid over, she is now half on my lap too. I changed hands holding hers as I was not at a great angle right now.

"Do not touch her. I am warning you, I don't care what they said. I have never heard of anything like that, and I am not going to share her with someone who hurt her like you did. Goddess, you just slept with Reagan yesterday. How can you say you love Raven?" Brandon said, trying to make me look bad.

"What in the hell? You thought it was Raven too, wasn't it you who kicked her out of your pack, with a bleeding head injury to drive an hour home? If memory serves it was. Do not act like you knew it was Reagan the whole time, because no one knew. I only knew at the end when I saw my mark sitting on her shoulder. Maybe I saw what I wanted to see, but I still love Raven. I always thought that she was cute, but she was off-limits when we were growing up. Graham and Reagan had it out for her. There was nothing that I could do about it" I told him. I will be damned if this jerk thinks that he will just blow past his own f**k up, and just point out mine.

Brandon hits me with his shoulder trying to push me away from Raven. I allowed him to hit me, as I gently pushed Raven up and away from us. I am just fine with this. He needs a little attitude adjustment anyway.

I stood up quickly and Brandon did as well, as Olivia pulled Raven back from us both Truett also jumped up and pulled Stella back away from us as I smiled at Brandon and motioned him to take his best shot. He is going to need his A-game because the only thing I did at Silver Blade was train. Brandon growled again and swung at my face, I managed to lean back and it missed, but not by much. I returned the shot and managed to connect. Apparently, he wasn't anticipating me to retaliate as quickly as I did. Brandon reached out and grabbed me and rammed me into the wall behind us and the next thing I know Beta Timothy and my dad were pulling us apart. My back hurt, and two pictures were knocked down in the scuffle.

"Is this how you two get along? Are we going to even be able to make a video with you two included in it, without a fight breaking out? Brandon, you started it. I asked you to be patient, you already know that she feels the mate bond with both of you. I know that this is not ideal, for any of you. I cannot imagine having to share my Olivia with anyone else, and I hate it for you, and Justin. But I am telling you that as far as we know right now, this is what the Goddess wants. Do you want to lose her? Stop it right now, let us get this war with Silver Blade complete, and then we will go from there. We will figure this out, but for now, I told you both that Raven doesn't need to be under any stress, and if you two think I won't engage with you to settle you down, you are wrong. I will always have Raven's best interest at heart. So settle down, right now, or you can both go outside and get it out of your system, but you won't be doing it in here" Alpha Cole said, and we both stop. We can't afford to piss our new father-in-law off.