Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 62

Raven's

POV

I already knew when dad had us come, that Graham and his people had already escaped. Otherwise, dad would have linked us that it was done. The closer we get to Silver Blade the more anxious I got. I never wanted to ever return here, my memories of this place were not good ones. I understand why I am here, and I am willing to be fair about it. As long as they didn't really physically hurt me, I was OK with letting them stay here in their homes. I won't count pranks against them. I know that it is hard to go against the crowd, even if you think it is wrong. But there were a few that I cannot give a pass to, no matter what. Reagan's friends always gave me a hard time. I will not be giving any of them approval to stay. If I didn't feel safe coming back here at a later date with them being here, I will not give them a pass.

I saw her in line, the worst one, and Reagan's former best friend. The one who conspired with her when the bridge incident occurred. Why in the hell is she still here? Why didn't she already leave? It was pretty much spelled out in the video, if you knew I wouldn't approve of you, it was best for you to leave. Most of them had been smart enough to leave on their own, and I was good with that. She really should have, and I was wondering why she hadn't when I saw her flirting with my mates. She was checking them both out like they were available to her, and that was incorrect. I would fight for them both, although truth be told, I hadn't fully accepted Justin yet. I knew what the Goddess wanted. I wanted her to have prevented him from sleeping with my sister. This was going pretty fast, and I felt a little out of control with it. I can still remember my excitement at finding out that he was my mate, and then seeing him with my sister. It had come crashing down around me so fast.

I know that she already knows that this won't be resolved quickly. Seeing them together has scarred me, in my heart. Much more damage than anything that had been done to me in my life. I know that there are probably thousands of people depending on us, and I get it. It is for the greater good. But what about my good, my thoughts, and my feelings? I know he is sorry, but we wouldn't be here like this now if he hadn't made bad choices. I know it happens, and I know that I will probably make mistakes as well, but I don't think I would do it to the same level as what he did to me. I know that the Goddess looks at most wrongdoings, and crimes, as even or across the board, like a mistake, is a mistake. My human side looks at things differently, more judgmental like killing, which is a BIG wrong. Cheating is a big wrong. Rejecting your true mate, another big wrong. Speeding is not so bad. We have levels of what is acceptable, and what is NOT acceptable.

I cannot help how I feel about this. Yes, I am still attracted to Justin. I can't help it. Yes, even after seeing them together the night I ran from Silver Blade. I have had a crush on him for years, and my feelings toward him were very strong. Now that I know we were mates, makes it clearer now. I felt him, I felt his pain at my leaving the pack that night. His sadness at what he had done to betray me. I could also hear him crying out into the night, begging me to come back to him. I know that he realizes the magnitude of his screw-up. I know now that we have marked each other, that he feels the depth of my pain and my anger that I still carry over this whole thing. The severity of what he has done to me, to us. It will be so hard to forgive him fully like I feel the Goddess wants me to. In a perfect world, I honestly want to be able to forgive him for hurting me to my core. To allow that wound to completely heal, and for us to be able to move forward. I am honestly going to work on it. I am praying that the Goddess gives me the tools to do it. Because otherwise, this may take literal years for me to get past this. I don't know if that is a timeline that we can work with. We need to really work on having our children, and then training them to be strong fighters. I don't know who is supposed to sire who, only that clearly this pup I am carrying was supposed to be the first one of our line. He is special, I can feel it, and he is strong. I feel stronger already myself, just carrying him. I cannot wait to meet him and watch him grow up to be a strong man, just like his father. I have no idea how I know, or believe, that it will be a male child, I just think he will be.

I cannot believe that she is still talking crap out there. She had the audacity to flirt blatantly with them, and then talk ugly about me and Justin. It is none of her business. I heard everything she said, and some points were correct, I was still mad at him, but that doesn't mean that she can have him. I am glad that he set her straight. But when she started taunting me, I was done. The comments from earlier I let slide off, but her implying that I was scared of her, she was so wrong about that. I mean dead wrong. If she doesn't want to leave and accept her banishment, that was fine, she never had to leave here again. She made her choice, I will help her out with it. I could already tell how angry my mates, and dad, were at what she had said about me. I was good with letting her know the error of her ways, as I was no longer the Raven that she knew.

Chapter 62

Raven's POV

I already knew when dad had us come, that Graham and his people had already escaped. Otherwise, dad would have linked us that it was done. The closer we get to Silver Blade the more anxious I got. I never wanted to ever return here, my memories of this place were not good ones. I understand why I am here, and I am willing to be fair about it. As long as they didn't really physically hurt me, I was OK with letting them stay here in their homes. I won't count pranks against them. I know that it is hard to go against the crowd, even if you think it is wrong. But there were a few that I cannot give a pass to, no matter what. Reagan's friends always gave me a hard time. I will not be giving any of them approval to stay. If I didn't feel safe coming back here at a later date with them being here, I will not give them a pass.

I heard Brandon's warning as I walked up, and I have no intention of allowing her to hurt my pup. But the doctor said that I could do what I normally did before I was pregnant. I trained every day, except for like the last 24 hours. I wasn't going to let her get close enough to hurt me. Emerald told me we had this, and I have faith in her. I knew Kristen would attack first, she never changes and she has impulse issues anyway. She was pissed when she landed on the ground. She was also surprised and angry, she doesn't like being embarrassed. I knew I didn't have a lot of time and felt like I needed to go ahead and give one last dig at her before she goes to phase into her wolf.

"I take it when Reagan and her family went away, she forgot to take her "best friend" with her. I guess you finally know exactly what you mean to her now. Only good for starting problems here in the pack, but not valuable enough to take with her" I taunted her back. I see fury showing in her eyes before she phased into a light tan and gray wolf and she took no time before she leaped at me. I knew between dad, and Brandon that she wouldn't be able to touch me. She is in the middle of her lunge toward me when she got knocked out of the air by a large black wolf. She landed hard on the ground, and he quickly grabbed her by the neck, with the sound of her neck breaking, clear to all of us. The black wolf runs to the tree line, and Justin emerges less than a minute later with some basketball shorts hanging low on his hips. He walks back and stood back in the same place that he was standing in before this happened like nothing happened. He still looked relaxed, but you could tell that he was vigilant of the rest of the crowd. No one said a word, and I started making the choices right in their face.

The line moved along quickly and several told me a quiet, "Thank you" for the pass they got. I was not going to let the worst of them stay, but the ones who were allowed to stay were not the violent ones. Rather the ones who had been pressured into it when others noticed that they had not participated. That was usually brought up by Reagan, or Kristen, to make sure that I never felt safe unless I was in my room. That was what they wanted, me to be ostracized and alone. With no safe space, and no friends. I saw a few that had wanted to be my friend in school. The same ones that Alpha Graham called their parents, to tell them not to allow it. It was water under the bridge. I did not wish them harm. They had their own parents telling them what to do at the time, and they were kids. I am not upset with any of them.

The warriors took the body away, as her parents had left the pack earlier today, they knew what was coming and we not waiting to be banished. I guess Kristen figured that she would just bully her way through this, and stay here, despite all her previous acts against me. That was wishful thinking on her part. We were done now, and Stella asked to see my room. She was just curious, and I thought that it might be nice to show her. To see it one last time. Olivia and Amanda went with us to see my room as well. We headed up to the Alpha level and down the hallway stopping at Reagan's room to look at the complete destruction she left behind. Shattered glass, from pictures and perfume bottles, was littered everywhere from the items she had clearly thrown. Vases and pottery were laying there, among her strewn clothes. She broke a lot of what she wasn't able to take with her, in an effort to keep others from taking it for themselves.

She had obviously gone through all her stuff and piled it onto her bed, what she wasn't taking was thrown to the floor like trash. I didn't have half of this stuff, she clearly lived a life of complete excess. I hated the thought of this going to waste, but who would want it? She basically had a bunch of clothes to wear to the club and not much else. I guess it is probably all going to be thrown out, as most wouldn't feel comfortable out in it in broad daylight. I shake my head at all the waste and head down to the end of the hallway. My room is exactly how I had left it still. I had gotten up from bed and climbed down the tree to go out for a run. Never expecting to be caught out of the pack house. I am glad I did, my life has truly changed for the better for doing it, and I rubbed my tiny baby bump as I looked around my almost empty room.

My room was the total opposite of Reagan's. No throw rugs, no comforter. Just my old blanket and top sheet. I heard Olivia and Amanda in the bathroom and they came out and tried to give me a smile, but they see it. They see how I had to live here, and how much difference there had been between me and Reagan. The bed was still pulled back from when I got up to go out the window. Stella called from my closet, "Do you want any of your clothes?"

"No, thank you. I don't want anything from here" I called back to her. There wasn't much in there anyway. I have one picture on my dresser, and I can see Olivia staring at it. It is me and my "family" I was on the end, with Cassandra next to me. Graham was next to her, and Reagan was on the end next to him. None of us were really smiling in the picture. There were clearly just keeping up appearances, and the picture was 4 years old. I remember in Reagan's room there were pictures all over the place. Some still hanging on the walls, and some lying on the floor, but in all of them, the three of them smiled brightly at the camera. It was just when I was involved, they just couldn't bear to smile. I hate to admit how sad it makes me when all I really wanted was to be loved. It feels like an impossible feat right now. I originally did feel loved by Brandon, but his callous disregard of my feelings with some of the girls clearly flirting with him at Black Adder hurt. He should have shut them down, and he didn't. He liked their fawning attention. Justin goes without saying. I am trying to fight back the tears at how truly unfair this all was to me. Like I had done something to have brought all this on me.

I turned away from them to go look out my window, out at the tree, I have climbed so many times, and tried to calm myself down. I refuse to cry about this. There is nothing that can be done about it, the wheels were already in motion. My eyes are burning with the sting of tears, that I refuse to let fall. I held the sob in, and I know just being in this place is not bringing the best of memories back. I felt him before I saw him. I felt strong arms come around my waist and Justin hugs me from behind. Brandon then stepped in front of me and brought me into his hug, keeping his arms on my shoulders, and pulling me towards him. I let the tears go ahead and flow. I know they felt what I was feeling through the bond. Neither saying a word just being here for me. The women all quietly left my room, they knew I was upset.

I turned away from them to go look out my window, out at the tree, I have climbed so many times, and tried to calm myself down. I refuse to cry about this. There is nothing that can be done about it, the wheels were already in motion. My eyes are burning with the sting of tears, that I refuse to let fall. I held the sob in, and I know just being in this place is not bringing the best of memories back. I felt him before I saw him. I felt strong arms come around my waist and Justin hugs me from behind. Brandon then stepped in front of me and brought me into his hug, keeping his arms on my shoulders, and pulling me towards him. I let the tears go ahead and flow. I know they felt what I was feeling through the bond. Neither saying a word just being here for me. The women all quietly left my room, they knew I was upset.

My mates knew that I needed their comfort. I needed to know that when I needed them, they would be there for me, even if I didn't call out their names. We stood there quietly and then Brandon started to say calming words to me. He would also give me an occasional kiss on my forehead. Justin just held me tightly and would sniff my neck, trying to calm himself down. I could feel his pain as clearly as I felt mine, and I felt him sobbing behind me. He is just as broken as I am, and I know what he needs to hear. But I cannot say the words yet. I won't lie to him and tell him that he is forgiven if he isn't. This will take some time, but I can see him working on getting my trust back. I feel like he will always be there to protect me, and that helps to calm me down. I finally lift my head and wiped my tears away. This has been a hard day, and very disappointing too. I wanted to know that I was safe, that Reagan and Graham had been dealt with. I wasn't as worried about Cheryl and Silas as much.

"Thank you" I breathed out to them. I can see the tears still on Justin's eyelashes, and he nodded at me. I know the feeling, when I get overwhelmed by emotions, I cannot speak either.

"We love you, Raven. We both do, that was the main reason I was so mad about the video. I could tell that Justin thought it was you, and that he loved you. As much as I don't understand all of this, I do at the very least, know that. We will figure it out together" Brandon told me, as he grabbed one of my hands for us to walk out of my room. Justin took my other hand and followed behind us. But I can still feel the bond between us all growing, and settling in place.

I calmed down on the ride home later that night. I sat quietly between my mates while dad drove us back. Some of our warriors stayed behind after dad made his announcement. The pack members seemed happy at the changes and the new plans for the pack. Dad answered all their questions and the night went smoothly. The warriors were there to make sure no problems arose, just in case, and to link dad and Beta Timothy if they were needed. But the people there seemed to be the best of what that pack had to offer now, so I think that they will do well. I know that the Silver Blade Warriors were happy to see their former Beta doing so well, and dad had already decided that Randolph would be the one who would start the rebuilding of the pack. They were familiar with him, and he already knew the pack and where improvements were needed already.

I am dreading tonight. I feel like I am going to have to have a talk with both Justin and Brandon. It is weighing me down as I have things that I need to say, and I need to do it in privacy. But I am dreading it. But it has to be done, we need to clear the air, and I need to tell both of them what I will need from them. I already know that Brandon already had the plan to figure out who told Cheryl that I left, and banish them. He had really been upset that one of his current pack members would dare to do that. It almost cost him his mate, and I can still feel his anger over my information being leaked. I could have been killed if that had been their intent. I know it, and I know that he knows it too. I can already feel his willingness to make sure the pack is completely safe for both me and our pup. His knowing that I am pregnant, he is so much more caring and concerned than he was before. I am so glad that he is happy, I am too. I just know that this needs to get done, and instead of doing it one at a time. I will deal with this tonight. Because if there is one thing that I know is going to happen, it will be that they will both want to be sharing my bed tonight.