Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 97

Raven's POV

We arrived at Blood Walker and pulled up to the packhouse. All of the children wanted out at the same time, and this was the second reason why we sit where we do. I stopped them from running out, letting the two youngest out, and Brandon helping them down, before the girls, came out. Justin keeps the oldest in place until the girls are clear and then stepped out of the way while the boys all rush out like usual. They are hugging everyone and spoke excitedly with their cousins who were out here waiting on them. "How did you know we were about to arrive?" I asked Olivia as I hugged her.

"Justin texted us about 10 minutes ago & told us when you were going to arrive. So we all hurried out to see you" Olivia replied with a smile as she hugged the boys as they came to her to give her a hug, after greeting their cousins. Stella and Truett had been behind us in their SUV, with their 6 children, as they were coming to the birthday party too. Blane was now 10, Andrew was almost 9 and a half, and Aiden was almost 9 years old now. They shot off to go greet Timothy and Amanda. They were tired of being cooped up in the SUV, so they ran over to join the group of boys at the foot of the packhouse stairs. Wynne was 8 now, and her younger sister Orla had just turned 7, walked up to give their hugs to their grandparents. They then headed to talk to my girls who were excitedly talking about the birthday party and of course getting to run the course against the boys. They are competitive, and the boys had better not count them out as Stella and I were fierce fighters too. It would be a mistake to do it. Truett had talked Stella into giving him one more baby, and he was about a month younger than our babies. She got pregnant right before I found out that I was, so our last pregnancy was together. Truett Alexander was almost a month younger than my babies were, and he and James were best friends. I can tell that Truett has a crush on Jules. He was always with her and James, and he was so cute always wanting to help her. He had been doing this since he was 2, so no one really noticed it, except me and Stella. It was so cute to us, and we both hoped that it meant that they were going to grow up and be mates.

I see Brandon and Justin watching Alex as he walks between Jules and James, and holds Jule's hand as they go back down the packhouse stairs. Stella and I watch as they both turned to look at Truett at the same time. Truett was watching the pups as well and he shrugged and said, "What can I say, he has my charm." Which caused a low growl from both Brandon and Justin. Stella and I couldn't help but laugh out, as they are already being overprotective while they are still so little. Alex is only a little over 4 years old, and so is Jules. The twins are about to be exactly 4 and a half. They could still end up as mates, but Brandon and Justin's opinions didn't factor into that. That would be the Goddess' will on that. They need to remember that both Stella and I were someone's daughters too. The men were going to have to get over it, we had over 13 and a half years to find out if they were indeed mates.

A short time later the party is in full swing and the children were having a blast. Joshua's kids were all out and lined up to run the circuit too. His son Joshua Griffin was 9 and a half and was very good friends with Lucas. They were both bragging about having gotten to run the course already several times, and telling our boys that they were going to beat them on it. I had watched Jax and Co. which is what I teasingly call our four oldest boys, walk the perimeter of both courses thirty minutes ago. I noticed that Brandon and Justin watched them too, and instead of going to give them help watched as they walked both of the courses, and then made comments. We were proud that they all had their strengths, and at each challenge, they spoke to the others to pass on the best way to get past it.

I know that my boys took it as a personal challenge to get through the course within a reasonable time frame. They have always had a friendly competition with their cousins and friends here. I know that the older they get, the more competitive they will get. Both Lucas and Jax are going to take over their packs one day. They are both strong, and both from Alpha parents. But I will say that I think Jax is stronger, and it isn't because he is my son. It is because, since day one, he has been the absolute best baby I have ever seen in my life. I believe that he is blessed by the Goddess, and as a direct descendant from the Moon Goddess herself, he is naturally stronger. The Goddess told me that Cassandra was one of her own descendants. If Cassandra had stayed with my dad, as she was bonded to be, I believe that Blood Walker would have become the very strongest pack around just from that fact alone.

The kids had all lined up into two groups, with the children under 5 lined up to run the easier, and older course. All of our children had run it, but our youngest had only been on it a few times. Both courses have challenges on them that may be harder than they can handle. Justin and Brandon are both giving our youngest tips on how to traverse the course. Jules and James are so excited to run it, and Alex is standing there listening as well. I am interested in seeing him run it. I am quite sure that he will not be running off with James to get through it, I know that he is going to stay with Jules. He isn't old enough to know why he likes her, but Stella grinned at me, they both have strong wolves inside them even as pups, and not having them yet. We both think that is why they are drawn to each other. She thinks that he can already sense that Jules is his mate. I know that Stella and I would love to be in-laws basically with each other. We have hope that one day we might be, but it isn't up to us.

The whistle blows and all of the children take off, Stella and I are running with the big kids and Brandon and Justin are staying with the little ones. I would have loved to watch the little ones, but there had been a lot of trash talk coming from the Blood Walker children. We were there to make sure that they don't take it too far. We want them to have fun, and challenge themselves. We don't want anyone to get hurt doing it. We stay close enough to hear what is being said, but not right on top of them. I heard a noise behind me, and see Carter and Joshua racing us on the course. I guess they thought that we were challenging them. I looked at Stella and without saying anything we both sped up. We will challenge them on the adult course next, but I am OK with doing it here too. Sometimes the guys get cocky, and they need us to let some of the inflated air out of their heads. Looks like it is time to do it again, and I smiled as I hit the wood wall hard with my right foot and pushed my body up to climb quickly over it. Both our course, and theirs had some military elements to them, as they were good to help train the kids. They needed to work on teamwork and figuring things out for themselves. Even with receiving instruction from us, the children still need to use what they have been instructed, and their own knowledge to get past each one. Sometimes they come up to one, and when faced with it being right there in their face, and is much bigger than expected, they can forget what they need to do. There are about 12 kids ahead of us, and Stella had pushed herself just as hard as I did. We were up and over the fence before Carter and Joshua could get to it. They were much heavier than we were, and there wasn't a wall on the adult course. After about 30 seconds of them trying to get over it, they both gave up and went around it. I saw them as Stella and I caught up with the back of the pack of children. Since it was wide enough for two to go across at the same time, we ended up passing half of the children on it as we crossed the monkey bars. We never looked back, we knew Joshua and Carter would be coming in behind us, as we were fast. We may be mothers but we trained at least 5 days a week ourselves. We took our training seriously and we wanted to be examples for our children. Ones that they can look up to and know that we train too, and want them to, as well. I don't expect them to do anything that I wasn't willing to do myself. We were now behind our sons, my four sons, and her three, and we were running with her youngest son Aiden. He grinned up at her, with pride in his eyes as he knew that we were well behind all the children when the race started. We always let them get over the first 2 obstacles before we even start the course. He was proud because we had all passed all the Blood Walker children to get here. We stayed right behind the kids as we finished the course, and Carter, Joshua, and their sons came in with them, right behind us. Carter gave me a grin, and I already knew what was about to come.

"Bet you won't beat me on the adult course, Raven," he said with a smirk, and Joshua nodded in agreement. "Yea, we run that course twice a day sometimes, so I know they can't beat us on it."

"What is the bet, Joshua?" Stella asked without even looking at me. She knew I was in to do it with her. This time we won't be holding back as we did with our kids. We were just out there to keep the kids from getting too competitive. Clearly, we know where their competitiveness comes from now. They got mad that we beat them on their own kiddy course, and think we can't run the adult course against them. It will be our pleasure to prove them wrong.

"You want to go ahead and run it first, just to see how it goes?" Carter asked, and I heard a laugh from behind him, and it was Justin and Brandon.

"No, we don't, we can all run it together," Justin said. Brandon nodded in agreement.

"We won't need a head start either guys. We should be able to manage the course" Brandon said before Carter or Joshua could try to tease us again.

I see the glint in their eyes, with the guys participating, they have forgotten about me and Stella now. They no longer think of us as competition anymore. It is Alpha against Alpha, and Beta against Beta now, as Justin used to be a Beta. He just accepted the Delta position to be there with me, he is more qualified to be Beta than Truett is, even with his Beta own bloodline. Stella looks at me, and I already know what she is thinking, and give her a nod. We are going to wipe the course with all of these big bad men. How can they be so dismissive of us? It wasn't Brandon and Justin, it was again Carter and Joshua whose cocky attitudes and lack of humility showed us both that they needed another crash course in it today. We are both glad to help them out with it, just like the last time. As anticipated our children were the first 4 across the finish line, with Jax at the front of them. Stella and Truett's children were right behind them. I was very proud of my boys, and our daughters that were 8 and a half, were right behind us. They were faster through the course than Carter and Joshua were. Stella's Daughters were right behind them, just ahead of Carter and Joshua. I looked over at Brandon and asked about the twins because Justin was speaking with his father. I wanted to know how our youngest children did on the course for the first time. Brandon glanced over my shoulder and I see them walking our way. Alex is still hand-in-hand with Jules. Stella grins at them, and I couldn't stop myself from grinning at them either. Our babies are so very cute together. "James did very well, he came in with the first few that crossed the finish line," Brandon told me. This was the first time that he had attempted the course, and I could hear the pride in Brandon's voice at how well James had done. "Jules had fallen down and skinned her knee, but Alex stopped to help her, so he got behind too. It would be harder to see this if they weren't so stinking cute together. He dotes on her as much as we do. You may be right, they may be mates. He is just as strong as James is, but he wouldn't leave her alone to run the circuit with James. He stayed with her the whole way and helped her navigate it. I don't know if she liked him taking care of her, or what, but she really acted like she didn't know what to do with each new challenge. He talked her through each one. He was her biggest cheerleader on the course, even with her dad's there to help. Justin was a little put out over it, but he agrees. He thinks that they are mates too. It would explain all of it. He told me that he had felt a pull towards you throughout the years, he was just too scared to act on it" Brandon told me as he hugged me.

"Are you trying to butter me up with the hug so we don't embarrass you on the course? Because the gloves are off, my love. Stella and I are planning on coming in first on it" I told him and gave him a quick kiss before dancing out of his arms.

"I would have it no other way, my love" Brandon called back to me.

The challenge is set. He won't be babying me on it either. He knows that I am capable of doing this with no help at all. I think Carter is confused as Simone doesn't train consistently, just every once in a while. She takes care of their pups and plans all the meetings that are scheduled in the venue that they built 10 years ago. They have at least 3 big bookings each month, sometimes up to 6, and that is a job within itself. Dad has made a lot of money by booking the venue out, and occasionally to humans if the price is good enough for him to do it. They work with local werewolf businesses for flowers, catering, invitations, and anything else you can think of, even liquor. Olivia helps her with the business too, but dad's pack is strong, and only getting stronger with each passing year. He is not expecting an attack, but if one came, they would be prepared for it.

He has more than 400 of his now 600-plus warriors, who were highly trained in weapons. The rest of them like a more hands-on approach, and are hand-to-hand experts. We did the same at our pack, allowing the warriors to train the most on what they liked. We have several techniques as well and we picked a lot of the same ones. A lot of self-defense techniques, Jiu Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Krav Maga were the favorites of our men, as well as dads. Dad is not going to allow Olivia or Simone to fight if it comes to his pack. He already has a bunker built, and he is prepared for anything, but he believes as we do. That the war isn't coming to him, it is coming to us. Black Adder will be the target. I guess the reason for their coming will be found out when they do decide to show up. I will never allow my children to go out on a battlefield without me. I already told Angie, Brandon's mom, that she is in charge of the women and children because I will be out protecting my children, when the time comes.