Chapter 30 – Betrayed From Birth

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They all head for the door to give us privacy, and I cannot contain my laugh as I heard Stella tell Joshua, ‘You are an idiot, Joshua. Three days Alpha, that is all I need, we can fight in three days.”

She is right, he is, and her timeline is now showing him that she is not scared of him at all. She doesn’t need time to train, she has this, and she wants him to know it. I am really looking forward to this fight, it is clear that Joshua clearly needs a wake-up call.

“He is an idiot, but he is pretty big, and I don’t want my best friend to get hurt”

I heard Raven speak and my eyes flew back over to the bed.

“I assure you, Raven, we don’t want her to be hurt either. Stella is sick of his cocky behavior and is going to help him out by deflating his swelled head. Don’t worry, she is an excellent fighter. Stella is going to start training you when you are ready to train. I want you to be able to protect yourself in case you need to. I don’t want you defenseless, and you are right now. Your wolf is very strong, I can feel it. So, we just need to get you up to speed, and I know that Stella and my lead female trainer, Lanie, will get you trained in no time. They are both strong fighters, and both are great trainers. I will help to train you as well, and you can learn something different by training with us all. “

I told her gently. I don’t want to scare her, but she needs to be able to learn to defend herself if she ever has to. I can see fear in her eyes, she does not want to train, but knowing that Stella will be right there with her, is making it hard to turn down. I don’t know how they got so close, so fast. I can see my daughter loves her and is worried about her. But Stella already loves Raven, I could see it when she showed her willingness to fight for her. I know that this will not be an easy fight. He will not want to lose face in front of the pack. He is the incoming Beta, and it would be very embarrassing to lose to his little sister. She will have to work hard to beat him, or at least show him up, which is what I think her point was.

He is twice her size, as he is a solid 240, and really very strong. His training has been rigorous his whole life. But Stella is fighting to prove a point, two of them actually. The first is to stop picking on women, and he needs to learn that, especially with Raven. The second is that to judge someone on their appearance, or their sex, and assume that they are weaker than you, is a big mistake to make. I think that after this fight, Joshua will be a lot less cocky, and a lot more humble. I also think that seeing Stella in action will be good for Raven too. Getting stronger and more confident will help her in every aspect of her life. She needs to know that she is strong, and most importantly that she is not alone anymore. She has us now, and we will be keeping her safe from now on. This leads me to my next comment.

“Raven, I sent them away because I need to talk to you about Silver Blade, and what you had to deal with there. I want you to know that you are not alone anymore. I am here to protect and defend you, and I will, with my life. I have been watching them for years waiting to see even a glimpse that you were there. We never saw anything, and no one would tell us anything about the Sullivan twins. I only saw Reagan and knew she wasn’t mine. That was why they kept you on the packland your whole life. They knew we were watching to be able to take back my pup. We already love you. Flint and I will not allow them to get away with what they have done to you. I know them, they are both weak, and I already know that they took it all out on you. They would be too scared to move against me, and they couldn’t take it out on each other, or it would mar the perfect image that they are so worried about. So, I already know that they mistreated you. We can wait for Timothy and Amanda to return to the room, or you can just tell us if you are comfortable with it. I know that something happened at the border this morning, that is why you ran here to get away. Timothy was too scared to tell me what it was for fear of me losing my temper. But if you are up to it, I would like you to tell me whatever you are willing to share”

I told Raven, and I see a tear run down the side of her face at my words.

Thankfully, the door opened, and Timothy and Amanda entered the room. I saw Amanda move to the other side of the bed and start stroking Raven’s hair the moment she realized that she was crying. I am very thankful for my Beta couple. They took such good care of her, making her a part of their family as well. I believe that the Goddess had her hand in this too. Because she had really only been here for 12 hours, and she already has a best friend in Stella.

Amanda tried to lighten the emotions in the room by saying,

“Stella told me that she had volunteered to teach her brother a needed lesson. His head was getting so big, I was thinking that I was going to have to get a wider door installed for him to be able to get into his room soon.”

Raven immediately laughed a real laugh, and it was music to my ears. She is comfortable here, and she will learn to love it here with us. I see her sit up straighter in the bed, and Timothy knew she was going to speak and went to stand at the door, so no one could come in here. We are in the Alpha wing, so no one is allowed to hang outside the door. I sat at the end of the bed and listened to the worst story that I have ever heard. They were shameless in their treatment of my daughter. I felt Olivia take my hand in hers and that was when I realized that I had bent the metal bar on the side of the bed in my anger. Flint wanted their heads when he found out that Reagan tried to kill her. I thought that was the worst of it, but I was wrong.

“Wait, that happened 4 years ago though, right? So, what happened last night? What was so bad that you were willing to face certain death coming to our pack to get away”

I asked her, and I watched Amanda and Timothy stiffen up. This is going to be bad. Olivia seems to be more informed than me and stood up and motioned to her chair for me to sit in. She is preparing me for something that is going to make me really angry, and I wonder what it could possibly be to top attempted murder. I sat down and Olivia sits in my lap and puts her arms around my neck. She gives me a quick kiss on her mark, and I let out all the air in my lungs. They are worried, so I told them,

“I am calm, just tell me. I can take it.”

My daughter’s soft voice fills the room as Timothy stands at the end of her bed nodding at her that she is doing well and encouraging her, as she tells her story. I watch as Amanda continues to stroke her hair to comfort her as Raven tells us what happened. Even with tears running down her face at what Raven was saying, Amanda continue to provide comfort to her. Pausing several times in her story, Raven manages to get to the end of it. We were all moved to tears at her losing everything last night. Those bastards, I want to kill all four of them. They took everything from her, and still wanted to lure her back to keep me from finding out what they had done. Willing to kill her to keep me from getting retaliation for what they did to my pup.

As emotional as her story was, I know that Raven tried to spare us, and downplayed a lot. I saw Timothy glance over at me, and I would be getting with him soon, as I still want to have that talk with Joshua and Carter. I could tell that Carter was nervous now, as he realized that she was my firstborn, and he didn’t want her mate to take over our pack. I don’t think that she is interested in it at all. She just wants someone to love and protect her. I will do that for her now, along with her brothers, until she finds her second chance mate. I decide to just go ahead and ask her, I want to clear the air, and be able to let Carter stop worrying about losing the pack. Otherwise, it will take him a lot longer to accept her as his sister here in the pack.

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