Filed To Story: Raven Sullivan the Unvalued Daughter
Dad is still angry with me, but he knew I had been put in a position that I could not get out of. He knew how Graham, and Reagan, were. He had warned me about them, but I guess I thought I knew better than he did. I was an idiot, and I would be the first one to admit it. I had just mindlinked dad to ask if anyone had asked where I went last night. Thankfully, no one had yet. I told him to tell mom and my younger brother to tell anyone that asked that I was there with them. I do eat with them a few times a week, as I can’t stand the sight of Reagan most days. I found out that mom made meatloaf and mashed potatoes last night, so if I were asked, I would know what to say. They all know what is going on, and how I was tricked. They all have my back, and they are the only reason that I came back to the pack. I didn’t want them to be banished, or worse, killed.
My heart is aching in my chest as I went out to where I was told the cells were. I just wanted to see Reagan, and Graham, to see what they wanted me to do. They think that they are so fucking smart, but it is easy to trick a horny teenager. We are only focused on physical pleasure, not reading a boring contact. I learned from what they did to me. I will never again sign a contract with them or anyone without making sure I understand it. I was in a hurry the last time. Reagan was up in her room waiting on me, and I just gave a cursory glance at it. Didn’t see a problem and signed on the dotted line to go and spend some time with Reagan.
I have no idea what I ever saw in her, to begin with. Goddess, her only purpose for existing was to become Luna of this pack. For the money she receives to increase, so she can have all her dreams come true, oh yes, and to hurt Raven as much as she can. Well, looks like the joke is on Reagan now, because Raven is living her best life. I overheard some of the guys talking about how Raven took Cheryl down. Looked gorgeous doing it, and never broke a sweat. They all wanted to see if they could be her mate. Every freaking one of them. They made no bones about wanting her, and I almost punched one of them when he was talking about the kick raven apparently did on Cheryl. Apparently, Raven showed a lot of leg while doing it, and when his comment involved her legs being wrapped around him, I couldn’t contain my growl of anger. That is my mate he is disrespecting. He and his friends all took off as they knew I was pissed, and about to attack them.
Only for me to suddenly remember that I wasn’t her mate. That I am just the idiot who lost her because I was scared of the pack members coming after me too. I don’t know why, it was a well-known fact, that I was the strongest fighter, next to dad. If I had been thinking correctly I would have realized that I may have had to fight a few of them, but they would have figured out really quickly that they were going to continue to get their ass kicked if the bullying had continued. I would have just told them that we were going shopping with her, or out to lunch, and rejected our bond with the pack. We could have run away together. She would still be my mate, and bare my mark, instead of Reagan. It is eating me up inside that this happened. I wish I could control how I feel, and I bet the Goddess is getting a good laugh off of me on this one.
Alpha Cole had given me permission to come down to speak with Reagan, and he had an escort come with me. I can understand why they would want that. Graham and Reagan were not known for being trustworthy, and the rest of us were branded just like them. So I was not allowed to touch her, or close enough to touch the bars on her cell either. I was to stand in the circle in between their cells to speak, and then leave with my escort.
He stayed back at the bottom of the stairwell giving me a little privacy, but I knew that he had a visual on me. I stepped into the circle and saw that Reagan was asleep, of course, she was. Why should anything I do work out at any point? I start getting angry again, and it is because I know at this point that Raven is now marked by another man, and is no longer mine anymore. My heart feels like it is being squeezed inside my chest by an invisible hand, and the pain of it causes me to make a low sob. I thought I would be busted out for caring about Raven, when I heard Graham say, “I thought you didn’t care for her anymore?”
I am not stupid, I will play along with this. It should be my get-out-of-everything card. Plus, if I sleep with her when she gets home, I should be completely in her favor again. I stopped sleeping with her once I decided that I wanted to be with Raven. I had thought that Raven was going to wait for me, to be able to be with her. But I underestimated just how pissed off she was at me. She doesn’t want a damn thing to do with me, she is way passed pissed off. She didn’t even stop when I begged her to not mark that asshole. She knew I was there, and yet she did it anyway. Another whimper of pain escapes me, and Graham steps towards the cell bars to speak with me, and I turned to look at him.
His blue eyes, which are an exact match to Reagan’s look back at me unblinking. Graham seemed to want to look into my soul. He can go ahead and do it. My soul is in pain, and if he thinks it is because of Reagan’s dumb ass, so be it. This whole family is driving me crazy, and I can’t get away from any of them. I had hope today. Hope that I could speak to Raven, to tell her how I feel, how much I love and miss her. To show her that I had changed by telling her dad important information. I thought that tonight, she might accept me back, and at least give me a kiss. Not for her to ignore me and mark another man right there in front of me. She told me I hurt her, and I did, but thousands of men have hurt women through the ages. Done stupid things, but still loved their women.
I guess Graham saw what he wanted in my eyes and then looked over at Reagan’s sleeping form and said, “She really messed up tonight, Justin. I don’t know what she did. She keeps lying to me and saying that she didn’t do anything. From the sounds of it, whatever it was, was not bad enough to interrupt her sleep from it. I know it will be bad, but according to her, she is guilty of nothing. I am glad you will support her as well because, with the council involved, this will go sideways fast. Cole said he has a video of whatever it is, we need to be able to downplay it, so we will have a meeting after we get out of here. By any chance, did she happen to tell you what it was that she did? I have some free time to try to think of a way to spin it, while I am doing nothing here. She is my only child and even though she can be a terrible handful, I just want what is best for her” Alpha Graham tells me, and I know he is upset by what happened tonight.