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I knew that Graham had hurt Blake the most, both physically, and emotionally. He had lost a mate, and a son, because he listened to Graham. He was made to look like a fool in front of his pack because they all ended up seeing what happened. His being locked up in his own pack, had to have been humiliating. Blake was the one who actually lost the most, and was duped the most. He was beaten, and his pack stolen from him because the men he depended on, as well as his heir, betrayed him. He deserves this opportunity, and I am going to let him finish what he started. Brandon had mentioned how Blake was a big help in the battle. How Blake had killed a few people, including two strong fighters from Black Moon before he was shot by Graham. Just for that alone, Blake needs to be the one to end Graham, I am fine with that.
Raven, Reagan, Stella, and Lanie started getting the younger children together. I knew what they were doing as Blake is going to be fighting Graham to the death, and the younger children needed to not be here when it happened. I let Reagan’s oldest daughter Tatiana take my twins with them to the pack house to watch them for me on the Alpha level. Raven’s daughters, Emersyn, and Sasha, went with Tatiana to help. They were taking the younger children in to get them their baths, and ready for bed. Truett had already gone to the new packhouse after the all-clear, and let everyone out of the secured area. He did that at the same time I was allowed to leave my house. Everyone was glad to find their family members and head home after this. We didn’t escape without some losses, as Brandon said that 8 of our pack members were confirmed dead. Three more warriors were still missing at the moment. But that was a minimal loss for us in such a large battle.
“I am good with Blake finishing this for us all. It is what Graham deserves for what he put Blake through for over a year in the cells. This fight is what he earned, and it is about time that Graham got what he has coming to him” I stated to the group. I see Blake turn around in surprise to look at me, he was so caught up in holding Kira up, that he didn’t notice that I was behind him.
“Just shoot me and be done with it, OK. I don’t have the ability to fight anymore, as I have been shot. Surely you are humane enough to just end me. The council does not condone this type of treatment, you cannot just beat up a man who isn’t able to defend himself” Graham stated to us. I can’t believe that he actually thinks that he will be getting the easy way out of this situation. I have to press my lips together to contain my laugh. He really is much more delusional than any of us thought. We are all aware of a lot of what Raven had to deal with. He has done too much in his life to get a free pass for everything that he has done. There is no way that what he did to Justin, Cole, Raven, Blake, and me could be swept away. Even his own daughter and his mate, Cassandra, were not even exempt from his actions, along with countless others. He is a real piece of work, and I hope that the Goddess takes care of him on her end too.
“It would be my pleasure to end him, but as much as I hate to ask for anyone to help him, can he be healed? I don’t want him to have the excuse that he was not able to fight as the reason that he will lose to me. It won’t be, as he is not a good enough fighter to beat me. He does the bare minimum to train and depends on others to try to protect him. I was blindsided by everyone I trusted deciding to work for him. The pain of their betrayal after what I had done for all of them was a complete slap in the face. I was lifted off the floor daily, and beaten until Graham tired himself out, for a year. I do not want him to get away and not get the punishment that he deserves. I want him to be fully able to fight me, despite knowing that he will end up losing. He has earned what he is about to get, as I need to pay him back for what he did to me, my family, and my pack. I will not let him get a free pass or get away with all the things that he put us through” Blake said, while looking dead at Graham.
“Alexei, can you and Dmitriy please heal Graham’s arms so he can fight? I agree with Blake. Graham does not deserve to take the easy way out of this. He needs to be 100 percent healed before their fight, so he doesn’t have any excuse as to why he lost. I refuse to wait another day for him to get what he deserves” I asked for help as I knew that Graham would hate it. They both knew where I was going with it and grinned at me as they stepped forward.
“I refuse for any of these leeches to touch me, and I will not be fighting you, Blake. You made your own choices, and that led us to this point. Accept your culpability in what you did, Blake, because I never twisted your arm. In fact, Cheryl didn’t fall for it when I went to her first. She knew I was lying about you cheating on her, she knew that because she knew what it felt like to be cheated on. You, however, took the bait and ran with it. You were so offended to even think that she would cheat on you, that you were right on board with everything I even suggested to you. I was honestly surprised at how fast you did fall for it. It was like you couldn’t wait for the entire pack to know how bad Cheryl was to you. I am sure it was your pride that demanded for her to admit her guilt, and beg for forgiveness. I really thought that she would just beg for you to forgive her. She loved you so much at the time, that I thought she would bend to your will. I figured that she would admit to doing it, just to make you happy. It would have worked either way, her denying it kept you angry and frustrated. Her admitting it would have made her become even more of an outcast and pariah. I was actually surprised by the fact that she refused to bend at all on this. No matter how hard I made it on her or Kevin. She refused to comply with what I wanted her to do” Graham spoke out to the group.
“I agree, I made a huge mistake, Graham. I was so hurt at the thought of her having cheated on me. It crushed me to even think that she would do that to me, but I finally saw the error of my ways. I know that he is mine and Cheryl never cheated on me. I messed up badly, but you are right, I did fall for it, and it broke my heart. I wished I had done what she did, and called you out on your lies, or gone to speak to her about it. Instead, I refused to listen to her when she tried to point out all the inaccuracies you gave me. I was arrogant, and even physically violent to her on a few occasions. You set me up for that too Graham. You played me like a fool, and I let you do it. My pain over the situation completely overrode my logic. I just kept pushing harder trying to force her to say the words that I never actually wanted her to say. I wanted all of our children to be mine. I needed them to be mine. You worked my fear and possessiveness against me, and my whole family suffered the price for it, Graham. That was the very worst of it. The fact that you took a happy family, and tore us all apart, for absolutely no reason” Blake told him.
I was proud of him for admitting his mistakes in front of the group. There were a lot of people standing here with us and Blake was a proud man. But he laid his pride down and admitted that I did better than he did in this. The fact that he admitted that he should have listened to me from the very beginning, was amazing enough. I knew that he was sorry for what he had done, but until this very moment, I didn’t fully believe him. People say a lot of things, usually things that you want to hear. Blake had said all of the things he knew I wanted to hear, it was his typical MO. He did it when he went too far with me during our arguments. He would always come back and promise me he just went too far because he “was angry and couldn’t control himself. It will never happen again, I swear.” Only it would happen again, and the process kept repeating itself. I can see the change in him today though, old Blake would have run over to stop the fight Forest was in. He would have made excuses for Forest as to why he had done what he did. This time, now that Blake knew just how far Forest had gone, he knew that redemption was not going to be offered. I am thankful that Blake sees things so much clearer now than he did, and it is a big change in him.
“I was honestly surprised that you were even dumb enough to believe me, Blake. I mean, you took me in when you knew that I was on the run from the council. You had looked me up, you got the notifications each month from the council telling you that they were looking for me. They don’t do that for innocent people. As far as I am concerned, you deserved to lose her. You apparently never valued her in the first place, because if you did, you would never have listened to me. You never once stopped to think about the fact that she was literally too scared to leave the pack unless you were with her. If you really think about it, you caused this whole thing to happen, because of your inflated Alpha pride. I shouldn’t be getting punished for something that you were only too willing, and apparently happy to do to your own chosen mate” Graham said, and the growl that Blake let out shook the trees near us.
“You vicious bastard, you are the sole reason that this started. I was completely happy with Cheryl, and our children. The pack was running well and things were good. We were able to get the walls up to secure our pack, the roads paved, and businesses started. Black Moon was more successful than it had ever been before. You giving me that extra money, ended up causing some of my children to start becoming spoiled brats. The money made me more lenient on you, and that was how you slipped the knife in. You had me lower my guard by acting like you were fine with the punishment that your own daughter had earned. She never had to do what she did, she did it because she wanted to be in a position of power, and felt entitled enough to try to take it away from Cheryl. You and your family had things so well in the pack. You need to remember that if Reagan had never tried to hurt my and Cheryl’s relationship, it would have never happened. She almost caused Cheryl to lose our baby and it caused the first fracture in our relationship. How could you even say that all of this was my fault? Messing with the Alpha couple earns a stiff punishment. Don’t act like you were righteous in what you have done, you weren’t. Not with any of it, Graham. You act as if you have never done anything wrong to anyone but just look around Graham. Everyone here knows exactly who you are, and what you have done. You are an evil man, who is willing to do absolutely anything to get what you want, no matter the cost. Up to and including drugging your own mate to sleep with you again. I feel so sorry for Cassandra for having to have to deal with you for so long, she must have really loved you to put up with everything she did. I cannot imagine how she managed to do that for all these years, you were not a good mate to her Graham,” Blake stated, and Graham was pissed.
“Do not talk about my mate, she was so much better than all of you, and that bitch took her away from me. I just did what needed to be done. I made mistakes, but who among us hasn’t? You all act like you are perfect, but you aren’t. I just managed to be man enough to get the difficult things done. I am sorry if you all think you are all better than me. You aren’t, I was just bold enough not to hide who I am. Cole was a crybaby about losing his mate, and his baby, big deal. He had other children, get over it. Raven had it tough for a little while, so what? She is tough for having lived through it, her life is fine now, and she has two mates to take care of her. Cheryl just found another mate, so in a way, I helped her. You are looking at this all wrong. You need to change your perspective, and you will see that I have helped a lot of people too” Graham said in a frustrated tone, huffing at us at the end. There was a stunned silence at the end of his tirade. No one could believe how Graham downplayed everything he did to others like there was nothing wrong with it.
“You will fight then, best man wins,” Blake said as he stepped back away from Graham. Alexei and Dmitriy stepped forward and each went to take an arm to heal. Graham tried to fight them off, but with both of his arms injured, it didn’t work out very well for him. Brandon and Justin stepped forward to hold Graham’s legs, to hold him still as he was still fighting to keep them from healing him. It didn’t work out for him and a few minutes later he had full use of both his arms again. Graham cussed Alexei and Dmitriy with offensive words the whole time that they were healing him, but that was not unexpected. Graham was pissed because while Brandon was holding one of his legs down, Brandon found the second knife that Graham had stashed. I was glad that they found it, and Graham was searched for any other weapons before he was cleared to fight. We all knew why he had them, Graham is not as good a fighter as he thinks that he is. Now that there is no hidden weapon to pull out and kill Blake with, Graham knew that he was as good as dead right now.
Blake’s POV
I swear that Graham is the biggest piece of shit that I have ever met in my life. Completely despicable, and now that he could use his arms again, I know that he had probably planned on using that knife they found on him. He would have used it on any one of us in an effort to try to escape. My anger comes back to the forefront and I cannot wait to get this whole thing over with right now. I need to be able to sit down and speak with my beautiful new mate, and I can hardly wait to hold her in my arms when we go to sleep tonight if she is willing to have me. That spurs me on to get this over and done with Graham.
Graham continues to sit on the ground, with anger on his face, while he is completely healed. “Graham, get up, you know that you cannot stop this. I will kill you on the ground if I need to. Don’t you want to fight me? You sure spent a lot of time telling me how much better than you are than me for a year as you abused me. So what’s the deal now? Get your ass up and fight, or I can just end you on the ground, but you won’t even get a punch in on me if that happens” I told him. He is a stubborn wolf, and he just stayed in place, with Brandon and Justin each having to grab an arm and help him up.
“I don’t want to fight you, Blake. You are stronger than me, and it isn’t a fair fight. I refuse to do it, for the fact that you have an unfair advantage against me” Graham announced and Cole started laughing at what he had the nerve to say.
“You were losing against me too, Graham. We are the same age, so what was your excuse then, your lack of training? You stabbed me to end our fight because you couldn’t beat me. You are not interested in a fair fight, you never have been. You like to fight dirty, to try to give yourself the best opportunity to win. Since you don’t have any more hidden weapons, you refuse to fight which is hilarious to me. That is typical behavior for you, but you have reached the end of your era now. You could have been training this whole time, as only you knew when the attack was going to be, but yet you didn’t. You still depend on others to protect you. That is not Alpha mentality, and you know it. As an Alpha, you should protect those weaker than you. We both know that is not anything that you have ever done, or wanted to do. You may be Alpha born, but you have never been Alpha material. Your first mate, the warrior you didn’t want, would have helped to make you better. A better wolf, a better man, and a better Alpha to your people, but you didn’t think she was “good” enough for you. You are the “great” Alpha, and she was not worthy of you. But the Goddess thought she was, and look at her now, she really was. She is Luna of a very strong and well-defended pack because she used what she knew to help train them all to help them be the best they could be. She made her second chance mate so much stronger, and her input is invaluable to him. Your thinking that you know more than the Goddess herself, is your downfall. You don’t, as the Goddess makes her decisions based on both of her children. She lets them work together to be stronger, and one takes up when the other is weaker. She always knows more than we do, and that is why we all need to listen to her when she speaks to us. You are so conceited to think that your opinion is so much more valuable than anyone else’s, let alone the Goddesses. The lack of humility or care that you have for anyone around you is the worst part of it. You are a disgusting person, Graham, and I know that when the Goddess gets you back, she will be dealing with you herself, and harshly. I hope she has mercy on your wolf, but you sir are in for a world of hurt for your actions” Cole told Graham.
Graham was pissed at the truths being handed to him, and said, “Fine, I will fight. You all clearly want me dead. He is younger and stronger than me, so how about since I was hurt, why don’t you let Cheryl fight me instead? I was injured, and I am barely able to fight right now. I can still feel where the bullets went through my arms. I am not at full strength, so I shouldn’t have to fight Blake. I would need to be at full strength to do that. Plus, she is younger than me, so our strength should be even with each other” Graham said, and I know that he is lying.
“Graham, you just shot me, I am not at 100 percent either. You almost killed me tonight, and my wound was much more serious than yours was. You cannot be serious that you want to fight a woman, as your last act? Are you serious about that? I don’t think I can support your thought process. Sorry, you will be fighting me. She just gave birth, how could you even think that it would be OK? I see that you will continue to be despicable to the very end there, won’t you Graham” I said to him. I didn’t even look back at Cheryl because Graham’s suggestion was just completely ridiculous. There was no way that I was going to let this asshole hurt her again, I just couldn’t allow it. I knew what he was planning this whole time, if he can’t kill anyone else, he would kill her to hurt me, Anton, and our children. He is a horrible person, and he would do it just to claim that he did it for Cassandra. I would have never thought that he would stoop so low, yet here we are. I forgot who I was dealing with for a moment, but this is a new low, even for him.
I feel a hand on my arm and Cheryl is standing there with a small smile on her face, as she looks at Graham. She stops me from saying anything more as she said, “I accept. I will fight you, Graham, to the death. Just remember that this was your idea.”
“Cheryl, I have got this. It is fine, I am healed from the gunshot. I can end this. I don’t want this piece of shit to ever hurt you again. What I did to you I can never fix, please just let me do this for you” I told her. I see her smile widen and then she looked up at me. Her eyes have changed, they are no longer blue, they are now the same color as my new mate’s eyes, an amber-yellow color. Cheryl has become a vampire, and I am stunned into silence. It is dark, and I know that Graham will not be able to see her eyes until she gets very close to him. He thinks that this will be easy, but I saw the vampires fight at Aaron’s pack, they are strong, very strong. They are much faster than we are. Anton stepped up next to her, and he gave me a nod. I know that he would never put her in any danger. He knows that she has this, and he was letting me know that she is OK without speaking. I will let her deal with him then, she was the one that was actually hurt the most, in my opinion.
“OK, Graham. You got your wish. You will be fighting Cheryl, instead of me. This was your last request, and we will honor it” I told him. The smirk that crossed his face let us all know that he thought we were stupid for even allowing her to fight with him. He always thinks that he is the smartest person in the room, no matter who is in it. He is shameful with how he looks down on others, especially women. I am glad that he is about to learn a hard lesson, right before he dies. Cheryl is not the same person that she was, even with just giving birth recently I am 100 percent positive that she is smarter, stronger, and faster than Graham is. Cheryl was a strong fighter back at our pack, but she couldn’t beat the ranked wolves. Graham thinks that he has the upper hand now, without knowing that the last choice he made, will end up killing him. I cannot wait to see how this all plays out now, that I get to watch the show, instead of being in it.
My mate is under my arm and pressed into my side. She said, “Do not worry. She has trained, and she will toy with him first to pay him back for all her did to her. She will allow him to get a few hits in, but it is all an act. When she is through playing with him, she will end him quickly. Do not worry about Cheryl, none of us will allow him to hurt her.” I smiled down at her and we stepped back to get into the circle that had formed and grown to create a 60-foot-wide area for them to fight in. Anton gives her a kiss and Robert and Kevin both come up to hug and kiss her too. Neither of the boys seem to be concerned about the fight and I was proud that they came to stand between me and Anton to watch the fight. Kevin has not voluntarily stood near me for a long time, not since he was trying to win my affection back years ago at Black Moon.
I don’t know what has changed lately, but I am thankful that Kevin was currently standing next to me. I am aware that he could be on the other side of the circle, or on the other side of Anton. It is a win and I will take it, I make sure I don’t push too hard by trying to hug him. But I couldn’t stop myself from smiling at the thought that he might forgive me for my actions. He probably heard what I said to Graham as neither of us was speaking in a low tone earlier. Maybe this is the first step for him in finally being willing to accept a relationship with me again. I can only hope that our relationship will improve as I do want him to take over my pack if he is willing to do it.
“Well, what are you waiting for Graham? I am standing right here, we are all just waiting on you. Isn’t this your dream come true? You wanted me to wither away and die, and yet I managed to escape your plans, Kevin did too. Seems like even with your best-laid plans something ends up going wrong in the end, doesn’t it? I bet that was the Goddess working against you too. She is not proud of what you have been doing Graham. I wonder if she will help you fight against me? I am guessing that she won’t, but feel free to try to prove me wrong. I am sure you just can’t pass this up now, you wanted to fight me. I know you can’t wait to get your hands on me, so stop dragging your feet and come on with it. I will need to feed the babies soon” Cheryl taunted him.
It did make him look bad, as she just gave birth and he still insisted on fighting her. He was clearly scared of me, but I know for a fact that he is going to be really sorry for picking Cheryl over me. I saw the vampires fighting at Aaron’s pack, and even on camera it was hard to watch as they were ruthless. I am sure before it is done he will realize his mistake. Graham didn’t like what she said and moved forward toward Cheryl. Her words spurred him on.
“I did want you to die, Cheryl, I only wish you had before you took my precious Cassandra away from me. If I knew then what I know now, you would have. I swear that I would have made sure to push you so much harder, and got Blake those drugs faster. I knew you were on your last legs. I know that you would not have made it a week more, I just ran out of time. But that is fine, I will end you now. Even if I get killed after the fact, I will still die happy, because I avenged Cassandra’s death. You don’t deserve to live any longer, let alone be happy. I wish I had taken your mate away when I had the chance. I should have shot the rogue he was fighting and then took him out. Hindsight is always so much better, and I wish I had not hesitated on taking that shot. Your fighting would be even weaker against me from losing your new mate” Graham told her. He is trying to upset her to get her to attack first so he can see her fighting style. She started training here, and they do much more here than we ever did at Black Moon.
They are circling each other looking for a weak spot to make the first move. Graham thinks he found one and moves in to punch Cheryl in the stomach, and she does a low tumble and goes under his arm, springing right back up again behind him, and punches him in the kidney. I have been punched there, and it hurts pretty badly. Graham grunts from the blow, and probably for looking bad by swinging at an opponent that managed to elude him. He growls in anger at her, turning around and coming right back at her quickly. He wants to land a blow and he manages to make a glancing blow on her. It barely caught her on the side, but his punch was a hard one, and I could tell from the sound it made when it landed, that it hurt.
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