Chapter 16 – Betrayed From Birth

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I turn to see the Alpha couple arrive with some warriors and I realize that Reagan was clearly trying to get Raven in trouble, and potentially hurt. I just can’t allow that. I will have to be the voice of reason for the group if I need to be, and then the unexpected happens. Raven just shreds out of her clothes into a very large black wolf, her emerald green eyes looked right at us.

Her eyes don’t carry a shred of fear. I know that I am not the only one who cannot believe the sight in front of us. The wolf then turns and bolts away and for a few seconds I am still sitting here in shock. I notice that everyone is now phasing into their wolves and chasing her. I won’t let them hurt her. My large dark grey wolf was the last one to leave the glade, but the closest one to her when she easily sails over the border into Blood Walker territory. I wanted to follow her and keep her safe, but as soon as we phase back into our human side, Reagan grabs my arm and starts smirking at Raven. She wants to piss her off and make her jealous.

I cannot stop staring at Raven as the arguing continues. I can only focus on her, she is in pain, and she needs me. I finally decided that I am going to phase back into Lorne and just go over the border myself when I see a tall, strong man approaching my mate as she turned and started walking away from us.

I started listening then, as he is way too close to my mate, and I will not allow him to hurt her.

I heard the threat in what he said, it was not hidden at all in his words. If I go over, he will kill me, and I know that he was not bluffing, especially when he threatened and taunted Alpha Sullivan to come on over himself. If he is willing to kill our Alpha, he won’t hesitate to kill me as well.

My heart is breaking as another man comes out of the dark, almost as big as the first man, and I can no longer see Raven anymore. They are protectively blocking her from our view.

I have no idea if she is going to be safe or not. She could be r***d by them or even killed, and I have no idea what the hell is going on now. I should have been listening to what had been said earlier, but after looking into Raven’s eyes, I was completely hypnotized by her. Her family starts screaming horrible things at her. They are even threatening her. How did I not know she was living in this bad of a situation?

I cannot stop myself from calling out to her to come back to me. Reagan is furious and looking at me like she is about to lose her s**t.

The Alpha is really angry, steam is almost coming off of him, and our Luna looks completely terrified.

I don’t know what their deal is, but the warriors with us are clearly upset too. The cat is out of the bag now and tomorrow, when the Alpha has the town hall meeting, the whole pack will know that Reagan and I lied to them about us being mates.

“Not one word of this gets out.

Tomorrow at the town hall, I will be announcing that Reagan and Justin are true mates. If I hear of anyone finding out anything different about them not being mates, I will torture you all until I find out who told. I will then have the guilty party’s whole family killed. The pack needs to support its Alpha couple.

Do not think that I will let anyone off in this. I will note who was out here with us tonight. Do not let the secret get out, as it will be a death sentence.

I will not allow dissension in my pack. You will all do as I say in this. I will also announce that Raven went mad, and trespassed onto the Blood Walker’s land and that she was tragically killed. Do not contradict me when I do this, and we will get past it. No one really cares about Raven anyway. She is more trouble than she is worth, and I am finally glad to be rid of her. I am quite sure that they will take care of this mess properly over there. I have never seen a trespasser on Blood Walker land not be dealt with. We won’t be seeing Raven again”

Alpha Sullivan said to the group.

He is a monster, how did I not see this before? The pain in my heart at the thought of Raven being killed hurts me. He has us all thinking that he is a good leader, but he isn’t, and neither is Reagan.

I am tied up with them both now because I was not thinking properly before. I can’t even blame it on them, as I wanted to sleep with Reagan at the time. I am ashamed that I didn’t wait for my mate.

I have been blind this whole time, I am smarter than this, and I should have seen it. Just from how he treated and allowed the pack to treat Raven. She was a young innocent girl who was abused in this pack and that was never the right thing to do. The ranked wolves are supposed to protect the weaker pack members, and that included Raven.

As we head back to the packhouse Reagan keeps trying to hold my hand. We are taking our time walking back as we are all caught up in our thoughts. I shrug Reagan’s hand off my bicep and increased my pace. I am just as bad as they are, I might have been tricked into it, but I knew right from wrong, I wish I could go back and reject Reagan’s offer. Gently, of course, and then I would be sure to be around Raven when she turned 18, so I could accept and mark her right then. I am screwed, and there is nothing that I can do about it.

“Justin”

Reagan coos at me in a tone that earlier today would have got my blood flowing because she talks to me like that when she wanted to have s*x. I have been conditioned. I realize that now, and I feel sick about it.

“I need some time alone Reagan, I will see you later on today,”

I told her and watched as she rushed forward to try to touch me again. She was going to try to have s*x with me, to try to keep me under her power, but that ploy wasn’t going to work anymore. The guilt that I was feeling was making me feel sick. Raven is right, the Moon Goddess doesn’t like us to change her carefully laid plans. She makes them for a reason and there will be punishment for our actions coming to Reagan, and me. Honestly, we earned whatever the punishment will be. I have a feeling I know what mine will be, a lifetime with a hateful, shrew. I knew that she was like that before, what possessed me to allow her to con me into this deal?

I watched as her father grabbed her wrist as she passed him and shook his head at her. He knew I needed some time alone. He also knew that I was absolutely trapped by the contract that I had signed. There was no escape for me, and he knew it.

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