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“We are going to have such a great time trying on evening gowns Raven. I have a few ideas of what I would like to see you in”
Olivia said as she crossed the room. I can see the smile she is giving dad, and that tells me she heard what he had said to me. The difference in love between my dad and Olivia, versus Alpha Graham and Luna Cassandra, is staggering. Dad doesn’t have to play true mates because they are true mates. After seeing the interaction between them, I don’t know how Silver Blade really thinks that their Alpha couple could be. They are not easy and loving, it is clearly staged, and not as natural between them. You know what, it doesn’t matter anymore. I am actually looking forward to getting my freedom, training, and learning things that I am interested in, not just from books, but in real life. There are so many opportunities for me now, and I am looking forward to grasping it all. I have clearly leveled up and my future is brighter than it has ever been before.
Carter’s POV
I have been nervous all morning, and couldn’t shake off the feeling that something bad was going to happen today. I had promised Raven yesterday, but even if I hadn’t, after Raven’s true mate’s actions, I was going today to make totally sure that everything went smoothly at Silver Blade today. We were even riding as a family in the SUV. A warrior was driving, dad was up front, Mom and I were in the middle, and Austin and Raven we in the back row. It made me a little jealous of how tight they already were. Austin is really sensitive to others, and their feelings, almost like an empath. He is a great judge of character, and he has never been wrong about any of his
“feelings”
toward another person. If I had been thinking clearly, I would have asked him when we met Raven and kept from embarrassing myself in front of her, and my parents. I ended up looking like a jerk, but I will make sure that I make up for it for the rest of my life. Raven never judged me, she didn’t get angry at me, but she is cautious around me, and that was all on me and Joshua.
If I weren’t almost out of my mind in fear and anger at someone trying to take my spot away from me, I would have noticed that yesterday Austin was immediately loving and accepting of our new sister. I allowed my own feeling to block what I now remember as an almost instant bond between them. He was on board the minute he met her. I am kicking myself for not seeing it now. It would have saved her and me, some suffering. We deserved the dressing down that we got yesterday from our dads. We had both messed up big time, and now we have to fix it. I feel terrible about how we treated her, she needed kindness and security, and we gave her stress and anxiety. That was another lesson, I SHOULD have seen it, and I didn’t. Dad and Beta Timothy both told me how I missed what was in my face. That as the next Alpha, I have to put my emotions aside and focus on the issue at hand. It was a teachable moment and another that Johsua and I needed.
My wolf, Titan, is still angry about what happened to Raven last night. Mates are really important to our family, and what had happened to dad, and mom, was the reason for it. That is not the first time that I had heard the story, but it was the first time where I realized that a child had resulted from what had happened. It wasn’t Raven’s fault at all, it was her money-grubbing mother’s fault. Yet they had taken it out on her because they could, for her whole life, even as a child. It made me sick, and I was 100% with dad to go straighten them out. I have not had any interaction with them, because of what Graham and Cassandra did. If Silver Blade was coming to training or an event, it was just dad and Beta Timothy that went. I had no interest in interacting with them, nothing that I have heard about that pack has ever interested me.
Joshua came too, he feels terrible because he got that ball rolling, and made a bad situation, worse. He acted like she had come here announcing that she was the heir to the pack, but she didn’t, she was just running away from Silver Blade. It was just him freaking out that she looked so much like dad, and me. He knew from the first time he saw her that she belonged to our family. He also knew that she was technically the oldest, and so he wanted to get rid of her before anyone else figured it out too. He never realized that his dad already knew exactly who she was, as he has been in from the beginning on what had happened, and that a pup might have occurred from their mating.
We are almost there, and I swear if this guy doesn’t accept her rejection, we will declare war on Silver Blade, with or without the Council’s blessing. It was hard to hear the emotions in dad’s voice last night. Then to fully realize what had happened and if Raven had died, then the only interaction that she would have had with me before she died, would have been a bad experience. That scared me to my core. I took pride in being the
“big”
brother. I protected Austin when we were little because I loved him so much, and didn’t want him to get hurt. The fact that I didn’t immediately love her, was purely out of fear.
It hit me that as mad as I was at Luna Cassandra, I had done the same thing she did, made a judgment just to get gain from it. No wonder dad had been clearly disappointed in me. I have already decided that I will be the best
“big”
brother that she could ever have. Even though I am technically two months younger than her, I am the next Alpha, and at 6’4″
tall, I am a pretty big guy. I will show her that I am here to protect her, for the rest of her life if she needs me to. I am going to erase the bad start that we had, and I had already spoken to Austin. We will both be escorting her to the ball that night. She was trying to hide her fear, she doesn’t like to have a lot of attention on herself. Having me and Austin there with her will help calm her anxiety that night. By the time the ball rolls around, I will have shown her clearly that I do love and care for her. She will have no more doubts about me ever again. If she wants to live here the rest of her life to feel safe, I will gladly do that too. Whatever it takes, is what I am willing to do. At 1025, we pulled up to Silver Blade, and no one is at the gate yet, but it is still early. We exited our vehicle, but Austin and Raven stayed seated in the last row. I could feel that she was stressed out, I sat in front of her, and Austin sat next to her so she could know that we were there to support her.
I turned to see the second SUV pull up and they all got out. A warrior was driving, and Beta Timothy was in the front seat next to him. Amanda, Joshua, and Stella had been in the middle row. Mom and Amanda had decided to take the back row out of the SUV, as it looked like some major shopping was going to be done today. I am going to hold my parents to the 3-hour time frame, shopping is exhausting. It will be another first for Raven. I could hear Austin speaking to her calmly and softly when we left the pack, and I looked back to see her eyes closed and him holding her hand. I linked him,
“What are you doing?”
“This is her first time riding in a vehicle, she is already anxious about the rejection, but this isn’t helping,”
Austin told me.
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