The night sky seems even darker than usual tonight, with just a sliver of the moon shining down on us. I silently run through the woods letting my wolf Emerald out tonight. She has been anxious all day. Well, really, for the last few days. I could tell that she needed to come out for a run. So, we did what we normally do, took a small nap to wait until after 1 am to make sure no one would be around, and then headed out for our run. I would always stick to the woods just over the far ridge from my pack, as it is near my favorite stream when I needed a little peace. It is always quietest over on this side of the pack, as it is the closest to our neighbor's, the Blood Walker pack. They are our neighbors to the north, but their land only borders ours for about two thousand feet. They have never entered our land, and the whole pack has all been warned not to trespass onto their land. We were all advised of the dire consequences that would arise if someone ever did. We would be at war instantly, as we are not friendly neighbors and we do not have a treaty with them. I have heard horror stories about their Alpha. They are a very strong pack, and the outcome of a war between us would not be favorable to us here at the Silver Blade pack.
Alpha Cole Walker is the Alpha of the Blood Walker pack. He is said to be one of the most dangerous Alphas in the United States. It is said that he would kill anyone who dared to enter his packlands uninvited. Due to this fact, most of our pack members studiously avoid this area altogether. I take advantage of that and use this area to enjoy my solitude, and what little freedom I can get from the packhouse, by coming here when I do manage to get out. The Goddess knows that I need it too. I do not know what I ever did to deserve the life I live, yet I live it every single day. The blatant hate in my fellow pack member's eyes. The nasty comments and physical abussssse I suffer are bad enough. But I have to say the worst of it is the disrespect and unwarranted anger that the pack has for me. My twin sister, Reagan, on the other hand, is the golden child of the pack. They all love her unconditionally. She is cherished and appreciated, no matter what she does. They all seem to ignore the fact that she is a horrible and mean she-wolf. I was born first, and with that should come the respect that after I find my mate, I will officially be the Luna here, and he will take over as the Alpha of the pack. Yet they all treat her as the next Luna.
“No, you won’t Raven. I have already seen it, you know in your heart that we will never be given this pack. In fact, you should have listened to me and packed before we got our nap tonight. I already know our fate, but you have to take your own steps in this. I cannot tell you what is about to happen, as what you decide to do tonight will seal out fate. Whether we will live or die, will all be decided by you” Emerald tells me through our link.
“I know they hate us, for whatever stupid reason. I have known this for a while now since I have been treated like this from a young child. There was nothing that I could have done to deserve the kind of treatment that I have received, not from my earliest memory until today. There is nothing that we can do about it, I feel it too Emerald. Something really bad is about to happen, and I am scared” I linked her back. I can tell that something big is about to happen, and when it does, I know that my life will be changed completely.
“Get dressed and hide, I can hear them coming this way. You will need to hide in a tree, but I will block our scent from them to protect us” Emerald tells me, and we took off further into the woods heading away from the packhouse. I head to an area that I know has a change of clothes for me to wear. Even with the outcome known to her, she doesn’t ever want to hurt me. She has been the only good thing to happen to me in my young life, and I love her like a sister. I wish she were my sister, instead of Reagan. I got my wolf two months ago when Reagan and I both turned eighteen years old. Emerald is a strong wolf, and she is really smart. She is a pretty large wolf too, but I have never been phased and near another wolf to see how much bigger she will be next to them.
I phased back to human and dressed quickly because whoever it is, they are very close to where I am now. I won’t take the chance of getting hurt again by just standing here. As the firstborn child of the Alpha of the Silver Blade pack, I really should be able to defend myself. My sister and I are the only children that our parents had. The Goddess never blessed them with another child, even though they tried for years. My father, Alpha Graham Sullivan, is very strict with me. I am not allowed to leave my room other than to eat my meals and then return back to my room again. I am also not allowed to leave our packland for any reason. I have never even crossed the border of the Sliver Blade packland in my life. I have always been told it is for my own protection but never given a reason for why I need the protection. Reagan is not a prisoner here, she goes to the movies, shopping, on dates, and leaves the pack all the time. I get her hand-me-down clothes, well at the least clothes that I consider acceptable. We do not have the same taste in clothes. I like my b^tt to be covered, so her dresses and skirts are all unacceptable. I will take her jeans and T-shirts though. I have no idea what is out there, outside the pack walls, other than what I have read in the books in the library. I have made a lot of use of the books in our library. They really helped when I finally got my wolf when I turned 18 two months ago. That was the only way that I knew what was about to happen to me when I phased into my wolf for the first time. The level of pain I was in was pretty bad, but now in just two short months, I can phase into my wolf very quickly, and it is painless to phase for me now.
I was alone for my first phase, and that was as expected too. Instead of Mom and Dad having us together for our first shifts, they were both with Reagan and left me behind, I had my first phase alone. My mother the Luna, Cassandra Sullivan, was positive that I would not be given a wolf. The whole pack in fact believed that I was wolfless, as neither she, nor my father, or anyone else in the pack for that matter had ever sensed that I had a wolf. Emerald has hidden her scent from the pack this whole time. When we leave our room and go downstairs, she hides our scent, she hid it when I was finishing my last month at school too. I am more thankful that Emerald did that for me than her being able to heal me from when I had my little “accidents.” I would prefer everyone to think that I have no wolf, as I think I need to get out of the Silver Blade pack. Things are really bad here, and the chances of my mate being here in this pack are pretty slim. Even if he were in this pack, the probability of him rejecting me right off the bat is very high. I get bumped, shoved, tripped, and had my bones broken, more than it should be possible. I am the daughter of the Alpha of this pack, I should be safe here in my own pack, but I am not safe. That is why I am required to stay in my room or the library when I do get permission to go there from Mom. She is nicer to me than my father is, but that isn’t saying very much. She has never taken my side in front of him, in anything in my life.
Dad has never hit me, or physically hurt me. What he does is actually worse, it is all emotional abuse, and it has cut me to my very core on each and every occasion. You would think that I would have learned that fact by now. I honestly should never get hopeful that he might have a change of heart and love me too. For him to see how much I love him, and my mother, and crave their approval. But it never happens, he has never said a kind word to me. He has never taken up for me or supported me, and that fact alone is what hurts the most. He thinks the very worst of me all the time. He is the most important person in my life, the one I look up to the most, and he actually hates me. He treats me worse than anyone else in this stupid pack.
I guess I will never know why, I have asked numerous times, and all I am met with is anger, and then my parents leaving whatever room we were in at the time. They both leave, heading in two separate directions, and neither of them will tell me anything. Whatever the secret is, it is the pack's biggest secret, and that makes me even more nervous about why they hate me so much. My sister hates me too, but she is really smart about how she hides it, faking concern as if she cares. She totally works up my tormenters and then walks away while I call out for help. I learned the real truth of our relationship at fourteen years old. The truth was that I would not be able to trust her, ever again. I was hurt more than I had ever previously been hurt and ended up in the pack hospital with several broken bones and knocked out from hitting the ground so hard.
Reagan was there when it happened, but as I was waking up, I heard the story that she was telling our Dad. The whole thing was a lie. When I was finally able to speak, I did tell Dad what had actually happened, and then he slapped me for lying. I was stunned as he had never hit me before, he just allowed others to hurt me. He immediately took her side of it, not mine, and I actually learned two lessons on that day. The first is just how much Reagan will boldly lie to our parents, or really anyone, to get her way. Second, she started that whole event and never got in trouble for attempting to kill me. She walked right out the door with Dad, giving me a smirk as they left, knowing that Dad totally believed the lies she told. He had broken my heart again, and I swore from that day forward that I was locking him out of my heart. I was never going to hope that he would change, or truly love me, ever again. I can still remember him walking out of my hospital room with his arm around her shoulders murmuring to her about how much he loved her, and her smirking back at me. That was the cherry on top of the sundae, and I decided right then and there that I would not be allowing either of them to catch me unawares, or off guard again.
Mom had given me a little smile before she went to leave my hospital room before stopping at the door and telling me, “I will be back to check on you in the morning. I will have an Omega bring you a book to read tonight.” I watched her as she walked out of the room, leaving me alone with the silence that was suddenly overwhelming and seemed to take over the room. It was at that moment that my heartbreak was complete. A short time later all that could be heard from my room were the sound of my sobs, as I cried myself to sleep. I knew the book would never come, and it didn’t. Even if Mom did manage to remember what she had said to me, the Omegas never really cared for me at all. I was unimportant in this pack, I had no value, a fact that had been drilled into me every single day. No one had to listen to me or fulfill any of my requests. Like my own birthday cake, or at least for them to put both of our names on our birthday cake. Instead every year it was only Reagan's name on the cake, and me not being welcome at my own party. No gifts were ever for me, they were always just for Reagan.
My mom had come back alone to the hospital the following afternoon to get me checked out, and taken back to my room to complete the healing process. I was back in my room that night, with no dinner because I couldn't maneuver the stairs. Goddess forbid someone had to bring food up for me. It was at the 48-hour mark when my mom decided to check on me to see why I hadn't come down to eat any of my meals. They had forgotten that I was not able to use the stairs to get down to the dining room and we had no elevator here at the packhouse. I healed slowly, according to my family, and that was the first time the rumor that I had no wolf, started to spread. It ran rampant, and my dad did nothing to stop it, it actually seemed to please him that I didn’t have a wolf.
I started climbing a tree to hide from whoever was coming and got about 20 feet up from the base of the tree. I picked a spot where there were two strong branches coming out very close together, stretching out from the tree, and got comfortable on the branches. Whoever was coming this way was getting near, and I didn’t want to get caught out of the house. I wasn’t very well known to the whole pack just mainly to the kids that had gone to school with me would really know me, otherwise, they would have to have seen me eating in the dining hall with my parents. I was the Alpha’s daughter, but I was not a valued member of this pack. Telling on me has always resulted in a bonus for whoever told on me to my father. I have had to learn how to overcome this on my own. It has made me very independent over the years, as well as a very good climber. I use the tree outside my window at the packhouse, to climb up and down to get in and out of my room.
From my vantage point, I can see who is coming now and rolled my eyes so hard I almost saw my brain. Goddess, it was Reagan, and she was pulling the arm of a pretty large guy, as she headed toward the grassy bank near my tree. I realized right this moment that I have picked a terrible place to hide. I should have doubled back and then climbed in my window to my room and I would have been safe and sound in my room. Reagan is clearly out with one of her many men, as she was allowed to stay out and do whatever she wanted to. I mean how else could she beat me to finding her mate if she didn’t sleep with all the unmated men in our pack? I rolled my eyes again and then froze when I looked at them again and got a good look at his face. That smell coming off of him was starting to drive me wild, he smelled like freshly baked cinnamon buns, and I was now pissed off. She had come here with the guy that I had a crush on, someone with whom she had never shown any interest before. It was our Beta's son and the guy that I have had a crush on for the last year and a half. I had dreamed of him becoming my mate, and now I am completely disgusted as my twin sister Reagan is about to sleep with my mate, and I had no way to stop her from doing it.
Chapter 2 Unexpected Betrayal
Raven’s POV
“No, don’t stop them, Raven, she has already been sleeping with him for the last few months. This is not the first time, it has been well before he returned to the pack earlier this week. They are together now, dating, and they have both vowed to reject their actual mates to stay together to take over and run this pack. Please, just try to bear it, I will help you get through it. I am glad that you are in a secure location, this may make you pass out” Emerald linked me, and I felt physically sick. How am I supposed to ignore the fact that I had just found my mate, and he was making out with my sister? I don't know if I can just ignore it.
“How do you know this? Did she know that he is my mate? Why can’t I approach him? Maybe he wants me, Emerald. Please let me stop this. He might not know that I am his mate, he may still want me, want us! I don’t want to lose him, Emerald. He may not be aware his true mate is here. Can’t he already smell our scent up here, like I smelled his scent? Are you sure that this is the only way? Please Emerald” I linked her back, and I feel the tears that are already sliding down my face. I have questions, and I need answers. I am miserable and frustrated. I don’t want to give up on my true mate. I know that a true mate is a blessing to you given by the Moon Goddess and she takes the bonds that she puts together very seriously. I know that he is supposed to be a great blessing to me, and I am supposed to be one for him. I am supposed to make him even stronger than he is now. He doesn't even know that I am here, and I do want him. I don’t want to give him up, especially not to my sister Reagan. I don’t know if I can survive this level of betrayal.
“I have seen through my visions who he is, and what will happen. I am so sorry Raven. I know this is painful, and if I could take all your pain from you, I would. I can only bear the brunt of it, but it will be painful to you as well. I am angry about this too, I wanted our mate, they were made just for us both. Apparently, they didn’t want us and decided that it was acceptable to take Reagan as a chosen mate. He wants to accept Reagan so he can become the next Alpha of the Silver Blade pack. Just pay attention and listen to what they say when they talk, it may help you decide what you need to do next. I am truly sorry Raven, but Reagan has been leaving the pack for the last three months and meeting him at a hotel near where he is training. It is Justin Evans, and I know that you have feelings for him, even before you realized that he was your mate. Reagan has decided to focus on him as her chosen mate to be able to take over the pack. She, and your parents, came up with this plan from what I have seen in my visions. I am hiding our scent, so he won’t smell us up here” Emerald told me, and I can’t stop the gasp that erupts from me when I find out that Reagan made up this plan, just to take over the pack. Not because she loves Justin, but because she is a greedy, manipulative she-wolf. I can see Reagan and Justin both tense up on the ground from hearing my gasp, and they both start looking around cautiously to see if they can hear anything else, before going back to making out a few minutes later.
My tears are steadily running down my face as I silently sob in pain that I finally found my mate, and I have already lost him. I have gotten pretty good at crying without making a sound, although I wish I had never had to learn how to do it. I just cannot stand for Reagan to know when she has cut me to the core. I feel my shoulders shaking and I realize that this is it, they have done it. My heart is completely broken knowing that this was planned out to hurt me. Reagan did this because she knew that I liked him, a few months after I turned sixteen years old. She caught me on several occasions sneaking looks at him, I tried to only do it occasionally. I didn’t want to make it obvious at school, I didn't want him to catch me doing it. He graduated the year before us, so I would only be able to see him in the dining hall after that. She knew I had a huge crush on him, probably because he was my mate, and I could already feel the pull toward him.
Why, Goddess, why? Why do I have to lose my mate? Have I not suffered enough in this horrible pack? Why am I continuing to be punished when I have never done anything bad to anyone? I am hurt, so confused as to why I am having to lose my mate, and so very angry right now when my pain truly started. I was not paying attention to them for the last few minutes, and now the pain I felt in my lower belly literally takes my breath away. I looked down at them and was instantly sorry for doing it. I see a sight that I will never be able to forget. My mate, Justin, was pounding into my sister with unbridled desire, and their pleasure was clearly all they cared about. We were not that far away from the packhouse, about a mile, and yet they were so confident in the fact that they would not be getting caught. Neither of them was trying to be quiet about it either. That made me even madder because he is mine, he is not supposed to be doing this, especially not with her. They had to have been getting together like this for a while. They were just kissing each other a few moments ago, how could it progress this quickly? Is this how fast it usually goes when people have sεx?
I tried to hold on, to not lose consciousness and pass out. Emerald had told me to listen to see if they would talk, but why would they hang out talking? Wasn’t their purpose just to come out here and have sεx together? I am totally disgusted with both of them, I knew that she got around. It is a well-known fact in this pack. But I have always heard that Justin was actually waiting for his mate, just like I had been. His waiting on his mate made me even more impressed with him, as girls have been throwing themselves at him for years now. It made the knife drive into me that much farther just knowing that she went out of her way to sleep with him. Even though she had no way of knowing that he was my mate, I know that she did this deliberately to hurt me. She has really succeeded too. I have never been more hurt by her actions than I am today. They are both disgusting to me, and they can have each other, I do not want him anymore if he really likes her, and wants to be with her. The fact that he could really trade the she-wolf that the Goddess gave him to be the Alpha, instead of the Beta position he already had, actually sickened me.
I have heard the mate bond was super strong, it said that in all of the books that I have read in the library. I have no idea how my anger at their betrayal is allowing me to be willing to let him go when he hasn’t even been able to scent me yet. It may be due to the fact that when I close my eyes all I can see is them together, physically joined together, in something that they should never have been doing. The mental picture of him thrvsting into her and the enjoyment that they are both expressing. I am done with him, and her, they can have each other even. I send up a prayer for something bad to happen to them, they deserved to be punished for what they have done. Like the Goddess allowing his di'ck to be ripped off of him in some kind of a tragic sparing accident when he goes back to his training.
Yes, I am angry. If I am being truthful, I am way past angry, and straight into fury right now. Just seeing what he is doing with Reagan, and the sounds that they are making, my stomach is turning. I feel nauseous like I could throw up right now. I lay back against the tree and tried to balance my body across the two branches, as I fan my face and try to fight the urge to throw up. I started praying to the Goddess that they will stop soon. My heart, and body, cannot take this betrayal, or this level of pain. I am so glad that the clothes that I found to change into were darker colors, so they won’t see me in case one of them looks up into the tree. He is now on the bottom and she is really getting into her work if the sounds that she is making now are any indication. If I had found a white T-shirt or bright color, I would have been seen very quickly by them.
I hold the groan of pain in, hoping that they could please stop my anguish. I have never felt this level of pain before, even when I had broken bones. I heard my sister making a loud choking kind of noise. A short time later, Justin made a loud moan himself, before it finally gets quiet, and my pain starts to ease up. I did not want to look down at them, but I cannot seem to stop myself from the punishment, I guess I am a glutton for it. I see Justin cuddling Reagan into him and acting like she was so precious to him, and that hurt almost as bad as seeing them having sεx. He keeps peppering kisses on her shoulder, neck, and the side of her face. Her sigh of real contentment and happiness makes me want to go down and introduce her to Emerald, right before I rip her throat out.
It seems like her vicious plan to hurt me has really worked out great for her. She actually seems to have some feelings for him, or at the very least enjoys having sεx with him. I have never been more jealous of my sister in my life. My perfect sister with her long blonde hair from mom and her deep blue eyes from dad, truly makes her look like a living doll. That is the only nice thing about her. She is the most spiteful person that I know, and she has never been nice to me in her whole life.
Fury now explodes in my chest, as I fully realize what she has done to me. She has tricked a good man into becoming her mate just to try to hurt me and take over this pack. She did this to punish me in the biggest way that she could. She had really put some thought into it, for her to come up with this plan. The worst part was that Reagan and Justin didn’t even know that he was my mate yet. She will know soon, probably tomorrow, as he will eventually catch my scent, I can't avoid him forever. Emerald hides our scent all the time unless we are safely secure in our room. No one ever comes to check on me in my room at the end of the hallway on the Alpha level. I keep my door locked, and there is a room before mine as a room splits me from my parent's room. Reagan has the room at the front of the hallway. We run down one side of the packhouse with a total of 4 rooms. The other side of the hall has four rooms as well. Three belong to the beta couple, one for them, two for their children, and one for important visiting guests. I don’t care at this moment if he does find out that I am his mate. I will not be accepting him as my mate anymore. Just knowing that he was sleeping with someone that he knew wasn’t his mate, just to become the Alpha absolutely disgusts me. Being an Alpha doesn’t make you a good person or make you better than anyone else. It was literally a lot of hard work, putting your pack first unless you really don’t care about your pack. With these two idiots in charge, I am sure that they plan to just get what they wanted out of it, and they will drive it straight into the ground. It is the beginning of the end for the Silver Blade pack.
I cannot figure out what is so wrong with me, why no one apparently wants me. Is there something wrong with me? I mean no one has ever tried to approach me to even ask me out on a date. I am not ugly, far from it. I mean I don’t wear makeup, but I still look nice. I just don't have any makeup. My sister and mom are the only Alpha females that have it here at the pack. My long black hair is always in a ponytail, but it still looks nice. I have a pretty face, long hair, and beautiful green eyes that are truly stunning. I am not bragging, I believe that my eyes are my best feature. I have seen the guys in my class looking at me before they noticed that I had caught them looking at me. They then looked away from me with disgust all over their faces. But I saw them looking at me with approval before they got caught. They were interested in me and then pretended to be disgusted, but why act like that at all? I am tall, 6’0 even, to Reagan’s 5’10”, which also makes her mad. Because she wanted to be able to look down on me, but it never worked out for her. I don’t know why she thinks that she is so much better than me. I think that we both have attributes to be proud of in each of us. But from what I have seen, if you like me, you are going against the rest of the Alpha family, and no one is strong enough to even want to try. She really does hate everything about me, and with the way my parents act, they clearly do too. Her whole goal in life is to make me look bad and become the Luna of this pack. Well, it is done now, she can have freaking have this worthless pack of idiots. Emerald and I will be leaving, and soon.
“I can’t wait for Mom and Dad to announce to the pack that we will be the Alpha and Luna tomorrow. This is something that I have really wanted for the last 8 years. I am so glad you decided that we could be chosen mates, Justin. I am glad that you are willing to lead the Silver Blade pack with me. I have a feeling that my freak of a sister who keeps staring at you is going to be crushed when she finds out that we are together. You dodged a bullet by deciding to accept me as your chosen mate. I know that she has a major crush on you. She would probably try to ask you out or something when she sees that you are back from break. I think we will really be happy together. Raven will be so angry when she finds out that we planned this months ago. I cannot wait for her to find out. I even told Mom to have her sit on the front row for the pack meeting tomorrow, so I can see her face when Dad makes the formal announcement. I am going to put her next to you so it will hurt her more when Dad calls you up on stage. When she realizes that her crush is going to be my mate, she is going to be so jealous of me. I am so going to get a picture of her face when she finds out, as I will want to remember that moment for a long time” I heard Reagan say to him, and I was so choked up I couldn’t hold in the sob of pain that managed to escape. It wasn’t loud, but with werewolf hearing, it was loud enough. I just stayed completely still and prayed that they hadn’t heard me, but Justin started talking when my sob escaped, and they had no reaction, so I think I am safe.
“I have always thought that you were a beautiful she-wolf, Reagan. I am so glad that you came up to my training with your offer, and for us to get extra special time together. If Raven were allowed to move around the pack, I don’t think that she would be missing the fact that she is my mate. I scented her today when I got back to the pack and I confirmed she is my mate. Per our agreement, I don’t mind rejecting her, as I am clearly getting the better sister out of this deal. I would have been embarrassed to have to call that freak of nature my mate” Justin said, and with it, my heart was completely crushed. These two evil people deserved each other, and I will not waste another tear for his betrayal. He “chose” her, so he can freaking keep her. She will never be faithful to him, and he will not ever be able to trust that their children are his either. She was just doing this to ensure that they become the next Alpha and Luna. She is apparently what he wanted, so she can have him. I am thoroughly disgusted by both of them, and I will not allow them to make me sad one more day. I had already decided to get the h*ll out of this horrible pack, and I will not miss the Silver Blade pack, or any of its members, for a second.
Chapter 3 Raven isn't Wolfless
Raven’s POV
“She is your mate? Are you serious? Oh, this is the best” Reagan said as she laughed out in joy at hearing this information. “Justin, why haven’t you mentioned this to me before?” Reagan continued.
“I just found out about it earlier today as I have been gone for my training for the last 3 months. I caught my mate's scent and followed it so I could just go ahead and reject them. I realized it was coming from the Alpha level, and when I went up and it led me straight to her door, it was really faint, but I sensed it. She doesn’t even know about it yet. I am sure that this information is not going to go over well with your parents. They may be upset when they find out. Are they still going to want us to move forward with our plan? Or are they going to want me and Raven to be mates because we are true mates?” Justin asked Reagan. I have to admit, I was interested in her reply as well, but I already suspected what her answer was going to be.
“Oh no, Justin, you will definitely be staying with me. I know Dad is really going to get a kick out of the fact that you and Raven are mates. Mom might feel a little bad for her, but I think that this is great. I could not be happier that her true mate, will become my chosen mate. We will rule the Silver Blade pack together, and it will kill her every day to see us together. It is my pack anyway, it was never going to be hers. Maybe if we are lucky since she doesn’t have a wolf, she won’t be able to scent you, and your rejection might even kill her when you officially do it. That would be the best-case scenario for all of us" Reagan said, and I could tell that Justin was a little shocked at just how hateful she was. Reagan could tell that Justin was not liking this side of her so she quickly changed her attitude and started cooing at Justin, "She doesn’t deserve you, baby, I love you and I want you. Hopefully, you will come to love me too. I was just worried about your bond, I don’t want you falling in love with my sister after we have already mated.” Reagan said to Justin, looking up at him adoringly through her long lashes. I have to admit, she really knows how to work people to get them to do what she wants them to. Her ability to look innocent and pure is without measure, she could have been an actress.
Her changing tactics showed me that he might have been upset at her saying that she wished that I would die from his rejection. She had to do some damage control and then scrambled to bring him back over to her side again. He obviously does not know her well enough to know that he made a genuinely bad decision by literally getting into bed with her as a chosen mate. I guess that he was just focused on becoming the Alpha of the Silver Blade pack. He probably figured himself lucky that Reagan, who is considered to be one of the hottest girls in the pack, offered herself to him. I bet he didn’t hold out for long either, despite them not being mates. She can’t show him who she really is just yet, as they have not marked each other. Once that happens, they are in this fully together, no matter how much he might want to change his mind later on. Even if he did, I won’t be changing mine. I am glad it worked out this way, good riddance to them both, as they are both not worthy of me loving either one of them. They can have each other, and I hope they have a very horrible life together. They both deserve it for what they were planning to do to me.
“How could you possibly know that? She is your twin sister, this could cause a rift in your family. You two have to be close to each other by just being twins. Isn’t she the older twin too? I can’t see this working out in our favor. The people in this pack understand how important a true mate is. They would want the pack to be as strong as it possibly could be, and that would include me taking my true mate, and not a chosen mate” Justin said to Reagan. He is right, your true mate makes you stronger, and that is the main reason that most try to find their true mate. Neither of them knew that this was going to happen, and clearly, it is causing Justin some doubt about what he wanted to do.
“Dad hates Raven. He will be very happy about this. He has never loved her since the day that she was born. Mom might be a little upset, but she will get over it. She and Dad are chosen mates, she gave up her true mate to become the Luna of the Silver Blade pack. She did it herself, and if it is good enough for her, then it is good enough for me to do it as well. We make the perfect couple anyway. We will have strong pups, and our pack will flourish” Reagan said, and I am stunned. I knew my dad was mean, but to hate me, why? What reason could he possibly have for hating me? My parents have told the whole pack numerous times through the years that they were true mates. They are very affectionate with each other in front of the pack. I didn’t even know that they weren’t true mates. What else don’t I know about them?
“I always thought that they were true mates. I didn’t know” Justin said to Reagan, clearly confused about my parents lying to the whole pack. I looked down at them again and wish I hadn’t as she is stroking his chest and then running her hand down his six-pack, and then further down. I had to turn away as I just can’t bear to see her touching my mate. The pain in my heart is overwhelming, and it is making it hard for me to breathe. I want to just cry my eyes out, but I can’t. I am stuck up in this stupid tree, trapped until they decide to go back to the packhouse. Why did I come to my favorite spot, it is ruined for me now. Between Reagan and Justin’s betrayal and finding out that my parents are probably plotting against me too. I can never come back to it, as it will only remind me of the betrayal that they have all planned for me. Even with all I have suffered, I have never hated them, not in all my 18 years, but I do now. My only thoughts now are escaping this pack and finding a place to live in the human world. I have read several books on them, and I believe that I can blend in with them just fine.
“We will do the same thing. You will have to reject Raven first thing in the morning or you can hide from her until after the pack meeting. But you will have to do it where no one else will be able to hear you. Dad is going to tell the pack that we are true mates, so they will fully support us. Dad thinks that it would be a mistake to not have the pack's full support behind us when we go to take it over from my parents” Reagan said, and I am amazed at all the plans that they have kept away from me. Just another thing that shows how much difference there is between Reagan and me. I hear them kissing again and wonder when they plan on leaving the area, don’t they need to get back to the packhouse?
I see where this is going now when I glanced back down at them, and sure enough, the pain comes back, and it is intense. Like I got hit in my stomach repeatedly with a bat. I try to keep myself from passing out, but I can’t, and I feel dizzy before my vision blurs, and I finally passed out. When I come to, I am lying on the ground, and the right side of my body certainly hurts. I felt tingles on my face, and when I open my eyes Justin is there trying to soothe me. I moved back away from him, and my right side lets me know that it is the side I landed on when I fell. I moaned as I struggle to sit up, only to see my sister standing in front of me. At least they took the time to get partially dressed again. I narrow my eyes at Reagan, as she is ecstatic about getting to truly rub all of my misfortune in right now. Justin is getting the opportunity to reject me, so the situation that we are now in is all positive for them. They won’t want anyone to know that they aren’t true mates, and they will now try to strong-arm me into complying with them. But I am not going to go along with whatever convoluted plan that they decide to come up with.
“Raven, why are you out of the house? Are you supposed to be out here? Are you OK? That fall looked like it hurt pretty bad” I hear my sister ask me with an innocent look on her face like she cared about me. She was fully aware of how I am kept a prisoner here at the Silver Blade pack. I really have to get out of here. I needed to check and see how badly I am hurt because I don’t know if I even have time to go pack a bag now. I may be having to leave here with nothing, but I am OK with that. I just need to get the heck out of here. I will figure out what I need to do after I am safely free of Silver Blade.
“Emerald, are you OK? Can we run? Can we make it to the nearest border?” I linked her, ignoring my sister. I don’t ever want to speak to her again.
“I am OK Raven. I am sorry. I was still trying to deal with the residual pain from their first go-round and didn’t realize that they were going to go for a second. I should have assumed, as that is how she is controlling him, with sx. She was his first, and he thinks that she hung the moon in his opinion. He will do whatever she tells him to do. We can run, and I know where the closest border is, so we only have to outrun them for a little bit. We can try to find some clothes on the other side of the border. You can catch them both by surprise when you phase. I am ready to go anyway. He is strong, and could potentially catch us, but since they think you don’t have a wolf, we should be able to get at least a twenty-second head start on them catching them by surprise” Emerald tells me in the link. I am so proud of her, she is hurting, but she only cares about helping me. No matter the pain, we have got to get out of the Silver Blade pack. No matter the cost, I know that she will give her all to get us safely out of this pack.
“Are you ignoring me, Raven? Are you sure you want to do that to me? Fine then, I will just make sure that you get punished for leaving your room. You are not supposed to be out here anyway. I will just let Dad know that you are out here, and he will take care of you” Reagan said with a smirk, and then she started mindlinking. Justin is looking at me with guilt and shame on his face. I can see that he was sorry that I had been an eyewitness to his betrayal. I wanted to make it harder on him, by letting Emerald let our scent out even more, but I was not going to give him any kind of a heads-up that I was fine and making plans to escape. My scent getting stronger could also push his wolf into trying to mark me, and I will not allow him to do that. He has made his choice. He chose her, and I will honor his decision, and let him have her. She comes with a lifetime of deceit and he will not be having the great life that he thought he would be having with her. He just doesn't have any knowledge of the she-wolf that he decided would be better for him, than his own mate. I am sure the irony of me being the true mate, will not be escaping any of us.
“Well, Dad and Mom are on the way with some warriors now, just remember that you wanted this. You didn't follow the rules, and you brought this punishment down on yourself. Dad is going to put you in a cell for leaving the house without permission. Maybe a night in the cells will let you realize that you need to do as you are told” Reagan confidently told me. She was overly cocky, and I can’t wait to make my escape. I got her drift too, she was going to have Dad force me to accept Justin’s rejection while I was being held in the cells. They were going to use this opportunity to make absolutely sure that I fall in line again. I am not going to be sorry to let them know that it is going to be a pipe dream for them. They will not be forcing me into doing anything against my will ever again. I know I need to get out of here before my parents and the warriors show up. It will just be that much harder for me to try to get out of here once they do arrive. I have about three minutes before they show up depending on how long ago she linked them. I also can tell that she was acting like it was my actions that got me in trouble, instead of her telling on me. Like she didn't want to do it but had to do it to try to help me. She is dragging this fake "good sister" cra'ap along, and that is one thing that she has never been.
“Emerald, are you ready to go? I have had enough of my family, and this whole pack. I can’t allow us to be put in a cell, we will be at their mercy, they may even try to kill us now that they have their precious daughter about to take over the pack. We need to get the hll out of here, I am ready for you to take over” I told her. No sooner than I mindlinked her that I was good with heading out now, my parents ran into the glade and immediately phased back into their human side. My dad's face was red with anger, and I know that it will not be good for me if he managed to get his hands on me. Emerald and I would die by his hands, and there might be nothing that we could do to stop it.
"I have got this honey. Don't you worry, Raven. I will make sure we get where we need to be" Emerald told me and then phased in front of them.
I watched the shocked looks appear on everyone's faces before Emerald took off toward the nearest border. We are flying and right in time too. I heard the howl from my father’s approach as we neared the border. He comes out of the trees next to us and changes his direction to the one that we are heading in, as he comes from the side as the rest of the warriors that he brought with him come in from behind, and the other side of us. He is trying to force me to stop, I know what that howl means, and we won’t be stopping. I would rather die than feel this pain ever again. I refuse to watch my sister play house with my mate for the rest of my life. I am done here. They can all rot for all I care now, death would be more welcome than for me to stay at the Silver Blade pack.
Chapter 4 The Worst Surprise Ever
Reagan’s POV
When I led Justin out to the woods, I was just looking for us to be able to have sx and spend some time together and not have to be quiet about it. I never thought that Raven would be out here with us or see us together. I have to say that when she literally fell out of the tree about 30 feet from us, she scared the hll out of me. I hadn’t sensed her here at all. From the surprise on Justin’s face, he didn’t either. He stopped thrvsting immediately, and his passion for me wilted away in less than a minute. As we got quickly dressed, I could see that his wolf was warring with him over Raven. She was lying there, clearly injured as she fell hard from where ever she had been perched. I know that it was not intentional. She had not meant to fall out of the tree, but just that quick a great opportunity fell into my lap. I was not going to miss this chance. I mindlinked dad immediately as I knew it could take him several minutes to get out here. He never even asked me why I was here, but he was furious about Raven being out here when she was forbidden to be in the forest. She was supposed to stay in the packhouse all the time now that we had graduated the month after we turned 18.
I was going to make Justin reject her right now the second Raven woke up. I prayed to the Goddess that the pain of the rejection would kill her. I had tried to kill her once before and it didn’t work out for me. She lived, she only got a little hurt from it. I had really hoped that I would be successful with it. That little bltch just has the best luck. I never got another opportunity to take another shot at it again as mom knew what I had done, but dad fully supported me in it. I have to tell you that I was really happy about his faith and trust in me. Oh, and the fact that he never punished me for taking the shot I did to end her. That is when I knew that it didn't matter what I did to Raven, dad would always take my side in it. The bonus of what I did was the fact that it really hurt Raven when she saw that I was the preferred daughter. She still doesn’t know why, and I am not going to tell her. I like the fact that dad trusted me when he told me what had happened. I will never put her at ease by telling her why dad hates her so much. She deserves it, I am praying that today is the last day that she lives. My life will be perfect without her in it.
FLASHBACK
We were walking back home from school in our 9th-grade year when Raven was suddenly shoved down to the ground. We were about to turn 15 years old, and I had had enough. I needed to get rid of her before we turned eighteen or figure out a way to make sure that the pack came to me, as it was my birthright. I will not rest until I become the Luna of the Silver Blade pack.
“You are disgusting, and my mom said that you shouldn’t even exist. You should have died at birth, and I wish you would have. You are so ugly and don’t belong here, it is clear to all of us that you don’t fit in here” my friend Kristen Sanders said to Raven while she looked down at her in disgust. Kristen was a year older than Raven and me but was in our grade as she didn’t pass the 9th-grade last year and had to repeat the grade. She was a good fighter but wasn’t the brightest she-wolf in the pack. That was why I made her my best friend. She could fight, and would do whatever I told her, no questions asked. No matter what I asked her to do.
“I am not disgusting, you are. Leave me alone” Raven boldly told her. It was a terrible comeback, but she didn't actually even try to come back with a response most of the time. I don't need her getting any ideas that she can't be bullied. That is how I am keeping her down, and I will never let her be comfortable, or feel safe in this pack. Raven got up quickly as she knew better than to stay on the ground for too long, sooner or later she was going to get kicked. Our legs are pretty strong and getting kicked could result in being hurt pretty bad, as it is guaranteed to break a rib or more. I was surprised that Raven even tried to talk back when she knew that she was so outnumbered.
She knew that Kristen and I had been walking together at the back of the group we were in. I know that she saw the smile that I was wearing when she turned to look at who shoved her down. She had to suspect that we had stayed at the back to come up with a plan. She knew that I was behind the rumor that the pack thought that they would be better off without her in it. I saw her looking over at me, and I know that she actually thought that I loved her until right at this moment. I felt happy that I could finally let her know exactly how I really felt about her. I had to keep my feelings hidden for so long, and my mom was worried that Raven would be really hurt if things got out of hand. Mom didn't realize that both Dad and I have been working for years to get us to this point. Mom won't step out to protect her though. Mom knows better than that, as Dad blames her all the time. I then gave Raven a smirk and said, “Kristen is right, Raven. I wish to the Goddess that you had never been never born. I hate you, you are my sister in name only. Mom and Dad love me, and they both hate you, you need to just accept that fact. You might have been born first, but that will never matter, to them, or me. You will never be in charge of the Silver Blade pack or any other. I will make sure of that. You have been nothing but a curse to them their whole lives, and the sooner you are gone from here, the better their relationship will be for it.”
I see Raven shudder and that made my smile grow even bigger. She believed me, she believed that I really did want to kill her. The Silver Blade pack was MY birthright. I am going to be the one that will be in control of it, not her. I wasn’t the one who had proclaimed that the firstborn had all the rights. That is some stupid Werewolf Council cra'ap. I am telling you now that it is complete and utter bullsh*t. I am much better than Raven, in every single way. She is weak, and I will never allow her to have anything. I will take everything away from her before I finally take the pack over. Dad told me that he will help me do it because he will die before he allows her to run Silver Blade. He already has a plan in mind for us to get it done. The werewolf law says that she is supposed to be the next Luna, but the law doesn’t take into account that there are extenuating circumstances with our pack. Dad had already told the pack when we were ten years old, that to be fair whoever found their mate first between us, then they would take over the pack with their mate becoming the new Alpha. Raven had felt that was fair, as she was totally content to wait on her mate. I knew that I had a limited time frame to get it done, and was taking it way more seriously than she was.
Raven suddenly realized that she needed to run home right now and snatched her book bag off the ground while we weren't paying attention. She was a really fast runner, and she really had to be with that target printed on her back. She took off with the group of kids that had grown even larger than before when Kristen and I started up on her. They were right behind her, hot on her heels. She was almost all the way across the bridge when I finally caught up to her and gave her a big shove over the side of the bridge. We were thirty feet up, and I assumed that it would be enough to get it done. But she was almost off the bridge, so the embankment helped her out. She hit numerous rocks on her way down. When she woke up, I was in her hospital room, telling Dad and Mom my version of what had happened because I couldn’t understand why she would “Jump off the bridge like that.”
Raven had never hurt herself before then, and she immediately attempted to tell Dad what had actually happened. Our Dad got madder than I had ever seen him before as he looked at her in fury. I still remember him telling her, “I will always believe Reagan over you. You cannot be trusted Raven, and I will never let you trick me into believing any of your lies” before he left her room with his arm around me. I couldn’t help but smile back at her as I left, because I had bested her, I had won. Dad was on my side and was never going to believe a word out of her mouth. I could tell that he wanted to slap her again over what she had said. Since we were in the pack hospital, there were now witnesses around us from his yelling at her, so he just left it at that. The smirk that I gave her on my way out let her know exactly where we stood, and that she was never going to be safe with me again. I warned all of the kids that had been with us there on the bridge to keep their mouths shut, and Kristen threatened them too. They all told my mom the same story that I told them to give if she ever asked them what happened. I know that Dad knew that I was lying about what had happened, but he didn’t care. I was his little princess, and he would do anything for me, even at the cost of his other daughter.
FLASHBACK ENDS
Raven had broken her arm and leg in that incident. She had hit her head and been knocked unconscious due to her injuries. I took the opportunity to tell the whole pack that I believed that she was wolfless at that time too. Everyone in the pack accepted it as fact. Kristen also helped me spread the word around too. It was actually the truth too because we didn’t get our wolves until we turn 18. No one ever put any thought into the rumor, as the whole pack knew that Raven was not favored by our parents. They always took my side and showed the pack how much they valued me. The whole pack went along with bullying Raven. It was almost too easy to get them to go after her. After we turned 18 and graduated, things were even worse for her, as she was a complete shut-in then. Once our graduation was done, there was no real reason for her to be allowed to leave the packhouse ever again.
I had officially won, she had nothing, and I had everything. I had no idea that things were going to be even more in my favor soon. I was happy enough with where I was. I was allowed to go shopping, date whoever I wanted, and do whatever I wanted as soon as I turned 16. Just before we graduated, Dad called me into his office and spoke with me about seducing the Beta’s son, Justin Evans. Justin was the clear choice to be the future Alpha for Silver Blade. Dad knew that Raven liked Justin and was worried that they might end up being mates. I had noticed it a few times before, but after Dad mentioned it, I could see how she was always glancing over at him.
Dad has always been very observant and has been watching her closely since we both turned seventeen. He was not going to take a chance at her getting control of the pack. He never had any intention of the pack being placed in Raven’s hands. He may have said that he would allow it, but then he started working on making sure that she never had a chance. So, seeing her out here, in the forest was putting her into some very real trouble. I hated that I didn’t get to see her face when she found out that I had snatched her mate right out from under her. Goddess, I wish I had gotten to see her face when she saw us having sεx. That must have been crushing her little heart. Just knowing that she was hurting so bad from my sleeping with Justin that she literally passed out brought me enough joy.
Her ignoring me though really pissed me off, so of course, I needed to tell on her. She didn't need to know that I had already done it and that our parents would be getting her a lot quicker than she expected. I am a little surprised that she woke up after only three minutes after falling out of the tree. She fell from at least 20 feet up, it was a hard fall. She really needed to be punished for leaving her room and being out here anyway. She was going to be disciplined when Mom and Dad got to her. I couldn’t wait for it. This was going to be epic, I was just worried seeing how Justin was now looking at her. He felt bad after I seduced him, as he was trying to wait on his mate. But it had to be done, and believe me, he enjoyed it thoroughly. Men are much easier to control after you make the cvm really hard. I know a lot of tricks and tips, and Justin was putty in my hands. I came around and took care of it for him. He was completely under my control and was really so easy to lead. I convinced him that he was needed as the next leader of the Silver Blade pack. He really did want to be the next Alpha and once I showed him the wonderful world of pleasure, it was all over with, he was mine. But right now, as he looks at Raven lying on the ground, he has concern for her. He clearly cares that she is hurt, and that is going to be a problem.
He needs to reject her the moment she wakes up, and I told him that. She will be defenseless as she just got hurt when she fell out of the tree, and it will just be the best time to strike. She was knocked out when she landed, so he couldn’t do it then as she has to hear it AND accept the rejection. I was pleased to see him nod in agreement to me that he will indeed reject her. I can see his eyes flashing back and forth as his wolf argues with him. His wolf, Lorne, wants her. I can see it, and it is causing me a lot of concern right now. I linked my dad and said, “Come quick to the stream on the north end of the pack Dad. I think Justin is about to accept Raven as his true mate. She is his mate, not me.”
“What! She is Justin’s true mate? How? How does he even know it? We are almost there honey, hold on,” my dad comes back at me yelling as he was woken up so early in the morning. He didn’t even ask why she was out here in the forest. I can tell he is furious, and he said that he would have her taken care of. I knew that he was planning on getting Justin to come down to the cells and have him reject her, and force her to accept it. He wants their bond broken as badly as I do. He can't fall in love with me when he has a mate. So, we have to do something about that, and as soon as possible.
I knew that it would take at least 5 minutes for him to get here, and I started praying that Mom and Dad would get here in time. They have to before Justin loses control, accepts their bond, and tries to mark Raven before they get here. I hear their howls getting nearer and I am so glad that they are almost here. As soon as they arrive I turned to speak to them and when I turn back around to go off on Raven, I get the biggest surprise of my life. How in the h*ll is her wolf so large?
Chapter 5 Surprise, she has a Wolf
Raven’s POV
I waited for my parents, and the warriors to shift back into their human form before I was going to let them in on my little secret. I knew my parents would be wanting to yell at me, for leaving my room and the packhouse, and to do that, they had to be in their human form. I do not have the link with the pack, so they can’t connect with me through the mind link. I know my dad especially will be furious because I am not locked up in my room like they thought I was. They all believed that I did not have a wolf, so I was never included in being bound with the pack. I can’t link with anyone as I was not made a member of the Silver Blade pack, which included being able to use the pack link. Emerald made sure to hide my scent at school, and in the dining room, after we phased so no one ever realized that I could even link. I am really glad for her doing it now, as I had no one that I ever wanted to mindlink with before.
The only exception would have been Justin, who was still staring at me as he and his wolf were having a battle for dominance and control. His wolf had been reaching out, and Emerald kept putting him off and ignoring him. I could tell that she felt bad doing it, but his human side has betrayed us, and we no longer would accept them as our mates. Ignoring her mate hurt her too, but she is committed to us escaping as we both know if we go with them back to the packhouse, it is the...
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