Graham’s POV
“Please do not kill Reagan, she is all that I have left” I pleaded to Blake.
“Those words seem familiar to me,” Blake said and then pulled out his cell phone to play a recording of a conversation I had with Cheryl several years ago. I never realized that she was smart enough to record our conversation like that. I hear her beg me for the same thing, to spare her child, and I laughed at her. I did the only thing that I could do, “That is not me on that recording. That must have been made up because I didn’t say that” I told Blake.
He nods at me, but his expression shows that he knew that I was going to say that, and that we both knew that I was lying to him. I change tactics, “Look, I am sorry for the problems I caused between you. She loves you and she will forgive you, just give her time. I am willing to let bygones be bygones here and move forward. I am even willing to go live with Reagan at Blood Tracker if you will allow it. I swear to you that I will never come back, or cause you any problems again if you will just let me leave here. I guarantee that you will never see me again” I told him. I have nothing to lose here, and I need to get out of Black Moon. I know if I can’t manage to escape, that I will die here one of these days.
“Oh, Graham, the only way that you will leave here alive is if I take you to Black Adder, or to the council. To be clear you would be going to either place to be put to death and for no other reason. You have no way to barter, and you have no more pull with me. I have confiscated your money, it now all belongs to me. You will not be leaving that cell unless I allow it, and spoiler alert, I will never allow it until my mate tells me that either she or Kevin wants to end you. Then you will be allowed to leave here, for your very last trip” Blake tells me, and I can see that I sorely underestimated what his reaction was going to be to what I did. I honestly thought that he would react in fury and flip if he ever found out. That my judgment against me would be swift. I never expected this to happen. Plus, I had forgotten that Cheryl had indeed saved Reagan, and protected Cassandra that day. I never should have messed with Blake and Cheryl. I should have just focused on Garrett and Marc, and I would not be in this freaking situation right now. I am kicking myself for being an idiot.
“Don’t worry though. I fully plan on punishing Garrett and Marc for their actions too. You are the one that is fully to blame for the position that we are now in. Your choices led us all here. You could have come to me and told me exactly what had happened and what you knew. Instead, you went back to your old ways. Did you forget that your old ways of doing things are exactly how you ended up here? You have made some really bad choices, and you made some bad choices for these she-wolves too. I mean I know that you didn’t twist their arms, but I bet you greased their palms, didn’t you? You gave them a nice story about how Cheryl betrayed me when she never did. How you already had me in hot water, might as well add a few more logs to the fire, right Graham? You broke my world apart and had these women coming to me, drugging me, so I would fall in line with your plan. All so you could get to the next part of your plan. I know you enjoyed seeing how much Cheryl was hurt every day, due to my actions” Blake said to me.
“They were your own actions, I just gave you a little push. Things would have gone a lot faster if you hadn’t resisted me. That slowed me down, plus you giving Kevin no approval, or appreciation at all, that messed me up too. How am I going to get Forest to do what I needed him to when he cannot beat his little brother in a fair fight? That was a serious flaw, as well as getting you to cheat. Who knew you were going to be so resistant to doing it? You should have given in way sooner than you did, Blake. You were so mad about the fact that she had another man’s child, I really thought that you would be falling in line much quicker than you did. Do not forget that you told me that Reagan would be safe there. But she wasn’t, and now she is permanently scarred up for the rest of her life because she wasn’t taken care of” I told them. I can see that they were both upset at me for pointing it out to them. But I refuse to feel guilty about it. We wouldn’t be here now if she would have just been kept safe.
“That was on me, Graham. I didn’t know what Garrett and Marc had done, until well after the incident. Michael admitted to it right before I sentenced them all to death. Clive did try to protect her. Since none of us had a heads up about it, we couldn’t do anything to have prevented it other than Michael himself bringing it up, and he didn’t. I think he had an agenda from the start. After he hurt her intentionally that first day, we separated him away from her. We knew the girls were jealous, but who would have ever thought that they would ignore an Alpha command, just to hurt her? But Michael was the root of the problem. His letting them up to the Alpha floor, and into her room, was the problem. She was protected up on the Alpha floor, and she was always with one of us, the rest of the time. We had the luxury of thinking that she was protected, but it was an illusion. I hate that she was scarred up, but she is strong, smart, and still a beautiful she-wolf. I am proud that she is the mother of my pups” Aaron told me.
“She was perfect, just like her mother, and now she is ruined. You are downplaying what happened to her. Her body has scars all over it, She did tell us, but it hurt us to know she had been attacked. She has to wear long sleeves, and pants all the time now to cover them. It killed me and Cassandra to see what had happened to her. To know how helpless she must have felt at the time. We weren’t there to protect her, we should have been able to protect her. There is nothing that she has done in her life, that I didn’t get her out of, or helped her fix. Knowing that she thought that she was about to die, all because they were jealous of her, haunts me. I cannot leave it alone, she deserved better, a lot better than what she got. You tied my hands and got a lot of money from me, but she should never have been punished like she was. It came at too high of a cost, and still, neither of you really care. My baby almost died, and no one was punished for it” I yelled at them both in fury. Why can’t they understand what I am trying to say here? Reagan is permanently disfigured, and they act like it is nothing.
“Seriously? No one was punished. Are you crazy? I kill the three responsible the next day. I have protected Reagan from each of their families for the last 15 years. How can you stand there and spout that bullshit? I did punish those responsible for hurting Reagan. They died by my hands. I assure you, that they got what was coming to them. I hope that when you finally clue in, you realize how closely this resembles what you just did to Blke and Cheryl yourself. Garrett and Marc were in the background leading Michael. Just like you were in the background leading Blake, and Forest. I cannot wait for the realization to set in just how culpable you trying are in all of this. You are delusional right now, willing to blame others for their actions, but refusing to see that your own actions caused the very consequences that you are suffering from right now. Stop playing a victim, you are the instigator, over and over again. We both got pulled in and helped because you funded us. But you were a terrible Alpha, you left your pack to be torn apart with a war coming, and you ran like a scared dog, with your tail between your legs. I know who you are. You have not learned from your mistakes at all. Blake, I would like to offer my services to come and try to keep you from murdering this piece of shit when you go to punish him. It would be my pleasure to do so” Aaron said.
“Who are you calling a terrible Alpha? I was a great Alpha, and my pack flourished. I knew Cole wasn’t going to hurt them because they were innocent. They were just looking for us, applying pressure on us. I knew they were fine, no one lost their lives. You need to reflect on your own self and what you have done before you stay throwing shade at me, Aaron. I was a great Alpha, and we suffered no loss of life” I told him proudly.
“You mean other than the two young girls who saw you all trying to make a run for it, and you killed them. You mean other than them, right Graham?” Blake interjects, and I am ashamed, I had no idea how he knew about the girls that tried to stop us and wanted to come with us.
“You two were fresh to taking over your packs when I arrived. I helped you both out, I gave you tips. I provided invaluable advice. I hemorrhaged money into both of your packs. Stop acting like I didn’t help you. I helped you two all the time. Your packs are what they are because of me, not you. Both novices and newbies. Neither of you knew anything about running a pack. The only things you two knew were brute force and ignorance” I told them and froze. I just basically called them both idiots to their faces. This is not going to be good for me.
I heard Blake chuckling and I am hoping that means I get a pass for what I just said. “Yea, you helped us, for a little bit, but please don’t insult our intelligence by acting as if you did it out of the goodness of your own heart, we both know you didn’t. You would have to have a heart for that to even work, wouldn’t you, Graham? No, you helped only when making deals favorable to you. You paid to be protected here, and I made that happen for you. You paid to save Reagan, and she was saved from my original thought process of killing her. She isn’t dead, so you got your wish. So many things that we helped you achieve, getting your home built, and well under cost, your land is almost in the center of the pack now with some of the best views we have here. Keeping you alive by hiding you from the council, and two much bigger packs, who are still looking for you after 15 years. You really pissed them off. Just so many things that I helped you with throughout the years, and you were never grateful for anything You are truly an ungrateful piece of shit. I just wanted to come down here to tell you what was about to happen. Clearly, it was not something that you were happy to hear” Blake told me, with a smirk.
“Blake, look, I am not trying to piss you off. I just wanted to ask about getting into a better cell. Or at the very least this one was cleaned up a little, so it will be less disgusting. I also would like a new mattress as well and better food. I have helped to build this pack up, it has more than doubled in the land you own now and pack members. I put a security perimeter all the way around it and helped to keep the pack members safe for the last 15 years. Frankly, I believe that I deserve better accommodations than this. You have my money now, so what would be the harm in getting my cell to be cleaner, especially if I am supposed to be staying here for the next 7 years” I told him, hoping that he would be willing to at least help with the food for me. I can manage if I just got better food and a new mattress. He had just given me the pillow. I was asking for more, so even if I just got half of it, I would consider it to be successful.
“Graham, I just told you, things will not be getting better for you. Not until the Goddess herself takes you home. You will not be getting better accommodations than you have now. You really must be crazy, or just refusing to listen to reason. We just went over this, unless my mate and son are willing to return to me, you will be getting punished. In fact, I can assure you that your cell will be getting a lot bloodier in the near future. Your punishment is actually going to start tonight. That was the main reason for us coming down here. The second reason was to let you know about what Reagan was facing at Blood Tracker. I will say that I am being generous with your money, I mean my money now already. I will be helping them out by building Blood Tracker the same wall I have. It doesn’t really help with vampires at the moment, but it is a great deterrent for rogues” Blake tells me. I am already anticipating that whatever is starting tonight is going to be bad. I can feel it in my stomach.
The she-wolves can feel it too. I was threatened, and they stayed quiet because they were scared. They didn’t want to bring the focus onto them and just listened quietly to us speaking. It was a smart move, but if they were down here, then Blake already knew their involvement with me, and exactly what we had done. I can hear the whispering starting. Every one of them is scared and I can scent the fear that is starting to spread from their cells down to me. I swear he could question them now, and they would probably sell their own mother to a demon right now, to try to get out of their punishment. But even though he can smell their fear too, he asks them nothing.
He and Aaron stand there and speak lowly. Aaron looks like he feels bad, but Blake is fine, almost happy with whatever he is waiting to say, or do. “Well, Graham, we have to go, but in an effort for you to feel included in the group, I will get the conversation started for you all. Please do not blame me for what is about to happen to you, ladies. I needed to come up with something good, and if my mate hadn’t killed her, Kara would be right here with you. You wanted to be with me and hurt my mate. Well, you got what you wanted. You willingly went along with Graham’s plans and probably even got some money from him for doing it. I hope the cost of me losing my mate was worth whatever you got from both Graham and me from it. I am disgusted with your behavior and just sickened with what you were all willing to do to hurt my mate and me. This pack is about to change, and you will all be noted, along with Graham here, and Kara, as being the reasons for it” Blake tells them.
“I am sorry. I just wanted to be with you Alpha. I have had feelings for you for a long time. If you would just give me a chance, I will be glad to take Luna Cheryl’s place. Even if you don’t want to make me Luna, I would still be willing to do it, for you. Because I love you and want to be with you, even if you don’t love me back” one of the she-wolves said to him. She knows that whatever he has cooked up, will be very unpleasant for them all and is trying to keep it from happening to her. She can hang it up, he is not going to listen to her or change his mind. I see now what he is doing.
I see that I will be having a very unpleasant night, or nights until what he is planning to do to them comes around. He moved them close to me so I can suffer with them bitching and griping about it being my fault. Goddess this is going go to be a nightmare. Blake was not joking when he said that it is going to start tonight. I cannot imagine what he will be doing to them. Whatever it is, I bet it will be done in front of the whole pack here to see, so they all know better than to do anything else to him. He is going to make examples out of them, and it is going to be bad, really bad from the anger I feel coming off of him. I was suddenly a lot more worried about what he had said to me, he is going to make me suffer more than them for getting this going. He is going to make me bear the brunt of it, and from the sadistic smile on his face, he is WAY past mad right now. He is finally letting us feel his emotions, and he must have worked hard to hide them from us all. It is going to be really bad for each of us, the girls included.
“Wait, he paid us to do this. It was all his fault. He should bear the bulk of the punishment for it. Plus, you were the one who told us that she had cheated on you, Alpha Blake. We were all just trying to comfort and support you. We all thought she had done what you said, we had no way to know that in our helping you get back at Luna Cheryl, we were punishing an innocent woman” another woman spoke up, and it is almost laughable how they are turning on me so quickly now.
I barely had to ask any of them if they wanted to get with Blake. They were 100% on board with whatever plan I had in mind. He never gave any of them the time of day before and they all considered him to be the best of the best in the pack. Funny, how now that a punishment is coming, they all want to pass all of the blame to just me. They have all been very active in the plan for over the last 6 months. Yea, it was all me. I wish they realized that he didn't believe them either. I hope whatever he has come up with is just as bad as these women are. Because they deserve it for all the crap they are spouting about it just being me needing to be punished. It wasn’t just me, that did wrong. They ALL wanted him, I overheard them talking as they watched him train his men. They kind of fell into my lap, but they are not innocent, by any means. They drugged their Alpha, to have sex with him. Did I provide the equipment needed to get him to where he would accept them, yea, I did, and I will accept the punishment that I earned for doing it. But don't act like I twisted your arm into it, that is a complete lie.
“Let’s just say that you ladies will be helping us rid ourselves of some nasty bloodsuckers that won’t take no for an answer,” Blake told them, and even I was horrified at their punishment. There is no way that they will be able to live through it. I can guarantee then that their last moments will be bad. I cannot think of a worse punishment. I realize now that I had no idea the extent that Blake will go to, to pay me back. I have to sit down, I am stunned and terrified to find out what he will end up doing to me now. My hope of being killed quickly is completely gone now. I know now that whatever Blake comes up with for me, will be much, much worse. I dread to even hear what it will be.
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