Brandon’s POV
I can hear him before I see him. Good, he is pissed off too. I waited for a minute listening to the threats that he is giving to anyone he can see. This is so unlike him. He is usually so calm and collected. I bet he suspects something now. I am sure his threats are so vicious because he knows his game is all over, and he needs to get the hell out of here before I get here. Too late for him, I am already here. I motion to a guard and tell him to go get me a chair to sit in at Graham's cell. I am not in a hurry, this is going to take a while. I am glad that he is in the far back corner and has extra walls. I just thought of a decorating idea for him. I will have to get some pictures of Cassandra blown up into posters, and put on the walls for him to see what he has lost too. I will make sure that they are just out of reach on that side wall, so he can’t tear them down.
It really is the least I can do for him. I would hate for time to take her away in his memories. I mean that was the start of his evil empire. Taking her away from her original true mate, and conning her into accepting him. From then on, he got worse. Tricking people into deals, and putting hidden clauses into contracts that went by unnoticed, until he needed to deal them a blow. I have heard a lot about things Graham did to other Alphas throughout the years. But the worst thing he ever did was to teach his own child how to do it too. He created the female version of himself that was willing to do literally anything to promote herself and get what she wanted or felt entitled to. That reminds me, we need to have a talk about her too. I need to ask Graham whether or not Reagan knew what he was planning on doing to me and Cheryl or not. As far as I am concerned, she is 15 years past when she should have met the Goddess. I will have no problem backing out of my deal, as clearly, Graham didn’t take our deals seriously, to begin with. He told me he could help me, and instead, his subversive interference cost me a great deal, my mate and son. He had better tread carefully today, or his daughter can be brought right back here, not to live, but for punishment to be administered. Since I know how much he likes to include children in his plans, I think that would only be fair.
The warrior carried the chair down to the cell for me and I am glad that there is a desk sitting there in the corner. I think that it would be a great place to put framed photos of him and Cassandra together to make his new home, more like his old one. I waited to walk into his view as I mindlinked and told Silas to gather up at least 5 framed photos of Graham and Cassandra together and 5 more of just Cassandra for me, and bring them to the cells. He knew I was pissed and immediately sprung up to do it for me.
I then linked Garrett to meet Silas at the entrance to the cells and wait for him to bring him the photos. The ones of Graham and Cassandra together will need to come down here. The ones of just her, are to be removed from their frames and taken into the city for the pictures to be made into the biggest poster size that the place can make. I gave Garrett a few more instructions and then stepped into Graham's view.
He is furious at being in here, and immediately jumped up from his cot and stalks up to the bars, and asked, “Why am I here, Blake? Why would you allow your Gamma to assault me? Haven’t I suffered enough today? Your mate killed mine. I am suffering and in pain. Why would you add to it?”
I noticed that he was not shrieking at me when he spoke like he just did to the guard who took my chair down there for me. He is in full acting mode now and is trying to gain sympathy from me. He is acting pitiful and weak like he used to. It had worked for him too. I believed that he was a weak old man, that was not valuable to me or the pack. He was not made to do anything here. He did what he wanted, when he wanted, and no one messed with him about it. It was disgusting how far I allowed him to go, in MY pack. That comes to a screeching halt today. I am ecstatic to give him that news.
“I am sorry, I will be sure to fill you in on why you are here. It has come to my attention that in your plan to get vengeance on Cheryl and me, you have overstepped. I am just confused as to why Cheryl and I were blamed for what had happened to begin with. We had no possible way to have known that Reagan would be harmed there. I didn’t hurt her, we didn’t instruct anyone to hurt her. I think you misplaced your anger from where it should be and placed it where it shouldn’t have been" I told him. I don’t want him to know that I already know everything. I am going to lie to him and say that we found Cheryl, just to see if he is willing, to tell the truth. I just need to see how far he is willing to take his lies.
“I don’t know what you are talking about Blake. Reagan was attacked at Blood Tracker. I have never blamed you, or Cheryl for any of it. I don’t know why you would even say that to me. I am sorry for the misunderstanding, but I don’t deserve to be in the cells for a lie that someone else told you. I have never done anything to try to hurt you, Blake. I want to help you. I understand the pressures of being Alpha. I have only wanted to help since I arrived here, in thanks to you for protecting us” Graham told me, and I am fine with doing it this way. I needed to work my anger out.
“Well, the problem is, Graham. We managed to find Cheryl, and Kevin, in the city. I had them both brought back here, kicking, and screaming all the way back, as a matter of fact. I spoke to her, and what she said, and what you are saying just doesn’t match up. I have to tell you that she made some really good points while we were sorting this out. It does actually seem like you have been up to no good, Graham. I just came down here to let you know what is going on. I want to be as transparent with you, as you have been with me in this. So what I am going to do, is keep you locked up down here, until the DNA test I took with Kevin comes back. If he isn’t my son, I will let you go. If he is my son, then we are going to have some real problems between us, Graham” I made sure I growled out his name at the end, and let Kona show himself to Graham.
“You know that she cannot be trusted, Blake. How many lies has she told you? I don’t understand why you would even listen to her Blake. I have to say that this is a crazy idea on your part. She could pay someone at the company to lie about the results. I just don’t trust her. She is desperate and willing to do anything to make you believe her Blake. She has killed 3 pack members just today, including my beloved mate, and your girlfriend. She has to be punished. She escaped once, she could escape again. You should put her in the cells, and I will stay in my home. On house arrest. Where would I go? I cannot leave Black Moon. I would be caught by the council, and most likely put to death. I am not a flight risk or a concern. She is. She just literally escaped, she will try again, you need to learn from my years of experience. I am trying to help you right now” Graham told me, and he is good. Under the guise of caring about me, he is twisting her actions around. I have to close my eyes in pain. Seeing him in action, knowing what I now know, makes me see just how I fell for it. He is smooth, and he acts like he really is concerned for you, but it is all incorrect.
“You are already here Graham, and she is not doing well, which is exactly why they were caught. She is in the pack hospital right now and she might not be able to be saved. So I have two warriors on her door, and I cannot take the risk of being brought out to the cells” I told him and it was hard to keep my voice even. I already know that I am telling him the truth here.
She really was not doing well. She probably did have an issue. What if she wrecked? What if they are both dead right now? I started to panic when logic kicks in. No, she is OK, I would have felt it if she died. But I was telling the truth about my suspicions. She really looked worse than normal this morning. I hope she is OK. I hope that when she calms down she realizes that she won’t be able to live without me, and then comes back to me, with Kevin. I have called her phone 20 times to tell her that I will never hurt her again, but all my calls have gone to voicemail, with no answer. I tried to have my men track it, but I hadn’t felt the need to put one on her phone. She rarely left, so I hadn't thought that there was a point to it. There was one already installed on each of the vehicles, so I knew I could find them if I needed to. I see they worked together smoothly as a team to get this done so that they could escape.
“I am sorry, I didn’t realize that she was hurt. I hope she gets better soon. I know the pain of losing your Luna. I am still struggling with it myself as the pain is still fresh. I guess I just want the same freedom as she is getting. I would like to bury Cassandra on our property. That way she always stays with me. I do not think that is asking for much. She cannot stay in cold storage for too long. She will start to decompose, and I have given you nothing but complete loyalty while I have been here. I would like some respect myself here, Blake. I will not go to the hospital to harm Cheryl. I know that I reacted badly before, and made some threats. I just want to go and get my Luna, and take care of her. I will allow you to make the decision of what will happen to Cheryl. I know I am the wronged party, but you are the Alpha. I know you will do the right thing, even if your mate was the one who killed mine. I know that because you are an honorable man, Blake” Graham is laying it on thick and I am going to play his game. He is a liar, but I am interested in seeing what he is actually going to do.
I linked Garrett, and said, “Plans changed. Leave the pictures of them together in my office. Send the warrior to do what I asked. Graham wants to keep lying, and I just want the opportunity to bust him in real life, and him not be able to talk his way out of it. Come and let him out of his cells in about 6 minutes, I just need a little head start on my plans” I broke the link. I opened my eyes to look at Graham. I had closed him so he wouldn’t see me linking anyone. I frowned as if I was thinking about what he had said. I know that he will be coming to kill Cheryl as punishment for killing Cassandra. Plus I can get two birds with one stone. Graham will go to deal with Cheryl first. He will have to call Reagan on his cell phone to tell her what had happened to Cassandra. I can call Aaron to go visit her, tell her the bad news, and see if she had known what was going on. I need to know. If she had, it is good for Aaron, as he has been wanting his kids back, and this was a way to get them back from her. I will let him be the judge of her reaction to his question, he will know if she is lying or not.
“Garrett will be here in 5 minutes. I am OK with you burying Cassandra on your plot of land. I do not have any keys with me. You know it has been over 15 years since we have used the cells, and we just haven’t needed to carry them around with us. He is headed to get them now, and he will be here soon to release you” I told Graham and he was very happy to hear it.
I headed to the hospital and had Marc send two warriors to stand guard at the door. I had the nurse assign the room in her name so he could find it. I was inside and sitting on the couch, waiting for him. I had put pillows under the sheet on the bed and was just playing on my phone when I heard the fight start going on outside the door about 30 minutes later. I had told the warriors to not hurt him badly because I was the one who wanted to. I basically told them to take a fall. From the sounds of it though Graham can still fight, and well. There was no bigger admission of guilt and a nod to all his lying that this moment right here. I could hear him screaming at Cheryl, as he fought with the warriors.
“You bitch, I swear I am going to kill you for killing Cassandra. How dare you do that? You will never leave this hospital alive. You might have saved Kevin, but you won’t be able to save yourself” Graham was still screaming out in rage and fury as he got past the guards, and slammed the door into the wall as he entered the room. His eyes focused solely only on the figure lying in the bed. He launched himself on top of the bed and used his claws to start clawing where Chery’s head would be. His whole intent was to kill her. He is vicious as he keeps clawing at the sheet and pillows until he realizes that there was no blood. He yanks the sheet back and stared at the pillows in shock. The realization that he was played was instant, and he turns to run back out the door, freezing when he sees me standing there.
“You lied, didn’t you?” Graham said, as he already knows the answer.
“I wasn’t the one that started lying, now was I?” I asked him, with the pain that I hid from him earlier coming out.
“Look, Blake. I am sorry for what I did. But this was all your fault. You were the one who overreacted to what Reagan had done. She was wrong for doing it, but you didn’t have to kill her for it. I thought that you would be reasonable, and show some compassion, but you didn’t. You sold her to Aaron to have the worst possible life, even after I paid you to not kill her. You condemned her Blake and she was raped by Michael on her first day there. All because of what Garrett and Marc told him. They hated her, and they plotted against her. They wanted her to be hurt by Michael. Plus Aaron’s Beta had his hands on her like 10 minutes after she arrived on their land. She didn’t even know him. She had been protected and doted on her whole life and you lowered her to the very lowest person in the pack. She had to submit like she was some kind of a whore. She should have had a choice in the matter of who she wanted to sleep with, and you took it all away from her. She was born to be Luna, the highest rank, not some pack slut to provide strong pups for the ranked wolves. It was shameful and embarrassing for her, and for us, but you didn’t care about that at all. Only the fact that Cheryl had some mild pain, and discomfort. She didn’t lose your pup, you could have given Reagan a lesser penalty. It was all in your hands, and instead, you wanted to kill her. What she did was a little bad, but not worthy of a death sentence” Graham told me. He calmed down quickly once he realized that I had set him up.
“It was that bad, Graham. It was. She lied to me and caused me to lash out in anger, but that was because she had drugged me. I had no interest at all in Reagan. I never wanted to sleep with her, so I already knew something was off, but I just thought it was because I was so angry. Garrett and Marc were the ones to find out the evidence of what she had done. They knew I would have never touched her any other way than being drugged up, and they were right. She has a history of this I believe. It hasn’t worked out for her the first time, yet she kept doing it. It took this very punishment to teach her a lesson, and get her to stop. To realize that her actions had consequences. To acknowledge that YOU couldn’t protect her anymore when she went too far. I broke Cheryl’s heart when it happened. I know that Reagan did it, not to become Luna, but because she is an evil, jealous person. She was mad because I picked Cheryl, over her” I told him and the anger on his face spurs me on again.
“Once I saw her, I knew who she was, as did my men. That sex video she did had gone viral, and she should have been embarrassed to have done it in the first place. To have tricked a man who clearly was in love with Raven, who Reagan was pretending to be. Reagan doesn’t care about anyone else by Reagan until she became a mom. Until she trained and got focused on being strong, and being able to protect herself. She is a better person today than the day she arrived. So she may have been a breeder, but she was not a normal breeder. She was well taken care of, she had control of who she slept with after that first incident. We called and checked on her several times. Cheryl and I were horrified too when we found out what had happened there. I will be dealing with Garrett and Marc. They will not be getting a free pass here. I just didn't know the full story of what had happened there really had something to do with them. But you made an absolute choice to decide to hurt me, and my family. All for something we didn't have any part of or a hand in it. We knew nothing of what Garrett and Marc had done. We didn’t ask her to be hurt or participated in it. You were mad at us when you should have been mad at Reagan. This whole thing was started by her, but you are just as delusional as she is, blaming others for your own actions. Grow up and accept responsibility for your own actions.” I stopped speaking and looked back out into the hallway.
My men were all standing there and waiting to cuff Graham and take him back to the cells. The shame on both Garrett's and Marc’s faces was clear. They knew that their actions were the direct result of why we were here right now. I am going to deal with them both. I am honestly thinking of just going to one Beta, and one Gamma, because I need to be able to trust my men to follow my orders, and do their jobs. The Beta is to protect his Luna, he didn't do his job, in fact, he is the main reason we are here now. They both made up lies to get someone dealt with and hurt because they were being petty. They did that without a care in the world, and if it happened to their daughter they would be greatly upset too. I turned back to Graham to finish this.
“I provided you and your family safety and security here at Black Moon. I did it for a few reasons, but the main one was that I was very interested in Cheryl. Without her, I would not have allowed any of you to stay here on my land. You failed as a father, and instead of accepting that, and trying to help your daughter make changes to be a better person. You started a one-man crusade on trying to destroy my mate, my son, and me. Well, I will tell you, you have been successful. You destroyed us all. But your prize will not be the one that you wanted or expected. I plan on passing the same thing you did to Cheryl, back to you. Every day, for the rest of your life, I want you to realize that you are stuck in that cell because of what YOU did, this was all on you. If you took proper care of your wife, daughter, and pack, and were remotely a good Alpha, you wouldn’t have been in this situation. You are a smart businessman, but a bad Alpha. You valued appearances, more than actual substance. You had a good mate, and yet from what I heard out of her own mouth when we spoke last month, you cheated on her for years. She never repaid the favor to you, and I really wish now that she would have. Maybe if she did, you would have realized the harm that you would be doing when you pushed me to be as unscrupulous as you had been. I promise you that you will be getting the same psychological abuse as you dealt me, my mate, and my son. You will not have an hour, day, or week go by where you don’t realize that you, Graham, are the very reason that your mate is dead. You could have moved to Blood Tracker if you were so mad at Cheryl and me. You could have lived with your daughter and grand pups and had a wonderful life. But instead, you decided that this was what you wanted to do. So congratulations on the success you had here at Black Moon. I hope that you remember who I was before Cheryl. Because without her, everyone here could potentially be in danger when Kona finally explodes in anger” I told Graham.
His face is pale and I can see that he finally realizes what he has done. I can see it in his eyes, he doesn’t want to play anymore, now that he knows that his life is not worth living anymore. I bet he would have moved and skipped all his petty vengeance crap now, but it is way too late for that.
“Blake I will give you all of my savings if you allow me to go. I will leave here and go live with Reagan, and I will even take Cassandra there to be buried. I will give you everything I have at this moment if you will just let me go.” Graham asked me. I see the fear in his eyes. It is way too late for that. I knew that he would be trying to buy his way out of it though. He always does, it is like his go-to for everything. I had deliberately not mentioned it to him yet for a reason. I wanted him to have a little hope, a chance of getting out of here alive. Why would I do that, he ruined my life with intent. I have to repay it in kind. But this is going to be the best part as I see him edging toward the door. I mindlinked Garrett, and the doorway was blocked by my men. He can’t seriously think he can run away from this. He wouldn’t make it 300 feet before we caught him. I won't be killing him, that would be too easy. I will never give him the easy way out. He will suffer for the rest of his life if I have anything to say about it.
“Oh yes, I seemed to have forgotten to tell you that we already have possession of all your money. Thank you, Graham, for your thoughtful donation to Black Moon. It was really very generous of you. I will be sure to use your money wisely as I spent it in the future" I told him. I see Graham grab the rail at the end of the bed to keep from falling at the shock of what I just said. He looks like he wants to throw up, and he said, “What are you talking about? I haven’t given you access to my account.”
“You didn’t have to, Graham, we took it earlier, right after you logged in to send the money for Reagan’s new home. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I just can’t find myself willing to lift her banishment. So she won’t be coming here to live at Black Moon. We also changed the password to your account. We run it now. You won’t be leaving the cells ever again, so be sure to look at the moon tonight on your way back to your cell, I heard it is beautiful tonight. Graham, I am only keeping you alive to torment you, your punishment will only be lifted if my mate returns to me, and we both know that she won’t. Oh, but I do have some good news for you, so you won’t think that I don’t care about you. If Aaron asks Reagan if she knew what you were doing, and the answer is yes, you will be seeing her again. I will have her brought back here, and after a time together, I will end her life right in front of you. You really forgot who you were dealing with, Graham. I will not play with you. You are as good as dead in my eyes right now. You better pray to the Goddess each and every day that my mate is willing to come back, or your life will be more horrible than you can even imagine” I told him and watched as my men handcuffed him with the silver cuffs so he couldn’t phase and took him back to the cells.
I don’t feel better, even after letting him know what was going to happen. I only care about one thing. Getting my family to come back to Black Moon. That was it. I will start putting some ads up to try to contact her. I will hire some private detectives and trackers to find her. I will spend all of Graham's money just to get my mate back. No matter what the cost, it is worth it to me to have her back. I cannot live without her.
Running Interference