Reagan’s POV
I have literally been waiting for weeks for this day. Justin still hasn’t touched me, despite my best efforts. But he has been texting his ass off to “Raven” who just happened to be me. I am thoroughly enjoying telling him how I missed him. How I am not treated well by Brandon. Implying that we can get together soon, and he is eating it up. He is absolutely convinced of everything that "Raven" had said to him. It is like every time she shot him down, had not happened. I cannot understand it, she rejected him, and he accepted it. He may not have wanted to, but why was he holding onto her so tightly? Why couldn’t he let her go? I was his mate, I bore his mark despite how it got there, and he belonged to me, not her.
My fury at his continued love for Raven makes me want to hurt him like he hurt me. I always wanted him, he was supposed to be mine now. I forced myself to calm back down. Oh, I will be hurting him, I just have to bide my time. I have been practicing how to speak like Raven. It was not easy, I even went to a voice coach to do the best I could. I would have to say something to him, to be convincing, so I went all out with this. The perfect plan, and the only person who could possibly be hurt by it, is Justin. Well, and Raven too. I know that Brandon had been hurt several years ago, we all knew about it. It was a big scandal at the time. The rumor was all over the place when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I remember it because I had a crush on him, and he was so cute, how could she have done that to him? I had wished he would have been mine, and that pisses me off even more. Raven doesn’t even have to try, the Goddess gives her everything. It just wasn’t right.
Dad was proud of me for this plan, yes, the first couple of tries had flaws in them. He was right, I needed him to help me think through everything. In fact, he was the one who sent me to the voice coach and gave me a few DVDs of us, so the coach could hear how Raven spoke, to get me as close to her voice as I could get. I told the voice coach that I was planning on pranking my twin sister, by looking and sounding like her, and he thought that would be a funny prank. She will wish that it was only going to be a prank on her. Thankfully, our carefully laid plans ended up working out. Cheryl finally got a call last night, and it was from a friend at Black Adder. The girl had heard Raven and Stella in the dining room, talking about their spa day tomorrow, and that is perfect. We even had a time frame on their trip too.
I went ahead and booked the hotel, and got my plans in motion. I wanted Justin to be able to leave our pack with no problems, and not have to explain it to me. So I was going to leave early in the morning, so he can just slip out with no worries. I told him that I had a hair appointment at 10 and then lunch with friends. He knew that meant that I would be home for dinner, so he had plenty of time. I already had my bag packed, and ready to go. There was only one thing I needed to do, and that was the last step. One that I couldn’t do before like the rest of it. I needed to get my stylist to color my hair. We had discussed it, and I told her I just wanted to try it out, but that I wasn’t sure that I wanted it to stay that color. She had a semi-permanent color for me to use for the test. It would work, and I also had some clip extensions put in, as Raven's hair was longer than mine. I had left no room for error, as the penalty for being discovered would result in death for me. But since I left no room for me to be discovered, it was foolproof. There was no chance at all of me being discovered, or involved in it. Once Brandon sees the video of “Raven” in bed with Justin, the “proof” would be in his face, and his anger at Raven will immediately take over.
I don’t think that my precious sister is going to survive this one. This is going to be a good day. I head out with a smile on my face. I have things to do, and while I am getting the temporary color on my hair. My stylist knows that I will be back by 330. She knew that I needed her to remove the extensions, and wash my hair until the original color was back. She doesn’t really care why, as long as I pay her well. I don’t want any proof of my deception coming back home with me. I plan on Justin not even knowing what is going on, if I can swing it, he was pretty familiar with my body at one point. I don’t know if this will work out or not, I am worried that if Justin catches on, he might hurt me before I can get away. But I am committed to this. I am just praying that he is so excited to get his hands on his dream girl, that he doesn’t notice that it is actually me.
Raven and I have a similar build, so I already know that helps, with my hair, extensions, and green contacts, I will be her twin, literally. I am amazed by the transformation when she is done with me. I look beautiful, and if I didn’t need to make sure that I was back to “normal” when I got back to Silver Blade, I might have kept it until it washed out. I did look just like Raven, and with the contacts, I will be Raven. I am so happy, I had already sent the first text from "Raven" when I got to the salon at 945. I was telling Justin about how Brandon had upset me, and that we were fighting. He immediately took the bait. He wanted to comfort me so badly. But I have to wait. I sent another one at 1100 am when I went to the store to grab a box of condoms. I told him about how the fight was over him. He quickly responded back to ask if I still had feelings for him. It was upsetting to see him responding so quickly, and so lovingly to the texts. It hurt my heart, but he thinks it is Raven, and he is completely different in dealing with her than he is me. He barely answers my texts, and he is rarely nice to me. The only good thing to come out of this is going to be getting a good session out of him. I missed him, he was really good, especially since I was his first. Always up for it between us, until he touched her, that was the beginning of the end. I have to wait until I calm down to text him back, that "Raven" still does have feelings for him.
I clenched my steering wheel, and my anger takes over. I swear, it is always Raven messing up everything. She always has, and that is what makes this even sweeter. Raven will end up looking like a slut, as I will make sure this gets out. Justin will take the fall for it. Goddess willing Brandon will end up killing them both. Maybe I can fall into Brandon’s arms for comfort as I lost my mate, as Justin will have betrayed me as well. If I play my cards right, I can just recreate my look for today, and act like I had just come up with it. Maybe I can get him to fall in love with me. Silver Blade is weak, and I wouldn’t mind being the Luna to Black Adder, I was born to be the Luna of a strong pack. That would work out even better. I will keep that part to myself, dad would probably be really offended to hear that. But the best part is I would have gotten rid of the two people that I hate the most, Raven and Justin.
I get to the hotel, change into my other clothes and take my clothes and bag, back out to my car. I also put the other items in the trunk as well. I drove my car to another location, as I can’t take the chance of Justin seeing it. I have a personalized tag, SBLUNA, so he would know instantly that I was here if he saw it. I smile as I think that with luck, it could be changed to BALUNA soon. I walked back and hid my keys and my phone, he will recognize them. I sent my last text asking him to come to my hotel, gave him the room number, and implied that I needed him badly, and implied that I was in danger. The swift response from him made me even angrier, I calmed myself down by telling myself that he needed to be all in on this. That would sell the show for him to be calling my sister's name out passionately. His calling out her name, and the video would be the complete downfall for Raven.
I got the last piece ready. I bought two cameras. They look like adapters that plug in an outlet to charge up your phone. Everyone has them lying around and you just ignore them when you see them. I got two of them, as everything that happens today will be recorded. I will be evidence and proof of Raven’s traitorous act. The second camera was just in case of a problem, or glitch with the first one. I plugged them in on either side of the bed. Cheryl was waiting for me to text her. She was going to bring my laptop, and we were going to copy the video from the SD card into my laptop, and then email it to Brandon. He will have to watch it, just from the title alone, and Raven will be done at that time. It is the perfect plan.
“There is still time to leave. You really don’t need to do this. I don’t think this is going to work” my wolf, Lena, tells me. She is never behind anything that I do. She has no faith at all in me. I rolled my eyes at her.
“That is because you are vicious, you had a perfect life. There was no need for anything that you have done to Raven. She never deserved any of it. Why couldn’t you just be happy with all that you had, this whole thing is just about you being so jealous of her. We are beautiful too, we had a mate that loved us, and being with him was wonderful. You broke my heart rejecting him, I had bonded with his wolf. You just go around destroying things. You are making poor decisions for the both of us, and it isn’t right, or fair” Lena links me back even madder than before.
“Look, you know that this is the last time. I already told you. With this, I will be done for a while. Raven and Justin will be taken care of, and I can find another chosen mate. You will still be able to bond with their wolf. I will pick a good mate for you to be with. Just trust me. I know what I am doing” I linked her back. I don’t want her to get my mind off what needs to be done. The camera is activated by movement, so I am sitting still until he arrives. I told him to meet me here at 1200, as I wanted to give us some time together. I believe that he can go at least twice, I may even be able to get a third time from him if he is really worked up.
I heard a knock at the door at 1150, and I am surprised, he got here really quickly. He must have been speeding his ass off to get here so soon. It is hard to tamper down my anger at his obvious excitement at being able to finally get his hands on my sister. I am so angry at him right now. I want to tell him that it is me, confront him and that he is busted, that ought to show him. But as soon as I open the door, and see him staring at me with so much love in his eyes, I can’t do it, I want him to stare at me like I am the only girl in the world for him. Even if it is because he thinks I am Raven. I care for him and I want him. I want him to fuck the shit out of me like he used to before, and that is my only thought at this time. I stepped back to let him in, and I closed and locked the door after him.
“Are you OK, Raven? I got your message, you aren’t hurt, are you? Brandon didn’t hurt you in your fight right?” Justin asked with a lot of concern for my well-being. I shook my head to the negative, and know that I have to speak, so I cleared my throat and gave a weak version of Raven’s voice. I replied back, “No, he didn’t hurt me, but I was worried about you. My voice is scratchy from all the crying I have been doing lately.” I needed to give him a reason for my sounding different. He accepted it as truth and I held his hand and led him to sit on the side of the bed. I tried to blush, and be shy, but I wasn’t good at it, so I kept looking at the floor, letting my hair fall around my face to block me from him.
“What did you want to talk to me about? If you are not safe, I will go with you. We can leave here and never come back. I wanted to do that anyway, but I was forced back to Silver Blade because of the contract. They were going to hurt my family. I need to tell you that if it weren’t for that fact, I would have never gone along with the contract. I was already trying to get you back. I had left Reagan and was coming to be with you at Blood Walker, or at least attempt to rescue you from Blood Walker. That is what I wanted to tell you” Justin told me. I am so angry right now I can’t look up at him. The cold hard truth that he wanted the pariah of our pack, instead of me hurts me. I wanted him so much, that I chose him out of everyone. For him to say that to me, I can’t even speak I am so mad. So angry that tears start dropping from my eyes as I needed a release of my anger. What I really wanted to do was punch him. But I can’t, I needed this. I needed to be with him, and I needed the video of this.
He sees the tears dropping onto my jeans and gently turns my face toward him as he watches the tears fall. He thinks that "Raven" is crying over the situation with Brandon. Not me crying because he just ripped my heart into pieces. I open my mouth to speak and a sob comes out, and he is clearly very upset. He wraps me up in his arms and starts to speak so soothingly to me, that I get caught up in it. I love being in his arms and having him show me how much he cares for me. If only this could be the life we actually have, instead of the one that we are currently living. He is so different than how he was with me now, that I cannot contain my sobs, and he thinks that something very bad happened to "Raven". His concern is evident, and then he stands up and pulls me up from the bed.
“I will fix this. We can go to your father’s pack. I will do whatever I need to prove to you that I have changed and that I want you to be my mate. As soon as I touched you, I knew the horrible mistake that I had made. It is you in my heart. Please just give me a chance. I will take you to safety, come with me” Justin tells me, and my tears are real. Every word just breaks my heart more. Being called a horrible mistake was a hard thing to hear, but it was his truth. I shook my head and sat back down. I can’t let him take me there, they won’t fall for it, and I would never leave their cells when they figured out what I was up to. I needed him to comfort me. I know he wants to and this shouldn’t be too hard to do. I used a spray to cloak my scent. I came prepared, I just need to get him worked up. It shouldn’t be hard, he hasn’t touched me in almost 2 months.
“No, Justin, I can go there later. I just wanted to see you. That is where I was headed, but dad doesn’t like you very much for rejecting me. I just wanted to be with you for a little while, and get our bond to start strengthening again. I am done with Brandon, he put his hands on me, and I am scared of him now” I told him, trying to play up the timid side. The one that she has always shown until she discovered us together, and that he was her mate. I was still stunned that she was able to phase so quickly and run away like she did. She had a large wolf, and I was not going to piss her off. She would probably like nothing other than to beat me up, I know she will after this. I still haven’t trained, and it would be no fight between us.
I see Justin frown, but when I leaned in towards him, he didn’t back away. I knew he wanted this. He wanted her, and I am just glad that since their bond was broken. He wouldn’t expect to feel the tingles or smell my scent. He is just focused on the wrapping paper, and as far as he is concerned, I AM Raven. He leans toward me and his lips meet mine in a soft kiss. I normally don’t like the slow version, but I am "Raven" right now, and he wants to seduce me. I am all in for it because I know what the result is either way. Justin is about to blow my mind, and I want this. I want every single scrap that he will give me. I will gladly take it and remember today as a precious memory. I wish it could be different, but we will have to break our being chosen mates off after today.
He chose to stay with my sister, he dug in, and wouldn’t change his mind. So I will give him one last precious memory of what he could have had. I will play this part for him, and let him lead. I will allow him to let his fantasy play out, because at the end of the day. He will have people hunting him down. I just realized that I had signed the death for the man who holds my heart. Losing him is going to hurt me too, and I can’t stop the tears from falling from the corners of my eyes, and Justin uses his thumbs to brush them away. We don’t need to speak anymore, because this is our final farewell, and it is bittersweet.
Justin gives in to Temptation