Reagan’s POV
That video makes me look terrible. Not only a slut that stole her sister’s mate, but all my bad deeds are right there for all to see. That was never supposed to happen. Raven, and Justin, were both supposed to be dead now, at Brandon’s hands. I don’t know how this failed. Not only failed but it got thrown back into my face. I was the one who was now the one that everyone was talking about. Even here, I cannot go anywhere without whispering starting, and the whole thing started at lunch. We had previously announced to the pack that Justin was my mate, that we were true mates, and that Raven had run off after she tried to take my mate. That was how we covered it up, we twisted what had actually happened. Now they all know the truth, and the looks I am getting are not nice. Plus, I know I was going to replace Justin, but that didn’t mean that I didn’t still want him. Seeing him sitting there holding hands with Raven. I screamed in fury and tossed another figurine across my room. This was NOT the way it was supposed to be.
I did want Justin. I just wanted him to listen to me, and follow my instructions, like he did at first when I took his virginity. He was so easy to command after I introduced him to the pleasure that he could feel. The disgust on his face when he was talking about me. He couldn’t stand me, and he didn’t try to hide it. I may have manipulated him, but he did like it when we first slept together. We had been out for dinner and had a few drinks, to get him relaxed. After that, it was easier to manipulate him into going along with it. I had to get him out of the house that night to try to get him to sleep with me in the woods. He was resisting me in my room, and I figured a change of pace was in order. I didn’t know why at the time, but he was apparently feeling guilty to betray Raven, as he had just scented her. It all fell apart after she fell to the ground. He only had eyes for her, and he refused to do anything for me again. It is always for her, and I swear before I will let her have him, I will kill him myself. She is still very mad at him, I could tell it in the video. Good, I hope she gives him hell.
She was leaning away from him, closer to Brandon. Her body language was stiff. She was uncomfortable, so my little trick with him thinking that I was her, has pissed her off again. I cried for over half an hour after I saw that video, but I got over it. My only focus now is on punishing all three of them, and I was not going to let anything get in my way of that. Whatever I needed to do, I will do. Them being taught a lesson for crossing me is my only goal in life. They have taken everything from me now. I can’t even take my car with me. We will have to take an SUV as my car is only a 2 seater, and I can’t leave the pack. I don’t know exactly what dad is planning, but I have faith in him. His plans usually do work completely. He spends a pretty good amount of time thinking of a way around it, or a problem with it, so he works all the kinks out of it. I guess I need to start doing that as well.
I am pretty much packed, and I have 2 bags. It was hard, sitting in the middle of my room, I had to cry again. So many clothes, shoes, handbags, perfume, and makeup. How can I decide what I will keep and what I will leave behind? Thankfully dad said that I could take another duffel bag, As he was going to have our stuff taken out of here in the SUV and I didn't have to carry it out myself. Dad said that people might notice it, and we needed to get out without being noticed. I know he has a plan, but he has not told any of us what it is yet. I know mom is as stressed as I am over this, but we both have faith in him. He is going to get us to safety, and I believe him when he says that we will all be OK. He packed, and he has two bags with him. I know that he has two parts to the plan and that he will do anything to get us all out of here safely. He just said to be prepared to go when he says that it is time to go.
He took our bags out and loaded them personally, I saw he put them into the SUV that Lisa was driving. She is the most senior of his women, meaning that others have come and gone, but she has stayed. I don’t believe she loves dad but she is above and beyond the others in the group. I cannot stand Kelsey, she was only 5 years older than me, and she went after him deliberately, trying to drive a wedge between him and mom. It was disgusting. I hated her, and I anticipated seeing her out here in the front of the packhouse. He has three girlfriends, and there are three SUVs, but she is not out here. I am surprised. I see Lisa’s mom sitting in the first SUV, and I just realize what happened. A smile crosses my face as I realize that Kelsey messed up, she won't be leaving Silver Blade. She found out today how important my mom is to dad. I have hated her since she caused dad to miss his and mom’s anniversary. It was deliberate on Kelsey’s part. I guess she figured out the hard way who the most important people are to dad, and that is mom and me.
I liked Lisa and her mom, and I was glad that they would be able to get out of here before Alpha Cole arrived. I don’t think that he is after anyone else but me and dad. I know that since Brandon is involved, he will be after Chery and Gamma Silas. They are not coming here to play around. I am sure he will just kick out the worst offenders, and that Raven may have some say in it. This whole thing was just for the benefit of calling us all out to others and telling them what we did. I believe that it would have ended up this way regardless, even if I had left her alone. My actions just probably sped up the process for them to attack us. I don’t like to wait around anyway. She deserved what she got, and she deserves more. I have to stop for now, as I will need to get to a more secure place to hide before I try for her again. I need to make sure that from now on, I go slowly, and do not act in anger. If it is the last thing that I do, I will make sure she dies. I hate her, and I will not allow her to ride off into the sunset when the men that I chose to be mine. If I learned anything from this last plan is that she and I are the same. I can look like her any time I want to.
I had Justin eating out of the palm of my hand because of it, and then when I came out of the bathroom, he was gone. Long gone, and left the damn door open too. I couldn’t figure out what had happened until I was in the bathroom changing back into my clothes again. I saw that with my head tilted he probably saw my mark. Well, I had what I needed to be done anyway, and Cheryl and I got the video out, dad did too, and we waited to hear the news. We knew he made her leave Black Adder, but that was it. Cheryl's friends didn't have any additional information about what had happened. He didn’t hurt her, reject her, or do anything bad to her. I guess I didn’t realize that he had enough control to not punish her for her actions, or what he thought were her actions.
The SUVs all pulled off and left. Ten minutes later they were long gone from the pack. We were just waiting for dad to tell us when. I was thinking after dark, but dad was suddenly insistent that there would be more people coming after dark to keep us from leaving. He was insistent on us walking out of here in broad daylight now. I actually changed into a dark green outfit because I was worried about getting caught. I am a pretty quick runner, but I promise you, if I can get out of this, I am so going to start training. I am scared to death of what is about to happen. My heart rate is high and I know that this is not going to be easy, at all. I have been praying since dad told us that he was going to try to get us out of here.
“Come down and meet me in my office” dad comes through my link and mom and I head down. I see the Peters family heading down with us. Silas entered the office last and secured the door.
“We are leaving now, to keep from causing a panic, or the word getting out, I will need you to all go out in this order. Silas will leave first, he will carry one of the extra bags. He is armed, I am too, and he will take up a position near the area that we are heading to, to check their perimeter. Next, Cassandra and Billie will head out together. Just talk to each other, and act naturally. Follow Silas’s lead into the woods. Then Cheryl and Reagan will do, the same thing just talking naturally. I will be the last one to go. I will make sure no one is watching, or following us. I will need you all to listen to Silas and me while we are out there. This is the last opportunity for us to get away, and if we miss it, we are as good as dead. Do not pass Silas. He will be listening out for patrols, and warriors. Stay at least 50 feet behind him. Once we cross onto their land, we will all need to hurry. The keys are in each of the vehicles, in the pocket behind the driver's seat. Stay silent, and follow us. If we start to run, keep up. This is life and death, they may just try to kill us to get in good with Alpha Cole, or Brandon for us trying to escape” dad said, and my mouth is dry. I have never been so scared in my whole life.
Silas exits out the back of the packhouse with the duffle bag thrown carelessly over his shoulder and just heads into the woods. He looks calm and relaxed. He has been going in and out all day, checking on where the warriors are stationed. He looks like he doesn’t have a care in the world. I don’t know how he did it, I hope we can look just as uncaring when it is our turn. Mom is all in black and she actually looks like a badass or a beautiful spy. She and Billie both have a backpack on. I saw mom packing up some food and water for us earlier. I am sure that is why they are both carrying their backpacks, so we have something to eat in the vehicle. That was smart, and I am proud of my mom. She isn’t just beautiful, she is smart too.
About a minute after Silas entered the forest, mom and Billie took off and they were talking and laughing about something, I was too far away from them to hear what they were saying. They look natural as they head the same way that Silas did. I looked at Cheryl and she is just as surprised that our moms are natural at this too. Like they didn’t have the first problem. Mom even waved at a few people before they disappeared into the forest. It is time, we will need to go soon, and my heart rate is just going crazy. Cheryl seems nervous too, and I am glad that I didn’t have to head out on my own. I think that I would be even more nervous if that had happened. Goddess, please just let this work.
Cheryl and I exit, and she tries cracking a joke, but I am too scared to laugh, and it really wasn’t that funny anyway. Where we are about 300 feet from the forest, I see two girls that I went to school with heading right towards me. From the look on their faces, they are pissed. I wanted to look back towards dad, but we are supposed to just keep walking towards the woods so we do, we kept walking, but they cut us off about 100 feet from the forest.
“Where the hell are you going, Reagan? I know you, you are jumping ship right? Well, we are coming too. You caused this, and if we can’t get away safely, then you can’t either. You trying to make Raven look bad is the whole reason for this war. You picked on your sister all through school, and you still can’t leave her alone. We all saw the video, I watched your moms go into the forest. Since when does Luna Cassandra ever go into the woods? She hasn’t my whole life, and neither have you, so I already know that you guys are up to something, and if you don’t take us with you, I am going to tell the guys on the other side of the gate where you are going” Marianna said. Her friend just nodded in agreement.
“We are not leaving Marianna, we are checking on the perimeter at Blue Moon. You are welcome to join us if you want" I told her. Cheryl nodded in agreement at what I had said. I cannot let them go to tell, we will never be able to escape. I can tell my father is heading our way now, and I continue walking towards the woods with Marianna yelling out after us. I see Dad come up behind her as I entered the tree line and turned around. Dad then pulled out a gun from his bag and I never heard a sound as Marianna dropped, and then her friend as well, before she could run away. Dad just put his gun back in his bag and kept moving. He didn’t have time to fight them or allow them to cause an even bigger scene. So far no one has noticed them, but we need to go now. Cheryl and I took off to go catch back up. Dad is pissed, and it is all over his face, but I mean, they cut us off. We didn’t deviate from the plan. I had no way to know that we would be confronted on our way out.
I see Silas who is about a thousand feet away from us and watching his surroundings carefully. Blue Moon wasn’t a particularly strong pack. They weren’t known to be aggressive, they stayed to themselves. They have been a good neighbor throughout the years, and I have never known of any conflicts between us. But they will have to pay attention to their border. We cannot leave out of our front gate, so we have very few options at our disposal right now. The way dad was talking this may be the toughest part for us. If they allow us to escape through their border then Blood Walker would not be happy. Blood Walker was being cocky with announcing it, and then expecting us to just stand around waiting to die.
That was not going to happen. I want to live, and I will make sure that this isn’t the last they hear of me either. I work my way slowly up toward Silas, dad passes us and I would periodically turn to look behind me to make sure no one is coming up behind us. Cheryl was doing the same thing and we closed ranks getting right on the border as we waited for the go-ahead. Dad and Silas linked us to stay here, as they saw where the two nearest warriors were, and they each set out to take them out. We stood there silently as we waited, nervously, for them to return. The silence seemed to drag on for 30 minutes, but it was actually more like three minutes. All I can hear is my heart beating erratically in my chest. I waited to see if we were about to be surrounded by Blue Moon warriors. I tried to control my breathing, but I was panicking and my mother reached over to touch me. My breathing calmed, and I nodded at her in appreciation. I looked back over my shoulder again back towards the pack. Thankfully, I see dad coming back and taking the bag he had handed mom, back from her for him to carry. I see Silas is coming from the other direction. We head off behind dad, with Silas now bringing up the rear of the group. Dad is moving quickly, and I already know, we need to get there, or you might get left behind.
Branches are hitting me in the face as we continue to run at full speed following dad. I saw the dead warrior that dad took out as we ran past, and I sped up. With their men getting killed, they know they lost two pack members and will be heading this way. They will no doubt kill us now if they find us, I know this for a fact. I could care less about the branches as I speed up even faster now. I will heal, and I cannot wait for us to get to the SUV. I am continually praying that they are there, or at least one of them, and we can all still fit in one of them. We just need at least one SUV to be there. I hope that my faith in Lisa and Madison is not in vain. My breath is now erratic, and I feel like I am going to burst out crying. I have never been so scared, as we all continue to run for our lives. That is what is happening, and it was not a great feeling.
I almost sank to the ground in happiness as we see the two SUVs parked side by side exactly where they needed to be. I stayed quiet, even though I really wanted to scream out in joy that they were there, but it was still not time to celebrate. We still need to make sure that we have the keys, and that they start. Only when we are off of Blue Moon packlands, will we be safe. I throw the door open and hop in the back seat. Leaning over to find the keys. They are exactly where they are supposed to be and I left them there as dad had already started the vehicle when he got in, Dad started backing up as Silas got to his SUV, his wife, and Cheryl was already in it as he was at the back of the group. Dad backed up further for Silas to be able to get out, and lead us out of there. Silas was the one to get us a new place to stay. No one spoke until we were on the road for about ten minutes. My heart was still beating like someone was going to pop up behind us at any moment.
Now that the adrenalin has worn off, I feel completely exhausted. I need a nap, but I am too scared to close my eyes. I need to stay awake, I need to know where we are going. I wish we knew, but just like dad didn’t let Silas completely in on his plan, Silas didn’t either. I guess when you are known to double-cross your partner, that happens. I think it went well. Except for the confrontation, dad didn’t mention anything, so I guess he knew that it wasn’t our fault. He probably heard what she had said to us, and knew that it was about to be a problem. We didn’t have time for any incidents, so although it was shocking that dad shot them, it was necessary. I just pray that we can trust the pack that we land in because we have two strong packs that won’t rest until they find us.
Cleaning out Silver Blade