Reagan’s POV
It took a while to get it done, but I managed to do it. Seeing how hurt Cheryl was made it all worthwhile. I was glad because he can’t take it back now anyway. I managed to slide in there into the office with him. Now that his foot slipped, and it is out in the open, it should be easier the next time. She is not better than me in any way, and this should prove it to her. I got her mate to sleep with me, and Goddess willing if I didn’t get pregnant this time, I will the next time. I will keep after him until I have his child too. I will not allow myself to become a second-class citizen here, all because of that stupid video. I mean the whole reason I changed my look was to put the blame at Raven’s feet, not mine.
I saw Blake was mad when he realized that I was not telling him the truth. I sent up a prayer that he would just have me taken to the cells until he was able to calm down. I know dad would get me out of it, but Blake could be pretty scary. I am quite sure that I am going to be punished, but hopefully, I can talk my way out of it. I mean if he fell for that picture as proof, then he wasn’t as smart as he thought he was, was he? My hair and Cheryl’s hair looked nothing alike. I have been trying and trying to lure him, and it has not worked for me this whole time. I needed to take matters into my own hands, and he ignored everything that I had said to him until I mentioned that Cheryl had cheated on him. That had stopped him cold and gave me the time I needed when I told him that I even had proof. He was crushed and angry, and I was glad that I was there to lead him where I wanted him to go.
The only part that I didn’t, or couldn’t, control, was her being outside the office when we came out. I was hoping that I could have Blake a couple more times to get a baby from him. That way I will still have some clout in the pack, even if Cheryl is the Luna. But no, she was there, to confront me, and ruin everything. My only hope is that he got me pregnant. Cheryl is pissed, and if dad finds out what happened he will be too. I know we have to stay here, but why did she get the Alpha? We, both dad and I, were sure he was going to pick me, out of the two of us, I was the logical choice. Dad was sure of it from how they acted when I first exited the SUV the night we got here. Turns out, it was because they had all seen the video of me and Justin, and had all been stunned to see me in person.
Travis was interested in me, and we had gotten pretty close to having sex, but he left me hanging each time. He cares more about the opinions of the ranked wolves he works with than me. I had to do something. None of them were gonna touch me unless I could get with one of them. Garrett and Marc can’t even stand to look at me so Brady and Travis were my only hope. I have just been sleeping with a few of the best-unmated warriors that I can find. I had to do something, it is boring not being able to leave the pack. No more shopping in stores for anything, I can only shop online. It is ridiculous, plus he won’t let strangers onto our packland, unless they are wanting to join the pack. I mean, this place is boring. Sure I have Wi-Fi and all the movie channels, but I like to go out, see, and be seen. This place is driving me crazy. I miss getting to go out and getting to do what I want.
I thought I had dodged the punishment, but an hour later my two biggest fans showed up and Garrett told dad to send me out of the suite. I knew that face. Dad is pissed, and he knew I did something, but I didn’t have time to tell him. They escorted me down to the cells, and Marc gave me a hard push into the cell.
“Why am I being punished? Your Alpha decided to sleep with me. I cannot force him to do anything, he is over twice my size” I told them.
“You are a disgusting she-wolf. I know that you did something to him because he absolutely cannot stand you. You disgust him too, and he would never choose you voluntarily. I heard the rumors, and so let me tell you this, Reagan. If you think that I won’t tell him in the morning, exactly what you did, think again. We all watched both videos, not just the one you made to try to defame your sister. I know you did something to him, and when it is out of his system, we will decide on your punishment. Tonight, sleeping in this cell is not the punishment. I will tell you right now, that he will deal with you. He does love Cheryl, and if you hurt her, you need to be prepared for the punishment that is coming from the fallout. You need to remember you are no longer in Silver Blade. You are at Black Moon now, and I will take care of you, the same way I took care of Sienna if needed.
I stumbled back away from Garrett and shuddered. He was serious, and from the way he was looking at me right now, I could see it in his eyes. He wanted to kill me, all it would take is Blake to tell him to go ahead and do it. He was right. I had totally forgotten about her, and what happened the first night I was here. Cheryl had stopped her, and my stomach is sinking realizing that dad may have to sit this one out. He might not be able to defend me in this, and that was a first. Dad always got me out of stuff, either with his power, or his money. I am not liking my odds on this right now. Shit, I got angry and acted in haste. I should have left it alone, and just accepted what I could get from the warriors until I could get a ranked wolf. Plus he was right, I had caught Blake in the dining room and got him a second drink. I knew in 15 minutes he would think differently about me. I brought the pills with me, because it was evidence, and I didn’t want to just hand everything to the council to find when they searched my room. Plus, you never know when you need to take control of a situation.
So Garrett was right, I had slipped him something, and the odds of me being punished in the morning grew substantially. I felt sick, and about an hour later I had a visitor. “What do you want, dad?” I asked him. He might be so pissed at me that he refuses to help me out now. Plus, I did it to one of the only people that per him, “Could be trusted to help us if things go south. Do not do anything to the Peters family, Reagan. They are in it with us. Do not do anything that will put any of us at risk.” The memory of his words slamming into me right now. I didn't just mess myself up, I messed up his and mom's relationship with them. It really is a complete mess now.
“What did you do?” my dad asked quietly. He knew that a guard would be close-by.
“Dad, I was mad that he chose Cheryl, and I might have put something in his drink to get him to be with me,” I told him, downplaying the fact that Cheryl felt the betrayal, and had severe pain from it. The whole pack was super excited about the new heir coming. His hissing intake of breath let me know how pissed he was at me.
“Are you crazy, Reagan? Are you? You know what he a capable of, and yet you try to set up a man who was nice enough to house us, and protect us. Are you wanting to die? Because that option could be on the table. He killed Sierra, and she caused less of a problem. Didn’t I tell you to stop, that we are all at their mercy, and the only people we can fully even 80% trust here, are the Peters? I swear the more I see your actions, the more, I am sorry that I didn’t give Raven a better chance. I was a terrible Alpha and father to her, and yet she is bright, respectful, and kind. The complete opposite of you. I don’t know if I can get you out of this, Reagan, and really I don’t even want to this time. I told you a hundred times on the way here, and every day since we have been here, to cool it. That we are done, You just can’t help yourself. Whatever he decides to do to you. I will back him 100%. Maybe with some punishment, you will get it through your head that there really are consequences for your actions” my dad said to me and I am shocked.
“Dad, you can’t just let them kill me. I am your only daughter” I begged him, with tears in my eyes. He can never resist the tears in my eyes. It always works.
“Reagan, You are a spoiled, conniving she-wolf. Your mother was angry about the video with Justin that you came up with. I was desperate because of Cole, and the council, and thought that Brandon and Cole fighting would take the focus off of us. But even if you didn’t learn something about it, I did. Maybe because I am older, wiser, or because I actually give a damn. That video that they did showed me that the Goddess has blessed them, not just Raven and Brandon, but Justin too. Something is going on with them, and it is powerful. There is a reason for it, or the Goddess wouldn’t have given Raven back to Justin again. That kind of backing is hard to fight. We were done when we were running away from Silver Blade. I told you that on our way here. But you were probably not listening to me. Maybe that is why Raven got blessed. She cares, and you don’t. I have failed as a father, so maybe you will learn a hard life lesson now, and make better choices. Because I will not allow you to expose us, now that we are safe. I have to protect my mate, I have protected you over and over, but now it is time for you to experience the consequences” my dad said, and he looked defeated.
I watched him slowly walk away, and head up the stairs out of my sight. I am shocked, he cannot mean that. He is going to let Blake do whatever he wants to me. This will not be good. In the morning he will suspect I did something to him, and I could honestly die from this. That should have never been an option. What if he lets Cheryl choose, that might be better, she was going to most likely go easier on me. I don’t know, that might be wrong too. She was pissed, really pissed, I don’t know if she would give me a pass. We haven’t known each other for that long, but she knows how I am. She cannot allow me to get away with this, there will have to be some real punishment given out. I sat down on the cot, and realization set into me. This cot was filthy, 6 inches up from the floor, and I had no blanket, no mattress. It was disgusting, and smelly in here. The cold from the stone floor rose up to give me a chill. I would have to strip down to phase into my wolf, Lena, to try to stay warm.
“No I am good, I am warm. You never listen to me. I think you need some punishment. I hope you suffer all night” Lena told me through our link, and then blocked me.
Great, I am on my own all night. I called out to the guard that I knew was stationed at the top of the stairs. “What?” he replied back sharply. He didn’t want to have anything to do with me.
“Can I have a blanket?” I asked him.
“Phase, we don’t have blankets,” came his short response.
“I can’t phase,” I told him.
“Not my problem, if you hadn’t tried to affect our Alpha couple, you would be in a nice warm bed. I think you need to be outside and shackled in the rain. It is what you deserve” he told me. Yes, tomorrow will be a bad day too. I tried to sleep but only slept off and on fitfully all night. This treatment is wrong, and I don’t deserve it. I could tell the sun was up, and it was after lunch, but I hadn’t received any food yet, not breakfast, or lunch.
I finally see a guard coming and he put the silver handcuffs on me, but thankfully I was cuffed in the front, so that was much more comfortable. He leads me upstairs, and straight to Blake’s office. If I knew that what I did last night was going to end up like this. I would have never done it, I would have just kept after Travis. I saw Travis' face first when I entered the office, but the second he saw me he looked away. Blake was sitting there with his ranked wolves lined up behind him. Cheryl was in a chair next to him, and I could see that she was trying to pull her hand free of his, even as they sat there. I saw my dad, and Silas in there too. There were also three men I didn’t know standing there as well. One looked a little like Blake, not as handsome, but acceptable. He had two men with him, and they were both looking at me with interest in their eyes. They had to be at least some of his ranked wolves. I felt the power radiating from all three of them.
“So this is Reagan. She is the one I called you about, Aaron. She cannot be trusted, and I will start there. You need to know this from the get-go. You will probably never be able to fully trust her. I had her room searched, and they found this” Garrett steps forward and tossed a small bag of pills onto Blake's desk. “She put something in my drink last night and convinced me that I needed to get back at my beautiful pregnant mate, by sleeping with her, to hurt my mate. I find Reagan unacceptable in every way, so it was not normal behavior on my part, and my men figured out she had been up to something. I do not want her in my pack any longer as she hurt my mate, and me, with her actions. I will tell you that she is wanted, by the council. I want you to be able to make an informed decision here, so I will tell you what I know. Once she is with your pack, she cannot leave. You need to make sure that no one tells on her either. Maybe keep her separated from anyone who might tell the council where she is. Additionally, Alpha Cole from the Blood Walker Pack and Alpha Brandon from the Black Adder Pack are still looking for her, and her group. I had promised them asylum here, but she had cost my mate the trust she previously had in me. Trust that I now have to build back up. I was going to kill Reagan this morning, but her father begged on her behalf. If it ever looks like she will cause you big problems, or bring unwanted attention from the council, or anyone else, you can take any recourse on her that you need to” Blake told that Aaron guy.
Cheryl looked as stunned as I did when the drugs from my room were dropped onto the desk. She looked up at me with anger, and I knew that Blake wouldn’t have to kill me, she would, if she got her hands on me. She knew what I had done, and why he did it now too. She is furious, and after he announced what she had done, and Garrett dropped the baggie on the table, she edged closer to Blake. She started holding his arm, instead of him holding her hand to keep her here against her will like he was at the start. She got a faint smile on her face when he announced that he was going to have me killed for what I had done. She stood up and moved to his lap by the time he had finished speaking. I can see her starting to forgive him already and his large hand immediately going right to her still-flat stomach, to give it a comforting rub. He was much angrier than I anticipated. I have never been able to not talk my way out of anything before. Even if I couldn’t, dad always did.
I see the guy who looks a little like Blake looking at me again, this time with more focus, and suspicion in his eyes. I don’t know what this deal between them is, but surely it can’t be that bad. I mean that all look like good guys, but you really can’t know people, not how they really are, just by looking at them.
Blake’s voice rings out again in the room, “I know she is attractive, and I assure you that you have seen her before if she looks familiar to you. In that hotel room video. She was the star of it, and I know that you have seen it. She is an Alpha, so she can provide you with the strong pups that you were wanting if you do actually want her. You can always have her checked out by your pack doctor. But I know that you wanted to start building your pack up with strong pups. This is your opportunity to do so, she can bear yours, and if your ranked don’t find their mates soon, she can bear some for them too, if you want her. After all, she seems to really enjoy hooking up with people she is not mated to. Her parents will have to go to your pack to visit her, as she will not be allowed to come back to Black Moon ever again. But she will have to stay there, at Blood Tracker pack, for the rest of her life.”
No, that is a fate worse than death. I will be like a slave, or a birthing unit, to them, bearing pup after pup, until they find someone else they want, or they find their own mates. I won’t do it, they can just kill me now. I know that my dad won’t allow them to do this to me. This is disgusting and barbaric. I saw the interest flare up in all three of their eyes when he mentioned the video, and I know that any of these men would take me now in this room if it was acceptable. I really hate having made that video now. I hope my father stops this ridiculous charade, right now. I refuse to comply with this. I will not do this. I choose who I sleep with, no one else does. My dad is saying nothing, so I will beg for forgiveness myself.
“Cheryl, I am so sorry for what I did, and the problems that I caused you. Blake, I am sorry that I drugged you. I just wanted to sleep with you, and I know you wanted to build the pack up. I felt like as a true Alpha, from two Alpha parents, I would provide you with a strong pup. I will never do anything else like this here. I will stay at the house when mom and dad get it built, and not come out unless you tell me I can. But I want to stay here with my parents. I made friends here, and I don’t want to leave” I begged them both.
“You have to be a friend, to have a friend. I was your only friend, up until last night. You were told to stop, and you just can’t do it. I agree with Blake. If they don’t want to take you, the only way that I can start building the trust back is for you to not exist. I am sorry, but you have shown time and again, that you cannot be trusted. I cannot allow you to stay here, waiting to see what you will do next. You could hurt our pup, and I just cannot take that chance” Cheryl said to me.
I see Blake's eyes fly up to look at me at what she said, and I know that I am getting really close to being put to death right now. He loves that pup, and he would kill me right then if he had even thought of me hurting the pup. I looked back over at the three men. They were all fairly attractive. I may not be happy about having pups for each of them, but I will still be alive to try to find a way out of it. Who knows, they may all fall in love with me, and I might end up running the place. They already seemed happy to take me off Blake’s hands now. I gave them a smile, as they are my only hope, and I saw Alpha Aaron give me a wink. I guess I need to get packed. Looks like I am moving again.
All the Right Moves