Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter
Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter Chapter 1

Raven's POV

The night sky seems even darker than usual tonight, with just a sliver of the moon shiningdown on us. I silently run through the woods letting my wolf Emerald out tonight. She has beenanxious all day, well really the last few days, and I could tell that she needed to come out for arun. So, we did what we normally do, took a small nap to wait until after Iam to make sure noone would be around, and then headed out for our run. I would always stick to the woods justover the far ridge from my pack, as it is near my favorite stream when I need a little peace. It isalways quietest over on this side of the pack, as it is the closest to our neighbors, the BloodWalker pack. They are our neighbors to the north, but their land only borders ours for abouttwo thousand feet. They have never entered our land, and the whole pack has all been warnednot to trespass onto their land. We were all advised of the dire consequences that would ariseif someone ever did. We would be at war instantly, as we are not friendly neighbors and we donot have a treaty with them. I have heard horror stories about their Alpha. They are a verystrong pack, and the outcome of a war between us would not be favorable to us here at theSilver Blade pack.

Alpha Cole Walker is the Alpha of the Blood Walker pack. He is said to be one of the mostdangerous Alphas in the United States. It is said that he would kill anyone who dared to enterhis packlands uninvited. Due to this fact, most of our pack members studiously avoid this areaaltogether. I take advantage of that and use this area to enjoy my solitude, and what littlefreedom [ can get from the packhouse, by coming here when I do manage to get out. TheGoddess knows that I need it too. I do not know what I ever did to deserve the life I live, yet Ilive it every single day. The blatant hate in the pack member's eyes. The nasty comments andphysical abuse I suffer are bad enough. But I have to say the worst of it is the disrespect andunwarranted anger that the pack has for me. My twin sister, Reagan, on the other hand, is thegolden child of the pack. They all love her unconditionally. She is cherished and appreciated,no matter what she does. They all seem to ignore the fact that she is a horrible and mean she-wolf. I was born first, and with that should come the respect that after I replace my mate, I willofficially be the Luna here, and he will take over as the Alpha of the pack. Yet they all treat heras the next Luna.

“No, you won't Raven. I have already seen it, you know in your heart that we will never be giventhis pack. In fact, you should have listened to me and packed before we got our nap tonight. Ialready know our fate, but you have to take your own steps in this. I cannot tell you what isabout to happen, as what you decide to do tonight will seal out fate. Whether we will live ordie, will all be decided by you” Emerald tells me through our link.

“I know they hate us, for whatever stupid reason. I have known this for a while since I havebeen treated like this from a young child. There was nothing that I could have done to deservethis treatment that I have received, not from my earliest memory until today. There is nothingthat we can do about it, I feel it too Emerald. Something really bad is about to happen, and Iam scared” I linked her back. I can tell that something big is about to happen, and when itdoes, I know that my life will be changed completely.

“Get dressed and hide, I can hear them coming this way. You will need to hide in a tree, but Iwill block our scent from whoever it is to protect us” Emerald tells me, and we took off furtherinto the woods heading away from the packhouse. I head to an area that I know has a changeof clothes for me to wear. Even with the outcome known to her, she doesn't ever want to hurtme. She has been the only good thing to happen to me in my young life, and I love her like asister. I wish she were my sister, instead of Reagan. I got my wolf two months ago when Reaganand I both turned eighteen years old. Emerald is a strong wolf, and she is really smart. She is apretty large wolf too, but I have never been phased and near another wolf to see how muchbigger she will be next to them.

I phased back to human and dressed quickly because whoever it is, they are very close towhere I am now. I won't take the chance of getting hurt again by just standing here. As thefirstborn child of the Alpha of the Silver Blade pack, I really should be able to defend myself.My sister and I are the only children that our parents had. The Goddess never blessed themwith another child, even though they tried for years. My father, Alpha Graham Sullivan, is verystrict with me. I am not allowed to leave my room other than to eat my meals and then returnback to my room again. I am also not allowed to leave our packland for any reason. I havenever even crossed the border of the Sliver Blade packlands in my life. I have always been toldit is for my own protection but never given a reason for why I need the protection. Reagan isnot a prisoner here, she goes to the movies, shopping, on dates, and leaves the pack all thetime. I get her hand-me-down clothes, well at the least clothes that I consider acceptable. Wedo not have the same taste in clothes. I like my butt to be covered, so her dresses and skirtsare all unacceptable. I will take her jeans and t-shirts though. I have no idea what is out there,outside the pack walls, other than what I have read in the books in the library. I have made alot of use of the books in our library. They really helped when I finally got my wolf when Iturned I8 two months ago. That was the only way that I knew what was about to happen to mewhen I phased into my wolf for the first time. The level of pain I was in was pretty bad, but nowin just two short months, I can phase into my wolf very quickly, and it is painless to phase forme now.

I was alone for my first phase, and that was as expected too. Instead of mom and dad havingus together for our first shifts, they were both with Reagan and left me behind. My mother theLuna, Cassandra Sullivan, was positive that I would not be given a wolf. The whole pack in factbelieved that I was wolfless, as neither she, nor my father, or anyone else in the pack for thatmatter had ever sensed that I had a wolf. Emerald has hidden her scent from the pack thiswhole time. When we leave our room and go downstairs, she hides our scent, she hid it when Iwas finishing my last month at school too. I am more thankful that Emerald did that for methan her healing me from when I had my little “accidents” I would prefer everyone to thinkthat I have no wolf, as I think I need to get out of the Silver Blade pack. Things are really badhere, and the chances of my mate being here in this pack are pretty slim. Even if he were inthis pack, the probability of him rejecting me right off the bat is 50/50. I get bumped, shoved,tripped, and bones broken, more than it should be possible for me to have as the daughter ofthe Alpha of this pack. That is why I am required to stay in my room, or the library, when I doget permission to go there from mom. She is nicer to me than my father is, but that isn't sayingvery much. She has never taken my side in front of him, for in anything in my life.

Dad has never hit me, or physically hurt me. What he does is actually worse, it is all emotionalabuse, and it has cut me to my core on each and every occasion. You would think that I wouldhave learned that fact by now. I honestly should never get hopeful that he might have achange of heart and love me too. For him to see how much I love him, and my mother. But itnever happens, he has never said a kind word to me. He has never taken up for or supportedme, and that fact alone is what hurts the most. He thinks the very worst of me all the time. Heis the most important person in my life, the one I look up to the most, and he actually hatesme more than anyone else in this stupid pack.

I guess I will never know why, I have asked numerous times, and all I am met with is anger, andthen my parents leaving whatever room we were in at the time. They both leave, heading intwo separate directions, and neither of them will tell me anything. Whatever the secret is, it isthe pack’s biggest secret, and that makes me even more nervous about why they hate me somuch. My sister hates me too, but she is really smart about how she hides it, faking concern asif she cares. She totally works up my tormenters, and then walks away while I call out for help.I learned the real truth of our relationship at fourteen years old. The truth was that I would notbe able to trust her, ever again. I was hurt more than I had ever previously been hurt andended up in the pack hospital with several broken bones and knocked out from hitting theground so hard.

Reagan was there when it happened, but as I was waking up, I heard the story that she wastelling dad. The whole thing was a lie. When I was finally able to speak, I did tell dad what hadactually happened, and then he slapped me for lying. He immediately took her side of it, notmine, and I actually learned two lessons on that day. The first is just how much Reagan willboldly lie to our parents, or really anyone, to get her way. Second, she started that wholeevent, and never got in trouble for attempting to kill me. She walked right out the door withdad, giving me a smirk as they left, knowing that dad totally believed the lies she told. He hadbroken my heart again, and I swore from that day forward that I was locking him out of myheart. I was never going to hope that he would change, or truly love me, ever again. I can stillremember him walking out of my hospital room with his arm around her shoulders murmuringto her about how much he loved her, and her smirking back at me. That was the cherry on topof the sundae, and I decided right then and there that I would not be allowing either of themto catch me unawares, or off guard again.

Mom had given me a little smile before she went to leave my hospital room before stopping atthe door and telling me, “I will be back to check on you in the morning. I will have an Omegabring you a book to read tonight” I watched her as she walked out of the room, leaving mealone with the silence that was overwhelming, and seemed to take over the room. It was atthat moment that my heartbreak was complete. A short time later all that could be heard frommy room were the sound of my sobs, as I cried myself to sleep. I knew the book would nevercome, and it didn’t. Even if mom did manage to remember what she had said to me, TheOmegas never really cared for me at all. I was unimportant in the pack, as that fact had beendrilled into me every single day. No one had to listen to me or fulfill any of my requests. Likemy own birthday cake, or at least for them to put both of our names on our birthday cake.Instead every year it was only Reagan's name on the cake, and me not allowed to come to theparty. No gifts were ever for me, they were always just for Reagan. My mom had come backalone to the hospital the following afternoon to get me checked out, and to go back to myroom to complete the healing process. I was back in my room that night, with no dinnerbecause I couldn't maneuver the stairs. Goddess forbid someone had to bring food up for me.It was at the 48-hour mark when my mom decided to check on me to see why I hadn't comedown to eat any of my meals. They had forgotten that I was not able to use the stairs to getdown to the dining room and we had no elevator here at the packhouse. I healed slowly,according to my family, and that was the first time the rumor that I had no wolf, started tospread. It ran rampant, and my dad did nothing to stop it, it actually seemed to please himthat I didn’t have a wolf.

I started climbing a tree to hide and got about 20 feet up from the base of the tree. I picked aspot where there were two strong branches coming out very close together, stretching out fromthe tree trunk, and got comfortable on the branches. Whoever was coming their way here arenear, and I didn’t want to get caught out of the house. I wasn't very well known to the wholepack just the kids that had gone to school with me would really know me, otherwise, theywould have to have seen me eating in the dining hall with my parents. I was the Alpha'sdaughter, but I was not a valued member of this pack. Telling on me has always resulted in abonus for whoever told on me to my father. I have had to learn how to overcome this on myown. It has made me very independent over the years, as well as a very good climber. I use thetree outside my window at the packhouse, to climb up and down to get in and out of my room.From my vantage point, I can see who is coming now and rolled my eyes so hard I almost sawmy brain. Goddess, it was Reagan, and she was pulling the arm of a pretty large guy, as sheheaded toward the grassy bank near my tree. I realized right this moment that I have picked aterrible place to hide. I should have doubled back and then climbed in my window to my roomand I would have been safe and sound in my room. Reagan is clearly out with one of her manymen, as she was allowed to stay out and do whatever she wanted to. I mean how else couldshe beat me to replaceing her mate if she didn't sleep with all the unmated men in our pack? Irolled my eyes again and then froze when I looked at them again and got a good look at hisface. That smell coming off of him was starting to drive me wild, he smelled like freshly bakedcinnamon buns, and I was now pissed off. She had come here with the guy that I had a crushon, someone with whom she had never shown any interest in before. It was our Beta’s son andthe guy that I have had a crush on for the last year and a half. I had dreamed of him becomingmy mate, and now I am completely disgusted as my twin sister Reagan is about to sleep withmy mate, and I had no way to stop her from doing it.