Rejected, but not Broken
Chapter 74

Unknown POV

I watched them all being trained today. The team that they brought in was actually very impressive. I see that several of them are armed, and we are going to have to think of a way around that as I don’t want my men and women getting hurt over this.

So far, I have only lost 3 of my people, but that was too much. We had actually lost 4 people but one of them was a deliberate choice.

My Beta had gone in the first time around and found some people at a cottage on the outskirts of the pack, near the border.

I made a mistake making him my Beta. At first, he seemed perfect, he followed orders and was a big guy, strong, he was perfect to lead in my absence, but him killing those two Omegas in their home, left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I was glad that someone who was there reported it back to me.

That was unacceptable, we were trying to make a point here about the classes, and he killed innocent people. I was furious and I ended up killing him on the spot when I questioned him about it, and he got rude with me.

I don’t need that kind of follower. I want good people who for whatever reason left their packs because they were abused or mistreated, and I wanted them to be in a safe place.

Right now, we are still living in tents, but I am going to get us registered as a pack, once we get this last little thing settled. It is a matter of principle now for me, and I am glad I am not carrying the pain that I used to.

I hate that they brought these trainers in, but I know why they did it, too many people lost their lives in the last attack. I heard the Luna for Red River had been attacked, and I truly hope that they know it wasn’t us who did it.

The increase in lives lost was totally because of the River Bed pack. When we went in to drop off the latest letter, the Alpha saw us coming and started shooting at us, so we shot back.

That really wasn’t on us, but I guess the letters telling them to call off the union are at least scaring them, not into complying or anything, but at least they know that we are serious.

I have to assume that they think we will be too scared to attack now that the training team is there, but they would be wrong. We always knew that they would eventually bring the team in. I had heard a rumor that Derek rejected his mate, and she is a part of that team, and I wanted to speak with her.

We are almost at the end of what we came here to do, and although I hate the lives lost in this last attack, we stand firm in why we are doing it. There was a purpose in all of this, and I want to relay it to someone who I think will be understanding in the ending of our conflict.

So, I am watching, from high above and waiting for the perfect opportunity to arise. I would like to grab two of them when we can, but I don’t know if the opportunity that will present itself to me or not. I still have friends who inform me of incidents in the packhouses, because if it is one thing that the lower packmembers do, it’s gossip.

So, I heard about Piper slapping the tray out of that female trainer’s hands. Piper has always been easy to lead, as she only cares about two things: her appearance, and what she can get from someone.

She is beautiful, but not bright in any sense of the word. I know she was listening to those other two girls, and they are both terrible people. Heather use to regularly torment that girl trainer the last couple of

years here at Red River.

The other girl Taylor, even I have heard of what a bad person she is, even as an outcast, we still hear about what these Alpha’s children do, which is apparently whatever they freaking want to.

She runs the show at her parent’s pack and there is a new rumor going around that the new female trainer is the long-lost daughter of the Crimson Shadow pack.

So that would make the trainer and Taylor sisters, and I bet that is a tough pill to swallow for the trainer girl. I am looking forward to meeting her and telling her my side of the story. I plan on grabbing her soon, when it is convenient for us, I just need to watch her for a little while, and I know where her parents are buried, so I am sure that she will be going to visit their graves soon.

I plan on grabbing her in the next few days. I know that she is armed, and I don’t want to see her in action, as that could result in my death, so we have gotten some tranquilizer guns so we can take her, and whichever other trainer is there with her out, so we can take her with no lives lost.

We will leave the other person behind so they will be found and taken care of. We won’t have her for long anyway, I just want to get someone who will listen to our side of it first, in a forum where no one else gets hurt. That is the goal.

It is time for the River Bed pack to be trained now and I get into a better position to be in the tree and have a view of the whole training field. I see her come out and she is gorgeous.

I don’t know what in the hell Derek was thinking. He has to be the biggest i***t around to have rejected her. People keep forgetting that the Goddess doesn’t make mistakes, she sets up the right people together.

Only the money-hungry or power-hungry people make the mistake of thinking that they know better than the goddess, and they don’t. They never have and they never will. I see that Derek’s dumb as*s is out there again, and I remember seeing him this morning out there training as well. It hit me that he still wants her.

He still wants the mate that he rejected, and I have to say the realization that occurs to me gives me hope when I didn’t have any. But that means I will have to put my plan of action into play sooner than later then. I know after the show in the dining room that the trainer and Piper probably have no love lost, but I still hold out hope that I can maybe get them together.

Maybe one of my informants who is ready to leave the pack might help me out and get them together where we could try to get them both. I can let the informant into my pack in exchange for them helping me out.

We only have about 230 people, but considering we don’t have a packhouse, that is a good number of people. We are actually growing every day with people who have been mistreated replaceing us and want to be part of a pack that doesn’t hurt them or judge them.

We don’t take in any violent people, or people that have been away from a pack too long as they can become feral and violent, and we don’t want that. We want good people who care for each other and who want a nice, safe place to live and raise their pups.

I see the trainer k!ss another Trainer and they split up. Oh, now this is interesting, they appear to be mates. She got her second chance mate it looks like.

The look on Derek’s face when he saw them k**s looked like he just bit into a lemon and that is priceless. How can he think to take her away from her second chance mate?

That guy is quite a bit bigger than Derek and he looks like an Alpha as well. I am going to have to leave a note behind for sure now. I already knew that Alpha Heath was like a father to her, so I knew I would have to be careful.

But my spy this morning told me that both Alpha Heath and Alpha Wells Black had announced to the red River pack that if anyone hurt the trainers, specifically mentioning that female trainer, they would both be all in for war. I knew that poor girl had a hard time already at that pack, but for them to have to tell them like that, she may have suffered a lot more than I originally thought.

I will have to be truly careful of my actions and make sure the note will calm them down, as I cannot fight off Ever Green and Black Night. Hell, to be totally honest, with my pack only having 110 warriors, might not be able to hold off Red River and River Bed if they decided to come after us. I continue to watch the training, and I have to admit, they are really good at it.

They have separated them into groups, and I see a large number of Omegas in both her group and in one of the male trainers behind her. He smiles a lot and seems harmless, but I know with him being on this team he will become a serious badass in the flip of a dime.

She may be small, but I saw her knock out Heather with a roundhouse kick to the side of her head, and then she knew that piece of st she had her back to was going to attack.

She waited on it, and I heard her talking out to her group, it was almost like she was daring him to do it, and he gave her what she wanted. I know she enjoyed racking him. I almost cheered for her when she did it, as it was totally deserved.

I already know that she will be hard to take out, so I ordered some strong tranquilizer darts so we can shoot her and whoever she is with and then take her, to talk to her.

I will try to get her back here quickly, and I don’t want to dose her with wolfsbane. I just need an hour or two of her time, so she can relay why this all happened.

So, they will know who the bad people in this really are, and then I can get my closure and leave. I am actually looking forward to that the most. I continue to watch the training from my vantage point, and I am more and more impressed with her in particular.

She seems to really care about the people she trains, wants them to be able to defend themselves and I am struck with really how big a moron Derek is, but he didn’t start this ball rolling.

That was actually someone else, but he allowed it to happen because he was greedy, and so was his father. That is the problem with the “elite” or higher-ups.

They think they know so much, and they don’t. Anyone could take their place with the proper training, and funding. They have no humility or compassion, they just take what they want, like Alpha Monty always does. They do not care who they step on to do it either.

They just honestly do not care about anything but what they personally care about, like their clothes, shoes, packs, or image. All those things are not what is important. How we are as a person, our hearts, and our actions. That is what is important, not stuff.

But yet here we are, and I will have one more grand stand before I go ahead and step aside. In the months that I have been doing this I have changed as a person, yes, I have trained a lot, and have got physically stronger, but I am the same person on the inside that I was a year ago. When I was cast aside like trash and left lying in the dirt like I was nothing at all.

Well, I am something, I am a good person with a lot of value, even if others don’t see it at first, I want them to realize that it is me and that I have changed and become someone else, someone better, and I don’t want THEM in my life anymore.

I continue to watch the training going on and decide I can wait for two days to grab the trainer, I think that the packs getting trained is actually a really good thing, that can only help them in the long run, because if my little pack of bandit’s caused them a problem, then Goddess help them if anyone with an actual strong pack comes to attack them.