Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 102

Gabi’s POV

Dark Savage Pack

I am so proud of Cassidy for doing that. I am also so proud of Peyton for saving her earlier tonight. Cassidy has been through so much because of that jerk, and she didn’t even flinch at the pain of accepting his rejection. I remember that pain, it takes your breath away from it. It makes you feel like you were dying from it. The bond was made to encourage the pairing of two souls that the Goddess felt were highly compatible. Honestly, some people don’t deserve to have a mate with how they act. The pain they cause others for whatever reason; wanting someone with a higher rank, loving someone else, to make a deal with another pack. None of those reasons are reasons to lose your true mate. I am not condoning her actions at all but speaking as a woman who had to deal with rejection from my true mate myself, I cannot imagine what he put her through. She just stood there, and never even moved. I hope he is really hurting from the loss of his mate. I hope that the Goddess gave him extra pain because of how he treated her.

I am glad that I never had to experience what all Cassidy has had to endure. Jasper’s marking a chosen mate, not once but twice. How much nerve did this jerk have? I wish she had a place to go and would have rejected him and left this pack. I am sure seeing him on a daily basis hurt her to the core. Every time that he betrayed their bond, told the pack that he had found his “mate” when it was just a chosen, and not a true one. The fact that he took her gift from the Goddess away from her, and gave it to two other she-wolves, had to have been so painful to her. Nothing shows a lack of caring like what he did to her. I hope he gets a death sentence, and I hope that the Goddess takes care of him when she gets him back. He is a bad Alpha, and he should have had his title stripped away from him a long time ago.

I was happy to see him get taken away in handcuffs, and that he was instantly weaker from the rejection, and again when his powers got stripped. I was also glad that in his trial they would be bringing up his sending several of his men to trespass on Ever Green’s packlands to spy on Peyton. Plus, the fact that he shot Heath, for no reason, on his own land. It was disgusting and disgraceful, and I am pretty sure that the trial will be fast-tracked. They will need to show all the other Alpha’s that you can’t just do what you want to. That we all need to follow werewolf law, and not just the law’s that we want to. I am glad that Peyton won’t have to look over her shoulder all the time now. That she won’t just be captive at Ever Green, she can go out with friends to the mall, or grab a meal and not be fearful, just like a normal girl.

I fell back as we headed back to the packhouse, I wanted to speak privately with Council Member, Teresa Phillips. I was glad that our men and the King’s personal guard will be on duty in the cells tonight. We are leaving first thing in the morning, and I didn’t want Jasper to con his way out of his cell and disappear before he could be taken to a more secure location. Tanner gave me a quick k**s and headed up to our room to get packed, we can’t get out of here fast enough. Teresa smiled at me and slowed her pace as well, and when we got closer to the packhouse, we entered the rose garden to walk around slowly looking at this beautiful area.

“What did you want to talk to me about Gabi?” Teresa asked me before leaning down to smell a particularly large fuchsia bloom. It was gorgeous and begged to be cut and taken indoors for as many to see as possible before it withered away on the stem.

“I just wanted to make sure that Cassidy didn’t need anyone else to make a statement for her, or in her defense. I feel like whatever I can do to help her out, she has really been given a hard time for over a decade, I don’t know how she managed to not completely lose her sanity. Is she really going to be able to go to Ever Green and be free?” I said to Teresa as I turned to look at her.

“I remembered that you had been rejected too, Gabi. I am familiar with the pain of that myself. As the only woman on the council, I sometimes feel like there should be more of us. To increase the council to seven members and allow more women who understand what she-wolves go through, to be there to represent the women’s side of things. It is usually high-ranked wolves who do the rejecting, and they don’t feel the same type of pain that we do sometimes. The men on the Council don’t really understand the pain that an Omega goes through. I have to explain it to them, and since none of them have been rejected or understand the pain and emotional distress that goes with it, I feel like I am losing an uphill battle. I can usually explain it well enough for the men to be able to make an informed vote, and get them to understand the basics of it. But really, unless it is something that you have experienced, they have no idea of the pain that comes with it. She will be fine, Gabi. I have spent numerous years conducting interviews, and getting statements, so the men on the Council can get into the proper mindset to be able to even make that important and well-informed decision. We have had about 10 reported cases of couples being mated and choosing to mark a chosen mate, with the bond intact. All of the women involved in it were lower-ranked wolves. We have interviewed six of the ten of them. Four of the women died, because they didn’t want to fight through it, and probably died of a broken heart. Two of the women did not want to be interviewed or recorded, but they finally agreed when they realized that the reason that we needed it was for the men to know what that felt like” Teresa told me, she was speaking softly, and continue to move down and smell the roses.

We exited the garden, and we both looked up at the night sky. It was a beautiful night, and the smell of the roses around us was calming. It was a beautiful and well-loved garden. We could see Cassidy’s handiwork all around us. We could tell that the vegetable and flower gardens were her pride and joy. The poisonous plants had all been taken up and burned. We didn’t want to take any chances of anything like this happening here again. It was nice to just get to stand there and take a minute to calm down and get recharged. I have had to do this before. Sometimes, especially when we were dealing with a lot I enjoyed getting to come out to the garden at my pack and decompress. It is needed to try to maintain my mental health. I really enjoy nature, I doubt it is just because of me being a werewolf, but it might be a factor in it. We stand there in peaceful silence for a little while before I said to Teresa, “I am glad that you are on the Council. It brings me comfort to know that you are able to represent us and let the men on the Council be able to understand things that they have not experienced that way. It brings me more confidence in their decisions.”

“It is because of the research on those ladies who have had these terribly hard experiences, being able to speak on what, and how, they felt when it happened to them. I know that it is a bad situation every time I go out to do the interview, but that is what allows the Council to fully understand what these ladies went through. I think that Cassidy is incredibly strong, and she must have just been out of her mind at the time. I cannot begin to imagine how much pain, grief, and despair Cassidy had to have been dealing with at that time. I have never heard of any she-wolf having to deal with it twice, in all my years. I honestly didn’t think that it could be survived. It is inconceivable that she is as highly functioning as she is. I think that the Goddess has plans for her, as she should have been dead with what all Jasper had done to her. I will make sure to add those charges in for him as well. I can guarantee that he will get the death penalty because I will be studying the law book on the way to your pack tomorrow to make sure that I tack on as many charges as I can for him. He should expect it, I am known for being a stickler for the rules” Teresa told me, and I nod at her. I am glad that she is on our side. I agree with what she said, I really hope that she can get more women on the Council. Even if the two potential council members result in only one of them being a woman, that is still good, and more than we have right now. I am also glad that Jasper will probably be put to death for all the chaos he has caused both Peyton and Cassidy, as well as Alpha James, and everyone else’s lives he changed by being greedy.

“Yes, I will be glad to get back to my pack in the morning. I am glad that you are both coming. I want to get my other bonus daughter safe as well. It has been a very stressful month, and I just want things back to normal, well, as normal as it usually is” I told her. We head up to go to bed, and Tanner waited for me to get there so I could shower with him. I am thankful for him every day, and I am glad that our passion for each other has not waned. I still love him so very much. We sleep well in each other’s arms, excited about getting to go home in the morning, and I sleep surprisingly well.

We are all in the kitchen at 630 in the morning all packed up and ready to go. I need my coffee in the morning, just like Heath. I smiled at Jasper as he is lead to the vehicle to go back to the Royal Knight pack, with Stephanie right behind him whining about the fact that she was going to be punished for her theft. She could not have really thought that we were just going to let her take all that money and do nothing right? The four warriors having to ride with them all looked at each other and shook their heads. They are not looking forward to this. I already know that they will be having a hard time on this almost 2-hour ride. I see the driver’s head snap up and look back towards King Sebastian, who nodded at him, and then all four warriors got happier.

“What happened?” I asked King Sebastian.

“I know that both the prisoners are both highly annoying. The two men who had to do the guard duty for them last night are riding back home in the SUV with us. Even though the prisoners had ended up sleeping most of the night, they still had to listen to them griping for several hours. So, I decided that I will let all 6 of the men get a $500 bonus for having to deal with them. I am sure the ride back will be pretty bad, so that is the least I could do for my men. I know just how bad that trip back is going to be, and I am really glad that I will not be in the SUV with them. Also, I figured that I could go back with you today, as you might need me there with the Council Members. We can stop by my pack to drop the prisoners off, as well as my family, before heading back to your pack. I think that I might be needed to get this settled for you, and if any problems arose from my friend Vincent or his family” King Sebastian told me, and I nodded in agreement, that is a great idea.

I hadn’t spoken for long last night to Dawson, but things are coming to a head there. Anna and her friends have been trying to lay low and were asking about Sloan and where she was yesterday. They are not able to get up to the Alpha floor, so Dawson and Sloan are still safe right now. Those girls are definitely making plans and I was praying for Sloan’s safety last night. The only good news that we got was that Luna Meghan was still supposed to be delivered tomorrow at 2 pm. We also got a little bad news, since we had to pull back while Tanner and I came to help rescue Peyton, we also had to back off on trying to find Brandi. No one knows when we will be there tomorrow, so we will let that come as a surprise to the pack. I will give a 10-minute heads-up to Dawson before we arrive there, so he and Sloan can let everyone know exactly when we will arrive. Then we will put our plan into action.

Hopefully, Anna will be so anxious to get this over with that she will just put whatever plan they had cooked up into motion at that time. Heath, Percy, Peyton, and Jerry are going to come with us. Jerry needed to come to see B***d Rose, and how our pack was set up, and to get the men coming to B***d Rose as their new home. It is hard coming into a new pack, and it will help them out for him to be there while they start to settle in. Aubrey, his mate, will be going back to Ever Green for her safety. She will go with the rest of our new members, and they will pull off from our convey after we stop at Royal Knight. Everything is planned out, and frankly, I am really glad that Peyton is coming just in case Sloan needs to be healed. I worry about both of my bonus daughters and don’t want anything to happen to either of them.

We get on the road and Heath is riding up front with Tanner, Jerry is in the middle with me, and Percy and Peyton are in the last row. We are all going over the plan one more time to make sure that there is no chance of something unexpected happening. We have planned this out carefully with Vincent, Dawson, and Sloan. The witches are ready to go and want to get this over with too. It is impossible for any plan to be perfect, but as long as no one in our pack gets hurt, it will be a win. I do not count Anna and her friends in with our pack members. Once they colluded against their future Luna, as far as I am considered at that point, they were no longer a pack member. I made a promise to the pack to serve and protect each one, but this goes back to the werewolf laws. Sloan is Dawson’s mate, and she had been claimed, marked, and mated. They are engaged. Even though she had not been sworn in yet, she is just as much the Luna, as I am, and as Aria, Tanner’s mom was. I may be the acting Luna, but Goddess helps whoever decided to do anything to any of the three of us. The entire pack was told, and Anna’s lack of acceptance that Dawson had found his mate was going to be her problem. The Council recognizes Sloan as the next Luna, and they will be ruling as such. Today will not be going well for Anna and her friends, just like it won’t go well for Luna Meghan and Brandi. I rest my eyes when we leave the Royal Knight pack and head to B***d Rose, I need to get a little rest, and stay calm because I already know that today will be a very stressful day.