Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 105

Anna’s POV

B***d Rose pack

I have been looking for that b***h that stole Dawson away from me for the last 2 days. I really wish that Brandi and Luna Meghan could have just taken care of her themselves, but not at the expense of Dawson. I slept with Damon yesterday as he was scheduled to be at the gate all this week. I did it just in case I needed to leave the packland, I didn’t want it to end up being a big thing or get reported to the Alpha and Luna. So keeping him happy was pretty easy for me. I wanted to fly under the radar, as security has tightened up, and we are not supposed to leave after the attack until this was settled. I had gotten in trouble with my parents because I left the pack after the attack, They were waiting for me that night when I returned. They went on and on about how dangerous it was out there right now for our pack members blah, blah, blah. I just stopped listening because I was sick of hearing about it, and when they would stop talking, I would just say, “I am sorry”. It ended up working out for me because they felt better after their little lecture.

I am quite sure that they were worried about me, but what happened wasn’t totally an attack against B***d Rose. They were really after one person, but after Tanner and Gabi refused to give her up, then Luna Meghan just wanted to punish them all. I am glad that Dawson was saved. He was holding Sloan at the time, and he could have been killed, she didn’t care about him putting him in danger like that. While I was laying in bed with Damon, he told me what had happened at the gate, and he was really impressed by the Warlock that had saved them. Apparently, it is Sloan’s grandfather or something. It did sound impressive, what he had done to save them, but I would be glad when they got the hell out of here. I don’t like how her family has been looking at me for the last 2 days. Like they can read my mind or something, it is kind of creepy. I don’t like it, and I hope that they leave here soon. Damon told me that they put a protection spell over the pack, and that sounded pretty cool. I didn’t see it, but he did, and he sounded pretty impressed about it. I don’t know what it is supposed to do, I am assuming just keeps rogues out, so that is good for us, but the witches can go ahead and leave the pack, they don’t belong here.

I had just finished training when we all got a mindlink from Dawson telling us that the Alpha and Luna would be here soon, and to get to the front of the packhouse. My whole life, this is what the pack did when the Alpha and Luna returned to the pack, especially from a fight. I was already with my best friends; Carrie and Jennifer, so we headed over to greet them upon their return. Hearing Dawson speaking to us in my head made me shiver with the strength and authority in his voice. He is so strong, and I hope that after Sloan is gone that I end up being his second-chance mate. Or maybe if I can show him how valuable I can be to him, maybe he could make me his chosen mate. I stand there dreaming about this, as he wasn’t out here with us yet, as Jennifer and Carrie continued to talk nonsense behind me. They weren’t the smartest in the pack, but they were incredibly loyal to me, and I trusted them completely. They are in this with me, because they believe in me, and my ability to be a great Luna for this pack. Plus, when I am Luna, I can help them out too.

Jennifer has her eyes on Dawson’s cousin, Greyson, who will be the Beta soon, after his father, Gavin, steps down. I have to admit, that after Dawson, Greyson is the next hottest guy in our pack. It was probably just the strong family resemblance with their black hair, and strong jawline, combined with those stormy blue-grey eyes that make women weak in the knees. Tanner and Gavin are both hot too, even with Tanner almost at 42 and Gavin almost turning 40. I mean, even Dawson’s grandfather, his namesake, is still really attractive, which just tells me that my Dawson will be too, for many years to come. Carrie has her eye on the Leader of the Elite team’s son, Harrison. He looks just like his dad Alan Carter, and Harrison is really strong at 19 years old. He was the youngest ever Elite team member, making the team even before he even turned 18. He is hot too, but I prefer Dawson’s darker good looks, over Harrison’s blonde hair and baby-blue eyes. He is just as big as Dawson and comparable in every way, but he is just an elite warrior.

If I wanted a warrior, I would just pick the hottest one here, and settle down, but that isn’t good enough. I want to be respected and taken care of, for the rest of my life. Why should I have to work if I don’t have to? I AM going to be the next Luna. I want a good life and to be taken care of by Dawson, and the pack. I will be glad to bare his mark and his children. I already promised them, if they can help me, I will help them and make their dreams happen too. I will just Luna command them to do what I want them to after I take Dawson’s side as his mate. I watch as they all pull up the drive and I see Gabi give me a smile and a nod. That is truly a sign from the Goddess. She had never acknowledged me. This must be the sign I was waiting for that I was doing the right thing. Sloan isn’t even here to show her respect for them returning to the pack. Surely Gabi noticed that too. I watch as they introduce the new members to the pack, and a couple of them are too thin, but still really cute, so I might need to get to know them better. I saw two of them get claimed immediately by their mates, so we are now just down to 2 of the hot guys left. It doesn’t matter, as Luna, I can command anyone to do anything that I want them to. After I give Dawson about three pups, I will get my tubes tied so I won’t have to worry about unwanted pregnancies and do what I want. That makes me smile, I can even try Jennifer and Carrie’s mates out then too, and that makes me smile even bigger. As soon as I take my rightful place in this pack, no one can ever stop me again. Gabi announced that they should head to lunch, and for Dawson to tell Sloan to come down. I know that this is my chance, so we enter the packhouse too, and I hurry up to my room to grab the vials.

I am kicking myself now, I had time to plan, and I didn’t. I have been so nervous about her family watching me, and following me around. I mean this is really important, why didn’t I think of this earlier? That was dumb on my part, but really, I was kind of hesitant about it. I don’t really like Sloan, but I have never killed anyone, or even thought of actually killing someone ever before. She hasn’t been mean to me, but she took the man I wanted, so she needs to go away. This whole thing is causing me to have a guilty conscience. We moved around the lobby, we wanted to look natural, so we took up a couple of places while we watched their group. No one suspects anything, but I don’t know how to get the drink to her after I put the drops in there. We decide to go make a few glasses, one for each of us, and one for her. I leaned forward to block the two small vials in my hand. I heard talking and laughing coming from Dawson’s table and when I glanced over at them, I see him looking lovingly down at her upturned face. She has a gentle smile on her face as she looks up at him, and it makes me see red, as rage coursed through my veins. I knew him first, why couldn’t that be me? This was so unfair, she did not deserve him at all. He was supposed to be mine. I smiled as I filled the dropper, not once, but twice for each vial. Hopefully, she doesn’t suffer too much from it, but he is NOT hers.

I looked at Jennifer, and then at Carrie. They were both staring at me, surprised that I would give her so much when they knew it was supposed to be one dropper of each. I shrugged, and mumbled, “We need to make sure the first time. We won’t get another shot at this if it doesn’t work.”

They seemed to accept this as the truth, even if they suddenly seemed to have grown a conscience of me putting so much into the drink. Now I need to figure out how to get it to her. We have been a thorn in her side since she arrived. She doesn’t like or trust us, and honestly, she shouldn’t. I hate her and want her dead, and I think she knows this, well maybe not the death part. She does know that I don’t want her with Dawson, even if she isn’t yet aware of the lengths that I will go to, to make him mine. She is about to find out. An older lady comes up to where we are and goes to get a drink herself, and we step back from her, to allow her to pass. I thankfully see Elena heading our way to get drinks too, and that is perfect. Sloan would of course take a drink from Elena.

“Hey, Elena,” I said to her with a smile.

Elena doesn’t even try to hide her surprise, and then said, “Oh, are you talking to me now? After that fiasco at my sweet 16, you girls have either ignored me or talked about me behind my back for the last 2 years. Don’t pretend now Anna, we are not friends, and we will never be friends, ever again.”

“I am so sorry about that. I just had such a big crush on your brother, that I couldn’t stop myself from trying to get near him that night. I am sorry, it was all my fault. I didn’t mean to upset you like that. I would still like to be friends with you, if you could see it in your heart to forgive me” I told her, with a sincere expression on my face.

“Which brother?” Elena asked me. Damn her, she is not falling for it.

“Why Dawson, of course, Elena. Why do you even have to ask?” I smiled and gave a little laugh like it was a stupid question for her to even ask me.

“OK, if that is who you liked, why were you in Percy’s room, in his bed naked then? If Dawson is the one you wanted SO much? Or did you try it with both of them? Oh, I bet that it is. I bet that Percy was just the only one who was honest with me about that happening. He told me the truth about why you were really up there for my birthday after ignoring me for all the previous years. Dawson probably wanted to protect my feelings from being used and then left behind like trash, all so you and your moron minions here, could get up to the Alpha floor to take a shot. Knowing you, I bet you took your shot with both of them, to increase your odds of one of them actually falling for it. How did it work out for you?” Elena said, and she didn’t yell, but she was not whispering either. She then burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing that she had ever heard before in her life.

I can feel my face turning red and getting hot now. This was super embarrassing. I had tried to seduce both of them, and apparently, only Percy had narked me out to Elena. Dawson must have felt really bad for her and didn’t tell her to try to save her feelings. How in the hell could I get out of this? I was not aware that she knew, and her laughter at me was drawing additional eyes from all over the room. Elena isn’t some delicate wallflower, she is pretty tough, and could fight, successfully, against our warriors. I can’t bully her, she would kick my a*s, and then my friend’s asses if they tried to step in. I didn’t know that she knew, she just ignored me after that. I felt like she just got her feelings hurt at us walking off and leaving her party.

Since she couldn’t help me, I just left her alone after that. It was a waste of my time, because both of them had shot me down, and then disappeared. She wasn’t going to invite me up to their floor again, as she made that clear the next day. She didn’t trust me anymore, and Michelle, who was her best friend and there that night was pissed about it too. We wouldn’t even try to take them on after that. I would need some warriors to help us, and even then, I am sure that they would win against us, plus once the warriors knew who we would be fighting, they would have to back down. She is the daughter of the Alpha couple, they could be banished for it. I know that they wouldn’t even try, because of her reputation. She is as yet undefeated with the warriors. Only an Elite can even have a chance against her, as Gabi had raised her from a child with her training. Gabi had a tough background, and she never wanted her daughter to have to endure anything like that for herself. So, she trained Elena herself and was pretty tough on her, but Elena pushed her own self as well. She was really competitive about it too. Gabi created one of the fiercest warriors in the pack because of it. All in an effort for her to be able to fight and protect herself if she ever needed to. Both Gabi, and Elena, were not to be messed with, as they took their fighting, and weapons, seriously.

“Look Elena, again, all I can say is sorry. I messed up. I tried something and it didn’t work out. I didn’t mean to hurt you by doing it, I was just hoping that one of them was my mate. I don’t want to argue or fight with you” I told her in a submissive way to try to calm her down. Elena had made her drink and already drank from it, and was now looking at me with an unreadable expression on her face.

That was the moment that I decided to try to see if I could get this to work in my favor. “You don’t have to forgive me now, but maybe in like 5 years, you might be willing to accept the fact that I am very sorry for me being so thoughtless to you when you were nothing but nice to me. Look, we made an extra drink for you when we saw that you were coming this way. Like a peace offering. Since you already made a drink, could you give this one to Sloan? Maybe help me out so I can say sorry for not greeting her, and accepting her, as I should have. She is his mate, and she deserves everything that she gets from it” I told Elena and handed her the drink I had dosed. Elena keeps staring at me, and then shrugged and said, “That is fine, actually Dawson’s cup was almost empty, and he will need a drink soon” and turning to walk away as I screamed, “No!” and went to take the drink back.

“Why not? He needs a drink with his meal. What is your problem?” Elena asked me, stunned at me screaming out like that. I can’t let her give it to Dawson. I need him to be able to try to take Luna, If he dies, then Percy will have to come back, or Elena will have to step up to take over the B***d Rose pack until she meets her mate, but either of those options were bad choices for me.

“Sorry for yelling, it is a peace offering for Sloan, is all that I meant. I want her to know that there are no hard feelings between us. I didn’t do anything to Dawson that I would need to apologize for, but I did to Sloan. I just want her to know how I really feel, and that I welcome her to B***d Rose. I am sorry for giving her a hard time, and I don’t know if she will let me apologize to her or not” I told Elena and tried to keep an innocent and heartfelt look on my face.

“That makes no sense at all, Anna. A drink, this drink, is supposed to make up for all the crap you said at the town hall meeting about Sloan. This FREE drink that any of our pack members can come over here and get, at any time. You are literally standing here at the drink fountain and could make another drink in like 5 seconds. You are full of it, I don’t believe you, and I am not going to deal with you anymore today. If you do feel bad about what you said to her, then you should take it to her and apologize to her for your bad actions. I think that would be for the best. You really acted like a jerk for the town hall meeting and were very disrespectful to her. I think that if you actually mean that you are sorry, and wanted to be on her good side, you should walk over there and tell her that yourself. You need to take every opportunity to show her that you genuinely feel bad about everything that you said at the town hall, and then ask her for her forgiveness. Hiding and trying to get others to apologize to her, falls flat, and has no real meaning behind it. Making someone else ask for forgiveness, for you, is not worth anything. You are the one who wronged her, not me. You have to show her that you are indeed truly sorry for your actions, yourself, not be sending someone else to do the dirty work for you” Elena tells me and hands me the drink back. She walks back to the table shaking her head like she can’t believe me.

What am I going to do? Carrie and Jennifer already told me that they would help me, but that they would not deliver the poisoned drink. If I take it, they would all remember that I brought it to the table. I will have to take it to her myself, and sincerely apologize to her, which really pisses me off. I didn’t want to even be present when she drank it. I wanted Elena, or someone, to take it, and I would wait for her to take a sip of it, and then go to be in a group somewhere else, so I would have an alibi because I will be the immediate suspect in the pack. I now wish I could have kept my mouth shut during the town hall. Fine, I have to change my plans. I will take it over there myself, and then after she has a few sips when the poison kicks in, I will accidentally knock the drink over, spilling it onto the floor as I go to help her. OK, I feel better about this plan, and I don’t mention it to either of my friends. I don’t want anyone to hear me even utter the words out loud. I have one vial in each pocket, because they are glass, and were making sounds when I had them in the same pocket earlier. With our hearing, someone would hear it and potentially question it. I wanted to make sure that I dispose of the vials out of this pack, dump them out, and then throw the bottles away in two different places. That was the main reason that I slept with Damon. He will let me leave and return to the pack without notifying anyone. Thankfully, my friends go with me over to the table.

All right, I can do this, I pump myself up by looking at Dawson as I walk over to them. The table goes silent as they all turn to look at me. s**t, this is going to be tougher than I thought it was going to be. But I am here, and I have to get this done. So, I take a deep breath and said, “I am sorry for how I acted, Sloan. Please forgive my behavior towards you at the town hall meeting. I have thought about this for the last several days, and I feel terrible for my jealous actions. You will be my Luna, and I am so happy for you and Dawson to have found each other. We made an extra drink accidentally, so I wanted to apologize to you and give you this drink with a heartfelt apology with it. I am sorry for the way I acted, and I will never disrespect you again.”