Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 108

Luna Meghan’s POV

Golden Moon pack

I never thought that he would have the balls to do it. He has betrayed our bond and our love. Gerald has always loved me endlessly because we were true mates. We had a very deep connection and were perfectly made for each other. We had loved each other ever since we found each other, and never had any problems for the first few years, he was my whole world. Then while I was pregnant with our second child we were attacked. I did change after that happened. I was angry that the man that I loved so much, let my father die. We were attacked because witches were angry at Gerald’s mother, leaving her coven to become mated to his father, Magnus. Gerald had been different the last two days, he is very angry at me. He is going to turn me in, I figured he might, but I couldn’t stop myself from trying to get Sloan back.

Now I understand that Gerald’s parents were mates, but she was a witch, and she should have just stayed with her kind, with the witches in her coven. She had no reason to come here and live in our pack. It had happened years ago, and Gerald was the product of their love for each other. In truth, I never had a problem with Sera before this. It was just the fact of losing my father, for no good reason, that broke my heart. Then to see my mother refusing to eat, and just wasting away because she didn’t want to live without him. That moment is exactly when I snapped. I was no longer happy in this relationship. I wanted to leave, but Gerald told me that we were mates, and would die without the other. I did try to calm down, I did try to make it work. But just seeing my baby, my precious newborn open her eyes and look back at me with those damned eyes. I was gone after that. In fact, I didn’t want to have another child with him, but he insisted. He talked me into it by saying that this one “would probably be normal” was the only reason that I did it. He was right, my Brandi was perfect, and looked just like me, with her father’s blue eyes. I love her so much. She was the light to Sloan’s black hair and violet eyes, which made me mad every time that I saw her, or Sera.

Sera had lost her mate in that fight too, but she was still very strong. She managed to kill all the attackers after he died, and that ended up stopping the battle. But it was too late for Magnus or my father. I didn’t dare cross her, so I just avoided her. Well, I avoided her for a little over 10 years after the battle. I started reaching out to her and Sloan for dinner twice a week, starting on Sloan’s tenth birthday. I didn’t throw Sloan a birthday party, there were no presents or cake, but I did tell her happy birthday, and it was a nice time for us. Not all of us, it killed me and Brandi to have to act nice. But I needed to set my plan in motion. So, twice a week, they would come and have dinner with us, until Sera finally died. It took a while, as I went slowly. I wanted her to suffer and she had to be feeling terrible. But she loved Sloan, and wouldn’t want her to worry. So, she didn’t say anything about it to Sloan, or Gerald, and just tried to push through it. I know she didn’t know what had happened.

That was part of my plan. She would have been suspicious if both she and Sloan had gotten sick, but it was just Sera that I was after. I had plans, and I was patient until I achieved my goals. I had learned how to use a pestle and mortar, in the last few years. I also started gardening, I had the regular suspects, of Wolfsbane, and Belladonna, but I had to do more than that. In my greenhouse, I had a section that stayed in the middle, that also had nice blooms, that had 5 different poisons growing in it. I can’t take the chance, so I made sure that even though Sera was a witch, and a powerful one at that, I could kill her. I started learning slowly, not wanting my husband to notice me leaving the pack, and made different appointments so no one person knew that I had so many poisons at my disposal. In that flowerbed in addition to the other two, I also have Hemlock, Oleander, and then lastly, I used Castor beans which I later used to turn into Ricin.

I had thought for a long time about what to do. I grew my plants and then crushed them into powder. Each one was special and acted differently when ingested. I kept track of what I gave on certain dates, so it always changed, and so did the damage and side effects. Sera was going to the hospital a lot, but they could never figure out what the problem was. Because the symptoms kept changing along with it. It brought me great joy to see her hurting so badly, and getting weaker, each and every week. I knew it was just a matter of time before I just decided to end it. I was sick of being nice to Sloan and Sera, and the time had come for phase two to start. I had to deal with them for almost 2 years for the little “family” dinners, and then the night before Sloan’s 12th birthday, I gave Sera a much bigger dose of all the most danger’s ones; Hemlock, Oleander, and Belladonna. Her organs had been damaged for so long, and with the sudden increase, her organs just started to shut down. I wanted her to die on Sloan’s birthday, I wanted Sloan to think of it as a punishment, just like I had at losing my parents. But I didn’t take into account how much Sera loved her. She struggled to live before finally giving up two days after Sloan’s birthday.

“Are you ready to leave Meghan?” I heard Gerald before I saw him. He hated to see me here in the cells, I could see some pity showing in his eyes, but he told me that I would have to answer for my actions. He still loved me and wanted to be with me, but apparently, he stopped doting on me. It was like a switch flipped in him a few years back, he didn’t push me away, but he also didn’t want to touch me anymore. I didn’t know what happened, he was more distant with me, and he seemed to be more watchful for Sloan. He was upset by her crying to be let out of her room. I took care of it by bringing in a witch to bind the room, and Sloan’s powers, so it wouldn’t be a problem anymore. He did seem to feel better when he didn’t hear her begging to be let out. I told him that I had gotten her books, movies to watch, and some hobby items for her to do in the room so she wouldn’t be bored anymore. He accepted that as an answer, and all was well, right up until the Wrights showed up to mess it all up for me.

“I am ready to go, Gerald,” I told him and stood up to leave my cell. I knew he had come down a few times to check on me, I could smell him. But he never spoke, and I knew that he was really upset. He had rescinded my position as Luna, as he knew that he would not be able to ride in the SUV with me to B***d Rose, without this being worse than it already was. He also didn’t want me to Luna command any of the men either. He just wanted me to meekly go along with his plan to just take me to B***d Rose for my punishment, and with my power stripped away, I guess I will have to. I was surprised to see Rob sitting in the SUV already when I got into the SUV. Rob and I have not been close since I started locking Sloan in her room. It has always upset him, and I always told him the same story, that it was for her own protection. I made it be true as any time she would be in the dining room, Brandi made sure to get different people to give Sloan a hard time. It made it look like Sloan wasn’t safe. It did work, but he wanted to know why if we were on the Alpha floor that her door had to be locked, as it wasn’t really a place that the pack could get into easily. I told him it was just in case Brandi’s friends came up to visit her, and he didn’t like it, but he didn’t argue about it with me anymore.

He didn’t speak for the first five minutes of the trip. He finally looked at me and said, “Was it worth it?”

“What are you talking about, Rob?” I asked him back. I wasn’t trying to be difficult, I just needed him to clarify just what he was asking me. He needed to be specific. I have had nothing to do but think for the last few days in the cell. I have thought about a number of things. I have always loved Rob, so I will answer his questions. I smiled at him as his handsome face reminded me of Gerald when we had first met. He looks just like his father with his strong build, brown hair, and blue eyes. He looks just like him, and I am so proud of the man that he has become.

“What you did to Sloan for all these years, punishing her for something that she couldn’t even control. You being willing to go to B***d Rose and kill so many people, just to try to kill Sloan. It doesn’t even make sense. She was no longer your problem, she was Dawson’s mate, she has never deliberately hurt anyone. What you did was wrong mom, I hope you know that.” Rob said to me.

“I did, what I had to do. You will never understand the why behind it. We sheltered you, and you haven’t had to experience extreme pain and loss yet. You don’t understand that Seraphina should have never been allowed to mate with your grandfather. It was wrong in the eyes of the Goddess, I was just trying to fix the errors that they started. Sloan may not have done anything in that battle, but I was pregnant with her when it happened. Losing my dad, and then my mom was unbearable for me. It hurt me so badly, you cannot even imagine what I went through. I loved her, as much as I did you while I was pregnant with her, but the moment she opened her eyes, I saw that she was an abomination. I didn’t want to deal with her anymore. I was glad to let Sera take her and raise her. I just couldn’t do it” I answered him truthfully.

“Did you even realize that I was there at the gate with Sloan? Did you realize that you could have killed me too for your stupid vendetta? For no good reason, Sloan had nothing to do with it. Sera killed the people who DID cause it, and yet you continued to hate her, and Sloan. You hold Brandi in high regard, and she is the worst mom, the worst, but you praise and spoil her. I hope that whatever sentence you get, you realize right before you die, that YOU were the one in the wrong mom. I didn’t want to come with you. I am disgusted with what you have planned out and done. After speaking with my extended family, I have found that Sera should still be alive because witches live for a long period of time. I asked them, and dad, to look into it. Dad realized it too, she died too early. So, who do you think the investigation will lead to? It won’t be a mystery like you think that it probably will be. I loved you my whole life but knowing now who you truly are, I am ashamed to be your son” Rob said to me, and I am shocked. He has always loved me, there was no reason for him to ever stop doing that.

I was stunned. He was right, I didn’t even realize that he was there. I was so focused on getting Sloan to either come back to the Golden Moon pack, or to die, that I only saw Gabi, Tanner, Sloan, and Dawson there. Now that he mentions it, there were a lot of people at the gate before I allowed our men to fire on them. I feel a little sick that I could have killed my own son. My wolf, Janine, pipes up in a mindlink, “He was there but you were out of control. I did try to tell you, and you wouldn’t listen to me.” Hearing her voice makes me sob. I had lost her on Sloan’s tenth birthday. I had not been able to speak to her, or phase into my wolf ever since. She didn’t agree with what I was doing and told me if I acted on it, that I would lose her. I didn’t think that she was telling the truth and did it anyway. She is still here, I can still be scented as being a wolf, but I cannot phase and protect myself anymore. She is the other part of me, and she should realize that I did what I had to do.

“I am sorry Rob, no I didn’t realize that you were there. I would never do anything to put you in danger. It is just that I have to get vengeance for my parents. They didn’t deserve to suffer and die like it ended up happening, but they both did. Someone needs to pay for that, it can not go unpunished” I told him, and by the end of my words, I knew I was yelling at him. I raised my voice, in the end, to get my point across. People need to be punished for my pain and suffering, my father’s pain, and my mother’s suffering. Rob was looking at me with his mouth open like he couldn’t understand what I had just said to him.

“Mom, the people who attacked. Do you remember what ended up happening to them?” Rob asked me.

“After Magnus was killed, Sera killed the rest of the group attacking the pack. She should have done that first. Then non of that would have happened” I told him. We all know what happened.

“So, if my grandmother Sera killed them all, why does Sloan need to be punished?” Rob asked me quietly.

“Because she is a witch, like Sera, and all witches need to be killed,” I told him.

“Mom, you just tried to kill a number of people the other day, including me, By your own logic, then you, and all werewolves, should die, because of the act of another werewolf. That doesn’t even make sense. Your logic is flawed, and yet you still refuse to see it” Rob tells me, and he turns away from me to look out the window. I don’t want to listen to him, but Janine decided to jump into a mindlink again and said, “He told you the truth. You have spent all of Sloan’s life punishing her for something that she wasn’t even alive for. You were told by me, your mate, Sera, and many others that you were wrong with how you were treating her. You wouldn’t listen, and it is too late now. You should be ashamed of yourself, and I will not take away the pain that you receive when your sentence is carried out. When you get your punishment, you will be bearing all of it on your own. It is what you deserve for the horrible things that you have done, as well as the abuse that you gave Sloan that she never deserved. You can’t lie to me, I saw it all. We are the same, so I know your heart. You are just a shameful she-wolf that tries to act like she is good, and we both know that you haven’t been good for over 20 years now.”

We ride in silence until we get to the gate at B***d Rose. I can feel my heart rate increase. It is too late to question myself on whether or not I should have just left her alone. I didn’t, and now I will have to accept my punishment. We stopped in front of the packhouse, and Rob could not get out of the vehicle fast enough. It had just stopped, and he is out the door and heading up the front steps right to Sloan who is standing next to Dawson at the top of the steps. Gabi and Tanner are at the bottom of the steps standing with the Alpha King, and two people that I don’t recognize. I see Alpha Heath standing right behind them, and he is pissed. I don’t know why he is so mad, I wasn’t successful, nobody died, he should let it go. Tanner’s brother was standing next to Heath, and on the next step up there are several people standing there glaring at me. The tallest one looks familiar to me, and I recognize him as the man who saved them from my attack. My eyes narrow as I meet the angry gazes from his group and I notice that they are all witches. Why are they even here?