Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 113

Sloan’s POV

B***d Rose pack

I watch from my room, as Percy arrives with Brandi with him. He had told everyone he was on the way back with her, and he was extremely upset at her touching his hand in the truck. I watched as my sister was cuffed and taken to the cells, hopefully, she will have a great reunion with our mom. I cannot make myself smile, as Brandi got all of mom’s affection, leaving me with nothing. They are not good people, and I don’t feel bad for them about what is going to happen to them both. They made choices, and they will have to account for what they have done.

I see Percy run up the steps and I already know where he is going. He told all of us that he was going to have to throw away his clothes, and shower to make sure that her scent was free from him. Peyton told him that she was proud of him, as he did not want to do this. He felt like he was betraying her, but she told him that this way was probably the quickest way to get Brandi here. We all knew that she would have thrown a fit if Rob tried to bring her, but she came right along with Percy as soon as the idea was put in her head. She is so concerned about getting an Alpha for a mate, that she could care less if he was her actual mate or not.

I am a little concerned about going to speak with my mother later on tonight, I really never wanted to see her again, but I will do it. There are things that I want to say to her, and Brandi before the trial. A camera had been set up in the hallway, with audio set up right outside her cell. I didn’t know if I was strong enough to have to deal with this twice, so I asked them to do that, in case we got enough for me to be able to skip participating in the trial. I can’t see where my going to it will be good for me at all. I know my mother, she can trick anyone into thinking that she is a good person. It is all a facade on her part, and she is good at it. I know the version of her that she hides from everyone else, and it is hideous. I am still upset to have found out that she had killed Sera. I figured out why pretty quickly. My abuse started the next month. Mom brought me up to their floor and then started locking me in my room “for my own safety” at that point. She moved fast after the mourning period stopped for my grandmother.

I always wondered what had happened, she had always comforted me and told me that she would live with me until I passed. I took comfort in that. I always dreamed that maybe after I turned 18 that we could move somewhere else, to live out our lives, away from my parents and Brandi. But that opportunity never came as my mom took her from me. I know that it was a deliberate act now, and I am willing to do what needs to be done to try to get her to admit all of what she did when I go down to see her in her cell. But I will let her know that she hasn’t beaten me, and maybe I will show her that her plan to break me, to control me, didn’t work out for her.

I heard a knock on the door, and I answer it. My great-grandmother, Beth, is standing there looking at me with a smile. “We have them both, Vincent wants to know if you want to go down first, or let us go down, and view their memories?”

“I would like to go down first, once they know what you are able to do, they will not be able to keep lying anymore. I want them to lie and keep lying so it looks worse for them, as the Council member will have seen what actually happened. I am ready to go. Did they put Brandi in a separate area, so mom doesn’t know that she is there yet? We can go now, I am fine, a little sad, but it is not because either of them will pay. It is because she deliberately took my grandmother away from me. She deserves to get everything that we can give her” I told Beth, and we head down. There is a whole group of us going down, Dawson and I will be the only ones that Vincent doesn’t cloak. We visit Brandi first. She looked up and saw Dawson and a bright smile crossed her face. Then the smile goes away as she sees me being pulled up behind him, holding his hand as we step up to her cell, making her lose it.

“Why aren’t you sick? You are supposed to be sick” Brandi said as she leaps up and comes to the door of the cell.

“Do you honestly think that I am dumb enough to drink something that Anna gave me? Seriously, there would be no way that I would do that, especially after finding out that you two were friends” I told her. I watch her almost shake in fury at what I said, and then looked over at Dawson.

“Dawson, I am sorry. I just love you so much. I wanted to be your mate and bare your pups. I just wanted to be with you. Don’t be angry with me. I didn’t do anything wrong, please let me go” Brandi said to us. Dawson looks pissed, and I reach out to give him a hug and then a k**s to get him to calm down.

“I would never want you to bare my children. You are not qualified to do that, only my mate, Sloan, will bare my pups. In fact,” Dawson stops talking to pick my hand up and k**s my palm making me shiver before he continues to talk to Brandi, “Sloan is already pregnant with our first two pups right now.”

Brandi starts crying for real this time. I know it is real because she now is ugly crying, instead of the cute little tears she had just cried. Her makeup is running, and her nose is too now. She looks terrible, and I don’t feel bad for her at all. I know everything that she has done to me, is about to come out. Both with mom, and when she would use the key that she made to my room to come in and have the guy of the week hold me down for her to hurt me. She is not my sister, I don’t care if we share the same parents, she is nothing to me, and hasn’t been for a long time.

“Why, why did the Goddess give you to that freak of nature? She is an abomination and what kind of freak babies is she going to be able to give you? She is not worthy enough to be your mate. You will see when the babies get here. No one will accept them, I shouldn’t have kept mom from killing you, Sloan. I was wrong for stopping her” Brandi spits out in anger, not even realizing what she said wrong because she is so angry right now. Her chest is heaving, and she is furious. I wanted to surprise her with some of my newfound talents, like a fireball to her chest or preventing her from speaking anymore, but I stopped myself. I don’t want to tip my hand and let her know anything about my powers. I would prefer for her to not know that I am stronger now than I have ever been. I am both wolf and witch, and our babies will be fine. I hear a noise behind me, and it is Vincent looking furious carrying a chair in his hand. I see we are about to start now, and I see that Council Member Phillips has brought a small notebook with her in her hands. I know how thorough she is, she is planning on taking notes so she can look for laws being broken after they do this.

A warrior stepped forward with the keys to the cell, and a pair of silver-laced handcuffs, to keep her from being able to shift. As big as this warrior was, I knew it didn’t matter if she shifted or not, she was going to lose. Brandi never trained, she didn’t want to get dirty. She wouldn’t be able to do anything at all to him, so I wasn’t worried for him. One of us would freeze her if she tried anything, but she stayed still and allowed him to cuff her. He led her into the hallway and in front of the camera. I saw Gabi and King Sebastian both start recording on their cell phones so it would be captured and recorded.

Vincent approached one side of Brandi and Beth was on her other side, she was looking at them with an angry face. She had no idea who they were or what they were about to do but did not resist. “This will not hurt, we just need to look at something in your memories,” Beth said to her gently. She spoke nicely to her to keep her calm, but as soon as Brandi realized that they were witches she started screaming, “Do not touch me with your dirty, disgusting hands. You have no right at all to do anything to me, leave me alone. Mom! Mom! Can you hear me? They are about to do something to me.” I can hear my mom in the distance calling out for Brandi, but there is nothing that she can do to help her.

“Actually, she will be the next person in the hot seat. We are just warming up on you” Vincent told her with a smirk. He knew she was upset and didn’t mind getting her more worked up. Her being upset will make it easier for them to read her mind, they didn’t want her blocking them, that would make them retrieving her memories a great deal harder, we all knew that my mom was going to be a lot harder nut to c***k on this, and would try to block them, but they are powerful enough to get around it when she does.

They placed their hands on her head and started chanting for a little while. Then they each reached out one of their hands to the Council members that they were going to help. That way they were like a conductor with the memories playing out for the Council to be able to see what had happened. Brandi sat there and she had fear on her face, I bet she could see the same memories, and she was not looking good now, in fact, she looked a little guilty. She knew what they were doing now, and that once they knew the whole story, she would be put to death too. I feel an arm go onto my shoulder, it was my brother, Rob, giving me support. Dawson was watching the show with disgust written all over his face. There were a number of us down here in the hallway to watch this happening. Tanner was standing behind Gabi to not block her camera angle. My dad standing just past King Sebastian, Heath, Dominic, Morgana, Percy, and Peyton. It was a little crowded, but it was silent as they watched the expressions on their faces change. Vincent is furious, as is Beth, and the council members looked sick. I know that Dawson will want to know, but really it is hard to talk about, and it is over with now, I don’t have to deal with either of them again. I see no point in reliving it or speaking about it, and I was very thankful that the Council Members could see firsthand what had happened, without me having to testify about it in front of a bunch of people, when I really didn’t want to.

I watched as tears started rolling down Council member Phillips’s face, through her closed eyes, and Dawson grabbed my free hand to k**s my palm again. I love him so, and when he let my hand go, I placed his hand on my still-flat stomach. I wanted him to just focus on our babies and not on what was happening here. None of it could be changed, or taken back, so it is just best to move forward. I won’t let myself live in that headspace for one more day. I am a phoenix reborn, I am strong, I am loved, and I am about to love my babies more than any mother had loved them before. They will never have a moment’s doubt about where they stand with me or Dawson. They will know that we planned for and wanted them more than anything. I tear up just thinking about my babies, and I am so glad that I have my bonus family in my life. I never thought I would ever get to meet anyone on Sera’s side of my family, and they just showed up. They were a great blessing to me, and I will never be able to repay them for all they have done for me. Vincent saved all our lives at the gate, I will gratefully spend the rest of my life helping to pay him back for that.

After about 10 minutes they were done and I watched them all straighten back up, and I moved forward to go hug them both when Dawson stopped me. “Take the prisoner back to her cell, and then you can uncuff her,” he told the warrior who nodded and escorted her back to the cell. That was smart, now that she knows that I am pregnant and that her memories have been read, she has no defense at all. She would have nothing left to lose and would have tried to hurt either me or the babies. That was a smart call, and I started forward again to hug Beth and Vincent. They are upset, and I know what they saw, they needed to know that I am OK, and I am, more so now than ever before.

“I am fine, look at me, I am right here in front of you. It is over and done with. She cannot hurt me anymore. I know you saw it all, but I am OK. Just look at me, I am fine, please believe me. I have been pieced back together by love, from Dawson, from his family, from you, and my extended family. I am stronger than they ever thought that I was, and I am going to be just fine” I told them comforting them as Beth cried on my shoulder, and Vincent hugged me tightly. I love them so much, and the best part was that they loved me back, completely, for who I was, not who they wanted me to be. I would have gone through it again to get here, and I need them to know that. I am in a wonderful place, as far as I am concerned everything is perfect, and I couldn’t be happier than I am right here with my whole family.

“What did you see?” I heard Dawson say in a terse voice. I can see that he is visibly upset and barely hanging on I know that he wants to go pass judgment on her right now.

“It is fine baby. I love you, and I am right here. The Council and King Sebastian will deal with her. I don’t want you upset, I don’t really want to discuss it” I told him and went to him to give him a big hug to comfort him and calm him down. I see him looking straight ahead and I turned around to look at Vincent and Beth and I know that look. Vincent will tell him privately what happened. “I am fine with Vincent and Beth telling you, as long as I don’t have to discuss it,” I told them.

“Gerald, I will tell you now that it is a VERY good thing that you had your memories read earlier today. Otherwise, after what we saw, you would have a great deal of explaining as to why you allowed that to happen in your pack. I would charge you as well for not protecting your daughter from that predator. I don’t care if she is younger than Sloan, that was hard to see” Council Leader Anthony said to my father. I see my father’s face pale and then look over at me. I don’t know if he was worried about me, or about Brandi right now. I could feel him looking at me earlier while they were watching Brandi’s memories, and I could tell he was upset and wanted to come closer to me. Thankfully, he stayed where he was. We didn’t have that kind of a relationship yet, and after being told a hundred times that he knew, and didn’t care, I am in no hurry to welcome him with open arms.

“Sloan, I will make sure I get justice for you, honey. Do not worry my dear. I am documenting it all now. I don’t want to forget anything that I can charge her with, but from the looks of it, she will be sentenced to death, just like her mother. I was actually shocked by what I saw. Brandi is just as vicious as her mother is. I am stunned to see such acts from someone so young, so Meghan must have really seen a lot of herself in Brandi. They are truly two horrible peas in a pod” Council member Teresa Phillips told me and then held her arms out to seek permission for a hug. I stepped into her arms and let her hold me for a little while to give her comfort as well. I am fine, and I would prefer not to think about it, anymore, actually ever again, if I could prevent it.

“I need a break, I can’t just go into another one of these just yet. That was intense, as you are there watching it, and it is not pleasant at all. It is however highly effective. I wish we could do this will all our investigations, as it would really cut down on the questioning, and go right for the truth. I also want to speak to the rest of the council and bring them up to speed, as well as King Sebastian. If Sloan is OK with us telling you what we saw, we can convene in the Office in fifteen minutes to start. We can come back down either in an hour, or in the morning to get Luna Meghan’s memories checked, but we already saw some of her guilt in watching Brandi’s memories and that is set in stone already” Lead Miller told the group. I feel bad for him, I guess he was not expecting to see what he saw in her memories. It will be OK, I am OK, and they cannot hurt me anymore. I won’t allow it.