Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 12

Sebastian’s POV

Royal Knight Pack

I feel like I am being pranked right now. I look at my friend and subordinate, Alpha Heath Poe, as he tells me what he found out yesterday while he was visiting the B***d Claw pack. I feel my eyes getting wider and wider, in actual surprise, and I am trying to keep my mouth from falling open. Stunned would be an understatement. I keep letting them speak, and I know that the three men in front of me know that I am listening to them. Because my expression keeps changing as they told me shocking things.

Alpha Heath, his grandson and soon-to-be heir of Ever Green, and the former doctor to B***d Claw, Trevor Williams were all in front of me and telling me the worst story that I have ever heard of abuse, and it was about my own child. They were imploring me to help them find her, as they were all three very concerned about her well-being. I am fighting off just jumping up and going to the gates of the B***d Claw pack and killing Alpha James myself.

I had already mindlinked my own pack doctor who had helped doctor Williams last night, who had come in last night with a concussion and a severely dislocated shoulder, courtesy of Alpha James. He was apparently trying to beat the information of where my daughter had gone out of him, thankfully, with the first blow, he had knocked him unconscious. Unbelievable was the word I am searching for. I am so glad that they came here to get help for someone that they didn’t even know and to report the wrong-doing to me. I looked at them again. Doctor Williams was wearing a sling for his arm, as it had been severely dislocated, and left like that for hours as they collected him to bring him here for help. Alpha Heath was not himself, as he is usually very calm, even in the face of danger, but I saw the glint of fury in his eyes, and even if I were not going to do anything about what they were reporting, I knew that he would be. His grandson, Percy Wright, is extremely anxious, and although I have only seen him on one other occasion, he impressed me. Percy is a strong young man that comes from a line of very strong wolves.

He was clearly the most upset. He was training with Heath’s elite training team, and he managed the course with ease, his mother and father rooting him on from the stands. He was calm and calculating on the course. He had no problem finishing the testing with flying colors. I was called by Heath to come and see him, as I knew that Percy would be the next Alpha for Ever Green, and I did indeed want to see him in action. He didn’t know I was there until after the testing. I would have expected nothing less from him, seeing who raised him, and who his grandparents were. But today, he is not the same man. His leg is bouncing, and he is not focused on me at all. He was struggling to stay seated and looked like he needed to leave to go do something.

“I really appreciate you coming and letting me know this. I recently just found out last night about the problem there myself and, believe me, it will be taken care of, personally, by me”, I told Heath, and the whole group stopped moving and looked at me because this matter was usually something that I would send my Beta, or Gamma to take care of, not the Alpha King himself.

“Percy, I see that you are obviously more upset by this matter than they are. If you don’t mind me asking, why?” I asked, I know that there is something more here, and I need to know why.

“Last night I sensed my mate. We were in the auditorium hall with Alpha James escorting us to our seats. It was faint, but I sensed my mate. I smelled it again, much stronger this time, in the kitchen, after Timothy had rejected her, and she had left the pack. I want to find her, and claim her, as I am her second chance mate. I don’t know what she looks like, as I didn’t get a good look at her, but I want her. I need her. I am sorry King Sebastian, but I feel like I need to be out there finding her, instead of losing time here. She could be hurt out there. I want to protect her, and I need to go. I am sorry for being rude King Sebastian. But in my family, we take mates seriously, and I want mine”, Percy tells me in a passionate plea to allow him to leave so he could start searching local packs, or calling other packs, to try to find her.

My face showed the shock of his words, but I have to say that with him wanting her, sight unseen, and wanting her this much, they must be mates. I can completely understand why he was so upset now, and his wanting to find her, to protect her from Alpha James, touched my heart. He has only known her for less than a day, and yet he is all about wanting to make her his. I am glad that she has such a strong mate. I know her mother will be as well. Oh, I need to mindlink Dee to bring Peyton here, now. I can set his mind at ease.

“Give me just a moment gentlemen, I believe I can help”, I told them and then started mindlinking my wife and daughter, as well as my sons, to my office. It is a little early, but I need to have them all here for this.

“Heath, I am so glad your grandson has found his mate and is so happy to have done so. I can tell that he indeed wants to go and find her quickly, and I believe that I can help him out with this. Please wait a moment while my family comes here to join us, so we won’t have to do this twice”, I told them and they all seemed fine with waiting, and honestly, we didn’t have to wait long.

My sons arrived first, and Christian had Amanda in tow. As soon as they entered, Amanda immediately went to hug Doctor Williams, but Christian pulled her back from him and growled low in his throat. Amanda looked at him adoringly and said, “You are so sweet baby, but this is the doctor I worked for. Let me go to greet him”. He let her go grudgingly, and she gave Doctor Williams a quick hug. Seeing his sling and grimace when she hugged him, she then asked what happened to him.

“Alpha James” the doctor replied.

“Is he coming?” Amanda said, and I could hear real fright in her voice. She is scared, and after hearing just a little of what went on in the B***d Claw pack, she has a reason to be.

“No, he knocked me out by throwing me into a wall. I was out, so he couldn’t ask any more questions. When I woke up, I was here. These men rescued me from Alpha James, and he knocked him out to do it” Doctor Williams said, and motioned to Percy, who sifted uncomfortably in the chair.

“Thank you so much. I am sorry I didn’t greet you earlier, but I was worried about Alpha James coming after me and Katrina. He will kill us if he finds us, make no mistake about that”, Amanda said, and two loud growls cut through my office, coming from my son Christian, and from Percy. I smiled, they would both take good care of their mates.

I see Percy’s head snap towards the door, and he suddenly stands up. Good, he knows she is here. I was hoping that he would sense her before anyone else in the room did.

The door opens and Dee lets her enter first, as I had told her that Peyton’s mate was here. She wanted to see for herself and stayed a little behind to watch. Peyton entered the office and then stopped. Her head tipped up for her to smell the air in my office and her eyes snapped right at Percy. He stepped closer to her and said, “Mate”, but Peyton didn’t approach, and didn’t reply. It makes sense, she just got rejected yesterday, she has had a lot happen to her in the last 24 hours. It is understandable. She gave him a tentative smile and didn’t refuse him as he pulled her to his chest and took a deep sniff of her neck, and he was calm now. He sat down, pulling her into his lap, and her brothers both kept an eye on him. I am assuming just in case she called out for help, but I would not have had her come to my office if I thought that there would be any problems.

My wife closed the door behind her when she entered, and locked it. She then comes to sit on my lap, smiling at Peyton and Percy sitting in front of my desk. I cleared my throat and cleared the air by giving a short version of why they were here, and what they had requested.

“So, without knowing where she was, who she was, or what she looked like? You wanted to help her?” my son Christian asked Percy suspiciously.

“Yes, she is my mate. I am going to claim her if she will have me”, Percy said in all seriousness, looking up earnestly into her face, as she was taller than him, sitting on his lap. She smiles at him briefly and gives a nod, and then looks back down at the floor shyly. I can feel the happiness radiating out of my mate in my lap as she watches this play out. Two of our children have found their true mates in the last 12 hours.

“Percy, I want you and Heath to know that this is not quite over yet. First of all, this is my daughter Peyton Hunt”, I told them, and a stunned silence filled the room from the three visitors, who were not aware of our connection.

“Stop, is this little Peyton?” Heath asks me and I nod at him, smiling. He hadn’t seen her since she was 12 years old, and she thought he was the strongest man she had seen. I think she may have even had a little crush on him, as she followed him and Von everywhere they went on that visit here at Royal Knight.

“We thought she was gone, we were told she had died,” Heath said to me, and I can see the anger for her rising up again in him. He wanted to punish Alpha James in the worst way, and I may take him and the Elite team with me when I go visit B***d Claw.

“I know, that is what we were told, Heath,” I told him, and then filled the room in on what had happened. It was their turn to look shocked and surprised now.

“So, who told you that she was dead?” Heath asked, and from the look on his face, he already knew the answer to the question.

“We had been calling weekly and speaking to Nina, the woman posing as her Aunt. Nina was one of my head trainers, and she was watching Peyton there at B***d Claw. When we couldn’t get a hold of her for over a week. I had one of my warriors call to speak with her on his cell phone. He ended up speaking to Alpha James. He was telling Alpha James that they were friends and he wanted to get together with her while he was in town. Alpha James pulled no punches when he said that his Luna, Nina, and Peyton, who was going by Katrina while she was there, had been killed. We didn’t want anyone to call her by her given name, and Jasper be able to find her so easily. So, we had a friend of ours put a spell on her, one that, thankfully, he put a special clause in. When she met her mate, the spell would be broken. I am glad he had the foresight to do that, we might have never got her back if he hadn’t” I told them, and I heard Percy growl low in his throat and pull Peyton closer to him.

“I knew she had disappeared several years ago, and then heard she had been killed, but I never knew why it happened in the first place. You could have sent her to be with me and my pack. I would never have let anything happen to her, Sebastian. We are friends and I love all of your children. I would have taken care of her, and prevented any of this from happening”, Heath tells me, and he appeared hurt that I didn’t trust him with the safety of my child.

“We had to put her where no one would think to look for her. Because of this, I knew he would show up at all the strong packs, thinking that I would have put her there for her protection. Nina had suggested B***d Claw because they were a little speck on the map, small, and not worth attacking. Their land wasn’t that great, and it was just supposed to be for a year, until I got everything settled and completed. We put her there based on them being lacking, and therefore not anywhere we would have sent her”, I told him, and he nodded in understanding, but I could still see the hurt in his eyes.

“I am sorry my friend. I trust you with my life, and the lives of my children. I was trying not to abuse my power by using my position to protect my own child. I wish I had just told you what was going on, so you could make arrangements to help me, and then Peyton wouldn’t have been abused for the last 6 years”, I told him, and Percy could not contain his wolf any longer.