Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 13

Heath’s POV

Royal Knight Pack

I cannot believe that poor girl had been abused for 6 years by Alpha James. I just saw what he had done to the doctor, a full-grown wolf, in a matter of minutes. She would have been helpless to defend herself against him. My anger rises again, and I know Percy is struggling as I heard his wolf growling harder this time. I can tell by Percy’s growl that I need to defuse the situation before he phases here in this office.

“Aramis, please stop. She is OK and sitting in your lap right now. She isn’t going to reject you. Stay calm before you scare her unnecessarily. She has been through enough without your show of strength. There will be a time soon when the proper people will be punished for what they did to her. I will not be letting this go, so stay calm and don’t scare Peyton. You will get your chance to defend her soon”, I told him in a stern voice. Sometimes he can go overboard and be a little aggressive. He needs to keep a cool head. That is the only place where Dawson surpasses him. Dawson stays cool-headed and makes excellent decisions in a fight. Percy is strong and deadly with his weapons. Dawson is too, but Percy is better with weapons. I should know. I trained them both. Percy is much more aggressive, and in a fight, that is very beneficial. Here in the office, it is not.

I saw him calm down and then put his nose to Peyton’s throat to take in a deep breath. She giggled a little as his nose brushed her marking spot and she flushed. She is thankfully going to get back to normal, and I have to assume that she has the power of healing in her, just like her mother, as she is sitting here totally fine, with no obvious scarring on her. I am going to have to ask, and I am sure this is going to be a difficult question.

“I have to ask, because I saw Alpha James’ handiwork last night. Peyton, are you a healer? I only ask because that could be the only reason for you to still be OK after all these years. That is the only thing that could be, as I saw how he treated you for a brief moment when he was escorting us into the auditorium. He was angry at you, but not Timothy or Fallon. You were the obvious victim there, but he never saw it as such”, I asked her quietly, to keep Percy calm, and to not cause even more stress for Peyton.

“She is, Alpha Heath. We haven’t run tests on her yet to prove it, but her medical chart is 4 times larger than the next closest one, belonging to a warrior in our pack. He has been involved in many battles over the years. She should not be doing as well as she is. The last incident was what tipped us off. Alpha James had just hurt her again and her wrist was broken in several places, she had a hole in the back of her hand from Fallon standing on her hand and digging her heel in, as well as a sprained ankle. We set her wrist and put it in a temporary cast. She should have been injured for the whole week, even with wolf healing. But Katrina, I mean Peyton, did have a wolf. Not until her 20th birthday, that is. She woke up two days later, felt great, and went to get her cast removed. Her wrist had been broken in several places, and for her to be immediately healed as soon as she got her wolf, we suspected she was a healer. That was the only explanation for it. That was why we brought her here. Luna Queen Deanna is a healer as well and we figured she would be safe here and be able to learn to use her special abilities”, Doctor Williams said to the group.

I am stunned. Having a healer in your pack is rare, and they would be very important to have. The Goddess has favored Percy with this, and he needs to appreciate his mate. She is truly a gift to our pack, but it needs to be kept quiet. People are always trying to take healers, as they feel like in a war or rogue situation, you could use them to help your people. If someone had a healer, he could have his people healed with each battle, or until the healer passed out from reviving his people back again. It would be like having an army that could never die. They would become unstoppable. This is not good. I am now suspecting what the problem was for her to be taken away and hidden now.

“Sebastian, did the problem with Peyton stem from someone knowing, or assuming, that Peyton would get the gift of healing?” I asked, and I already knew the answer.

“Yes, a visiting Alpha was here, as a bird flew into the window and broke its neck. Payton loved animals and felt back for it. None of us knew she had the power until after her crying over the dead bird in her hands, it woke up and flew away. Due to Luna Deanna having the same power, he knew right then that she had it as well and wanted her for it. She was only 13 at the time, and I refused him wanting to take her as a mate. She was too young to tell if he was her mate anyway. He was 25 when he asked for her hand. I was already investigating him about his Luna dying under mysterious circumstances, despite her being young and healthy. I got no co-operation from his pack, and they all said the same thing. When you get so many similar answers, it tips you off that they have all been told what to say”, Sebastian told me, and I agreed. I have done too many interviews in my life to not know that was the truth.

“Heath, I also believe that he sent the men into B***d Claw to get her. I have no idea how they found her, but Peyton said that they were not rogues. She could smell that they were from a pack, and that she told Alpha James and Timothy both that. She said they both hit her after she told them, and they didn’t believe her. Alpha James then had the bodies immediately burned before the Beta could even look into it”, Sebastian said.

“The Beta was the only one willing to stand up and say that Katrina, I mean Peyton, could not have helped them in their attack. She had just turned 14, she didn’t have a wolf. There was nothing she could have done, but Alpha James was so distraught at losing the Luna, he would have killed anyone who even implied that she was innocent”, Amanda said, and the guilt in her voice was clear.

This poor girl had to have grown up through her hard teen years with no friends, and no support. She has had such a bad life. I will link Von on our way home and see if she can get her a room ready for her. We will put her on the Alpha floor with us, so Percy and I could protect her. He is going to need to take this slow. He is also going to have to take care of the problem that both Von and I had warned him about. He had been sneaking out to see Stephanie, and she was a she-devil. She has him wrapped good and tight around her finger. Neither of us liked her. She is lazy, and will not train. She also will not do her assigned duties at the pack house. She is an Omega and basically gets away with not doing anything, as she is running around the whole pack claiming to be the next Luna for Ever Green.

I lean my head back and look at the ceiling. I have been friends with Sebastian for a number of years, 26 to be exact, ever since he was 16 years old. I respect him and he is a good and fair Alpha King. I cannot allow anything to happen to Peyton. She has been through more in her young life than anyone should have had to go through. I already know what I will have to do, and he isn’t going to like it. I will call Gabi tonight and get her up to speed. We will make plans for Gabi to be there around the time we arrive. After all that Gabi had to go through with jealous females wanting Tanner, I really expected the boys to listen to our cautionary tales. We warned them both about these women just wanting a ranked man to take care of them because it was for their own good. But he didn’t, he was like a wild child after he left his parent’s pack. Maybe it was just guilt of hurting Gabi that kept him from doing it there at B***d Rose with his parents. I know he respects Von and me, but it was very disappointing to see what he was doing in my pack.

I thought I was going to have to set him straight, as I was going to tell him that if he took a chosen mate, and I was going to mention her name specifically, then he would have to wait to take over the pack. He was not making good decisions, and I would not allow my pack to suffer for it. I could turn it over to his mother for her to train Elena, who was 2 and a half years younger than her brothers, and she could take it over if she wished. She will be 18 years old soon, towards the end of May as her birthday is about 9 days away. I will let him know after we get back to the pack. I do not want to embarrass him here, in case someone were to overhear us speaking, but I will not hesitate to defend Peyton in this. She is an innocent victim in all of this, and I will not let Stephanie do anything to her. Even if it results in me having to banish her from our pack.

I glanced over at Peyton sitting in Percy’s lap, and she looked happy. I smiled back at her, and wish I knew what was going through Percy’s mind. It seemed that he was wanting her and totally willing to accept her. I believe they need to hold off on marking and especially on mating because Peyton has been through a really traumatic event, and she will need time to figure out what she wants. She has just now been saved from her hellish life, and it takes time to stop flinching and being scared of people in general, as it was apparent to me, that she was fair game to anyone at B***d Claw.

I will also need to up my patrols too. I need to make sure that Jasper doesn’t get his hands on her. He will not attack us, but that doesn’t mean that he won’t show up unannounced to try to see her after he finds out that she has come to Ever Green. I will also have to notify the guards at the gate, so we can keep Peyton safe in our pack/ Once word gets out about her and Percy being mates, it will spread like wildfire, as he and Dawson are both very eligible bachelors. A lot of girls’ hearts will be broken once they find out he is off the single list.

The talk continued while I was thinking and I realized that both Sebastian and Percy were looking at me and I said, “I am sorry I was making plans for my security to be increased with Peyton coming to Ever Green. I didn’t hear what was asked of me”.

“That is fine, Heath, I know that she will be safe with you there, and I figured you were already making plans for her safety already. When were you and Percy planning on leaving here?” Sebastian asked me.

“Tomorrow will be fine with me if that is acceptable to you and Deanna? I wasn’t planning on tearing her away from you, as I know you just got her back here after 7 years”, I told them, as I knew it was going to be very hard on them to let her go again.

“That is fine with us, Heath. Yes, we will miss her, but we got our baby girl back and you are only a little over an hour away from us. So, we can come to visit you at any time, and please know that we will. We can take turns doing it, so we don’t overwhelm you, but I am excited to see her fulfill her potential as Luna, with her mate. I couldn’t be happier about this Heath”, Sebastian said to me. I smiled and nodded because I am glad that our families are being joined as well. I just know that when we get there tomorrow, I don’t think that our arrival there will go as smoothly as they think it will.

I look at Percy, smiling and happy as he looks at Peyton, and wonder what he is thinking. How is he going to handle this Stephanie situation that he got himself into? I pray that he hasn’t done something stupid like sleep with her yet, and then realize that he has probably done a lot of things with her. She does tend to get around, and I don’t trust her at all. Yes, I will call in the calvary, and Von, to be there tomorrow when we arrive. I will not let this poor girl be a part of the show that I know that Stephanie will be putting on, as the only thing that she is truly good at that I have seen, is leading Percy into doing whatever she wants him to do.