Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 135

Peyton’s POV

Ever Green

Sloan is in labor, we got the call at noon, so we quickly packed our bags to head to B***d Rose. We will be taking three SUVs with us to go there. Heath and Von were in the lead SUV, with two warriors, one driving and one in the back seat with Von. Our oldest child, Sebastian Heath Wright, was born first and 5 lbs. even and sitting on the last row with his sister, Amanda Elise Wright. They were both probably nose-deep in their tablets for the trip as it is over 2 hours to get to B***d Rose. They both look just like their father with dark brown hair and blue eyes. Just like their father, and their grandmother, Gabi. Bas and Elise as we call them are both so smart and will soon be 6 years old in two months. It is our anniversary today, and I am excited that Dawson and Sloan’s baby will be arriving on it. Another reason to celebrate our special day. Sloan would be willing to have ten babies for Dawson, but she wanted to make sure that each child gets personal time with both her and Dawson. She is a great mom, they are actually both great parents.

She doesn’t want any of them to feel unloved, and I can understand where she would get that from. So, each child gets a special time frame each day with both their parents. Dawson gets Sunday with Sloan, and they will get to sleep in and have a date night on that day. But the kids love the one-on-one time with both their parents. They get to choose the activity, movie, dinner, shopping, or training, the kids get to pick and they really put some thought into it. They also get to spend time with Sloan in the kitchen as she teaches the kids how to cook or they all learn a new meal or dessert with the Omegas in the kitchen. She also trains four of the children in magic already as they are hybrids as well. Magnus, their firstborn, is not. He is a wolf, but a very strong one. The Goddess may have done that as cooperation between witches and wolves is not great at this time, as she decided to allow Magnus to just be a wolf, for him to run the pack after his father. I am pretty sure that he may very well carry the genetics for his future children to be hybrids as well.

I honestly don’t know how Sloan does it. She is like a superhero in what she does with the kids. She wants them to all be well-rounded and not spoiled, and that is tough, as everyone knows that they belong to the Alpha and Luna of the pack. That naturally comes with them having to sit the child down at a young age and explain to them why people are so nice to them. They need to realize that every member of the pack is important and vital to the pack’s success. Sloan is one of my best friends as well as my sister-in-law. I try to emulate her in how I parent, and we have also incorporated the “special day” for each of our four pups to be able to get one-on-one time with us. Percy gets Sundays as well, but he tells me that Saturdays are all mine. He takes the kids out and plays with them to let me sleep, catch up with work, or whatever I have put off lately until I can “get a minute” to get it done.

Our doing that has really helped, both us and the kids. Von and Heath are a huge help to us and dote on all of our pups. Heath also trains them, the oldest two have been training since they were four. Our third child, DeAnna Sloan Wright, who just turned four a few days ago, will be joining them soon. DeAnna is a healer, just like my mother and I, and is my twin with her blonde hair and green eyes. She has great empathy for others and is kind and gentle. She is the only one of our children who has received a gift from the Goddess, as far as we can tell. Our youngest child is going to be 2 next month, he is named Kevin Wells Wright. We were going to stop at three when the Goddess decided we needed one more, and I cannot imagine our life without him. He is the best of both of us with Percy’s brown hair, and my green eyes.

My baby boy is such a blessing to me, and he is doted on. Percy decided that we should name him after the warrior that helped to get me back when I was kidnapped. I totally agreed, I knew how emotional Percy was with me being taken. Kevin kept a level head, helped them to track my captors, and helped get a plan together to get me back safely. As a matter of fact, Kevin is one of my personal guards now for me and the kids when we need to leave Ever Green. He dotes on all four of our children, but I can tell how moved he was that Percy named the baby after him. Wells, his middle name, was a nod to his and Dawson’s great-grandfather, Wells Black. All of our children are named in love and respect for our family members.

Percy is driving and Kevin sits in the middle row next to the baby, and DeAnna as we head to B***d Rose. We are the middle SUV in this convoy, and I think back over the last 6-plus years. So much had happened and I think back to the day I arrived. The day that Stephanie absolutely ruined my arrival at the pack I was to lead. It makes a smile appear on my face that I got to be the one to carry out her sentence. I guess it is a perk to be the Alpha King’s daughter.

FLASHBACK

The sentence had just been announced for Stephanie and Jasper, and the courtroom cleared out a little at a time. I was sitting out on the second row in the gallery next to Gabi, Percy, Sloan, and Dawson as we waited. My father approached the Council with my mother, and I watched as they spoke with the council for a few minutes before motioning Gabi over to where they were speaking. Heath also approached the group as Gabi was walking up. I watched as they took turns looking over at me. I cannot help wondering why. What were they planning?

“Peyton, can you come here please?” My father called out to me. Percy stands up with me and walks over to where the Council is seated.

“Peyton, how do you feel your training is going?” Council Leader Miller asked me.

“I am doing well. I have been training for a month and a half, and I feel confident in my abilities. I have trained with Gabi, Heath, and some of the elite team members as well” I replied back to them, and they nodded it was quiet for about 20 seconds, as they all thought.

“It is up to you King Sebastian. We can handle it, as we are used to it, or you can allow Peyton to. I believe that she can do it if she would like to, as both Gabi and Heath are also confident in her abilities as well. We can make sure that she doesn’t get hurt, as Sloan can come too, just in case” Leader Miller stated, and they all nodded again. Gabi motioned Sloan and Dawson over and my father solved the mystery as soon as they stepped up to the group.

“Sloan, if you don’t mind, I asked for a favor from the Werewolf Council. I feel like Peyton will be able to get past what Stephanie did faster if she is allowed to carry out Stephanie’s sentence. The Council has someone who normally would do it, but after all that she put Peyton through, I felt this would be better closure for her in the long run” my father told the group. Sloan already knew what they wanted, and that was for me to be safe, just in case Stephanie had actually started training at Dark Savage. I was nervous. I have never killed anyone before, and I wasn’t sure that I even wanted to. I was going to have to think about this.

“Come with us. We are heading down now. I have also asked that I be allowed to carry out Jasper’s sentence” my father said as our group started in the direction that Stephanie and Jasper had been taken. We didn’t have to go far. I could hear Stephanie complaining from fifty feet away.

I could tell when she caught sight of the group. “Percy, please ask for my sentence to be reduced. I didn’t do anything bad enough to be killed for. I mean how was I to know that this” Stephanie paused to send me a contemptuous look before continuing, “person was the Alpha King’s daughter?”

“You threatened Peyton, after finding out as well moron” Gabi told her and then rolled her eyes at Stephanie’s thought process.

“Look, I messed up, but I will go away, so you never have to see me again. I feel like I have been put through enough with her friend poisoning me. I think I could be given a little leeway here” Stephanie said and tried to pout and look innocent.

“Not going to work. You stole, you lied, you manipulated, and you have earned your sentence. As a matter of fact, Peyton is going to be carrying it out” Leader Miller said to Stephanie. Stephanie threw her head back and started laughing like it was the funniest thing that she had ever heard.

“Her? Kill me? I think not. She is weak and doesn’t scare me at all. Now Gabi, and Heath, yes scared of them both. But Percy would never hurt me, or allow her to hurt me. She” Stephanie stopped as she sneered as she said she, “can’t hurt me either. What a ridiculous thought.” Stephanie said then started laughing out loud at the thought of it.

“I will do it” I softly said. I did need to do this. She had taken things away from me because she wanted to be Luna, and I needed to do this. I will never again allow anyone else to touch or hurt what is mine.

Stephanie laughed again and said, “What happens if I beat you? Huh Peyton, are you going to give Percy up? Or can I just go free after I beat her a*s?”

“Let her out and we will go into the arena to end this” Leader Miller said.

Stephanie was escorted out of her cell and the first thing she did was lunge at me, but I stood my ground and didn’t flinch. I knew that she was going to do it, and I wanted her to know that I was not scared of her, at all. Gabi and Heath were giving me tips all the way there and Percy had not let go of my hands. He comforted me as we went there, but I was fine, totally calm. I did need to do this, and I was absolutely sure I could beat her. She doesn’t train. She just sleeps around, and that kind of training won’t be helping her here.

She was uncuffed and I looked around the massive room. There were several areas in here. Some enclosed areas for other supernatural creatures to be held, or have their sentence carried out. Some with walls that witches and fairies can’t move through, so they are forced to stay here until their jail time is completed, or their lives were taken from them when their sentence was carried out. There is even an area with weapons hanging on the wall, clearly for a firing squad. A large area that was 60 x 60 and forty feet high. I wonder what they keep in there.

“Dragons, that cell is to hold dragons. Sometimes our cases involve other supernatural creatures in them. We need to be able to secure them” Leader Miller told me, seeing where my gaze was focused. I realize how sheltered I have been. I have never met one, I guess with them being the highest Council in our land, it makes sense that they would need to be able to do this when cases overlap or involve other supernatural creatures.

“Peyton, you are so stupid. You deserve what you are about to get, and I am glad that I am getting a chance to pay you back for everything that has happened since you ruined my life” Stephanie said, and I couldn’t stop my jaw from dropping. Seriously, how stupid is Stephanie?

“You need to tell me how I ruined your life. I did nothing. The Goddess gave Percy to me, I didn’t do anything wrong. If anyone did, it would be you. You knew that Percy wasn’t your mate, and still you chased after him. You are the one who should be ashamed, you are absolutely clueless Stephanie” I told her as she growled at me for pointing out the obvious to everyone.

“You have got this Peyton. Don’t let this i***t into your head. You are so strong. Don’t play with her, don’t give it a lot of thought. Just kill her, she deserves it after all that she put you through. It is better just to rip the band-aid off quickly. If you can’t do it, yell out and I will stop her, and the Council can call someone in so they can end her themselves. I won’t tell you that it is easy. Killing mom and Brandi sure wasn’t, but it had to be done. I feel better now that it is over with, and they won’t be popping back up like a snake to hurt me when I least expect it” Sloan told me and then rubbed my back in comfort and support.

I stepped into the ring and Stephanie immediately runs over and shifts into her wolf. I am so glad that Gabi was teaching me how to deal with this in my second week of training. This also explains why I was having to train twice a day for the first month. I just stopped thinking and let my instincts take over. Her wolf was bigger than mine, but her lack of training was obvious. She kept lunging at me but never made contact. I got several good blows in, and Stephanie was starting to slow down and get tired at just a few minutes in. I could hear chains making noise and saw Jasper being led into the room, from the corner of my eye. There was no way that I was going to take my eyes off Stephanie. I do need to end this, Stephanie earned this punishment. I don’t ever want to see his smug smile at me ever again, he has spent enough time in my head, and I won’t allow it anymore. I immediately phased into my wolf and Sienna is ready to go. She immediately crouches down and Stephanie, thinking that now is a good time to attack me and grab my throat, rushes toward us.

She jumps right at me, ready to grab my front paw and tear into it, but when she lands, I am no longer there. She spins around and raises her muzzle to see where I am, and I latched onto her neck, clamping down quickly and then tearing a huge part of her neck out. The b***d is flooding my mouth, and it tastes terrible and metallic, I keep myself from gagging or thinking too much about what is happening. I step back and watch as she takes a few breaths knowing that she will be passing soon, as she phases back into her human side. I see her looking over to Percy who is quickly heading towards me and pulling his shirt off over his head. He is going to cover me, so no one sees me when I shift back. Stephanie’s last sight is Percy pulling me into him and kissing the top of my head to tell me good job, before sliding his shirt over my naked body. No one is speaking before Jasper suddenly said, “Good job Peyton, I always knew that you would be strong. You did a great job. Are you going to fight me next?”

“No Jasper, you will be getting me. I can’t tell you how long I have been looking forward to this day” my father said as he steps forward away from my mother. He stops, k****s her on the top of her head, and then comes to the sparring circle. Dad stopped and gave me a hug. “Be safe dad. Don’t take any chances with him, you know that he cannot be trusted” I told him. Stephanie’s body has already been taken away, the b***d mopped up, and the area dried off. I am glad, I didn’t want my dad to slip in b***d while trying to fight with Jasper. Jasper is uncuffed and the chains hit the floor loudly. Jasper heads right toward me instead of to his side of the ring.

Percy steps in front of me protectively, and Jasper puts his hands up like he wasn’t trying to cause a problem and then looked down at me. “I meant what I said, I was planning on letting you get older before I claimed you as my own,” he tells me. My stomach turns, but I stepped from behind Percy to look up at Jasper and said, “You are repellent. The fact that you were willing to take a child, to try to use my imprisonment against me, to get me to fall in love with you shows just how far gone you are from reality. You have no idea how depraved and disgusting that actually is. There is no defense in the world that makes what you had planned for me right. Your plans for me, totally ruined my life, I suffered years of abuse, lost a mate, and you still have no remorse at all for that. The fact that two innocent women lost their lives trying to protect me after Fallon told your Beta where I was. The fact that the men you sent to get me died too, and you didn’t care about any of it. All that death, for nothing, all because you are greedy. You sicken me, and I hope my father disposes of you quickly.”

Jasper looks shocked that I would say that to him and is so focused on me as he stares with his mouth wide open at me, that he never saw my dad coming to literally push him into the ring. “Never speak to her again. You are dealing with me now, and you have earned every bit of what you are about to receive” my father tells him and then gets ready to fight, taking his stance.

Jasper gives me a smug smile, and said, “I will be right back over there to finish our conversation little one.” Jasper then takes his stance and acts like he is not concerned at all. He was wrong, he should have been worried.

Dad gives him a smile and then circled the mat with Jasper. I guess Jasper thought that since he was 18 years younger than my dad, he would have the upper hand in this. But dad has hated Jasper for the last seven years because of his plans for me, and what ended up happening to me, and he is really looking forward to killing him. Dad lands three consecutive punches to Jasper’s face, and the smug smile on Jasper’s face leaves. Jasper can’t believe what dad just did, but my father is very strong. He is the Alpha King for a reason. Dad continues to land blows all over Jasper as he tries to land a blow on my dad, and looks like a three-year-old out there. Jasper is bleeding, hurt, and incredibly frustrated. I bet he really thought that it would be easy to beat dad, and I guess this was a great lesson on Jasper not being anywhere near qualified to be the Alpha King.

Percy stands behind me with his arms wrapped around me letting his scent surround me to give me comfort while this fight happens. I have seen dad fight before. He is ruthless. I have heard from a young child to not allow someone who wanted me dead to walk away from a fight. At thirteen, I have never experienced a fight like that before, but I knew that the only way to feel safe is to deal with my enemies. As the children of the Alpha King, it had been drilled into all of us, as we all grew up with targets on our backs. I heard Jasper make a frustrated sound and knew that Bain was not letting him phase into his wolf. He was not going to help or support Jasper in this. Dad gave Jasper a smug smile and then approached him again. He knew that Jasper had thought that he was going to be able to fight better than he was currently, I am sure his imminent defeat was coming as a surprise to him.

Dad looked at Sloan, and I turned to look at her too, surprised when she nodded to dad. Dad suddenly dropped and flipped Jasper over him getting him on the ground. Dad quickly covered him and using his leverage we all heard the c***k when dad broke Jasper’s neck in a chokehold. The fight was done when dad’s hand formed into a claw and cut Jasper’s carotid artery, so he wouldn’t suffer trying to breathe. I know that dad only did that to help Bain, not Jasper. Jasper’s head was to the side and facing me with a surprised look on his face. I felt someone step up next to me and I heard Sloan tell me, “I blocked his wolf Bain from feeling this pain, and that block allows Jasper to feel all of the pain, instead of Bain having to carry the bulk of it. Bain is not in any pain, he never wanted any of this to happen, so it is only fair that Jasper feels all of it, as his denying Cassidy caused all of this to happen. Don’t worry Peyton it is almost over.” I am glad that they did that for Bain, he truly loved Cassidy, and he wanted her. Jasper deserved all that he got in this, and more actually. But I am glad dad decided to end it quickly, and then show mercy to Bain.

Jasper passed away a minute later, and dad comes over to thank Sloan for the help. He had it all planned out, I wonder how long he had been thinking about who was going to carry out Jasper’s sentence. I am just glad it is over with now.

FLASHBACK ENDS

Percy can feel me being upset at thinking about Bain’s passing, and all that Jasper had put both me, Cassidy, and Bain through. He then reaches over to take my hand in his and gives it a little squeeze. I will not dwell on that day anymore. I have actually only thought of it twice since it happened. Once in counseling right after it happened, and today. I have no idea why it just popped up today, on our anniversary. It had been 6 years two weeks ago, but I still feel so bad for Bain. I wish there had been a way to take Bain away from Jasper, for Bain to get a second chance as a wolf in a better human. I hope that she did that for him, giving him a wolf that would love and protect his mate. I have to think that he did get a wonderful mate. The Goddess gives us our mates at 18. He could have already been given his new shell, his human counterpart, and gotten his mate already. I have prayed before for him to have a good life, with the new love of his life. Hopefully, he gets a great mate and has a good life he deserves it.

Cassidy is living her best life and she and the doctor have three great pups. She is happier now than she ever has been and doctor Williams is as well. All three of their pups are showing signs of taking over and also working in the hospital when they grow up too. They have a little boy who is 5 years old, Montana, and a 4-year-old son named Mitchell, and their daughter, Andrea, is about to turn three. They are such a great family, and Cassidy only had to serve a year and a half when her ban to stay in Ever Green was lifted. Jasmine’s parents thought about it for a year afterward and then came back to the Council to tell them that they changed their minds based on what Bain had told them on the stand. I know that one, or all of Cassidy’s children will grow up and do something special because I believe that Goddess had me there to save her when she took her own life instead of living with the guilt. I see the gates for B***d Rose coming up in the distance and I get excited again about getting to see my new nephew today. Life is too short to focus on the negative things. I prefer to be happy, and being happy is a choice.