Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 15

Dawson’s POV

B***d Rose Pack

Mom was mad, she had been all morning, but when I asked her if she was OK, she said she was fine. I know that she is not, and Dad is mad too, but he also said he was fine. I know I haven’t done anything lately, so I am in the clear, but if Percy did, it would be a problem because they went across the board with both of us. They will fuss at him, and me, even though I didn’t do anything, well, this time.

It was 3 pm and mom said to get ready that we were all going for a visit to Ever Green. Yes, there it is, Percy screwed up. Great, I will not be having a good day. Mom and dad also got some paperwork ready for them from the safe and said that we were making a quick stop on the way there. Dad told me to get upfront with him as he wanted to go over the paperwork with me. They are going to be turning the pack over to me by my 21st birthday, just like when dad took over the pack. Sooner if I find my mate, but after over 2 years of looking, I still haven’t found her yet, but I haven’t given up. I am still looking for her.

Dad tells me that we are stopping on the way to Ever Green to get the treaty with the Golden Moon pack signed, as the one we have expires in 2 weeks, at the end of May. Dad explains that it is the same treaty, with one change. The change is that both his name and my name are on it as Alphas this year. I am so glad that mom and dad have so much faith in me to go ahead and change the treaty to add me to it. Dad said next year, it will just have my name on it. He explains that they don’t know that we are coming but will when we get approval to enter from the guards at the gate. Dad mentions it is because the Alpha of the Golden Moon likes to talk a lot, and we have only got about an hour or so to spare. As he wanted to be at Ever Green by 6 pm.

Dad also wants me to go over it with the Alpha and Luna, and they will sit back and let me do it. That if I get to a spot where I don’t know what to tell them, dad will jump in to help me. Mom then spends the rest of the short car ride telling me about Golden Moon, as it is only 30 minutes away from our pack, so we like to keep a good relationship with them. Their pack isn’t very big, about 560 pack members, but they would be the first line of defense against an attack coming from the south of us. We wanted to be good neighbors, and keep the treaty in place. We have increased to almost 1,200 members, 1,185 to be exact.

I learned from Mom that Alpha Gerald Reynolds and his Luna, Meghan Reynolds, run the Golden Moon pack. That they had a son, Robinson, who they called Rob and would be taking over the pack soon, as he was already 21, but he was waiting for his mate for him to take over the pack. Mom said that they had 2 girls, one that would be a little younger than Percy and me, as Luna Meghan was pregnant at the same time as mom, but that she couldn’t remember her name. She said that they also had another daughter, who was 19 years old, and her name was Brandi.

I remembered Rob. I met him at the last two balls that were held in our area, as he was looking for his mate as well. Rob was a nice guy, and I hope we can continue to keep a great relationship between our packs. I hadn’t dated, and that kept me from making other Alphas jealous because Percy and I drew heads wherever we went. I do remember his younger sister Brandi from the one they had last summer. She had just turned 18, so it was her first one, and she kept coming back to ask for dances. I finally had to tell her to stop, that I was looking for my mate, and that I knew for sure that she was not my mate. She was clingy and pouty about it, very childish and spoiled and I was thankful that I dodged a bullet. She would not be a good Luna, she cares about herself way too much.

We got there and we were quickly allowed into the packlands, with dad driving straight up to the packhouse. I could see that the Reynolds had been rushed because the Alpha and Luna were at the top of the steps, and Rob came running up from the training fields to meet us, pulling a t-shirt on as he came up to us. I waited for him to get there and gave him a handshake, as I was in business mode, and he arched his eyebrow at me and then laughed. Dad and mom did too, but I was keeping it serious.

We headed up to the first-floor office when I smelled it, a flowery smell that was not perfume. It was strong and intoxicating, and I needed to follow it. Mom and dad were behind me, and my Mom was very observant and pulled me to the side before we were supposed to enter the office and said, “Do you scent your mate? What do you smell, Dawson?”

I nodded and told her it was the most alluring floral scent that I have ever smelled. She was really happy and headed into the office before me, telling me, “OK, let’s do this, and then we have another order of business to discuss”. Dad looked surprised, but Elena was bored and already on her phone on the far couch and could care less what was happening. Alpha Gerald, nodded absently towards us, as he was helping his son read over the contract and making a point to tell him what to look for, just like dad had done for me in the SUV on the way over here. Normally I would be very patient, but I could tell my mate was there, and I was excited about finding her. I want to know what she looked like and hold her close. I am so glad that I already KNEW that it wasn’t Brandi.

They finally signed the contract and I slid it back into the folder and put a clamp on it, so I wouldn’t lose any of it while I went to find my mate, before I could leave the office to go search for her, my mother did it for me.

“Alpha Gerald, if you could be so kind as to have all of your single wolves go to the training area, my son has scented his mate here, and we would like to find them, and take them with us, if that is alright with you,” my mother told him.

“How wonderful that Dawson found his mate here, that is so great. Maybe Rob will find his mate in your pack one of these days” Alpha Gerald said, and then mindlinked the single members of the pack to head to the training field.

Dad clapped me on the back and was excited for me, before pulling my mom in for a k**s. That was my cue to get out of there. Elena was happy for me and got off her phone to go with me to the training field to find my mate. I saw about 100 girls there, but I never got her scent. I looked around disappointed and really frustrated.

“Has anyone left the pack since we arrived?” I heard my mom say. I am struggling to breathe because I was so close to finding her, and I want her. I want to introduce her to my brother when we see him. I saw Alpha Gerald look over at Luna Meghan, and she said, “These are all the single wolves we have in the pack. I saw the look on Rob’s face, who sharply turned to look at his parents standing there.

“No, it isn’t. My sister is not here. You didn’t include her”, Robb said to them, and then the most irritating voice said, “Rob, I am right here” and started giggling.

I looked over to see Brandi, with two other she-wolves, and thankfully it was none of them. I looked at Rob and said, “No, I have already met Brandi, and I knew she was not my mate”. I heard her growl at me and then start walking away.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to see Elena. She is pointing back to the packhouse at someone in the window on the top floor. I look up at her and she takes my breath away. I felt a jolt go through me and I started walking back to the house, as I heard Brandi scream, “No it isn’t possible. He is not mated to the freak”. I can hear my mother speaking to Alpha Gerald and Luna Meghan about the fact that they had both just lied straight to our faces, but I couldn’t stop, until I realized I was going to need some help getting to her. I turned around and said, “Rob, can you help me get to my mate?”

Rob came up to me and said, “Sure, but you are going to owe me one” before laughing and heading to the packhouse.

We headed up to the Alpha floor and I noticed that there was a padlock on the outside of the door, locking the person inside the room and my wolf was pissed. I knew which room was hers because of the lock. It also didn’t help that Brandi was with us and bitching the whole time. I stopped walking and turned to her to say, “Your presence is not needed here, either shut up or go away. I don’t care which, but leave us alone”. She gasped in a breath as if she had never been spoken to like that, and I bet she hasn’t. She is the little princess here, and apparently, her sister is not.

“Hang on, I don’t know why mom would have locked her in here, she must have done it because you came. Hang on a second”, Rob told us as he went to mindlink his parents. He wasn’t alone. I was mindlinking my parents as well, and letting them know that they had locked their daughter up with a full padlock in her room. The lock and surrounding hardware were not new either, both pieces had rust on them, the padlock, and the main piece that was attached to the frame, and I was getting angrier by the second.

“Let me try, I can set her free” my wolf, Steele said.

“No, they are coming, I will give them a little while to get here” I linked back to him. I want to know what the hell is going on here. Why is my mate locked in the tower like some kind of medieval princess? I think Rob would be more forthcoming about it, than Alpha Gerald and Luna Meghan.

“Rob, I am not trying to start anything, but why in the hell is my mate locked behind this door? I am even more concerned by seeing this than I was about your parents lying to me about all the single wolves being on the training field”, I asked him.

Rob signed and went to respond before Brandi broke in and said, “She isn’t just a werewolf, you are going to wish I was your mate when you see her”. I turned to her and said, “Isn’t your room up here? How about you go to it and stay there?” She gasped at how I spoke to her and then thankfully left us alone.

Rob looked at me and said, “I love my sister, but I am the only one in the family that does. It is hard fighting with three of them against just me. My sister Sloan is in there and she is a wonderful girl. She is 20, she is beautiful, but for the last 8 years, my mother has been locking her in her room. She isn’t allowed to go to balls or special events, not even holidays with the family. In fact, if her Omega had been sick and not able to work today, you would never have known that she was there. I took her to lunch and back to her room before I went to training. Her Omega usually brings her food to her room, and then brings her tray back down to the kitchen. So really the Goddess was working in your favor today. My mother hates her with every fiber of her being. But dad won’t allow her to try to kill her”, Rob tells me. My sister gasped in shock, and my mouth was hanging open in disbelief. What the hell is going on in this pack for my mate to be treated like this? I growl out and the door is shaking with the power I am sending out.

The elevator door announces its arrival on the Alpha floor, and my mom is arguing with Luna Meghan as they exit. Luna Meghan needs to cool down because mom is about to kick her a*s. She is already twisting her hair up and siding the tail into her shirt and her earrings are already out, Luna Meghan needs to stop arguing with her right now. Alpha Gerald is talking to dad as they follow behind them and I know that Alpha Gerald is working to repair what Luna Meghan was still tearing down.

“I don’t think you understand, Sloan doesn’t need to leave here. We are taking care of her, and I highly doubt that she is mates with your son. I think he was mistaken. If the Goddess was involved, he would have been mated to Brandi, who would be an excellent Luna, and bear him handsome pups”, Luna Meghan said and looked over to her husband for support.

“I swear to the Goddess, Luna Meghan, if you don’t open that door right now, I will allow you to meet her. I will start a war between us if you do not give my son his mate. What is your problem? Stop stalling, and open this door” mom said, and she was not playing. Luna Meghan had no idea that my mom was ready to go right now, and was perfectly serious about going to war with them if they didn’t comply. My mother had done this before, but I have only seen it once before, when Percy and I had been threatened. Mom does not play when it comes to her children, and for once it is working out on my behalf. Dad nodded to Alpha Gerald, letting him know that mom was serious about it. I will tell you that they would drop them both where they stood, and Rob would be Alpha before their bodies were cold.

I could see Alpha Gerald’s eyes glaze over and I knew he was linking with some warriors to come up to the Alpha floor. I nodded over to him to let mom see and she said, “For the Goddess’s sake” before punching Alpha Gerald in the side of the head and knocking him out. Luna Meghan looked shocked and then started screaming. Mom turned to her and punched her too, knocking her out, as well.

I turned to Rob and said, “You will need to cancel the warriors, now Rob. Because if they come up and hurt any of my family, you WILL be at war with not just B***d Rose, but with Ever Green, and the Black Night pack too. We will be over 3,000 strong, and you will be leveled to the ground. I just want my mate. That is all. If she decides not to go, that is fine. But I want to see her, and I want to talk to her. I will not leave here without doing that. If your mom had just unlocked the door and let me meet her, none of this would have happened. I am very close to ripping up this treaty, but I will not leave here without my mate, she is mine” I growled out.

The elevator sounded again, and 8 warriors came out of it and started heading for us, and mom slid her weapon from its holster. It is about to get serious here.

Rob stepped forward and said, “Stop! Mom and dad started an argument with them over my sister Sloan. Dawson is her mate and wanted to take her with him. You know how mom is. They are OK, just knocked out. Please do not do anything that will result in a war between us and three packs that we would have no chance of winning. Let Sloan meet him, and if she wants to go with him, it is her right to go with her Goddess-given mate. Any of you would want that too”. He steps between us and the warriors, turning his back to us as a symbol of trust. Elena takes the key from Luna Meghan’s hand and unlocks the door, and my nose inhales the sweetest scent that I have ever smelled in my life.