Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 18

Percy’s POV

I watch as my mate hugs her family goodbye and promises to let them know when she gets to Ever Green safely. I smile gently down at her and keep my hand on her back because I always want to touch her or hold her hand. Everything about her calms me and Aramis down, she is the very best thing that has ever happened to me, and I am so glad that the Goddess gave her to me. We are off to a late start due to Alpha King Hunt, and Heath going to B***d Claw to have a quick conversation with Alpha James.

I wanted to come with them, but they felt that with me being her mate, I might blow up and let it slip that we have her, and she wasn’t actually missing anymore. I agreed I couldn’t let that happen, so I was glad to stay behind and watch her pack. She moves so smoothly, watching her has become my favorite thing to do. She can just be standing there, and I think no one has ever done it better. I have it bad, and I don’t care if everyone knows it. I have caught her mother smiling at me several times, and I know that I am amusing her, but I can’t help myself. We spent hours together getting to know each other better. I got to spend time with Christian, Amanda, and Bryson and I invited them all to come to Ever Green to visit us there.

Christian and Amanda both said that they were going to be coming there in a week, to see how Peyton had settled in. Luna Queen Hunt had two suitcases filled with clothes, shoes, a new handbag and wallet, and a new cell phone as well. I could tell that Peyton was sad to leave her family. She had just gotten there the same night as us, we just didn’t know that she was there. Probably because we were behind her a few hours, and at the pack hospital getting Doctor Williams checked out for another two hours. We were not going to allow him to go back to B***d Claw. He was coming to Ever Green with us. The pack was big enough now that we really needed any extra help that we could get.

I was trying to figure out how to tell Peyton about my previous girlfriend. I had told Stephanie when I left yesterday morning that we needed to take a break, to seriously look for our mates. That I wanted my mate, and I encouraged her to look for hers as well. I knew that we would both be better off with our true mates. But Stephanie broke down and started telling me, “You promised to make me Luna, Percy. Just a few days ago, why are you doing this to me? I love you, I want to be with you. Even if you weren’t going to be Alpha, I would still want you”.

Aramis mindlinked me, “she is a lying w***e, who just wants to be Luna. She has no other reason for why she is doing this, other than the fact that she wants to promote herself to be the Luna. She does not love you and I know for a fact if you had Heath announce that he will not give you the pack if you are going to make Stephanie Luna. I already knew this as I have spoken to his wolf, Hunter, and Hunter told me that. So, it is a good thing you found Peyton, or else you were going to lose the pack that you love”.

“What in the hell are you talking about? Ever Green is my pack. I have been told that since I was a child”, I told him, and I am pissed off. I wonder who else knew about this?

“Heath and Von knew you were sneaking out to see Stephanie. You know neither one of them can stand her. You were also told since you were a child to not be messing around with any she-wolves that were not your mate, let alone ones that were going to be in YOUR pack, and yet what did you do, brainiac? You messed up. Stephanie will not let you go, and when Peyton gets there, if you don’t get it fixed for her, and support Peyton. You are going to have a heck of a time phasing dummy. I won’t let that jealous she-wolf hurt my mate”. Aramis linked me back.

Holy s**t, they knew I was sneaking out. This is not good. I don’t want to have to deal with this. I wish I had never done it, and now I know what dad meant when he said that he wished he could just have waited for mom. He did pretty well, he only messed with a few she-wolves, but it still hurt mom, especially since she had to deal with the backlash from it. Now my poor sweet Peyton will have to deal with it too. Aramis is right, I will not be allowing Stephanie to cause any problems between us. She needs to leave her alone, or I will deal with her. I am kicking myself for falling into her trap.

“Yes, you did, because you may not pay attention, but my hearing is a lot better than yours, and she has been telling everyone that will listen at Ever Green that she is going to be the next Luna. Heath and Von have heard her say it as well. Plus, she doesn’t do her assigned job duties with her “ getting out of work because I am the next Luna” speech. People are scared to argue with her, half the pack knows you are going to “visit” her. She is completely worthless, and I cannot believe that you cannot see how bad she is” Aramis linked to me.

This is worse than I thought. I was just going to excuse myself for a little while after we got back to Ever Green to go tell Stephanie that I had found my mate. But that may look even worse, and I don’t want Peyton to be caught up in the drama of it. I don’t ever want to make her doubt me. I am just going to link Stephanie on the way home and tell her we are completely done, and to not disrespect me or her new Luna. That I found my mate and my love, and we are done. She needs to go ahead and find her own happiness with her own mate. I only told her recently that I would consider her to be my chosen mate if, at 23, we haven’t found our mates. I only did it to get her to stop crying. I have always wanted to find my true mate.

I had been raised to know that I needed to find my mate, that I would be much stronger with a true mate. I was never going to give that up, but from the sounds of it, she was running around for a while saying that she would be the next Luna. I will be talking with her, but never alone again. If I have to, I will have Heath with me, or Von, so that she can’t say anything happened between us. I am seeing now what I aligned myself with and it isn’t a pretty picture. I looked down at Peyton, with her pink checks and she was just so perfect. There I said it, she is perfect, and I am so happy the Goddess gave her to me. I hope this doesn’t go badly, but now that Aramis has mentioned it, I know for a fact that it will. Stephanie is clingy and isn’t happy unless she gets her way. I have been giving into her for two years because of the bonus I get from her, but she keeps trying to push it further when she knows that I won’t have s*x with her. No one else will bear my pups, it will be my mate.

We were about 30 minutes away from Ever Green when I got a mindlink from Stephanie saying, “When will you be here baby? I can’t wait to see you. Maybe you can spend the night with me tonight. You can always sneak out after the Alpha and Luna go to sleep”.

“No, Stephanie, I will not be sneaking out ever again to come to meet you. I told you before I left that we were done. I meant it. I told you that I wanted to find my mate and was going to focus on that. I encourage you to do the same. I will be bringing your Luna home with me. Do NOT cause a scene about it. I will not allow you to hurt her”. I linked her back.

“Are you f*****g serious right now, Percy? You promised me that I would be the Luna. How could you do that to me? I have taken care of all your needs for the last 2 years, and you are just going to leave me behind, with no benefit to me from it? I won’t allow it. You are not just gonna love me and leave me. You thought wrong if you thought I was just going to step back and let you take my position away from me. I will ruin you in this pack. I will be the Luna, or no one will. I will kill that b***h if I have to, Percy. Do not get it wrong, it is me or no one”, Stephanie linked back.

“Is this a good time to tell you that I told you so” Aramis broke in and I growled out in anger. He is pissing me off and I have enough to deal with right now.

Heath looks back at me and I know he sees my eyes clouded over and he probably knows who I am mindlinking with. I linked him and told him, “Stephanie just threatened Peyton, after I told her that I had met my mate, and she would be Luna, not Stephanie”. Heath growls out too, and before he can respond, Stephanie links me back. “Percy, I am so sorry baby. I overreacted, it is just because I love you so much, that I can’t stand the thought of you being taken away from me”.

“Stephanie, I told you that we are done. We are. Accept it and move on, or I will have to punish you for the threat against the Luna that you just made”, I told her.

“Percy, she is not the Luna yet. I didn’t break any laws. There is nothing that you can punish me for doing. I may be an Omega, but I am not an i***t. Plus, it was in a mind link, so it is your word against mine. You are about to find out what happens when you make promises that you have no intentions of keeping. She will find out quickly just what kind of man she is mated to. You are going to be sorry for lying to me and leading me on, because I assure you, that is exactly what I am going to tell her. We girls have to stick together, so I am going to help her out”, Stephanie told me, and then started laughing before she cut the link.

Hold s**t, I am about to be destroyed here before I even have a chance to win her over. We are mates, we have a strong bond, but I have not marked her yet. I feel like I am about to cry here, that vicious she-wolf is about to take my mate away from me. We will be there in 20 minutes. I have to do something quickly or I will lose her. I have got to tell her the truth, right now, before Stephanie blows me out of the water, and I already know she is prepping to do it.

I turn to Peyton and grab her hand in mine and squeeze it lightly to get her attention as she is still looking out the window, probably at the gorgeous sunset that we are seeing. But I have to do this before I lose my nerve. I cannot lose her like this. I finally see why my parents drilled it into us so often. I thought I was smarter than them. That I knew better and could have fun while I waited for my mate. I was wrong, and I hope that what I have done hasn’t cost me my mate.