Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 19

Peyton’s POV

Nearing Ever Green Pack

I felt a squeeze on my hand, and I turned to see Percy looking at me earnestly. He seemed upset and I knew he was mindlinking earlier, probably with someone in the pack, so I gave him privacy. I will admit I got a little scared when he growled a few minutes ago, but he seems calmer now. Probably because he is touching me. Mates soothe each other, and I enjoy the little tingles on my hand.

“Baby, I need to tell you something and it isn’t going to be easy. I want to apologize to you beforehand, but I will work to make it up to you for years if I have to. Just please, I love you. Please don’t leave me”, Percy said, and now I am concerned. There are only a few things that would cause a mate to walk away from another and I am really scared of what he is about to say to me.

What in the fresh hell is this? I really thought that my life was going to pick up. To be better, although this would have to be completely horrible even compared to what I have just gone through for the last 6 years. Why is he just now popping up with the “I have to tell you something?” This didn’t just happen, or at least I don’t think it did. I am starting to get upset and I want to pull my hand back away from his, but I already know that he will just keep holding onto it. I feel sick and out of control. I am trying to brace for the bad news, but I already feel tears coming to my eyes. I wish he had told me about this in mom and dad’s pack. How embarrassing is this going to be for me? I know Christian will come and get me if I need him to, and I am trying to calm down, but I felt the tear when it escaped from the corner of my eye.

Percy sees the tear and he has to close his eyes because I know he is affected by my tear sliding down my face and I know that I am close to crying. He is having a hard time trying to say it, but I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that I will be more upset by his “revelation” than he will. Why didn’t he tell me before we left my parent’s pack? I already know why, because this is going to be bad, really bad. He could have told me there, and then I could have decided on whether I needed to stay there while he dealt with whatever this is.

“Peyton, please just hear me out. I have been kind of dating a girl at Ever Green for the last 2 years since I came here from my parent’s pack. Her name is Stephanie. She just mind linked me and said that she was going to cause problems for me, and for you, and then kind of threatened you. I am sorry. I told her before I left to go to Timothy’s engagement announcement that I was looking for my mate, and I encouraged her to do the same. She doesn’t want to, she wants to be the Luna of Ever Green, and it has come to a head now”, Percy tells me.

I stay focused on his eyes, and he seems sincere in what he is telling me. I can tell he is being honest with me. If that is all that it is, he scared me for no reason. I wish he had said that it wasn’t that bad, so I wouldn’t have panicked about hearing it. I smiled at him and brushed the tears away and kept my hand in his. I was not going to hurt him by jerking it away, and I can accept that. I hope that is all of his revelation for me. I allowed myself to relax in my seat, but then I got a little doubt popping up in me. That WASN’T that bad, so what did she threaten him with? He just glazed right over that. She threatened him. With what? She was threatening to tell me what? Let’s not forget she threatened me. With what? Physical harm? Death? What is she planning on telling me, because from the sounds of it, she is going to start something when we get there, and I am really not up for this. The tears come back again, faster this time.

I had just found my good mate. I refused to acknowledge Timothy as anything but a mistake on the Goddess’s part. I hope he and Fallon have a long and horrible reign over B***d Claw. Screw both of them. But Percy, this is hurting my heart. I was so happy. He seemed to love me from the moment he knew I was his. Why am I being punished again? What have I done to deserve this? I was a good kid, I didn’t act up much, I was kind to both my brothers and I know that I have done nothing to deserve this. I have had to deal with a lot of abuse trying to run from a man that was warped enough to try to claim me at 13 years old. I cannot stop the sob from coming out of my mouth and I pulled my hand away from Percy’s.

He goes to grab it again and take it back into his hand, but I turn my body towards the window to look out at the beautiful sunset that I had just enjoyed a few short minutes ago. I am trying to focus on the stunning colors that are showing in the sky and trying to get my mind to stop racing. I am panicking about what I need to do next. How is my arrival at the pack that I was supposed to become Luna of now going so horribly wrong? I know it is about to go badly because that was what she threatened. He doesn’t have to say it. He is not giving me the full information that I need from him, and I am going to be the one embarrassed by it. I have never done anything to this girl, yet she is gunning for me. I can tell he is upset, he wants to comfort me, because he can feel my emotions, even without us being marked.

I wish he had said something before. I do not know if I can take this alone. Make no mistake about it, because I will be alone. Well, I have Heath and Von, I am sure, but I am struggling not to just ask Christian to come and get me. I just wanted a mate, to love me and I wanted a few pups, and this is the second bad hand that I have been dealt. This is not fair, but when in the last 6 years has it been? I have dealt with more pain than a person should have, and I am still here. I will cry now because when I get there, she will not be seeing me cry. I will take in all that she hits me with, and then I will decide how I want to move forward.

If it is bad enough, I will just reject him and then go back home. I feel like I need to message Christian now, but I am sure that he will get dad and they will probably all come as a family to get me, and warriors will be involved. I will not do that to Heath. I can’t say anything about Percy right now, because I am mad enough right now, to stay in another pack until I can get past this. Until the shame of this blows over, but since it hasn’t happened yet, I don’t know how long I would need to go, or where I could go. But I do know that this will be a crap show, and I didn’t sign up for it.

I see Heath is studying me in the side mirror since I am turned away from Percy. I know he is hurt by that, but he has got to see my side of it. He KNEW this information and I feel like he planned this out, thinking that we would make our bond stronger, and I would not be able to leave him. I feel set up and angry. I felt the hot tears coming back and I mindlink my wolf, Sienna, “Hey, I know you heard what he said, and he omitted a lot. I am concerned. I do NOT want to cry in front of my potential pack”.

“Yes, I heard it, and she had better tread lightly. I have had a hard three days. You have been under too much, and we had to leave B***d Claw. We have one good day with family, and now we are heading to our mate’s pack today, and not know if the shock we are about to receive is that she is pregnant, or what it is going to be, but if it gets bad enough, I will take care of her. We can fight for the Luna position” Sienna told me.

“I have not trained, ever. I don’t know how to fight”. I linked her back.

“Don’t worry Peyton, I have got this. She is an Omega, and from what Aramis told me, she hasn’t trained and has been spoiled. I have already told you that we are strong, and we are special too. You are not just a healer. You can put your faith in me. You will soon get help in your first phase, and we can have a good long run”, Sienna told me.

“Who is Aramis? Why is he telling you this stuff?” I linked Sienna.

“He is Percy’s wolf. He loves us completely. He is angry with Percy too, but he said that although Percy did do most of it, he was waiting to have s*x until he met his mate, so it was not ideal, but she would come off looking worse for it, because she was w*****g herself out, to become Luna. It will be obvious to all that see it, and if not, maybe you should mention it, you know if it comes up in conversation” Sienna said, and then laughed.

I feel better as he did do more than k**s, but he did break it off with her before he found me, so that helps me feel better. She is just another woman who wants a ranked wolf, for money, power, ambition, whatever it is that they want, instead of wanting to have their true mate. “OK, then why do I have a gut feeling that I am about to have the rug pulled out from under me? Percy is a really attractive man, and they tend not to want to wait. I am not happy about it, but I can get past that. I just feel like there is something else that I don’t know about yet. Something big, that is something that I should know. Do you know what it is?” I asked her.

I got no reply from her, but the warrior driving the SUV said, “We are here” and I know the men are glad to be back home. I liked the pack symbol on the gates and the pack is huge and very nice. I like the forest nearby, and how it is set up, with a very large packhouse, and like subdivisions of little homes, in various sizes where the families were living. It was well thought out and managed and I would expect nothing less from Heath. He was my hero growing up and I may have had a little crush on him when I was younger. He was bigger than life. I thought that Heath and Von were a great couple, and I enjoyed getting to visit them on each trip they made to the Royal Knight pack. I know, without having to ask, that he will be my hero again in this. I try to calm myself down, but the anticipation of what is about to happen is making it hard for me to calm down.

We pull up to the packhouse and I see Von, looking as beautiful as ever as I get out of the SUV. She comes right to me and starts to hug me, as she hasn’t seen me for 7 years now. I hugged her back and she murmured in my ear, “Heath and I have you little one. Don’t worry about anything”. Of course, she knows, I am sure Heath mindlinked her in the SUV to let her know what had just happened. Heath came up and hugged me too, and said, “She is right. I will let nothing happen to you. Percy is a good man, but young and naïve. He fell for her tricks, and she was now going to try to slither her way into the position. Do not worry. I will be settling this once and for all. He needs this wake-up call”.

I have no idea what is going on, but I see a very attractive girl heading for us quickly with a group of girls with her. I make sure I look at her little friends, I don’t want to be getting caught alone with any of them, and it is about 20 girls in total. I will wait to see what happens, as they may just be wanting to see what happens between Percy and Stephanie, and are not actually supporting her in whatever she is about to try to do. She is heading right towards Percy and attempts to k**s him right in front of me. That is low, and I went to approach her. I feel Heath’s hand on my wrist and he shakes his head from side to side to tell me to stop. He is waiting for something, and I wait to see what it is.

I heard another SUV coming up and I see her fall in Percy’s arms and start crying and wailing, and I can’t really hear what she is saying from this side of the SUV, but Von takes my hand in hers and leads me to the other side of the SUV where this Stephanie girl is really pulling out all the stops and is trying for an academy award.

“What in the hell have you done, Percival Heath Wright?” comes ringing through the dusk, and Percy jerks up, and Stephanie stops her crying act, and starts backing away. I don’t know who this lady is, but with his whole name being called, I am sure this is Gabi Wright, Percy’s mom, and I have heard great things about her, and now I am happy to have a good seat for the show.