Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 20

Percy’s POV

Ever Green

Oh s**t, my mom is here and as I turn to her, I see my dad right behind her, and I already know this is bad. I turned back to Stephanie, who had apparently decided that she didn’t want to play anymore, with my mom yelling out, “Stop right there Stephanie”.

I see Stephanie turn back around to my mom, and she knows who she is. Mom and dad come here all the time to visit me, Von, Heath, and the elite training team. They all know that even though she is shorter than a normal she-wolf, she is not scared of anyone, and will put you in your place really quickly. I am already concerned that mom knows exactly who Stephanie is, and I know that knowing who she is means that mom knows what I have been doing. s**t, this is going to go badly for me.

“Percy, please tell me what the hell is going on here? I have heard about what you two have been doing. I found that out late last night, and I have to say I am very disappointed. How many times have I told you about these girls just wanting to be Luna that are not your mate? Did you not hear what your father and I said to all three of you? Did you think I was joking about how it feels, how it hurts your mate? How will she then have to face and deal with these potential women causing her deliberate pain? Undermining her because they are jealous of who her mate is when the Goddess gave you to her and not them. I am disappointed in you, Percy. I don’t know what else we could have said to have prevented this, but I also know she led you right along. You were not guilty of this alone” my mom said to us both.

“Look, we have been together for 2 years dating now. I love him and I want to be with him. I would do anything for him. He promised me that he would make me his chosen Luna. I plan on holding him to that. I am sorry he found his mate, but he was committed to me first. I wanted him, and he wanted me, or he wouldn’t have been coming out to see me for the last year in my home. He did promise me to make me his Luna, just ask him”, Stephanie brazenly said and stepped forward to wrap her arm tightly around mine and snuggle into me, like we were a happy couple. I see her look over at Peyton, who is clearly stunned, and this night has gone from bad to worse. This felt so wrong, and I wanted her off of me. She didn’t smell good like Peyton does. I want to touch Peyton all the time. I don’t want Stephanie to touch me ever again. Now that I have found my mate, I don’t want another.

“You are about to see where they are going with this Percy. Keep your mouth shut, and watch the show”, Aramis mindlinked me, and before I could ask why Heath stepped forward to Stephanie and me, I knew that it could and would get even worse.

“OK, Stephanie, you can have Percy if you want. But as the Alpha of Ever Green, I am telling you now, that he will not be taking over my pack from me. Him not waiting on his true mate and being with you. Sneaking around to go to your house, showed me what Percy really wanted in life. But you have shown everyone in this pack what your worth is. You sleep around, not with Percy, but with other men in the pack, as he won’t sleep with you. You don’t help with anything in this pack. You have a scheduled shift you are supposed to work, and you make other girls do your work for you. Yet you still show up to get your check every week. You have been doing that for the last year. Von baby, can you tell me how much she owes the pack now?” Heath called out behind him to my grandmother, while staring at Stephanie.

“Heath, Stephanie has been getting paid for the last year and a month, and right now today, she owes the pack $41,340 dollars. She has not worked to receive her pay in 57 weeks, and as of tomorrow, she will owe another $738.21 as it is already scheduled to go into her account”, Von calls out and then wraps her arm around Peyton. Peyton is still stunned and when I tried to get Stephanie off of me to go to her, Heath stepped into my line of sight to block her from me, and I knew he was about to blow me out of the water this time.

“What does it matter that I have been getting paid? I am about to be the Luna here, so I see no problem with what I have been doing. All of the funds are about to belong to me and Percy anyway, so what is the big deal? He just needs to reject her and mark me, and we will be done with this”, Stephanie said, bumping me in the arm like the idea she just tossed out there was a good one. It wasn’t.

“That is where you are incorrect, Stephanie. The Luna cares for all the packmembers, you only care for yourself. You not seeing what the problem is, is the problem. You have to care about every one of your pack members, and you are willing to overwork your fellow Omegas, and then, on top of that, get money for the work they did. That is unbelievable. For you to not see a problem with it makes me realize that Percy has made a huge and incorrect choice with you being made the chosen Luna. I have no faith in him or his decisions. So, I am sorry to tell you that he will not be taking over Ever Green”, Heath told her.

“But it was my birthright” I called out in pain. Even knowing where he is going with this, and that it is not real, still hurts me. I have disappointed all of the important people in my life, because I had to have a good time with Stephanie, along with several others.

“It was your choice to pick her. She is not able to take care about the pack, so you took it out of my hands. You will not be the Alpha here, and you will go back to the B***d Rose pack and become the co-Beta there”, Heath tells me, and I am almost shaking in anger.

“But I was supposed to be Luna here. Am I going with Percy back to B***d Rose to be the Beta female?” Stephanie asked. Goddess, she is still after the position.

“No, Percy will not be co-Beta. He will be a warrior. His mother and I have discussed it, and we feel that it is best for him to start over with his training and get his head on straight. He will not be a Beta”, my father called out to me.

“A warrior?” Stephanie screeched out. “My true mate was just a warrior, and I rejected him because I needed someone higher up in the pack. I already had a warrior, I don’t want to have to exist on warriors’ pay”, Stephanie said.

“You won’t have to, you will still be an Omega there, and get your Omega pay. Well, you will after you pay Ever Green back all the money you were paid for working when you weren’t working. Luckily, we pay about the same as Ever Green, so here in about 13 months, you will start getting paid again. If you give the money you are getting paid tomorrow back, otherwise, you will owe for 13 months and 1 week”, mom said to Stephanie, and seeing her mouth fly open at hearing that, almost made me laugh, except it was really serious.

“No! I have not worked all this time, to groom Percy to make me his Luna, for it to all be taken away like that. That is not fair. I won’t accept it, and neither will he. You don’t have any children that you can pass Ever Green on to. I can do better. Von can train me. I can learn to care more. You haven’t even given me a chance yet”. Stephanie started to whine now, and I could see the wheels working in her head.

“I have already made my decision. Gabi will be taking over the pack, while Elena is trained to become the Alpha of this pack. Do not worry your pretty little head about it, Stephanie. I have it handled. You can still have Percy, and Tanner here has made all the arrangements for a cute little cottage near the training fields for you two to live in. Now, it isn’t as big as your house now, but it will work until Percy rises up the ranks to most likely be the head warrior or the training warrior. He would excel at either of them. You will be taken care of, you will already have a house, and you can eat at the packhouse, so the debt will be paid off fairly quickly”, Heath told Stephanie, and the scowl couldn’t be hidden from her face now.

I see what they have been saying, she planned this the whole time. She lured me in with what we were doing and then had s*x with other men after I left. I never knew her at all. I really believed that she loved me. That was the reason she wanted us to do what we did. I guess that was conceit on my part. I was an arrogant guy, and I assumed that she wanted me because I was one of the most eligible singles around, but it was all a lie. She was only interested in being the Luna, having money, and getting what she wanted, even if the pack had to suffer for it. That is not how a Luna is supposed to be. They are supposed to be like my sweet mate over there, who was still watching this play out, but she would not look me in the eye anymore.

It hit me right then, this whole thing playing out as it has, was not going to be the worst of it, it would be having to face my mate who just heard that I had told another that they could have her position, hot on the tail of her first mate having done the same thing. There is no way that this has not hurt her, and I will do anything to keep her as my mate. I loved her completely and I want her more than I have wanted anything in my whole life. Then I had to face my mother, and she was really pissed off. I looked up to the sky and prayed to the Goddess that I could fix this for both of them. I love my mate and my mom more than anyone else, and it hurts my heart that I hurt them both.

“Great job Percy, I didn’t want to be an Alpha. Thanks for thinking of others when you were wanting to mess around with this slut” I heard my sister say, and the knife dug in further. I see my brother and a woman next to him standing behind Elena, and I am just so freaking glad that my whole family is here to see my little indiscretion get broadcast to everyone present, and it has grown to about 100 wolves now, being nosey and wanting to see what happens next. This is not how I pictured me returning to the pack with my mate.

“I am not paying the money back, Heath. If you knew I was doing it and allowed it, then that is on you two. You have never liked me or given me a fair shake. You thought that since I was an Omega, I was worthless. But I am not, I have value, even if you two can’t see it”. Stephanie rallies and tries to get the crowd on her side, but it is too late. They saw her for what she was, an opportunist that tried to lure me by using her s****l favors to try to get the Luna position. I thank the Goddess that I never had s*x with her because that would have been so much worse. I still don’t know if Peyton will still want me after this, or not. She looks upset and I am upset as well.

“Stephanie, you forget that Heath and Von adopted me when I was just “an Omega”, so do not play the rank card here. You will pay the money you owe us back, or you will be banished from the Ever Green pack. You stole from us. That is embezzlement. You showed up every Friday and signed a sheet saying that YOU worked YOUR assigned duties here in the pack. You didn’t, you bullied, and strong-armed others into doing it for you. You knew that they were too scared to tell on you because you were telling everyone here that you were about to be the Luna, and you lied to them. You will not be getting the Luna position. The pack is about to become mine now, and very soon it will be my daughters. You will either pay it back, or I guess we can take it to the werewolf council to see what they decide that we can do to you for punishment” my mom told her, and she was mad, really mad, and I think Stephanie was about to get her a*s handed to her.

“You wouldn’t”, Stephanie gasped. She knew that, because of the amount of money that we were talking about, she could be facing years in a cell at Ever Green.

“Oh, I would. I know exactly who and what you are. You wanted what wasn’t yours and tried to take it. I didn’t deserve it when it happened to me, and this sweet girl doesn’t deserve it either. You were the cause of this whole thing, you set your eyes on my son, and tried to lure him in. I am proud to have Peyton as my daughter-in-law, and I only hope that she won’t reject my i***t son for being led by you to try to take the Luna spot away from his rightful mate”, mom told Stephanie. My mom is hurt by what I did, but she knows that Stephanie specifically went after me. She will forgive me, but she and dad are pretty pissed right now.

“Fine, then I choose banishment then. I didn’t like it here anyway. I was just going to stay because I was going to be Luna. Hey, Peyton, just remember that he was going to give me your spot. He may have just found you, but he has been sneaking out to me for over 2 years now. We may not have had s*x yet, but we did everything else. So, all your firsts, he has already done them with me. You may be getting him now, but I have already had him. I hope you enjoy my used goods. Remember that when he tries to touch you again”, Stephanie said and started laughing as she tried to k**s me. I push her off me, and she laughs even harder. “Enjoy being a warrior, Percy,” She says to me.

“You have 1 hour to get your a*s out of MY pack. At 1 hour and 1 minute, I want her to be put into a cell”, mom instructed the three warriors near her to follow Stephanie. Stephanie was no longer messing around anymore, but sprinting back to her house to pack up and get her car loaded up and get out of our pack, she knew mom wasn’t playing with her. The warriors were easily keeping up with her and a fourth warrior took the second SUV from our convoy back to Ever Green and drove it over to her house, to follow her to the border after she got packed up.

I tried to go to mom and tell her I was sorry, but she looked up at me and said, “Not now Percy, I cannot believe that you put this poor girl into this kind of a mess. I am so disappointed in you. What if she rejects you because of this? That was a horrible girl, and I know what you thought when you saw her; a good time, because that is exactly what she wanted you to see. I am going to be so angry if we have a rightfully angry Alpha King here in the morning. How could you not have cleared this up? I would like to meet her while I still have two soon-to-be daughters-in-law. Please give her time and space if she asks for it, Percy. I will speak to you tomorrow” my mom said, and I could see the tears in her eyes because of my not having listened to her and created the same thing she went through.

This was hard on her, and I caused it. Dad looked at me for a minute and I knew he was pissed too, before turning and heading off after mom. Von and Heath are flanking Peyton, as they escort her into the packhouse. I see she hasn’t got her luggage out yet. s**t, every single person that I cared about is hurt right now, and I never wanted that. But seeing Peyton leaving her luggage in the SUV, has me scared to my soul. Please, Goddess, don’t let her leave me over this.