Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 22

Peyton’s POV

Ever Green

That was so embarrassing, but not as much for me, as it was for her. Her character was exposed to everyone standing there, and they saw what she had done to try to become Luna. They were also well aware of how bad of a Luna she would have been. She has shown that in her not caring about them for the last 2 years, she bullied and manipulated them around to get out of doing any of her work. She would have done the same and with even more of a cost to the pack if she had become Luna.

I am still red in the face though, because I was embarrassed too. I knew he probably wouldn’t have waited, but for so many members of the pack to have seen that terrible show, was still so humiliating. That was an awkward situation, but I am so thankful that I had Von and Heath in my corner for me. They were showing me support, which resulted in everyone there standing with me. I was concerned about the number of girls that originally showed up with her, as I thought they were her friends and were there to support her in this. It turned out that they were the ones that had been doing the work for her and they ended up angry that she had been doing it to all of them. They each thought that they were the ones picking up an extra job duty or two when in reality she was getting them all to cover for her.

They moved away from her quickly, seeing that she was still being paid for the work that they had done. You could see the anger on their faces when she blew it off and acted like it was no big deal. I will try to fix that for them. Even if she doesn’t pay it back, and I am pretty positive that she will NOT be paying it back, since she decided to leave, instead of doing the right thing, I will try to divide the same amount of money that she took between them to make it right. They earned it and they deserved it. I will also make sure that they can come to me at any time to let me know when something is not right, or if they are not being treated fairly and with respect. I was just in the same boat as them on Friday. I haven’t forgotten what that felt like in 2 days’ time.

I started listening again as I heard my name being called out gently. I looked up and I heard, “I am so sorry that your welcome here ended up like this. I didn’t know what was going on here, and we couldn’t force him to stop, he needed to do that on his own, or he would just have been sneaking around trying to do it behind our backs. I am so sorry Peyton, you didn’t deserve this, and I thought I raised my boys better than that. I do know this, Percy loves you and I hope you will forgive him. I know it is your decision, but I have never seen him more torn up over something than he was at thinking that he has lost you. Let him make it up to you, it won’t hurt him to k**s up to you. I look forward to seeing it. Let me know if you need anything at all. I will help you in any way that I can”, Gabi told me. I am so thankful that she was letting me know that she had experienced this herself and knew what I was feeling.

He never slept with her, he was waiting for me to do that, so that was a win for me. I am not furious with him, I am just frustrated with him because he could have warned me about what she was going to say instead of me hearing it from her ugly mouth. He might have promised her that she could be Luna, but he had also told her to look for her mate herself, so he hadn’t fully committed to her yet. She had just been laying down the groundwork to try to make him hers. It was too bad for her he met me first.

I felt eyes on me, and I turned to look at Percy. He was at the entrance to the dining room and watching me. He has so much pain in his eyes, and I can tell that he is upset. I saw him taking my luggage upstairs after we came in. I had deliberately left them in the SUV because I had not decided on whether I wanted to stay or not. I wanted to see what was going to happen with this she-wolf, Stephanie. It wasn’t as bad as I anticipated it was going to be, but I will still have to speak to him. I don’t want to be blindsided again like I was today. I want him to be open and honest with me, from now on, even if he thinks that I won’t like it. I want him to view us as a team, for us to deal with whatever comes to us, together, as a united front.

I gave him a small smile and I saw his eyes light up. He is happier now that he knows I don’t hate him, but he is not out of the woods yet. I planned on teasing him before I let him know that we were going to be OK. I waited for him to come and sit at the table before I spoke up.

“Gabi, I did have a question for you and Tanner,” I said, and the whole table stopped talking and looked at me. They were all curious to see what I was going to say.

“What is it honey, I would be glad to answer it,” Gabi tells me, and Tanner is looking intently over her shoulder at me, waiting to see what I am going to say.

“I was just wondering if I am welcome to live at the warrior’s house with Percy? Or if that was just something that Stephanie was going to receive?” I said, and the explosion of laughter that erupted from them made me smile a full smile, and Percy was grinning at me too.

“I love that you can have a sense of humor about this. I was so worried about my son. He loves you, and he made a mistake. I am quite sure that he is totally willing to toe the line for you, just to make you happy, Peyton” Gabi said to me, still chuckling about the joke I made. I was sitting next to Elena, and she smiled at me before getting up from her chair and nodding to Percy for him to take it. It let Percy be able to come over to me. I knew he needed some comfort, so I went to hold his hand, and instead, he pulled me up and onto his lap and inhaled deeply to get my scent. I squeaked when he did it and I saw his family grinning at him. I know that the worst is over for him.

“We will need some of you to sleep on the Beta floor as we have put Peyton on the Alpha floor already, she needs to be secured. I promised her father that I would be keeping her safe, but only a fool would even try to come here tonight or tomorrow with all of us here”, Heath said to the group.

“I didn’t realize that I would be meeting my mate on this trip, but I am so glad I did,” his twin brother said, and I looked over at the pretty girl next to him and he had his arm wrapped around her shoulder and her drawn into his side. I saw her look up at me, feeling my gaze on her, and I gasped at seeing her beautiful purple eyes. She immediately looked down again, at my gasp, and I felt like I should clear the air for her.

“I love your eyes, they are gorgeous. I knew a warlock. He was a friend of my father’s and he was the one who put a spell on me to block my memories while I was being hidden at B***d Claw. Thankfully, he put in a stipulation that if I found my mate, I would regain my memories. It wasn’t immediate, but I am so thankful that they all came flooding back when we got to the Royal Pack. I owe him for doing that, I needed to get out of there, and if I didn’t realize that I did have some power and strength, I would probably still be there”, I told the group and was rewarded by the woman looking back at me and smiling.

“I haven’t been trained in witchcraft. My mother hated me because I took after my paternal grandmother. My mother hates witches. She didn’t want me to learn any of it. But I would love to learn how to use my gifts” the young woman said softly to the table. I made a mental note to reach out to my dad and ask him if he could get Vincent to try to help her learn to use her powers.

“I think that you would rock it, it is your heritage, and I feel that it is important for you to learn at least some spells. I think that would be such a great thing to learn. How awesome would it be to be able to cast spells? My name is Peyton”. I leaned over to shake her hand and she blushed and said, “Sloan, Sloan Reynolds from the Golden Moon pack”.

“I think we have had enough excitement for one day. I think that we three need to just be in Peyton’s room, and they guys can share Percy’s. Both rooms have couches in them, it would be like a sleepover”, Elena said, and the twins growled in unison.

“I have never been to a sleepover?” Sloan said.

“I haven’t either. What do you do during a sleepover?” I asked, as Sloan and I grinned at Elena.

“I will take care of you both. You are going to love it. Plus, this has been a very long day, and it won’t kill the guys to give you one night off. They just found you, they can let me get to know you too. The Goddess knows that they won’t be letting either one of you go after you become a mated pair”, Elena said, and everyone at the table agreed, except the twins.

“We just found our mates Elena. How heartless can you be?” Percy said, and then he frowned because, from the look Elena was sending him, he knew she was already ready for him.

“After the show, we all just got to watch. I think you need to calm down there, Percy. Maybe take this night to remember what a gift your mate is, and not to tamper with nasty sluts. You have a quality woman here, so I know you won’t mess up again, but let me get to know them before they get taken away. We all know that you will want to be with them all the time after you both get them marked and mated. So just give me a minute to see who they are, and they can see who I am. They are to become my new sisters, let me meet them”, Elena told the twins, and they both held out their hands facing Elena as a sign that they gave up.

Elena impresses me, she is strong, confident, and she has absolutely no fear. I wish I knew what that felt like. I have a moment where I remember the feeling of my arm breaking as I was shoved into the post because I hadn’t brought the right dish out to the Alpha’s table, but I took what I was told to bring. Abigail was right behind me with what he wanted, but he used any excuse at all to punish me. I know I am getting stressed because I feel Percy’s warm hand rubbing my back, and then feel him pulling me in closer for me to take in a deep breath of his scent to calm me. I snuggle back into Percy, and I am so thankful that I got him as my mate. He soothes my soul.

Percy escorts me up to my room, as his brother escorts his mate, Sloan, and Elena brings up the rear and then makes sounds of her being grossed out as we each get a good night k**s from our mates. In our world, it is acceptable after we find our mates to go ahead and either mark or mate with them. I would be well within my right to do it, but I am still getting my bearings right now. Things are still causing me issues, and I am still having nightmares during the night. Percy will be much closer than he usually is to me, and I am hoping the rooms are soundproof. I break the k**s off, but I run my hands around his waist and give him a tight hug. He hugs me back and smells my hair and then my neck, while his brother does the same to Sloan.

Elena dumps a ton of bagged snacks onto the floor and then takes the mattress from the pull-out couch, and the one from the bed and puts them side by side on the floor. She scrolls through the apps trying to find a movie and keeps motioning towards the screen for us to choose, but I have never seen any of the shows she goes through, and Sloan hasn’t either. I don’t want a horror movie, that has already been my life, so Elena puts on a comedy, and we end up laughing at an Adam Sandler movie. I enjoyed it, as did Sloan.

Elena had set up the mattresses so that my King mattress, and the queen she got from the sleeper couch, lined up and allowed us to all sleep on mattresses on the floor. We each took turns getting our showers, and then we played a game called twenty questions. Elena is fun to hang out with, and all three of us ended up learning a lot about each other. The funny stuff, the personal preferences like our favorite colors, and then into the serious mode where we spoke about the worst thing that has ever happened to us. I was searching for the worst in my brain for so long, that they thought I had fallen asleep.

We all learned about what made us tick, and some of what we have gone through, with Elena’s only bad thing being if she got beaten in sparring with the warriors. She is a tough cookie, and I already love her. She is honest and caring, and I already know that she has our backs. That means a lot to both me and Sloan, and I am glad that I now have a little sister.

We finally fell asleep around 1 am, and I had warned them that I might get a nightmare, and if I did, to now worry and just wake me up. I never know when they are going to come, but I had a bad one this morning. I could almost feel the burn on my arm when Fallon threw the pot of oatmeal onto my arm, and I screamed in agony. I am holding my arm and begging for help, but Fallon blocks the sink from me and then has her evil minions blocking the door to the packhouse, so I can’t go wash it off. The pain has me breathless and in tears. I cannot catch my breath and I remember the ugly smirk on her face when she and her friends left the kitchen about 5 minutes later when the burning sensation had gone down.

I felt the tingles on my arms and I relaxed a little and stopped screaming so hard, and I felt him deeply inhaling my scent, as I could feel his emotions all over me too, and Percy was very upset. I sat up a little and saw that his brother was holding Sloan and comforting her, and Elena looked scared too. I look at the open door and see Gabi and Tanner, as well as Heath and Von, looking at me in sympathy. I am mortified, they all know about my nightmares now. Because I sleep alone, no one knew about them, and I am so embarrassed that they all know about it now.

“We tried to wake you and we couldn’t. You were screaming about someone throwing something hot at you, and then not letting you get to the sink to get it off before burning you”, Elena said, and she was angry. She looked like if whoever did it was here, she would take care of them herself. Apparently, she would have to get behind the group. Everyone is angry, and Heath finally speaks, “Was it Alpha James that did that to you?”

“No, it was Fallon, she was my second tormentor, and it seemed like they had worked out something between them to hurt me or slow me down enough for Alpha James to say that I had earned the punishment. She had thrown oatmeal at me, and it stuck to my skin, and I ended up having second-degree burns from it. She loved to mar me and would be pissed off if I could still heal from it. I couldn’t phase at 18 like everyone else, but my mother said that she didn’t get her wolf until 20 either. I have the gift of healing, just like my mom. My wolf, Sienna, also says that we have a second gift, but I don’t know what it is yet. I will get it after I am marked and mated”, I said the last part, and looked down in embarrassment, with a blush on my cheeks.

“The gift of healing is a prized gift, so it is rare to get a second one, and I would be very interested in seeing what it will be. With healing already valuable, we need to keep a lid on this second gift once it is known”, Heath said, and everyone agreed. They all headed back to their rooms, but the boys remained. I see Elena roll her eyes and then get the couch cushions off the sofa bed and put them on the floor for her to sleep on and she leaves the mattresses to us. I snuggle up to Percy and fall asleep in his arms, with no more nightmares tonight. He isn’t completely forgiven until we talk, but he is my mate, and I love him. I just need to talk to him and clear the air, so I can learn to trust him again.