Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 23

Timothy’s POV

B***d Claw Pack

We told dad the second we got back to his office, and he took it the way I knew he would. He blew up and tore his office apart. Either way, this goes, I am still the next in line for Alpha, and I only have a month to wait to get it now. Dad had effectively signed his death warrant, and now we will call a town hall meeting for tonight, and it is mandatory for EVERYONE to show up. We are even calling the scheduled patrols in for the meeting. There is no need for them right now as we are surrounded, they are not trying to get in. They are there to keep us from being able to get out.

I almost wished dad would keep calling the other packs. Maybe King Sebastian would come back early, and I would get to be Alpha that much sooner. I just needed to keep my mouth closed and my head down until this was done. But Beta Mitchell and I couldn’t figure out who could have possibly done it. The warriors rarely leave the pack. The Omegas aren’t allowed to leave the pack, so that left only the higher-ranked wolves. It won’t matter who did it. From how King Sebastian looked, he would be torturing Alpha Jasper to get the name of who told them Katrina was here, I mean Peyton.

I was a true mate to King Sebastian’s daughter, and I royally screwed up. I have no idea at all how to fix this. I have no idea where she is, and it seemed like Percy was out there hunting around for her, and I am stuck here, where I know she isn’t. I can’t leave and search for her. She accepted my rejection, and the way King Sebastian just accepted what Alpha Heath said was pissing me off. He just took it as the total truth, but there are layers to the story, and I need to be able to share my side of it with Peyton. I was saving her from my father. He would have killed her if he had known that she was my mate. I did it for her, that was exactly what I was sticking with.

The best part was when dad found out that, besides her being King Sebastian’s daughter, she was powerful, he already knew what her power was. Just like her mother, she was a healer, and that explained why he had killed her or done permanent damage to her. I felt it and I knew what her power was too. That was what did it and caused my dad to destroy the office. No matter what dad did to her, she still healed back up. Her medical records were huge, and that was not going to be good when the werewolf council saw them, let alone read them. I am quite sure the doctor that left with Alpha Heath was the one who tipped them off that they would need them for the investigation.

She was beaten much more and much worse than I ever thought she was, and the fact that I hurt her too, the guilt is killing me. I am so ashamed of myself, for being so weak. Dad and I did both say that we would protect her if anything happened to her aunt, and we failed her. Neither of us thought that mom or her aunt would be killed. We had no idea that someone was after her. We weren’t warned about that, so how could we possibly have known?

What I didn’t know was that dad had the balls to tell them that she had been killed in that same attack. I remember back and all of the werewolf packs had sent their sympathy to the Alpha King Sebastian and Luna Queen Deanna concerning the death of their daughter Peyton. Holy s**t, we had the princess here all the time and didn’t realize it. I realized that dad had done a lot more than I had given him credit for, and it was time to pay the piper soon. I had to fight down my smile because he wasn’t going to release it to me yet, especially since he thought that I was going to claim Peyton, and I was. He will be dead in a month. I saw the rage King Sebastian was trying to contain, and I will make sure he gives me the Alpha title before he leaves here after taking care of dad and the person who narked her out.

I have a little suspicion of who it was, as no one else had a problem with Katrina, I mean Peyton, at that time. Everything was fine with her and nice to her, and we all got along great. Except for Fallon, she really hated her and, as the Beta’s daughter, she was allowed to come and go. I don’t know how she would have met any of Jasper’s men, but I would be watching her closely during the pack meeting tonight. She is going to be shocked, but if she is scared too, then she will be the one guilty of it. I would have realized it if I thought about it. Her dad, being Beta, wouldn’t save her either as they were going to the werewolf council about this. If they were willing to kill an Alpha, a Beta’s child would be nothing to them.

I smile even bigger now, the albatross around my neck is now gone. I won’t have to take Fallon as my Luna, and that makes me super happy. She would not have been a good one anyway. As a matter of fact, I may give King Sebastian a call just to let him know, as she could try to charm dad into taking her with him if he does decide to escape. I am quite sure that they may try just to try to escape their punishment, but I don’t want them to. If I am right, then Fallon was the one who ended up getting mom killed and I want her to be punished. It won’t make up for all the abuse that Peyton suffered, but at least it would make dad feel better. I am positive that it will. We just need to get it all settled. I will make sure that dad doesn’t help Fallon get out of B***d Claw before she is sentenced.

I headed back to dad’s office to talk to him about this. If I am right, he will start feeling better almost immediately, as he will now have a punching bag back, as she will already be there, in the pack. I bet he will be really happy about it. I feel a little guilty, but Fallon should have felt terrible for all she had put Peyton through too. Peyton had numerous bones broken all for a crime that she didn’t commit. I am getting madder and madder as I think about this. Fallon deserves to be punished, and I am going to make sure that she gets everything that she earned and deserves. I knocked on dad’s office door and waited for him to call out to me to come in.

“What now, Timothy?” dad asks me and gives me a weary look like he is expecting another bombshell.

“I was thinking, dad. The warriors don’t leave the pack, and neither do the Omegas. But the ranked wolves do get to leave the pack”, I told him, and kept a straight face, because I didn’t want him to realize that I was super happy about what I was about to tell him. I want him to figure out where I am going with this, himself, so he will be all in when we make the announcement tonight, that if he sits next to her, he will smell the fear that will come with it. She won’t feel really guilty about it. There have been too many years passed by, and she enjoys seeing Peyton being hurt. But knowing that we figured it out, she is going to be really scared, and rightly so.

“And, I am sure you have a reason for mentioning it, although I have no idea why” dad said and tilted his head, like telling me to get on with it.

“I was thinking, dad, who could have done it? It would have to be a ranked wolf to be able to leave the pack. They would also have had to have had an issue with Katrina. I mean Peyton, to do that. I have been thinking dad, and only one name came up”, I told him. I see it when he figures it out and he leaps up from his chair.

“Fallon, she left here all the time to go out shopping and buy clothes. She might have met them out doing that. I will have her sit next to me during the announcement. She won’t be able to get out of this one, and the fear will be coming off of her in waves. I bet you are right. After Tori died, Fallon would make little comments to me about her while I was suffering. Encouraging me to punish her for my Luna’s death. She hated Katrina, and she would have done anything to get you away from her. I bet you are right. We will find out tonight. But that wouldn’t fix anything at all from what I did to Katrina”, dad said, and he actually seemed like he felt terrible about it.

He was in agony after mom died, and I bet his suffering and not being in his right mind allowed him to punish Peyton, and not feel guilty about it. In his mind, he really thought that he was punishing the right person. He thought he had a right to do it, and it was always just a spiteful girl who was high enough in rank to have access to poison his mind and point him in the direction of who she wanted hurt. She knew that I had kissed Payton too. She confronted me about it, after my mom’s death. She then reminded me that Peyton was actually involved in mom’s death, and wanted me to k**s her, and make her mine. She wanted me to move on from Peyton. I don’t know how we didn’t realize before what all she had done, other than the fact that we did know her real identity.

Fallon was devious, but she is at the end of the road tonight. I am going to lead dad a little further along, but I did feel a little bad for Beta Mitchell. His wife was kind of a b***h, and that is where Fallon got the gene from. Beta Mitchell is a good man, and I feel terrible for him, but neither one of us had a clue about who exactly it could have been earlier. I am really hoping that he hasn’t mentioned it to his wife or Fallon. He still has a son, Daniel, who is 15 and will probably take over the Beta position in the future, but this will hurt him badly. I know his wife, Avery, will want us to forgive her, but it is out of our hands now.

“Dad, do you want to be up on stage to handle the announcement? Or do you want me or Beta Mitchell to do it? I just hope he hasn’t already tipped her off, but she won’t be able to go far. I just don’t want her getting off setting this up, and being the reason for mom being killed, and then trying to pin it on Peyton”, I said to dad, and I saw his mind working.

“I will have Fallon sitting between me and her father tonight. I will be able to tell if she was the one to do it. I will give you a head nod, and I will point at you so you can announce that we have identified the person responsible for Luna Tori dying. They all need to know who caused it, and who encouraged both me and you to be so horrible to Peyton when she is the one who was the reason for Tori’s death”, dad said to me.

OK, it looks like I am going to be making the announcement and there will be standing room only as we have about 400 chairs and about 528 people coming to hear the announcement. I manage to keep the smirk off my face as I leave dad’s office. So, everything is lined up now. I have gotten rid of Fallon now, she will never be my Luna. After pointing this out to dad, he would NEVER mention it again. Plus, I am quite sure that she will be spending a lot of time in the cells before she is killed. I also know that she will be in really bad shape by the time King Sebastian gets here to punish her.

I know dad feels bad, and he will want to apologize to Peyton over what has happened to her, at his hands. But really, there is nothing that would make it better for her, at least I don’t think it would. But by the end of the month, surely her dad will know where she is and maybe, if she wants to hear his apology, she can come here to hear mine as well. I want another chance with her too. I want to make her my Luna, and that has nothing to do with her being a healer. It is because I want her, I want to sleep with her, and make her mine. My pants get tighter just thinking about it. Maybe if I tell King Sebastian who ratted Peyton out, I will get another chance to make Peyton mine. I just hope she has managed to avoid Percy. I don’t want them together at all.