Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 24

Fallon’s POV

Apparently, I missed some excitement while I was out shopping with my friends at the mall today. King Sebastian came by B***d Claw, and he spoke with Timothy and my dad. Apparently, Alpha James didn’t feel like showing up at the gate. I bet that pissed King Sebastian off pretty badly too. I hope Christian didn’t come, and I missed it. He is really cute, and I would love him to be my true mate. Can you imagine being the next Luna Queen? I would lose it, that would be the best thing to ever happen to me. I can see me now replacing Luna Queen Deanna and ruling over all the packs with Christian.

That would literally be a dream come true. I could replace their daughter whom they lost a long time ago. They would probably be so happy to have a girl in their ranks again. I would be so much more powerful than I would be being Luna at B***d Claw. Timothy is a good guy, but he is nowhere near as hot as Christian is, or even Bryson, who is younger, but would be the Beta for the Royal Knight pack. That would be an upgrade as well, because if anything happened to Christian, then Bryson would be the next Alpha King. It would be worth it for either of them to be my mate. That would be life-changing.

I had bought several new outfits as I knew that Alpha James was going to be making Timothy take me as Luna soon. I could tell that now that he had been around Katrina, he wanted her pretty badly. I tried to get him to have s*x with me after he rejected Katrina, but he refused me. I have no idea why he would hang up on her though. I am way better than her in every aspect. I gave a smirk as I changed into my new outfit. I am SURE the town hall meeting was because Timothy was going to announce me as his soon-to-be Luna. There was no other reason for them to call a town hall meeting.

Mom tried to tell me something when I got back home from shopping, but my friend Jennifer was the one to tell me while we were at the mall that we had the mandatory meeting tonight. So, I just breezed by her telling her, “I already heard mom. I am just going to start getting ready for it now. I want to look nice for Timothy tonight.”

Mom was so happy about me and Timothy, but she still wanted me to have found my true mate. She knew that we had decided to be chosen, and she also knew that I really wanted to be Luna there. Who else here was more qualified than I was? I was Beta b***d and would produce strong children for Timothy. Once he had an heir, I would be secure in my position as the Luna. I couldn’t wait for the announcement tonight and I could hardly stand still as I straightened my hair and applied my make-up carefully. I was going to be the star of the show tonight, and I was almost giddy in anticipation of it.

I had already told my friends that I would sit with them, but when I came out of my room, dad told me that I would be sitting with him and mom in the front row with Alpha James. I almost squealed with excitement, which put me right in front of the stage, so I know that I will be getting called up there tonight. I mindlinked my friends to tell them the good news, and that I was going to be announced as Timothy’s chosen mate tonight. They were all happy for me too, and Jennifer said that she would record it for me too. I can’t wait, it is going to be wonderful. I was floating on cloud 9 as I hung out with my friends tonight before I needed to go up to the front row.

I saw that dad had left me the seat between him and Alpha James, and that did it for me. I will be hearing the announcement that I have been dreaming of tonight. I had wanted to be his true mate and had spent the night with him, in hopes he would open his eyes and we would know, but we weren’t. I couldn’t stop crying about it until I realized that he could make me his chosen mate if he didn’t find his mate. I was so glad when he said we could, and I was worried out of my mind that he would change his mind after he agreed. I was worried that he was going to find his true mate, and wanted her more than me until I found out who he got as a mate.

I bet he was furious at finding out that Katrina was his mate. I mean, why would he want her, if he could have me? She is not even comparable to me at all. I deserve to be the Luna, she is worthless, and below even the Omegas. I still don’t know how she was still alive after all that Alpha James did to her. He was ruthless and hateful to her. He scared me, so I helped him sometimes. I would hold her up on her job duties, just to go and tell Alpha James so he could punish her even more. He appreciated me doing that too. We kind of tag-teamed her by doing that. We had gotten into a smooth pattern with it, and I hated it when Abigail caught on and tried to keep me from doing it, but if pack members found out that we were ganging up on her, she might get some sympathy in the pack, and I couldn’t risk that.

Timothy came up to the podium and I looked back at Jennifer to see if she was ready, and she nodded and started her video. Timothy started off by greeting the pack and then went straight into it. That Alpha King Sebastian Hunt and Alpha Heath Poe had come to the pack this morning. He started a recap, and I just sat there smiling and thinking of how I should look to express my surprise when he called me up, but he wasn’t and the vibe in the room went from excitement to worry, so I started to listen to Timothy who was in the middle of his speech.

“So, that is the reason we were able to get everyone here tonight. We will start back with patrols after the meeting, but since we are surrounded, there was no reason to not include them in this. King Sebastian is giving us one month to get this settled as he is going to the werewolf council with his documentation. So, now we will be looking for whoever was guilty of telling them that Katrina was here, in the B***d Claw pack. She was to be hidden there for her safety, and someone told them that she was in our pack. Which resulted in the death of her security escort, as well as my mother, Luna Victoria James” Timothy was saying, and I started to freak out inside my head.

What? How in the hell did they find out that someone had told them where she was? I should have been listening to Timothy this whole time. What the hell was going on? OK, it seems like questions are being asked, I am definitely going to be listening now.

“So, you are saying that in a month’s time Alpha James will be put to death by Alpha King Sebastian and he is OK with it?” one of the warriors asked.

“I spoke to my father earlier today. He feels terrible about the way that Katrina was abused here in our pack. My mother was the only person in the pack that knew who she was and had made dad and I promise to protect her. We did, and we both failed to do what we promised. We hadn’t been given the same information that mom knew. He is accepting his punishment as if we had known she would not have come to any harm here at B***d Claw”, Timothy told the group.

“Are you taking over as the Alpha when Alpha James is put to death?” another warrior asks.

“As far as I know, I will be, but I haven’t discussed it with my father yet, so I don’t know what to answer. But if it is what my father and Alpha King Sebastian want, I would be completely willing to do that”, Timothy answers him.

“So, you are saying that Katrina was the daughter of Alpha King Sebastian? And was put here for protection, by her father? Why didn’t he come back and get her after Luna Victoria and her Aunt were killed?” my mother, Avery, asked.

I saw Timothy glance over at Alpha James, and Alpha James gave him a nod and a thumbs up. I guess telling him that he was good at answering the question that was posed.

“Katrina’s name was changed, and her memory wiped, to protect her so she wouldn’t say anything that she shouldn’t while she was here at B***d Claw. Her actual name is Peyton Hunt, and she was the daughter of Alpha King Sebastian and Luna Queen Deanna. Someone was after her, and she was hidden here as we were a smaller pack, and no one would know or think to look for her here. They were busy searching the larger packs trying to find her. They couldn’t find her, until someone, from THIS pack, told them where she was”, Timothy said to the pack, and I gasped. How did they know that?

“How did you know someone told them?” the Gamma’s wife asked.

“No other packs were attacked in the time frame. The men that came straight here to attack. Those men were not rogues, they were all highly trained wolves, and mom had mindlinked dad to tell him before the connection was lost. They belonged to the pack that was looking for Peyton. Someone here in the pack not only led them to our door, but was the very reason for Peyton being abused, and my mother killed. We have gotten new information concerning this. Dad will be giving a formal apology to Peyton if she wants it, but I doubt she will. She suffered unnecessarily in the pack that was supposed to protect her. Dad was inconsolable and easily led with ideas at that time. With one pack member taking advantage of it for her own agenda”, Timothy said, and I stiffened up.

They aren’t talking about me, are they? How could they possibly know? I never told anyone, ever, not even mom. The cute guy died. s**t, I gave him my name. He could have told his Alpha after he went back to his pack. He knew who told him where she was, so he would have the pack and my name. It is unusual. I love it because I have never met another person with my name. I used to love that, but now it is going to be my death sentence. I was freaking out internally and I felt like I was being stared at, and glanced up at the stage, but it wasn’t Timothy.

Oh Goddess, he knows, he knows it was me, I don’t know how, but I look at Alpha James, and he is madder than I have ever seen him. I saw the fury in his eyes, and I leaned back towards my dad, but he was looking at me too. His gaze is disappointed, and he knows it was me as well. He always said that what had happened to her was never her fault, and he was right, it was mine. How did they figure it out? I look back at Alpha James, and just as he has a sentence to death, he knows me planting the ideas in his head while he was suffering was the reason for it. He will not be letting me go, and from the look on dad’s face, he is OK with me being punished for it.

“Dad, would you mind bringing the culprit up here on stage, please? The pack needs to know who was the reason for us losing Luna Victoria”, Timothy said.

Alpha James stands up and then turns to me, and I could hear the collective gasp leaving hundreds of mouths, including my mother’s. I could see her look at my dad in panic and my dad shook his head at her. Alpha James reaches his hand to me, and I am terrified now. I almost want to take my chance with Alpha King Sebastian. It would probably be a lot quicker than what I am going to have to deal with from Alpha James.

Alpha James leads me to the stage and lets go of my hand to say a few things to the crowd. I am stunned and standing with my head down, as I am ashamed that something I did over 6 years ago has come back to bite me in the a*s. Wait, I was a child when I did it. Surely, they won’t punish me for doing that. I raised my head to say that to the crowd when I heard, “We will be letting Alpha King Sebastian know that we have found the traitor. I will let him know that I want to apologize to Peyton if she will allow me to do so. I have done a great disservice to her, and if sincerely apologizing to her can help her at all, I will do it. I will also let him know that before the month is out, I will be sure to punish Fallon, just like she encouraged me to punish Peyton for her own vicious reasons. I see now that Fallon had her own agenda. She will not be enjoying the next 29 days, and I will be starting her punishment tonight” Alpha James said to the pack.

I looked out into the crowd, and no one was supporting me. Not even my mom, as Luna Victoria was her best friend. They were pregnant together and were as close as sisters. Now that she knows I was the reason she died, she was not going to stop what was going to happen to me, no one was. I am as good as dead now.