Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 29

Sloan’s POV

Ever Green Pack

My new family members are very interesting and very outspoken. I already love them, and learning spells is tougher than I imagined. They just got here today, and I am exhausted from trying to remember them. I know that Vincent is an excellent teacher, and so is Beth, but Moira takes a lot of my attention away. Sometimes deliberately, and sometimes by getting way too close to my mate, and she starts to make me angry with all her flirting.

I think she is doing it deliberately, as it was slow going the first two hours, but when she kicked it up a notch and got right next to Dawson, I had had enough and was able to make a flame in my hand, and throw it at her, to get her to get away from him. I was as surprised and impressed as Dawson was, and he came over to give me a hug and a k**s.

“Finally, you need to work on your anger, as it is a catalyst to your magic. You didn’t get anything done the first few hours. I know that you are new to this, but you have to overcome your doubts and fears, and just react. Sorry, I got near your man, but you needed to get a push to go ahead and just do it. I think that you are overthinking this, are terrified of it, or a little of both. You need to own your power, release fear and accept your strength. I think you have it in your head that Witches are bad for some reason. Witches are not all bad. Some indeed are, but we can’t all be perfect now, can we?” Moira said and then laughed a joyful laugh at her little joke.

She made me laugh and we got to training. I was stiff at first as none of them had ever seen anyone training to be a witch, but Vincent and Beth really didn’t seem to mind teaching me with an audience present. Moira didn’t seem to mind either and was checking out all the hot guys there in the pack, tapping her bottom l*p with her finger, and winking at them if they looked at her. She is a little spitfire, and I already love her so much. Well, now that I know she was just messing with me to get me to react. I was a little angry when I sent that fireball at her.

Hours later, I am truly wiped out, but I am happy. I know why they are pushing so hard, because they want me to learn. They are both concerned about my safety. I had seen Beth talking to Gabi while I was training with Vincent. I saw both Vincent and Beth freeze before Beth started rising in the air with her hair and clothes fanning out and moving with the wind that is picking her up. Her eyes are alight with a violet color, and she looks pissed. Vincent ran to her and started to pull her back to the ground, and at one point she picked him up off the ground too. Moira ran over and also grabbed onto Beth and was speaking to her in a language that I couldn’t understand. They finally got her to stay on the ground after a few minutes, but she was crying. Vincent calmed her down and when she told him what the problem was, he headed towards his car to leave the pack. Gabi, Beth, Heath, and Tanner had to step in on that one.

Vincent and Beth came over to me to hug me and murmur in my ear how much they both loved me. I could feel the tears she was crying on my shirt and Vincent rubbing my back, trying to comfort me when it was clearly them needing the comfort. I finally realized that Gabi had told them what she knew about my life at the Golden Moon Pack. They were all three angry at what they had done to me and wanted to go have a little talk with my parents, but that would not go well at all, and I didn’t want any of my new family to get hurt. I could almost forget that they were my great, great, grandparents, seeing as they looked young, not even old enough to be my own parents in fact.

“We will discuss this later tonight. I want to get today’s lesson completed by dusk before we lose the light”, Beth told me, and I nodded slowly. I did not want to discuss it later, but they need to know at least some of it so that they can avoid the Golden Moon pack at all costs. If mom knew that I had found more family members from the magical side of my family, she would try to hurt them too. I wouldn’t allow her to do that, and my strength came back for me to finish well, even at the 5-hour mark.

I felt physically and emotionally drained as we approached the packhouse and we all headed into the dining room to get dinner before we would head up to our rooms tonight. Everyone seemed a little stressed as we entered, and we were not the happy crowd that we usually are when we were teasing and laughing at the dinner table.

We all ate in silence, and I felt people staring at me, and looked up to see Vincent and Beth looking at me before Vincent finally said, “Can you tell us why you were bound, and why you were treated so badly by your own family?”

I nodded and I felt Dawson take my hand in his left hand and wrap his right arm around my shoulders. I took a deep breath and told them my story. I tried to give them the best one that I could, but Beth leaned forward and said, “I can tell that you are holding back, and not telling us the whole truth. Do not worry little one, I will control myself tonight. I will not act out of anger again. I just didn’t expect your own family to hurt you like that”.

I started talking again, in a low tone, but at this time the dining room was almost empty and anyone that entered gave us a wide berth to go to the other side of the room, as you could tell that our whole table was in the middle of a serious discussion. I told them how my life was not fun, but it was OK while my grandmother was still alive. I then had to tell them that my life changed after she passed. How dad would feel bad hearing me crying to be let out. How my sister would blame me for things that she did, like breaking valuable items in our home, like mom’s favorite vase. Shoving me into walls, or down the stairwell, or the worst was when Brandi would hurt herself, and then blame me for it. Mom would shake with anger, before hitting me with a whip.

I know she just hated me because I looked exactly like my grandmother, Seraphina. I couldn’t help that, and I loved her, so I didn’t mind looking like her. She was a beautiful woman and a class act. Mom was just so enraged by the thought of a witch. Good, or bad, she hated them all, blaming them for the death of her parents. In her head, I am sure she just blamed the five jealous witches behind the attack, but I believe she included my grandmother there too, as her being here was the reason for the battle. I told them about Brandi telling anyone who would listen, that I killed pack members, lying to them to scare them from speaking to me. I only had my Omega and Rob to take care of me.

I didn’t embellish, and I didn’t downplay anything this time. It was hard, but not anywhere near as bad as what Peyton faced, as far as I was concerned. But I saw both Gabi and Peyton looking at me with tears in their eyes when they clearly went through worse. I saw both Beth and Vincent with furious looks on their faces, and Moira looked the maddest.

“Vincent, can’t I just pop in there and kick Brandi’s a*s and then come back here real quick? I mean she doesn’t train, and she would be a match for me”, Moira said, and as Beth was nodding for her to go and do just that, I reached across the table and said, “No, she invites warriors up to her room. She may not be alone, and I would feel terrible if something happened to you going there to take up for me. I am training, and if it comes down to it, I will kick her a*s myself after I get fully trained”.

Heath and Von nodded in approval at me, and Gabi and Tanner said, “Exactly, she is not trained, and you are really doing very well. If it comes down to it, you will be able to beat her easily with a few more weeks of training. I am excited about seeing your wolf, actually, both of your wolves tomorrow, and I am sure your family will want to see you train in your wolf form tomorrow. You and Peyton will be fighting me and Elena, so it should be good practice”, Gabi told me.

I have phased into my wolf several times back at the Golden Moon pack, but it was hard on my body to do it. I hadn’t had a great connection to her until I became unbound. Since then, my wolf, Lenora, has been happily yapping away at me about how exciting it was that we found our mate, and how cute he is. I wanted to make it to B***d Rose and a little privacy, to wait for Dawson to mark me. I know that Beth and Vincent will be sleeping on the Beta floor, as there are more rooms available there, as the Alpha floor is full. I will see if Dawson wants to share a room with me there. I can wait for the mating part until we get to B***d Rose, but I would like to be marked before we get there.

I know from how handsome he is, that he will probably have a few girlfriends there, and I remember the horrible mess that Peyton walked into coming here, and I am worried that I will have the same thing happen to me. Dawson, who had him around me, felt me stiffen up on him and lean a little away, and quickly went to pull me right back into his side. I guess I will have to ask him, or at least Elena, what kind of reception I will receive there. I am not as bold as Elena and Gabi are. I won’t have Peyton with me, and I will miss her. I am suddenly really glad that my new family members will be going with us. I had a small thought in my head suddenly grew and I looked over to see a blond woman, trying to take stealthy pictures of Peyton. I looked over at Vincent and nodded my head slightly towards her, and because she was so focused on Peyton, she never saw me point her out.

She turns to leave the dining room and is lifted several feet into the air to prevent her from exiting. She stayed calm and had slid her phone into the apron she was wearing, and Gabi and Heath had already started walking over to the woman, now suspended three feet into the air.

“I really like this, Vincent. I wish I had you around all the time. It would really save me from having to track people down, but what is going on here?”, Gabi said, and looked at the woman hanging in the air.

“Ask Sloan, she pointed her out to me, but she is masking her scent, and she doesn’t smell like she is from the Ever Green Pack,” Vincent said to the group, and everyone turned to look at me.

“She had a phone in her apron, she was trying to take pictures of Peyton, without getting anyone’s attention. I saw her yesterday too, while we were training. I was waiting my turn and saw her near the fence. She was taking pictures then too”, I told them, and Dawson rubbed my back to comfort me.

“Vincent, can you lower her a little, but bind her so she can’t move, so I can reach her phone and check it,” Heath asked him. Vincent lowered her down, and she was glaring at the group, but she said nothing. Heath used his thumb to unlock her phone and then checked it. He looked at Gabi and showed her and Tanner the phone.

“There has to be almost 100 pictures of Peyton here in this phone. This is not good at all. I need to call Sebastian and inform him, as I think Jasper is now aware that we have Peyton here at Ever Green. Percy, get some warriors here to put silver cuffs on her. She is bound right now, but when she becomes unbound, she will warn Jasper that we know through mindlink. I think we can expect him soon when his little spy doesn’t come back”, Heath said as he headed for his office, before stopping and turning around to me and said, “Great job, Sloan. You pay attention, and we didn’t expect a spy to be sent in here. I am so glad you noticed her. I will tell Alpha King Sebastian that you were the one to catch her”.

Peyton came to hug me too, and Percy nodded to me in thanks while he put the cuffs on the woman. Vincent lifted the spell off of her. She glared at us and before she was taken to the cells she said, “He already knows that you are here, he just wanted some closer pictures of your face for confirmation. He will come, and save me, and get you back all at one time. You will be my Luna in the Dark Savage pack. I did what my Alpha needed me to”.