Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 32

Gabi’s POV

Ever Green Pack

I am furious as we approach the gate and I see that stupid girl, Stephanie, standing there next to Jasper. Tanner and I have never dealt with him. He is younger than us, and we have never needed to talk to him, even at Alpha events we have gone to. There is something about him that gives me pause. He is arrogant and standoffish, and I have no use for him. His pack does OK on its own, and they stay to themselves. We do not have a treaty with him, and from how he is checking me out, we never will.

Tanner had to growl at him to get him to stop, as he was looking at my body with undisguised interest. He glances up and gives both of us a smirk and then looks at Heath. He waits for us to get to the gate before he starts to speak.

“It has come to my attention that you have someone here that I have an interest in. I felt the mate bond with her 7 years ago and spoke to her parents about it, but she was taken away and hidden from me. I am here to claim her” Jasper said to us with a smug expression on his handsome face.

“I am sorry that you had to come all this way to get turned around Jasper, but you are too late. She has already been claimed and marked. She is not your mate, so you can take your men, and go back to your pack. This has been a wasted trip for you”, Heath said to him, and Jasper stopped smiling.

“What do you mean she has been marked? By whom? She was not yours, for you to be able to make that decision”, Jasper asks.

“Her father is aware that she and Percy are mates and has already given his approval. I would suggest that you contact him if you have any further questions about this”, Heath tells him and turns around to walk off. We go to follow him and stop short when Stephanie’s annoying voice rings out into the night. “I want to speak to Percy. I want him to know that I still want him, and he can just give Peyton to Jasper here, and I can come back here to serve as his Luna”, she said, and then looked to Jasper who gave a small nod to her.

“No, that won’t be happening, I am not sorry at all about it, but neither Percy nor Peyton will be coming to the gate to speak with anyone. We are done here. There is no more discussion to be made, and if memory serves, you have been banished from here. If you do not leave now, I will be contacting the werewolf council tomorrow morning and advising them of what you did here to start the investigation concerning your theft here. Which I assure you is all very well documented. I look forward to hearing back from them as I will be the one to dole out the punishment that they give you”, I told her and gave Stephanie a smile.

I heard her gasp and take some small steps back towards the vehicle and then Jasper motioned her back to the gate. I know he is making her do this, but he needs to be less obvious about it. He thinks he has not been noticed doing it, but it is clear that she doesn’t want to be here and is here under duress.

“Jasper, you know you can communicate directly with us, right? You aren’t invisible. Stop trying to use your little puppet, and just tell us what you need, so we can move this along faster”, I called out to him.

We were close enough to see the shock in his eyes that I saw he was making her do this. He doesn’t have a very good opinion of women, at least from what I have heard. He doesn’t value them, he is an obvious user, and I still remember hearing about his last two Lunas who had both ended up dead. They were both strong women. I never heard of any illnesses or injuries that would have resulted in their deaths. I am so glad that Peyton’s parents had the foresight to hide her away. I wish I had known about it. I would have hidden her myself, to keep her away from him.

“You will not speak to me like that again. I am an Alpha, and you need to address me with respect. I was just trying to encourage someone who had feelings, and a relationship, with your son for the last two years, only for her to be kicked out of Ever Green when he was done with her”, Jasper tells me. Tanner steps forward and growls out, “You are wrong on two counts. Jasper, she doesn’t have to give you any respect. That is earned, and you have done nothing to earn it. Secondly, Stephanie lied to you, she wasn’t kicked out of Ever Green, she stole a great deal of money from here, and decided to leave herself to avoid being punished for it. You seem confused about a lot of things, and since my son is mated to Peyton, there is nothing else we need to talk about. Oh, and don’t come back, because if you do, your problem won’t just be with Ever Green. You will be dealing with several packs, all bigger than yours, so think carefully about that when you get back home. You need to make better choices, Jasper, because this one wasn’t a good one”.

“How dare you insult me? You two think you are so high and mighty. You better hope I never become the Alpha King, because when I do, I will strip you both of your ranks. I will give your pack away to someone I pick. I will make you both very sorry. Hide and watch me” Jasper said angrily, and I could see his chest heaving from here. This one has a short fuse. He is delusional to think that he would ever be the Alpha King. Peyton has both an older and younger brother. It would never come to him, it would go to one of the Alpha King’s sons.

“And there we go, you just wanted Peyton because you wanted to be the Alpha King. I was wondering why you would start up like that 7 years ago. She was just a child. You should be ashamed of yourself. You are already a bad Alpha. I could not imagine you as the Alpha King. Thankfully, we will never see you getting that high a title. You haven’t earned it and you don’t deserve it. You are just a power-hungry, greedy man. I don’t think you should even be an Alpha. I hope that you get what you have coming to you soon, as I want to be around to see it when it happens”, Heath said to him, and Jasper went right up to the gate and started snarling at Heath in his anger.

“You know nothing, old man. You can just shut up now. You don’t know anything about me, or my pack. I hope that you lose your pack as well when I become Alpha King. You are nothing but a k**s-up to the Alpha King. You need to keep your opinion to yourself, as I am not scared of you or your pack. I could care less about what any of you think. Just have Peyton come to the gate, and we will leave here, with no other problems. Don’t try me, and I also want my pack member that you are holding with no charges against her. She was just here checking out your pack protocols, to see how strong your pack borders are. Spoiler alert, you have NO border security. You will let anyone in here. You should be ashamed. You can’t just help anyone that asks you for help, you need to be selective in who you let in here”. Jasper yelled back at us, and he was just getting madder and madder. How is his pack following him? He is volatile and unhinged.

“Son, you need to calm down. There is nothing wrong with welcoming people who need help into your pack. We do screen them, and I will be making some changes to our protocols soon. You did help me with that, as finding your little spy here was a wake-up call. But you can hang it up if you think you will be speaking to Peyton any time soon. She is not your mate, and she doesn’t want anything to do with you. You can go ahead and leave, you won’t be getting what you want here tonight”, Heath said to Jasper.

“Oh, but I will,” Jasper said with a smirk, and then pulled out a gun.

“You had better think about this, Jasper. You need to put that up, you are up against a lot of experienced warriors. If you decide to go this route, you need to be prepared for the consequences of it. Holster your weapon, get back into your vehicle, and leave. Do not come back, ever” I told him, and I had already unsnapped the band, securing my gun in its holster. I am concerned as he is looking a little flighty and skittish, and I could see him making a mistake here. I know that the gate guards had called in backup when he had arrived and that all 8 of the men there with us were armed.

I looked around and I saw that Hudson Crawford, who had been up here earlier, was no longer here with us. He was a sharpshooter on the elite team, and his son, Jamie, was also missing. I see Tanner is ready to go if this situation goes any further and I see Heath looking nothing but confident in this. But he always looks confident. I wish I could mindlink Hudson just for my peace of mind, but I am the Luna of the B***d Rose Pack, so I can’t. I see Easton Hayes on the other side of Heath, and he is calm too. He is still the leader of the elite team, but I suspect he will be passing it down to his son, Brendan, who is about to be 21 soon. Brendan is standing there, and he is ready to go as well.

I knew that Jameson and his wife, Evelyn, were both on the elite team and had been stationed at the packhouse to keep it secure along with the Beta, Eli Gardner, and his oldest son Reese, who was going to be turning 20 soon. Reese will be taking over as Beta when Eli steps down. I knew that they were all well trained. I have trained with them all myself. They are all capable and I know that they will not let anything happen. I have faith in both of my sons and am glad that they are with their mates to keep them safe and secure because I have a bad feeling about this.

I see Stephanie sliding back towards their SUV again, and I am ready and prepared to go whenever Jasper shows his hand. We are all just waiting for him to do what he was planning to do. I was just waiting to see when he was going to react when Heath piped up and said, “You will not be getting your spy back just yet, Jasper, not until the council and Alpha King Sebastian have both had a chance to interrogate her. I suspected that you would be coming soon, so I had her moved. She isn’t even here anymore. She went to the Royal Knight pack early this morning, to be interviewed. I know that you had a plan for when you got here, and my security has been on high alert since we found your person on the inside. I hope they know better than to engage or you may be down some more pack members.”

I saw the anger show in Jasper’s eyes before he lifted his arm to aim his gun at Heath. I heard two shots, I saw Heath’s upper arm bleeding, and I saw Jaspers’ hand bleeding, and his gun on the ground. I run to Heath to check him out as another shot rings out and Jasper starts limping and running to the SUV, with Stephanie and 4 warriors running with him. They took off quickly and all was quiet until Heath said, “Search the packland, I know he had people come in at another location, probably exactly where the jeep had been parked. Easton, please tell the team to not kill them unless they try to kill one of our members. I am OK, he got me on the outside of my arm, and I believe it was just a flesh wound. I will go get it checked out by the pack doctor. I already mindlinked Von to stay put in the safe room, until the packhouse gets cleared and verified safe for everyone to be able to return to their rooms. I know that he has people here. He and Stephanie were just here at the gate as a distraction. He isn’t nearly as smart as he thinks that he is. He showed tonight that he is dumb enough to act desperately. I will contact King Sebastian to advise him of this, as he can get started sooner, than later, on his plans”.

Easton and his son Brendan headed to go to the packhouse to help conduct the searches. The extra warriors at the gate all went to go to help with searching the perimeter to see where they would have come in our packland. Hudson and his son Jamie walked up to speak to Heath before he headed to the pack doctor on his own. He didn’t want us to go with him. He was busy calling King Sebastian anyway and had not lost very much b***d. He was right, it was just a scrape.

Tanner looked at me and we headed to go help with the perimeter sweep, along with Hudson and Jamie. Heath was right. We found a total of 5 men in our territory, and two of them were ranked wolves; his Beta, and his Gamma. They were not happy with being found so quickly, but they were all able to be rounded up, handcuffed with silver cuffs, and secured in cells. They will be going to the Royal Knight pack in the morning as well. But it would be two days before they would be interviewed, as Heath told me that King Sebastian was on his way here right now and would be here before midnight tonight. I am sure this will not be a fun and easy visit.