Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 36

Timothy’s POV

B***d Claw pack

I just heard the news today. Apparently, Percy was able to locate Peyton and has now introduced her to his pack as his soon-to-be Luna. I am livid. It has now just been a week since she left last Friday night. I am absolutely furious. How dare he? When he knew that she belonged to me. She was mine, and I will definitely be getting her back. The second I am allowed to leave here, I will be on my way to claim her from him. I will not allow him to take her from me when I have wanted her for the last 2 years, longer than that as we were each other’s first k**s.

Dad was sickened when he realized that he had been led so easily by Fallon in such a malicious way. He didn’t realize that she was leading him because of the pain he was under, he was in misery and was not himself. He also found that he actually did feel better being able to punish the one responsible, or at least at the time, he thought that she was responsible. He knows he only has 3 more weeks left now before King Sebastian comes to finish him, and he has already told me that he intends to make Fallon suffer every single day of the time he was given.

He was supportive of me taking Peyton as my mate now that he knew the actual truth. His only issue with her had been that she had been the reason that mom had been killed. The guilt that he felt upon knowing what he had done to an innocent person was slowly killing him already. My dad was a good man, and he had always liked her, right off the bat when she got here. He is upset that the last thing that mom had wanted him to do, did not get done because he allowed himself to wallow in his grief. He is also not forgiving himself over the fact that he allowed Fallon to further her own agenda by planting seeds in his ear or ganging up on Peyton. She would slow Peyton down or prevent her from getting her work down on time so he could feel better about what he did to her. She also manipulated him into thinking that she, as the Beta’s daughter, was the perfect candidate for Luna. She led him in many things and because he was broken from losing mom, he allowed it, never thinking in a million years that she had been the true cause of losing his Luna.

Fallon has sent several messages to me, through the guards, that she needs me to save her, to help her, to free her. I have ignored them all. Some of them feel like she has been punished enough, especially the newer men working down there. They had never seen what Peyton had been put through there in the pack for six years. Six freaking years of truly horrible abuse, from a strong Alpha, that hurt her so much, we should have realized sooner that she was a healer. It would have killed a weaker wolf. That part alone should have been a tip-off for me and dad that she wasn’t just some weak Omega she-wolf. I had guilt too because I had listened to the horrible things that Fallon had said about Peyton this whole time. All because she never liked her, deliberately hurting her with what I said when I rejected her. Me leaving her here at B***d Claw with two people that I knew hated her and would continue to hurt her while I was gone, and never lifting a finger to prevent it. I sometimes think that I deserved to lose her with my rejection and wish that I had been stronger, so I wouldn’t have done as my father asked. The only good thing that has come from this is that I no longer have to take Fallon as my mate.

I had mentioned that we had found the culprit to King Sebastian, but he had not come back yet. He also still left the pack surrounded, but he did take away over half the warriors surrounding it. So, there were only about 50 men on the perimeter now, instead of the 120 men that had originally been there. I am assuming that since we told him we had her in the cells, and my father had already accepted his fate, we had it all under control. I don’t plan on seeing Fallon again until King Sebastian gets here to dole out the punishment to her and dad. I am hoping that he punishes her first, so dad can die knowing that vengeance was served, and he could be at peace when he dies.

I am a little torn about dad’s punishment. On one hand, I am thrilled to become Alpha and run this pack. I have been trained for it, but I know that things could pop up that I would never have dealt with in my training. I will need advice at that time, so I think I will be making Beta Mitchell an adviser when I go to take over and assigning a new Beta when I do take over. On the other hand, it would be great to have my dad, who has run the pack well for 2 decades, live here and teach me as things come up. I almost wish that dad could be forgiven by King Sebastian and allowed to live, so he could train me to be a good Alpha that was fair and took good care of his pack. Obviously, Peyton is the exception, but he is sick about it now. Dad has always tried to protect the innocent and knowing what he did to an innocent young adult has left him punishing himself.

Dad may not make it three more weeks anyhow. He is a shell of the man that he used to be. He has not eaten since he found out that he had punished the wrong person. After a week without food, he could only sit and direct her punishment to be done. He had the pack hospital print out Peyton’s records from the computer for us to have a copy after King Sebastian got her medical records. Dad had picked the 30 worst things that he had done to Peyton, for him to recreate it with Fallon. The irony that at least half of the time was when they tagged-teamed on her for her punishment to be greater, was not lost on him. Dad was stunned at all the damage he had done to Peyton and just couldn’t get past it.

Dad enters the office and glances at me behind the desk before taking a chair in front of it and watches me as I work on paperwork. I have been doing the pack’s paperwork for the last week since he found out what had happened. His only job now was punishing Fallon and helping me when I had questions. His cheeks are gaunt, and he has lost a lot of weight already. He almost looks frail, in only a week’s time. He looks like he has aged 10 years this week. He had a lot more gray hair, and he is declining rapidly. I know I need to step in and make him stop, but I am not the Alpha yet, and I cannot command him to eat. He is stubborn and I think he is trying to make himself suffer for his actions before he is killed. I am going to try to reason with him again, he really needs to eat, but I know why he is doing this. He kept Peyton from eating properly and still made her work every day. I think he has accepted his fate, and just wants to go and see mom again at this point.

“Dad, I really wish you would eat. You are slowly killing yourself. You have to take this seriously. Starving yourself will solve nothing. What is done, is done. You will be receiving your punishment at the end of the month. Please, just eat, dad. A little something to keep some of your strength up”, I told him.

“I cannot. The guilt over what I did won’t let me. I welcome death and look forward to seeing your mother again”, Dad tells me and sighs. He is resigned to his fate and cares about nothing anymore. Wait, there is one thing that he cares about.

“Dad, if you die, who will make sure that Fallon receives the punishment that she deserves? You are the one who hand-picked the punishments. If you don’t deliver them, who will? I don’t have time to do it with the pack duties that I have to tend to”, I said to him. I watch as his head lifts up to look at me, and I see that he has never even realized it. That if he dies now, who will do it?

“You are right, son. I need to make sure that this gets done. Fallon caused me to forget myself in my grief and punish Peyton for something that she never even did. I will go eat a little, just to keep my strength up. Please reach out again to King Sebastian and ask if I can at least apologize to Peyton, if not to her face, then to her over the phone. I am sick about this, even if she doesn’t accept my apology or give me forgiveness for this. I just want her to know that from the depths of my soul I am sorry for all that I did to her after losing Tori”, Dad said to me, and then got up to go get some food. He is moving slowly, and I know that he has no energy from not eating, and I ask Beta Mitchell via mindlink to help dad to the kitchen to get food.

I am a little torn about dad’s punishment. On one hand, I am thrilled to become Alpha and run this pack. I have been trained for it, but I know that things could pop up that I would never have dealt with in my training. I will need advice at that time, so I think I will be making Beta Mitchell an adviser when I go to take over and assigning a new Beta when I do take over. On the other hand, it would be great to have my dad, who has run the pack well for 2 decades, live here and teach me as things come up. I almost wish that dad could be forgiven by King Sebastian and allowed to live, so he could train me to be a good Alpha that was fair and took good care of his pack. Obviously, Peyton is the exception, but he is sick about it now. Dad has always tried to protect the innocent and knowing what he did to an innocent young adult has left him punishing himself.

I have decided to call King Sebastian right now and speak to him about this. He never got back to me before on it, and I suspect that he may have mentioned it, but Peyton either didn’t respond to it, or she denied the request. Oh, I just realized that I could use this in my favor to get her here. I need to really play up the fact that dad might not make it the full month due to how he is punishing himself. Even if it is just to talk her into coming to the gate, I need her to come here. I need to see her again, and I can take the opportunity to beg her to come back to me. I think that if she sees how upset he truly is, she doesn’t even have to give her blessing to dad, or her forgiveness. He just wants her to know that we are fully committed to making sure that Fallon is punished for every single part she had in this. She can see how Fallon is being punished for herself if she wants to, while she is here. I am finally excited about something as I reach for my cell phone to make the call.

“Hello?” King Sebastian answers his phone.

“King Sebastian, this is Timothy James from the B***d Claw pack. I just wanted to speak to you as I have a great concern for my father”, I told him.

“He has earned his punishment, Timothy. There is nothing else to be said about it. The werewolf council will be making their final decision next week. I will be there at the end of the month to dispense the punishment”, King Sebastian said to me.

“That is just it, King Sebastian. He may not still be alive by then. He has refused to eat since we found out that Peyton had nothing at all to do with the death of my mother. He is starving himself, because of the guilt he felt, and really may not make it until the end of the month. He did ask if Peyton would not come here for him to give her his deepest apology, that he would at least like to deliver it via phone for her to know how profoundly sorry that he is for everything that transpired here at B***d Claw”, I told him.

“I will speak to her tonight, at dinner, but I will not be encouraging her to go back to B***d Claw. If she wishes to come, I will let you know, so we can make arrangements, but will have more than a full security detail with us. I will let you know what she has decided to do tomorrow”, King Sebastian said to me.

“That is more than fair, King Sebastian. I just wanted to let you know what was happening here, as dad has mentioned repeatedly that he wanted to do this. I didn’t want to continuously bother you with it, but after seeing him today, I can see him literally wasting away. I believe he will die quickly without being able to show her how exceedingly sorry he truly is for what he has done to her”, I told him. I hope that I am doing enough so that when my softhearted Peyton hears this, she is willing to come here and at least listen to what dad has to say. That will buy me one last chance to get her back as my mate by withdrawing my rejection.

I will need to make up some plans now, so I will be prepared to go forward with my plan in case she agrees. Peyton was always a sweet person who gave more forgiveness than she should. That was just who she was, a kind person who gave people the benefit of the doubt. She was such a wonderful woman, and I am kicking myself for not stopping myself from rejecting her, and just taking the hit from my dad being mad. I wanted her badly, but I allowed my pride to make me do stupid things. I let taking over this pack become more important to me, than my Goddess-given mate. I look at the ceiling and try to come up with a plan that will allow me to try to lure my mate back to me. Even after breaking her heart.