Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 43

Percy’s POV

Ever Green Pack

We have made the plans, and we are about to head out to B***d Claw pack in the morning. King Sebastian said that he had everything set up, and we would be going to leave first thing in the morning, as he wants to get there by 7 am. I was nervous for Peyton to go back there, but excited to get this all over with. She will never be Timothy’s, she bears my mark, and my ring. He needs to realize this and let it go. He is out of his mind, to think that I would allow her to go back to him. She is mine, and I will never be letting her go.

I am nervous about the trip, everything was kept quiet, and they won’t know we are coming until we hit the gate. We are not taking any chances on them knowing when we will be there and trying to set something up. That was why we waited a few days from when we told them we were coming. They probably set up for us to come the last couple of days, but no one showed up. They might be getting nervous now, and Timothy has been blowing my phone up with texts. I already know he will be talking s**t, and I am not going to play his game. I haven’t checked any of them as I know he has gotten progressively angrier with my lack of response, and Peyton not coming there yet.

Peyton looks gorgeous today, she has gained about 8 lbs. so far and is finally filling out some. I have been keeping an eye on her in her workout gear as it is June now. She is wearing a sports bra and shorts set and her ribs are no longer obvious. She is also gaining muscle as well and I am so proud of all the changes that she is making. I am not pushing her, I am just waiting on the signal that she is ready. I had been waiting patiently for her to decide we can do more than just k**s, and I am ready for that day. Dawson did such a great job telling Sloan how he felt. I am not as good with my words, I wish I had put more thought into my proposal to Peyton and made it more special for her. She deserves the world and I want to give it to her. She is precious to me, and everything that I ever wanted my mate to be. She is gorgeous, thoughtful, compassionate, and loving. She truly loves our pack members and wants to help others. Her parents caught me watching her with the children of the pack, and they mentioned to me that she has always been this way, kind, nurturing, and sweet.

I think she is perfect in every single way, and she is going to make the best mom ever. I can’t wait to get started on making our pups either. I am hoping soon, as she has been so happy since I got the whole pack straighten out as to me finding my true mate. I don’t know why I didn’t do it earlier. I had planned to, but I didn’t want to put too much pressure on her either. I didn’t know that my waiting to make the announcement was causing her to get more and more upset each and every day. I am thankful that she finally blew up, I would hate to think that she could have left me and gone back to her parent’s pack for something I wanted to do anyway. That was on me, I saw how she reacted to the girls flirting with me in the dining room, and I had shut them down. But apparently, each one of the she-wolves needed to be notified, by me personally, or it just wasn’t true. They all knew I had found my mate, but they just felt like since Peyton was so meek, they were just going to run right over her. That was never going to happen, as I wanted my mate and only my mate. No one else would do for me, and I am glad that my mom was here to show support and help train her. I can tell that Peyton feels so much stronger now, and more confident.

I was proud of Dawson, and still a little jealous last night when he proposed to Sloan. I wish I could express myself like he does. He always knows the right thing to say, and I open my mouth and insert my foot. I am not smooth with my words, but I feel the same things that Dawson had said to Sloan. Peyton is so perfect that I thank the Goddess every day for her. If she wanted the moon, I would try to find a way to get it for her. I wish I had never seen Stephanie. I wish I could take the pain that Peyton had away from when she arrived here at Ever Green. I really wish I had told her that I had promised Stephanie that she could be Luna, only because she had pressured me into it. She refused to stop crying until I said it. I only realized after Stephanie showed me the real her, that she had been playing me all along. I wish I had done exactly what my parents had said and never dated someone in my pack. It gave all the other unmated girls the idea that I could be poached, and that was not the case.

“I am glad that Peyton has you, Percy,” King Sebastian said to me and I looked at him in surprise, I see Queen Deanna beside him and was nodding her head in agreement.

“I appreciate you both helping me to get her back. I love her so much, but sometimes the words are not right when I try to say something beautiful, like Dawson did last night for Sloan” I tell them, and they can hear the pain in my voice.

“Percy, no one is made the same. You are more of an action person, and Dawson is more of a thinking person. I know that you may think that since you are twins you should share the same things, but you never have. I have seen you over the years growing up. You two have always been like this. I am not saying that you are not intelligent, because you are. I am saying that you both have separate strengths, and you should celebrate your differences. You being who you are, is the very reason that the Goddess put you with Peyton. It is why Sloan, who is different than Peyton, is with Dawson. Each day I see both girls coming out of their shells a little more. Sloan is going to be a big personality when she gets to where she needs to be. She will be the yin to Dawson’s yang. That way together they can run their pack how it needs to be run. Like how your parents are, with your mother being a big personality, and Tanner being the voice of reason. Just like Heath is a true warrior, and Von is the gentle voice to lead him in the right direction when he needs it. You are very much like Heath, and Peyton will be your soft voice of reason. You balance each other out, to make the perfect team to rule together” King Sebastian said to me, and I am shocked into silence.

How did I not see that? I guess wallowing in self-pity and being unfocused as to what was right in front of me. He is exactly right, that was exactly what was happening here. I looked up at him and smiled and realized that I don’t have to be a wordsmith for Peyton to love me, she already did, because I was the perfect other half for her. My strength and her loving kindness, and together we would make sure that our pack prospered and flourished while we ran it.

“Percy, we both backed you because we could see exactly how much you loved Peyton, and how much she loved you. You were made for each other and frankly, we couldn’t have picked a better man for her. I see it every time you look at her, how much you truly care for her. I know you are worried about tomorrow, but it will be fine. I know that Alpha James will feel better after our visit, and I will feel better disposing of Fallon so neither of you has to worry about her rearing her ugly head again. Then we can focus on Jasper because I will not allow him to hurt Peyton ever again. He is also being investigated for the deaths of his two previous Luna’s. Neither of them was his true mate, and I don’t know how he hasn’t found her yet at 32 years old. Most of us find our mates by the time we are 30, as you feel that pull making you need to find them. Most Alphas go to other packs to see if they can find them, and he never has. It is like he was fixated on Peyton after losing his first mate, and then he got another chosen Luna after we were told Peyton was dead. I have never understood how he operates, but I never knew that he was greedy enough to want to mate my daughter and kill my sons, to try to be the next Alpha King. I come from a royal lineage, he does not have the same thought processes and would run the kingdom into the ground. He will never be King, as long as I am alive” King Sebastian said, and he looks pissed.

I am too, as it is my mate that he is after. Plus, what he did to Heath. I have just been staying near Peyton so we can get this first problem squared away, and for her to be getting properly trained. I am a lot happier now that Peyton has a way to protect herself, even if we get separated. She is almost as good with the gun as my mom is, and that is saying something, especially after only 2 weeks of training. I see her standing there speaking to my mom and getting instructions as she about to spar with Brendan. I can’t help the jealousy that rises in me that he will be touching her while they fight, but mom was right, I would have gone easy on her, afraid I would hurt her. Brendan is Easton and Angela’s oldest child and he will probably one day take over the elite team. He is one of the best fighters that we have and is the best one for today. He is a master in Jiu Jitsu and several other forms of martial arts. He knows that she is to be his Luna, and I know he won’t intentionally be hurting her, but with training and learning, you will usually get hurt. But that is how you learn what to do, and what not to do. She already knows to tap quickly when she can’t get out of a hold, but it still causes a lot of jealousy on my part, watching another man touch what is mine.

Mom gets in the circle and motions them both in to start the fight. They bow to each other in respect and then take their stances. My dad is standing to the side, and he will be calling out instructions to Peyton throughout the match. I know mom already gave her tips, people always dismiss my mom as she is 5’9” and on the shorter side for a she-wolf. Most look like Evelyn who is mated to Jameson and she has just wandered up to watch the fight take place. Evelyn is a warrior through and through. At almost exactly 6’ she is slim and strong. She is also on the elite team, and both her and mom take training women seriously. It frustrates them when people dismiss them just because they are women, they love to turn the judgmental assholes on their ears when they beat them in a fight.

My sister, Elena, is a prime example of judging someone based on their appearance. at 5’10” she is just an inch taller than mom, but her looks are deceiving as well. She looks just like mom, so when men see her, they just assume that she is just a lovely, delicate girl, because she is beautiful. They would be wrong, she is a tomboy all the way to her core. She rarely wears make-up, and usually has her hair in a braid or a ponytail that she can quickly wrap up into a bun. She has been getting trained from 5 years old by my mother. She is a machine when she fights, and all business. She has a natural gift for it too, within a few minutes of the fight starting she knows exactly where their weakness is and exploits it. She was fighting full-grown adult men who were experienced warriors by the time she was fourteen years old. They were all amused at first, joking around and asking if they were going to get in trouble for beating up the Alpha’s kid, but they learned quickly that the joke was on them. Dawson and I were so proud of her too, she was in a total of 5 fights that day, with the top 5 warriors from our pack. The only one she almost lost was the last one because she had been fighting for almost 2 hours straight and was tired. She managed to get him into a submission hold, and he tapped out. They stopped teasing her after that.

Speak of the devil, I see Elena coming up and she stands next to dad, and then she starts calling out what to do for Peyton. Peyton does what she is told, but she is just now getting her eating to where it needs to be, as her stomach still is shrunken from her not being allowed to eat correctly. It results in her tiring out quickly in a fight, but she is still holding her own, and we are 5 minutes into it. I am so proud of her. She almost gets Brendan into an armbar, but he managed to stop it, and I see the flash of a smile as he is happy with how far she has come too. I can relax a little more now, as she is now doing the moves, in defense and offense, without getting instruction from my dad and Elena. I wonder if she realizes that she is fighting and using her own instincts now. She is doing well, and able to read what Brendan is going to do next. He is not telegraphing, and she is holding her own, on her own.

Three minutes later Brendan had her pinned down with an armbar, that he immediately released as soon as she tapped out. I am still so proud of her. Brendan has been training since he was a child too. He is an extremely effective fighter, which is why it is believed that when the time comes, he will relieve his father, Easton, of running the team. There has been a discussion of splitting the duties for the elite team with Hudson’s son, Jamie, being a leader too. That way they can take turns in going on missions. There are a total of 10 members now, so they can technically have two 5 person teams to go out to help, and train. I suggested it to Heath last year, and we are at the point now, where we have enough people to do it.

Peyton gets helped up from the ground by Brendan, with a smile on her face. I can see she has pride in herself with how well she has done against him. This was the reason that mom wanted Brendan to spar with her, so she could learn and take it seriously because she knew they didn’t just hand it to her. She has and she is doing well at learning it.

Evelyn came up to her and said, “Great job Peyton. Gabi wanted me to come and observe you today. They will have to be going back to B***d Rose soon and she wanted me to see where you are, for me to take over your training. It will be Vivian and I training you, you will still get training from the men as well on the team, but Gabi thought it was best for us to be there with you as well while you train. Plus, no one is more jealous or aggressive about their mates, than an Alpha can be. We want Percy to stay calm while we get you up to speed”.

“Who is Vivian?” Peyton asked.

“She is the Bets couple’s youngest child, Vivian Gardner, she is Beta Eli’s daughter with Beta female, Fawn. She is 18, but she has been training since she was little, and is an excellent fighter. She is actually going to be testing soon to make the elite team. You might not have seen her around because of the rigorous training that she is doing. She will have to beat 5 members of the elite team to get onto the team. It is really tough, and she will be testing next week. She has an older Brother names Reese who is 19 years old. When Percy takes over the pack, Reese will take over as Beta at that time” Evelyn said.

“I look forward to learning from you and Vivian. Thank you so much for helping me continue to learn. I knew that Gabi and her family would be leaving this coming weekend. I am really going to miss them” Peyton told her.

“Heath will help too, remember he trained all of us, at one time or another. He is considered the Guru here. There is nothing that he doesn’t know about training. He has probably forgotten more than any of us know. I will see you later honey, it was nice to finally get to meet you. It is my pleasure to help you train. I love for any woman to train to be able to protect herself” Evelyn said to us both and gave me a wave as she walked away. I am really looking forward to Peyton learning all she can for her to be able to feel safe in her own skin. I will be right here with her as she learns, I look forward to being able to spar with her myself.