Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 45

Timothy’s POV

B***d Claw Pack

I get the news that I have been waiting for all week. They are finally here and asking us to come to the gate. I cannot wait to get to go see Peyton and I immediately stand up and leave my breakfast on the table and tell dad to, “Come on” as I pass him. I had left my SUV parked out in front of the packhouse this whole week waiting on them to get here and they are finally here. Dad was less enthusiastic about going to the gate and drug his feet. I was not going to wait on him, he could ride with the Beta couple, but he mindlinked me to stop and wait for him. It was ridiculous, I needed to get there right now. I mindlinked the gate guards to see if she was there, but they reported that they had not seen her yet. I told them to move around and see if they could see if she was there again, as she is small and they might have missed her.

Dad finally comes out of the packhouse and gets into the SUV and as soon as he shuts the door I take off heading to the gate. My heart is racing, and I have never been this excited before, for anything. I have been playing back my rejection in my mind with her standing so tall and strong as I looked at her from the floor. I thought that she was weak, but I was the one unable to get up from the floor after rejecting her. She just turned and ran away from me after accepting it, like it was nothing and she wasn’t hurting at all. She was so sexy standing there looking at me with contempt, I can’t decide what I wanted to do with her first once I told her I was sorry and wanted her back. Do I need to k**s her, hug her, I should probably take it slow, but I was her true mate and there was no way that she could feel as much, with a knock-off mate. He doesn’t stand a chance against me and the thought of it brings a smile to my lips, I will finally be beating Percy in something after all. Just the thought of it makes me happy and I drive faster to the gate.

“We can’t tell if she is here or not. There are a lot of SUVs here, but only warriors and a few Alphas are here at the gate. I recognize Alpha Heath as one of the Alphas. Not all of the SUVs are empty, we just can’t tell who is still inside them” one of the gate guards advised me.

Damn, I was hoping that she was there, but she is probably in one of the vehicles. That is fine, I am pretty sure that she came. She always was kindhearted. I am sure she would have come to speak to dad, and at least he will feel better about this whole thing. I am hoping he does a good job so she will forgive him and move back to the pack with me. Fallon will be dead and so will dad, so there would be nothing else holding her back from coming back to B***d Claw. I park quickly and head towards the gate to see if I could see her standing there. I am looking all around while I hear my dad speaking to Alpha Heath at the gate.

I finally hear her soft voice calling out and I look over at her. She looks beautiful as she emerges from the back seat of the SUV near the gate. She got her hair cut, and she has put on a little weight, so she is finally getting some of her curves back. She looks so beautiful to me, that I stop breathing for a minute. I can’t take my eyes off of her as she steps away from the SUV but doesn’t shut the door behind her. I see Percy get out of the same SUV behind her and my temper explodes. He needs to get the hell away from my mate right now. I swear I will go kick his a*s if he doesn’t leave my sweet mate alone. I can’t stop myself from yelling out, “Why are YOU here?” before every head turns to look at me with surprise written all over their faces.

“What? He is with my mate, and none of you have a problem with it. I am her true mate. She is mine, and I want her back. It was all a misunderstanding, I didn’t mean to reject her, I have wanted her for two years” I yelled out in anger, and then realized what I had said. I hope that she didn’t hear me admit that I knew she was mine before I left. I glanced back over at her, and the stunned expression that she had on her face lets me know that she did, in fact, catch it, and she was pissed about it.

“What did you just say, Timothy? You KNEW I was your mate, and even with knowing how I was being treated and abused here you still left me to suffer? You are a complete a*****e” Peyton said, and I am stunned by the anger emanating from her. She is really enraged and this information might keep her from coming back to me.

“Baby, you know you couldn’t have come to Alpha training with me,” I said to her in a cajoling tone, trying to calm her down.

A loud growl rips through the air and Percy comes right up to the fence, he opens his mouth to say something, but Peyton reaches out and grabs his hand that was not on the wrought iron of the gate, and I see him instantly calm down. Damn, he really is her second chance mate.

“I will take care of this, Percy. First of all, don’t call my “baby” ever again Timothy. You had your chance, and you blew it all to hell. Especially with this brand-new information. Secondly, you hurt me all the time too, bringing girls through here, not stopping Fallon or your dad when they hurt me badly. Not allowing me to eat but one time a day, and half the time that was taken away too. I will never be your mate, YOU rejected me, remember? I was too weak to be a Luna, remember? Do not act like this was all a misunderstanding between us because it wasn’t. You doted on Fallon, you allowed her to abuse me for years, you only want me because of who I truly am, oh and that reminds me. I Peyton Hunt, Daughter of Alpha King Sebastian Hunt, of the Royal Knight pack, fully accept your rejection, Timothy James, soon-to-be Alpha of the B***d Claw pack” Peyton tells me, and my heart feels like it is being torn apart. I thought she had already accepted my rejection. Apparently, she had to do it again with the correct name for it to completely break, just like my heart.

I hit my knees and I try to keep quiet and not scream out from the pain. My pain only increases as I see Peyton stagger a little and Percy pull her tightly to him and I see her mark on his neck as his shirt is pulled to the side. I feel tears running down my face as she taps his arm to let him know that she is well enough to stand on her own and I see her matching mark from him. The final blow was the engagement ring on her hand. We don’t even have to bother with those, as the Luna ceremony is binding enough. I am furious to be humiliated like this on my own packland. I start making my own plans to get her back when dad steps up to the gate and calls to Peyton. I see her back stiffen up like it always did when dad came to get her, and then I see her force herself to relax. She turns to fully look at him, but I can see that she is really upset with this whole situation.

“Peyton, I am so sorry that I allowed you to be hurt like that. I am even sorrier that I hurt you myself like that. I never realized that I had been led to do it by a vindictive, malicious, and jealous girl. She was so young, and I never expected to have her talk me into doing all that I did. I saw her hurting you, and with all the points that she was making about you, it seemed real. Like her pointing out that we had never been attacked before you came, it really seemed to be true. I didn’t know that she had a part in it, or that you were here to be hidden away and protected. I wish we had been included in that information, your years here would have never been how they ended up being. I am disgusted by my actions. I allowed myself to become so mired in what I was feeling that I only felt better when I punished who I believed was responsible for it. I tried to rationalize it all as being OK because all of Fallon’s points were valid, but I was wrong. You were always innocent, and I am ready to go and meet the Goddess now and see my beautiful Luna again. I don’t honestly expect you to forgive me, Peyton. My actions towards you were heinous and abominable. I will never forgive myself for my actions either. Knowing the pain that I caused you is so upsetting I cannot eat anymore, I just wanted to speak to you and tell you that I cannot express how badly I feel about this. I am so sorry for hurting you, Peyton. My anger was never yours to bear” my dad said to Peyton, and I am stunned by what he said.

He really did feel bad about all he had done. You can feel it. His shame, and frustration, in what he had done. I kind of thought it had all been a ploy until I noticed the other day how much weight he had lost and how upset he was that he might die before he could tell her that he was sorry. I can see tears in Peyton’s eyes, as she moves closer towards the gate again, I really wish I wasn’t still on my knees in front of her. I look weak and pitiful right now and Percy looks strong and protective. My fury at Percy comes roaring right back into me and Malachi is giving me the strength to stand again. He is furious at losing his mate, but he is helping me out now, so we won’t look weak in front of his mate. The bond is in shreds right now, but I have to try at least one more time. I am sure that she is probably long gone from me at this time, but my wolf still wants her. I think rejecting her has been the biggest mistake of my life.

“I forgive you, Alpha James. I know how much you loved Luna Tori, you were not yourself after losing her. You were a kind and good Alpha, and you totally changed the moment that you lost her. I know that you just wanted the person, or persons, responsible for her death, to pay for costing you so much. I knew that at your root, you were and are still a good man. Thankfully, I am a healer, so I was able to be healed quicker than most would be throughout the abuse. I won’t ever say that I was OK with any of it, but I do understand that you were not in your right mind from the attack happening and costing you the love of your life. Because of that, and the fact that Timothy is not ready yet to take over this pack, I reached out to the werewolf council. Timothy is making bad choices and not thinking clearly, he is not ready to take this pack over. I reached out to them, and they took my opinion into account and your death sentence has been overturned. I wish you well in the future Alpha James, you do not need to worry about me any further, I do not hold any ill will against you. I want you to stop punishing yourself for what is in the past, please take care of yourself” Peyton told my dad, and both he and I freeze.

“What the hell did you just say?” I asked her as I stepped forward. She thinks I can’t run the pack. Who in the hell does she think she is?

“I don’t think that you are ready to run this pack yet. I think you still have a lot to learn from your father and you can take the next year or two to learn from him. I think it is for the best” Peyton tells me, and I growl loudly at her from my chest. What? All of a sudden, she isn’t lower than an Omega and she thinks that she can tell me what “I” need to do. She knows nothing about what I know, or don’t know. She is full of it, and I cannot believe that she would do this to me. Oh, I bet this is payback for rejecting her, and she feels the need to punish me for not wanting her.

“You aren’t smart enough to know if I will or won’t be an effective Alpha, Peyton. What do you have to base that on?” I asked her and Percy growls back at me in a low tone, but suddenly there is a much louder growl coming from King Sebastian.

“She watched me rule for numerous years, and she has common sense, unlike you Timothy. She will be a Luna and take care of her pack. Do not try to imply that she doesn’t know based on a ranking that your father gave her to be able to punish her. You can sense that she is not a true Omega, you need to hold your tongue young Alpha before you let it get you into trouble. I do not happen to agree with what Peyton wanted, I wanted him punished for the years of pain he gave my daughter. But I see that she was right. Alpha James has learned his lesson, and he feels bad about what he did, and you are not ready to take control of this pack” King Sebastian yelled back at me through the gate.

I cannot stop myself from showing submission to him by exposing my neck to him. I am growing angrier by the minute, but I have to stamp it down because now is not the time for me to show my anger, I will bide my time. It doesn’t have to be today, but I will show Peyton that she chose wrong, and I may take my turn at hurting her the same way that she hurt me, by breaking her heart. I will take away someone that she loves away from her and see how she likes that. I glare at Percy, and he raises his head as if to tell me to go ahead and fight with him. No, it won’t be today, but it will be one day when he doesn’t expect it when I show him who the best man really is.

“King Sebastian, we seem to have a problem. I was just advised two minutes ago that Fallon has managed to escape B***d Claw. I have no idea where she currently is right now. I was hoping that the trackers could find her before I had to break the news to you, but apparently she had help escaping. There were able to track her to a clearing about half a mile away and then lost her scent. She had help in escaping her cell and I will find out who helped her. I have cameras installed that only I know about for all the hallways in and out of the cells. We can go to my office to review them now if you want?” Alpha James announced to the group. Well, Peyton no longer looks so freaking superior now. Good, I hope Fallon gives her hell, I may try to find Fallon myself, just so we can team up and teach Peyton a little lesson in respect.