Rejecting, Your Broken Promises -
Chapter 48
Percy’s POV
B***d Claw Pack
I am furious. How could they let this happen? From the looks of it, Alpha James was just as shocked as we were about this. He was angry it happened on his watch, and that a trusted member of his pack was the culprit. I could hear him mumbling something about food and Fallon, but I could quite catch the words he was saying. I can see that Peyton is frightened and I know that she is really worried about Fallon coming after her. I am praying that Fallon knows what is best for her, and just goes away.
I reach out and pull Peyton to my side as I can tell that she is still stunned. Her expression has been the same look since she heard that Fallon was gone. Both of her parents had comforted her and sworn to her that they would find Fallon. They kept telling her she didn’t have to worry, but Peyton is not calming down, in fact, her heart rate is even higher than it was 10 minutes ago at the gate. I looked over to see where we could sit down, I need to hold her, to comfort both her and me. I need to know that she is OK and until she calms down, she won’t be OK. I see a sofa against the far wall, and I take her hand and pull her along after me. I sit down and she is just standing in front of me in a daze, and I know she needs me to get through this.
I reached out and pull her closer to me, and then sweep her off her feet onto my lap. She is stiff and unyielding, and I know that is because she had gotten quite a shock. I guess she thinks that Fallon will come to hunt her down now. I kind of wished that Fallon would come to Ever Green, as it will make it much more convenient for me to kill her then. I saw what had happened when she escaped her cell. Fallon seems to be just like Stephanie, leading men where they want, all with the offer of s*x. I already know that King Sebastian already has people looking for them right now.
I only have one concern, and that is that Fallon will lay low for a while, like a few years, and then come to try to get Peyton. We are a tight pack at Ever Green, and things are even tighter now that we determined that having the refugees in our packlands allowed a spy to be able to infiltrate our packlands. Several changes came from it, and now we are back to our security being much more efficient and effective. I am proud of the changes that we made, and Heath was proud that I had two ideas for improvements, and I was willingly trying to be a better Alpha.
I had kind of played with being the Alpha before, cocky and sure I knew everything. I was just kind of playing around until the reigns were handed over to me. I never realized that Heath was waiting on me, to stop clowning around and take it seriously. Plus, they weren’t going to hand it to me until I found my actual mate and not Stephanie. I see where they were going with that now. They were right to wait, but now that I have Peyton, I want to do better. I want to see love and respect for me shining in her eyes when she looks at me. I want her to know that I will shelter her from anything harmful to her, for the rest of her life. I am her shield against the world, and I am not afraid to defend her from anyone. I am not worried about Jasper, or Timothy. I will say that I am glad that her using her actual name to accept his rejection seemed to work. He is not looking at her with moon eyes anymore.
I glanced over at him, and I see him glaring at Peyton. He really took it personally that she told the werewolf council that Timothy wasn’t ready to take over the pack. I bet that i***t was ready for his dad to be killed by King Sebastian and had made some big plans for himself. That was shot all to hell now, and the fact that his father didn’t argue with what Peyton said, lets us all know that he sees it too. Another hard blow to Timothy’s pride. I keep looking at him until he felt my gaze on him and he looked over at me to see me glaring at him. He is startled at my glare, but he shouldn’t be, he is glaring at my mate, and we can go ahead and settle this right now if he wants to.
Timothy is more mouth than action. He has never been able to beat me in a fight, and he has been jealous of me for quite a while now. That was the real reason for the invite. But Heath had pressed us to come, so we could see if my mate were here. I realize I owe Heath everything. I wasn’t going to come because I knew why he invited me, and I didn’t want to deal with his spoiled a*s. I think it is hilarious that he invited me here, rejected his mate, and she became my mate, all in one night. I know he was pissed about it, and hopefully, he will lose my number now that the bond is completely broken between them. Timothy can go screw himself, as long as he leaves us alone, from now on we will be fine.
“Baby, listen to me. Focus on me and what I am saying. Fallon will not hurt you. I will not let her, and if she comes to Ever Green, I will snap her neck. Her death sentence is not lifted, and if anyone is found harboring her, they will be severely punished. Baby, look at me, Peyton, please, just listen to me” I speak low right up against her ear. She is still not reacting, so I take a deep breath in to get her scent, and then I nip her mark. I feel her jerk in my arms, I am glad that I got a good reaction from her. I start kissing the side of her neck, starting with her mark, and going up to the bottom of her ear. She has such cute ears. I then start coming across her cheek towards her mouth. I am going to keep going until she stops me. I need her to come back to me fully, and I am going to bring her attention off Fallon, and onto me.
I make it to her mouth, and I stop for a moment to look at her lips. Peyton has a beautiful mouth, full but not overly large. It fits her face, and I need her to come out of this semi-catatonic state. I give her a sweet k**s and then nip at her bottom l*p. I need her to k**s me back and I pull her closer to me and go to slide my tongue into her mouth. She is still not kissing me back. I nuzzle against her neck again and get another response from her and I nuzzle her mark again. I whisper into her ear, “Baby, I need you back with me. There is nothing to fear. No harm will come to you, I swear it. I promise you on my life, I will protect you always. I love you Peyton” I hugged her tightly to me and prayed that the Goddess would help me get my sweet mate back to me again. She seems to be frozen with fear.
“You love me?” I heard Peyton whisper. The sweet sound of her voice made me smile at my success in getting her attention on me.
“Yes baby, I love you so much. I have told you that before” I said back to her.
“No, you said you loved everything about me. You have never said that you love me before. Did you mean it?” Peyton asks me as she searches my eyes for the hint of a lie.
“Yes baby, I love you. Only you. Until the Goddess takes me” I told her. I watch as a tear falls from her eye and rolls down her face. I wiped it off with my thumb and Peyton snuggles into me, curving her body into mine. I smiled placing my chin on top of her head and looked up and noticed that the whole room was looking at us now. Everyone was smiling at us, pleased that Peyton was knocked out of her non-communicative state. Timothy looked pissed off, glared at me, and then exited the office without speaking to anyone else. I could care less that he isn’t happy, my only concern is Peyton’s happiness.
We stayed for another hour discussing what our next move would be and getting photographs of Fallon together to be sent out to all of the packs in CA, and I think that we may need to go further out than just our state. If it were me, and I knew I was going to be killed I would get as far away from here, as I could. I waited until they got through discussing what our next steps would be, and then said, “I think we need to reach out to the Kings running the other three sectors too, for them to send out to their packs as well. I think we need to widen our net and let them know that any new members seeking asylum after today, need to be completely vetted and a full background check made for aliases too. I think she will change her appearance, I would. I would either cut or color my hair, or both. Get glasses, whatever I had to do to change my outward appearance, but I think they are definitely going to try to get out of California, at the very least. I think if they could secretly get a good picture of any new members would be a great idea too”
“Percy is right, Fallon is very bright to have worked a grown Alpha like she did, at such a young age. I think she will make changes to her appearance as well. That is an excellent idea, and I will send this information and the pictures out to the other three Kingdoms as well. I believe that she will try to get as far away from here as she can to try to prevent her sentence from being carried out” King Sebastian said and nodded at me.
“King Sebastian, I would like to request that I be included in trying to track Fallon down. After Peyton was kind enough to give me grace, I would like to pass it back on to her. I want to give her peace of mind, so she can live her life without fear of Fallon coming back into her life. I will locate Fallon, and I will let you know where she is, so you can get her picked up. Chris is one of our best warriors and is an excellent fighter and my head trainer. It would be best, especially if he is her mate, for a group to go and get them. He is a good man, and I can think of no other reason for him to have helped her escape unless he was her mate” Alpha James said to the group. I am honestly surprised that he would offer to do that for Peyton. It seems like she was right about him.
“I would appreciate the help, Alpha James. I would honestly be glad to have you do that for us. The sooner that we can catch Fallon, the better. I do not want Peyton to have to live in fear, and obviously, Fallon is potentially a great problem. I can give you a few men to help you if you need it, but I will be working on it from the Royal Knight pack, as well” King Sebastian said.
We spent the next hour and a half getting plans made for us to locate Fallon before we packed back up in the SUVs to go back to Ever Green, with our warriors, and the one’s from B***d Rose in front of us. King Sebastian and his family will be heading back to the Royal Night pack for him to start reaching out to the other Kingdoms for them to put feelers out in their packs as well.
Peyton went ahead and got in the back again and I was so glad that she was feeling better about this now. She seemed back to normal if a little quiet. I will feel better once we get back to our packland safely. This has been a hard day on Peyton, and we can’t get there soon enough. King Sebastian is right behind us with his warriors following behind him. Alpha Black is behind him. We have about 14 SUVs heading down the road as we head back to the interstate. As we come over the overpass to get onto the interstate the lead SUV is suddenly sideswiped and everyone slams on their breaks, and swerves to try to avoid the wreck. Everyone is trying to stop and not hit the other vehicles as we all tried to stop. Peyton screams out in fear and grabs the back of my seat to brace herself, as dad gets control of our SUV and slides to a stop. Heath sees the problem first and announces, “Jasper is here” before throwing his door open and getting his gun unsheathed.
Oh, s**t, this is going to be a problem. How the hell did he know that we would even be here? Mom gets out as she was behind Heath and draws her gun as well, to help protect us. Dad stays behind the wheel, and I called to Peyton, “Do not undo your seatbelt just yet. Dad may have to hit one of their vehicles to get us out of here.” Dad is on his phone calling Alpha James as we are only about 8 minutes away from his pack for backup. I see our warriors from both Ever Green and B***d Rose pulling up to shield our SUV from Jasper as they were all parked on the other side of the interstate from us, all the way across each of the lanes, about 100 feet from us. The warriors all get out and get behind our SUV for protection from the bullets.
I hope everyone in the wrecked vehicle is OK, but this is bad. The lead SUV is on its side, and I haven’t seen any of the men get out of it yet. I still don’t know if they were Dad’s warriors or Heath’s, but they could be really hurt. I can see movement inside the SUV, but I can’t tell if any of them are needing help or not right now. Jasper must either be desperate or have a freaking death wish. King Sebastian will not be letting this pass, and I know Heath was wanting a word with him as well. I don’t think he has thought this through. I go to get out and mom tells me, “Stay with Peyton, do not get out, Percy. They only have 7 SUVs, so we clearly outnumber them. I can’t believe that Jasper would do something like this he is acting very bold for someone who has just declared war on several strong packs.”
Heath calls out, “Jasper, what are you thinking? You need to clear the road, you don’t have enough men to beat us, you need to leave before more people get hurt or killed.”
“I don’t think so, Heath. I know that you have Peyton, just allow her to walk over here to me, and the rest of you can leave” Jasper called back.
“My mate will not be coming with you, not now and not later. You will not be taking her anywhere, Jasper. I will kill you first before I ever let that happen” I called out to him, and I heard him laughing.
“What the hell do you think that you can do to me, pup? You are not even an Alpha yet. I had already asked for her as my Luna 7 years ago. I could feel a bond between us, even then, she was just too young to be able to feel it. I am her mate, and she belongs to me. Do not make us use force to get her. I don’t want her hurt by a stray bullet. Just give her up, and we will leave, after making sure that you can’t follow us” Jasper calls out and we all hear a deadly roar sound from behind us.
“Jasper, you have gone too far this time. Peyton will not be leaving with you, she was never yours, to begin with, she is already marked by her mate. You have overstepped, and I would like to know how you even knew we were here in the first place?” King Sebastian roared out and everyone is tilting their necks in submission to him as he lets out his power emanated onto everyone present.
“My new friend Fallon let me know that Peyton was at B***d Claw so I could come and get my Luna. So, I hurried over to claim her before she got taken back to Ever Green. We are all armed, King Sebastian, you would be a fool to test us. This can not end well for any of you if you don’t comply with what I am telling you. So just hand Peyton over, and we will leave you alive. If you refuse you ARE going to lose men over this, all of you will” Jasper said, and I can see at least 10 armed men ready to fire on us.
“Baby, unbuckle, and get on the floorboard. I know he is not going to give up, and neither are we.” I told her, and she didn’t respond, she is on her cell phone and speaking lowly into it, laying down across her seat. I have no idea who she is speaking to, but I can’t see this going well for any of us right now. Only mom and Heath are armed, and even though they are both great shots, and have plenty of ammo, those men will be gunning for them first. We already know that Jasper is willing to shoot Heath. I totally believe that he is willing to kill several of us, to get to Peyton. I swear if we get out of this, I will never again be leaving my pack unarmed. I see dad getting into his console and pulling out two more handguns, and several magazines. We are more armed than I thought as he passes one to me and he keeps the other. We will not be going down without a fight. It is our duty to help protect King Sebastian and his family, and we will all be doing our duty. I see his personal team is armed and will be doing the same thing as us, I just hope we can all survive this set-up.
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