Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 61

Brandi’s POV

Golden Moon Pack

I stomped down the hallway to my father’s office, I need to speak to both of my parents, and I already know that they are there. There are always in the office these days. Things are still tense here, and it is all Rob’s fault. How could he help those assholes take Sloan? I could care less that they are mates, he is still in trouble with mom after what he did. She is still trying to figure out how exactly to punish him. Plus, he betrayed me too. He knew that I wanted Dawson. I have for 3 years, he is one of the most handsome Alphas and our pack is so close to his, I could visit my parents every day if I wanted to. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when I found out that he was not my mate after I turned 18. The worst part was that he acted like he was relieved about it. That really made me angry. It was his loss, not mine. There are other Alphas, he isn’t the only one. He is unfortunately one of the most handsome ones, the whole family had great genes, but anyone can be replaced.

Percy was originally my backup plan, but I heard that he had met his mate as well now too. I guess I am going back to the original plan of getting with Dawson, as I knew for a fact that mom was not going to rest until she had Sloan back here at Golden Moon and locked back up in her room again. The worst part of this whole thing was that they weren’t just mating and marking them, they were going old school just like their parents and marrying them too. Why? That is just another thing to keep them bonded together like they couldn’t get enough of each other. It is infuriating, I made sure that Sloan’s Omega had been punished for causing all of this too. If she hadn’t been sick that day, Rob would have never had to bring Sloan to eat lunch in the dining room. Thus, keeping them from meeting, mom agreed with me, what were the odds of that happening? I don’t know why nothing goes my way, I have nothing here, and I am so ready to blow this joint. Life has been way less fun without being able to cause trouble for Sloan when I get bored.

It really was fun for Sloan to get punished, for s**t I did, I mean it was hilarious. Mom figured out what I was doing pretty quickly, but she played along with it because she truly couldn’t stand to look at Sloan, and wanted to hurt her. She truly does hate her, to her core. I know mom would have killed her because she told me so. Dad told her not to truly hurt Sloan, but mom had, and on numerous occasions. One day she will be successful in killing Sloan, even the warlock who put the spell on her room to keep her cries from escaping had told mom that he would take her back to his coven and she could stay there. But mom refused, she has always planned on killing Sloan, she just had to make it look like an accident and hadn’t come up with anything that would have worked to make her plan a reality.

I can’t see how dad could have missed it, other than burying his head in the sand, as he normally does. It doesn’t matter anyway because dad always ended up doing exactly what mom told him to do. I still remember them waking up outside of Sloan’s room with Rob after Sloan had escaped. They were madder than I have ever seen them. They punished both him and the warriors over it. Rob, more so than the warriors since they were just following his orders. Dad and mom had called for backup, and the warriors allowed them to leave unscathed. They all seemed upset that mom knew that Dawson was Sloan’s mate, but wasn’t going to let her leave. Things changed around here soon after that, everyone knew about mates, and for mom to try to block them from being together, pack members are not supporting mom anymore because of it. Mom seemed oblivious to it, as she has been coming up with ways to try to get Sloan back to Golden Moon this whole time. She even called the werewolf council and gave there some bullshit story about the fact that since Sloan is a witch it will weaken the B***d Rose heir’s bloodline. But they told her that since Dawson and Sloan were mates, they would not be stepping in at all, and for mom to leave them alone. Mom will never allow Sloan to be happy, mom will die first, and that is the cold hard truth. She is blinded by anger and hatred, and I am just glad she doesn’t focus all of her energy on me, I can feel bad for Sloan, but I won’t be stepping in to help her.

I already knew that mom’s endgame was killing Sloan. Mom was a real eye-for-an-eye person, and she was going to make it look like an accident, but she was indeed going to kill Sloan. As far as mom was concerned, Sloan had killed mom’s parents single-handedly and mom was going to make sure that Sloan got what she deserved. I got to the office and knocked on the door. Mom opens it to see who was there and allowed me into the room. Dad always had a welcoming office, I liked it, with its warm wood paneling. It has a fireplace, as we still didn’t have central heating and air, but each of our rooms had a fireplace in them for cold winter nights. Mom wouldn’t allow Sloan to have a fireplace in hers though. Mom always managed to show Sloan how much she did not matter to her, and I know that Sloan got the message, loud and clear. I enjoyed seeing the flash of fear in her eyes, and I can’t wait for her to come back here, so I can help mom pay her back for stealing Dawson from me like she did. She is a dirty hybrid and doesn’t deserve to be happy, let alone be Dawson’s, true mate.

“Well, have you heard anything yet?” I asked mom.

“No, nothing yet honey, but I did get Rob’s phone cloned and we get all of his texts. I am pissed off that Sloan is rubbing her happiness in our faces. She is supposed to be coming home this weekend. So, by tomorrow afternoon she will be at B***d Rose. We can go the next day, on Sunday morning to get her back” Mom said.

“I don’t think we need to get her back. She is his mate, and I think that you should leave her alone. She never did anything to you, and mom killed the witches and rogues responsible for killing our fathers. Sloan wasn’t even born then. How could she need to be punished because of the acts of other people?” Dad asked, and he seems upset. It won’t matter, mom will steamroll right over him.

“Well, be sure to tell that to my parents, Jerry. Oh, sorry, they are dead. Dead because of some damn witches being mad at YOUR mom. As far as I am concerned any witches alive are worth me killing, so unless you can bring my parents back to life, you can just shut the hell up. Your parents are the reason that mine are dead. Your dad should have just left her in the woods and found a proper she-wolf to make his chosen mate. Not some dirty witch, some disgusting, abomination that I hope to get wiped off the face of the earth before I go to meet the Goddess” my mom yells at him, and I already know that she is about to lose it. Even I realize that Sloan didn’t have anything to do with what happened, but mom is poisoned towards her. This will only work in my favor, as mom is going to convince them to take me instead when she goes to get Sloan. I got my hair done yesterday, and I got some new clothes. I will even make myself look more innocent when we go, more demure, as that is clearly what he likes in a woman. I don’t want to hear this again, so I break into the conversation.

“Mom, do you really think that this swap will work?” I asked her, and I was nervous. He had made it very clear that I had no chance with him. None, at all. I know he isn’t just going to change his mind all of a sudden for no reason.

“Yes, you are beautiful. Way more beautiful than Sloan because you look more like me. If he has a brain in his head, he will realize that you are the far better choice when we go there to visit. Even if he doesn’t, I will figure out a way to get her out of B***d Rose. I will never allow him onto our lands again to try to come back and take her again. I would have torn the treaty up, but your dad seems to think that we need to keep it in place. Just in case Rob needs help here after we pass the pack onto him. But I swear if he pulls something like he did after that awful woman attacked me, then I will allow you and whoever your mate is to take over Golden Moon pack instead. He will not be getting his birthright. If he is going to support a witch instead of his family, he deserves to be cut off from Golden Moon anyway, just for that” Mom said in a venomous tone. She is worked up, and she is still pissed at Gabi for knocking them both out when they were stalling and waiting for the warriors to come up and force them to leave our packlands.

“Meghan, please stop all this. Sloan is his sister too, and he loves her as well. Sloan and Dawson are mates, you remember what that feels like. You can’t fight it, even if you wanted to. They seem like they are doing well, and happy. You need to let this vendetta you have go. Sloan wasn’t even alive when all that happened. You need to stop blaming her for any of it, she had nothing to do with it. Just stop this whole thing, she is your daughter, and you only held her for a short time, just until she opened her eyes. You condemned her on the spot, you have never truly been a mother to her. I have put up with a lot through the years to make you happy, but what you have done to Sloan is inexcusable. I will not support any actions against her again. You need to leave her alone Meghan, let her have a good life with her mate, you have punished her for long enough. Let it go, you are not the woman that I fell in love with so many years ago. You are a hateful, spiteful, vindictive woman now. I hope you think very hard about starting anything with B***d Rose, for our pack’s sake. It will not just be B***d Rose that you will be dealing with, and I need you to decide to just let her be” my father told her in a quiet tone.

This is not going to go well, dad never corrects mom. He especially doesn’t do it in front of us. He just usually lets her do whatever she wants to do. I can see the rage on her face, and I wanted to leave the room, but I am actually scared to get up to leave and draw her attention to me. Mom can be vicious. I have seen things that she has done to Sloan that made me glad that I was on moms side. I have never been on the receiving end of moms temper, and I hope I never am. I am actually holding my breath waiting on the explosion that I already know is coming. I looked at dad, but he is just focused on mom, he is trying to calm her through mindlink, and it is not working, at all. I see her face twist into a look of ugliness that I have only seen when she was dealing with Sloan and I really wish I had left before she starts talking again, but it is too late.

“I turned into a hateful, spiteful, girl because YOUR mom killed my parents. Her being HERE was the root cause of their deaths. So don’t sit there and try to tell me I am going too far, or to leave Sloan alone. I won’t. I am her mother, she is a filthy hybrid, and I will be finishing this even if you don’t have the stomach for it. You have always been weak, I don’t know how you ended up an Alpha when you clearly were never intended for the job. I won’t stop until all witches, including the one I gave birth to, are dead. They ruined my life, and no I don’t really count Sloan as my child, because I hate even admitting that her dirty, hybrid body was carried inside mine for all those months. I will tell you right now, if I had known what she was going to be when she was born, I would have thrown myself down the stairs to lose her. She doesn’t deserve to live” mom hissed out in a hate-filled way to my dad, and I can see him struggling not to change his expression. I know he is shocked, but I have heard her tangent before, so I wasn’t shocked by what she had said at all. I was shocked at how vicious she sounded while saying it to my dad, she had never confronted him even though at her root, she blamed him because it was his mom who started it all.

It doesn’t bother me because it doesn’t apply to me at all. I am a full werewolf, not a dirty hybrid. Mom was proud of me just for that fact. Did I share some of her opinions? Sure, she raised me, why wouldn’t I? Where was she wrong at? Witches and rogues were responsible for her losing both of her parents. Did that loss affect her, yes, it was a great loss to her, but she always supports and takes care of me, so I am good with it. I watch dad get up and leave the room. He didn’t spare either of us a glance. I guess he thought that I was going to tell mom that she went too far, but I agreed with her. Plus, it was better, and safer, to be on her side of anything. She made plans to get people back when they crossed her. I already know that she will be taking a shot at Gabi when we go there, and if I am supposed to be Gabi’s daughter-in-law basically, I needed mom to lay off the petty, and name-calling. She just needs to get Sloan out of there, and me into her spot. Sloan has never been worthy of praise or respect. Her death could result in me being Dawson’s second chance mate, so I am fine with it. I will go with her when she goes for her visit of “good will” between our packs and tries to trade me out for Sloan. It probably won’t work on the first visit, but mom is nothing if not smart as hell and very creative. She will figure this all out, I just need to help her where I can. I was going to be the one reaping all of the benefits from it, so I am very happy now, and I head down to the training field to see if I can’t find a little something, or someone, to do. I was a little stressed after seeing that show, and I needed something to get my mind off of it.

Because whatever bad thing ends up happening, it won’t be happening to me. I will come out of this in a better place, no matter what. Especially if Rob messes up again. I will surely have my pick of chosen mates then, as the best of them will all be wanting to be the next Alpha of the Golden Moon Pack if Rob gets banished from the pack. I am going to be happy either way, I don’t care if I get to be Dawson’s second chance, or if I get to pick the hottest guy out there to help me run this pack. Because my future is going to be great, as long as I help mom get what she needs to get done.