Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 62

Sloan’s POV

B***d Rose Pack

I am so nervous, we are about to arrive at the B***d Rose pack, and I am so scared that the pack members will be scared of me because I am not just a werewolf. Sometimes people are very judgy based on your appearance, I want them to love me, and I want Dawson to be proud of me. I just don’t know how this is going to go. Dawson can feel my anxiety and reaches out to hold my hand. Elena reached up from the back seat and rubbed my shoulder and said, “I can’t wait for you to meet my best friend Michelle Williamson”.

“Me too, I have heard so many stories from you already that I feel like I already know her. She has always been nice to me when I have gotten to speak to her on the phone” I tell her and smiled back at her. Elena knows that I am nervous about what the pack will think of me and is trying to help me calm down.

“They are going to love you, baby. Don’t even worry about it. I won’t allow any problems to occur with the pack, and I won’t be waiting to make the formal announcement. The Warriors have already been notified that you are coming with us, and a photo of you shared. They will still be doing their patrols, and they can’t all come to the town hall that I scheduled for tonight, because of it. The Beta has already announced to the whole pack that I had found you, in an announcement two weeks ago. Everything will be fine, no problems, I promise you” Dawson tells me and he strokes the back of my hand with his thumb.

We pull up to the gate, and we are the third in a line of four vehicles, my great grandfather’s car is right in front of us as we pull onto the pack lands, and there are about 150 people waiting for us at the packhouse. This is a lot of people to me, and I tense up again. I can’t hide my eye color from them, they will know instantly that I am a witch, and now I can’t seem to catch my breath. I am scared, I wanted to just kind of slip in unnoticed, and that won’t be happening to me today. I am having a flashback to the horrible welcome that Peyton had at Ever Green, and how I was treated in my old pack. I was an Alpha’s daughter but was treated like the scum of the earth. Told that I was a freak that would never fit in and a lot of times that was coming from my own family members. I know that Gabi said that Tanner’s mother is friends with witches and has a great relationship with them, but this is still very scary to me how exactly I will be welcomed into this pack.

Dawson keeps rubbing the back of my hand and I know he knows how stressed out I am through our bond. I look at him and I see him smile reassuringly me and I gave him a small smile back. My sister has friends in other packs, I don’t know how, because she basically only cares about herself. I pray that she doesn’t have any in this pack, but as close as we are to the Golden Moon, I wouldn’t bet on it. It seems like every pack has a group of girls who consider themselves better than everyone else. They aren’t, but in their minds they are. I look ahead of our SUV as we pull up to park, and I see Vincent, and Beth get out of his Mercedes and look around. Moira is taking longer to get out of the car, and I bet it is because she is on the phone. I hear a text come in and look at my phone. “There are some hot guys here, I may hang out here with you after our great grands leave. You know, to keep you company” Moira’s texts said, and she made me laugh with the wink emoji she added to the end of it. I still have a small smile on my face as I exit the vehicle.

I see a handsome couple break away from the large group of people and head straight for me and I can see the resemblance the man has to Tanner and Dawson. He is a couple of inches over 6’ with black hair that is greying at his temples, his strong build indicates that he is still very active and staying fit. His blue-grey eyes are familiar as he looks down at me with a big smile on his face. The woman at his side is grinning at me and pulls me into a tight hug as her mate stays behind her laughing and saying, “She needs to breathe Aria”. The woman releases me and leans over to give me a k**s on my cheek. She is gorgeous and my height at 5’10”. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes and looks like she is ecstatic to meet me. She smacks the man with the back of her hand as she looked at me and said, “Welcome to B***d Rose, Sloan. We are so happy Dawson found you.”

Another handsome couple stepped out and came over to me and this man looks like Tanner too, also a younger version of the man who was standing there with Aria who backed up a few steps to allow others to come up to greet me. Dawson had walked around the back of the SUV and was standing right behind me with his hand on my lower back. Elena had gotten out of the back of the SUV and hugged her grandparents and came to stand at my side in a show of support for me as well. It was a big comfort to have his parents standing on the other side of me as they were showing their support for me by doing this. The man who is clearly Tanner’s brother stepped forward and said, “Gavin Wright, and this is my mate, Amanda. These are our children, Greyson, and Alyssa” I smiled and shook all of their hands as they each greeted me. Gavin was a handsome man, just like Tanner, and after seeing all of them, I am assured of my handsome mate is just that for a long time to come. Amanda was a beautiful blonde and she had walked over to hug Gabi after she shook my hand, and they were animatedly speaking. Amanda was a blonde with soft brown eyes that had smile lines next to them. She smiles a lot and that makes me happy, they seem like a nice couple. Greyson was strong and built exactly like his father. Gavin was currently the Beta for Tanner. Greyson, I was just told, will be the Beta when Dawson takes over the pack. Greyson was 19 years old and would be 20 very soon he told me, “You only have a month of shopping to get me my gift” before laughing at my expression. His sister Alyssa hit him in the stomach and smiled as she said, “You can ignore him, he likes to mess with people. But his birthday is next month. If you did want to go shopping, I would be glad to go with you. I am turning 18 the month after he turns 20, so I am ready to go shopping at any time with you. Has anyone ever told you how cool your eyes are? They are gorgeous, I wish mine looked like yours.” Alyssa is a beautiful girl with her mother’s blonde hair and soft brown eyes. She looks like such a sweet person, and I am glad that she is so forward with what she said, although I am stunned by her admission.

My mouth had dropped open in surprise before I realized I had done it, and I can’t stop myself from showing how shocked I am by her statement. Dawson and Elena liked my eye color too, well Dawson said he loved their color, but that was just the mate bond talking. Alyssa seemed to realize that I was shocked and said, “I am sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you, I just haven’t seen eyes like yours very often. Only once in fact, and I was jealous of her eye color too. I am sorry if I upset you, I didn’t mean to, I just wanted to tell you how beautiful I thought your eyes were.” I can see Gavin put his arm around her as he could tell that she was upset just by the thought of upsetting me. I stepped forward and said, “No, you didn’t upset me. At my old pack, people judged and hated me over the color of my eyes. Only Dawson and Elena mentioned that they actually liked them to me. You just caught me by surprise is all. No one has given me such a lovely compliment before. Thank you so much, Alyssa.”

I see Vincent, Beth, and Moira standing near us, and smiling at the exchange between me and Alyssa. Alyssa stepped forward and gave me a tight hug and said, “Welcome to B***d Moon. We are all so glad to meet you and have you here. You are so sweet, we are going to be awesome friends.” I almost tear up hearing her say that to me. I haven’t really had friends, ever. Just the Omega who brought me food, and my brother Rob. That was it, no one else. I am struggling to keep a calm face, and not cry my eyes out at the thought of making other friends. Elena was one, of course, Peyton was one, and Elena’s best friend Michelle who I have only spoken to on the phone but was so sweet to me was also a friend. Meeting Alyssa and making a new friend like this meant the world to me.

“I would love to go shopping with you at the mall, of course, thank you, Alyssa,” I told her, and she hugged me again and stepped back to her dad who was smiling kindly at me. As the Beta, he already knew my background, and with him being family, I am sure Tanner or Gabi had filled him in on more than just the basics of it. I smiled back at him and nodded at him as I heard Elena squeal in happiness. I see a girl with long brown hair and blue-green eyes pop up in front of us and give Elena a big hug. She was about an inch shorter than me and Elena, more of a curvy figure, and more muscular than us as well. She looked tough in a “Don’t mess with me” kind of way that let you know that she was willing to get into a fight if she needed to. I knew from Elena’s squeal that this was Michelle. I had spent a lot of time talking with Elena and Peyton and Michelle was a true friend to her. Elena had to learn the hard way that a number of girls had played like they were her friend to be around her, for them to try to be around, or hook up with her brothers.

That was a low thing to do by those girls, and Elena is mistrustful of a number of girls in the pack because of it. Apparently, it is a pretty high number of girls, as both Percy and Dawson were here at B***d Rose for their first 18 years. They are both very handsome in their own right. Michelle was different from those girls, as she really liked Elena, and was also a very direct and honest person, just like Elena. Neither of them were girly, with both girls taking their training seriously. Elena is a tough girl to beat in her own right in a fight, and even though Michelle is not of Alpha heritage, she is very strong too, at least that is what I heard from Elena. She wasn’t rude to the twins, from what Elena said, she just didn’t like to hang out with them. She was waiting for her mate, and after turning 18 she knew neither of them was her mate. I liked that about her too, that she was waiting even though both she and Elena took heat for it from both the same girls who were after the twins and from guys who we mad at them not sparing them a look. Michelle turned 18 three months ago, and Elena would be turning 18 in a few more months. I see Michelle look at me and when I held my hand out, she pulled me into a hug and said, “Girl, you have Elena’s approval. I trust her judgment completely. You and Peyton are now like bonus sisters, as Elena and I already consider each other as sisters. I already know that I will love you just like I love her.”

I am tearing up now looking at Elena who is also tearing up at what Michelle had just said. Elena had said that the bond that she and Michelle had was a good one, but being able to call someone your sister, one that you can depend on to have your back was special. I have never had that as my sister liked to stab me in mine if my back was turned to her. I couldn’t trust or depend on her, for anything. If I never saw Brandi again in my life, I was OK with that. I would prefer that for the rest of my life that the only family member from Golden Moon Pack that I ever wanted to be around again, was my brother Rob. Which reminds me that I needed to text him to tell him that I have arrived at B***d Rose, so he knows that whenever he wants to come and visit me, that he is welcome to do so. I will remind him to leave everyone else behind at the pack.

I meet a few others in front of the packhouse and everyone is so welcoming, I was really starting to think that I was going to have no problems here fitting in at B***d Rose. Until I felt eyes on me and glanced over at a few girls on the far end of the pack house. They were making no attempt to be subtle about it. There were all very attractive and they were all sending me looks. The one in the center was almost beautiful enough to be a model, lithe and fit her platinum blonde hair shone in the sun, she was beautiful, but with the ugly look on her face, she was ugly right now and the smile left my face. I stared at her for a moment and due to my looking back at her, I didn’t notice that the whole group turned to look and see what the problem was. I didn’t notice that the whole interaction had been caught by the whole group, as I was just staring back at all of them. They were definitely pissed off about Dawson finding his mate since it was none of them. That wasn’t my fault at all. Their blonde leader suddenly looked surprised and then walked off with her little group following behind her, disappearing behind the packhouse.

I shake my head, I didn’t do anything at all to any of them, but I have a feeling they one or more of them is going to be a problem. I know for a fact that blondie is going to be one. I look back at Michelle to start speaking again, and I noticed that everyone around me was looking in the same direction that the girls had been standing. I guess that is what surprised her, catching everyone’s attention and looking like a b***h glaring at me as if I had personally done something to her. No one said anything for a little bit and then Vincent said, “Starting tomorrow morning, 2 hours in the morning, and 2 hours at night, I need to get you up to speed as quickly as I can” and Beth nodded in agreement. Well, I am off to a great start, now everyone knows that I have some problems and issues in the pack. At least I didn’t get embarrassed at my introduction to the pack, well so far at least, but the day is not over yet.