Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 68

Gabi’s POV

B***d Rose Pack

This b***h is absolutely crazy. I told her that Sloan is a member of our family, and she argued with both me and Tanner about it. Even when more people showed up to back us up and support us, she still refused to leave and kept getting louder. Like I am just going to say, “OK, you are right, here is Sloan, have a nice day.” That won’t be happening. Sloan is my son’s mate, and I will drop that b***h if I need to. I have kicked her a*s before, I don’t mind doing it again, to protect my children and their mates. Her daughter in the SUV, Brandi, is a real piece of work and hasn’t gotten involved yet, she is just sitting there and filing her nails like she is waiting on something. Oh yes, I know she is. It is Dawson that she wants. He is not here at the gate yet, that is what she has been waiting on.

I hear him through mind link asking me and Tanner if he and Sloan came come to the gate and I tell him, “Yes, bring Sloan to the gate. Make sure that she is comfortable. I want them to leave, and her mother insists on seeing Sloan. They are not going to do this the nice way, so we will do this their way.”

I also contact the sharpshooters in their stands and speak to each man to confirm that they are ready to go, in case of emergency. I saw that some of her men were armed when they approached the gate and I had already popped the clasp on the top of my holster, in case I needed to draw my weapon quickly. The sharpshooters all told me that they were waiting on my orders, and I smiled as I could smell Dawson and Sloan approaching the gate, and I knew that we would be moving quicker in this little “Stand-off” that Luna Meghan wanted to have with us. I was proven correct as Brandi immediately hopped down and ran to the gate when she saw Dawson. She was a lot less happy to see Sloan. I am trying to fight off the grin on my face when they tried to pull the “You made a mistake with your mate” crap. There is no mistaking your mate. Their scent intoxicates you and pulls you in. There was no mistake made, just a girl who wanted to be Luna and get near my son. I shudder to think of him getting someone like Brandi as a mate. He was truly blessed when he got Sloan.

I am keeping my eye on the line of warriors behind them, there had come in a total of 4 SUVs, and they had a total of 20 warriors with them. Over half of them were armed, and to be honest, they knew they needed to be in coming here and trying to cause problems. We were not known for being weak or intimidated by other packs. I am not worried about them now either. As soon as we got the news of the unwanted visitors at the gate, the elite team had been notified and three of our best sharpshooters were already grabbing their bags and going to the tree stands before we even exited the packhouse. We are very lucky to be in a well-forested area in Plumas National Forest. We have several stations in and around our borders. They are all painted and blend in with the forest canopy, so you would have to either have stationed them to know where they are, or where the shot came from to even have an idea of where they are even located.

I heard a shrill scream coming from Brandi, and I see Dawson holding Sloan’s hair back from covering her mark to see that is why she lost it. I guess she doesn’t know that most don’t wait to mark their mates. She knew that she wasn’t his mate, so why she was so surprised by Sloan being marked was unknown. I guess she really believed the crap her mom was saying to her. The grin I was trying to hide is now a smirk, and I was really happy about how pissed they both were until I heard Luna Meghan say that she wasn’t going to leave without Sloan.

“Well, that is too bad for you Luna Meghan, as we will NOT be letting our future Luna leave. So, I guess we are at a stalemate then, you can hang out at the gate all you want but know this if you attempt to gain entry on our parkland, that will be considered an act of war. I already called the Werewolf Council this morning, first thing, as a matter of fact, as I knew you would be showing up eventually to try to get your daughter back. You don’t have any claim on her, she is a grown woman, and mated to my son. She is no longer your concern, but trespassing will be your concern if at any time you or your men attempt to enter our grounds when any of our members attempt to exit or enter, our pack. We have been authorized to answer any attempt to gain access to our land with force. I believe you already know our reputation. I will not hesitate to protect my family from you in particular Luna Meghan” I told her, and I can see the madness in her eyes.

“She is my daughter, and she was not available to be taken from our pack. You kidnapped her, and you shouldn’t have done that. I called the Werewolf Council myself to report it” Luna Meghan replied in a smug tone.

“Yes, you did. They told you that since she left with her MATE, they were no problems with what had occurred. I bet if I called them back and told them that you and Alpha Gerald attempted to have us be attacked by your warriors while we were there to get a treaty signed, I bet THAT would be something. You need to cut your losses and shut your mouth from spewing your ugly words. Go back to your pack, and do not come back here again. Your daughter has a mate, and I will not allow either of them to be hurt by your thoughtless actions. You need to think long and hard about starting something with B***d Rose. Neither Tanner, nor I, will allow you to cause problems at B***d Rose, with your pettiness” I told her, and watching the fury cross her face made my day. We are all about to see the real Luna Meghan.

“You b***h. You WILL be giving me my own daughter back. I am doing you a favor here. I am hand delivering the better daughter to you in exchange. Sloan is a bad omen and will only result in the downfall of the B***d Rose pack. She is a jinx and a curse to our family. That was why I locked her up all those years. She needs to be punished for what she has done to my family. She is the very reason for my parent’s death. She needs to die, and I will be the one to carry out her sentence. I will be the one to kill her, as repayment for my father, and my mate’s father being killed by witches. She is an abomination, and I will be glad to kill her after I get her back to Golden Moon” Luna Meghan shrieks out in frustration.

“How in the hell did she result in the former Alpha and Beta’s deaths, Luna Meghan? You were pregnant with her when it happened. Sloan wasn’t even born yet. How could it possibly be her fault?” I heard Tanner ask. He is correct, they were nearing the end of the pregnancy when the battle occurred. Sloan was yet to be born. How could she have possibly gotten any blame at all for any deaths associated with that battle?

“She is a spawn of the very reason that it occurred. If Seraphina had never met Magnus, if he hadn’t insisted on having her because he thought that she was his mate, none of it would have happened. My parents would still be alive. It was unnatural for them to be together. She was a witch, and he was a wolf. They never should have mixed the species, they should have stayed with their own kind. If they had, that battle would never have even happened. Her allowing Magnus to make her fall in love with him caused this whole thing. If he had just taken a chosen mate, those witches wouldn’t have gotten mad at her for leaving the coven and attacking us. That attack killed my father, and then my mother wasted away without him. So, because Sloan is a witch too, she needs to die. All witches need to die, and I will do my very best to make that happen. I will kill each one that I come across, one by one until they are all dead” Luna Meghan continues to yell loudly at us, as she spews all of her hateful words.

“Are you mad? Who allows you to make that kind of decision for others? You would rather that Magnus never have found his mate, the love of his life for almost 30 years, to take a chosen mate. I can’t believe that you can be so heartless concerning the lives of others. You love who you love, you don’t get to pick your mate like that. For you to hate any one type of species, to want to kill them all, you are in fact unhinged. You are blaming a baby in the womb, for the death of your parents? Sloan had no blame, for the loss of life of anyone there. She wasn’t even born yet. You must be completely out of your mind to even be saying the things that you are. You stand there spewing hate, wanting to take out your anger on an innocent, killing other innocent people, to quench your thirst for vengeance. Can you not hear the poison that you are spewing with your own ears?” I ask her, shocked to my core that she is so much further gone than I ever believed that she was. I can’t keep the shock from showing on my face. She doesn’t have any kind of grip on reality, and we are in a much more dangerous situation than I believed we were in.

She is completely serious about what she said. She is going to actually try to kill Sloan. I have been keeping an eye on the men, and I link the elite team as I see that they are indeed going to fire upon us. I can barely get the links out as I am almost screaming for them to be ready to take their shots. Luna Meghan gives a scary grin at us, as she pushes Brandi towards the SUV that they came in. I am trying to get Dawson to move away, to get to safety with Sloan. Alan had been watching as well and had already moved those that could not fight, or shouldn’t have been there, into an area behind the guard’s gate for them to be safe. Before Dawson could take a step with Sloan, 14 of the men on the other side of the gate started shooting, directly at Sloan. Firing over and over again, at almost point blank range. I draw my gun to fire back at them, and heard a quiet voice behind me tell me, “Wait for just a minute, Gabi.”

It is just the 8 of us standing at the gate right now; Tanner, me, Dawson, Sloan, Vincent, Gavin, his son Greyson, Alan, and his son Harrison are all in a bubble. Vincent is protecting us, and the look of happiness that Luna Meghan was just wearing had now suddenly disappeared into a look of fury that her plans to kill her daughter had failed. She is even angrier that a warlock was protecting us. She just declared war with our pack, to punish a completely innocent person. She is absolutely certifiable. The more shots are fired at us, the angrier that she gets. I almost want to smile at her, but the fear that I had for my family when the shooting started kept me from being able to. She has no idea what she has done now. I can see the rest of the group, thankfully safe from the bullets in the area behind the guard’s shack staring back at us, also fearful for us in the line of fire. I cannot remember when I have been in such terror for my own family, my children, my niece, and my nephew. I am going to kill this b***h if it is the last thing that I do.

I can see her face the moment that she realizes my intent. She is screaming at Brandi to get in the SUV and the next thing we know, she is taking off trying to leave our parklands with Brandi and a few warriors. Her plan didn’t work, and she is basically leaving those other warriors behind with a certain death sentence. I instruct the sharpshooters to disable her vehicle as it is about 600 feet from the gate and moving fast. I don’t want her to get off our land, I want to finish this now. I see the back window and the ones on the driver’s side explode as they are hit, and the SUV swerving on the road as they try to escape. I have news for her, even if she does manage to escape today, she will have nowhere to go. I see my daughter on the phone, and I already know that Heath is being notified that the Golden Moon pack has just declared war on the B***d Rose pack. I also see Rob on his phone, and I know that his father is being told the worst news ever. He knew that his mate was not rational and had deep-seated issues with Sloan. As her mate and Alpha of his pack, he should have known that she was going to come and try to do something to Sloan. I will agree that I never saw how far gone she was until that malicious smile hit her face as she backed away towards her SUV. She obviously mindlinked those warriors to take their best shots. They kept shooting, even though they knew the shots were not penetrating the protective bubble that we are standing in at the gate.

I can see their faces they are all scared, they were under orders from their Luna, and they already know how this is going to end. Even though they knew that there was no way that they could take out our pack. Gavin, as the second-born son, and a member of the elite team, would just step up and take over for Tanner and me if Dawson and Sloan were killed along with us at the gate. She had clearly not thought this whole thing through. I know why now, she is stark raving mad. But she knew that having them fire on us, was going to totally result in war. She is about to get what she wants, as the warriors outside our gate are all on their last magazines and about to be at our mercy. The shots slow down, and I see the ones who were out of bullets, trying to run for their lives to get to their SUVs and leave, but that will not be happening. The snipers do their job and take out the tires on the SUVs first. Then start picking them off as they attempted to run from our land. They took the long shots and were linking with each other as they each took a side and the one in the middle stand took out the ones in the middle.

As they are all running now Vincent takes the protection from around us and I start to take out the ones nearest the gate. Alan and Harrison are also helping with the ones closest to us. I am angrier than I think I have ever been in my life right now. I could not allow them to leave as we are now at war. If we didn’t take care of them now, it would be later as they would just go back to Golden Moon. You can rest assured that we be will there today. Tanner’s strong jaw is locked, and he is furious as well. He turns to me and hugs me tightly to him. Elena runs to us and hugs us, before going to Dawson and Sloan to hug and check on them. Vincent gets into one of the SUVs to sit down, as he lost a lot of strength to keep us all safe. We head over to him to thank him for protecting us when it went bad so quickly. We had just got back yesterday so they hadn’t had time to put the protection spell over our packlands. He had to put a small one up and keep it up through a barrage of bullets. He is wiped right now, but we would be dead now if it weren’t for him. Beth is angry and she is looking like she is about to go to do a little “drop-in” at the Golden Moon pack, so I reached out to her to tell her, “No, do not go to the Golden Moon pack on your own. We are now at war with them. We will take care of this ourselves, as we train for this, and try to prevent a great loss of life. If we can’t get her in the first few days. I will have you and Vincent take me into the packhouse for me to take her out. But trust me, Beth. I guarantee you that Luna Meghan will not be surviving this war.”