Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 70

Dawson’s POV

B***d Rose Pack

Sloan’s mom is a dead woman. I wonder if she even knows it yet. I thought for sure that Sloan and I were dead when the bullets started flying. I can never repay Vincent if I live to be 100 years old for what he did for us. His house on our packland will have everything that he and Beth could ever want inside it, so they will be comfortable any time they come here to stay. Vincent told me that it was his pleasure to do it, that Sloan is his great-grandaughter, and he could tell what Meghan was about to do. Thankfully, Vincent is a very strong warlock and was able to hold up the protective barrier until they ran out of bullets. You will never know fear until you see guns being raised directly at you, and there is nothing you can do to prevent the love of your life from being killed. In that instant, I only knew fear and regret that our lives would end so young, and my dreams of having our pups and growing old together shattered that instant. I barely had time to grab Sloan and pull her into me, at least we would die together. There were about 10 seconds of pure fear running through me before I realized that we were all being shielded from the bullets. I won’t ever begin to be able to pay him back for saving my mate.

I am still frankly in shock. My mind is moving at 100 mph, but I can’t focus on anything except holding Sloan close. The very real fear of her almost being killed is still fresh in my mind. I am just going through the motions of being OK right now and letting my parents and Elena do what needs to be done. I will definitely be helping when this goes down. I sit at a dining room table holding Sloan in my lap. I needed her scent around me, and I feel like she needs the same thing from me. I know she had to have been terrified herself at what was about to happen, and I am quite comfortable with just holding her until we can both calm back down. Mom hugged us both and told us to just stay together until the shock of it wears off. Mom was calling out orders to various people, and dad was in his office speaking to the werewolf council with my grandparents, my uncle Gavin, who is dad’s Beta and younger brother.

My mother is the strongest woman that I know, and I have always been proud of her. Percy and I are proud to be her sons, she has taught us so much through the years, and is our biggest supporter. I have never seen her this fierce before, she is on a mission. She is like a little General getting her troops prepared and ready for battle. The way my mom looks right now, I would be honestly scared to approach her. I think she needs to get this all hammered out before she sits down and lets what happened to us at the gate finally process. I know that right now she is just running on adrenalin. When that stops, she will be exhausted, so she is getting everything done right now before she crashes. Mom is NOT going to let this pass, and she shouldn’t. We can’t let Luna Meghan be able to come back to us and try this again at a later date.

Mom is instructing our men, including the elite team, as well as calling other Packs for some of their men. I already know who she is calling: Black Night, Red River, Crimson Shadow, for additional warriors. I know she will want to leave this pack with our warriors all here, or a specialty team here, to keep Sloan safe. I don’t want her to leave here and potentially get hurt. Luna Meghan is gunning for her, and her safety is my priority. My sister had called our grandfather Heath during the incident and he and Percy were already on their way from Ever Green with the elite team. They heard the shots as it was happening, and were shocked that this had even occurred here.

My great-grandfather, Alpha Wells Black, was the former Alpha at Black Night. My grandmother Von was his daughter, and her twin sister Liz is married to Jason Farmer, the current Alpha there. Their son Carson is a not quite year younger than me and will be turning 20 soon. He will be taking over as Alpha soon, either when he turns 21, or after he finds his Luna, whichever comes first. My uncle Jason is an imposing figure, just like my grandfather Heath. Both are large men, and strong fighters. The Black Night pack is one of the strongest and most well-funded packs. My great-grandfather is a business genius and is highly successful. These days he travels with my great-grandmother, Vera Wells, and the rest of the time he handles business matters. He is grooming Jason to take over some of the businesses now, as he is planning on doing less with the businesses, and traveling more. He still wants the companies to stay strong in their markets, so Jason is being groomed to take over. That way Jason will take over the reins of the businesses when Carson takes over the pack. They will probably send 100 warriors, just from that pack. They are a massive pack, with almost 2,000 members. They have 3 pack houses now, as my grandfather lives in the original packhouse still, Jason and Liz in the second one that they built, and Carson just moved into the one that was just completed. No one dares to mess with the Black Night pack, and normally no one messes with us. I am sure that the rest of the packs will be getting a good reminder of who all is with us from this incident.

Alpha Derek, from Red River, is still a little bit of a point of contention in our family. Luna Liz had a child with her chosen mate, Monty Stryker after her true mate had been killed. Alpha Monty wanted her for her being a strong Alpha female. Alpha Derek Stryker was their child and he had actually been my mother’s original mate. He let greed get the best of him and rejected my mother, to get a bigger pack. He lived to regret it, but he has a really nice lady as his second chance mate. Mom said that Luna Marie was a big reason for him changing from the jerk he had been. I know dad was very suspicious of Derek for a long time after it had happened, but around the 10-year mark that they had their mates, dad ended up relaxed around Alpha Derek. They were actually friends now, as crazy as that sounded. Red River is our ally, and we help them, as they help us. They will be sending some warriors to assist us in this.

Crimson Shadow was my mother’s family pack. Her brother Stone is the Alpha there and runs it with his mate, Luna Isabella. Mom’s parents the former Alpha Wyatt and Luna Everly live in a home built for them, as they wanted to stay there at Crimson Shadow after they got to retire. It is still close enough to be able to be convenient to be able to visit us and to give them some room on their packland without feeling like they are hampering my uncle Stone. They have a daughter, Emily Grace, that is our age. She is a few months younger than me and Percy and had been given to Alpha Wyatt and Luna Everly to raise. Emily is really sweet and sometimes it is hard for me to remember that she is not my cousin but in fact my aunt. She was born when mom was 18 and since she was an orphan, she needed help. Due to the emotional struggles that my grandparents were going through at that time, they needed a distraction, and Emily Grace helped them to heal from it. They will be sending some warriors to help us, as well.

For Luna Meghan to have come here and tried to kill so many of us at the gate is almost unbelievable. I am sure that the werewolf council was going to find it hard to believe as well. I already know that my father sent them a copy of the video of it, and I also know that he has it saved to a disc and a copy of it is already most likely in the safe right now. Yes, the original intended victim was Sloan, I would have just been collateral damage, but they fired at my whole family. They wanted all of us dead, probably to try to keep us from retaliating. But they would have gotten the same results, even if we had all been killed at the gate.

Percy would have come back here and taken over B***d Rose, and Elena would then go to Ever Green to learn to take over that pack from Heath. She wouldn’t have wanted to do that, but we are all family first here, and in that case, it would have been taken out of her hands. I hadn’t realized that mom and dad had been mindlinking while we were at the gate, thankfully Alan and his son Harrison were on top of the situation too. They had gotten almost everyone clear of the gate before the shots started ringing out, so they must have been working on it for a little while previous to it all going south. I remember exactly when I realized that the bullets weren’t hitting us and looked around to try to figure out why. As soon as I looked up, I was seeing the horrified faces of the ones who had been escorted safely behind the guard’s shack all staring back at me in disbelief. None of us had thought that Luna Meghan had the balls to openly declare war on B***d Rose. My sister Elena had tears running down her face as she stared in terror at what was happening and used her phone to call for help. Her doing that allowed Heath and Percy to hear the gunshots and screaming that had occurred with the surprise attack. I know that they were probably halfway here as they always had a jump bag ready to go.

“Sloan, baby, are you OK?” I asked her. Her head was against my chest, and I know that her listening to my heartbeat was calming her. I hold her tighter to me and k**s the top of her head gently. I am holding down my fury, but I am struggling with it. I see Rob coming up, and I have to make myself stop the words from coming out. It was not his fault that his mom is a psychopath, plus if it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have found my mate. She made that choice to try to kill Sloan, but no one else did. I murmur to Sloan, that Rob is coming to see her. Sloan sits up straight and gets up to hug Rob tightly, I contained my low growl and allow them to hug each other. I see tears in his eyes, and I know that seeing what his mother had done had scared him too at the thought of their own mother willing to kill her. Sloan probably wouldn’t have made it this far without him, so I will accept him into the pack if needed, but his parents and Brandi were another story.

“Dad didn’t know. She said she came to get to make sure Sloan was OK. He wanted to believe her. He was shocked at this as well. Dad doesn’t want a war, mom was in the wrong. He wants your father to call his personal cell phone about this, as soon as he can” Rob tells me as he keeps hugging Sloan. I am stunned. Alpha Gerald is going to give up his mate for punishment, without a fight. That is almost unheard of, but looking at what happened here, that was unheard of as well. I nod at him and head to mom to tell her what Rob had said.

I see Beth transport back into the lobby. She had been horrified at what had happened here this morning. She had to go back to their coven to get some supplies. She had a vial with her with a dark liquid swirling inside and what looked like herbs floating in it, and it looked nasty. I don’t know what it is or what it is for, but I saw Beth look anxiously around the room until she saw my mom and walked up to her to speak. I see mom nodding her head in agreement to something, and then Beth nod at Moira before Moira suddenly left us. Beth and mom approached us, and Rob let Sloan go as he knew that Beth wanted to speak to her.

“Sloan, I had made you a potion for you to drink. I will not lie to you, it will not taste very good. But with all that is going on, and the fact that you are just not safe, I will need you to drink it. It is just a little bitter, and you can chase it with something else after you drink it. I also have some news. You are about to meet two more members of your family. We need to do a protection spell for both the pack and one protection spell specifically for you. Gabi was gracious enough to allow them to come here to help us get those two things done. They will be here any minute, so go ahead and start drinking this for me, please. I just cannot allow something to happen to you, we love you and just found you. We will do whatever we need to, to protect you sweet girl” Beth said, and handed the vial over to Sloan. The clear glass vial is about 3 inches high, with a large part in the bottom of it, that has about a little over a cup of liquid in it. It doesn’t look appealing at all, and I suddenly worry about something.

“What if Sloan is pregnant? Will it hurt our pup?” I blurt out, worried about Sloan.

“It is fine Dawson, do not worry it is all natural herbs that will work together with the protection spell that we are about to do. They work hand in hand in case she is poisoned. They will have to try to either come onto the property to try to get her, or they will try to poison her. Vincent and I spoke after the incident at the gate. They know that she will not be coming anywhere near the gate again, someone will have to trespass here, and we all know that the patrols are already stepped up. Anyone who doesn’t belong here will be stopped and questioned. You have an elite team and several highly trained marksmen. The only thing that we could figure out was getting a lackey to do their dirty work. After the incident this morning Moira followed the girls from last night, and three of them went to the mall today. Coincidentally, right after an attack on B***d Rose. It seemed like a weird time to go shopping to us. So, we decided to set a trap. I don’t know if they will try to poison her, but if they do, this drink and the spell will protect her” Beth tells me, and Vincent had come up to nod in agreement with their main points. They are right, Luna Meghan was acting almost alone in this. Anna and her friends are friends with Brandi, and they have shown themselves to be untrustworthy. My anger spreads out into the room, and I am forcing people down onto their knees as my aura spreads out and my anger flares up at the thought of anyone wanting to hurt my mate and pup. My mom places her hand on my arm to get my attention and Sloan took a total of three drinks to get it all down. I saw her face, from her grimace I knew it was pretty bad, but I knew that she would power through to protect herself.

“I don’t know if that is really the route they will take Dawson, but it seemed suspicious that they would head out to shop when everyone knew what had happened this morning. We are about to close the pack down to not allow anyone in or out. Since Luna Meghan is desperate, and we don’t trust her anymore, she had to get it done another way. I just can’t see any other option, other than sending one person in here to get her, but that would be tough will all the added security, the logical thing to do would be tricking someone into doing the dirty work for them. This potion will protect her if she were to ingest poison. The protection spell that we are about to do on her is the second step, and the most important. We needed more power to get it done, and we are going to take care of that first. Then go to get the whole pack sealed with a total of five protection stones. We will be going out and setting the stones in a pentacle to protect against evil spirits. People also call it a pentagram, and it will help to protect your pack from other witches and supernatural creatures. We also have a pentacle talisman, with an amethyst in it for Sloan to wear as well. Whatever it takes for her to be protected and safe, that is what we will do. If someone sees a gap or other option, that we missed let us know, but those were the only places that we could see a breach occurring to get to Sloan” Vincent tells us.

My dad walked up to us and said, “I am glad you are going to set the protection up today, Vincent. I don’t want anyone getting in here and hurting Sloan. I will not take another chance on this. The council unanimously agreed on us going to war with Golden Moon. I also spoke with Gerald just now, who apologized profusely to me over what Luna Meghan did. He said that he will not fight us on this and that since she is obviously out of her mind, he will bring Luna Meghan to us to turn into the werewolf council if that was what we wanted to do” Dad tells us. No one spoke for a moment, because we all knew that Alpha Gerald could potentially go mad from the loss of his mate, but he is saving numerous people in the pack by making this bold move.

“I am sorry dad. I don’t want that. She will never stop coming for Sloan. Her actions have warranted in her death, and that is what I want” I told him.