Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 75

Percy’s POV

B***d Rose Pack

I have had a bad feeling in my gut for the last 2 hours. Von said that she and Peyton had just eaten lunch and that Peyton had gone up to take a quick nap. Peyton would be getting to her second training in a few hours, and Von said that we had had no visitors today. That was indeed what I was worried about, someone coming to attack while we were gone. This kind of news that B***d Rose had been attacked, would spread like wildfire, and I didn’t want something to happen while we were gone. I start breathing a little easier, but the feeling in my gut doesn’t go away. It was probably stemming from my guilt of leaving her. This was the first time since I got to meet her that I have been away from her. Guilt is eating away at me, but she was safest at Ever Green. This attack on B***d Rose could have been made by Timothy, or Jasper, and just in case I left her there, so she would be safe. The warriors were all on high alert, and on the lookout for any problems. I wanted to call Peyton, but I know that just hearing her voice would get me even more upset. I will want until tonight to call her, while I am alone and in my room, so we can have some privacy.

“She is safest with us, Percy” my wolf Aramis tells me in a growl. He wanted to bring her with us, and I shot him down. He is just being possessive, and not thinking things through.

“You are an i***t. She would have been safe with us, just because we didn’t know who had attacked when we left, it is us, Heath, and the entire elite team. Only a fool would have tried it. I am worried about our little mate” Aramis continues on, and I have to admit, I am worried too, and missing her badly.

We had just made into onto the B***d Rose packland and were pulling up to the gate now. I have to say that I am excited to be back home. I loved getting to live here as a child, and I am glad that my pups will get to come to visit their grandparents, and great-grands here. I look forward to showing them around here one day. I smile as I think about what our children will look like, as many as Peyton wants, I will be willing to oblige her, I smile just thinking of practicing for our pups with Peyton. She never asks me for anything, she is always perfectly content with what she has. Stephanie was always asking me for things, and new stuff. We were at the mall at least 3 times a month, and if I balked at getting her something she pitched a “You don’t love me” tirade there inside the mall. I don’t know why I put up with her for so long. But Peyton is different, she is sweet and kind, and she is the calm to my storm. That is the complete reason why I am missing her so much, I am very upset that my family was attacked this morning and I want to know what is going on right now. I get out as soon as we stop in front of the packhouse and quickly head up the steps to the doors. Only Heath passed me as we head in to check on our family members first. If the situation weren’t so serious, I might have had a chuckle at him passing me as we came up the steps.

I know that he has been very anxious. He wants to know what is going on, and what happened. He is worried about the family, especially mom and Elena. Elena is our mom made over and has a special place in Heath’s heart. He couldn’t take the pain that mom had suffered away from her, but he could for Elena. To Heath, our mom hung the mom and he couldn’t be more proud of her. Elena is beautiful and a duplicate of our mom, smart and sassy, brave and strong. For him to hear her crying out in anguish this morning on the phone broke his heart, he needs to make sure that everyone is safe and unharmed, but I know that he will be starting with them. Dawson and I are not jealous of Elena, we know that Heath and Von love us just as much, but they are more emotionally tied to her than they are to us. We are not big on hugging, or showing emotions, but it doesn’t mean they love us any less. He is giving me his pack, that shows the love he has for me right there. He does the same for both Dawson and me. Dawson was born first, so he is the rightful heir, luckily Heath had a pack for me to inherit myself. Whatever Dawson got, I got, and vice versa. He doesn’t play favorites, and I know that after Von, and our family, there is nothing that is more important to him than Ever Green is, so him passing it on to me means a lot, to both him, and me. I will always do the best that I can to make him proud of me when I finally take over the pack.

We enter the packhouse, and it is unnaturally quiet. I am stunned into silence at what I see, as well. Sloan is floating about a foot up from the floor, and it has everyone’s attention. She is literally glowing, and I don’t know what exactly is going on, but I know that it is important. Dawson is right there just outside the circle that she is floating in, carefully watching what is going on. After Sloan is lowered and the circle is broken, I see Dawson hugging her to him, and I understand why he would be worried about her. I am not super familiar with witches, just like with wolves, vampires, and humans, there are some good ones and some bad ones in each group. Sometimes you have to wait and see when they finally show their hand, just like Stephanie did. I feel sick at how well she fooled me, and I know that it was just what she was doing to lure me in that got her so close to me. I was a fool, and I got played, I should have listened, but I wanted to do it, so I did. I have no one to blame but myself. It almost cost me my mate, and I already know that when I do have my pups, I will probably be doing the same thing my parents did. I roll my eyes at that, when did I become my parents? Goddess, why do they always have to be right? I don’t even have pups yet, and I am already deciding that I need to give them the same cautionary tale that I had received from my own parents when I was growing up.

Now that the show was over and people were talking again, I followed Heath over to my family, and I hugged dad, while Heath hugged mom tightly. I see his eyes shining and I know that he is glad that everyone was OK before he hugged Elena tightly to him. He shook dads hand and spoke quietly to him while I hugged my mom and then Elena after Heath did. We need to know what happened and dad quickly got us up to speed. I am furious, Luna Meghan had obviously lost her mind. I am glad that Alpha Gerald had decided that he would indeed turn his Luna over to receive her punishment that the werewolf council decided on. Dad took us up to the office to speak freely and for us to start making plans for our next steps. That was when we got even more shocking news. About how some of the she-wolves had reacted at the town hall, and what measures they took to protect Sloan. We will be going out with the witches to watch them put the protection spell over the pack as they are about to get that completed.

“We are now waiting for the second attempt to be made” dad suddenly said.

“What do you mean? I thought that Luna Meghan was going to be brought in for us to carry out her sentence?” I asked dad.

“He is, that is still in place. But when have you known someone to “have to” go shopping after an attack on your pack is made?” dad asked. That is a good point. Usually after an attack is made, for at least the following three days afterward, everyone stays inside the pack, while they make sure that everyone is safe, and secure, and we investigate what happened. No one decides to leave, and the person in question being friends with Brandi, makes it even more suspicious. This is not good at all.

“What exactly are you waiting on? Do you already have a plan in place? What do you need us to do” Heath asked.

“Nothing. We just got it settled. When you arrived, I am sure you noticed what was happening with Sloan. She was given a potion as Beth and Vincent believe that one of two things will happen. Either Luna Meghan will try to get someone onto our packlands, or she will try to use one of our own to kill Sloan. Anna and her friends caused a large disruption last night. We are all aware that Anna and Brandi are friends, and Brandi played a role in this as well. Brandi will also be getting punished for her part in this. Alpha Gerald said that Brandi had left his pack and he doesn’t know where she is, and I believe him. I believe that Brandi was sent to carry out the second attempt on Sloan. Luna Meghan told us that she will not rest until Sloan is dead. She is quite mad, and not in her right mind. Who could blame a child still in the womb for others’ actions, it shows you just how far Luna Meghan is gone. Thankfully, Vincent protected us at the gate, or we would have been killed. Me, your mom, Alan, Harrison, Vincent, Sloan, and Dawson, she would have killed all of us, to make sure that Sloan was dead. Your mom had started having the others at the gate moved to safety while Luna Meghan was trying to argue with her. It happened very quickly, we never had any indication that she would be bold enough to do what she did, until right when she ordered them to do it” dad told us. We nodded and sat there for a couple of minutes thinking about what all had happened. This had been a close call, and they could have been killed.

“So, we will get the protection spell over our pack, and then wait to see what Anna does when she gets back here. I believe that she will not wait, she really believes that she is Luna material” my dad said, then gave a short mocking laugh. He is right, she is in no way Luna material. Luna’s protect and nurture, they care about their pack members, and not just about themselves. They are willing to die to protect and take care of their pack members. I remember Anna, she is none of those things. She is vain, and greedy, she is a liar, and manipulator. She does not care for others, she is willing to befriend and betray our own sister to try to get close to us. I am again thankful for my sweet mate, the Goddess chose well for me, and for Dawson. I will be forever thankful for her giving me my sweet angel.

The morning turned to afternoon quickly. The witches ended up having to split up as they each needed to go to 5 different points in the pack to cast the protection spell. We all went with them, as we had looked at the map earlier, and Vincent outlined the specific areas that they needed to be in to cast the spell. Vincent was taking no chances with the spell not being powerful enough, he was going to make sure that it worked. Mom and Elena stayed together, as Elena is still very upset at this morning’s turn of events, and I can’t blame her for that. Mom and Elena ended up going with Beth, Dad went with Dominic, Dawson, and Sloan went with Moira, and I went with Morgana who I had just met, but she seemed really nice, just like Sloan. Heath went with Vincent, and Heath had hugged and thanked Vincent when we had come back down from our meeting.

Heath told him that if Vincent ever needed help Ever Green, and B***d Rose, would always stand with him and his coven. That was a big deal for him to make. It showed how much Heath respected and appreciated Vincent, his family, and his coven. Vincent had told Heath that it wasn’t necessary, that Sloan is his great grand, and it was his pleasure to help out. Heath wouldn’t take no for an answer, and I also stepped forward to say that I would be honoring it and passing it down to my children as well, for them to honor. Vincent was greatly moved by us telling him that, and Beth teared up.

It was different for Peyton’s father to have a relationship with them, as he was a Royal, the Alpha King. It was his responsibility to have good interaction with other species, but mainly witches and vampires. He had an obligation to nurture and grow the relationships with them, but not regular Alphas. We didn’t have to get along or play nice, we didn’t have to interact with them at all, and the only reason that it went so well with having Vincent come to train, was because Vincent already had a relationship with King Sebastian, and Queen Deanna. Vincent was doing them a favor, and he wanted to get to see Peyton again, so he agreed to help train Sloan. Only in arriving and seeing her did he realize the relationship. With Sloan being the next Luna to B***d Rose, they didn’t have to include their support, it was already a given.

I watched in amazement as the power of the spell could be seen shimmering in the daylight as it rose from each one of the 5 points up into the sky to start to form a dome over the pack. It was kind of iridescent in the light, like a bubble sitting on a wand, it was shimmering with a slight rainbow of colors as it formed. The dome got larger and higher until it met at the top and gave a final shimmer before it completely disappeared. There was nothing left to see, and I saw Morgan stumble a little at the large use of power that she just discharged. I helped her back to the packhouse, and noticed that mom and Elena were helping Beth, and Dawson and Sloan were helping Moira. Dominic and Vincent were moving on their own, but slow. I know this day had absolutely wiped Vincent out. It was just now 3 pm, and he has been hard at work all day. Protecting my family at the gate this morning, had taken a lot out of him.

We entered the packhouse and we all immediately sat down in the seated area in the entryway. No one was speaking and we were just giving the witches a chance to recharge a little before they could go and rest before dinner. Mom and Elena went to go grab them all a bottle of water, and I finally had to break the silence.

“Seeing the spell earlier, and the spell you just put over the pack for protection was one of the most impressive things that I have ever witnessed. I am amazed at your strength and talent. Thank you so much for protecting my family” I told them.

Vincent grinned over at me and said, “Do not worry young Alpha We will be coming to Ever Green and doing the same for you. We had already done one for the Royal Knight pack, so they are safe as well. It is our pleasure. We want to keep our family safe as well. As far as we are concerned, you are our extended family. We will do what is needed to keep you and your packs safe” Vincent told us. That means a lot to me. For him to care about my mate, potential children, and my pack members was very appreciated. Dawson is actually his extended family, but I am glad that his love for Peyton, extends to all of us at Ever Green as well. We will have to build him a home there at Ever Green, for when he and his family visit us. I want him and his family to know how welcome they are with us too.

We were all talking amongst ourselves when the door opened and Anna, and two of her friends walked in. They all seemed surprised to see us sitting there, and Anna sending me a big smile, and it just rolled the contents of my stomach. She is just like Stephanie, so focused on the title that she could care less about anything else. I gave her a tight smile back, as I didn’t want to arouse any suspicion in her. Dad deliberately didn’t mention anything to the gate guards to notify us when they returned. We were just going to play it out normally, as Anna got around a lot, and we didn’t know who might be loyal to her and give her a heads up. I could see the two girls with her checking me out, and then looking around, probably for Peyton. I know they had heard, because my uncle Gavin had notified the whole pack at B***d Rose that both Dawson, and I, had found our mates. I hate that Peyton wasn’t here, and in my lap, like Sloan was with Dawson. I see Anna’s grimace cross her face before she put on a half-smile at seeing Dawson and Sloan together, before they all walked away.

Dad had already told us what was going to happen. We all knew what we needed to do, and thankfully the witches were going to be helping us out. We don’t know when Anna was going to strike, we just all assumed that she would show her hand pretty soon. I had just sat back in my chair when I felt pain in my face, and I knew it was Peyton. I can’t feel her anymore, so whatever happened in training knocked her out. What in the hell is going on there? I quickly mindlink Gamma female Eden to ask her what happened to Peyton, when I heard the worst thing that I have ever heard. “Percy, I received a message earlier today that the afternoon training had been canceled, as Peyton missed you. She isn’t being trained” Eden told me. I feel sick and I don’t know what to do. If training was canceled, what just happened to Peyton? I turn to Heath, but he is getting a mindlink from the pack. He looks at me and gets up, this is bad, really bad. I see several members of the elite team exiting the levator and heading for us. Jameson and Evelyn are clearly frantic and upset, it is all over their faces. Was this a coordinated attack against us? Were they planning this together? How could someone get onto our packland when we just had the patrols stepped up and two more added for safety just today? What in the hell is happening at Ever Green and who dares to hurt my mate?