Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 85

King Sebastian POV

B***d Claw pack

I am still angry with Peyton. It was not supposed to be her decision to come here to B***d Claw again and be a part of this. I wanted, no I needed her to stay with her brother’s and mother at the hotel with my security team, while I got this handled. I needed to know that she, and my whole family, were safe from this man who had such disgusting plans for my daughter. I will be able to focus better knowing that they are all safely protected at the hotel. Instead, my whole family is here with me, even DeAnna, who insisted on coming with us. Thankfully, we were close enough to the Royal pack to call in for reinforcements for this little visit. I was especially happy that the Royal Beta female, Lia Montgomery, who was mated to Harrison had arrived. She would be staying with DeAnna, Peyton, and Amanda, every step of the way even in the restroom. I would feel better if I knew for a fact that they were all safe, and I could then focus on taking care of the business at hand. We had gotten this plan from Peyton, and it was a pretty solid plan, we just needed to go now to get it implemented.

I linked Christian and he said that they were on their way as well, and were actually closer than we were, as we hadn’t left the hotel yet. I asked him to pull off a mile away from B***d Claw, that we needed to send in a vehicle with Heath, and the two Council members first. I gave him the plan, and he thought it was a good one too. I could tell that he was proud of his sister for not only taking the initiative in this but also wanting to show Timothy that she was strong and that he had failed in his plan. We were both aware after I had called the Council on our way here, that this judgment was going to not go well for Timothy. He would be expecting someone from her pack to show up and try to confront him on Peyton’s a*******n. He knows that both he and Jasper will be the only suspects, so I am sure he has been practicing his surprised face for when he is confronted. He is a planner, so he assumes that this will happen, so we will play along and let him stay in his comfort zone. He thinks that he has outsmarted everyone on this, but he would be wrong. My daughter stayed calm, and then convinced the kidnappers of who she really was and had already talked them into taking her to safety. She had told me what had happened when she got to the hotel with my Beta and Bryson. I almost collapsed with relief when I saw her, my poor baby girl has had such a hard life, and just when I was thinking that the hard part was over with for her, this happened.

I didn’t trust Timothy, and I knew he has been really angry at her for accepting his rejection when she used her given name. He pouted and acted like a child who had his favorite toy taken from him. Does he not realize that he was happy to reject her when he thought her to be less than a slave? Because that is what they made her out to be. She was never less than, he was, for his caring about his status, and appearance with what his pack thought about his mate. His own father telling him to reject her was still something that makes me want to destroy their pack. Fallon poisoned everyone against Peyton, so she had nowhere safe to go in the whole pack. Fallon had caused the bulk of my baby girl’s abuse because she was a spoiled, greedy teenager. She wanted to be Luna, to have Timothy as hers and tried to get rid of her competition. I know exactly what happened here at B***d Claw, Amanda had filled me in on it, as she lives with us at the Royal Pack. I have it all pieced together now, and Fallon should have been very thankful that I wasn’t the one to carry it out. I would have drawn out her suffering for days, exactly like my sweet Peyton had to experience, and punished Fallon until she died. I know he was merciful to Chris when he carried out his sentence. He was so blinded by the pull of the mate bond, and he had lost his family, so he probably thought that he had nothing left to lose. He thought that she would be grateful enough when he rescued her from her prison, for her to straighten up and do right by him. He was wrong, and his betting on his mate, knowing who she was at her core, had literally cost him his life. She continued to use people for her own agenda, right up until her death. She has caused so much pain, too so many, due to her actions and she never felt bad at all about it. As long as she got what she wanted, she was good, no one else matter to her. Not even her own family.

We got the first SUV set up as requested, with Heath and the two Council members, and they went to B***d Claw. I have to say that respect had been given on this to me. I did NOT ask for special favors in who was sent. I was actually amazed that the leader of the Council, Anthony Miller, had come with the third-ranked member, Teresa Phillips. They know me, I deal with the Council and all five Council members really, quite often. They knew what Peyton had gone through for the last 6 and a half years. Having these two come out was almost guaranteeing a death sentence for Timothy. Anthony was tough, a stickler for the rules, and a very intimidating wolf. You would think that he was too young to be leading the Council, but you would be mistaken. He is one of the most powerful and knowledgeable people that I know. He is up with the times on things changing as far as our packs and needing new rules and regulations. He is about 45, which is young, but he was voted in by his fellow peers into that position. There are five of them on the Council, and they all take their jobs seriously. They don’t do “favors” for me or do as I ask, they can’t be bought, and their integrity cannot be impeached. They make their own decisions, based on the facts at hand. The fact that they actually changed one of their verdicts at Peyton’s pleading for Alpha James, showed that they do listen to both sides of the story. They already have Peyton’s, as she had already sat down with them one-on-one and told them what happened. She also told them who to speak to in the rogue cell. They just need Timothy’s side of it now. Just like I make my own decisions on what I feel is needed most when I have dealings with them. We have respect for each other, and for the difficulty of the jobs that we are trying to do. The other Council member was, Teresa, and she is the only female on the Council, and just from that, you should already know that she is tough. Probably the toughest person that is on the whole Council. Don’t let her size fool you, she is about 5’8” tall, but she is a fighter. She has proven herself time and again and has a good head on her shoulders. I could not have asked for a better sampling from the Council to have been sent out to deal with this incident.

I knew that they were up to speed on this whole thing. I was the one, after all, that had called them to get the ball rolling at first when we got her back. We needed to get Alpha James and Fallon sentenced over Peyton’s abuse that she had suffered. I had made sure to tell them about how Peyton had been punished when she was innocent. I filled them in on every single piece of information that I knew, including a full copy of all her medical records. They knew exactly what had happened and had doctor Williams speak to them as well, as he had been the doctor to help her at B***d Claw. I made sure that they had been clear on the fact that Alpha James had lied to us and told us that Peyton was dead, just so he could continue to abuse her. That factor right there was the reason that he had been sentenced to death. He didn’t know who she was and that she was mine, but it didn’t matter. She should not have been put through all those brutal beatings that he used to work his anger and frustration at losing his Luna out on her. She bore the brunt of it when she was not the reason for it. I feel my temper rise and I cannot contain the growl that rips out of me. I know it will be heard for miles, and I don’t care. That vicious b***h caused so much trauma for Peyton, all because she was jealous of her. That and wanting money/position in a pack are the root cause of most problems in a pack. Wanting what isn’t yours, or being jealous because another she-wolf was prettier than you are is not a reason to torment or try to kill another.

I glance over at Peyton who had finally found Percy when our groups had merged together, and she was hugging him tightly. I can see the relief on his face at her being in his arms. I watch him lifting her up and holding her even tighter to him as he spoke into her ear and then gave her a gentle k**s. I can tell how much they love each other, and that does lift my spirits. I do not have to worry about them, because their bond is strong, and their love for each other is apparent. I was very worried about them at first. Peyton has been hurt at B***d Claw with all her dealings with Fallon. It hurt for her to come to her new pack and have to deal with another “Fallon” type woman who also wanted to be Luna when it had never been hers, to begin with. The Goddess decides these things, and she usually puts a decent woman in that position for the good of her people. The Goddess gave me a strong woman for my mate, and I know exactly how blessed I was for having been given DeAnna. I needed her to be strong as the Luna Queen, and she is, the perfect complement to my personality, in every single way. She has such a way to calm me, giving me great ideas, some of them ones that I hadn’t even considered in solving the problem. She is the person that I count on most, the love of my life, and I wouldn’t be the Alpha King that I am without her serving by my side.

When people assume that they know more than the Goddess, that is when trouble arises. Like Timothy “knowing more” look at where it got him. With him losing a very strong mate and tying himself to the woman who had actually caused his mother’s death to occur. If she hadn’t told them where Peyton was being hidden, they would never have come to B***d Claw to try to take her. All of this death and drama stems from one jealous act. Percy agreeing to make that girl Stephanie, his Luna because she was crying? He should have just walked away after he had shot her down. But because he “knew” that he would find his mate before that time limit was up, he went along with it. When you do things like that, you can lose the blessing that the Goddess was giving you. What if he hadn’t met Peyton? What if the time ran out? He would have just continued doing what he was doing with her, and he would have eventually been stuck with her. From the sound of it, she would be another deserving of my wrath.

Like Jasper wanting to take my young daughter as a mate, because he ”knew” when she was 13, that she was his mate. I knew what he was doing. I knew he had an eye on my spot, he wanted to be the next Alpha King. I never told DeAnna though because she would have been even more horrified at knowing that he had intentions of killing our sons to make that little dream of his happen. I knew his plans the whole time. His innocent act didn’t fool me at all, he was power-hungry and still is. Peyton had mentioned that Percy was going to stop for a visit on the way home, and we will be going with him. It may take my presence there at the gate to get him to come out to speak to him anyway. Jasper took a shot at Heath, so he won’t be letting them into his pack. But I think that he needs a little visit to give him a final warning on this. We pull up to the gate, and my family is in the lead vehicle. Peyton is the only one missing and she is in the second vehicle with Percy. I get out with one member of my guard, to go and speak to the man standing there waiting on us.

“Alpha King, welcome to B***d Claw. I am Beta Mitchell, I will be escorting your group to the meeting room with my son, Daniel, and a few warriors” He said to me, and I remembered that it was his daughter that started this ball rolling. I see him stiffen a little as I now remember that fact, and I know that my emotions crossed my face when it hit me. I know that he was expecting me to say something, but I felt bad for him, and his loss. Even if she was a she-wolf who had done bad things, like most of us wolves, I am sure that she was not always bad. He will keep the good memories of her, but I know how disappointed he had to be in her when he discovered all that she had done. Amanda told me that he was the only vocal supporter that Peyton had in this pack, and for that, I am grateful to him. The gate opened and I stepped forward and held my hand out.

“I have heard of you, and I have been told that you were the only person in the whole pack who tried to take up for Peyton on several occasions. I appreciate you doing that for her, and I am sorry for your loss. She had brought it on herself, but it is still hard to lose a pup, as we love them so much. I had experienced the pain of it myself when I was told that she had died here. I was blessed to get her back, and I wanted to thank you for what you did and are doing right now for her” I told him. I could see him looking at me with a shocked look on his face. I could tell that he hadn’t expected me to say that to him, and it took a minute for him to blink his eyes which were now shining with emotion.

“Thank you, Alpha King, I did always think that she had been set up and that there was more to the story. I just never would have ever thought that my own daughter would be manipulative enough to have done all that she did behind the scenes. But Alpha James was heartbroken and inconsolable, he needed someone to blame, I just didn’t know what was going on until well after it had started. After that, no one could talk sense into him, and he would beat anyone that tried to do it too. I just hate that an innocent was the one placed in his line of vision to bear the weight of all that.” Beta Mitchell said, and I could see the grimace he made when he mentioned the beatings. From the looks of it, his defending my daughter had cost him a few beatings himself trying to take up for her.

“I know that you have spoken to Alpha James, but please don’t mention our arrival to Timothy. He is the reason that we and the Council are here, Peyton was kidnapped, and we are here to investigate that. We do not need him to be able to get away before he can be dealt with. Thank you for helping us get that done” I told him.

“It is my pleasure, and these 5 wolves are completely trustworthy. No one will find out unless they see you coming. I already sent the only one who would leak it in with Heath and the Council members earlier. Her name is Courtney Evans, and she is a strong warrior, she may cause a problem, but I will deal with that when it comes. I will not be letting her have a heads up on this at all, as she would help him escape before any of us could stop her. I know how she is about Timothy, she is very possessive and protective of him. So, I told her to take them to the front row, and stay with Alpha Heath, because I did not trust him. She follows orders, so she will stay with him, as Heath was an implied threat. Plus, Timothy will be right there on the stage in front of her, so she will like the attention that she gets from him while she is on duty up front in there.” Beta Mitchell said, and I agree with his assessment of Courtney.

We need her up front and where I can see her. I will not allow her to cause problems. I linked my group, and then I sent a group text to Gabi, Tanner, Peyton, and Percy, so we will all be on the same page. They can tell their men, and this is going to end tonight. I knew that Gabi would be running point for Courtney, She had already texted me back that she would take care of it. Percy texted me that he had mindlinked Heath to make him aware. He said that Heath had laughed when he was told, and said, “Believe me, I am already aware of this warrior’s feelings about Timothy. But she is nothing that Gabi can’t handle.” I am a little nervous about what is going to happen here. I am glad that we have everything we need to get it done tonight, with no surprises popping up, Goddess willing.