Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 89

Peyton’s POV

B***d Claw Pack

Timothy shifted quickly and I know that he wanted to try to catch Percy unawares by attacking first, but Percy has been ready for this for the whole night. Timothy has to try to cheat to win, and he won’t be able to now. I just hate that it is going to happen inside the meeting hall. This is going to cause bad memories for Alpha James for years to come, as Percy won’t be losing this fight, Timothy will.

Timothy takes the opportunity to jump down from the stage and immediately lunges at Percy. I know that they have fought before, but that was at Alpha Training, and they are to get their opponent to submit, but not to seriously injure them. This is going to be totally different, as this is to the death, and I can see Timothy eyeing me as he stalks up to Percy. He is angry, and I see Gabi, and Tanner each move to come and stand on either side of Heath to make a united front in front of me. I can no longer see Percy or Timothy, and that makes me nervous. My mother pulls me into her chest and gives me a tight hug as she can feel my fear for Percy coming off of me. Timothy is not a better fighter than Percy, but he cheats, and he cannot be trusted.

I already know that he is aware that he cannot beat Percy, he knows that he is going to die today. This causes him to be desperate, to fight will all his might knowing that this is it, he will not make it until tomorrow. Desperate people do desperate things, and I am worried for my mate, so I pull back from my mother. I know that she is trying to protect me, but I want to see this, I need to make sure that Percy is OK. I know that he probably had his parents come to prevent me from seeing what is about to happen, but to be honest, I am ready for Timothy to die. I have no loyalty to him at all, he destroyed that when he told me that he knew I was his mate, and then left me behind. His being OK allowing me to endure even more pain and abuse than I had already been dealing with because a deranged woman wanted my mate for herself. All because he didn’t love me enough to want to protect me. He had not been good to me for the last 6 years, I will not be overcome with grief if he is killed. Timothy deserves everything that he is about to receive.

I will feel sorry for Alpha James who is still on the stage and is watching them circle each other. I can feel his pain over losing his son, but he is allowing the fight, even though he knows in his heart that there is no way that Timothy can win. I know that he feels my gaze on him as he raised his head and looks at me. He nodded at me and then gave me a tight smile, before backing away from the edge of the stage to be with Janine and Andre near the stairs. He needed her to try to keep him calm in this. I cannot imagine what he is feeling right now. He knows that Timothy did it, but I imagine his guilt is high because it was his not letting the death of his Luna go, that got us all to this point. I know that this is not how they imagined their arrival at B***d Claw would be going.

I step up between Heath and Tanner and our small group backed up to allow the fight to go on. They will need at least 30 feet for them to be able to spar in their wolf form and the first two rows of chairs near the middle of the aisle had been moved back by the B***d Claw pack to allow the fight to be conducted. Percy looks calm and had just glanced over at me once, just that one look allowed me to relax. He is allowing his training to kick in, and he is just waiting on Timothy to charge him. Timothy is snarling and snapping his teeth at Percy and was clearly furious. He is not focused at all on what he is doing, and it is clear that he is scared of fighting Percy. There is no sand to pick up and throw in Percy’s eyes here as we are indoors. I glanced over to my right, and I see Courtney standing in a t-shirt and a pair of basketball shorts at the base of the stairs and she is scared for Timothy. Even after how he treated her and told her to attack the Luna Queen, she still clearly cares for him very much. I can see fear in her eyes for him, but I hope she realizes that she needs to allow this to happen, and not jump in again to help him. I won’t hesitate to stop her if she tries to help Timothy.

My fear of Percy getting hurt is clawing at me before I feel peace settle all around me. The Goddess is trying to calm me, and let me know that everything will be OK, and that it will end how it should. I look back at the fight and then I feel my father’s hand come down on my left shoulder in support. I turned and smile at him, he could have done this, it was his right to sentence Timothy to death, but he knew that Percy needed to finish this for him to avenge me. He is my mate, and I knew the fear he had when he found out that I had been taken. He needs to end this with Timothy.

I could sense it, the worry, anguish, and frustration that he felt. His sense of hopelessness that he had lost me forever, his elation when I mindlinked him to let him know that I was OK. I could feel it all, and now I felt his anger at all that Timothy had done to me here at B***d Claw. I could feel his anger at what I had been put through, and at the plans that he now knew that Timothy had for me. He was so glad that Timothy had been stopped before he could try to come to where I was held. I was too, I don’t know if I would be able to put something like that behind me. I was still trying to heal from the physical abuse. I don’t know if I would be able to fully recover from a s****l assault while I am still struggling with everything else. I didn’t want to even imagine it, and I feel my mother’s hand squeeze my right shoulder and show me her support. I know that she could feel the turmoil inside me, and I gave her a smile too, I am going to be just fine. I am strong, I have survived so much, and the plans that have been made against me this whole time, have not been successful.

Timothy manages to smoothly jump over Percy, and he turned suddenly to grab a hold of Percy’s back right leg and started to shake his head. I could feel Percy’s pain explode in my head, but he never called out or made a sound. Timothy opened his jaws to try to get a better grip on Percy’s leg, and Percy managed to pull his leg free of Timothy’s mouth, but he was not putting it down on the ground to bear any weight. I linked Percy and told him to not take his eyes off Timothy to glance at me again. I needed him to not get hurt, I am safe and protected, and Timothy will not be able to get to me at all. He is not focused properly because he is worried about me. He has to focus on the task at hand. I am fine, but he is now hurt, and that hurts me. I see a quick nod from Percy’s head, and I know that Aramis is taking complete charge now, and he is going to finish this. I see that his focus is increased, and he is moving smoothly as he looks for an opening on Timothy. Timothy tried to attempt the same move again, but Aramis anticipated it. I think he allowed Timothy to think that he was more hurt than he had originally been, as he made his limp more pronounced. Timothy only got a hold of air when he tried to latch onto Aramis’ leg this time, and Timothy had to retreat away from Aramis, or he would have been injured as well.

Timothy gives it another try and attempted to spin around, and then faked left to then go right, for Aramis to have to use his right leg and bear all the weight to get away from the attack. I could feel the pain through the bond, his leg is continuing to bleed pretty badly. Timothy’s grey wolf was looking vicious with his muzzle covered in Aramis’ b***d. I see Timothy glance over at me, and my tense face. He sees the worry I have for my mate, and I see his eyes narrow. He is angry that I am worried for my mate. I see him thinking about it before he acts, and he leaps over Aramis heading directly for me. He stops about 3 feet from me, as Aramis grabbed his back leg and yanked him back so hard, that he slid across the floor until he stopped when he hit the raised wall in front of the stage. Timothy howled out in pain, as I am sure that both his leg is hurt and from the sound he made when he stopped by slamming into the wall, he may have broken some ribs too. Aramis is now standing right in front of him blocking me from Timothy’s view. He growls low in his chest to warn Timothy to leave me alone, and Timothy gives him what looks to be a wolfish grin, as he once again rises from the floor and looks towards me again, with a clear warning in his gaze.

Timothy again tries to get to me, and I feel my father trying to pull me away. He is trying to pull me back, away from where I stand at the front of the group, to a safer location. I pull back away from my father, and I refuse to go from where I stand. If Aramis gets hurt, I will be there to heal him, no matter the cost. I know that Gabi, Heath, Tanner, and my family will all have my back while I do it. I am not afraid of Timothy, his time is up. I watch carefully as Timothy is now favoring his left side. I know he has broken ribs now just from how he is walking, I remember it from the times that I have my ribs broken. He will heal quicker in his werewolf form, but it still hurts badly. They circle each other again, and I swear Timothy cannot stop messing with Aramis. I know that Malachi didn’t want to reject me. I felt his pain, but Timothy is clearly in control. I can sense that Malachi has given up, and that was the exact reason that Timothy is not as strong as he should be. Maybe that is why Aramis is going easy on him, he must sense it, and feels bad for him. The pain that Malachi is feeling is palpable to the whole room, he is sad at losing his mate, all because of Timothy’s pride.

I feel so bad for him, he didn’t deserve this. He got the shaft of getting a bad human in this deal. Timothy may not have started out bad, but he sure got there in a hurry after taking advantage of the situation that was presented to him. That was hard for him to get past, losing his mom. I prayed to the Goddess that Malachi is given a good host for his next human. We don’t get to pick our wolves, we get who we are assigned, and most are good. They care about their human host and have a strong bond with us. There are a few that are bloodthirsty, and bad, and they don’t get to come back. The Goddess always knows who is worthy, or not, and Malachi is a worthy wolf, it is Timothy who is the weak link here. I can see that Malachi is trying to gain control in this fight, Malachi wants this over with. He knows that Timothy deserves to be punished for his actions. I know that Aramis was just messing with him, he has beaten Timothy three times before in a fight. I think he is trying to draw it out, to make Timothy realize that he is about to die. I just don’t like the fact that Malachi has to be punished along with Timothy. He didn’t do anything wrong, just drew the short straw in a human. I did too as he was my original mate, and I already knew that he was no prize.

I linked Percy again, with my thoughts on this, and I could see that they were deciding, together, how they were going to proceed. I see them come to a decision, and I see Malachi limping worse than he was before. I can see the defeat in his eyes. He needed to be put out of his misery, I could feel him trying to reach out to me, he needed some closure himself. Malachi had always wanted me, it was just Timothy’s dumb self that wouldn’t allow it. Timothy allowed Malachi to suffer, to want me all this time, knowing that he was never going to accept me. He had broken Malachi and I wanted to comfort him before he died. I linked Aramis again and I know this was going to be even harder to hear. I see his head jerk to look at me, before looking back at Malachi to try to gauge if I was correct or not. I could see it when the decision was made, and Aramis went in for the kill. Malachi wanted it, he didn’t want to live without me, and he had said his goodbye to Sienna. She was whining in my head because she was so upset at all he had gone through, wanting us and his human refusing to listen because we were “weak” according to Timothy. Malachi always knew that we weren’t, but he welcomed this, as I am not his anymore, and he did not want to live without us. He raised his head to give Aramis an open shot at his neck, and Aramis promptly took hold to quickly end him. Aramis had done the damage needed quickly and immediately let go so I could come in and be with him as he passed. Malachi held onto control from Timothy as I stroked his head and told him, “Malachi, thank you for loving us, even when Timothy never did.” I can feel the tears running down my face for him as he lost his life, and then phased back into Timothy’s human form. I quickly backed away from Timothy, as I didn’t want to be around him at all. How could the Goddess have paired them together? Then I remember that Timothy wasn’t a bad person originally. He only became that way after losing his mom, and basically, his dad too. His bad choices molded him into the man he had become.

I can hear crying, and I realize that it is me, as Percy, who had been given some basketball shorts was trying to help me up from the floor. I heard more sobbing behind me, and I watched as Courtney approached Timothy’s body lying still on the floor and mourned his loss crying out in her pain. I shook my head at Percy and then stayed where I was to heal his leg. I didn’t want him to have a permanent scar from this, I don’t want to remember any part of this happening, other than the love that Malachi had for me and Sienna. He had always been there, in the background loving us, despite his human counterpart not wanting us, and he died loving us still. The tears are burning my eyes as I healed Percy’s leg and then allowed him to pull me up into his strong arms. I wrapped my arms around his neck and then gave Percy a k**s and told him how much I loved him, and Aramis. I took a deep breath in to settle my emotions. I don’t want him to be mistaken about my feelings for him or over my tears. My tears were for Malachi, not Timothy. Even though we were not mates anymore, I could feel his remorse for Timothy’s actions. I could still feel the love and devotion that Malachi held for us. He held onto his fondness for me, and Sienna, despite me having accepted Timothy’s rejection.

I hugged Percy’s neck and give him a light nip on his mark. I needed to make him feel my love and all the emotions that I now have running through me. I need him to know that I had no positive feelings at all for Timothy. I just had to acknowledge the yearning that Malachi had never been allowed to express to me. I needed him to know that I understood the depth of love that he had for me but could never share as Timothy kept him locked away from us. He knew given the chance that Malachi would without a doubt mark us as his, despite Timothy’s wishes. I grieved only for Malachi, and the punishment that he was also put through by Timothy’s flagrant disregard of the mate bond. I never even thought that it would happen like that, but knowing that he had been pining for us this whole time, is breaking my heart all over again at all that he had to deal with. Timothy didn’t just punish me, and Sienna, he punished his own wolf in his endeavor to find a chosen mate that was a “better option” than me.

Percy wraps me tightly in his embrace and starts walking out of the meeting hall to where we are all parked. No one is speaking and I see Alpha James standing at the exit ahead of us. I need to hug him as well. He did what he said he would, and I know that it had to break his heart to do it. I can see the tears running down his face as Percy puts me down so I can speak to him. Before I can even tell him how sorry I am for his loss, he picks me up and gives me a tight hug. I felt his silent sobs as he mourns the loss of his only child. I cannot imagine his pain, and I go to tell him again how sorry I am when he puts me down on the floor and holds my hands in his.

I let him collect himself and then hear him say, “Thank you so much for comforting him at the end. I know how hard Timothy tried to control Malachi, and that Malachi never gave up his hope that he could one day be mated to you. This is until Timothy rejected you. It was the reason why Timothy was so weak in the kitchen and couldn’t get up, the pain that he cost Malachi that day, he just gave up. Timothy had not been able to phase into his wolf since that day. I knew something was wrong, but until the Goddess came to me in a dream, I didn’t know what had happened to him. I know that Timothy forced the phase tonight, and Malachi allowed it because he knew that you were here, and exactly what you were here for. Thank you for giving him peace in the end. This was all my fault, and I am so sorry for all that you have been put through Peyton. I am so sorry.” Alpha James whispered the last words and then turned into Janine’s arms for comfort. She reached out and squeezed my hand before putting both her arms around him to comfort him. I see Andre stand there behind them, with a stunned look on his face. This whole experience has been overwhelming, and I cannot blame him for what he is feeling, because I am feeling it too. So much pain, and suffering, all because Alpha Jasper wanted more than he deserved.