Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 90

Percy’s POV

B***d Claw pack

I could feel it. I felt the moment that Timothy lost control of his wolf and then couldn’t get it back. I could feel the pain and suffering that his wolf felt, and I suddenly realized that was the reason why Timothy could not fully move on from the rejection. His wolf had never wanted to reject her, it was all Timothy wanting that because he thought she was weak. I heard Peyton in the link between us, and she is feeling his emotions too. She is getting pretty distressed right now, and I can tell exactly when he senses it. He can tell that she is upset and emotional from feeling his pain. He looked right at her, with sorrow and despair showing clearly in his eyes. I suddenly don’t want to finish this, I don’t want to be the one to kill his wolf. I don’t want her to be upset with me because of this. He clearly loves her deeply, but the sentence has been passed down, there is no stopping this anymore. I watch as he takes his gaze off Peyton and looks at me. I can read it as clearly as if he was linking me himself. He wanted to be put out of his misery, he is suffering too. The grief that he feels over losing her is overwhelming and even though she is my mate, I really feel bad for all he was put through by Timothy.

I have to focus on reminding myself that this is Timothy getting the punishment. That his wolf truly wants this to end, and I know he is completely miserable. I give him a nod of understanding before he glances at Peyton again with pain evident in his eyes before he lifts his muzzle to give me the clear shot I needed to get this over with. I moved in quickly to put him out of his misery and then stepped back as I could feel her pain and knew she just wanted to give him comfort in his final moment. My mom handed me some shorts as soon as I phased back because as soon as Peyton needed me, I wanted to be there to comfort her. After he passed, he phased back into Timothy’s human form, and Peyton quickly moved back. If ever there was a good versus evil inside someone, I feel that this is it. I feel bad for Peyton being in so much emotional pain, it was clear that Timothy was stronger and controlled him. I can only assume it was because he had weakened his wolf for so long by keeping him away from his true mate for over 2 years. Which then caused the resulting pain and depression that his wolf suffered from.

Timothy’s thoughts and ideas would have been right there for his wolf to see and know what he was going to do and was powerless to stop it. He already knew that Timothy was never going to accept Peyton. His wolf would have sensed Peyton’s strength, and known her for who she really was, but Timothy was unreasonable and refused to listen. I knew Timothy, his reliance on the appearance of things, was more important to him than their depth of character. He only wanted Peyton after he saw how strong she actually was after his rejection, then he knew he made a mistake. His loss was entirely my gain, and I will never let her go. I love her to death, and I will protect her with all that I am. Because of that, and not wanting her to watch him suffer, I did what he wanted and ended him quickly. It wasn’t just for him, it was for my love too. The sentence had already been given, and originally, I was indeed going to make him suffer, but after his wolf managed to take control from Timothy, I knew that I couldn’t go through with it.

Peyton immediately healed me, taking my pain away, even though she was hurting herself. It makes me thankful again for having such a loving mate that I had in Peyton. The fact that she could still give him grace because she felt the pain from Timothy’s wolf, despite how Timothy had treated her. She knew that he had been prevented from being able to take over to show her how much he had cared for her. I know that it had broken her heart, hurting for him, but she was intent on helping me first before she could even deal with her own pain. Peyton is one in a million, and I am so thankful that she is my mate. I know she feels terrible for Alpha James, so as I go to leave with her, I set her down to speak to him. He needs this as much as she did. I can tell that they are both devastated by what had transpired here today. I know that will both get past it, but I agree with what he said, Peyton had given his beast comfort at the end when he needed it. It is just upsetting to know that Timothy had hurt so many people because of his careless actions. His father is going to mourn him for a while. I am just glad that he has a new mate that can help him through this whole process of mourning. Maybe he can train his mate’s son to take over the pack, I wish him well, and hope he tries to be the best Alpha that he can be.

We excused ourselves, and I took Peyton to the last row of the SUV and pulled her onto my lap immediately. I didn’t want to let her go. I needed her in my arms, just like she needed me to hold her. Dad got in to drive us back, with Heath in the front of the SUV with him. My mom and Jerry both took the seats in the middle. None of us spoke all the way to the hotel. The whole incident had been overwhelming, and stressful, for all of us. I am so glad that Peyton and I have a room together. I need her more than I can express. I can feel her pain radiating from her still, she feels guilty that he had to go through that. She never knew how he felt until tonight. I just know that I need to get her to our room, and I am going to help soothe her. I need it as much as she does.

“Be sure to be up by 730, we will need to be leaving here around 815 after breakfast. That way we can visit Jasper, and then head back home” my mom called out toward us as we headed slowly down the hallway to our room. Mom had kept a hold of my key card as I had given it to her the moment that King Sebastian had told me that I could carry out Timothy’s sentence. He had done too many things wrong for him to not be given a death sentence, we all knew what was going to happen at B***d Claw. Just taking my mate was one, taking the daughter of the Alpha King, was another. I know that was why King Sebastian wanted to go with us tomorrow. They also heard that the two Council members will be going with us too. They know that after the results had come back on both of Jasper’s Luna’s autopsies, this needed to be dealt with. I am just glad that this should all be done by tomorrow afternoon. Peyton’s safety was the most important thing to me, and I never want a repeat of this.

I open the door to our room, and Peyton’s footsteps are heavy on the thick carpet. We are all on the top floor, and King Sebastian made sure that all the couples present had a room together. Peyton is sagging into me, and she has had such a stressful day. She is drained, and I am going to help her get to bed. Whatever she needs from me, I am here to give her. I go start the shower and get it to warm, but not hot. Peyton doesn’t like hot showers. I go back to get her, and she is just staring off at the wall across from her while sitting on the bed. I ease her up and guide her into the bathroom and start undressing her. She doesn’t speak, she is just allowing me to help her, but she is not present with me. She is struggling with everything that happened to her today and she needs to get some sleep, I will be making sure that she is taken care of. I get her under the jets and get her hair wet, and I like that the hotel already has the items we need in the shower, shampoo, conditioner, and body gel. She makes no noise while I wash her hair for her. I enjoy being able to do this for her, and I put the conditioner in for her after rinsing her hair. I start washing her with the body wash and I am finally getting a reaction from her as I do this.

My hands sliding across her skin is making her n*****s harden in response, and I have to say that I am glad. She was starting to scare me by not responding to me at all. I want her back to her normal self, I don’t want her mired down in pain and regret. There was nothing that could be done about it now. There was nothing that could have been done about it before. Timothy was an i***t who rejected her based on the fact that he was weak. He never fought for her or tried to help her to escape the abuse he knew she was receiving from both Alpha James and Fallon. Finding out that members of the pack also bullied her, because they could, makes me furious. That is not a reason, and if I could I would destroy the whole pack. They deserved it for hurting my sweet mate. I continue to rub her body gently with the body wash and then turn her around to face the water and rinse off, so I can wash her back now. I rub her shoulders and I feel how tight they are, she is holding onto a lot right now. I get some more body wash and start to try to work on her muscles. I have no idea what I am doing here, I just like to touch my mate, and she needs me to help her get past this. So, it is actually good for both of us. I notice that she has gained a little more weight. She is looking so good, her ribs are not obvious anymore, and from all the weights and sparring her a*s has never looked nicer.

She is a Goddess to me, absolutely perfect to me in every way and I need to speed this up here. I started to gently start speaking to Peyton in soft, and comforting, words. I don’t know what I can do to fix this, but I need to take care of my problem in the shower after I get her shower taken care of. I don’t want to not be able to last for her if she needs me. I am so happy when she finally responds to me, “I love you, Percy.” I get even happier when she turns towards me and wrapped her arms around my shoulders. She presses herself into me, rising up on her toes to give me a k**s. It is just a gentle k**s, but she sighs afterward as if it gave her great contentment. Whatever I can do to help to ease her pain. I told her, “After I rinse your hair, can you go and dry off while I finish my shower?” She nods to me, and I am sure that she knows what I need to do. She was just pressed tightly into me, and it is just a matter of pride for me. I need to last longer for her in case she does want me. If she doesn’t need me and just needs me to be there for her, I will still need to get this done now too.

She gets out of the shower and moves over to the towels I had gotten out for us. I had forgotten the towel for her hair, and after she gets her hair wrapped and starts drying off. I see her go and get me another towel from the stack and placed it on the heating rack. She is so thoughtful, even when she is overcome with emotion. I quickly wash and I am already hard from earlier when I was washing Peyton. I don’t need too much time before I am able to release in the shower. I rinse off and exit to go dry off. I can tell that Peyton is feeling better through the bond. She is not as upset, and I can focus again on her, not that I have taken care of the pressing matter. I dry off and then wrap the towel around me to go see if I need to wear my jeans from earlier. I didn’t have time to pack a bag. I left my bag at B***d Rose, to get to Ever Green with Beth this morning. It is 9 pm now, and this day has felt like it has been double the time. So much happened today, and I am drained myself.

I see a bag by the door, and when I check it, it is new clothes, in my size. I glance over at the bed and Peyton is laying on her side. Even with the low light of the room, I can tell from her breathing that she is asleep. That is probably why she is calmer now than she was earlier, she finally got some good rest. I quickly put on the lounge pants from the bag, and I go slide into bed behind Peyton. Her back is against my chest and her hair is still wet from the shower, she was clearly exhausted and just had to go to bed. I am glad that she feels so safe with me here with her, that she can just let go of the events from the day and get the rest she needs. I pull her closer to me and she gives another contented sigh in response. She is happy that I am with her now, she senses me and I make her happy. I feel her get more relaxed in my arms, and I smile as I leaned forward to k**s the back of her head again.

I thank the Goddess for us being able to find her so quickly, and that it was basically good men, in a bad situation that made up that rouge cell. I think that whole thing needed to be thanks to Jerry. He hand-picked almost all of them, and Terry was one of the first recruited. He was a miss, but he did listen to Jerry and seemed like he might be a good option. Jerry had told us that he quickly learned that he wasn’t. By then Terry was kind of a spy for Timothy to make sure that he had control of the camp. He allowed Terry to bully others, to keep them all in line. Jerry is a good man, and I am glad that he will be coming back with us. I was also thankful that my new friend David, was coming to Ever Green with us. David was one of the men from the rogue camp. Some of the men were so weak that they didn’t go to B***d Claw and were taken directly to the hotel. They wouldn’t have been able to fight, and Timothy might have recognized some of them. David was the tall thin teenager who had laughed at Terry when my mom was making him look bad.

I am glad that we were able to save so many of the men in that camp, I hope to learn his story, as well as the other men’s stories soon, but I don’t need to know it for me to want to accept him into our pack. I could tell that he was a good man, he just got a tough set of circumstances, and that can happen to anyone. I won’t let the memory of today’s events fade from my mind. Having her taken, feeling that intense fear of not knowing where she was, or if she was OK. I will never be able to pay Vincent and Beth back for everything that they have helped my family with. Vincent saved my family this morning and Beth got me when I needed to be for me to be able to find my mate. They both helped when we got ambushed. Whatever they need from us it will be our pleasure to help them with it. I loosened my grip on Peyton as I prepare to go to sleep. I am right up against her back, and I gave her one last k**s goodnight. I fall asleep with her scent surrounding me. I could not be happier at how today turned out. I only have 1 more wolf to deal with, and Peyton will be free of tormentors. I will not rest until that is achieved for her. She is my primary concern, and I will do anything for her. Alpha Jasper better prepare, because he is the last wolf I need to deal with before my Peyton can be safe.