Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 96

Percy’s POV

Dark Savage pack

Watching my love in there, knowing that Cassidy was with a cold-blooded murderer was stressful. She could potentially do anything to my mate, and I am on alert as at the first sign of her being attacked or hurt, I will be there. I hate that this was the best option for confronting Cassidy, but I had to admit it was our only option. We needed evidence of what she had been doing, and where she hid the poison. We would have to turn that huge kitchen upside down to find it any other way, and it could be anywhere in the packhouse. Time is of the essence here, so that was why after a discussion the Alpha King was sent in. We knew that it would trigger the group, and it would cause them to not trust her, and think that she had been lying to them if she said she had been a servant, and then ended up being the daughter of the Alpha King. It was not optimal for her, but we needed to force Cassidy’s hand, and this was the way to do it.

Her attitude had already changed about Peyton and not in a good way. She was angry, probably thinking that Peyton was just a huge liar. But Peyton had not lied to them. She just hadn’t given them enough of the story for Cassidy to want to try to hurt Peyton. Now she did, and I was intentionally listening in along with Heath, my parents, King Sebastian, and the two Council members. We were listening to the live stream, while it was recording. Two audio speakers had been put in, one each right under the big islands, on the seat side, that was why Peyton kept sitting in the seats. The audio was the tougher part to put in, but he only did a temporary set-up and that was part of why they needed them to be tied up for 20 minutes, plus going there and back. The tech had brought in the audio speakers with him in his second suitcase. He had one suitcase, and Heath had brought the other in. It looked like they were just bringing in regular suitcases, and no one had even looked at them twice for it. Cassidy was obviously agitated now, and she was clearly going to confront Peyton when she returned. It was what was needed to happen, but speaking as her mate, it really scared me. This woman is a killer, and my mate, the love of my life was in there unprotected with her.

I watch as Peyton re-enters the room, and she is met with absolute silence. I see Cassidy stiffen up and then turn around to look at Peyton. Cassidy then said, “You didn’t have to lie to us. You made that whole story up. We thought you were one of us and understood what some of us have gone through and you haven’t. Do you think it is funny to make fools of us? Do you? To treat us like we don’t matter, or have no feelings? How dare you come in here and try to pretend like you know anything about us. I want you to leave my kitchen, I don’t want you in here any longer. I feel like an i***t for trusting you and allowing you to be in here. Did you have a good laugh with your father at our expense? Well, fun time is over now, get out of here” Cassidy told her, and she is spitting venom in her voice, she is past angry and the whole kitchen is tense.

“I didn’t lie to any of you. I just told you about my experience. I can tell you the full story if you want to hear it, but I was an Omega at B***d Claw. I didn’t lie about what happened to me there, I just didn’t tell you how it was tied into us arriving here, at Dark Savage” Peyton tells the Omegas, and I see that Cassidy’s interest is piqued. She wants to know how Peyton is tied into Dark Savage, and I bet she will remember when it happened almost 7 years ago.

“My father is indeed the Alpha King. When I was 13 a visiting Alpha to our pack saw me heal a bird who had flown into the window and broken its neck. When he saw me heal the bird, he decided that he wanted me for my power, and wanted to claim me as his Luna. He did this because he wanted to try to get himself placed in line to take the throne from my dad when he retired. I was not his mate, but he wanted me despite that” Peyton started out speaking and they surrounded her as they all wanted to hear her story. Peyton tells them everything, and I mean everything, including what Stephanie did to her at Ever Green. No stone was left unturned as she went through all of it, from beginning to end. You could tell that she was telling the truth, the inflection in her voice, and her emotions coming to the surface when she got to a particularly stressful event. I could see Cassidy’s face as Peyton tells them the cold hard truth. She knew that Peyton was telling them the truth.

I could see it when she thought back and remembered Jasper making those plans. Him sending a team to extract Peyton, and then the team not returning. She was mad that Jasper was trying to take a 13-year-old girl. He never gave her an age, just that he had found his next Luna. I watch with interest at the expressions crossing her face. I could see her feel bad for Peyton, over all the pain and suffering that she went through, all because of Jasper. I started praying that she would end up saying something that we could use against him in his trial. I also see that she was mad at Jasper for coming to try to get her three weeks ago. They knew a lot of men left here, and some didn’t return. Jasper and his Beta had lied to the whole pack as to the reason why. I could tell exactly when she realized that he did that to get Peyton back here, for her to be the next Luna. I know that she can see a little bit of Peyton’s mark showing from where her collar is on her shirt. She knows that Peyton is fully marked and mated, to me, but her jealousy of Jasper wanting her is clear to us. She is angry, but she is getting angry at the wrong person.

This was all decided and carried out by Jasper in his messed-up mind. He knew she belonged to another, that she was never his, and yet in his greed he wanted her. Jasper was the one who should have been punished for the six and a half horrible years that Peyton was mistreated and abused. It was ALL because of him and the fact that Cassidy is making plans for Peyton now, shows just how far from reality she has gone. I had been feeling sorry for her, and I guess I do a little bit still. I have heard about the pain of betrayal. My mother told me that it was some of the worst pain that she has ever felt. She is including childbirth and the time that she was grazed by a bullet by a rogue during elite training a long time ago. I cannot imagine the pain of rejection, how it affects you so much, and makes you wish for death. I guess ten years of that happening probably will mess you up in the head, I did feel sorry for her, but the second she acts against my mate, she won’t get an ounce of sympathy from me.

I see the other Omegas in the room, some crying, some stunned at her being the daughter of the Alpha King, and yet not able to escape the torment that she was living with at B***d Claw. The feeling of being alone because of the spell that she was under, allowed her to think that she had no one. Her not having anyone she could ever trust or depend on, at least this team of women had each other and were never as alone as Peyton was. Almost the whole pack was against her, and they had never experienced the amount of trouble that Peyton had. You could tell how sympathetic they were about what she had gone through. She had me getting upset too, reliving her most traumatic moments, and I made the list because of what I exposed her to with Stephanie. I will make sure that she gets punished too in all of this if it is the last thing I do. She set her sights on me and lured me in, I was an i***t and if I could take it back, or have a do-over, I would do it in a heartbeat.

The timers start going off, and the ovens are all turned off. The buffet is then set up because it is almost 5 o’clock now, and the start of dinner. Four of the large pot pies were put on the serving line and the sides were set out as well. That way four lines can move at the same time because no matter what the dinner is, the same things are on each line, making the line move quickly. The other 8 trays of pot pies were put in the warmers, along with the sides for them to be refilled as needed. The kitchen had cleared out as the omegas went to get it all ready and made sure all the plates, napkins, and utensils were full and ready to go as it was now almost time to eat. It left just Peyton and Cassidy in the kitchen and the perfect time for Cassidy to strike. I wanted to be in the hallway, just outside the kitchen, but I might get seen by an Omega, who would in turn tell Cassidy.

Cassidy sits down next to Peyton and gives her a long look. She then said, “I am very sorry for all that you went through, Peyton. I am sorry I called you a liar, it is just that people don’t usually tell us the truth, or value us as they should. I myself have gone through the pain of rejection. I met him when I was young, he was gorgeous, and I loved him instantly. He was my first, and my only. After we mated, I waited on him to mark me, only to be told I wasn’t good enough for him. He said wanted his strength to rise, and not get weaker by having me as his mate. He crushed my heart telling me that his wolf, Bain, was the one who wanted me, or else he would have never slept with me, in the first place. His looking at me in disgust tore my heart in two. He used to sleep with me often because his wolf begged him to do it, but after a while, he wouldn’t touch me anymore. He has cheated on me hundreds of times. He never cared about me, not like he was supposed to. Hurting me to my core with all the women he was with, flaunting them in my face. He wanted to make me leave here, to drive me out with betrayal after betrayal. He wanted me to accept his rejection and get out of his pack. He acted like he couldn’t wait for me to get out of Dark Savage. I had been here for years, and was helping him do everything here, he lost his Luna, and I took up the slack. Nothing I did was ever good enough for him though, his continued disregard for me and my feelings are crushing me. He could have stabbed me with a knife, and it would have hurt less than each betrayal did.”

We can all feel her pain as we watch her speaking to Peyton on the screen. Her words showed us how much torment she has been in for years. The toll it has taken on her showed as she told Peyton how much pain she had been in throughout, knowing that Jasper was her mate, and he never wanted her. She should have just accepted the rejection. I could tell from what she said, and reading between the lines, she always thought she could get him to love her. She did everything just how he liked it, to please him, to make him love her. When mom got back here to the meeting room, we listened to the recording of their conversation with Jasper, while the ladies worked in the kitchen without talking. He dodged the question and was upset that mom figured it out. I didn’t care who my mate was because my parents, and grandparents, always told me that they were special because they were your perfect complement. Chosen especially for you because they were exactly who you needed for a mate.

I thought Peyton WAS an Omega when I went searching for her. That is who I was told she was, and I wanted her. It wasn’t about rank for me, it was about the fact that she was meant to be mine, and what I needed to make me complete, and be a good Alpha. She is perfect, but even if she had been an Omega, I still would want her. It is not about wealth or power for me. It is about who you are on the inside, and how you treat others, and Peyton loves and cares for our pack members, even the ones who made her arrival there rocky. She is the definition of a Luna, she has class, style, and grace, but she had to live as if she was the lowest-ranked person in the pack there. She is the epitome of perfection for me, and I have loved her from the moment I scented her in that kitchen at B***d Claw. I didn’t want her because she was the Alpha King’s daughter. I wanted her because her scent drove me wild because she was my true mate. I will always be glad that Timothy was so petty that he invited me there to rub my nose in him getting his Luna first because if I hadn’t gone there, I might have missed out on my perfect woman. I shake myself because I am getting lost in memories, and I need to focus now. They are alone in the kitchen and if I were going to do something to someone, this would be when I would try it.

“I am so sorry you had to deal with that, Cassidy. I hate that he wasn’t smart enough to want you with him as his Luna. I know what that pain feels like to be rejected, and when Timothy rejected me, I was quick to accept it, but that may have been because of how he treated me for years. It wasn’t the same as you had to deal with. I wanted to be free from him and to get the hell out of that pack for my own safety and well-being. I knew that nothing good could be coming from staying with him, and I learned that lesson quickly. I would like to think that you could have found your second chance mate out there Cassidy. You are a good person, and I think anyone would have been glad to have you as their mate” Peyton tells her, and I see tears sliding down Cassidy’s face.

“You are wrong Peyton. I am so sorry that you had to go through that. I remember Jasper starting that and us losing the former Beta, our best tracker, and our best warrior when he sent them to get you from that pack. I remember serving lunch at a meeting that they had right before they left, and not knowing what was going on, but hearing bits and pieces from them as they spoke. Jasper started all of this because he was greedy. He had dreams of becoming the next Alpha King. Dreams that didn’t include me at his side, because I was not going to be a good Luna Queen. I am not a good person. In my pain and anguish at feeling Jasper betraying me over and over again, and giving not one, but two other women my place in the pack, and in his heart away. I just lost myself. I tried, believe me, I tried to become what he wanted. I have changed everything about myself, from my appearance, to how I dress, and how I speak. I did everything he wanted, all in an effort to make him want me, to love me. I did it all for him, and he has never treated me with love or respect. The Goddess got it wrong, and I was so angry for so long that she picked him for me, knowing that it could never end well for me. That was why I never broke the bond. I just assumed that I deserved the punishment, so I just kept accepting it. I did things that I am very sorry about now. I punished the wrong people when it should have been him all along. He was the reason for all my pain, but I murdered innocents in trying to make him feel the same pain that he made me feel” Cassidy said and then went and filled up the tea kettle, putting it on the stove to boil.

“Cassidy, we have all done wrong before. You were out of your mind with the pain of what all he did for you. I think if you just told someone, the whole story, that yes you would be punished, but then you could go on with your life and maybe find a second chance mate. I think you deserve to be loved and taken care of yourself, for once. There are good men out there, and I want that for you. I want you to be happy, you are still young, and you could still have a family. Jasper is more to blame in this than anyone. I think if you told them what all had happened, the werewolf council can help you, and then Jasper can get what he deserves too. He needs to be punished for what he has done, to you, and to me. He is the main reason that I had to experience all those years of abuse because my parents tried to hide me to protect me. I lost time with my parents, and my brothers. Do not forget that I have two brothers, what do you think that he would have done in his effort to try to become the next Alpha King? He couldn’t let them live, he would have had to have killed them both. He shouldn’t get off scot-free for all of his evil plans. Plans that have cost innocent people to lose their lives, my security detail, Luna Victoria, the team he sent to take me, and the men that lost their lives when Jasper ambushed us a few weeks ago. I swear I will go with you to speak to the Council, or my father if you are willing to speak out” I heard Peyton tell Cassidy.

I hear the teakettle start to boil, and I watch as Cassidy gets a small container from the top shelf of a cabinet that is near the back door. I can see a mortar and pestle sitting on the high cabinet next to the small white container. Cassidy had to get up on a footstool to get it, and she was 5’10” tall, so she was careful about who could get their hands on the container. I watch as she gets a stainless steel tea ball to steep a cup of tea, and puts a large amount of what was in the sealed container into the ball too steep. I know that it is the poisonous blend that Cassidy had created. I am nervous, is that cup of tea for Peyton? Or herself? I am ready to head to the kitchen to stop Cassidy when my mom reaches out and stops me. “I will go, Percy, let me,” my mom tells me. I watch as she leaves the meeting room, my mom might be less intimidating than I am, but Cassidy is a murderer. I need mom and Peyton to be safe in there, I hope that they can talk some sense into her, and help her come to the right decision.