Rejected, but not Broken
Chapter 71

Derek’s POV

My dad is a horrible person and he tried to kill my mom. I hate him so much and then he just told Gabi that he wished that she had been rd. I want to kill him myself. I lunged forward and punched him as hard as I could, and he fell to the floor.

I cannot believe that I knocked my own father out. He has always told me I was weak and needed to be stronger. I guess he is sorry for it now. My uncle Heath takes my arm and pulls me back and gets a set of silver cuffs out of his back pocket and handcuffs my father.

Council Member Folkes nodded to the warriors at the door, and they came in and picked him up off the floor. Dad wakes up as they are lifting him off the floor. The look he gives me makes me take a step back.

The hate in his eyes, I have never seen him look at me like this before. He is furious, and I am glad that he is going to be taken away from the pack. I hope they have enough on him for him to be put to death. “That is probably the bravest that you have ever been, and you chose to do it now when I am leaving You and your chosen mate are going to ruin these two packs.

You won’t be an Alpha for long, son. You are weak, just like your mother. You couldn’t even get your true mate to behave and know her place.

You should have forced her to stay here, as your mistress. You are an it, you rejected her before you got a taste of her. You should have slept with her first and got her to where she craved you before you rejected her.

That was stupid on your part. I did it, and I was successful at it for several years, your mother got pissed and refused to sleep with me when she found out, but there have always been willing girls around here. Gabi would have made you stronger just by you keeping her at the pack, and Piper isn’t the brightest, you could have made it work.

I am glad I am not staying to watch this train wreck play out, I hope the pack fails, the records will show that it will be on your head, and not mine. Good luck to you son, you will need as much of it as you can get” dad said to me.

Dad glances over at Gabi sitting on Tanner’s la*p and he said, “I would have liked a taste of you myself, but I guess it was not to be. Unless I can get free, and then I will come back for you.

Tanner will never see me coming” dad tells Gabi and I feel sick by what he said. I go to punch him again, but a growl shakes the floor and Tanner stood up with Gabi in his arms. He set her down on the floor and walks up to my dad.

“Don’t you ever talk about Gabi or threaten her ever again. She is my mate, and I WILL kill you over her. You are a disgusting person and the worst Alpha I have ever met, and I included Wyatt Wilson in that group. If your sentence is death I will gladly come and do it myself, unless Luna Liz wants the honors.

He did make a bad decision deciding to take a chosen mate, but I am quite sure you led him to that decision. You are one of the worst fathers I have ever seen” Tanner tells my dad and I have to agree, he is a horrible Dad is led out of the hospital by my uncle Heath and my grand-dads Beta Jason.

The training field is next to the hospital, and everyone had already gathered for the training because it was going to start in ten minutes, so quite a few people saw my dad be led out in handcuffs, and be put into one of the SUVs and placed in the back seat and buckled in.

A highly armed warrior got into the last row in the SUV to sit behind my dad, and then three more loaded in and moved their SUV to the head of the group. My mom was brought out on a gurney and loaded into the back of the ambulance. Jason got into the back of the ambulance with mom and nodded at me before they secured the door of it.

I guess dad did something to mom and that was why she was not waking up. I cannot believe dad right now. I have had a lot of blows to me today, my mom might die, and my own father was the one who did it to her. I am so upset right now.

The two members of the Werewolf council came over to me and Council Member Folkes told me that my mother had given them several charges against my father, including being the mastermind behind Gabi. I am told that dad has been investigated and found to be guilty of several werewolf laws being broken, but they were going to hold his sentencing until my mom woke up so she can testify against him for trying to kill her.

I watch as my mom is taken away via ambulance, to go to Ever Green to heal. Dad will be being held there to await his judgment, he will be right there when mom wakes up, so his punishment will probably be handed out quickly too. I need to sit down and collect my thoughts.

My whole world has been blown up and I truly do not know what to do. I sit down at the end of the training field, and I see the training crew walk up to speak with my uncle Heath and then glance over at me. I see Gabi and tanner walk up to the group and see them all talking together.

I feel someone walk up behind me and I heard my Grand-dad speak to me, “Derek regardless of your actions, I love you very much. I have been very stressed to know that your dad tried to kill my daughter and I couldn’t be here to protect her.

I am thankful that Gabi was here to protect her from your father until we could get here. She is a strong girl, and I believe that your father was instrumental in telling you that you need a “strong” Luna, but you already had one.

I really wish you had kept Gabi because I know you felt the pull, I know you knew who she was to you. Your mother told me what had all happened.

You made some bad choices and I hope that you can come back from them. I will be here for at least the next week. I am sure your father didn’t teach you properly, just as I am sure that he rigged something for him to skim some money from the pack.

I know he depleted the pack’s funds and tried to set you up for failure, so I will help with that as well. I will transfer 2 million into the pack’s account tomorrow. I will also bring in a forensic accountant to go through the books. I will get Heath to help you as well and we will all get you up to speed.

You are going to have a hard time of it, as that Piper girl only cares about herself, and you need to get her to see the bigger picture and know that as Luna, especially of two packs that she will have to step up and do much more than she has been.

Being a Luna is not all parties and fun, it is being the mother to the pack, and it comes with a lot of duties of its own.

We will get you taken care of though, you will be OK” he pat’s my shoulder and heads over to Heath. I see Piper coming to me and she looks concerned. I don’t really want to talk to her, but I am going to have to.

“Derek, did they really arrest your dad and talk him away?”

“Yes, Piper,” I told her.

“Why?” Piper asked me.

“He was the one who attacked mom and sent her to the hospital,” I told her, because I didn’t want to get into all of it, and I didn’t know all of the charges, but I know that they were bad.

“I am so sorry Derek,” Piper tells me and sits down next to me, and pulls me into her for a hug. I appreciate the hug and her being caring towards me. We sit there for a little while as I am lost in my thoughts. I see Gabi eating her apple and Tanner is eating his breakfast as well, I missed breakfast and I guess I need to go grab something myself too. Alan passes me and hands me a drink and a sausage biscuit and tells me, “We are starting in five minutes Alpha”.

I go ahead and eat because I know that this is going to be hard. Dad never stressed any real training, just basically for fitness, and not really to learn offense or defense. I am sure that we are all going to look bad here in a minute to them, but I am determined for the pack to make changes and for us to improve together.

I will not be telling Piper about the money that the pack is getting, or I am sure she will want to spend it too. We need that safety net and I need to talk to my grand-dad about how to generate future revenue for my pack.

It is all on my shoulders now and I am taking it seriously. I will train hard, I will do what is asked of me, but I am still going to ask Gabi if she would stay here with me. Even though she accepted the rejection, I still feel a bond there between us. I still care about her and want her.

It should be gone, but I can still feel that it is there, right under the surface. Thankfully I couldn’t feel it when they mated, but I still want Gabi so much. So, I am going to take every opportunity during training to make sure that we have time together so that the feelings can grow and mature.

I know she is marked and mated, but I know she had feelings for me too. I can feel it. I know it in my heart. I look over at her and she is standing there talking to her fellow trainers and she is animated and excited.

I see Tanner with his arm around her and rubbing her lower back with his hand, and jealousy runs through me. He is in my pack and rubbing it in my face that she is his mate. I am so frustrated right now. I will make sure that she gets to see me in my best light as well during training.

I am quite sure that the trainers will be set up in various areas, and I know Alan isn’t dumb enough to put me in her group, but I may be adjacent to her group and a few sweaty sessions would result in me having to take my shirt off, you know, to cool off right?

I mean, that is all it usually took for me was to take my shirt off at Alpha training and I had to beat the girls off of me. So, I need to make sure it isn’t obvious, I need to use it to wipe the sweat off of me. I need to make sure I do what they ask and learn these next few weeks.

I need to start hitting the gym again to make the most of my appearance. I am still in great shape, but my biceps have nothing on Tanner’s and Alan’s, and I want to be seen in the best light possible.

I will be the best student that they have ever had, I will absorb the training like a sponge, and I will sweep Gabi off her sweet little feet, right out from under Tanner’s stupid nose.