Rejected, but not Broken
Chapter 75

Gabi’s POV

I can’t shake the thought of being followed. I don’t see anyone when I turn and look, but I can tell that I am being watched, by someone. It is now Wednesday night and we have been here for three days. The training is going well and my groups from both the Red River pack and River Bed pack are really doing well.

I am proud of both of them, and I always speak to the girls after the training to build them up. They need it, I remember how it was for me growing up here, and not being valued, and it still goes on to this day, in both packs.

I don’t know why they are so looked down upon, Omegas should be valued and appreciated, and I am looking forward to seeing how things are done in Tanner’s pack. Alicia had already told me a little about how they are treated and that they get to pick where they want to work, do what they want to do like backing, cooking one of the meals, laundry, cleaning, and also have cross-training programs so they can change up as they want to.

So, they can do things that bring them joy, like if they get tired of cooking and want to do gardening and landscape, they have that opportunity to do so.

They also get paid in Tanner’s pack, they get a weekly paycheck so they have money to do with as they want, and I so wish that Derek would implement something like that here.

I will speak to Tanner and see if he could help Derek to make actual improvements to this pack, and River Bed. Remembering what Heather did to me, with her lying and saying I stole her shirt when I got it from the trash.

I got 5 lashes for it, which still to this day leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I know now that Alpha Monty was just trying to punish me as he knew who I was and wasn’t able to punish me like he wanted to, just infuriates me again.

I take another look around, but there is literally no one there. I keep walking to where I was headed, 1 had told Tanner that I was OK to go and visit my parent’s graves, as he wanted to go speak to Heath about something. He was so sick of Taylor, and frankly, I was too. She keeps on, and it is quite irritating, she knows not to be blatant about it.

She is using Heather and Piper to do her dirty work and keeps popping up on Tanner all over the place. She is wearing really small outfits and she will not accept that Tanner wants nothing to do with her. I would like Derek to make her go, but he is like “She is Piper’s friend and Piper wants her here to help her plan her Luna ceremony”.

I think he secretly likes Taylor popping up on Tanner and bothering him, as he takes that opportunity to try to talk to me about training. He has been hanging around a lot these last few days, and he comes to train with both Red River and the River Bed packs.

I heard that he is also hitting the gym and that Piper is really happy with how much he is doing, as he is already bigger now in just a few days than he was when we got here.

I will be glad when the Luna ceremony is over and done with for two reasons. Number 1, Taylor will have to leave, or the training team WILL. We have all discussed it and that was the consensus for all of us. I knew we would have to force the issue as Derek is still banking on me wanting to stay here, and that will NOT be happening.

Piper is his chosen Luna, she is who he wanted, and he will have to make do with her, will NOT be staying here, for any reason. Tanner is my mate, and I feel nothing at all towards Derek, well nothing but contempt.

Number 2, the threat of another attack will be over and done with. We all know that another attack is imminent, and we are all ready to go. I am keeping my martial arts weapons on my person as well because I can feel it. I can feel eyes on me watching me, but I cannot ever see anyone.

It is really creeping me out get to where I am going and I sit down between their headstones, and I am glad that Luna Liz did this for me because she is thoughtful like that. I miss them so much and wish again that they hadn’t been so adamant about not leaving here that night like I wanted to.

Who cares if it wasn’t the “norm” for us. We were allowed to go out and eat once in a while and once they figured that we were not coming back, then they would have known, but we would have been gone and free of this stupid pack. I still felt guilty for not pushing harder for us to leave.

I feel like both their deaths are on me because I didn’t make them just go. I tell them everything that has happened to me from Luna Liz taking me from the pack and all about Heath and Von, and how they are so good to me, and how much they have truly helped me. They have helped me so much and I would never have gotten to where I am without them.

I cried as I spoke to my parents and told them about accepting my rejection from Derek, and that we did it on a timeline as Luna Liz “felt” that I was going to get my second chance mate. She was right and I was again thankful for her. I told them everything from how they really ended up with me, to where I was currently.

I felt so happy to be with them again, and it was like I could feel them trying to comfort me as I cried with missing them so much. I could not remember a time when they weren’t my parents, and I truly wished that I had been born to them.

But they loved me like I was theirs, and they always felt that way towards me. Actually, from having met my biological parents, and my siblings, I was actually grateful for having Claire and Percy as my parents.

I laid my head by their headstone and laid out on the grass looking up at the sky and I finally relaxed from speaking to them. I feel like they are here with me, and Tala is relaxed as well, for the next ten minutes as we just spend time with them.

Tala alerts me that someone is heading in our direction, and she doesn’t know who it is. I cannot smell them, and I am just on alert as I am watchful for anyone approaching me. But I still see no one. I heard a twig snap and I wonder just who is stupid enough to try to attack me at my parent’s grave.

Tanner knows where I am and so does Heath, and they will come to search for me if someone does something to me. I decide to just get up near their headstone and listen just like I did for my testing for the training group. I am not going to make it easy on them to get me, whoever it is, and I already know that it is either: Heather, Taylor, or Jack.

They are the only three people whom I think are stupid enough to try to attack me here at Red River, and they should have known better than to try because this time I will not be pulling any punches.

I plan on putting them all in the hospital. They are about to be in a world of hurt and I am actually glad that I will be working out some frustrations out on them.

The comment Jack made about the only people at Red River who loved me was my parents that hurt me badly, and I know I didn’t show it, but I wanted to really hurt him. I wanted to get him to submit, but I didn’t want to show my hand yet, I didn’t want any of them to know what I am capable of.

To me, it is way better for them to underestimate me than know the truth. It is going to result in their asses being handed to them when I get a hold of them. I will keep Jack down while I take care of Heather and Taylor, and then I will get Jack.

He and Heather deserve to get what I have planned for them, and then I will call for backup, or actually clean up for their knocked-out bodies.

I continued to lay in wait for whoever was coming, they knew they had blown their cover when the twig snapped, but here in the woods, it is difficult to not step on them.

They are everywhere out here, and they will always tip off your location. I heard another twig snap and this time much closer, and they are really being quiet. I am starting to doubt that it is the morons that I was first assuming it was and I open the mind link and contact Alan.

I don’t think it is a big enough deal to contact Heath or Tanner, but I wanted someone to know where I was and that someone was sneaking up on me. I told him exactly where I was, and he was already headed my way with Easton, Jameson, and Hudson.

I unsnapped the snap holding my gun into my holster and I tried to be quiet doing it, but with werewolf hearing, they probably did. They know now that I am taking this threat seriously and I am getting prepared to defend myself. I closed my eyes and asked Tala to help guide me as I don’t know who I am up against right now.

Tala tells me that she can feel at least three wolves approaching us and she can tell that they are all rogues. OK, now I have a problem. I link Alan again and tell him to hurry because there are three rogues here and then I look up and sm, as I see one in the tree above me with a gun, pointed directly at me.

I s’*’m out in fright as I never saw him coming, and before I can pull out my gun, I am hit. I am in pain, but not dead, and I look at what I have sticking out of me, and it is a tranquilizer dart frown at it and go to pull it out of me when I get hit again and everything goes black.

I can feel me being picked up and placed over a shoulder and them walking me to the border and then out of the packlands, and then placed into a car and driven off. I can’t open my eyes and I can’t open my mindlink.

I am laying across the back seat of the car and I can hear low talking from the front seat, but I have no idea where I am being taken. They have been smart and put me in a car so when my teammates get there, they will lose my scent.

I wish I hadn’t gone on my own. I feel like an it now. I have been captured and my last thought before passing out is that Tanner will be worried sick about me.