Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 81

Percy’s POV

Rogue Camp

Watching my parents approach that door was stressful. So was seeing my beautiful mate leaving here with other men. It didn’t matter that her brother was with her, or her father’s most trusted man. She is my mate, and she had been taken from me and I was very possessive of her right now. I wanted to go with her, very badly, but I still need to get this finished. Here at the rogue camp, at B***d Claw, and then at Dark Savage I will get this done for her. Peyton needs to completely be out from under the horrible prison she has been living in. She needs to be able to leave our pack and go shopping with her friends, and not have to look over her shoulder all the time to do it. If it is the last thing that I do, it will be to free her so she can relax and live a normal life. So, I told Aramis to settle down, and he knows what we need to do. I won’t let this drag on, we will get this done tonight, and I will deal with Alpha Jasper tomorrow.

I don’t know what is about to happen here, but I will back my parents up in all of it. We don’t know these guys, and that wake-up call we had at the gate of B***d Rose yesterday was not a pleasant one. I would rather risk my life than risk theirs. I am a grown man now, and I don’t mind defending my mate. My mother is one of the bravest women that I know, and I know a lot of very strong women. Even though I know for a fact that mom was scared as she approached an unknown group, her voice never faltered. Dad was right there at her side because he loved her, and his being there for her was calming to her. He would not let her step into anything alone, he will always be at her side. She called out in a strong tone, never showing any fear at all. I could hear the men inside, they were scared, and people make big mistakes when they are scared. When the leader opened the door, I could see Terry in the background, and I remembered that I have an appointment with him.

He held a gun in his hand, and even though he was trying to hide it behind his thigh, I could still see it. I also see that he is edging closer and closer toward the door, I need to make my presence known to him now. I am not armed, but I want him to see me. See that I am not armed because he is not stupid, he had been at Ever Green for over 2 weeks. Seeing me standing there, lets him know that I am not alone here, and that I am confident enough in the abilities of my men, that I am willing to be defenseless in front of him. Terry stops cold when he sees me, he knows that there is someone armed out there and I see him look over at Heath, who I just heard step out behind me from the tree line. Terry will also know that there are more men that he will never see and that the probability of him getting shot has now been tripled.

Just like I thought, when he sees me and realizes the situation that they are in, he quickly puts his gun down on the living room table. It looks like a frat house in there, beer cans scattered around, and several different types of video game controllers laying around. Plates piling up, and the garbage overflowing. These guys need some help. Several of them are a little older than me, like Terry is, and should know better, but I remember mom always telling me not to assume. They may not have been raised by their parents to teach them that. I can help them when they get to Ever Green with us. Some of them look barely 18, and how they ended up as a rogue is a story that I would like to hear one day. Clearly, I have wonderful parents, and I cannot thank them enough for dropping everything, hot on the heels of a really large incident at their pack to come here to help me and Peyton. They came here because they love me, and they love Peyton. They are going to get this cleared up and then head right back into B***d Rose to handle that business too. I feel immense pride in my chest, realizing just how lucky I am for my parents. I was given a gift by the Goddess, and I needed to act accordingly. I hope that Peyton and I can live up to being as good a set of parents as they were to me.

I wanted to call out to warn mom as she turned her back on him and walked a little ways away from the cabin, that she shouldn’t turn her back on him, that he cannot be trusted. Before I can open my mouth he is in motion coming right at her, when suddenly she turns quickly and uses his own momentum against him. Terry ended up face first in the dirt, in front of all of the rogues, who were all pouring out of the cabin to watch the show. He growled lowly at mom, as he gets up from the ground and his face is getting really red. He is embarrassed, and I see a lot of the men that had been in the cabin wanting to see this, to see Terry getting beat up. Terry is clearly a bully and picks on people for fun. The rogues quickly made a circle around them giving them about a 30-foot area to fight in, most seemed to be silently rooting for mom and casting fearful glances at Terry. He must have been beating them up in the camp for them to be this fearful of him. I have seen him at Ever Green, he did like to pick on people that he considered weaker than him when he really wasn’t the strongest werewolf around. He was just stronger than the ones here, as he was older than them, and they were weakened by hunger and had not been trained.

Terry was visibly trying to calm himself down and wasn’t rushing in anymore. He had seen her out there trying to teach Peyton how to fight at Ever Green. He thought that she was also kind of inexperienced as well as Peyton was a novice, so that was where she started Peyton’s beginner training. He is probably remembering now her saying that her name was Gabi Wright. My mom is kind of famous in certain circles, and even if he hadn’t realized it, he soon will. As usual, he has let his mouth and actions get away from him again, instead of just thinking it through. The irony of me doing that too hits me in the face. I need to take my own advice, I am finally getting a few things that both my parents and Heath have tried to drill into me for the last 10 years. I am impulsive, and I need to not knee-jerk my reactions. I need to stay calm, think things through on my own, and not just let my brute strength handle the problems for me, that won’t always work out. His temper seems to get him into trouble, and I don’t want to be like Terry, I already have great role models that I need to emulate. He just clearly gets frustrated easily, and then starts mouthing off, he had done it at our pack while he was there.

He starts trying to test her to see where he could get an opening to land a hit on her, but she countered every move. He was getting angrier and angrier, and a lot more aggressive. He tried several leg swipes and different blows, and with every miss he had, created more murmurs from the men in his camp. They were no longer hiding their amazement that a woman was getting the best of Terry, and he couldn’t take it. He shredded his clothes as he phased into a dingy dark grey wolf. If he thought he now had the upper hand, he would be wrong. Mom’s wolf was bigger, as she was the daughter of an Alpha and a very strong Alpha couple. She would tear him apart, and strike fear into the hearts of all the men present, but she doesn’t have clothes here to change back into, and dad would be pissed if any of these men saw my mom naked. So, we knew no matter what happened, mom wasn’t going to phase here. They would see her another time at B***d Rose if they got to go to her pack.

Terry gave a terrifying growl and started sizing her up, trying to see if his phasing into his wolf had scared her. Mom was standing there, not even in a defensive position, with her h*p out, and her hand on her h*p as if to ask him if that was all he had. Another growl sounds from him for the lack of respect he is being given. I know now that he really didn’t realize who he was dealing with. He is WAY overestimating his skill as a warrior, and not giving her the respect that she deserves as a skilled warrior. Terry tries to snap at her, getting closer and closer to striking her with each lunge he makes to try to draw b***d or take her down. Heath and dad are not even watching the fight. They have stepped behind the men that are completely focused on this fight and watching how this plays out. Half of the younger men look at mom like they are worried that she is going to get hurt. The older men in the group are looking at Terry like they know he is about to go down. They have probably watched him fight before. He has not gotten a lick in, and he is getting angrier and angrier as this progresses.

I know that mom knows what she is doing, but he cannot be trusted. I looked over at dad and Heath, and Heath links me, “Stop worrying, your mom has it. She is just toying with him because he likes to hurt women, so the worst blow to this type of man is to be beaten by a woman. She has dealt with many stronger wolves in her time. She is fine, and we are here in case she does need us.” I nod at him, I just don’t want her to get hurt, she and dad are here as a favor to me, and Peyton, and it would really hurt me to see her get hurt while helping us out. I am going to stay near the fight in case he tries something underhanded to win. He strikes me as that kind of wolf. No integrity, and if he can’t beat you, he will cheat to win.

“Is there a problem, Terry? Can you not beat a woman? Or are you scared to hit me because I am a woman, is that it?” mom taunted him. He is in his wolf form, so he cannot answer her, and I can tell by the narrowing of his eyes that his anger level is really high now at the disrespect that he is being given.

“Oh, am I hurting your feelings, Terry? I am so sorry, I just thought that you were OK with hitting women. I know you knocked two women out today, punching them in the face. I thought you would want another opportunity to do it, by hitting me in the face. I mean that young girl had to have been a threat, right Terry, all 100 lbs. of her, right, Terry? I mean it sure seems like you are OK with hitting women” Mom keeps it up because he has phased into his wolf and can’t respond to anything other than by growling. With each new taunt that mom said, Terry is growling louder and louder at mom, and he is making mistakes, big mistakes. He isn’t watching what he is doing, and this is another life lesson for me as well. I have been told 1,000 times if I was told once. Don’t fight with anger, focus on your training, and fight well, don’t forget what you are doing and leave yourself open to getting hurt. I learned from a large number of great fighter’s it is no coincidence that Dawson, Elena, and I are so strong. Good genes, a good foundation, and years of training have made us all who we are.

Terry fakes left and then goes right to try to trick mom, but she narrowly misses him, and I realize that she is just messing with him. She already knew what he was going to do before he did it, and she is acting like she is messing up, but she hasn’t even broken a sweat yet. I have never before seen mom fight except for in training before, so that was why I was so worried. Heath and dad have been sizing up the group of men, who were all very interested in this fight, and they already know that with the exception of Terry, this group just has a lot of men, who for one reason or another were dealt an unfortunate hand in life. There was only one threat here, and mom was dealing with it. All of the men that had come with us were now here watching the fight play out, with the exception of Hudson, and Jamie. They were still at their post in the trees and would take care of this problem the second Terry becomes one.

“Are you done yet, pup?” mom taunts again, and although Terry is really tired, being shamed like that in front of his peers, who he enjoys picking on, got him even madder. I hear a laugh come from one of the younger guys, he couldn’t have been 18 yet. He is a gangly, teenager, who you could tell hasn’t been fed correctly for a long time. He had a very tall frame, and wide shoulders, but he looked like a walking skeleton as he had no meat on his bones at all. I looked at him in pity. He had probably been tormented by Terry before, he looked like an easy target, and I could see claw marks on his chest and arms where his tank top didn’t cover, still trying to heal. I saw it the instant that Terry’s eyes latched onto him. He couldn’t beat mom, so he is going to restore his position in this camp by making an example of this poor kid. I won’t let that happen, this kid needs to be taken care of, and helped. Terry is much more of a jerk than I could have even realized beating up on a person who had suffered so much. I head over to stand in front of the teen, and I heard him sigh in relief. He knew he was about to die and knew now that we weren’t going to allow it. Just for that, he will probably want to go with us, to either of our packs where he would be treated with respect. To get taken care of with a good roof over his head, food to fill him up, and training so he can be the wolf that he was supposed to be. Terry growled at me like I was going to be scared of him, but I would have just killed him instantly. Mom is toying with him and making him look stupid, which now that I see what is happening, that it is a much worse punishment than what I was going to give him.

I then heard my mom say, “What? Terry, are you telling me that YOU can’t beat a woman, so you want to hurt that teenager? You really should be embarrassed. I mean, I am just standing here, look at how small I am. You are so much bigger and stronger than me. You are the one playing around, not me, you should have finished me by now, shouldn’t you? I already know you like to pick on people weaker than yourself. Am I not weaker than you? Aren’t I, Terry? I know that you thought I was” mom was saying, and Terry was furious, you could tell by how loud he was growling, angry that she insulted him like this. She is letting him know that he never had the upper hand with her, never. She can’t stop herself from getting his attention fully back onto her. She saw the condition of that kid, she would kill Terry before she would let him hurt him because he couldn’t take her down. She was basically announcing it to the whole group too, and I saw their leader look over to mom like he was now worried. I guess Terry doesn’t like to be pushed, or taunted, as he let out a loud howl and went to tackle mom.

Mom did a flip toward him as he leaped to where she was just standing, and she went right under him as he landed right where she just stood. He turned quickly and then ran towards her, instead of jumping at her this time. Thinking that it would work out better for him, but it didn’t. Dad is now smiling like he knows something that I don’t and since he hasn’t been watching the fight this whole time, I know that I needed to pay attention to what was about to happen. Mom moves so fast, I almost couldn’t see what she was doing. She had him flipped over, held at his neck, with her hand formed into a claw right lying right on his jugular. If he moved at all, he would be cut, and bleed out. As her nails were on either side of it, if he tried to rip or pull himself loose from her grip, he would die. It was done, he hadn’t landed a blow at all on her, she made him look like a fool in front of the men he used to torment. They all stared at mom in amazement, she looked like she was having the time of her life, not in a hand-to-hand battle with an abuser.

“Phase back, now,” mom told him, and he growled, but he finally did comply as she had asked after 2 minutes of refusing to phase back. I know she wanted to get away from him because he was naked now, but she needed him to admit defeat, in front of the group.

“Tap out or admit that you have been beaten, Terry” mom said in a calm voice.

I watched the emotions cross his face. He does not want to, but mom is not going to let him out of the hold she has him in if he doesn’t admit his defeat. She had tightened her grip on him when he phased, as his human neck was smaller than the neck of his wolf. I think that he thought that he had a chance, as he tried to move back as soon as he had phased, but mom anticipated that and adjusted right with him. You could see the wheels turning in his head, and I can see the smirk slide across his face as he came up with his plan but since he was facing away from mom, she couldn’t see it. I linked out immediately to Heath, Hudson, and Jamie, “He is going to do something to mom when she lets him up.” I can’t let her get hurt. Mom let him go and then quickly jumped up on her feet and stepped back from him, she knew, she already knew. Terry lunged at her with a crazy look in his eyes and crashed down onto her, as a howl filled the air around us.