Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 88

Percy’s POV

B***d Claw pack

That piece of crap. I knew what he was thinking while he was on stage. He was fantasizing about MY mate, and I cannot wait to get my hands on him. Timothy will die today, and I thank the Goddess he never got the chance yet to get his dirty hands on her. I knew exactly what he was thinking about, and why he had the rogue cell so close to B***d Claw. He was planning on going to visit her at night, under the cover of darkness, and violate my mate in the worst way. I have never been happier to spoil someone’s plans before in my life. My innocent Peyton had no idea, even though she was watching him too. She thought it was weird for him to smirk when his dad’s comments were serious, and vice versa. I could tell her that Timothy was busy being a p*****t about her. She would end up losing sleep over it, and I won’t let him hurt her again. As a matter of fact, I plan on him not causing anyone problems, ever again.

I had to fight the urge to pull her into my lap. I felt like I needed to do it, but I saw that mom was comforting her too by holding her hand. I won’t take her away from mom, especially since her own mom was very anxious about Peyton sitting behind them. It had to be done this way though. The Royal Family was getting a LOT of looks. If Peyton were there with them everyone would know that she was here, and we need to make this go according to plan. I just have to make do with smelling her scent and trying to take care of her the best I can. I will make sure that I have at least one hand on her at all times, that is for my well-being, and Timothy’s. I want to kill him right now and waiting for him to be sentenced so he can be given his judgment is driving me mad. I just want this over with, right now. I want him to be sentenced to death, and for King Sebastian to allow me to do the honors. I will have Peyton taken away for it. She doesn’t need to see me finish it, I am going to be vicious, and she already still has residual nightmares from this place. No wonder she is with the Alpha family of this pack as jacked up as they are. This is not a good pack, and I know why. It all stemmed back to losing Luna Tori.

Alpha James went crazy, and Timothy was left to his own devices. It is no wonder why he is as spoiled and terrible as he is. He is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants. He was never told no, and he wasn’t corrected, so he grew up thinking that he deserved everything, and getting exactly that. He has no good character. He is a greedy and spoiled man-child. It is a shame for him because Peyton said that when they were teenagers, they got along great and he was good to her. It worked out in my favor anyway, she is my mate now, and he has lost her forever. No matter what that dumbass had planned for her, she was MINE. I can barely stop the growl from leaving my throat. I helped her to the front of the stage so she could surprise him, and she did. He got scared and mouthy, he was also clearly lying. There were tells all over the place. His specific word choices and phrasing, his not making eye contact, and his sweating all let us know that he was lying.

“Timothy, we have seen the text chain between you and Jerry. We are well aware that you set this whole thing up, you sent men into Ever Green with the intention of taking Peyton. We have already spoken to your father who has allowed us to see the bank transfer’s from the pack into your private account. You took money from the pack to fund a rogue cell to take the mate that you already rejected, away from her second chance mate. Peyton is the soon-to-be Luna of Ever Green and the daughter of the Alpha King. Those are not transgressions that are taken lightly. Both of those charges are punishable by death. Why would you even try to do it? We do not understand why you would take that risk?” Anthony Miller, the leader of the Werewolf Council called out to ask Timothy.

“She was MINE! She belongs to ME. I was forced to reject her by my father and Fallon. I wanted her, and it hurt me to let her go. I have loved her since she got here at thirteen. I know she still loves me too. If I just had some time to remind her of her feelings for me, I could win her back. Percy Wright is not a good option for her, she will always be mine” Timothy yells out and there were several gasps from his pack heard around the room. I cannot contain the growl that rips from my throat as I am ready now to fight to the death with him. It will be a quick battle, because no matter what he says about me being less than him, saying it does not make it true. I see that Alpha James has the grace to look guilty for his involvement in this. I know he had to have felt disgusted with himself after finding out that he was led so easily, and by a teenager. She spearheaded this whole thing because she had an agenda to become the Luna.

“You lost me the second you knew I was your mate, and you left me here at B***d Claw knowing how I was treated. I cannot forgive that, and I would never have willingly come back to you after that. I accepted your rejection, and I was OK with you and Fallon being together, you two deserved each other. I will never know why you ever told her that I was your mate, I just cannot grasp why you would do that to me. You couldn’t have possibly thought that it would go well for me. I wonder if your end goal in it was for her to finally kill me, or have me killed by your father? You knew this whole pack hated me because they all thought that I was the reason for Luna Tori being killed. I was punished every single day for it. There was no safe place for me to go in this whole pack. If you truly loved me, you would have taken me with you. That would have been the only way for us to have been together. Knowing that you KNEW I was your mate, and then leaving me here to be tormented, and abused. In fact, that was the worst thing that you have ever done to me, and you have done a lot of bad things to me throughout the years” Peyton tells him. The pack members get quiet again because she just basically told her parents what they had done to her along, with her main tormentors.

“It was a mistake. I accidentally called your name out during s*x, and she figured it out. I told her to leave you alone, but she was a vicious she-wolf, and I wasn’t here to be able to protect you. I am sorry, but I still love you, and I want you, Peyton. We can still work through this, it was a misunderstanding. If you just give me a chance, I can make you learn to love me again” Timothy said to Peyton, and I kissed her neck right where my mark was to cause her to shiver. I couldn’t resist it, and I needed to get his focus on me because I wanted him to know that he would be dealing with me for taking MY mate.

“It doesn’t matter how it happened Timothy, I was hurt so badly I almost died after that. On two occasions she got your father so drunk that I was almost murdered. I was innocent in all of it, you can’t change our history because you all of a sudden grew a conscience. It doesn’t work like that. You KNEW I was your mate and you LEFT me here, to be hurt, to be shamed, to be abused. I wasn’t worth your time or concern. I don’t think you will ever realize the amount of pain that you put me through in this lifetime. You didn’t care for me because of my station. Once you know who and what I was, I was suddenly valuable to you. A miracle to be sure. Percy wanted me, just from scenting me, he didn’t even know what my face really looked like, he wanted ME because I was his MATE. He searched for me and found me because he reported the abuse I went through to my father, and then told him that he needed to go and find me. He cared enough for me to want me, basically sight unseen, and for this pack to be punished for the abuse that I suffered at your hands. That is how a mate is supposed to be, protective and loving, not someone who leaves you behind to be abused. You disgust me, Timothy. You are weak and don’t deserve to be an Alpha. You stole from your own pack to fund your own agenda. You would probably do it again, given the chance. I hate what happened to Luna Tori because you basically raised yourself from 14 on, and you didn’t do a good job, because you are not a good man. You were good when we were younger, but the years of being spoiled with whatever you decided that you wanted to do changed you, and not in a good way. You are selfish and pathetic, you don’t even know what love is. Love nurtures, grows, protects, and it makes things better than they were previously, not worse. You only love and care about yourself” Peyton tells Timothy. I cannot stop the smirk I give him over her shoulder, he is getting more and more pissed off, and I cannot wait for him to make his move. He will surely be sorry when he finally does.

“Do you have anything to say in your defense?” Teresa Phillips, the third member of the Council asked him. She was giving Timothy a stern look, and I already knew that she had made up her mind, but they were going to give him another chance to try to excuse his behavior before they sentenced him. he is an Alpha, and they want to make very sure that they didn’t miss anything concerning this matter. They don’t want it coming back that a mistake was made, especially when the accused is up for the death sentence. I was ready for this to be done. He has NO excuse that would ever be acceptable for him to have taken my mate. If I didn’t have my arms firmly around her, inhaling her scent to try to calm me, he would already be dead. He better be glad that we found her first because I would have killed him as soon as I got here if I hadn’t already known that she was safe and secure.

“I do love her, other than my parents she is the only other person who I have actually loved. I did care for her before I even knew that we were even mates. I did want to take her with me, but I knew if dad found out that I had, he might kill us both. I figured that since she had made it four years with the abuse already, she could make it another two until I got back here to here. I thought that I could convince dad that I wanted her. But he was insistent on me taking Fallon as my chosen mate. I never knew how tightly she controlled him, she was smarter than any of us had given her credit for. I didn’t know that it had gotten even worse for Peyton in the last two years. I just assumed that she was OK because Fallon kept complaining about her. She was still alive, so she had to be OK. I was weak, I should have cared enough for her to come and get her and take her to safety. But I was worried about what dad would do to me if I tried to free her. He needed someone to blame, and it had fallen on Peyton’s shoulders from the get-go. It was never deserved, but you have to remember I had lost my mother, and dad lost his mate. We weren’t thinking correctly, and it just sort of spiraled after that. I am so sorry Peyton that I didn’t take better care of you. I did have feelings for you. I did. Very strong feelings, but I couldn’t accept you, or I could have been killed too” Timothy said in a low tone. I can feel his sorrow, but he was weak. He cared more about his own well-being than Peyton’s. That is where he was wrong.

I also feel pain and frustration coming from Alpha James. It was palpable in the air his regret at what he had done to her over the years. The fact that he not only was her worst tormentor but that he also allowed his whole pack to join in on it if they wanted to. That was not something that a leader does. A leader protects the people who can’t protect themselves, the children and the elderly primarily, especially in his own pack. He makes sure that his whole pack has what it needs to be successful and protected. To grow in strength and power, not go downhill. He knew he just stayed mired in his pain, instead of trying to work through it and get past it. Beta Mitchell had to take up the slack for him to keep the pack running smoothly, and that was why he didn’t realize what was going on as far as Alpha James being led by Fallon. Alpha James had a lot to make up for, but Timothy knew right from wrong, he made bad choices, and now he will have to live with them.

“Timothy don’t try to play that sympathy card with me. You had she-wolves going in and out of your room all the time. You made sure I knew about it and tossed it in my face, even though you knew that I cared for you. Even after you knew I was your mate, you kept cheating. Don’t try to pull the “But I love you” card now. Live with your decisions, you made your own choices, it was all you. I didn’t make any of them, other than the decision to accept your rejection. I did need to accept it because at the end of the day, you never truly loved me, or you wouldn’t have been able to do all those bad things to me. You planned on r****g me, Timothy. r****g me while you KNEW I was mated and bound to Percy. That he would feel it, and that my pain and suffering might drive him mad. You lie so much, you wouldn’t know the truth if it came up and bit you. You made plans to do the very worst to me, so stop lying, I know the whole story, Timothy. How you were going to give me wolfsbane so I couldn’t fight you off of me, to make it easier for you to r**e me. You stand here, caught, your plan known, and still, you lie. Any mated male in this room would be upset at the plans you made against a mated female. For you to be willing to do that to me, you have no conscience or morals at all. You just wanted to hurt Percy, and me, there is no love felt for me, you just don’t want to be sentenced to death. You need to stop lying, right now, Timothy. Leader Miller told you already, they SAW the texts you had with Jerry. They KNOW what you planned to do to me. You have been given every opportunity, to tell the truth here, and yet you keep lying through your teeth. I was right when I told the Council to not sentence Alpha James to death because you were not ready to become Alpha yet, you just proved me correct. You are a disgusting coward, and you deserve the punishment that you earned” Peyton told him, and I have never been more proud of her.

She is calm and collected, her emotions are not showing as she speaks to Timothy. She stayed strong and then called him out on his evil plans in front of his whole pack. The shock in the room at what he was planning on doing was evident from the gasps and murmurs that got louder and louder as the room blew up with disbelief. What he had planned to do to her, and me, disgusted everyone in the room. I love her so much and I see what her words have done to Timothy. He is shaking in fury and he is about to phase into his wolf, it is now about to be my turn. I gently take Peyton and have her step to her father and brothers. Heath already knows what is about to happen and he then stepped in front of her, so she is protected on all four sides now.

“Timothy James, for the crime of abducting Peyton Hunt from her pack, and numerous other charges, you are being sentenced to death. Your death will be carried out by the true mate of Ms. Hunt for your crimes against her” Leader Miller called out in a loud tone.

“Are you being serious? She wasn’t even harmed, she was my original and true mate. I tried something and failed, big deal. I think my being sentenced to death is a little over the top for what actually happened. You need to remember I am about to be Alpha here” Timothy said to Lead Miller with a stunned look on his face.

“Yes, you earned this, Timothy, with your own actions. You kidnapped the Alpha King’s daughter, which is not to be taken lightly, it comes with its own punishment of death. Being the King is hard, and taking the King’s children, any of them is to be punishable by death for it. You took her from her mate after she was fully mated and marked, which is also punishable by death. She is to be the Luna of Ever Green, taking a Luna against her will from her pack is also punishable by death. You embezzled funds from your father’s pack. You started a rogue cell to carry out your illegal intentions which are both illegal and frowned upon, but not a death sentence. You can’t break the laws set in place at your whim. We all have to follow the law, all of us, even if we were to eventually become the Alpha of the pack. You have shown over and over again through your actions that you only care about yourself, and what you want. You do not care about what you have done to others, you need to realize that there are consequences for your actions” Council Member Phillips told Timothy.

Timothy takes that opportunity to phase into his large dark grey wolf, and he is snarling from the stage like he wants this fight. He could not want it more than I do, and I phased quickly into my black wolf as well, Aramis is out for b***d and is happy that he gets to defend his mate. It will be my pleasure to end this piece of s**t for what he was planning on doing to my Peyton. I will enjoy taking his life in payment for what he intended to do to her.