Rejected, but not Broken
Chapter 90

Taylor’s POV

Vince let me know when people started arriving this afternoon. I told him that we would be having some visitors and to let me know when they got here, so I could go ahead and drink the first vial. I will drink another one when I get summoned to dad’s office.

It is just a matter of time before that happens. I want to be prepared. I might even bring one with me just in case. Maybe I can just pour it into my water bottle, so it isn’t obvious if I need more. They aren’t stupid, so seeing me with a vial tells them I knew it was happening I texted Alex and asked him if he had the package in a secure place.

He told me yes, he did. That was it. I don’t need to know anymore from him. I will just need my payment from Alex, and our business will be complete. I sat down and started playing a game on my phone to pass the time. I never left the pack today, and I made sure that I was seen by the pool, and then came in and had lunch with mom and dad, which was nice, as I usually don’t have lunch with them ever.

I am here, I have zero interest in hanging out with them, but they will be my witnesses that I was here all day.

I haven’t left, so how could I have had anything to do with what happened? I played sick this morning from school, and mom even thought I had a fever, so I would not leave packgrounds at all, just in case I needed an alibi.

Starting to get nervous now, it has been over an hour now, and no one has asked me to come to dad’s office yet. Vince just told me three more SUVs had arrived and a truck with one guy in it, but that he was on the approved list.

Then Vince dropped the bombshell. The werewolf council was there as well. Thank the Goddess, I have my spell to keep me from telling the truth. I would be dead without it. I drink another one, just in case now, as I have to make sure I can’t be compelled to tell them anything.

This wasn’t going like I had planned it at all. I figured Tanner would show up and be yelling the place down, and I would calm him down, and he would look into my eyes and realize that it was me that he loved, not Gabi.

I am actually getting very nervous now, and I feel like I should go look for mom and dad to butter them up, but I can’t decide if I will look more innocent here, or if I go to look for my parents. I decide to go downstairs and grab something to eat as it is after 5 now and it will help calm my nerves.

I headed down the stairs and when I entered the dining room I heard a deep growl that had the hairs on my arm standing up. Tanner looks like he wants to murder me, Alpha Heath and Alan are on either side of him holding him down.

He will change his mind as soon as I can give him his vial, his anger towards me will just melt away. But he is not alone. There are about 30 strangers here and all of them are looking at me, even my mom and dad.

I went to exit the dining room, and my dad told me to stop, that they needed to talk to me, in the meeting room down here on the first floor. I asked to go use the bathroom and I drank what was in my water bottle as I had a third vial in there.

I am super nervous now, as I just assumed that they would come in here with guns blazing, and I would get out of it. I came out of the bathroom and headed to the meeting room. It is soundproof, and can hold 28 people at the table, and also had chairs lining the walls for the Betas, and entourages, to sit in the rooms that weren’t higher up, just with the higher-ups.

It could seat 50 people easily and be used for when we have war plans or something important needs to be planned. There were two seats at the table left open near the door that I saw when I entered, I saw that they left me the seat at the top of the table furthest from the door and I walked over to it, giving them all my most innocent smile.

I sat down in the chair and looked around like I didn’t have any idea why I was there. I have a knack for it. I was looking around and I could see Gabi’s old mate Derek there with his new mate, and some guys I had never seen before. I saw Luna Von and Luna Liz sitting over by Derek, and they were both angry with me.

I see my old mate here as well and looking at me like I am a flaming pile of st. I continued to look around and I saw Tanner looking at me with so much hate on his face that I drew in a breath. I see that big guy, Alan, and the other one that was here with Gabi when she first came on my birthday, along with two other really big guys.

I feel the power radiating off of two of the men near them and I know that they are from the werewolf council. I see an older man that I don’t know at all, but I can feel his power as well. He is in great shape. For his age, as you can see, he is older and I realize that he looks a lot like Derek.

Why is he here? My father is sitting next to me, with my mother right next to him. Alpha Heath is on my right-hand side, and I have to say that he kind of scares me, he is big, and he hates bullsh!t. He was the one who said I was lying and made dad Alpha command me the last time, and I know he will do it this time too.

“You wanted to talk to me, daddy?” I said, pulling out the big guns so dad and mom would stay on my side. “In just a minute honey, we are waiting for Stone and another member of Crimson Shadow, and we will get started then. You can just relax while we wait” my dad said to me and smiled, but it didn’t reach his eyes.

Mom is not looking at me, and I will be glad when I can beat this questioning, as it hurts more than | thought it would for them to look at me like that. I want them to love me, and after I pass this, they will again. I am their little girl and I know they love me and will protect me.

The man next to Alpha Heath was looking at me appraisingly, that he was trying to figure me out, but he wouldn’t be able to. I am a great liar, and with my spell, they cannot make me tell the truth. I will totally beat this and soon Gabi will be out of my hair forever. I grab a bottle of water and head back to the table.

I see Stone enter with his hands full, and I see Vince right behind him. They both went to sit at the other end of the table. I keep my face neutral so no one can tell what I am thinking, but what is Stone doing, and why is Vince here? Alpha Heath gets up and moves down the table and starts asking Vince a few questions.

He asked him if he was dating me? For how long? What was his name? What did he drive? Has he ever taken me places? Has he ever driven me to Quincy?

Vince answered all of his questions. Vince didn’t know that I had done anything wrong, and he answered them all honestly and smiled at me several times like he was trying to comfort me. He is getting me into trouble with this, and I wish he would just shut up: After, Vince admitted to driving me to Quincy on four occasions in his Mustang.

I see my parents are looking at me now. This isn’t good, as Alpha Heath is just getting warmed up with his questions. Vince just keeps talking and then tells them about how I told them my parents ignored me and doted on Gabi and that I had taken pictures of Gabi and Tanner and texted them to someone.

I do not have to speak to be incriminated in this, Vince is doing a hell of a great job on his own. He is too dumb to know he is ruining everything for me.

He just keeps answering every question truthfully like he had to, and I wonder all of a sudden if he had been Alpha commanded by Stone before they came in here? Finally, Alpha Heath was done with his questions for Vince, and they told him it was his choice if he stayed there to support me, or to leave.

Vince chose to stay to support me, and that was so sweet of him, he redeemed himself with that comment and I smiled down the table at him.

He grinned back at me, and I suddenly wished I had just decided to run away with him. To have Alex wire us the money he owed me, and we just went to replace another pack to live in together. But then I would have to worry about Vince meeting his mate.

I had never discussed it with him before, maybe he lost his mate, and that was why he really didn’t care about us qualifying what we had. I will have to reward him later for defending me and caring about me, as not too many people really do, only Marie liked me. Cybil and my other so-called friends only liked me for what I could do for them or get them.

Not for me, as a person. I leaned back in my chair and crossed my legs to give off an innocent vibe. That I am calm, cool, and collected and with no worry on me, because I didn’t do anything. Alpha Heath nodded to Stone, and Stone went over to the whiteboard where the audio and stereo components were and loaded a disk.

My Father leaned towards me and said, “I, Wyatt Wilson, Alpha of the Crimson Shadow pack, hear-by Alpha command you, Taylor Wilson, to answer all the questions put to you while under the Alpha Command. “I do,” I told him and gave him a wide-eyed look like I was seriously going to be answering his questions.

I hope I drank enough of the potion to keep me from telling anyone the truth tonight. I leaned back in my chair again and waited for dad to ask me a question.

But no one speaks. Then! hear my own voice filling the room and saying, “I don’t care what you do with the babies Alex, sell them for all I care. But do NOT let Gabi go free ever again. I will be the Luna of the B***d Rose pack, and you can just sell her off to whoever the highest bidder is for all I care”.

“Oh, st,” I said before all hell breaks loose. Tanner is lunging for me and Alpha Heath and some other big guy are trying to hold him back, and I get out of my chair quickly and head away from the table to get away from Tanner.

He is going to kill me, and I glance over at my mom and dad, and they are furious as well. No wonder they put me over here. I was not going to be able to make it out of the room. I am in deep s**t now.