The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 20

Conner POV

Conner was sitting around with the other Alphas and their Units chatting away. Finally, it seemed that Atlas was awake or on his way back from the recess of his mind, could feel him prowling inside his mind right down deep; the moon setting was only 4 hours away and that beast knew it. He heard his phone ring and frowned when, before he could even answer it, so did his entire units.

Looked at them all and they were all looking at him as they reached for their phone’s. He also noted every Alpha and their units sitting around him all looked at them, they all knew what it meant, s**t was likely hitting the fan back home. Conner excused himself and his unit. Everyone just nodded.

He nor his unit answered their phones in front of everyone. If they’d all been allied, he would have, but had protocol to follow, around unaffiliated packs. Headed for his room, saw it was his father, looked at Adams’ phone in his hand, it was Jared.

“In private boys.” Was all he said.

His phone stopped ringing and it didn’t ring back, there was no message left, his father was waiting for him to call him back, knew he would. He stepped into his room and called him. He didn’t even get a hello out before his father was snarling down the line at him “What the hell did you do boy?”

“On what?” Conner answered and felt Atlas finally arrive to the front of his mind, which now felt heavy as his beast looked around, actually, turned Conners head and looked at the room they were standing in and snarled nearly right away.

“Don’t you snarl at me son. Eliza ran away.”

The snarl had not been meant for his father; his wolf was displeased about not being in their own pack. Though now he felt his beasts’ anger rise instantly that his father had lost her. “So why are you blaming me? I’m not even there.”

“Because Conner, she finally picked up the phone after hours of ignoring it, we thought she was here, told her mother she got in late, and they’d have lunch to discuss her attending Utah State. It was fine, we thought. But when I saw her car wasn’t here, I inquired with the Gate guard, and he told me, she never came home.”

“Father, just tell me why it’s my fault, I don’t need the whole bloody saga.” He snapped as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

Heard his father snarl right at him, the man was fully pissed off, it seemed. “Well, Eliza told her mother and I quote ‘Conner made it very clear I’m not welcome.’ What the hell did you say to her.”

Closed his eyes now, “We had a bit of a run in at the University and I told her to leave. I didn’t mean runaway; I meant go back to the pack.” Could feel Atlas’s anger welling up even more and wondered just how long he was going to be able to keep his beast reined in. He knew how and what Atlas felt about the girl, knew his beast had no issue with the fact that she was human. That was a Conner issue only.

“Well, she left. Obviously took your words another way. Only now I just managed to find out where she is going, still trying to confirm that, in fact, before I have to start sending people all over the place looking for her.”

“Perhaps, father, it is for the best she’s gone. If she doesn’t want to be there. You should not make her be there.”

“You know the reasons, Conner. Your stupid f****d up reasons about not liking humans, get the hell over it. Brittney is upset and frantic, which son I’m now putting on your shoulders. When I confirm where Eliza is, you will be dropping everything and going and bringing her back. You so much as buck up about it. I’ll be beating you senseless when you get home, toss your a*s in the cells for months.”

Conner wanted to scream at his father but held it in, knew his old man would do exactly what he said, he’d been punished before, gotten a beaten over his remarks about Britney and put in the cells for a week. His father would have no qualms over doing it again. “Well, when you know I guess call me back.” He snapped instead, and clicked the line closed.

‘Where are we?’ Atlas snarled right at him the minute he was off the phone.

‘A mating ball in the New Moon Pack.’

He felt Atlas snarl right at him ‘Why? We don’t need to be here. Where is Mate?’

‘We don’t know she is our Mate?’ Conner shot back.

He could feel his wolfs aggression pouring off of him, as he turned to his door opening and his entire unit walked in, they were all off the phone, knew they would all know what was going on, all got orders from their own fathers on what was expected of them.

Not one of them looked happy to him, Brayden was near glaring at him. Adam was the first to speak, though “What the hell Conner?”

“I didn’t tell her to run off.” He shot right back.

“I should have seen it.” Brayden muttered “She was so very hurt by your words yesterday, Conner.” He shook his head.

Felt Atlas bristle and snarl ‘What did you do?’

‘What I had to.’ He shot right back at his wolf, Atlas had already been gone, hadn’t seen their fight or her reaction. Likely if he had, the damn beast would have been out of him to console her, and his whole bloody unit would know what she was to him.

“So, we got orders.” Adam told him, “I’ll be going with you and if you so much as state anything unkind to Eliza, I’ve been ordered to report it. Freaking Beta Ordered by my own father, Conner. I will have no choice in reporting it. Brayden and Cameron will be staying here and monitoring the mating ball and take the warriors and their new mates back to the pack.”

Just bloody great Beta Ordered, to report all interactions between him and Eliza, he was going to have to keep himself in check the whole time, not to mention trying to control Atlas as well. His jaw was ticking like crazy, Atlas, he could tell, was furious with him. Eliza had runaway and it was his fault.

“So where are we going?” Adam muttered, he could well have a Mate in one of these unaffiliated packs and was now likely going to be gone before the moon set to find out if he did or didn’t.

“I don’t know, apparently they’re still trying to confirm that.”

“We’ll wait then.”

The three of them were just watching him and he knew they were all annoyed with him, likely it had been repeated to them that it was Conners’ words that had sent her away. Despite the fact that, that was actually what he wanted. Her gone, and going back to her life and he did. She was human and unhappy in their pack. He did feel a bit guilty right this minute. It was better for her out there in the human world. Where she could live a normal life and he could find a she-wolf to be Mated off to.

Felt Atlas snarl right at him at that thought ‘Shut it Atlas after what you did. This is not just my fault.’

‘You hurt her, not me.’ His beast growled at him.

It was nearly an hour before his father called him back. “Where is she?” he asked.

“Going to her grandmother’s in Seattle. She wants to live there. Apparently, my family is mean to her.”

“You did bruise her, and you and Hale snarled at her and terrified her, so what can you expect, father?”

“It wasn’t me who made her runaway Conner, she was going to stay all summer and watch me with her mother. It was your bloody attitude that made her leave.”

“You were the one who started freaking her out. I barely have anything to do with the girl. Just have to clean up your bloody mess where she is concern. Tried to sneak out because of you, ran away into the woods terrified, because of you. I had to be the one to bring her back both times.” He snapped at his father.

Heard the angry roar down the phone, as did his whole unit, for that matter, “This is your doing, Conner. She left because of you, voiced it as such. You will bring that girl back here to the pack and make her feel welcome, get over your stupid issue, whatever it is, or you’ll find yourself and Alpha without a pack. I’ll bloody give it to the human girl. Make her the heir and you’ll be, bloody nothing.” His father snarled right at him.

Turned that phone from his ear to look right at it, stared at it incredulously, he wouldn’t dare give the pack to a human girl. “You wouldn’t dare.” He finally snarled right back.

“Try me boy. Go and bring that girl back or so help me, you’ll be punished so severely you’ll never look at a human like a lesser creature without fear of reprisal.” The line clicked off, he’d felt his father and his wolf’s anger with him. Knew they had a temper and knew he bloody meant it. His jaw was ticking.

‘It’s supposed to be her pack anyway.’ Atlas shot at him ‘get what you deserve for hurting Mate.’

‘Not our f*****g mate.’ He snarled at his wolf ‘I didn’t scent her, did you?’

Could feel his wolf getting ready to rip out of him, was all bristled up, and ready to go and hunt his so-called Mate ‘Stay put Atlas.’ He shot at his beast. Knew his entire unit was watching him, could see him wrestling with his beast for control.

‘Seattle is a long way away; it will be quicker to drive, not run.’ He finally shot at his beast, who snarled right back at him but stopped fighting for control. Looked at his unit. They were all watching him. They had all heard his father’s threat, they also knew his father likely meant it. If he was dethroned, what would happen to them? Would they become her unit? It was likely. Hell, he knew they would, either that or they’d all also lose their positions within the pack.

Stood there and breathed to try and calm down before he spoke, he was more than angry about his father’s words, about having to go and track her down yet again, only this time with a bloody full moon upon him, looked at the time and snapped “how long does it take to get to Seattle?”

Saw Adam google it “almost 12 hours, if we drive non-stop.”

Pinched the bridge of his nose, he was still going to be able to scent her out when he got there, could do that 10 hours or so after the moon set. And that wasn’t going to happen for another 3 hours. “Plot the course. We’ll leave after I’ve spoken with the Alpha here. Go pack.” He told Adam and then looked at Brayden and Cameron, they were both just watching him. “Do your job, don’t give father a reason to be mad at you.”

“Don’t you either, Conner. Just remember she’s only 18, trying to adjust to a life she doesn’t really understand anything about.” Brayden told him “Please just apologise to Eliza, be nice and actually mean it. Your words yesterday were harsh. Too harsh for her, it seems.”

He honestly didn’t know how he was going to handle coming across her under the weight of the full moon. Would rather never do that, leave her out there to be free and human. Never claim her, didn’t want a human Mate. Certainly not one that was prone to bolting away at every little thing she didn’t like.

Watched Brayden and Cameron leave the room when he just stood there for a full minute and said nothing. He had to be nice to the girl or Adam would report it, was under an actual order from his own father to do so.

‘Serves you right.’ Atlas snarled at him ‘We go and get Mate now?’

Conner ignored his wolf, he had no choice in the matter if he wanted to keep his title, and he knew his father would disinherit him. Just to please his own Mate, he could be one hell of a mean son of a b***h when he wanted to be. The current Luna was upset and that meant so was the Alpha and his need to fix it and placate his Mate, was now his top priority. She may be mated to his father, but that didn’t mean she wouldn’t leave him, if her need to have her daughter with her, wasn’t met.

His own mother had left him for another because she was unhappy and she was a wolf herself, a human would be more difficult to placate; and leaving him, who knew, might well be easy for her to do. Conner didn’t know, just knew that even once Mated, you could just up and leave, reject at will for whatever reason one saw fit. It didn’t even look like it hurt to do so.

Certainly, hadn’t hurt his mother or father, they’d both shown no signs of pain upon rejection of each other. He’d heard it was very painful, could kill one if the rejection wasn’t wanted. Made him wonder if both his mother and father had wanted to reject each other and if so, for how long?

They’d shared the same bed as far as he knew, seemed happy to him as he’d grown up, his mother rejecting his father had come as a great shock to him. It was completely out of the blue as far as he knew. He’d not seen anything that led him to believe they were unhappy.

Packed his suitcase and realised he didn’t even know where in Seattle he was going at this point. Text his father, he didn’t want to talk to him at all ‘The address in Seattle would be good.’

Got that a moment later, along with her grandmother’s name, Sloan Hunt, her grandmother on her father’s side obviously, no wonder she was going there, missed her father a lot from what he could tell, not even been a year since his death and her mother had married another, was still grieving his loss. Going to her grandmother’s was probably a good thing for her. Would make her feel closer to him, might comfort her a little bit.

“Send me Eliza’s phone number. I will call her and try to talk to her.” he text his father.

Got that a moment later along with “you’d better be the perfect gentleman, Conner.”

Rolled his eyes “Yes, father.” He muttered as he pocketed his phone and headed out of his room.

Gave his luggage to Adam and went to explain there was a family issue that he needed to deal with, that he would leave his Gamma and Delta here to watch over his pack members. Alpha Thomas asked if everything was alright? They were affiliated and he did know his father had a new Mate, that she was human as well. Had been there for her Luna Ceremony even.

“It will be, got a runaway stepsister I have to hunt down, is all.” He told him and saw Alpha Thomas laugh heartily.

“Ah you got to love the human girls, so much fun catching them. You should ask my brother some time about his human Mate, run away a dozen times, didn’t understand and when she was told, freaked the hell out, then snuck off in the middle of the night. He thinks it’s funny now, he didn’t at the time.”

Conner shook his head “Are they always difficult?” He muttered.

“No, I hear Brittney practically fell all over your father.”

“Hmm, that’s what I heard.” He nodded, he’d not been there for that. But it hadn’t taken long to bring her in either. No real trouble with her, seemed to just accept him, dated him for a few weeks, came back here, was told after the full moon what they were and showed, seemed to just accept it, was marked and mated. So, she could get used to the idea of becoming a wolf herself, had her Luna Ceremony, didn’t get her wolf and his father had taken her on a holiday for a few weeks before they’d gone and collected her daughter, against her will at that.

He got in the car with Atlas pushing him to drive, he wanted to be in control so that they would get there within the time frame of the full moon setting. She didn’t pick up his call when he told his car to call her. Frowned when she didn’t pick up, but then realised she wouldn’t recognise the number either. Atlas was annoyed that she didn’t pick up either, and from what Conner could tell, about that annoyance, it was because his wolf wanted to hear her voice, and make sure she was alright.