Unscentable
Chapter 20

Edward

POV

Cooper had sent him a lot of information about the Jenkin's family. Apparently, the young miss Izzy, was from a very wealthy family out in Maine, had grown up inside a large estate home.

Had attended a private all girls school, gone to university out there and attained a business degree, and then just up and left when she was 23 years old, moved clean across the country and that was when she had started working for Piper Harper, or there about anyway.

It was likely she was used to dealing with wealthy, arrogant and self-absorbed men, before she even got out to Portland. He was doing his own digging as to why she suddenly up and left. All of her sisters still lived out there in Maine.

It was a long flight and he had the time. Harry was stretched out dozing away. The lazy bugger had told him to research his own problem, but there had been a smirk on his face, he'd relished telling their mother that Eddie hadn't been able to charm a human woman, that she'd gotten angry with him the minute he'd tried using his Gamma Charm on her, had gotten all ticked off and marched him out of the store where she worked.

His mother and father had been on him within minutes telling him the girl was likely his human Mate and that he needed to get his butt back out there to find out. He was 35 and un-mated, a great disappointment to them. Harry had a Mate, mated off the minute he was 18, in fact, to his high school sweetheart, a lucky bastard, already had produced 2 children for his mother to dote Over.

Had moved into the Delta position due to the fact that there was no Delta in the Pack and Bradley had wanted one, had offered it to his little brother when he'd taken over. Eddie didn't mind, no-one realy did. Harry had been a little shocked, considering he had Gamma blood, but had accepted the position.

Now that man was of the same opinion his parents were, that this Izzy woman was his human Mate, he didn't know. Yes, he couldn't Charm her, and that was a tell-tale sign, but it was not a full moon, so there was nothing he could do about it at this point. Just wait and see, the full moon wasn't that far away, less than a week.

He did want another cock at her though. Perhaps he was just having an off day. It did happen and some were more resistant to him than others. Now that he knew of her background and her dealing with the self-assured men likely most of her life, it was possible that she was just one of those rare few who could resist.

Guess he would find out soon enough. She was at her sister's wedding, perhaps she just needed to loosen up a bit, a drink or two before he tried to charm her again.

He was trying to find out all he could about her, to find that one thing that would help him to sweet talk her into giving up Pipers location, was actively hunting out why she had moved clear across the country away from her family when her degree was in business, and she had looked to be lining up to working for her father's company. Something had happened and he was betting on it being a man. Nothing made women move a mile away from home than an ex that they didn't want to ever see again. Shook his head that was exactly what Bradley was dealing with right this minute.

It took him a while but he found it, a few photos of Izzy when she was younger. In Maine's society pages of old newspapers, she had longer hair but looked much the same, she was smiling, seemed happy, and had a man standing with her in those photos. His name was there along with hers, Phillip Mattews, the article stated the two had been dating for just over a year now and they were all waiting for an engagement announcement.

He searched but could not find any engagement announcement. Something had happened between the two of them. He was curious as to who called it off. Put the man's name into the search bar and well, he was working for Izzy's father, had been back then, and still was now. That was interesting to Eddie. This was probably the reason she had moved far away and stayed away.

The man was currently dating a woman from another wealthy family, Katelyn Bateman. She did not do much, looked to be just waiting on getting a wealthy husband, had been with this Phillip guy now for a year, though she did have a degree in social science, what she did with it he had no idea.

They dressed up to suit the occasion they were about to gatecrash, knew there was no way of getting through the front gates of the estate. This wedding was large and would have a lot of wealthy important guests, a private function. So they parked their rental car and strolled on through the woods and hopped up and over the 12 foot brick wall that surrounded the place.

No real challenge for either of them, heard and then saw the 6 doberman dogs running towards them all aggression, doing their job of deterring or taking down intruders.

Both he and Harry allowed their wolves to pull forward and snarl right back at them, watched all 6 of them skid to a stop, uncertain of the two before them.

He'd smirk to himself, dogs mostly understood they were lesser creatures, but some good guard dogs would still attack on occasion. This lot seemed to know better.

He'd let out another loud all aggression growl and they had turned and ran away. As expected, both he and Harry had chuckled, it was always a bit of fun to see.

They walked all the way across the grounds, and strolled right into that ballroom where the wedding reception was being held, It was in full swing, the ceremony over, which was their plan.

The bride herself looked very happy, genuinely so.

Nice to see.

Izzy though he watched her grab a glass of champagne from a passing waiter and down it like it was a shot, then walked off the dance floor, looked annoyed.

His eyes moved around the room, liked being taller than most, was an advantage, saw her father and her ex talking to each other. Both of their gazes were on her, couldn't catch what they were saying over the top of the music that was playing.

Stood and watched, trying to decide on the best course of action to take. If she was already annoyed, now was likely not the best time, he needed her to be happy and off guard. Saw her dance with her father not long later and caught some of their conversation. She was not happy, said something about a cheater, and Eddie just knew she had left, after this Phillip guy had cheated on her.

Why? He couldn't understand, she was a real cutie.

Her hair today was pulled up away from her face, curled nicely, and she had pretty pouty l!ps that looked very kissable, deep dark chocolate coloured eyes, a heart-shaped face and a lovely long neck, her figure was also lovely, she wasn't very tall but had a nice round a*ss, and ample br*easts with a small waist, and tonight she was wearing a cocktail dress in a lovely soft Jade Green colour, it had a lace top that fell away to a very se*xy silk mermaid style dress with a high split up her left thigh.

He couldn't help but smile as he watched her father dance her around the floor. She obviously had dance lessons. She moved with ease, and he got that flash of skin when she stepped, even Timber his wolf was watching her, he realised. Saw her father let her go and as she turned to leave him n on the dance floor, was grabbed by her ex, Phillip Matthews, watched her try to pull away from his grip on her, away from him, didn't want to be dancing with him, heard his own wolf suddenly growl all low and menacingly at the sight.

He saw her stomp right on that man's foot and stalk away from him. He looked more than pissed off, not that she cared, he couldn't help but smile at her hurting that man, though he did not like seeing her shake her hands out and then rub them. Clearly, Phillip had been hurting her, holding on so tight that she couldn't get away.

Eddie saw her look right at he and Harry and then back the other way and knew she was not happy, had no choice in them being here, but he could offer her a solution to getting rid of that man, and by the way his wolf was all up, inside his mind it was highly likely she was their Mate.

So getting rid of that man was a definite yes. Timber agreed.

His wolf shot him forward with all his wolf speed and they were suddenly right in front of her. She looked more than shocked, even more so, when he pulled her away onto the dance floor, and danced with her. She was light on her feet and never once faltered. He knew how to dance, his mother had drummed it into him, to all her children, as far as she was concerned, dancing with your Mate was a must. Because she liked it, they all must, that was her crazy logic.

But he had to admit dancing with Izzy was very nice, and pulling that body of hers hard up against his and holding her there in place, to sweet talk her into letting him play at being her boyfriend, to save her from what he thought was her father and her ex trying to talk her into coming back to him.

But the moment his mouth had touched hers, he'd not been about to stop himself from touching her, she tasted so sweet like raspberry syrup, and those lips on his so damned soft and lushess, found himself wanting nothing more than to just kiss her forever. Pushed his hand into her hair to stop her from pulling away until he was ready to stop.

Bloody felt intoxicated by the taste of her and couldn't help the words that purred out of him "oh, Izzy. I missed you baby." he'd not even realised it, but they were actually truthful, a part of him did miss this woman he barely knew. Had only spoken to her once, but now he realised he did miss her, had been stalking the woman trying to get to Piper, and had been watching her for days. Had missed looking at her, he realised.

Introduced himself to her father and actually saw him smile and think that he Edward would be better for his daughter than her ex, though Eddie got the distinct impression it was just because of the connection it would make for him and his company. Little did the man know it would get him nothing. Unless Izzy wanted that herself. And by the way she cut him off before he could answer the question as to what he was to Izzy, it was unlikely. She to it seemed, had not missed her father's reaction to who he worked for. Eddie could see that Phillip was watching them talk, the man was glaring right at him, at the way he had his hands on Izzy, his hand splayed across her soft abdomen, in fact. Well, they had news for that man. She was their woman now, he and Timber were damned certain of it, she felt too damned good not to be their Mate.

His eyes met Phillips across the room and his wolf wanted a piece of him all of a sudden, when Izzy claimed she was not theirs, when he was trying to play the boyfriend card and after he had just told her he was a jealous man, and also informed her he was a possessive man. He couldn't help it, she needed to be told.

He felt his wolf snarl inside his mind, he did not like hearing her say she wasn't theirs, would not be standing for anyone in her life but him. Turned her face to make her look right at him, and reassured her he would make that man go away, stay away from her, then was just stalked off across the room by his wolf to do just that.

He was not going to let her ex touch her or hurt her, pulled his jacket off and tossed it right at Harry, who was already coming this way 'Don't do anything stupid Eddie, contain you beast!

'Stay out of this.' he'd shot right back as he'd started to roll his sleeves up, that man had hurt her, he'd seen the way she'd shaken her hands out, his grip on her had been hurting her, his beast was going to repay that in kind.

Found her right in front of him. To stop him, saw that bastard touch her and have her shove his hand off like it disgusted her, snapped him arm around her and brought her right back to where she belonged, up against them. Lay his claim right on her for all to hear "don't ever touch my woman."

Then to hear her call him "Edward baby," and turn those chocolate brown eyes on him, her tone all se*xy and sensual to his ear, had his wolf purring inside of him, he'd not been able to stop a further claim on her, marking her as his woman right in front of that bastard, slid his hand right up her body, to caress her br*east as he stared down into her eyes, teased her n****e for all to see.

'Edward,' he'd heard Harry's warning voice inside his mind, 'not a she-wolf. PDA's like that are not acceptable in the human world'

Eddie didn't care, neither did Timber, who was mostly in control. All he cared about was the way her heart was racing, the way her body was reacting to his touch, pulled her chin all the way up and kissed her, wanted to. So did. Didn't care about anyone watching, she was his woman and he was going to have her claim him before he was done with her.

Took all of two minutes to be shoving her up against the nearest wall, wanting to have her. His whole body was hot and hungry for this woman. He couldn't even scent her yet, but he knew what she was going to be to him, and so did his wolf. They both wanted her. Told her they wanted her, let her hear it in his voice, wanted her to know he desired her like no other.

Managed to get her to say yes to finding a room with him, he kissed the hell out of her and she was all over him right back, carried her right out of that ballroom, heard many gasps and one very annoyed voice, muttering how inappropriate what they were doing was. Knew it was her father, he did not care, the man had no idea how long he had waited for this woman, they would not wait a moment longer than he had to, to make her his.

Knew he couldn't mark her but he was sure as hell going to Mate her.