Unscentable
Chapter 31

Brad POV

Bloody Eddie and Timber couldn't, it seemed stay in control of themselves where Isobelle was concerned.

Had yet again lost all control, only this time in a damned hotel stairwell, of all the bloody places. Harry had reported that Izzy had come hurrying in through the hotel's front doors, a tell-tale sign that Eddie had found her.

He'd also reported to Bradley that Eddie had not been that far behind her, had strolled in to the hotel casually, like he was in fact in full control of himself, but then Izzy had gone and run from the man, actually run from him and his wolf, right into that stairwell and it had set Timber off on a game of Hunt the Prey.

Not only had Eddie taken what he wanted from his human back in Maine, now Timber, his wolf, had even managed to get her to lay claim to him. When she had, his bloody wolf had Mated her right there in the damned stairwell on the 7th floor, as loud as anything. All growling and snarling, Timber right on the surface. On the bright side, the woman had not resisted him, actually Mated him back and actively so and thoroughly enjoyed it from all reports.

The woman was currently asleep in Eddie's bed, in their hotel suite. At least he had seen that Timber had not Marked her. That would be a proverbial nightmare, with only days to the full moon, it was pretty damned clear that he and his wolf were completely out of control.

They had better scent her out come this full moon. If not, they were getting themselves a chosen Mate at the order of their Alpha, whether they liked it or not.

Seeing that both Eddie and his Wolf were Mated to her, but somehow, Bradley didn't think the man really cared about any of the consequences. He just needed her and it showed, his wolf had also demanded she lay claim to him, actually told her his name and told her to say it and she had. Then they just carried that girl right into the hotel suite on the top floor. She'd been completely exhausted from being Mated by Timber, and they'd just tucked her into their bed.

She'd better stay there or she was likely going to end up Marked and turned in a matter of days, Eddie had gone off to shower and Bradley was standing in the hotel rooms living area, waiting on the man to reappear, but he appeared to be in no rush what so ever. Eddie strolled out of his room, dressed in light grey slacks and a white short-sleeved dress shirt, closed the door to his room, didn't even look concerned about what his bloody wolf had done, surfaced completely and Mated a human. His Wolf should know better, he knew Eddie did, glared right at his Gamma.

He was too damned relaxed from Mating her to care about anything, smiled right at him, pleased with himself, it seemed "One Mate tracked down Brad, one to go." Eddie told him simply, "I'm good to help you with Piper."

"Well, isn't that good to know Edward!" Bradley snapped at him. "The human, really. You just let Timber Mate her out in the open for all to see." Bradley was more than annoyed with his Gamma.

"I couldn't stop him" Eddie shrugged. "She ran, I did warn her not to, but she did it anyway." the man shook his head, "you try stopping your wolf when that happens. "Your mother will beat you senseless, and I am going to let her. I should bloody do it myself, but lucky for you, I'll likely need you today, and at your best. Are you going to be?"

"Yes, Timber is really calm and well settled, I'm good." he nodded.

No big surprise that his wolf was calm and settled, right this minute, "Good," Bradley muttered. He was still annoyed with his Gamma, but there wasn't much he could do about it now, too bloody late. Turned to Cooper and Harry, who had been trying to keep both guests and hotel staff out of that damned stairwell at all costs, interrupting wolves Mating was a deadly game. They were now both in this hotel room as well.

"Did either of you manage to find out what room Piper is in?"

"Yes, the hotel's receptionist was forth coming, 6th floor room 17, its a family suite, likely where Izzy is also staying." Cooper smiled at him.

Bradley nodded, he had no idea how this was going to go, looked at the three of them, didn't think it was Wise to have her open that door and find all four of them staring at her. "Coop, Harry, stay here, I'll link you if I need you." "Don't wake Izzy," Eddie commented as they walked out of the room. "The plan Brad?"

"To knock on her door and see what reaction I get.

I'm not expecting a good reaction. The movers were arrested last night. Piper's neighbour called her and told her what was going on. I don't know if she knows it was me, or if she thinks it was Timothy, he was the one threatening her." "So, wait and see then?"

"Yes, just be ready Eddie. Timothy also stated that Aspen surfaced because of the threat he posed to his mother. I don't need him wolfing out here in a hotel, so keeping her calm and presenting ourselves as no threat, is what I want." he told his Gamma. "Alright, do you want me in sight or not?"

"I don't think that will matter. Stand wherever you want. Just feel out the situation, if you can. That is, I don't know how you'll feel or what you'll be able to sense with her. You stated you couldn't figure it out back then, find her, right?"

"Correct," Eddie nodded at him, "but she'll be right in front of me, and I know who she is now, it should be alright." he sounded pretty confident.

Bradley stood right in front of her room. His hearing was tuned into the room. On the bright side, hotel rooms were not sound proofed, so their hearing allowed them to detect what was going on inside that room.

The TV was on and he could hear them talking about things Brandon wanted to do, wondered how keen her wolf senses were. He could pick up when his men were outside his hotel room before they came in. Though he did have Alpha senses, much stronger than normal wolf senses.

Took a breath in and let it out slowly, knocked on the door to room 617, two simple raps with his knuckle, hopefully it was light and casual sounding to her ear.

Maybe she would think it was Izzy coming back.

Heard her walk to the door and just open it, watched as she stood frozen to the spot as her eyes landed right on him, saw anger in her expression a second later. Well, that was better than fear and pain, he thought to himself.

"Morning Piper." Bradkey smiled right at her, a genuine smile, soft and gentle, as he took her in, she was wearing a pair of light blue slacks, and a cream coloured silk blouse. He realised that every time he had seen her, she'd been dressed smart casual, her hair was pulled up, today, in a high ponytail.

"How dare you." She suddenly hissed at him, all angry.

Wondered if she too, was trying not to set Brandon's wolf off. "Dare I what?" He asked calmly. He needed clarification before he jumped to the wrong conclusion.

"Move my things, you have no right." She hissed at him again.

"Ah, that!" Bradley nodded, so she did know it was him. "Well, I would like you to come home, so I thought I would."

She cut him clean off. "Leave, I don't belong to your pack anymore, you have no hold over me."

He sighed out loud "Piper please, I just want to talk to you. A sit down is needed."

"No it's not, just leave." Was glaring right at him.

"Not without you Piper." He left Brandon out of that statement. Bradley didn't want her thinking this was only about the boy.

"Get a dress else where." She stepped back and went to shut the door.

Put his hand right on that door and stopped it from closing. "My little sister loves your dresses Piper, desperately wants one, wanted in fact to meet you in person," He told her calmly as he pushed the door open once more, his strength for out weighed hers, saw her frown right at him and his actions or his words he was not certain of which "Hadley is my little sister." He stated openly. Hoping that this would help clear things up and ease some of the tension, was not going to drag this out. Needed to get her home, to safety.

Saw movement behind her and let go of the door, he didn't want to appear as a threat, when he actually wasn't one, he saw Brandon look right at him. He smiled gently right at the boy, really wanted her to acknowledge him as the boy's father, but knew she wasn't going to.

"Mum?"

"Everything is fine, go watch TV. The man was just leaving." he heard Piper tell their son.

"Piper." Bradley sighed "I'm not leaving, I just want the chance to talk to you about you coming home." He told her of his intent.

Saw the boy frown now, look from his mother to him, and wondered if he was old enough to figure it out for himself. He did have the same eyes as the boy, and his comment about her coming home, could be taken more ways than one.

Benson's head was up inside his mind. Looking at Brandon now, this was the closest they had ever been to him, he was maybe 10 feet away, a part of him itched to touch the boy, hug him, he realised. Knew Piper would likely stop him, likely to step right in front of the boy.

"I'm not going anywhere with you, leave." she told him, and grabbed the door.

He frowned right at her, saw the boy's eyes flicker between his and Aspen's, he was or his wolf was getting agitated. Felt Benson stand all the way up inside his mind, pushed forward, snapped his hand out to halt the door and stare right down at the boy. There it was, the connection to the boys wolf, his own boy. Benson could now sense his own pup inside that boy, was looking right at him, in fact, as he looked right back at Benson.

Watched as the boy's wolf surfaced all the way, thought it was curiosity until a massive snarl ripped out of him. Aspen was perceiving Benson as a threat.

Benson tilted his head to one side, he was only young and of no threat.

"Mine" His wolf suddenly stated in his gravelly voice, claiming the child as his own.

Heard Piper actually curse under her breath and Bradley nearly laughed. How did she think she was going to hide the boy when they were face to face as wolves?

So freaking cute she was.

Saw Aspen tilt his head right back and stare up at Benson "Son." Benson stated again, laying claim to what was his, actually saw Aspen retreat away and then Brandon stepped right behind his mother out of sight.

Benson's eyes followed his every move, then lifted right to Piper's, once the boy was out of sight. Huffed in annoyance, she had run away with his son, rejected them and their pack, but had bared him a son, the heir to the pack. Stared right at her, long and hard, then reached out to touch her, only to have her take a step back away from him.

Huffed again in annoyance, Bradley knew his wolf only wanted to touch her, to see what she felt like to him, just wanted to know if she was still his Mate or not.

Dropped his hand and receded back, allowing Bradley to have control once more.

"That was interesting," he commented softly "We need to have a sit down chat, Piper."

"No." she shook her head.

"Hmm, do you think my wolf is going to allow his own son, to remain as a rogue, out here and unprotected?"

"Go away. Leave us alone." she stated.

Felt Eddie's hand on his arm, she was getting up set and could see it, "I can't do that Piper. Your son, is my son. He's the future heir to the pack."

Watched her shake her head, wondered if it was denial or just didn't want that for her child, her life had not been easy inside his pack. Getting her to come home, he knew was going to be difficult.

"Piper, it's okay. I'm not mad at you." Bradley told her and honestly he wasn't "I'm just concerned about your and his safety is all. Please at least talk to me about coming home."

"I have a life. Go back to where you came from, just stay away from me."

"Piper, I can't do that. We really need to talk and not just about our son. There are other pressing concerns as well"

"There is nothing I want from you, leave." She stated flatly and closed the door, and he allowed her to this time. She needed a minute to absorb the current situation.

He also needed a minute. Her words had actually hurt him, caused him physical pain, which could only mean their Mate Bond was still active. Otherwise, those words would have just rolled off of him with nothing more than annoyance. 'She's scared.' Eddie commented quietly via the mind-link.

'Our Bond is still in tact. Her words caused me pain to hear them. Actually hurt me. He sighed right back, she was his Mate. He mind-linked Cooper and Harry to come and stand guard at each end of the hotel corridor of the 6th floor. Took the elevator back up to his suite, to give her time to calm down, left Eddie in the elevator. There would be no getting off that floor without him knowing it. It also kept her and the boy protected, should anything else happen. That being said, she'd lived out here unprotected and alone all this time, been safe as far as he knew, sighed heavily. That did not mean she had been unharmed by others.

'Harper didn't show herself. Benson huffed inside his mind.

'Might take some time Benson, they were traumatised a lot, inside of our pack.'

"I didn't do that.' his wolf shot at him, sounded very annoyed with him. I didn't know Benson, you yourself know this!

'Still your fault.' his wolf snarled right at him and stalked off to the back of his mind. It was true, his wolf had never even once looked at a she-wolf. It was all Bradley's doing. Now his own wolf was ticked off with him, because not only was their Bond still in tact, his Mate had not surfaced to claim him, not even surfaced to look at him, she would know, would still be able to scent him out in fact.

Bradley was going to have to try again, Aspen had retreated when Benson had laid claim to him, that was interesting to him. Perhaps he felt the connection as well, it had also not escaped Bradley's attention that Brandon had stepped right behind his mother, scared, he thought.

Right this minute, Bradley was certain that the boy had never had any good interactions with wolves, likely none at all, until Alpha Timothy and that man had done nothing but threaten the two of them. He was going to have to show Brandon that not all wolves were a threat to him and his mother.

Though what she was telling him right now was anyone's guess, he was certain the boy would believe that they were his father. His own wolf would be able to confirm that, even if Piper didn't, though she had not denied his words when he'd stated 'our son' likely she was not going to lie to the boy, a start he guessed.

Wondered if he could get her to come up here and help explain things to Izzy, about Eddie. Hmm, he could try that angle, he supposed, just needed to be able to have any interaction with her. She was denying their Bond.

Likely out of self preservation. Likely what she had tried to do for years, he sighed as he prowled around in his suite, wondered just how much time he should give her to calm down, to adjust to the realisation that he now knew about the boy. Likely she thought, he still didn't know what she was to him. That would be more difficult to clear up. She knew he could not smell her, likely understood no-one could, had been unscentable since she was 10.

With wolves relying on their sense of smell to recall who others were, they could tell just by walking past another wolf who they were, even without looking at them, could tell if a group of them were related to each other, whether they had their wolf yet, hell even what Rank they were, could be discerned by just the smell of them.

Piper was under no illusion about the fact that he couldn't scent her out, though he was very certain she could smell him, had been able to since the very first time he walked into her studio in Portland.