Unscentable
Chapter 45

Bradley POV

He stilled Piper with a hand on her shoulder as she took a step to go around him towards that rental car, which she recognised as the one that Izzy had been shoved into. "I'll go." He'd told her, she was injured and he didn't need her injury getting worse. It was still

causing her pain, he knew, because he could still feel it somewhat.

This was also his job as the Alpha to deal with, not hers. His eyes landed on that SUV, there was a man sitting in the driver's seat. Bradley stalked his way over there, Benson was more than annoyed, these two people, though only one was here. Had not only taken his Gamma's Mate with the intention of leaving the country with her, they had also caused his own Mate pain, emotional pain, he'd heard the panic in her voice worried for her friend, and then there was the physical as well. She and Harper had been hit by a car in their attempt to get to lzzy.

Yanked that door open to the driver's side, startling the man completely. "Get out, or I'll drag you out." Benson was all on the surface with him.

The man was more than shocked by the sudden abrupt opening of the door, and he did actually get out. "I don't want any trouble, take the car." his American accent told Bradley he'd come from the States to help collect Izzy. Thought this was a carjacking by his words.

Put his hand on the man, he was relatively well built for a human, and stood six feet himself, but with Benson on the surface, Bradley could not only see fear in the man, but could actually smell it as well. Which is what he wanted.

Bradley's eyes moved to the sound of Piper's voice yelling at someone. Sighed internally as he felt his knee flood with pain. "March." He told the man, as he walked his way back to where Piper was. She was attacking another man, and Izzy was not that far away a few steps, watching Piper lay into the man." That be Phillip?" He asked the man.

"Yes, Isobelle's fiance," He answered.

"No, he's not." Bradley corrected him, annoyed "Izzy is due to Marry Edward in a month." Bradley added curtly, "You two just tried to kidnap her."

"What?" The man looked at him somewhat shocked by Bradley's words. "Retrieving her, not kidnapping."

"Same difference in my eyes. Hers and Edwards as well"

'Cooper, get Piper already, her knee is ten times worse. he mind-linked to his Beta. Bradley knew that he could not get both of these two men and contain Piper at the same time.

Glanced at Brandon, who was sitting on the car, his head was tilted ever so slightly, like it had been at lunch yesterday. It was likely that his wolf was watching, assessing the situation, ready to surface if needed. He could hear Piper and Harper loose it, turned his eyes back to her to see Cooper had not just gone to retrieve her, had picked her clean up off the ground and was carrying her back to the car.

Watched as Izzy followed Cooper, smiled a little to himself, no fear in the woman over what she was seeing, looked concerned and confused, but not at all scared. A good thing to see, considering she had likely just seen Harper on the surface, he could definitely hear Harper.

Stalked right passed them all, and over to Phillip, leaned down and grabbed that man by his upper arm. Phillip, I presume?"

Saw the man's eyes look up to him as Bradley pulled him up onto his feet, saw those eyes widen more than a little with full recognition, 'oh so he knows who I am!

Bradley thought the man had met Eddie, likely knew who he worked for, and was obviously not expecting to see Bradley Drake staring him down.

"You don't ever touch, what belongs to me and mine." Bradley snarled right at him as the man steadied himself on his feet, then hauled his blood-drenched face inside the hotel. Phillip it seemed, was having trouble walking and he was cradling an arm. It did seem Piper and Harper had injured the man quite badly, likely she didn't like him touching what she and thought was hers either, a good fighter she was, certainly not afraid of getting into it. Wolves or humans, it seemed, just stepped up and let them all have it. Didn't know if it was the rogue in her or just her natural warrior instincts.

Shoved the pair of them into the elevator, regardless of the looks they were getting from other quests or hotel employees. Mind-link to Cooper, only got his name out before he got an actual real reply.

"I'm right here." He stated as his hand hit the elevator doors, stopping them from closing, and stepped inside. Took hold of the un-injured man.

"Piper?" he questioned.

"Re-dislocated her knee, not going anywhere. In fact Brandon assured me, they wouldn't go anywhere."

"Really? Just Brandon?" Bradley enquired, that was surprising to him.

"Might not have just been him." Cooper half smiled.

They hauled those two men all the way into their suite, and shoved the pair of them onto the dining room chairs.

"Go and fix Piper's knee, and make sure Izzy is okay or Eddie and Timber will be a nightmare to deal with." watched Cooper nod his head and then just turn and leave without so much as a word.

"I need a hospital," Phillip told him.

"Hmm, what you need is a dozen or more body guards. Because when Edward gets here, and he is on his way. He's likely to tear your arms off, want to kill you for all those bruises on her. Izzy's father was informed of their relationship, I also believe Harry, Edwards' brother, told you yourself, that they were getting married."

"She left him. It was also her father who ordered me to come and get her."

Bradley snorted with amusement "Did she? Not from what I've seen, they looked very happy and all cosy just this morning." His tone changed to anger "Till you kidnap her, you're lucky it was Piper who handled you first. If it was me, you'd be in the hospital already." He grated out. Though Bradley was curious about the rest of what the man had said, about Izzy's father, he let it go for now.

"That b!tch broke my arm and.." Bradley's fist hit Phillips' face in a flash, and he fell off the chair he was sitting in. "Don't you ever call Piper that. That's my wife you're insulting." reached down and yanked the man up and glared right at him "Ever." He snarled right at him, felt Benson push all the way forward

"I'll kill you." his wolf threatened him, his Alpha Aura rolling right out of him at the man.

Then Benson just tossed him aside, and the man slumped down on the floor in a puddle of his own urine, probably thought he was some tough human but was not, just a rich bastard used to getting his own way. Bradley's eyes turned to the other man. "Name?" he grated out.

"Mason Blighton, I work for the Mathew's is al." his hands were up already, and Bradley could smell fear coming off of him.

"Well Mason, I suggest you quit your job and find a new one" he snapped, then turned back to Phillip, the man was unconscious, probably a good thing with the way he was ticking off Benson, with insulting Piper. Cooper returned "All fixed, both women in their hotel room, Izzy...going to have to talk to her asap, she saw Harper and her questions I've stifled for now."

Bradley sighed "Alright, I guess we'll do that here instead of back home. We'll have to convince them to go though." his eyes moved to Phillip again. "Should dump him at the hospital."

"Eddie?" Cooper asked.

"Will kill him." and Bradley knew that he would, because if that had been Piper, the man would be dead already, sighed "We'll need to contain him."

"Or get the police here first." Cooper commented.

"Unlikely they'll get here before Eddie."

"So, what are we doing with them? It's not like when back home and the man can just disappear."

"Mm, no forest, we can just dump their asses into, after Eddie kills them." Bradley nodded.

"So?"

"I guess, we could take them home. Let Eddie stew in his anger until we have them in a place where it can be unleashed."

"Hmm, might not make it back. I don't think you want Brandon to see that."

"He will at some point though." Heard a groan come from the unconscious man, his eyes however moved to Mason. The man looked suitably horrified, as was his and Cooper's intention. They had had their Conversation out loud, for a reason, to make the man realise the kind of situation he was in.

They had been talking casually and openly though the death of either one of them meant nothing to them, and it was an inevitable end. Mason now understood his life was hanging by a thread. Bradley didn't want to kill the humans. Eddie will be another issue. Though if Phillip went missing after this? Izzy would know it was them and might not want to be with him after that.

"We'll need to use Izzy to contain Eddie and Timber," Bradley sighed.

"Agreed." Cooper nodded "What happened to make you beat the man?"

"He called Piper a bitch, Benson lost control." Bradley smiled. Cooper smiled as well. "Can't scent the woman. But also can't stand anyone insulting the woman."

"No and No. I want her and so does Benson.

Regardless that we can't scent her at this point." And they both did. She was unscentable but was still theirs and they knew it, didn't even care anymore that they couldn't scent her. Piper knew they were her Mate, and both he and Benson believed her. "That should go in your favour."

"Where is he?' Came growling down the mind-link to Bradley.

"Eddie's back" Bradley commented aloud, before answering his Gamma. 'I have both men here in our room, Izzy is with Piper' he chuckled softly 'Piper beat you to him. He told Eddie, in the hope it would calm him and his beast somewhat. 'Right.' was the only response.

Harry arrived first, looked at the man in his own urine-stained clothing and wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Piper did that?"

"Most of it." Bradley smiled "I got one hit in." Made him wonder just how good a fighter she was, had two warriors for parents and in all likelihood, took after them herself. Wondered if she'd want to go back into training. then sighed internally. Recalled she didn't want to be back inside the pack, still had no idea how he was going to get that to happen.

Though he had heard from Eddie today, before the sh!t hit the fan, that Piper had saved his backside again, where Izzy was concerned. Offered to open a store in Helena for Izzy to run, Piper might not want to come home, but even he knew, building or opening a new store meant that she would have to be in Helena herself, so she was actively getting closer to his pack, this was good news to him.

He had actually been looking at property and buildings in the area for her new store, wanted somewhere close to his office, was going to do whatever it took to get her back to his state, and then he could work on her from there, one step at a time. That was the plan for the moment.

"Eddie went right to Izzy?" Bradley asked Harry.

"He did, needed to see her."

"No real surprise about that." Bradley nodded, his thoughts had been to get to Piper, his Mate, his priority.

He'd been worried about Izzy, but Eddie had been there somewhere. So Piper had been his true concern. As Izzy was for Eddie, your own Mate always came first.

He'd only ever seen a few wolves who could walk away from their injured Mates, usually chosen Mates.

One's not of their own choosing. Sometimes, when no Mate cane along, the previous Alpha would choose a suitable partner for their Heir, and though they bonded it wasn't a true bond and so caring didn't always happen between the pair.

It was the reason he'd told his father he had rejected the idea of a chosen Mate, when his father offered to find him a suitable she-wolf to become his Luna. His father had thought that he was helping, because Bradley had not told him of his missing Mate. He'd been polite with his father, but he'd not been willing to even risk hurting the one he belonged to, and marking another while still attached to your destined Mate, could kill them. Bradley couldn't do that, he'd had no idea if his missing Mate's rejection had been granted by the Goddess. But had always hoped not.

So he could find her someday, and now that he had, he was truly glad for his own beliefs on the situation he'd found himself in. He could have killed her and left his son out here all alone, not even knowing what he was. Actually sent up a thank you prayer to the moon goddess herself for making him so damned stubborn.

So determined to find his missing Mate, for only wanting her and no one else. Could have turned out to be a complete disaster if he'd just accepted it and moved on. He was so very stubborn and head strong, both his father and stepmother would shake their heads at him sometimes. When he said 'no' he was an immovable rock and they knew it.

Eddie stalked into the room, the door damned near banged off the hinges, and he came to a standstill in front of Phillip, the man was still sitting on the floor, too injured and in too much pain to get himself up and none of them had helped him or even offered to. Both his eyes were swollen shut at this point, from the hit he had taken from Piper which had broken his nose and given the man two black eyes, and then the one Benson had gotten in, poor bastard wasn't doing so well.

The man was lucky he was human, or he'd be a bloodied heap on the ground, Benson and he would have beaten him half to death and then left him to heal up a bit so Eddie could have finished him off. "Piper did that?"

"Mostly remember he's not like you Eddie." Bradley reminded him.

"Piece of shit." Eddie snapped "She's got bruises all over her, clearly she did not want to go." Bradley watched as Eddie's eyes moved to Mason.

The man was still unharmed at this point. Then he turned and looked right at Bradley, questioningly.

"Apparently, no idea. Izzy was engaged to you Eddie, hired to help retrieve her." "Retrieve?"

"By her own father."

Eddie frowned now. Bradley knew Eddie had spoken to the woman's father at least once, had met the man once at her sister's wedding. From all reports, it should have been clear to her father that Eddie was her boyfriend or more, fiancé. "You can deal with her father as you see fit Eddie. But if either of these two die or go missing. Izzy might.."

"Izzy is fine. Piper has told her everything. She actually wanted to see Timber, accepted him right away, in fact."

That surprised everyone in the room. Bradley was happy about it, Piper clearly wanted Izzy to be happy, perhaps there was real hope for him yet. Perhaps she was not as against wolves as much as she portrayed herself to be. "I'm happy for you." Bradley told him honestly.

"I owe her a lot. She told me so in fact." shook his head slightly "So what about them? I really want to rip his head off." he growled angrily.

Bradley was actually very surprised the man and his wolf were still standing still, that he and Timber had not gone completely ballistic and all of them were not eeded to try and stop him. From everything he had seen about him and Izzy, he was expecting Eddie and his wolf to come in here in a full-blown rage out of control. But he seemed he was in full control of himself.

This was the Eddie he'd always known, until Izzy that was. Perhaps the man was only uncontrollable about his actual Mate, an interesting thought. The full moon would be here tonight and his human Mate had actually just found out the whole truth about not just Eddie but all of them he supposed. Not only wanted to see Timber his wolf, but had accepted him. That was a relief, perhaps that was what was keeping him and his wolf calm right this minute.

"Eddie?"

"Let me be the one to dump his sorry a*s at the hospital. He might have a few more broken bones by the time he gets there, but he'll be alive."

"You sure about that?" Bradley asked calmly.

"I give you my word, he'll survive. Got to make sure he see's Izzy happy at our wedding, and pregnant with our first born as well."

Bradley nearly laughed, heard Harry actually snort with amusement "I'll go with him Brad."

"Cooper will go as well." Bradley could well imagine how many broken bones a human could survive without dying, waved them off as the three of them collected those two humans and walked them from the hotel room.

He was not going to interfere if those two men had been wolves. Neither would survive and a war would likely have broken out with Izzy's father's pack, or a sneak in and kill him would definitely have been the least that Eddie would expect. He knew they would take the stairs and not the elevator.