Unscentable
Chapter 74

Brad POV

Bradley was sitting behind his desk when both Cooper and Hadley walked into his office. Hadley shoved right past Cooper to walk into his office first, looked quite annoyed herself. His eyes moved from his sister to his Beta. Cooper met his eyes, though only briefly, before going and sitting in the chair across from him on the other side of the Alpha's desk. At least the man knew he was in trouble.

Any other day of the week, he would stand behind Brad or lean up against the wall just off to the right of Brad's desk, showing his position of power, but right that minute he knew he was here to be reprimanded by the Alpha. "Sorry Bradley." Cooper stated "I was.." "Shut it Beta." He snapped at the man. "I'm not ready to hear you speak."

Hadley, however, was standing right next to his desk, her arms folded over her chest. Still looking annoyed at being called into his office to explain herself, he supposed. His eyes were on hers as hers were his, she looked as though she had nothing to explain, that she had done nothing wrong.

This was not the sweet little sister, Hadley, that he knew. No, this was Hadley the Alpha-blooded female, staring him down. "I'm not afraid of you," She stated flatly.

He didn't expect her to be afraid, but contrite would be nice. Raised an eyebrow right at her "I could well punish you both for this indiscretion. Certainly the Beta. Could put that man on the shaming post."

Saw Cooper's head whip right up in his peripheral vision, felt the man's eyes on him. They didn't really use the shaming post anymore. Only at a family's request usually, and no-one wanted their family shamed that way. Hadn't been used in over a decade. Brad had never put anyone on it, since being in charge.

"The hell you will, Bradley, I'll fight you over it."

Bradley snorted right at her "You, fight me over it?" It was ludicrous to even say such things. Damn near laughed out loud at the idea of her who hated to fight, taking him on.

"I do train Bradley. I may not like to fight, but I train, I learned how and I am an Alpha and don't think I won't. You put Cooper on that post. It will be on, you and me." She was rolling her Alpha Aura right at him.

Felt Benson snarl inside his mind, his own sister challenging him. Ignored the challenge and got to the point of this meeting. "So what the hell do you think your doing with the Beta? He's not your Mate." Brad snapped. "So what if he's not! I can sleep with whoever I want to." Hadley shot right at him.

"And so you just decided to pick the pack's Beta."

"Yes," she stated, sounding annoyed, "I'm alpha-blooded, as are you. I have needs, I need someone who can sate those needs. A Beta is perfect for that." I waved a hand in Cooper's direction. "He's got stamina in spades." "Don't you talk like that, Hadley," Bradley grated out, he did not need nor want those images in his head right this moment. He also didn't want to hear her talk like that.

"Why? It's the truth, I'm not different to you and your needs as an Alpha Wolf."

"You should bloody well wait for your Mate, Hadley. Alpha females should all wait for their Mates." He shot right at her.

"Are you fucking kidding me!" Hadley yelled right at him "I'm a girl, so I should just wait all prim and proper should I?.." glared right at him "So boys are allowed to go fvck around, but girls are not? That's insane." "It's how it is, Hadley." He shot right back, annoyed by her tone.

"You're a fucking hypocrite is what. Just because I'm a girl, I should wait to have se*x...did you wait until you found your mate, Nooo!! you didn't."

"Enough Hadley." Brad grated out at her, he did not want to go down that road with her.

"No it's not. If you Bradley, Alpha to the pack." She dripped with sarcasm "Had abided by those rules. Had waited for your Mate, and not gone and fvcked anything and everything, you'd never have hurt Piper, would you have?" "That's enough, Hadley, I don't need a lecture from you." He snarled at her.

"Oh but I do, because I'm a girl. I'm not the one who caused my Mate to suffer and nearly die. Loose her wolf and can't shift any more. No, you did that on your own by fucking around."

"Enough." Brad roared at her and shot to his feet.

"Enough!" Hadley yelled right back "It's bullshit, You Alpha males, your all arrogant and want your Mates to be v!rg!ns, waiting on you to come along, but do you wait for your Mates? No, you don't, you all got to go out and fvck any she-wolf that'll open their legs for you. None of you care about defiling another's Mate. You're all a bunch of fucking hypocrites."

Saw his office door open and his father burst into the room. "What the hell is going on? I can feel the two of you raging against each other."

He was seething, at being spoken to like this. She had no damned right to come into his office and yell at him. He was the Alpha, not her.

Saw Hadley turn to their father, but her finger was pointed at him still, "Your son is a hypocrite, he can go and fvck anything he wanted to. But I can't. I have the same Alpha needs and urges as all you Alpha men. And I will bloody well sate them, when I want to, where and with whoever I so blood choose."

Then she walked around his desk and over to Cooper, grabbed that man by his shirt and kissed him right there in front of both him and his father. Noted Coopers hands stayed off of her.

Turned and looked right at him as she stepped away from Cooper. "If I want to f*k the pack's Beta, I will.. At least I'm not hurting anyone doing it, Unlike you did, fvcking around on your Mate."

He was up and over the desk, had had enough of her accusations. She bloody well knew he'd had no idea about Piper being his Mate, and just kept throwing it in his face, like he'd done it on purpose. Both he and Benson were furious at her words, her insults. They knew how much pain he'd caused Piper and Harper. They'd had no control over the situation, both he and Benson were ready to rip into her. Both his and her Alpha blood were boiling over at this point.

He found his father and Cooper shooting forward to grab on to him, to stop him from attacking his own sister. They were shoving him backwards, flooding him with both their auras to keep him and his wolf back off the girl.

"Can't handle the truth, I see." Hadley snarled right at him.

"You want a fight, Hadley." Brad snarled right back at her. "You want to take me on. Then Challenge me." He roared at her.

Saw Hadley frown right at him as though she'd not even thought that was coming. What the hell else did she think was going to happen, screaming at him like that, rolling her aura at him like that and tossing Piper and Harper's pain at him like it was all his fault, like he'd done it on purpose when he had not.

"Enough. The pair of you." Their father yelled, all his Alpha wolf on the surface, his aura rolling out into the room in full force "Get out Hadley." He yelled at his own daughter "Go to your mother now."

Watched as he was being held back, as Hadley stalked out of the office and banged the door shut behind her. Where had the sweet little sister of his gone?

When had she turned into this foul-mouthed Alpha female? Who was now willing to defy everything?

"Calm down, Bradley son. She's just ticked off" "Ticked off?" He snarled "She doesn't know what ticked off is. Get off me." He yelled at them." Not till your calmer son."

Bradley's eyes moved to Cooper's, his trusted Beta, his closest friend, a man he'd grown up with, didn't even know if he knew that man anymore.

"Leave it son. Lilly knew about it, the whole time."

Saw Cooper's eyes widen quite a bit in shock himself, at this news.

"Lilly is okay with it. So am I for that matter."

"What? How can you be?" Bradley gasped, completely shocked himself now, by his father's words.

He was okay with it, as was Lilly, the girl's mother.

"They're likely Mates, just have not come across each other on a full moon yet... You know Hadley's birthday came 4 days after the full moon. Then you and Cooper were out of the country for the last one. Just wait it out." "Let me go." Brad muttered, frowning at his other.

Both Cooper and his father released him slowly, seemed more than a little bit reluctant to him, turned his eyes on Cooper "How the hell did this even start Cooper...I want an answer." it was unlikely the man was going to want to talk about it, especially to him, but if he didn't he was going to order it out of him, if he didn't.

The man was literally twice her age, and yes, Bradley as well aware that Mates could have massive age gaps. Understood age didn't matter in the wolfen world, that you could be 200 hundred years old and find your Mate to be just turned 18. A Mate was a Mate, but as far as he knew, they were not Mates at this point. So the man should have known better, should have said no and turned her away.

Heard Cooper sigh heavily and then go and sit down, "I started the night of Hadley's 18th birthday party. I turned in around one in the morning, and woke up some time later to find Hadley climbing in my bed, on top of me actually." He shook his head "I did not see it coming at all. I even asked her what the hell she thought she was doing. Told her to leave.

"Despite her small petite stature, she is still Alpha-blooded Brad. Is actually stronger than I am. It took me several minutes to realise that. She fought me quite a bit, till she had me held down in my own bed. Rolled her aura right at me, just enough to make the Beta in me submit to her." the man sighed.

"Crazy damned she-wolf," shook his head, "then told me exactly what she was going to do to me. Brad.. she's stunning to look at, was butt-a*ss na*ked, rubbing herself all over me and the things she was saying, very explicit.

I'm un-mated and well. Can only resist a she-wolf so long." he shrugged "I stopped fighting her and went with it, and well.. here we are."

"So it's been going on ever since?" Bradley muttered.

Saw Cooper nod his head "I'm sorry Brad.. I just...can't seem to say no to her, and well.. to be honest, I don't want to say no."

"Just bloody great.. Portland?"

"Mm, might not want to get into that." Cooper shook his head, quilt all over his expression.

"Son, just let it play out," his father told him. "The next full moon will tell"

"And if they're not Mates." Bradley huffed.

"Then..." his father shrugged "Leave it alone anyway. Hadley is not wrong to want to sate her Alpha needs and, unfortunately, only an Alpha or Beta is going to be able to do that, until she finds her Mate." Brad was not happy about this. She was not his daughter, so it technically was his father and stepmother's call and apparently they were okay with his arrangement.

"Bradley, if Cooper doesn't turn out to be Hadley's Mate, and is not complaining. He is un-mated himself. Ls clearly willing. Just leave it be. It will sort itself out in the long run."

"Just leave it be? Your daughter and the pack Beta, even if they are not Mates?"

"Yes son, It'll stop when one of them finds their Mate or it'll be they are Mate's and from what Lilly said about Hadley's phone call to Cooper on the full moon, it is highly likely they are Mates.

Moved his eyes back to Cooper, that man had left the hotel suite to make a private call back home, a personal matter he'd been told. Now he knew it was to Hadley.

Bradley didn't like it at all. But there was nothing he could do about it.

"Piper? When did she find out about this?" He asked Cooper.

"Piper knows?" His father asked curiously.

"Yes, from what I saw in Helena and her amusement today at seeing them getting caught, in the Luna's Office, no less. Il'd have to say yes."

They were both now looking at Cooper. He sighed "The first night she spent in the Luna Suite, she saw Hadley coming out of my room."

"That's when you got her food? Did you threaten her to keep quiet about it?" felt his agitation rise. If the man had threatened her he was going to beat him senseless.

"No... I was going to ask her not to say anything, tell her I wanted to wait, tell you myself, find the right time. She told me she didn't care at all about it. Stated to me she wouldn't say anything to you." "So who else knows?"

"I didn't even know Lilly and Benjamin knew." Cooper shook his head. "I only thought Piper knew."

Brad turned his eyes on his father. "How long have you and Lilly known?" wanted to know how long he'd been in the dark and who the hell was keeping secrets from him, in his own pack. He understood Piper, no trust there yet.

"Lilly, right away, Hadley told her, couldn't keep it in, apparently very excited about it, how it felt. Not been sated before is what I heard. I only found out when you mentioned she had a boyfriend. Lilly informed me." Shook his head. "Not been sated before?" That was an odd statement.

"Cooper was not her first son. If that's what your thinking." Brad sighed, apparently he didn't know anything about his little sister at all, looked right at Cooper.

"Definitely was not her first. She knew what she was doing, what she wanted."

"I don't want to hear that." Bradley frowned at the man. It was too much information about his sister and his Beta.

"Everyone out." Bradley muttered. He'd had enough.

"Son, Hadley?"

"I'll apologise, when I calm down, I want one as well for her cruel words about Piper" He looked at Cooper, huffed and turned away from the man. Heard them both leave the room and sat himself back down in his chair. Sighed and ran a hand through his hair, was likely really going to have to apologise, especially if they did turn out to be Mates.

Would have preferred to not have known at all, would have been better off in the dark on that matter. He didn't want to argue with Hadley or Cooper for that matter, just knew that now it was out he was going to see the two of them together, or her coming from the man's room.

If Piper had seen it, then he would, at some point as well. didn't exactly know how he felt about that at all, likely going to be annoyed by it for a while, especially if they were not Mates. So much for his nice afternoon with Piper and Brandon. Knew he was not going to be good company for the rest of the day.