Unscentable

Chapter 11 - Unscentable

Bradley POV

“What do you mean Hadley is missing?” Bradley frowned, as he listened to his father on the other end of the line. Saw his whole unit turn and look at him as well. Cooper actually stood up, looked more than shocked.

They were all back in Portland, had been now for 2 days.
“Her car is not here, Bradley. No-one has seen her in a whole day, not since she went to bed last night, not at breakfast either.” He could hear the worry in his father Benjamin's voice.

“She’s not just gone out shopping with her friends? Left early this morning to beat the rush hour traffic?” Bradley asked
“when was the exact last time you saw her?”

“When she went to bed. Was already up and gone from the suite before Lilly and I woke up. We thought she was off at training...but no, she didn’t attend it this morning, I already checked that.”

Bradley was frowning now, “I presume you called her.”
“I’m not an idiot, son. Of course, I called her, so did Lilly. We have both called her a dozen times now, talked to all her friends, no-one has seen her.”

“Who’s out looking for her?”

“ Your brother’s, me and my whole unit, everyone in the pack knows to report if they see her, she is not here, missing.” there was actual fear in the man’s voice now.

“I told you to lo-jack the girls' car, father. She is too pretty, a snatchers' dream.” he was now worried himself though, Hadley was such a sweet natured girl, she was innocent and wanted to believe that there was only good in everyone, its why he’d sent her out here with his entire unit in fact. To
protect her.

“I’ll call her. Has she picked up at all?”

“No, it goes right to the message bank.”

He could already see Eddie was on it, calling her “Hang on Eddie is ringing her now.” They all waited patiently till Eddie shook his head, “No luck.”

“We’ll keep searching son...but”

She was her father's little girl, his only daughter in fact, and everyone loved Hadley. He sighed “I’ll send my unit back to help with the search. I have to stay though.”

“No son, don’t do that. You all need to be there. Just...thought she might have turned up there, keep an eye out for her will you.”

“What? Why would Hadley be out here? Piper upset her completely.”

“I know that son. But she was more concerned that Piper ran away from you, and thinks it's all her fault. Was talking to Lilly about it last night before going to bed, worried she’d screwed up your Mate Bond.”

Bradley shook his head and huffed at his father. “Well, maybe you should have, lead with that.” he muttered, annoyed now

“We’ll search here.” He hung up.

“You think she came out here to try and convince Piper to come home?”

Cooper sighed.

“Oh, I know she did, she apparently believes what she and her wolf, Letti, ppicked up on was Piper’s reaction to seeing me with another. She did come and apologise to me, for scaring the woman off, before we left.” he could only shake his head again.

Bradley had tried to convince her that she was wrong, told her a bit of the truth, that Piper had used to be a pack member, but that was it, told her that Piper was likely just scared to see her old Beta and Alpha was all.

Though she had not believed him at all, she had stood there and raised a delicately sculpted eyebrow at him and then repeated his own words back to him, “It’s not fear, it’s pain.”
didn’t miss a thing that girl. Was going to make an excellent lawyer.