Unscentable

Chapter 16 - Unscentable

Bradley POV

Took that man 15 solid minutes to emerge from his shower.

Bradley was starting to wonder if his Beta was interested in the woman himself, so very evasive he was about her, had spent the night watching her, he didn’t like it and Benson was stalking around inside his mind glaring out at the man. It would not have gone unnoticed by his Beta that his Alpha’s wolf was on the surface staring him down every 15 or 20 seconds, while they watched the man get dressed in clean clothes.

“What?” his Beta had snapped at him as he’d finally yanked a shirt on.

“Spill it or Benson is gonna order it out of you. What the hell is going on, Cooper?”

“It’s complicated, Brad.” he’d sighed. “The boy…” he shook his head. “Is definitely a wolf, already got his wolf too.”

“What? How old is the boy?” Brad was completely taken aback by this news.

“I don’t know, I’m guessing 7 maybe 7 ½.” His Beta was looking right at him.

“A wolf at 7?” It was very unusual to have a wolf that young. He was an early shifter, he supposed.

“Mm, Hmm.” Cooper nodded “Aspen, I think is the wolf's name. At first I thought they were talking about some friend of the boys, but this morning when the two of them went for a run, the boy's eyes, his wolf's eyes, they’re white like his mothers wolf.” he smiled just a little “when she beat him, he was all annoyed and stalked off, unhappy she had out run him.”

“To be expected, I guess, he’s just little. What’s the boy look like?” curiosity was itching his brain.

“His mother, actually, has the same light brown hair, even the same highlights must be natural colouring, he has her fair skin too. His eyes however, are not brown like hers.”

Bradley took a deep breath and asked the question he didn’t want to think about “And the boys father? Is there a man in the picture?”

“No man that I saw, just her and the boy. I ran the plates to her car. It’s registered to Piper Whitlock, so work and home lives are completely separated, I’m guessing.”

“She’s at work right now?” he asked was more than a little bit relieved that there was no man in the picture, calmed down a little. Benson was still agitated.

“Yes, the boy is at a birthday party from what I gleaned…Cooper sighed heavily “Bradley, how is Benson right now?”

“What why? A little annoyed and more than frustrated, but at you mostly. Curious about the boy. Why do you ask?”

Watched as Cooper pulled his phone out and then went through it, turned it over and slid it across the table they were sitting at, towards him “That’s the boy.”

Bradley picked up the phone and looked at the boy. It was a picture of him smiling coming down some stairs out the back of a house, his wolf fully on the surface, looked very happy in the photo and it clearly showed the wolf's white eyes. Benson pushed forward to look right at the boy himself, curious about the boy too.

Cooper sighed again “There is more.” He reached over and slid the screen to the left, brought up the next photo and Bradley shot to his feet. As he looked at the boy now, it was like staring at his own eyes, in the reflection of a mirror, he’d know those eyes anywhere. His eyes moved to Cooper a second later. His heart was racing inside his chest and Benson was not happy all of a sudden.

“He’s yours, I’m willing to bet.” Cooper sighed “Like I said, Brad, it’s now complicated.”

Bradley turned his eyes back to the boy in the photo, stared at it for a long time, his brain was ticking, and Benson was now prowling around inside his mind very unhappy. They did not sense the boy. Most Alpha’s could sense their own offspring, once they got their wolves. Benson did not sense him. Even now, Bradley could sense that his wolf was trying to feel out his son right this minute. He was getting nothing and it was frustrating his wolf.