Unscentable

Chapter 27 - Unscentable

Eddie POV

Hearing that Bradley had a son with Piper Harper, made his heart ache. That little bit more, for the lost Luna to his pack, he’d known she’d suffered greatly,had just never been able to do anything about it at all, and he had tried too. He searched the pack, hunted all over the place, gotten turned around so
many times inside his own pack, looking for Piper, he’d nearly ripped his own hair out.

Had been able to feel it when she was in pain, and desperately needed to comfort her for a very long time, but he’d just never been able to find her. Had not known who she was, what she looked like, where she lived in the pack, knew nothing of her, only her distress over what was happening to her.

He’d tried desperately to hunt her down the day she’d actually rejected Bradley, he’d known she was somewhere inside the pack-house, likely had to be looking right at Bradley to make that rejection, but still he’d not been able to find her. His fruitless search of the pack-house that night had made him
loose her altogether.

Because why he was searching the pack-house for her she had been running for the border, by the time he realised this, was headed for the border himself, he had felt her sever from him completely, their connection just vanished. He’d known instantly that what he had feared for years, had actually
happened.

She had left the pack entirely, severed all ties with it, unable to cope any longer with the pain their Alpha. Her Mate was unwittingly causing her. He’d had no idea and trying to tell a wolf they had a Mate somewhere and his going off to have sex with another was killing her, would not work. There was no
way any wolf would believe that without scenting his Mate, and that she was within his own pack, not a hope in hell of believing it.

Only scenting out your Mate could convince you, and your wolf you had a Mate.

Bradley was all about Goddess-Gifted Mates, wanted to find that one, that belonged to him and his wolf. If he had scented out his Mate, they would have been together, there would have been a Luna Ceremony and a massive celebration, for sure.

So Eddie knew that the man had not scented her out, had not come across his Mate, and he’d been home for full moon balls during the course of those 3 years. Hell, he’d been home on a full moon when there was no mating ball as well. That night she had not just rejected him, but the entire pack.

Their western border was not that far from the city limits and once she severed ties to the pack, Eddie was unable to track her at all, and not actually knowing what she had looked like at the time, meant he could very well have come across her on the outskirts of the human city of Helena and not even known it was her at all.

Now he knew why he couldn’t ever detect her, that pendant she wore made her unscentable. It was a logistical nightmare. No wonder he and Timber had been turned around constantly, couldn’t scent her, couldn't recognise her in his human form or his wolf form and he had been using all of Timbers senses
to try and hunt her, couldn’t it seemed, and not his fault, not that that matter. Had just made them feel inadequate in their ability as a Gamma. Thought they were broken, that their Gamma instincts were off and he couldn’t fulfil his duty.

He knew Bradley had given up dating and sleeping around after that night, when the next day, between Doc Samuel and Eddies’ telling him what they thought was going on. But the damage to his Mate was already done and she’d finally had enough and fled.

Now as they flew across the pacific ocean, he was worried about her once again. Not even Eddie had thought there would be a child, between the two of them, it was just one night together. Bradley had told him he’d not knotted the girl. But to know just how much she had suffered inside the pack and then to become pregnant to her Mate, who never knew who she was, to have that constant reminder for the rest of her life.