Unscentable

Chapter 33 - Unscentable

Piper POV

Brandon was looking right up at her. She knew he now had questions about Bradley, whose wolf had just laid claim to his wolf, it was likely that if Benson felt the connection, so did Aspen. She sighed and waved him to go and sit down. She was not going to be able to deny it. His wolf would never believe
her, not now that they had come face to face with his own father.

“Is that man?” Saw him bite his lip.

“Your father?” Piper finished his question for him, “ Yes he is.” she nodded.

“He didn’t know about me did he?” watched as those eyes, so like his fathers turned right to her.

“No, I never told him...To be honest with you, Brandon, I was never going to either.” She told him truthfully.

“Why not? Is he mean like those others?” sounded worried.

“It’s just complicated, is all.” Piper could not tell him, that man out there would never recognise her as his Mate. Had yet to even explain to him what a Mate was, or how that worked even, didn’t want to, not really. Not with the way her life had turned out, had all intention of living as a human, had been raising him human, seemed to be the best option.

He’d not ask any questions till he was old enough to understand, then he could take it all in and make a decision for himself, how he would choose to live. He’d already asked her about her pack and she’d told him it was better for her and Harper to not be in one. She’d meant that, it was the truth, he’d seemed to understand and accept it.

Now faced with his father, who’d laid claim on him, told her he wanted them to come home or at least sit down and talk about it. Brandon had heard all of that, he’d been standing right behind her, his small hand had been clutched into the back of her blouse, he was likely scared and confused.

“Is he going to leave us alone?” Brandon asked quietly.

“Unlikely.” She shook her head “Wolves…” How did she explain this to him? “Are possessive creatures and...inside a pack there is a leader, to those wolves that live there.”

“He’s the boss, isn’t he?”

“Yes, he’s what you call the Pack Alpha Wolf. Everyone inside that pack, does what he tells them.”

“But you didn’t?” Brandon frowned at her.

Piper half smiled, trust her boy to be so bright. “I’m not a pack member any more, not for a long time, even before I knew about you. I left long ago, I’m not...He can’t tell me what to do any more, not really.”

“And you don’t want him to?” he sounded a bit confused.

Piper shrugged, “I chose to leave, for Harper and I. We were sick and dying inside that pack.” She said “We had to leave the pack, to survive.”

Watched him sit and think for a long time “Did he hurt you...is that why you left?” He finally asked.

That was a very difficult question to answer, because yes, Bradley had hurt her, so very many times. But Bradley had also not known who she was to him, so he had not known he was hurting her, that he was the one to make her sickly and dying.

If she said ‘no’ to Brandon, he was likely going to ask her why she left him then, and if she said ‘yes’ he was likely going to want to know how “Like is said, it’s very complicated, Brandon.”

“No it’s not. Did he hurt you?” he asked again “Like hit you?”

“No, not ever…” she shook her head, that man couldn’t hit something he didn’t even know existed, she didn’t even know what type of man he was, not really. She had desperately tried to stay away from him, tried to ignore their Mate Bond in the hope it would dissolve itself away to nothing. No such luck. “Let’s just say, he had another woman, that was of more interest to him.” and he had Bianca. They had learned to stay away from the pack-house, so she hadn’t had see them together.