Unscentable

Chapter 35 - Unscentable

Piper POV

She just knew that Bradley was not going to let Izzy out of that suite they were all staying in. The only way Izzy was going to be able to leave was if she went up there and retrieved her, herself and that damned man knew she would, to it seemed.

Brandon had been quiet since the second visit, and had only asked one question of her.

“Is Aunt Izzy in trouble because of us?”

Piper had sighed softly and told him “No and yes. It is not solely because of us, and Brandon none of this is your fault. Alpha’s do what they think, they need to, to get what they want. Izzy...is currently a bargaining chip, she will be fine, and she is safe, no harm will come to her, I promise.” and she knew that it wouldn’t, she was Eddie’s Mate, a precious commodity so to speak.

He had sat now quietly for the past hour and Piper knew he was concerned, he knew that Izzy was human and not like them. She looked at the clock, it was coming up on 1230. Bradley’s lunch invitation wasn’t really an invitation at
all, she didn’t think. More of a demand which he had just put as politely as he knew how, she supposed.

It had also not escaped her attention that Brandon himself was watching the clock. The longer she left it the more worried he was getting. “We’ll go and get Aunt Izzy.” she told him at 20 past 12. He was becoming restless and fidgety, she didn’t want him worrying any more than he needed to. Held her hand out to him. “Come on.” He took it.

Piper didn’t want to sit down with this man, even if that redhead from her store had been his little sister, that did not make being in a room with him any easier at all. She doubted that there was anything that ever would.

Stepped out of her hotel room and frowned as she saw Cooper lean away from the wall down the end of the hall to her right. Turned and looked the other way and found Harry leaning on the wall, his eyes were also on her right this moment. Likely stationed in the hallway to stop her from leaving without
them knowing.

She ignored the two of them and walked to the elevator. Brandon, she noted, looked from one to the other and then inched that bit closer to her. Aspen must have told him what they were, or from the size of the two of them, he realised they were wolves. She didn’t think he had seen these two before.

Bradley would have told the pair of them about the lunch or they would have been within earshot of their last conversation, likely had been standing out there in the corridor all morning doing exactly what there Alpha told them to do. Watch for her trying to leave with his son.

She was not surprised to see them out there in the hallway, just annoyed about it. But also knew that now he knew about Brandon, there was nothing else but this to be expected.

Found Cooper, the pack Beta step right into the elevator with them before the doors closed. Found Brandon clinging right to her leg, “It’s alright.” She murmured as she reached down and picked him up, and felt him hug into her “I got real sharp claws.” she whispered, trying to make him smiled, felt Cooper's eyes move right to her, as she pressed the 10th floor button.

Heard him chuckle a little “Me too.” He whispered right back.

Piper couldn’t help but snort a little, as she tried not to look at Cooper, it had been a veiled threat, and she’d never seen Brandon’s claws at all, but she imagined if Aspen was awake he’d likely told Brandon to say it and the boy had. It amused her completely, though she knew it likely did not amuse Cooper at all.

He could not command her or Brandon, for that matter, could roll his aura at them and try to instil fear into them, but he couldn’t make her back down. Maybe she should tell Brandon that. It might make him have a little bit less fear around all these wolves and she did want that. Though she had not seen
Aspen since this morning.