Unscentable

Chapter 37 - Unscentable

Bradley POV

Bradley was more than concerned with Harper’s reaction to his Beta, it was uncalled for, he thought, and she was right there on the surface out in the open for any human to see, if they walked passed or came out of their hotel room to see what all the noise was about.

Bradley had been prowling around inside his hotel room. He was worried that though she was on her way up here she was going to just demand that he hand Izzy over and leave the minute she had her. It was a completely possibility this would happen. She did not seem to want to give him a moment of her time.

His head had whipped around at the sound of a wolf snarling “Don’t touch me.” He had known she was on her way up here with Cooper, the man had already mind-linked him to let him know, also mentioned that Brandon appeared afraid of his presence.

Bradley had not been expecting any aggression on either of their parts, Piper or Brandon’s, for that matter, not with the boy displaying fear. He had shot out of his room into the hall to see what the hell was going on out there, it had been all of two and half minutes and everything seemed to have gone off the
rails.

Cooper was actively backing away from them, his hands raised so that she could see his was no threat to her, or the child she was carrying in her arms.

Noted it was not just Harper on the surface, but his boys’ wolf Aspen was right there with her. Something had made the pair of them perceive Cooper as a threat to them, and in the space of two and a half minutes.

Demanded his Beta tell him what the hell was going on, needed to know to help calm the situation if he could. Cooper told him he’d just touched her to guide her to the room. It didn’t make sense that was not a gesture of threat at all, yet here she was and not just her all aggression, Brandon too. A low growl was still being emitted from Harper as well. She was very unhappy, it seemed.

This was not a good thing.

He’d seen the way she had taken a step back from Benson earlier this morning, when he’d reached out to touch her, now this, a full threat to rip his hand clean off, if he touched her again. It was pretty damned clear she did not want to be touched at all. Must have been the actual touch itself that set her wolf off.

It concerned it greatly, set his brain on fire at the possible reasons why she would react to such an ordinary thing for a Beta to do, it was just an instinct on Cooper's part, he imagined, certainly would not have been a threat in any way. Made Bradley wonder if at some point that pendant had come off of her and she’d been hurt. He hoped not. Though if it was after her leaving he would have felt it himself, so unlikely. He also knew he had been her first as well.

Something else was going on, he just didn’t know what. Needed to find out, he guessed.

Waved her passed him, even took a half step back so she could walk passed him without the issue of them coming into contact, noticed that Aspen receded almost at the exact same time as Harper did, wondered if his young Alpha wolf was deeply connected to his mother, if he could actually feel her push forward and recede without looking at her it was possible.

He could always tell when his mother’s wolf had looked at him, even before he’d gotten his wolf. She’d died when he was just 12, but could still recall always knowing when her wolf was right there on the surface, even if he wasn’t looking at her. Aspen may have that himself.

Thinking about his mother, she was an early shifter he realised, gotten her wolf Hallow at 10 herself. Perhaps this was why Aspen was early.

He could tell right away that Piper was more than annoyed to hear that Izzy was in Eddie’s room and likely thought the man was keeping her in there for his own gain, then to hear Brandon ask if all wolves scared everyone all the time, actually hurt a little and not just him but Benson too.