Unscentable

Chapter 38 - Unscentable

Piper POV

Piper was just staring out the window of her hotel suite. She still did not know what to make of all she’d heard from Cooper the Pack Beta or Harrison the Pack’s Delta. She had no idea at all if any of the words that either of them had stated were true. Though both of their demeanor had matched their words.
Concern for their Alpha, she had heard that.

But how could they really know that she had uttered a rejection at all? There was no way that they could know that. So why would either of them say such things if they didn’t know? It didn’t really make all that much sense to her.
Bradley had not known who she was at the time, so how could it have possibly affected him at all?

She herself had not even known at the time if her rejection would work at all, not with only one of them knowing what they were to each other. Piper had known that for a rejection to work normally, both parties had to not only know who they were to each other, had to be face to face and the one hearing the rejection had to verbally accept that rejection.

School had classes on the Mate Bond, so everyone understood who it worked, the meeting of your mate, the scenting of them. How it was supposed to go. The acceptance or rejection of your Mate and the formality if a rejection was made, name and title to be stated along with that rejection though it was frowned upon, most would be encourage to accept their bond.

There however, was only one lesson about rejecting one’s Mate. Because most wolves did not reject each other, they were drawn to each other, and couldn’t or didn’t want to rip that feeling of being with your other half, apart. It was stated it was painful. And it had been.

There had been examples of it. Though usually to do with those two wolves having horrible pasts or hating each other already prior to finding out they were Goddess-Gifted Mates, even then some would begrudgingly accept each other and allow their bond to grow and flourish and it was said they could overcome their history and love each other, their Bond strong enough to
bring them together.

“Mum?”

Piper turned her eyes on Brandon. “What’s wrong sweetie?” she asked him.

“Is what they said true?” he asked her, clearly having been thinking about it himself, he had been right there to hear both Cooper and Harrison’s words.

“I don’t know to be honest.” she sighed. She would not lie to him, she did not know, was actually very confused about the situation right this minute.

He was looking up at her, frowning himself, watched her for a long quiet moment. “That man...he told me, he wants us to be family, all of us, you, me and him, altogether.”

It was Pipers' turn to frown now, “When did he do that?” she asked. She had not heard Bradley say that.

“When you went in with Aunt Izzy and told her, he only wanted me, not you.

He told me, that’s not true, that he wanted us both.”
She sighed, they’d obviously talked while she was in the Izzy, she’d missed something. “What else did he say?” she asked him.

“That he won’t take me away from you.”Piper had heard Bradley say that before. This was not the first time he’d said
that, “That is good to hear.” she acknowledged. If Bradley had told Brandon that, he wasn’t likely to go back on his word, it would only lead to the boy accusing him of being a liar in all likelihood.

So perhaps he did actually mean that he wouldn’t take Brandon from her, but she could not see him wanting to leave the boy out in the human world with her, and she did not want to go back to being invisible inside a pack. No, not again. Being constantly bumped into and blamed for not watching where she was going. She’d had enough of that.