Unscentable

Chapter 41 - Unscentable

Piper POV

It was a very long night of staring at the ceiling, or at the wall, as Piper tried to figure out just what the hell had happened. She understood Eddie had been able to use his Gamma’s charm on her and keep her calm. She had been able to feel his aura on her all the way back to her suite. Even in the elevator, his hand had been on her the whole time and she’d not been able to do anything about it. Stupid Gamma and his Charm. He’d used
all he had on her too, he was so damned strong, she’d had no hope of fighting him off once he’d actually gotten skin on skin contact. Annoyed her now, she’d thought being a rogue she’d have some resistance to it, but now she knew differently.

As for the other issue?

Bradley touching her, and his touch full of those electric sparks which she had experienced that night with him. She did not know what to do about that. Harper was not talking at all, was lying inside of her mind, appeared to be sleeping, but Piper didn’t really think so, just actively ignoring everything.

Couldn’t feel what Harper felt at all. She had shut herself off. This was not the first time that Piper had seen her like this. It just meant that she was not willing to talk or deal with what they’d both felt last night, when Bradley had touched them.

All Piper knew was that Harper had fled from her Mate as much as Piper had also tried to. Not that she had gotten far, Bradley hadn’t wanted to let go. Neither she nor Harper had handled it well at all. But Harper’s usual aggression and threats when being touched had not sprung forth, she’d simply just run away to the far recess of Piper’s mind. Shut herself down and stayed there, was still there, in fact. There was nothing Piper could do to make her come forward. She would do that only if and when she so chose too.

The sun was barely rising and she was nowhere closer to figuring out what she was supposed to do. She had barely had any sleep, though she knew sleep had come at one point, because she’d had some weird ass dreams that just went nowhere, felt like she was trapped in a building and couldn’t get out of it, no matter how many times she tried.

She was betting on it being related to the turmoil that was currently her life, which appeared to now be spiralling out of her control, and she was rapidly being unable to stop it. Her uncertainty was invading her subconscious mind and causing weird dreams.

Pipers' bedroom door opened and Brandon climbed on to the bed, “It’s dawn.” He smiled at her.

“Mm, it is.” Piper nodded, and sat herself up. “Why are you up so early?”

“Aspen wants to run.” He smiled right at her.

“Oh, um I don’t even know where we could run out here in the city.”

“Treadmill?” he asked right away. Seemed to be very excited, good to see he was happy and not as confused as he was yesterday.

“I’m actually tired, Brandon. Didn’t sleep well.”

“Haha, then we’ll win.” He grinned right at her, obviously thought this was the right time to actively challenge her.

Actually felt Harper lift her head for the first time since dinner last night. She huffed inside Piper's mind, then stood up and stretched herself out, appeared her wolf was good for the challenge against their son. “Alright, go and get dressed.” she told him and he was gone off to his room to do so.

“We’ve created a little monster.” she muttered to Harper as she got out of bed, found her new gym gear and pulled it on, reminded herself to find somewhere to let the boy run out in the woods later, likely going to have to leave the city for that. Could google it later, glanced at the time. It was barely 0620.