Unscentable

Chapter 65 - Unscentable

 Piper POV 

Piper watched as Hadley walked into the dining room. Her eyes met Piper's, though only briefly before the girl went and got food, it appeared she was uncomfortable right this minute. Seemed she had to come and sit at the same table as Piper, must be the Alpha's family table, she realised. Hadn't really thought about it upon sitting down.Looked more than nervous to Piper now, as she sat down, it was pretty darn clear she did not want to aggravate or upset Piper in case she went to Brad with what she had seen earlier this morning.Piper had meant what she said to Cooper, she didn't care herself what the two of them did, but it seemed Hadley understood that at any given moment, for any given reason, Piper could out the two of them to Bradley. Found itsomewhat amusing actually. 

It was in her tone as well. The girl was more than nervous, Piper didn't bring it up, she'd told Cooper it was none of her business, but now she wondered if Cooper had told Hadley what she'd said on the matter. It was likely. But she still had something on them if she needed leverage, looked right at the girl and wondered just how badly they wanted to keep their little secret.Alpha's tended to do as they pleased, Piper was betting on it being Cooper not wanting to be found out, Hadley, being of Alpha blood, likely didn't care, could do as she pleased pretty much.Piper turned her attention to Alpha Benjamin. He was pushing his luck with Brandon. She had to warn him when Brandon edged away from the man. 

 Piper didn't want Aspen raring up and going the man and the boy inching away from him, let her know he was not yet comfortable with the very large man next to him.Alpha Benjamin was the same height as Bradley, but was actually bigger than him, muscle wise, likely he still worked out all the time. Still probably trained several days a week. This was not a large pack and all who were capable, retired or not, were likely ordered into battle if there was a rogue attack. Or a rival pack coming at them. They had some pretty close allies if she recalled correctly from schooling, that could get here quickly, but till that help arrived they had to handle everything on their own.Life inside a pack, was not always just loved up wolves, it could be quite terrifying at times. She'd seen it first hand, felt the pain of loss and had reported rogues on the move inside the pack itself. Trying to keep this from Brandon was a must at this point. 

She was going to have to sit him down and talk to him, explain just how important it was to keep Aspen inside of him, but if there was an attack, how did you do that? If he felt threatened in anyway by a pack attack, it was likely that Aspen would just rip right out of the boy.Watching Brandon's reaction to the possibility of actually riding a wolf, she could see that he was a bit confused and then just saw amazed at hearing just how big they could get. Almost shook her own head when it seemed Brad and his father, Benjamin, were almost arguing over whose wolf he was going to ride.Piper didn't think she'd seen any child ride a wolf before. Wolves were proud creatures, and that could be seen as a weakness, that they were softhearted and not strong and fierce. Especially the Alpha wolf, felt Harper actually huff inside her mind at their 'who's wolf he'd ride', seemed she was annoyed by it herself.

 Perhaps would have wanted that for herself. It was possible or it could just be that she didn't have that option open to herself, when Piper tried to ask her got silence on the matter. Didn't want to talk about it.Found herself the centre of attention at Brandon's 'Bet he can't beat mum.' comment. This did actually amuse her as well as Harper, smirked to themselves at the memory of beating even the Alpha of the pack just days ago. Then a deal was struck on her behalf, sighed internally as she watched Brandon shake that man's hand.The boy had just made his first Alpha to Alpha deal. Looked right at Brad who was just watching his son, who settled comfortably back into his chair after shaking Benjamin's hand, was back to eating his breakfast, some of his or all of his weariness gone it seemed.Brad didn't seem bothered by this deal their son had just made. Perhaps she was mistaken in what she saw. It could be simply family rivalry she guessed.