Unscentable

Chapter 71 - Unscentable

Piper POV

 Piper was sitting in the pack-house dining room with Brandon, Izzy, Bradley and his entire Alpha Unit. He'd knocked on her door this morning and very politely asked her if she would join him downstairs for breakfast along with Brandon. The boy had yelled about being hungry and headed right out the door, leaving her with not much choice in the matter.Had stared at him, still annoyed with him from last night, as was Harper, was actually sitting in her mind glaring at their Mate before them. Got the impression she still wanted to sink her claws into them. That Brandon was the only reason she didn't. 

Her spoon was halted halfway to her mouth as Lilly came running into the pack-house dinning room calling out his name, excitedly waving a piece of newspaper around. It looked to have been torn out of someone's hand, by the frown on Benjamin's face and the rest of the paper he was carrying, it was likely she had ripped it right from him, while he'd been reading it and ran off with it."Bradley, Piper your in the paper." Lilly had yelled excitedly as she'd run right over to the table, then had taken a deep breath in and read out the head line "Helena's most eligible bachelor. Snapped up and off the market." then she turned the paper around so that they could all see the picture.

 It was a full colour photo of Bradley along with herself, and Brandon right in the middle. They were both holding his hand as they walked along.Piper sighed, did not need this right this minute.Then Lilly turned it back around and continued to read out the article which stated, that the trio had not only been seen shopping for several hours, but they'd had lunch together and that all of Bradley's close friends had also been there. That upon further investigation of the possibility that one Mr Bradley Drake was off the market or soon would be. They'd found out that the woman in the photo with him was one Miss Piper Harper, owner of the Goddess Gowns Bridal store's, a renowned wedding dress designer. 

That it has also been noted that Mr Drake himself had recently been in Portland on more than one occasion, and his last stay had been in a hotel for nearly a week, right out by the Goddess Gown store where Piper Harper herself worked from. Then it stated in bold letters at the bottom "Sorry ladies, it looks like our Bachelor is taken."Piper was staring at the woman, did not know what to say at all.Bradley plucked the paper from Lilly's hands and read it himself, smiled "It's a nice picture." he stated "Thank you Lilly.""I'm so excited." She was smiling at him "There is more, but Benjamin kept that bit. I had to rip this bit from him.""I wasn't finished reading it, woman." Benjamin shook his head.Just great, Piper thought to herself. As the man handed the rest of the page over. There were more pictures of them together, even a picture of Eddie, who'd been snapped kissing Izzy. 

The reporter had also tracked down who Izzy was, right down to her father in Maine. Edward was all over it, even Izzy got up to look at their photos. He was happy himself to read out the caption under there photo. "Edward Patrick's off the market as well Ladies."Found herself under Brads' gaze, and she huffed. "Sorry, I can't control what they write." he stated, but was still smiling, and a part of Piper wondered if that man had set this all up.Though, from the sheer excitement coming off of his stepmother Lilly, she had doubts. If it was planned she'd not have come running in like that all hopped up like she was full of sugar. She was too excited for it to have been planned."May I?" she asked and was handed over the rest of the article to peruse. There was some chatter about Harrison and his wife picking out baby furniture, so the speculation of a new baby on the way was there as well.Brandon was leaning over her arm looking at it. "I'm in the paper." he sounded very excited. "Can I call and tell my friends mum?""Of course you can, son." Brad answered before she could. 

"Sweet," he was grinning now, "can I take a photo as proof, mum, they'll never believe me otherwise.""Sure." she sighed, she was certain they would believe him, or at least she thought so. Portland wasn't even really awake yet, but she was likely going to be fielding calls from people she knew, once they were."Are you unhappy about this, Piper?""Annoyed." She stated honestly, for although Harper had laid claim in their mind to their Mate, she'd not actually stated it out loud to the man. Though Piper was dead certain that Edward had told his Alpha what she'd said about Harper's tantrum last night.'Not tantrum, rightful rage.' Harper snorted at her.'If that's what you're happy with,' Piper answered her, wasn't going to argue with her wolf about it. They both had slightly different points of views on the subject of last night's meeting with Annabella and how it transpired."It's just one article," Brad commented."Maybe not." It was Cooper. "Might want to google your and Piper's names together."Piper closed her eyes and sighed now. Did she really want to 'no' she thought, but then pulled her phone out and did just that. There were even more photos of them online. Some of them from inside the place they'd all had lunch, even one of Brandon asleep in Brad's arm, out the front of his head office, while she walked next to him.