Unscentable
Chapter 73

Brad POV

The look on her face told him, Piper had not been expecting him to state my Mate and Luna. But she did bare his Mark and protocol did actually dictate that he was to say those words, he would have told her, had she not cut him off.

Likely thought it would be just like when she was 17, and just had to pledge loyalty to him. But now that she was his Mate, it was different. Brad even knew why she hesitated to finish her pledge, she was not yet ready to state those two words. His whole unit was there in this room to witness it, and when she made that slight adjustment to his wording, it didn't really bother him. Luna, future Luna, meant the same thing really. Just meant he still had to wait, no real surprise there, she'd only been here a few days.

Brandon accepting him right away, made him very happy. He'd actually thought Aspen was going to have a problem with it. But it seemed his wolf wanted to be able to track his mother down as much as he did himself. Told him to initiate her for this very reason.

They were both here to say now, that was all that really mattered to him and his connection to the both of them, if felt amazingly strong, the tether between he and Piper also now allowed him to feel her emotions down through the mind-link. So he'd at least be able to read her, when she looked all impassive. Wouldn't have to rely on Eddie all the time anymore.

He found her voice inside his mind, as she connected to him for the first time during lunch. He'd told her he wouldn't invade her mind and was not going to, but was more than happy for her to invade his, even felt Benson's happiness at her willingness to connect to them. His beast damned near purred out loud.

'Did you really have to add that last part to my pledge? Piper asked him, sounded a little annoyed to him.

Looked right at her as she sat across from him, allowed his eyes to move to the Mark on her neck before answering, it did not go unnoticed by her, where his eyes were. 'Yes, protocol was followed. You bare my Mark, Piper. You are my Mate and my Luna.' 'You could have told me that first.

'You cut me off. I did try to tell you.' he commented, and he had been going to.

'You could have pushed a bit harder to explain.

'Probably' he admitted, but said nothing more on the situation. She cut the link before he did.

Brad had already seen her dismiss half a dozen phone calls in the past 20 minutes, frowned down at her phone each time, had read three text messages and declined to answer those as well. Watched as she flicked the incoming phone call away again. Saw her glare at Izzy when she went to answer her phone, Izzy sighed and dismissed it. Wondered what that was all about.

Then it was Izzy dismissing phone calls and reading text messages but not answering them.

Leaned back in his chair and watched as Izzy looked right at Piper, and then sighed "one of us needs to answer at least one phone call, Piper. It's going to get out of hand otherwise."

"Fine. No comment, is the answer." Piper had muttered finally.

Bradley suddenly realised her end of the world were seeing pictures of them together and they wanted to have answers to the questions about her relationship with him. The joy of being well known in the human world.

"Piper, if you want to use your office, to make some calls in private, I'll walk you up there."

"My office is in Portland." She told him flatly. Brad sighed "Your office inside the pack, I mean. Would you like to see it?" He offered "You could use it as a base until the store here in Helena is built."

She was looking right at him now. Huffed annoyance. This was what had made her walk off this morning. Waved his unit away, was pushing her too hard, would let it go "Alright, I'm pushing you. Why don't I take a step back. I have not yet shown you or Brandon around. How about we do that this afternoon, and you let your..." he looked at Izzy as she walked off with Eddie hand in hand. Smiled to himself, she did seem happy here and with Eddie. Waited until they were out of ear shot "Business partner, handle the press calls. I presume she always did from her annoyance at not being able to now."

"I haven't had a chance to talk to Izzy about that yet. And yes, she would direct the other managers about what to say."

"Then let her do her job, seems to me, she is itching to get back to work."

Piper nodded her head, actually watched her eyes glaze over and smiled, using a mind-link to Izzy, he presumed. He was happy that she could mind-link to Izzy, though Fade, being an Alpha female, was likely going to cause him some trouble at times. They'd already butted heads, and before she'd had a fully realised Fade. Was likely always going to because she was aligned to Aspen and likely Harper. Those two wolves were her Pack and always would be.

"You know Piper, I am a lawyer, I could sit with you and draw up Izzy's contract with you." he offered, wouldn't mind spending some time with her, alone. Also, it would give him a chance to get to know her a little.

"No thank you. I have a lawyer and Izzy's contract is already underway. It." She sighed "Excuse me, I need to make a phone call." watched her get up and walk away from the table to use her phone to do just that.

Called her lawyer and organised for those contracts to be couriered here. To make sure the title was right and the store was the one to be built, here in Helena. Then she turned and looked right at him, a frown on her face, before asking him the address of his head office.

That made him smile, he told her without hesitation, smiled down at Brandon and murmured "I think you and your mum will be moving here permanently soon."

"I know," he said simply.

"Discussed it already have we?" Brad was curious, nine out of ten times the boy knew before he did. Piper was very big on telling him everything it seemed.

Saw his boy turn his hand over and look at the tiny scar. "That's what this means."

Brad smiled, he liked that Piper was honest with the boy. She sat back down after her phone call ended. "I know a really good architect if you need one. To design the store."

"No thank you. I have a designer and an architect. They're a little husband and wife company in Portland. Well were little when I first hired them." she smiled to herself. They've designed and remodelled all my stores.

"You do recall I'm also in construction. I know the best people, Piper."

"I like my people. Leave it alone. I will build my store, how I want, with who I want, stay out of my business," Brad blinked at her comment, wanted to object instantly, but reminded himself, she was used to doing everything on her own, all the time. Though he would much prefer she would do business with his preferred contacts and allied packs, he wasn't going to push it.

"Are they human?" Brad asked instead.

"yes."

"Piper, I would prefer."

She cut him clean off. "I don't care what you prefer, where my business is concerned. I have been using my people for years without any issues. Gloria and Daniel know what I like, leave it alone." Watched as she stood up but was still looking at him "I have done this 4 times already and I trust my people. I will use my people and build my way. Or I won't build at all and just go back to Portland to work." She was glaring at him, challenging him.

"Build here, Piper. I was simply trying to offer a suggestion."

"No you weren't, you were trying to take control and I will not be allowing that. It's my business, not yours. built it on my own and will run it as I please, not as you want." Brad sighed, he had not been trying to tick her off, but that business of hers was a touchy subject he realised. "Alright, can I have a heads up, on when your humans get here."

"Their names are Gloria and Daniel, please be respectful and use them." She looked to Brandon. "You ready to go?" Brandon nodded, Bradley stood "Am I allowed to show you around?" he muttered, seemed like she was on a mission to do everything herself, was not going to let him do anything for her.

"You did offer." Piper nodded "Just stay out of my business please. Izzy and I can do everything without your help."

"Alright," He nodded, Brad didn't like it but was going to have to deal with it he guessed, for now anyway.

Surely at some point she would let him help. Brad walked them both around the Pack-house, showed Brandon the gaming rooms, the movie theatre.

Though he'd seen that last night, Brad wasn't actually sure just how much of it. Definitely the candy bar. Walked them into the Library. It was pretty much the same, only had new floors and windows. Showed Brandon all the new computers to use.

Everything in the actual library was wolfen related but the computers were all access to the human world. Walked them through the gym, watched Piper look at the treadmills. They were different to the ones she had in her home. She even turned one on and looked at it. He couldn't tell if she was happy with them or not. They were only a few years old.

In perfecting working order.

Showed them the indoor swimming pools, one for training and one for playing, had lots of pool playable equipment, and two water slides for the kids to have fun.

Strolled out the back of the pack-house and to the outdoor sporting area. There were 4 tennis courts, two volleyball courts and a large oval for football and soccer to be played on.

Told Brandon that this was where most of the annual week of challenges that he held for his pack to have fun with were held. That the pack itself would split up into groups, and they had fun pitting themselves against each other in all manner of fun games and sports. Brad could see that Brandon was interested in that, asked right away if he was old enough to participate. He was, that made Brandon happy too.

Showed them around the town centre and then the school he would be attending though, he didn't say that out loud, but did mention that both human and wolfen classes were attended. They stopped and got drinks at the local cafe, before moving on again. Allowed a short walk in the woods on the way back to the pack-house, just to show Brandon how deep and dark they could get.

Then strolled them back into the pack-house and walked Piper and Brandon up to the first floor and pushed open the Luna Office and stepped inside, wanting her to see her office. Only to come to a dead halt at seeing Hadley half-na*ked on top of his Beta Cooper. "What the hell?" He snapped out angrily.

Saw both their eyes shoot right to his, felt his anger rise at the sight of his little sister sitting half-na*ked on his half-na*ked Beta. Their l!ps had been locked and their hands had been all over each other.

Backed out of the room, a hand on Piper and pushed her and Brandon right out of the room, banged the door shut, was completely fuming. It was no wonder Cooper kept telling him, to leave it alone, that he would deal with it. 'My office now', he snarled down the mind-link to both his Beta and his sister.

He turned his eyes on Piper, who was standing staring at him, seemed more than amused by the sudden turn of events, and sighed to himself. Realised from her amusement, from the way Cooper had been with her in Helena, she'd been amused then too. She already knew and they knew she had something on them.

"I need a minute," he muttered.

"Likely you'll need more than that." she half laughed

"I take Brandon back to our suite."

"I'm sorry you had to see that Brandon." and he was the boy was just 7, did not need to walk in on that.

The boy shrugged "I didn't really see anything. Mum covered my eyes."

He was glad to hear that, "m sorry Piper." Brad sighed.

'Don't kill you Beta now. Her voice came down the mind-link, still sounded amused to him.

'Beat him senseless maybe.' Brad muttered back and walked off towards his office, as she walked to her suite with Brandon. How bloody stupid could the two of them be? Using the Luna's office like that.

Brad was not just mad about the two of them having s*x, but in Piper's office of all places. They both had bloody rooms of their own. But no, they had to go and defile the Luna's office, and not only had he seen it. So had she and Brandon was right there too. Stalked into his office and banged the door shut as well. He now understood why Hadley's boyfriend was paranoid about him finding out, and didn't want to meet him. His own Beta and his little sister. He was really starting to think about everything now. Since her birthday. Looking back on Hadley and Cooper's interactions, Cooper had said it started after her 18th birthday.

Sat down at his desk and recalled the day he'd had the pair of them sitting next to each other on the other side of his desk, after he had finally agreed to let Hadley go to Portland to get that dress she wanted.

He'd been sitting here in his chair, the two of them across from him, she was all smiles, Cooper had been all Beta from what he recalled. Brad had been laying down the rules of what he expected of both of them while outside of this pack. Had told Hadley that Cooper was in charge while outside of the pack.

They'd both sat in front of him, and he'd actually told Hadley, she would be staying not in a suite of her own, but would have a two-room suite with Cooper, so he could keep an eye on her. That she had to do everything Cooper told her to do. Closed his eyes and huffed to himself as he now recalled her response, she had nodded her head and stated "Yes Bradley." sounded fully amused to him even then, though only now did he realise why.

He'd not realised why the amusement and had taken it that she had no intention of doing so and told her "I mean it, Hadley. You will do everything Cooper tells you to. Cooper is in charge of you the whole trip."

She'd smiled right at him, nearly laughed, he recalled, it had actually annoyed him to be honest even when again she'd said "Yes Bradley." and nodded her head, "I will do everything Cooper tells me to do." Had even put more emphasis on the word everything. Brad recalled staring right at Hadley for a long minute. She'd been more than amused, but he'd seen the longer he'd stared at her, she'd actually tried to curb her amusement. Then he'd looked right at his Beta, Cooper.

He'd not seemed amused at all. Was in full Beta mode, it appeared to him.

Told that man "Don't let her out of your sight."

"Yes Brad." Cooper had nodded, not shown anything other than his usual demeanour. Had not shown any amusement like Hadley had that day. It was clear to him now, those two were already at it before he'd sent them off to Portland. Hadley's pure amusement at being told to do everything Cooper told her to do, said it all now.

Brad did not even want to think about what that man had told his sister to do, or that she had done, because he'd told her to follow every instruction, closed his eyes, he'd been none the wiser, had trusted his Beta to look after his sister, to take care of her. Guess he bloody well, had taken care of her, and she had likely sated all that man's needs to boot.