Unscentable
Chapter 23

Bradley POV

At the store! She owned 3 stores, checked the one here in Portland, but she was not there, no real surprise, and he was not expecting her to be here in Portland, he knew she had been at the store when Timothy had collected her. So she was not going to go back there. Bradley booked Hadley onto a flight home to Montana. He couldn't keep the girl out here with him, not while he needed to be actively searching for Piper, she was likely to wander off again trying to take matters into her own hands, and that had not gone down so well. If Piper hadn't stepped in and helped out she likely would also be missing right now.

He made sure that there was someone at the airport I to actually pick her up. His father stated he would do it himself. So the girl couldn't do anything stupid like come back out there. Bradley put her on that flight himself, watched her walk down the gangplank and stood and watched it take off to make sure she didn't sneak off of it. Alpha females could be more than stubborn and a handful to boot.

Drove himself the 2 hour drive to Olympia, to check her store there. No such luck. He couldn't see her, even went into the store and asked when she would be coming to the store next, wasn't expected at all. He sat around and watched the store all day, even after the manager closed it up, it was Sunday afternoon and closed up at 1400. He stayed longer than that, hoping Piper would show up and let herself in after hours. No such luck.

Cooper had gotten on a flight to LA, where her other store was, and was checking that out himself, staking it out as Bradley was the store here in Olympia. Waited on Coopers call only to replace out that the store too was closed and there was no sign of Piper or Brandon. She only owned 3 stores, and Izzy had told Eddie 'at the store.' frowned deeply. There was something twitching in his brain but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Asked Cooper to stake that store out all night until it was opened in the morning, and he would do the same here in Olympia. Sat in the damned car all night, not a single sign of her or his boy.

He had pocketed the picture Hadley had taken from Piper's house, he did not need his father calling him and hounding him about the boy, who would be his first grandson. Bradley could well imagine the harassment he would be getting over bringing him in. His brother only had girls.

Sighed heavily as he stared at the store, as the manager here opened it up for business, still there was no sign of Piper or his son. This was not good. They didn't know who she hung out with, if she had other human friends to go to for help. Hell she could have a closed network of rogues that she might be affiliated with and gone to them for protection. He didn't know.

Cooper reported the same from LA, and both Harry and Eddie were on their way back now too. He'd been informed that Izzy had fled from Eddie and the man's wolf had ripped right out of him to try and claim the girl, that Harry had to stop it and contain the beast. Nothing good out there, nothing good out here.

Everyone was headed back to Portland. Izzy was likely to head home. Obviously she had no idea, she had allowed Eddie and his wolf to claim her. That he'd talked her into claiming him right back and was now bound to the man by the moon goddess herself. Even without the full moon upon them. Was going to have to get that girl back to his pack, along with Eddie, and sort that sh!t out as well.

He was going to have to sit the woman down and explain what they were, what she actually was to Eddie and hope she did not freak out completely and out right reject his Gamma. It might help to tell her that Piper and Brandon were also wolves, that should go a long way into showing her that they were not monsters.

If she could be swayed into a Mate Bond with Eddie, he would initiate her into his pack right away, but that was for his own selfish needs. He could use her loyalty oath to get the information about Piper out of her, she would have to tell him once she was a pack member and he was her Alpha.

He would have to do it the right way, sort her and Eddie out first, explain to Izzy that Hadley was actually his little sister and not his Mate as Piper believed, and see if she would tell him where she was. If not, he'd tell her that Piper was his missing Mate and he'd been searching for her since she left him.

Hope that Izzy would believe him and help him out.

If none of this worked, he was going to Alpha Order the information out of the woman, that he knew was really going to piss his Gamma off but there would be no other way, it was his last resort. He was actually hoping she would believe him, call Piper and tell her about Hadley and help him to convince her to come home.

He had to replace Piper before something bad happened to her, bring her home and sort this bloody nightmare out. He understood it wasn't going to be a piece of cake, but he was going to do it. Wondered if they could get along and actually be Mates. He would like to replace out, a Goddess-Gifted Mate was not something to be discarded lightly.

Bradley knew she had her reasons for doing what she did. Couldn't even blame her, but they did need to come together, face to face and at least try to discuss it.

Maybe he could get her to agree to a trial relationship, if their Bond was actually severed. He definitely wanted her to give him a chance, to see if they could come together, wanted her in this pack, wanted his son in his pack. Needed to get her to introduce him and Brandon to each other as well.

Was sitting in the hotel suite with Cooper when Eddie and Harry finally walked in. Bradley stared right at his Gamma, disappointed in him more than a little, was not going to lecture the man, had been going to. But seeing him now, he could tell Eddie knew he had screwed things up royally. The look on his face said it all.

Just shook his head at his Gamma and stated simply "Monumentally stupid Eddie."

"I know," was all he said "Is there any sign of her?" he asked.

"No" Bradley shook his head at the man, held out a piece of paper to the man. "Her home address, I suggest you go over there, knock on her door and, if she is there, apologise to the woman. Then bring her here to me for a formal sit-down chat. Yes?" Saw him sigh, nod his head, take the paper and just turn and head out of the room by himself. Bradley looked right at Harry questioningly "Is that wise? He on his own with her?"

Harry shrugged "I had long words with him, and Timber is currently sulking, so it should be fine."

"Sulking?" Cooper snorted from his position on his chair, "Never had Steel sulk, not once."

Even Bradley was shocked by that. Wolves didn't sulk as far as he knew, well not the male ones. "Did you tell your parents and they rip him a new one?" he asked Harry curiously.

"Not yet."" Harry shook his head "Timber actually stalked her himself, and he now understands after the fact, not in the moment. That what he did was actually wrong, but I did have to remind him, both of them, humans had to be handled differently, and yes, I chastised him a lot."

"Hence the sulking." Bradley nodded. The man's wolf was disappointed in himself, it seemed. Likely a good thing, should stop him from doing it again when he saw the woman. "Good, if we were back home inside the Pack, I would have to punish him formally for his actions."

"He is aware of that." Harry nodded "Any news on Piper at all?"

"No, we checked all of her stores here on the west coast, nothing at all. She's not at any of them."

"Alpha Timothy?"

"Gone back to his Pack for now, I believe."

It was not looking good at this point. "I need Izzy to come around and quickly."

It was only just over an hour before Eddie walked back into the hotel suite. "We're all idiots," He muttered, and dropped a contract into Bradley's hands.

"At her store," He shook his head "Piper is at her store or will be, the new one that Izzy will be in charge of in a months time...in Sydney, Australia."

Bradley's eyes widened at the thought of Piper and Brandon half way around the world, and completely unprotected. The contract in his hand was Izzy's employment contract, which stated the country, state and city even had the address of her new workplace. He read through it, Izzy was getting a butt-a*ss load of perks for this relocation and a salary that was enormous 95K.

Bloody hell, made his eyes widen in surprise.

Wondered how much Piper Harper was actually worth for the first time, did she pay all her employees this much money and did they all get the same perks or was Izzy a one off. Sat on the edge of his bed and googled the Piper Harper wedding dress designers' net worth out of pure curiosity.

Damned near fell off the bed he was sitting on, 60 million dollars, sweet goddess and she was marked as up and coming, expected to make even more money when she expanded stores internationally over the next 5 years. The article he was reading stated she had plans for stores in New York, London, France and Italy and once they were opened her expected net worth would increase dramatically.

"What is it?" Cooper asked him, Bradley, still in shock, just handed his phone over to let the man see if for himself. Heard a whistle come from him "Well Brad, you got yourself a millionaire for a Luna." he showed the information to the rest of the unit. "Gonna be really hard to bring her in." he muttered "Can't just yank her from the human world, it will be noticed if she suddenly just disappears."

"Your right on that one." Cooper agreed with him. I Might want to do one of those big a*ss human weddings somewhere flashy and announce she's moving her home base to Montana." his Beta mused aloud.

"At least Bradley Drake is a good match money wise for her. It would likely be expected she would marry wealthy. What's your current net worth in the human world?" Harry asked.

"About 500 million." Bradley nodded.

"Good, just go public with your relationship, that will solve the issue. Everyone will know where she is, she can work from the pack. Hell Brad, build that woman her own store and a big a*ss one in Helena, make her head office right near yours."

"Got to bring her in first." He sighed, "Convince her of taking me as her Mate." no wonder she could just up and leave, go anywhere when ever she wants, has passports, she had been playing at being a human for 8 years now. He'd seen the photos, travelled all over the world, likely mingled with some of the humans' rich and famous. He was damned lucky she hadn't found a human male to marry at this point.

"So are we going to Sydney, to get them?" it was Eddie.

"Yes, I guess we are." Bradley nodded, the use of the word 'them' by Eddie, implied he thought that was where Izzy was as well, and to be honest with how close those two appeared to be, it was likely if Izzy knew where she was, was in trouble, and had told Izzy, he believed Izzy would go right to her. Technically was the woman's Luna. No wonder they were closely bonded.

"That's a bloody long flight." Cooper told him a few minutes later. "googled it, no non-stop flights from here, got 1 or 2 lay overs, 19 to 22 hours is the shortest flight time. I'll see what I can get us all on."

"Our passports are in the pack." Bradley huffed.

Won't be able to book an international flight without them, so extend that by another 7 hours or so." He rubbed his hand over his face, it was nearly going to be 2 full days before he could get to her, and they would all be jet lagged too. "Eddie, do you think Izzy went from Maine to Australia?"

"It's possible," he nodded, "but as I wandered through her place, I found travel plans with Qantas for travel in 1 month's time. She might have to come back here and work. I don't actually know, though I did not replace a passport with her travel plans."

"You might have to stay here. Watch her place then. While Harry goes and gets our passports, I'll organise a private plane. Alpha Westley is only a phone call away and we can likely use one of his planes and fly out of Olympia with his company. I'll have to explain likely though."

Heard Cooper snort with laughter. "Now you two have something in common. Really in common."

"Shut it Coop, it's not funny."

"West will think its funny. His own Luna ran off to Singapore if I recall correctly." Bradley sighed, that was true, and West had had to go and retrieve her himself. Though he was a changed man since attaining his Luna. Laughed and smiled all of the time, not the grumpy surly man he'd used to be. Even appointed his Beta as his duel Alpha. Now a two Alpha pack, very strong they were.

"Harry, head home, get all our passports and pack suitcases for each of us, then get back here asap."

"I'll save you some time, Brad, I'll have mum bring them out that'll shorten the trip by like 3 and a half hours. She'll also want a word with dumb a*ss here." He jerked his thumb at Eddie, who was glaring at him now. "That's a good idea. Have her fly straight to Olympia. We'll leave as soon as possible, your mum can sit and watch for Izzy, while we're hunting Piper."

Picked his phone up off the table and scrolled through his phone contacts until he found Westley Carlton EMP, and called the man, while Harry called his own mother.

"Alpha Bradley, what can I do you for?" didn't even greet him.

"Hi West, got me a dilemma. I need your help."

"Sure, how many men?"

"Nane actually, not that kind of dilemma. I need a plane to Australia."

"What? Australia! What's out there?"

"A runaway she-wolf."

Heard the man snort with amusement "Did your Mate run away?"

"Shut it West, didn't yours?"

"Yes, all the way to Singapore, seems you do have a dilemma." he did sound very amused. "I don't. However, have flights that go to Australia."

Bradley sighed, he didn't think there would be, no packs out there that he knew of, didn't relish human world travel for that long a journey, to noisy, crowded and no leg room.

"Who's the she-wolf? And why Australia, if you don't mind my asking, Bradley?"

"Piper Harper, and she ran off after another Alpha threatened her son."

"A boy?" his tone was no longer amused "Piper Harper as in, of Goddess Gowns?"

"Yes, you heard of her?"

"Jo-anne and Ella's Luna dresses, were from Goddess Gowns."

"Can you help me out at all? I don't care about the Cost West."

There was silence for a minute, likely he was tracking his airline's routes and planes to try and see if he could assist "the boy?"

"Mine. I had no idea. Till just the other day." He admitted, West would be no threat to them. They were allied packs, could ask for actual assistance in the retrieval if he thought he needed it and the man would likely help him. "Well now, I guess I am going to help you out. How many seats do you need on that plane?"

"Me, my unit. Piper, my son and likely a human woman, my Gamma's Mate, Pipers closed friend, also run off."

"Thinking that all 3 of them went to Australia?" he heard the man ask, sounded all business now.

"Yes, Piper is about to open a store in Sydney in a month. The human is due to run it."

"How old is your son?"

"7" he answered honestly.

"W... What?" sounded very shocked "I can't rearrange my flights or planes, I'm looking at the schedules now.

It's too much disruption.. but I could lend you my own Private Jet."

"Any help would be greatly appreciated, West."

"Long flight time. Will need to stop and refuel at least once each way. Hawaii, do you?"

"Anywhere you want West. That's your department."

"When do you expect to be here?"

"Currently in Portland, just waiting for passports, so like 4 or 5 hours, we'll come to Olympia."

"Good, that's where my Jet is always on standby.

Meet you there, come when you can. I've got a private lounge. You can wait in, till your passports arrive. "I'll log the flight plan. How long do you expect to be in Sydney?"

"I don't know, she's..." Bradley sighed heavily "It's going to be difficult" he ended up saying.

"Fair enough, I'll organise everything on my end. Just come right to Wolf Airline Terminal, see you in a few hours, Bradley."

"Thanks West," he disconnected the call.

Bradley could already hear Eddie and Harry's mother berating Eddie down the phone, for his idiotic behavior with Izzy. Plucked that phone from Eddie's hand "Tia, enough. Please just get the passports and pack for at least three days, and bring someone with you, to shift watch Izzy's place." he snapped out, his Alpha tone showing.

Got silence and then a simple "Yes Alpha." and the line disconnected.

"Your welcome" He muttered at Eddie as he tossed Harry's phone back to him. "Lets move."