Unscentable
Chapter 32

Piper POV

to deny it.

Brandon was looking right up at her. She knew he now had questions about Bradley, whose wolf had just laid claim to his wolf, it was likely that if Ben son felt the connection, so did Aspen. She sighed and waved him to go and sit down. She was not going to be able His wolf would never believe her, not now that they had come face to face with his own father.

"Is that man?" Saw him bite his l!p.

"Your father?" Piper finished his question for him, "Yes he is." she nodded.

"He didn't know about me did he?" watched as those eyes, so like his fathers turned right to her.

"No, I never told him...To be honest with you, Brandon, I was never going to either." She told him truthfully.

"Why not? Is he mean like those others?" sounded worried.

"It's just complicated, is all." Piper could not tell him, that man out there would never recognise her as his Mate. Had yet to even explain to him what a Mate was, or how that worked even, didn't want to, not really. Not with the way her life had turned out, had all intention of living as a human, had been raising him human, seemed to be the best option.

He'd not ask any questions till he was old enough to understand, then he could take it all in and make a decision for himself, how he would choose to live. He'd already asked her about her pack and she'd told him it was better for her and Harper to not be in one. She'd meant that, it was the truth, he'd seemed to understand and accept it.

Now faced with his father, who'd laid claim on him, told her he wanted them to come home or at least sit down and talk about it. Brandon had heard all of that, he'd been standing right behind her, his small hand had been clutched into the back of her blouse, he was likely scared and confused.

"Is he going to leave us alone?" Brandon asked quietly.

"Unlikely." She shook her head "Wolves.." How did she explain this to him? "Are possessive creatures and.. inside a pack there is a leader, to those wolves that live there."

"He's the boss, isn't he?"

"Yes, he's what you call the Pack Alpha Wolf. Everyone inside that pack, does what he tells them."

"But you didn't?" Brandon frowned at her.

Piper half smiled, trust her boy to be so bright. "I'm not a pack member any more, not for a long time, even before I new about you. I left long ago, I'm not... He can't tell me what to do any more, not really."

"And you don't want him to?" he sounded a bit confused.

Piper shrugged, "I chose to leave, for Harper and I. We were sick and dying inside that pack." She said "We had to leave the pack, to survive."

Watched him sit and think fora long time "Did he hurt you.is that why you left?" He finally asked.

That was a very difficult question to answer, because yes, Bradley had hurt her, so very many times.

But Bradley had also not known who she was to him, so he had not known he was hurting her, that he was the one to make her sickly and dying.

If she said 'no' to Brandon, he was likely going to ask her why she left him then, and if she said 'yes' he was likely going to want to know how "Like is said, it's very complicated, Brandon."

"No it's not. Did he hurt you?" he asked again "Like hit you?"

"No, not ever." she shook her head, that man couldn't hit something he didn't even know existed, she didn't even know what type of man he was, not really.

She had desperately tried to stay away from him, tried to ignore their Mate Bond in the hope it would dissolve itself away to nothing. No such luck. "Let's just say, he had another woman, that was of more interest to him." and he had Bianca. They had learned to stay away from the pack-house, so she hadn't had see them together.

"Oh," it sounded like there was sadness etching his one word.

She hugged him and pulled him onto her lap, "Don't worry about it. It was a very long time ago," though it still hurt her to this day.

"He wants us to come home?" he leaned on her.

"I heard him." and she had. She also knew that he was never going to leave Brandon with her, out in the human world away from him. Bradley had used the word Heir, which meant the man was already thinking that he would train Brandon to take over the pack one day.

She didn't know what to do, did not want to immerse herself into Pack life once more, be non-existent and invisible yet again. At least out here in the human world, she was recognisable, and people not only wanted to meet her, wanted her to work for them. Appreciated what she could do, stopped and talked to her, sought her out all the time, she was part of their society and recognized as such.

She'd made a good life for herself, one where she was not at all invisible, human's did not rely on their sense of smell to recognise each other. They actually used their eyes, looked at what a person looked like, used that to recognise others around them. The humans could see her right away. It was a good feeling.

Something that she had craved growing up inside the pack, something she'd never gotten, there had been a few wolves like Renee who had seen her, she didn't know why, perhaps their sense of smell was damaged and so they used their eyes to recognise she was there and stepped around her.

"Is he going to make us? I like my friends."

Piper smiled at him. "I know you do...got lots of them." Always popular, she liked that for him. Doubted it would be the same inside the pack, especially if he was just like her, Alpha Wolf or not, no-one would scent him, no-one would recognise him and she did not want that at all, he too was better off out in the human world, where people would see him.

"Can we just leave?" Brandon asked quietly.

"Unlikely." Piper sighed heavily, she'd seen Edward, he could well be out there in the hallway still.

That thought brought her to Izzy. She had not returned this morning and should have by now, likely she was wherever Eddie's room was. If he'd spotted her, he would have gone off to retrieve her. "He'll have his most loyal men watching you." "Me?" he frowned up at her. "Why me?"

"Yes, you Brandon. You will be his top priority now. Getting you into his Pack. That is what he wants, now he knows about you." "Why?"

"Its a pack Alpha Wolf thing. Aspen is like him, his type of wolf. Aspen is an Alpha Wolf."

"What does that mean?" He asked.

"That is a very good question. It means that your father one day will expect you to take over the running of the pack. He'll want to hand it down to you, I suppose."

"What if I don't want that?"

"I don't know," she shrugged, and Piper did not. Had no doubt that Bradley and his wolf wanted their son in their pack, would likely be worried about someone replaceing out about the boy and trying to get to him. But no-one knew, so he was safe, they'd had no trouble at all in all these years for unscentable, meant invisible, so a kind of given protection from other worldly creatures and not just wolves, all of them that relied on their sense of smell. "Will I get a choice.. Is he going to take me away from you?"

Piper had no idea about that either. Bradley had sent movers to move all their belongings, stated he wanted her to come home, so maybe she would still get to raise him as long as she was inside the pack that was.

"I don't know, honestly. Wolfen law status he has every right to just come and take you. I have no status, no pack, so its in his favour, I guess you could say."

"I don't want to live with a stranger." He whispered and hugged into her.

"I don't want that either." Piper told him truthfully, and hugged him back, guess she was going to have to actually sit down and talk to Bradley, not that she wanted to, did not want to be in the same room as him. She could still smell him and so damned strongly, she didn't understand that.

She was positive the rejection she had voiced was in effect, or she would have felt every time he was with another and not once since she'd left that night had she suffered those pains and, to be honest, she was thankful for that. It would likely have cost her, her son. Her pregnancy wouldn't have survived those pains, and that would have killed her and her wolf.

She just sat there, and let Brandon cuddle into her.

He was quiet as was she. "How's Aspen doing?" Piper asked after a little while, she'd seen him back away after being claimed.

"Confused."

"Did he understand what happened?"

"Yes, said that Wolf was his father. He's quiet now."

"But okay?" she asked.

"Confused," Brandon repeated.

It was only going to be a matter of time, before Bradley came back and knocked on the door, glanced at her watch, still no Izzy, that bothered her too. What if the woman was terrified, being held hostage or prisoner by Edward? Fished out her phone from her pocket and called Izzy's numbers.

It was answered by a man, "Izzy's phone."

She frowned "Edward?" she asked.

"Yes Piper," she realised her name would have lit up the screen. "What's up?"

She shook her head, he spoke to her like they were friends. "What have you done with Izzy?" she asked.

"Izzy is fine. Sleeping upstairs in my bed is all."

"Sleeping?" she questioned.

Heard him chuckle "Yes, she exhausted Piper, is my Mate and well."

"You're an a*ss-hole Edward, she's human." She snapped at him and ended the call.

Found Brandon staring at her with concern, she sighed "Aunt Izzy is fine, just.. did you see that other man at the door earlier?"

He nodded "Blonde guy."

"That's him, apparently taken a liking to Aunt Izzy and she's in his hotel room upstairs."

"He's not human." he frowned at her. "Is Aunt Izzy like us?"

"No." she shook her head "But sometimes, wolves and humans attract to each other."

"Like boyfriend, girlfriend."

"Yes, that man, Edward, wants Aunt Izzy for his.. wife you could say."

Brandon was really frowning now, "But she doesn't know him, what he is right?"

"I know, only met him twice before, I think. Wolves are different to humans when it comes to relationships... it's complicated."

"How does that work?" he seemed suddenly curious.

"Let's leave that one alone for now, you're too young for that conversation."

He poked his tongue out at her, and she smiled at him. At least he'd cheered up a bit.