“Yes unfortunately,” she answered simply, “it’s why I left.”
“Then I don’t like them either.” she heard him mutter, he sounded somewhat sad and annoyed at the same time. Likely wanted to understand and be with his own kind. Werewolves were very social creatures, its why he had so many friends. She herself knew plenty of people but only really trusted Izzy. That girl and her had things in common. Both left their family’s over a man, were just trying to live their lives peacefully and as they wanted to. Without being controlled by the leader of their family. For Izzy, that was her father, for Piper, that was her old Alpha.
Telling Brandon that she’d left due to being treated this way was a good enough reason for him to believe, it’s why she left, she would have to tell him the truth one day. Especially if he ever comes across his Mate. Hell she would tell him before then, didn’t want him to find his Mate and not have her recognise who he was and suffer what she had. Better for him to find a nice human to settle down with.
But not till he was 18 would she have to worry about that, so she still had 11 years to figure that one out, she guessed. She could just move them to a country without wolves. There were a few of them. She knew that Australia, New Zealand, Africa and most of the southern hemisphere countries did not have natural wolf populations, as far as she knew, so it would be unlikely that Werewolves would be in them, to much risk if a human saw a wolf. Likely to be hunted by humans and killed or separated from the pack, put in a zoo or shipped off to a country that has a natural wolf population.
Piper hugged him to her and told him not to worry about it. Most of them didn’t even know what she was anyway. He’d frowned up at her and been about to ask her more questions. When the lift had reached the drop off zone, she smiled right at him, “Race you to the bottom.” trying to way lay or distract him. Knew he wouldn’t be able to resist the actual challenge, it was in his nature to want to be the fastest and the strongest.
Kept him hot on her heels and only let him shoot past her on the slope right near the end of the run, heard him cheer as he shot passed her, so excited that he’d beat her, pipped her at the post. Made her happy and by the time they hit the bottom his questions were all gone, he was laughing and telling her she would never beat him, that he was the best. She herself laughed, and then they had raced off to the chair lifts to go again.
Tried to keep the rest of the day light and fun for him, continued to challenge him and race him at every turn, pushing him to beat her and only letting him right at the end, even allowed herself to fall on her backside as though she’d over balanced to let him shoot passed her heard him Whoop with happiness, and even pretended to mutter annoyingly about it when really she was having a great time with him.
Let him tease her and call her funny names, saw him smile and be proud of himself, that he was the better of the two of them at snowboarding.
They headed over to the half pipe later in the afternoon and she was smiling and filming him. He was really having a good time on their holiday and she was really happy too. All her cares from the past week had seemed to vanish now. Her boy, the one and only thing she needed in her life. She could live without everything else as long as she had him and he was happy.
Found herself yanked roughly around and away from filming him, an Alpha had latched on to her arm and he was glaring down at her, furiously. It was the girl’s father and she knew he was here on her behalf. To defend his child, of course no Alpha could do wrong, tried to yank herself from his grip, but it was to strong and he wasn’t about to let go.
“How dare you insult my daughter.” he grated out at her, his light blue eyes boring into hers.
Harper bristled instantly inside her mind, Piper grated right back “I tried to be polite, but she was rude, didn’t care about interrupting my family at all.” pulled at his grip again to no avail. “Get your hands off of me.”
“You will apologise to her, or I will make you.” felt his aura suddenly roll at her. He was trying to scare her, as any human would be by his aura.
Harper snarled all aggression inside her mind, even as a rogue, an Alpha could affect them, though not to make them bow down, just brought about fear mostly and made them run away. It’s how most of them protected their packs. She and Harper, however were not about to do that.
“She should apologise to me first. To my son, who she upset.” she shot right back at him “Or are you, just as arrogant and selfish as well?”
Heard his wolf snarl at her low and menacingly at her words. They did not like being talked to like this, not used to people challenging their authority, heard Harper snarl right back at him just as menacing. He looked more than surprised by this, had no idea who or what he was dealing with, thought as they all did, she was human.
“Get away from my mum.” she heard Brandon’s voice, turned and looked at him, was damned near horrified at the sight, he was running towards her, only metre’s away and he had his snowboard in his hands, like he was about to beat this Alpha with it.
“Brandon, stop.” she yanked her arm free or the Alpha himself let go at the sight of her son coming at him. She shot in front of him, knelt down and put her hands on his arms. “Calm down.”
Gasped when he pulled himself from her hands and hurled that snowboard right at the Alpha, turned to see what happened. The man simply knocked it away, but the boy had his undivided attention now. “I’m sorry,” she hurried out, “he doesn’t know.” she tried to explain to the Alpha.
“Get away from her.” Brandon suddenly yelled up at him. To her horror, there was a gravelly sound to his voice, and when she turned back to look right at him, his eyes were white like Harper’s. His Alpha Wolf had emerged and was pushing forward, trying to assert himself against a fully realised, fully grown Alpha at that.
Grabbed his face and pulled it right to hers “Shh, Brandon look at me. Focus on me.” she tried to calm him.
His wolf stood there snarling at her, at the situation, unhappy she was trying to make it back down. Heard the Alpha behind her snort, seemed amused by the situation. But it was not funny to her, not at all. If he shifted here and now in front of all the humans, s**t would hit the fan. They didn’t know about wolves.
“Calm down.” she tried again, didn’t know what his wolf’s name was to help the situation.
Felt Harper push forward to look right at her son, and gained his attention finally. His eyes moved to hers wolf to wolf. She touched his face and asked him to calm down herself. To receded and let Brandon come back.
Brandon’s Alpha Wolf, stood staring at her for a full minute, then snorted in annoyance before letting go of his control and allowing Brandon to come forward again.
Brandon stare at her. Piper was given back control herself, saw him look a bit confused by what had just happened and then looked passed her to the Alpha. She knew he was still standing there, she could still smell him.
Pulled him into a hug and told him, everything was going to be alright, picked him up and turned to face that Alpha. She knew he was not going to take kindly to this, but she couldn’t do anything more than apologise to him. Her eyes met his.
The man shook his head and sighed “He’s very young.”
Piper knew this, knew that he was referring to the emergence of his Alpha Wolf, likely understood from her reaction to it, that he also understood this was the first time it had happened as well.
“Who is the boy’s father?” he asked.
“What does it matter to you?” she asked quietly.
“Oh, I think it will matter. From what I know of you, Piper Harper. A human wedding dress designer.” Then he lowered his voice. “Not so human are you.” he shook his head.
She just stood staring at him, there was nothing to say. “His eyes, unusual, don’t see that often.” he reached down and picked up the snowboard, Brandon had hurled at him “Perhaps you and I should have a chat.”
“I think I would prefer not.”
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