Closed his eyes, no wonder she had been so tiny. It was likely she had wasted away to nothing over the years. It would literally have been killing her, a very slow, very painful, agonisingly painful death for her and her wolf and he’d known nothing about it. She had kept it all from him, he didn’t understand, couldn’t wrap his brain around it.
If this was the situation, it was the reason why she’d rejected him. He’d not even meant to be home that night, the night he’d found the scent masked girl in his bed. She’d run from his room just minutes before Cooper and Harry had come to his aid.
The pack-house camera’s showed it. She’d had a backpack already to go, she’d already made the decision to leave. When he wasn’t supposed to be in the packs territory at that, had likely gone into his room, just to smell his scent, to likely spend one night in his bed, where she belonged.
But that night, he and his unit had been attacked on the road by a rogue pack, which had destroyed his car and they’d been forced to come back to the pack instead. If not for that incident, he’d never have touched her at all. Never in all likelihood been able to understand what had happened to him at all.
Wondered now if he would have felt the connection to her sever at all? He likely only felt it, now realised because he’d had his hands on her, she’d been in his bed and though he’d not known what she was at the time, he’d not been able to control himself with her and Benson had wanted him to mate her as well.
His wolf right this moment was more than annoyed, he was prowling around inside of Bradley’s mind, it was very clear to the both of them, now that they had the information, Piper had hidden herself from him for a full 3 years. Had not once come forward, not even so much as presented herself to him initially on the day she had scented him out.
Why not? The need to claim your Mate was strong, even to those who wanted nothing but to reject the other, they were still drawn to each other, until that rejection was made, even sometimes after the rejection was made and accepted.
Hell, Bradley had two wolves right here in his pack who hated each other, had outright rejected each other on the day they found out, from his understanding, the actual moment they had realised they were Mates. Those two had wolf on wolf fights on many occasions over the last two years, but then were reported to have been seen out in the woods going at it like crazy, having s*x uncontrollably, all raw animalistic and needy for each other, then they were back to hurling insults at each other as they walked away.
Bradley had actually seen it himself once, come across the two of them yelling and screaming at each other about how they hated the other, all manner of foul words had been thrown about and he’d thought he was going to have to intervene and separate them once they’d started shoving at each other, and then before he knew it, pants were coming down and underwear had been ripped off and he’d seen them furiously f**k each other, screaming and crying out in pleasure, only to go back to calling each other foul names the minute it was over and they’d caught their breath. Had stalked away from each other back to hating each other seemed.
They had rejected each other right away, when the girl had turned 18, but could not it seem keep their hands off of each other, it was a crazy stupid relationship he thought. Brad was tempted to lock the pair of them up in a cell together, til they sorted it out. But he was actually worried they might kill each other at the same time. Over the past two years the pair of them had actually put each other in to the packs hospital at least twice with their wolf on wolf fighting.
It was completely insane, he’d never seen anything like it, had gone to his father for advice about them, his father had sighed and told him to leave it alone, had stated “They’ll likely mate like crazy one day and end up marking each other and that will solve the issue.” is all he’d told Bradley.
Bradley was leaving it alone as per his father’s advice, but he was also monitoring the situation at the same time, they were both still young just 20 and 21 and from his understanding of their situation, the guy had bullied his Mate all her life, through out primary and high school, also had accepted her rejection without hesitation, when the girl had hurled it at him. She had screamed it right in the mans face in front of a crowd of her and his friends, and he’d yelled his acceptance right back at her.
Bradley sighed, he’d seen Piper and her reaction to just his presence in her studio, at her store. She still felt their bond, had to, looked up to both Cooper and Eddie who he knew were waiting on his response.
“It’s her.” he muttered “Piper Harper is Piper Whitlock, her wolfs name is Harper. I’m guessing likely changed her name when she left the pack, would have been…” he sighed “21, when she left.”
That snapped Coopers eyes wide “Are you sure?” he sounded almost horrified and Bradley knew why.
“Yes.” he nodded “I’m guessing, she likely knew all that time as well. Had scent masked herself from me the whole time.”
“That’s insane Brad. It would have killed her…especially seeing you and Bianca here in the pack.”
“Not to mention, when I wasn’t in the pack.” Bradley sighed heavily, hated that thought to, he was Alpha blooded and had not had a Mate, as far as he knew, so had sated his needs when and where ever he pleased, with those that were willing, many times over those 3 years.
“So what now Brad?” his Beta Cooper asked as he frowned deeply.
“I don’t know Coop. She did reject me. I don’t know anything about her at all. What’s weird, I don’t even recall her, but her file states I would have at least trained with her warrior class once a month, she was also 17 when I took over, so would have been right in front of me, to accept her loyalty pledge, hell Coop. I would have had to call out her name, I don’t…” he tried to recall that day, but there were so many, a lot of wolves a whole pack “I don’t even remember her then.”
“What else have you got?”
He knew that his Beta was trying to jog his memory of her.
“Nothing really. Piper Whitlock registered her own wolf, worked for Renee for 3 and half years, there is no registered guardians, her parents would of died when she was like 10, she attended school all the way through, but I don’t know, its all just on paper almost like, she just didn’t exist to me ever, no photo’s not her not her wolf after the age of 10.”
“Weird.” Cooped nodded.
“Very weird, do you recall her, you would have trained her warrior group when I couldn’t.”
watched his Beta think on it, then shake his head “No! All I do know is that she did not like Hadley or I.”
“Well that’s easy to understand now. She likely thought that Hadley was my Mate. Reacted as a previous Mate would.”
“But she did reject you. So really.” he shrugged.
“I never accepted the rejection.” Bradley shook his head “How could I, I didn’t even know she was out there. I never actually have accepted it and Coop, I’m not likely too either. I want to know why my Goddess-Gifted Mate, hid from me all those years, why she rejected me also?”
“To much pain Bradley.” Coop offered, it was a logical explanation.
“I don’t believe that…well maybe in the end. But she stayed here, with that knowledge for 3 years, why? Wouldn’t you just confront and reject your Mate, when you found out if you didn’t want your Mate? Why wait and put up with all that pain, for 3 full years?”
“I don’t know, only she knows Brad.” Cooper sighed with a shake of his head.
Harry walked into his office “No such luck Brad.” he’d been on a mission to get an appointment with Piper Harper, “Her assistant said no, to all the girls I had call. The minute they stated what company they work for, were refused an appointment.”
“They had to state what company they work for to get an appointment?” he asked confused.
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