She’d not really smelled many rogues over the years, the odd one here or there, but could pass on by them like she was nothing to them, like she was a simple human and of no interest to them.
Despite not wanting anything to do with that girl or her Mate, Piper could not, in good conscience, leave that girl to a hideous horrible fate. It was not in her, as much as it pained her to know she’d just put the two of them back together, the girl was only young and didn’t deserve to be sold off and used as a s*x slave by some sadistic brute of a wolf, to live a life of torture and pain.
Piper showered and changed, got rid of her bloodied clothing altogether and headed off the two blocks to wait to pick Brandon up at the bus stop. Her face was healed, Harper had focused her healing ability on her face first, the bleeding had stopped on all her wounds, but her broken ribs would need more time, but it was autumn, so a long sleeved shirt and a pair of jeans were okay this time of year and hid her wounds from his eyes.
Bradley POV
Standing in his empty hotel suite, Bradley was absolutely fuming. Hadley had been told to stay here, not to leave this room, period. Yet she was now not here, the girl was literally asking to be punished.
He wondered absently what his father would do, if Hadley reported to him, he’d beaten her, sighed, he’d not likely beat her, but he did want to, really wanted to, but wouldn’t. Wondered also how annoyed his father would be when he marched that girl right to the cells and put her in one of them.
She had disobeyed his directed order, disobeyed her own Alpha’s order for that matter, wondered how long she had been gone for, didn’t think that she had gone very far, her handbag was still in the room on the couch where he had made her sleep, walked over and checked it, no phone in there, must have it on her.
Dialled her number and growled annoyingly into the empty room. It was actually turned off.
What was the point in having it if it was turned off?
Turned and stalked out of his hotel suite, banged the door closed behind him. He’d only come back to check on her after lunch, to make she was doing as she was told, and she wasn’t. He took himself downstairs and showed her picture to the human doorman, asked him “Did you see my sister leave?”
“Oh yeah, got that pretty girl a cab” He smiled at Bradley.
“Where to?”
“I just haled it.” The doorman told him.
“When?” Bradley snapped at the man, his annoyance no longer able to be held in.
“About 40 minutes ago, I guess,” He answered, looking at his watch.
“Right” Bradley muttered. ’40 minutes in the cells and counting little sister’ she had been warned, he was going to follow through, regardless of what his father thought. She had been told by their father to do everything she was told to do.
Hell, he as her alpha, had warned her himself and still she had disobeyed.
Walked back to his rental car and headed back out to where he’d left his unit. Nothing it seemed was going right, it was a 30 minute drive back to the cafe they were using as their base to sit and watch Piper’s store. Walked into the store to find Cooper not at the table with the boys, glanced at Eddie and Harry, a slight frown on his face at not seeing his Beta, only to have Eddie look pointedly at the cafe counter area.
His eyes moved to it and he found himself looking right at Izzy, as he sat himself down. Well, now their cover was blown, she was looking at him with a raised eyebrow, as she collected her coffee’s from the girl behind the counter.
‘Cooper’s in the bathroom.’ Eddie mind-linked him ‘tried to stop us from getting recognised as your men.’
Izzy walked right by him as she headed for the door, glanced directly at him. “I told you already, she’s not working from the store, for several weeks.
“Purely coincidence.” He commented right back.
“Hm, right…You’re a long way from home aren’t you!” she stated and then walked out the door. Bradley frowned, a long way from home, either she had looked him up or Piper had told her where they were from. “They don’t normally use this cafe.”
“Nope.” Eddie shook his head “there are 4 on the street and she wandered along looking at all of 1 them in turn. I saw her look right at me for a moment and then just came in and ordered coffees.
She didn’t acknowledge me at all once in the store, but pretty certain she came in because she recognised me.”
“Must have picked up on our walk-by’s.” Harry commented.
“She’s not so blind, in other words,” Bradley sighed. “Looking for anything out of the ordinary.”
“Likely” Eddie nodded.
Cooper strolled over and sank down “Brad, your timing sucks.”
“Mm, it does seem that way.” He nodded”
Hadley left the hotel in a cab almost an hour and a half ago now.” Found all their eyes on him in an instant.
“We’ve not seen her,” Cooper told him.
“Can’t be that far away, let’s go hunt the area.”
They all got up and headed out of the cafe.
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