‘Eddie.’ he mind-linked his Gamma.
‘Yes Brad.’
‘I give you permission to go and charm Izzy.’
‘Sweet, she’s a real cutie.’ he could hear the amused happy tone in the man’s voice. He could well imagine he was smiling right this minute ‘Find Hadley first though boss.”
‘Yes.’ Bradley agreed.
They did not find Hadley, but did scent out her blood and found an unconscious rogue lying on the ground in a back alley. There was a lot of rogue scent in this alley. In fact, 4 distinct scents as well as Hadley. Fear was itching him, he didn’t think she could take on four male rogues at once and win.
But something else was going on here too, Where Hadley’s blood was didn’t match up with the rest of the fight scene. There was another in this alley way, or maybe one of the rogues had turned on the others, but his major concern was that Hadley was no longer here, she was gone.
Eddie was already tracking her scent down the aileyway, hollered back at him, tracked it all the way to a main road, it was still quite strong, but then the scent was just gone, likely she was in a car and driven away.
“Check the hospitals.” Bradley snapped out.
“Brad, what if there was another, helped her get away, that fight…” It was Cooper, he’d noted it as well, a fight where Hadley’s blood was, but another fight meters away down the alley likely at the same time.
“I know,” He nodded.
“What if it was Piper? We can’t smell her, I can’t scent another in the alley.”
He sighed “lf it was? She either put Hadley in a cab or took her home and I don’t think she took the girl home,” Bradley didn’t think she would have even wanted to get involved in the fight, if she had, and thought Hadley was his Mate. She was saving the woman that she thought was now his Mate and putting them right back together. Therefore, he didn’t think she would take her home, that would bring him right to her doorstep and seeing the two of them together had caused her a lot of pain last time, wouldn’t do that to herself willingly.
“Hospital first.” Cooper agreed with him.
Though if it was Piper who had helped out.
That must have caused her some conflict, yet still helped her anyway, did what any she-wolf would do, saved another from a horrible situation. Unless they were both taken by the three rogues, he could smell but not see. He was actively praying that was not the case, praying Harper had come forward and helped her win against those rogues, and that they had put Hadley into a cab.
Damned woman so frustrating, yet still so caring at the same time, he had to find her, get that bloody scent masking spray off of her and find out if she was actually his Mate or not.
They found Hadley in the emergency room of the nearest hospital and all thoughts of punishing her and putting her in the cells back home were gone from him. The nurse who was looking after her, was telling him about her condition. She had a concussion and had been strangled by the look of it. He could see there was a large hand print around her neck and bruising on the entire left side of her face, she had a graze down her right cheek and a wound at her temple.
The short sleeved hospital gown she was now wearing showed bruising and claw marks on both her arms, defensive wounds and when she looked at him, her blue eyes filled with tears and then she just burst into tears. He hugged her to him and she just held on to him and sobbed.
“Careful.” the nurse told him, “she has more wounds on her body, some needed stitching.”
“How’d she get here?” He asked the nurse.
“My understanding a cab driver brought her in.”
“Hadley what happened?” he asked her softly, although he was certain he already knew and both Cooper and Harry had collected that Roque to deal with him, he had to ask, he also knew she would tell him only what humans would understand.
She looked up at him, her right eye was bruised, he hated seeing her like this. “4 men attacked me, Bradley.. but.” more tears spilled down her face.
Eddie’s hand was in her hair. “Shh, it’s alright Hadley.” his southern drawl rolled out of him, his
Gamma charm in full effect to help her calm down and ease her stress.
“They came out of no where and dragged me into that alley, but…” again that hesitation.
“But?” Bradley prompted.
“Piper must have heard and came to help me… she’s injured too, Bradley, out there somewhere.’
“Did they take her?” he asked, and hated the 10 second wait for her to answer.
“No, she helped me up, into that cab and sent me here, but…”
“But?” he sighed.
“She took on three of them alone.” more tears spilled down her face and he felt Eddie’s hand on his arm. He relinquished Hadley over to the man, so he could use the force of his Gamma Charm to calm her down completely.
His father had said she was in danger, alone out here. She had just saved Hadley from a fate worse than death, he would ask her more details back at the hotel. He understood why she still looked badly injured, couldn’t allow Letti to heal her and let the humans see it, so had to remain injured.
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