“But you are here now, and so are we.” he shrugged.
Brandon got off of her lap and sat in the chair next to her, but his eyes were on her, she had promised not to work this weekend. “I promised my son no work this weekend.” she told Alpha Timothy honestly.
“I understand that life can be…difficult. But you can’t always have what you want. If you sit with my daughter, listen to her, design her the dress she wants, I’ll let you go.” he indicated to Brandon, “Though I am pretty certain. Somewhere out there, right now or very soon, there is going to be one very agitated Alpha Wolf, looking for what is his.”
Piper did not say anything, if she said there wouldn’t be, he could take that two ways, 1. they boy’s father was dead or 2. she was the Alpha, not the boy’s father. Left that well enough alone. He did not know what she was, couldn’t smell her and she knew it. Even if he saw Harper’s eyes he would not, he couldn’t not without being able to scent her blood, and that was not going to happen.
“I’ll give you 2 options then.” he told her when she refused to say anything, “1. design my daughter a dress, today, this evening or 2. I report you to the council in your own country, and they deal with you.”
Piper stared at him, she had no idea what the Wolfen council would do with her. She doubted very much at all, as a lone rogue. It was likely they would just confiscate all her money, and make her register her business, give them part of her profit line. She did not think they would actually care about one rogue, who’d made a nice living for herself.
“Punishment even for a rogue is likely imprisonment, separated from your boy. In case you are wondering, they will also pry out of you who his father is and likely hand him over to the man.”
Her eyes went wide, felt Harper whimper instantly. They did not want to be separated from their son. Turned her eyes and looked right at Brandon, saw him looking right up at her now. Scared, he understood what that meant, they had no-one, it was just the two of them.
“It’s okay mum.” she heard him tell her, “just go and work for him.”
“He’s a smart boy.” Alpha Timothy smiled right at her.
“I don’t have any of my supplies here.” she half grated out.
“I’ll organise some thing. Come to my suite in 1 hour, if you’re late. I will follow through…Oh, and bring the boy. He intrigues me.” Then he wrote down on a piece of paper his room number and handed it to her, “One hour Piper. I mean that.” he commented as he walked away from her.
What choice did she have? None.
Bradley POV
Back in his pack, Bradley was sitting at his desk researching into wolves with white eyes, had a stack of books from the pack’s library archives on his desk about wolf types. Many to go though.
He’d sent Hadley, who was still upset, up to her room to unpack, told her he would try again with Piper Harper, that perhaps getting an appointment under her mother’s name or someone else’s here in the pack might resolve the issue. Hadley had just nodded, though she looked doubtful to him.
She had already asked him, why a she-wolf would run away from her Mate. He’d not been able to answer that question for her. Didn’t want the girl to blame herself for making Piper think she was his Mate.
Bradley had already gone through the packs database, searched for the name Piper Harper, had come up empty handed, there was not even a family with the last name Harper in his pack. He was more confused than before. Maybe it simply wasn’t the same girl.
He had sent Eddie off to bring Renee to his office. She’d stocked Piper Harper gowns for 3 and half years, if he recalled correctly, had said she’d even met the woman. He wanted to know how and when. So, why he was waiting on Renee he was doing research, as was his Beta Cooper.
Though Cooper had told him, white wolf eyes was itching inside his mind, like he’d seen it or read it somewhere, just couldn’t quite latch onto it. Same as Bradley for that matter.
Renee walked into his office with Eddie next to her, she smiled right at him like always, and then sat herself down in the chair on the other side of his large oak desk. “No such luck with Piper Harper, Alpha?”
“Not in the making of a dress for Hadley, no. I did actually get to lay eyes on the woman,” he commented.
“How is Piper doing? It’s been a long time since I saw her.”
Bradley frowned at her words. “How well did you know her? Did she ever come here to the pack? She is a wolf, I found out.” he told her.
“Um, yes! I know that. Did you not?” she was now frowning at him, seemed confused by his words.
“No, I did not, even Cooper here could not pick up what she was, her scent was masked the whole time.”
Saw as Renee raised an eyebrow, and then looked from him to Cooper and back again, did not look shocked by the news he’d just imparted, just appeared curious that they brought it up or that maybe they should have known this already.
“Did she come to this pack? Or did you go to her pack to purchase her brand?”
Renee frowned deeply at him now. “Alpha, why would you not know the answer to that yourself? You approved yourself, her working for me, in my store. Piper Harper used to live here.”
That snapped his head up. “What?” he’d already checked on that. It was the very first thing he’d done when he got home, trying to verify if she could be his Mate. There was no record of her here in this pack.
“Born in to this pack, I believe,” Renee stated. “I thought she’d up and left, because you’d approved her owning a store in the human world, her label sold very well, could barely keep her dresses on the racks. Though I was disappointed she never told me and left without so much as a goodbye.”
“Piper Harper sold out here in this pack.”
“Well the label back then just stated Piper. I guess she changed it when she became big.”
“Wait…Start again. This, Piper Harper, is a pack member. I didn’t sense any connection to her. I certainly didn’t give her permission to open a human world store.” but that would make sense of her reaction to Cooper and himself, her old Alpha and his Beta turning up inside of her store. Could have freaked her out. “There is no record of a Piper Harper, none with that name has ever lived here in this pack. I checked already.” he told her.
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