“Yes,” she nodded “You’ll likely grow up to be big like them, you’ll need to learn…” sighed “to fight, it is wolves nature to fight for dominance and control. Aspen is very young, but actively challenged a fully grown wolf today. Not a good thing, he could have accepted and if so, by law, wolfen law…” goddess, she did not want to think about that at all.
Saw Brandon look right at her, registered actual fear in his expression, he knew or guessed, Piper pulled him into a hug and sighed “you have to try and control Aspen, it will be difficult due to what he is, but if you two can come to a mutual understanding it will be easier.”
“What is he?” she heard the worry in his voice.
“His type of wolf, I mean. Wolves don’t normally appear this early, not till…for your type of wolf 13 or so, most don’t get their wolves until 16, so Aspen is very early.”
“Is that a bad thing?” he asked.
“No! Not a bad thing, just a surprise is all.” She looked down at him and reassured him.
“We should go to that man. I don’t want us to get in trouble, mum.” he told her.
“Alright, we’ll talk more at home, okay.” she agreed, she too did not want to incur Alpha Timothy’s wrath.
They arrived 15 minutes early to the room, written on the paper.
Alpha Timothy opened the door himself, smiled right at her and Brandon, all friendly like “Come on in.” even sounded happy to see her.
She knew better, he was not to be trusted. Not considering he was black mailing her into working on her weekend away, when all his daughter had to do was call the damned store and schedule an appointment with her.
Piper sat at the suite’s dining room table, with the man’s daughter, Celeste was her name. Piper was listening to the girl who was describing the dress she wanted and making notes. It was a bit difficult to concentrate, due to Alpha Timothy sitting on the lounge in the living area next to Brandon. It was a good 20 feet away, she’d never get there in time if that Alpha opted to hurt her son. She kept looking over at them worriedly.
“I’m not going to hurt your boy Piper.” He commented after the 5th time she’d looked over there, “I’m just curious is all.”
She still didn’t like it, neither did Harper for that matter, and her wolf hearing was tuned into Alpha Timothy and Brandon, which also didn’t help her focus on Celeste’s ideas for her dress.
Celeste was watching her sketch and huffed, a few times stating “It’s not what I pictured,” and made Piper start again.
After the 4th restart, Piper sighed “Alright Celeste, can you possibly sketch even roughly what it looks, perhaps that will help me to help you get what it is you want.
“Oh, I think so.” the girl smiled at her and took the offered pencil and pad of drawing paper.
It would usually help if they knew what they wanted, and Piper could work from just about any sketch given to her, she could usually tweak it and make it her own while giving them the desired dress they wanted.
“Will I be making this dress? Or just designing it?” she turned her eyes to Alpha Timothy questioningly, he’d only said she had to design it.
Saw him look right at her, “I guess that is up to Celeste.” he smiled right at her.
She held in an irritated sigh and turned her eyes back to Celeste. The girl she could see, unfortunately, did not have a single artistic bone in her body and the sketch she produced was not good at all. Piper held in the heavy sigh of frustration that was trying to escape her when the girl handed it to her, smiling at her.
“Alpha, this might go a bit easier and quicker, if my son was next to me.” she told him honestly.
“Well, I’ll order us all some dinner and you can design while we all eat.”
It was not what she meant or wanted, but she had no choice, he was calling all the shots at the moment. The man ordered food. A lot of it, even made sure that Brandon had more than one meal to eat, even encouraged the boy to eat more, told him he was a growing wolf and needed to eat lots.
“Piper may I ask your wolf to present herself to me?” Alpha Timothy asked her half way through his meal.
She felt Harper bristle inside her mind, did not like the request at all, neither did Piper for that matter, “She is not interested.” Piper told him truthfully Why do you want that?”
“I’m curious.”
Piper sighed, she’d not eaten anything, even though he had provided her with a meal as well, she was not at all hungry, was just trying to get the dress designed that the girl wanted, but the sketch was terrible, had these weird zigzag lines over the shoulders and then flicks of lines all over the skirt area. Piper did not know what they meant and had to inquire, also did not know what all the dots on the dress were either. Looked like a 2 year old had drawn it if she was honest with herself.
Apparently the zigzags were ruffles and the flicked lines were feathers and the dots were crystal beading. Looking at the sketch it kind of made more sense to her now. Was trying to design something similar.
“curious about what?” Piper asked as she started a whole new sketch, a fitted bodice with an inbuilt corset, and pretty beading all over it, it was fitted all the way to the hips as per the detail she had already gotten.
“Her eyes.” Alpha Timothy finally replied as he finished his meal.
“Same as Brandon’s.” she stated flatly, not willing to force Harper forward, didn’t even look at him, put the layers of ruffles on the sleeve of the dress as per Celeste’s idea and then penciled in a feathered skirt, turned it to Celeste and saw her nod, but then was still frowning “I don’t like the sleeves.”
Neither did Piper, for that matter. “How about you let me adjust that part for you, are you open to some minor changes?”
Saw Celeste nod slowly, used another page to design a different style top for the dress, in stead of a scooped neck line, with spaghetti straps that had ruffles coming off of it, she made it a square neckline with a sheer fitted bolero style top, only pinned at the edge of the shoulder and then allowed the material to flow down off the shoulder to a short bell sleeve that stopped at the middle of her upper arm, edged it with a nice white satin ribbon, not a ruffle, but still flowing material, it looked much better.
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