“Her car is not here, Bradley. No-one has seen her in a whole day, not since she went to bed last night, not at breakfast either.” He could hear the worry in his father Benjamin’s voice.
“She’s not just gone out shopping with her friends? Left early this morning to beat the rush hour traffic?” Bradley asked “when was the exact last time you saw her?”
“When she went to bed. Was already up and gone from the suite before Lilly and I woke up. We thought she was off at training…but no, she didn’t attend it this morning, I already checked that.”
Bradley was frowning now, “I presume you called her.”
“I’m not an i***t, son. Of course, I called her, so did Lilly. We have both called her a dozen times now, talked to all her friends, no-one has seen her.”
“Who’s out looking for her?”
” Your brother’s, me and my whole unit, everyone in the pack knows to report if they see her, she is not here, missing.” there was actual fear in the man’s voice now.
“I told you to lo-jack the girls’ car, father. She is too pretty, a snatchers’ dream.” he was now worried himself though, Hadley was such a sweet natured girl, she was innocent and wanted to believe that there was only good in everyone, its why he’d sent her out here with his entire unit in fact. To protect her.
“I’ll call her. Has she picked up at all?”
“No, it goes right to the message bank.”
He could already see Eddie was on it, calling her “Hang on Eddie is ringing her now.” They all waited patiently till Eddie shook his head, “No luck.”
“We’ll keep searching son…but”
She was her father’s little girl, his only daughter in fact, and everyone loved Hadley. He sighed “I’ll send my unit back to help with the search. I have to stay though.”
“No son, don’t do that. You all need to be there. Just…thought she might have turned up there, keep an eye out for her will you.”
“What? Why would Hadley be out here? Piper upset her completely.”
“I know that son. But she was more concerned that Piper ran away from you, and thinks it’s all her fault. Was talking to Lilly about it last night before going to bed, worried she’d screwed up your Mate Bond.”
Bradley shook his head and huffed at his father. “Well, maybe you should have, lead with that.” he muttered, annoyed now “We’ll search here.” He hung up.
“You think she came out here to try and convince Piper to come home?” Cooper sighed.
“Oh, I know she did, she apparently believes what she and her wolf, Letti, picked up on was Piper’s reaction to seeing me with another. She did come and apologise to me, for scaring the woman off, before we left.” he could only shake his head again.
Bradley had tried to convince her that she was wrong, told her a bit of the truth, that Piper had used to be a pack member, but that was it, told her that Piper was likely just scared to see her old Beta and Alpha was all.
Though she had not believed him at all, she had stood there and raised a delicately sculpted eyebrow at him and then repeated his own words back to him, “It’s not fear, it’s pain.” didn’t miss a thing that girl. Was going to make an excellent lawyer.
“On it.” Cooper was dialling a number a minute later, got a ‘no I didn’t see her or her car leave Beta.’ Cooper was not so dumb, shook his own head. The girl, who was all sweet, was also very intelligent, intending to follow her father’s footsteps and go to Law School.
“Did Hadley, Alpha Order you to say that you hadn’t seen her or her car?” he asked in return. Was talking to the night gate guard.
Bradley sighed, knew as soon as he heard Coop ask the question the answer was going to be ‘yes’ and he was not wrong.
“What time did she put the order on you?” Cooper asked again. He knew how to question and interrogate.
“Thank the goddess you asked Beta.” the guard actually sounded relieved to be being questioned “it was 3 in the morning. I’m sorry.”
“Not your fault, Hadley is very bright.” he hung up.
The guard would not be punished, he was under an Alpha’s order not to tell, so he physically couldn’t, poor bastard sounded like he was worried as much as the rest of the pack.
“3am.” Bradley looked at the time now, it was nearly 7pm. It was a 13 hour drive without stops for eating and using the bathroom, and father did drum into all his children the stop, revive and survive policy for driving, a break from driving every two hours to stop the monotony of staring at the road and causing fatigue.
Hadley would likely only just be getting here now. ” Let’s watch the use of her pack creditcard, she’ll have to book into a hotel at some point.”
Harry agreed to track the girls’ card, his laptop was already out, so not an issue.
Eddie took one of their rental cars to go and drive around to actually look for her car.
Bradley put in a call to her himself. She wasn’t likely to ignore him. It would get her punished, not that he thought his father wasn’t going to round on the girl about being young and alone, an un-mated Alpha female alone and vulnerable.
She did train, but hated to fight, it was not in her nature to sweet like her mother Lilly was. Lilly had been an Omega before she met his father, still had a submissive nature and was eager to please, even 19 years later. Had been an omega for 40 years before meeting his father, not so easy to grow out of, she’d once told him.
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