Bradley came to a halt at hearing Piper’s name mentioned. A tall girl was chatting with her mother as they came out of another coffee shop down the street, talking about how she thought Piper Harper was so nice and her wedding dress was perfect and super excited to be picking it up in a week.
“Excuse me.” Bradley interrupted the two of them, putting a smile right on his face, all his charming self and s*x appeal for them to see, “did you just see Piper Harper in person?”
“Yes,” the girl nodded, “she is amazing.” smiling right back at him.
“Thank you, I was hoping to catch her myself today.” he nodded to them and then turned to look at Cooper expectantly, his annoyance that she was there in the store and they did not know about it for him to see.
“Brad, you’ve been here most of the day yourself. We haven’t seen her. There is no way she got passed us.”
Bradley frowned now, that was true, he’d been here himself only left to go and check on Hadley.
But it was obvious from that woman’s statement she was in the store, “Go and find Hadley.” He muttered as he turned and marched himself down the street and right into Goddess Gown’s.
Locked eyes with lzzy, whose mouth he saw actually twitched in full amusement. He could only imagine from the look on her face, she knew he’d just found out that Piper was here in the store, and his men had not known.
Turned his eyes to the upstairs loft and before Izzy could say anything to him, stalked up there, heard lzzy laugh to herself and knew it was aimed at him, he and Benson nearly snarled at the woman, barely managed to keep it inside of him when he found Piper’s office empty, but the scent of that human woman’s perfume was there in the office, so she hadn’t been gone long.
Really hated this minute that she masked her scent, everywhere that she went. Even in her own office. Was fumingly angry with the woman, with the fact that she had somehow managed to get past him and his entire Alpha Unit at that.
“Can I help you, Mr Drake?” Izzy’s voice came to him dripping with sarcasm.
His eyes moved right to hers. “Where is she?”
Bradley snapped at her. The woman was standing on the landing by the top of the stairs. She had tested his patience days ago, and now it seemed she was about to do it again. The look on her face, a very smug smile, told him she intended to do it again. Obviously had no issues dealing with him.
Likely had to deal with irate wealthy humans all the time, and was not afraid to stand her ground.
“Not here. Please remove yourself from Piper Harper’s office, or I will be calling the police.”
“On what grounds, a client looking for her?” he shot right back. He’d done nothing illegal.
Saw the corner of her mouth tilt right up now, stubborn bloody woman “Trespassing.”
“It’s a store, community property so to speak.”
Bradley informed her she had no idea who he was.
“Only if you are a customer, and Piper Harper doesn’t want anything to do with Drake Industries. I believe that’s the new policy she instated last week.”
“Well, I knew nothing about that now, did I? I was not notified of the new policy, so how would I know that? Go ahead Izzy, call the police…” he smiled right at her “I’m a lawyer.” He could see that shocked her completely, he leaned right down to her ear. “Oh, didn’t she tell you that.” He smiled”
And a damned good one, came from a long line of them.” leaned back and let her see his smile “now where is Piper Harper?”
“Gone home for the day.” she told him simply.
“And where is home?” He asked right back.
“That is none of your business,” She stated quite coldly and then stalked off down the stairs away from him.
Bradley nearly laughed, a part of him really liked this woman, so very protective, headstrong and could stand her ground. It was no wonder Piper liked her, reminded her of a wolf in all likelihood. He followed her down the stairs, all the way to her counter and looked right at her, smiled his most charming of smiles and saw her facade falter slightly, her eyes went wide as his sudden change.
Bradley knew that his resting annoyed face did not make him handsome at all, just looked mean and nasty to most, but when he turned on all his charm and smiled, really smiled at someone, especially the ladies, they all fell all over themselves to try and please him, especially the humans, she was no different.
“Izzy,” Bradley practically purred out her name, softly “please help me out.” He continued to smile at her, watched her take a step back away from him and shake her head as if to clear it, her eyes moved over his face. Knew she was taking all of him in, she couldn’t help it, no human woman could. Well, not many anyway. “What can I do lzzy?” Bradley asked softly, “to get you to help me out.” he leaned on the counter, with both his elbows, allowing her a real close look into his eyes. Most were mesmerised by them, both human and wolves alike.
“Oh, I’m not falling for that.” she pointed a finger right at him “I’ve seen that before, dealt with people like you for a long time. Go away, I will not be telling you anything.”
Bradley chuckled softly “I’ll send my best man in to charm you, then shall I.” and he meant it. She would not be able to get passed Eddie.
“W… What?” she gasped “I have a boyfriend.
“Hope he likes to share.” Bradley smirked right at her. “Eddie won’t take no for an answer, and it’s very unlikely you will say no to him.” He stood and walked out of the store, she might be somewhat immune to Bradley. Which he didn’t mind at all, didn’t particularly like flirting with her, didn’t want too. He had Piper to consider and who knew if it would hurt her or not, so he would not. Eddie, on the other hand, was single and happy to mingle.
Bradley was done being tricked by Piper Harper, or lzzy, into believing she was not around.
The bloody woman was starting to infuriate him.
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