“I didn’t get the chance to tell her I was your sister Bradley. I’m sorry.”
“It’s alright Hadley.” It likely was not a good situation for either her or Piper. “Did any of them?” he had to ask the horrid question “touch you?”
“No, well, not really. Piper came before they could, thankfully.” She answered him” She’s injured Bradley.” she sounded much calmer now that she was in Eddie’s arms.
“How badly, did you see?”
“Um, had blood on her face, down one side of her abdomen and on her arms, looked a right mess before I was thrown into the wall.”
Bradley nodded, he didn’t like it, didn’t have much choice about it. Wasn’t there to stop it, but if she had gotten Hadley out and won against 3 rogues, “Hadley how did you get away from the 4th man?”
“Piper attacked him too, he threw me at the wall and T hit my head. I don’t really remember much after that, just that she picked me up. It’s fuzzy, I think she threatened the cab driver to make sure l got here.”
He nodded, could see Eddie looking at him worry on his face, if Piper was Bradley’s Mate and even his own father was leaning in that direction, then the Luna to their pack was out there somewhere, injured. It was not sitting well with the pack’s Gamma. She was his job.
Why the alleyway, he thought, why was she there? It was blocks away from her store. He sighed, knew the answer right away. Because she didn’t want to use the front door, so that back entrance went beyond that courtyard that led to the short walkway to the front of the store, there must be another exit, one he’d not been watching.
Got Hadley discharged and back to their hotel Letti started healing her as soon as she was in the car. She was still upset and beside herself that Piper had gotten hurt while helping her, had begged him not to call their father, he’d told her he had to.
So she’d begged him not to until she was healed.
This was the exact reason, she was not allowed to go out on her own without quards. Exactly what their father had lectured her about just yesterday, and then she had gone and done the most stupid thing and found herself in the situation they had warned her about.
She had now told him in full detail about the rogue’s purpose for her, that she would sell for a good price. He’d even heard that Piper had told them she was a better choice. He shuddered to think of her, either of them, for that matter, in those rogue’s hands. Put a call in to Cooper and told him what Hadley had said.
Heard the man and his wolf snarl in anger. He wasn’t exactly sure what pissed him off more, what they wanted to do to Hadley, or that they had told Piper she was basically worthless. He just stated “I’ll sort it out and end this before coming back.”
Which just meant that the rogue was likely going to wind up dead after Cooper had tortured him for all the information he had about the where abouts of the other 3 rogue’s who had gotten away, they did not want any of them coming back to have another shot at Hadley or Piper for that matter.
Piper had taken them all on and won, so she must still train either on her own or in some gym.
Both her parents had been good strong warriors, likely both on their way to elite status, and she had been in training, according to the pack records, both before and after she got her wolf, to be a warrior herself, likely wanted to take after them.
Likely wanted to make them proud of her, had trained right up until she’d scented him out and got hit with that first lot of betrayal pains he imagined, and then it would have just been a downward spiral into withering away to nothing. Bradley hated that thought, that she’d suffered through that.
Once he had woken up inside his own pack hospital after she’d left, and he’d heard his Pack Dr. Samuel tell him that not only did it sound like and look like he’d been suffering from a rejection.
Eddie’s claim that he’d felt severe pain from a she-wolf and only he would feel the Luna like that.
Then to go on and tell him that for the past 3 years he had been feeling the pain of another, not been able to track it down. Mostly it happened when Bradley was with a she-wolf, and that unfortunately, it was mostly when they were away from the pack. Though he did also feel it when Bradley had been with Bianca in their pack.
That when they were in the pack, Eddie had hunted relentlessly for the one in pain, but he had never been able to pin her down, or find out who that pain belonged to. Bradley had been more than a little horrified that it had been going on for 3 years.
He had stopped touching she-wolves, stopped fl!rting with she-wolves and stopped having s*x right away, knew what it would do to the girl if it continued and he didn’t want that. Was more than confused about it, apparently having a Mate he knew nothing about.
One he was damned sure had been in his bed that very night, he’d never felt anything like her before, touching her had created a need in him that he’d never felt or experienced with any she-wolf ever, the way she felt under his hands, the way she had responded to his touch even.
Then to reject him, and not just as her Mate, but also as her Alpha and the entire pack to boot. It was not good, he’d had no idea, didn’t even really know what she looked like, had been so damned consumed with how she had felt the pleasure he was taking in being with her. His bloody eyes had been closed most of the time, immersed himself in that pleasurable feeling, so self-absorbed by it. He was an a*ss-h0le, it seemed.
Pulled his mind from that and put a call into his father and told him what had happened, let him talk to Hadley and see her. Her mother too, heard her actually promise to do as she was told, now that she really understood the risks of being out and about alone.
Piper POV
Piper hit the treadmill at sun up, like she did every morning. Her ribs were still causing her pain, but Harper was working on them. She found Brandon next to her 15 minutes later. She smiled down at him as he stepped onto his own treadmill, frowned right at her and pointed to the bruising on her ribs, “What happened?”
“I’m alright, slight altercation with a man, trying to hurt a woman. I won.” She grinned down at him
“So you think today’s the day, you’ll beat me?” Piper asked, distracting him with a challenge.
“Maybe.” he grinned right up at her as he turned on his machine.
Piper ran every day, about 18 kilometres in the morning and another 18 to 20 in the evening, depending on how she felt at the time. Both their treadmills were hooked to the iFIT app and she was currently running through Vermont. It was up on the screen with the iFIT trainer running and chatting away about the sights and when to breathe and when to kick it up a notch and when to slow it down. Her treadmill under full control of the iFIT app.
Brandon only ran every other day usually, but he had been running every morning with her since they got back. She didn’t mind the company, liked running with him. “How’s Aspen?” she asked him.
“Sleeping, he’s not awake every day.” Brandon commented.
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