Morning came and Cooper was still not back, Bradley had called the man a dozen times, damned near every hour on the hour, something was definitely going on and he did not like it. He was still sitting in Coopers room when the man finally let himself into his suite.
He stopped and stared at Bradley when he saw him, then just sighed and closed the door behind him.
“What the hell is going on Cooper?” Bradley had snapped right at him his anger showing.
“I spent the night watching her. Trailed her to work this morning as well. Leave it alone Brad, for now.”
“You said, she had a son!” he snapped still angry.
“She does, I’ve been trying to get a photo of him, it’s why I was out” he walked towards the bathroom.
“Cooper whatever is going on. I need to know it.” he’d gotten up and stalked after his Beta to the bathroom, not ready to let it go, sitting waiting on the man all night that would not take his calls, rejected his own Alpha’s calls, his bloody best friends calls at that, had left Bradley ticking away like crazy, his annoyance with his Beta had turned to anger. He’d not slept all night.
Had prowled around and paced back and forth inside of Coopers suite all damned night long, and just got more furious about the entire situation.
“We can’t just take her Bradley, not when she has a child to consider, More tact is going to be needed.”
“I understand that, I just need to know if she is or isn’t my Mate, if she’s not I’ll walk away, regardless of what father said. So did you get a picture? Of the boy?”
“I did.” Cooper nodded “I need a shower, had a run this morning, I’ll talk to you when I’m out.” Then he’d shut the bathroom door right in Bradley’s face.
Bradley was hard pressed not to kick the damned door in and Alpha Order the information out of his Beta, stood glaring at the door, he knew Cooper would have heard the snarl that came from Benson because of the lack of respect.
Bradley POV
Took that man 15 solid minutes to emerge from his shower. Bradley was starting to wonder if his Beta was interested in the woman himself, so very evasive he was about her, had spent the night watching her, he didn’t like it and Benson was stalking around inside his mind glaring out at the man. It would not have gone unnoticed by his Beta that his Alpha’s wolf was on the surface staring him down every 15 or 20 seconds, while they watched the man get dressed in clean clothes.
“What?” his Beta had snapped at him as he’d finally yanked a shirt on.
“Spill it or Benson is gonna order it out of you. What the hell is going on, Cooper?”
“It’s complicated, Brad.” he’d sighed. “The boy.” He shook his head. “Is definitely a wolf, already got his wolf too.”
“What? How old is the boy?” Brad was completely taken aback by this news.
“I don’t know, I’m guessing 7 maybe 7 2.” His Beta was looking right at him.
“A wolf at 7?” It was very unusual to have a wolf that young. He was an early shifter, he supposed.
“Mm, Hmm.” Cooper nodded “Aspen, I think is the wolf’s name. At first l thought they were talking about some friend of the boys, but this morning when the two of them went for a run, the boy’s eyes, his wolf’s eyes, they’re white like his mothers wolf.” he smiled just a little “when she beat him, he was all annoyed and stalked off, unhappy she had out run him.”
“To be expected, I guess, he’s just little. What’s the boy look like?” curiosity was itching his brain.
“His mother, actually, has the same light brown hair, even the same highlights must be natural colouring, he has her fair skin too. His eyes however, are not brown like hers.”
Bradley took a deep breath and asked the question he didn’t want to think about “And the boys father? Is there a man in the picture?”
“No man that I saw, just her and the boy. I ran the plates to her car. It’s registered to Piper Whitlock, so work and home lives are completely separated, I’m guessing.”
“She’s at work right now?” he asked was more than a little bit relieved that there was no man in the picture, calmed down a little. Benson was still agitated.
“Yes, the boy is at a birthday party from what I gleaned.” Cooper sighed heavily “Bradley, how is Benson right now?”
“What why? A little annoyed and more than frustrated, but at you mostly. Curious about the boy. Why do you ask?”
Watched as Cooper pulled his phone out and then went through it, turned it over and slid it across the table they were sitting at, towards him “That’s the boy.” Bradley picked up the phone and looked at the boy. It was a picture of him smiling coming down some stairs out the back of a house, his wolf fully on the surface, looked very happy in the photo and it clearly showed the wolf’s white eyes. Benson pushed forward to look right at the boy himself, curious about the boy too.
Cooper sighed again “There is more.” He reached over and slid the screen to the left, brought up the next photo and Bradley shot to his feet. As he looked at the boy now, it was like staring at his own eyes, in the reflection of a mirror, he’d know those eyes anywhere.
His eyes moved to Cooper a second later. His heart was racing inside his chest and Benson was not happy all of a sudden.
“He’s yours, I’m willing to bet.” Cooper sighed “Like I said, Brad, it’s now complicated.” Bradley turned his eyes back to the boy in the photo, stared at it for a long time, his brain was ticking, and Benson was now prowling around inside his mind very unhappy. They did not sense the boy. Most Alpha’s could sense their own offspring, once they got their wolves.
Benson did not sense him. Even now, Bradley could sense that his wolf was trying to feel out his son right this minute. He was getting nothing and it was frustrating his wolf.
Piper’s reaction to him last week, could have just been because she’d born him a son, and had not told him, might not be his Mate after all. He sighed and Benson snarled at him at that thought. Didn’t like it at all, his wolf believed it even more now that their was a child.
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