Touched the crystal pendant as she thought about her mother, her wolfs eyes had also been white like Harper’s. A hereditary trait she thought, but Piper did recall that her parents both had good social lives within the pack.
She did not understand why she was the way she was, only knew it was horrid to have to live with. Til she’d run away and gone rogue, saved her and Harper from death. Their fate inside the pack had been killing them, slowly but surely.
Belonged to no-one out here. She was a rogue as was Brandon, not that she smelled that on him, didn’t smell it on her either for that matter. Likely he too was going to be unscentable, she hoped not, didn’t want him to suffer as she had, would not wish that on anybody, not ever.
They arrived at the four seasons, and the runs were still open for one hour, headed straight out with Brandon, he was super excited but kept reminding her “No work mum, you promised.”
Piper was laughing at him now, he’d said it for like the tenth time, as though he didn’t believe her, that he thought she was going to find and excuse to work this weekend. Piper had not even brought her sketch pad or any drawing pencils, this weekend was just her and Brandon, snowboarding and maybe some hiking, if the weather permitted and Brandon wanted off of the slopes.
He loved being outdoors, in the forest, went camping with his best friend once and loved it, did not surprise her at all, not considering what he was, and an Alpha wolf would love it even more, especially once shifted the hunting and chasing of prey. She had no idea when he would have his first shift, usually at 16 but research told her anywhere from 13 on wards.
Piper was going to have to sit him down at some point and explain other worldly creatures to him, before then, might have to get him to watch a few movies first to see what he thought, though at just 7, it was a bit too early for those types of movies.
They had dinner in their room, and he was now playing an online game with his friends back home, she didn’t mind, was happy that he was just happy. Told him she would go for a walk and be back in a short while. He’d hollered “No work mum.” as she’d headed out the door.
Made Piper laugh, “I promised already didn’t I.”
She saw him narrow his eyes right on her for a moment and then nodded his head, Piper had stepped out of her room and headed straight for the bar downstairs, needed a drink, it wouldn’t touch the sides or affect her in anyway, human alcohol did nothing for her, just wanted one, had a long stressful day and wanted a drink, human would do.
Sank down on a bar stool and ordered an espresso martini, loved the smell of coffee, so it was a good start, could sit and sip it and enjoy the smell of it, just relax a little. She was well away from her home, and the stress of the day.
Heard Harper growl inside her mind, full annoyance in her growl, as the scent of wolves hit them, glanced in the mirrored back splash of the bar and saw a half dozen muscled up men and a few young looking women headed this way, downed her martini in one go and banged the glass down on the bar, “I’ll take another.” she told the bar tender as those wolves sat down at the bar, but before he could serve them.
Picked up that martini and downed it in one go as well, as the bar tender swiped her credit card, she would normally enjoy sipping on her espresso martini, but her night just got completely ruined.
Took her card back and spun her stool around, muttered as she got up and walked away from the bar “Hate the stench, that just came in. you’d think animals would learn to shower.” heard the dead quiet of all of them, every one of those blasted wolf’s had heard her comment and she knew it, didn’t even care at all, she’d scented more than one pack, multiple in fact. It irritated her nose.
“What a bitch.” came a female voice.
Piper snorted as she walked out of the bar “First class b***h at that.” she shot back letting them know she had heard the comment as much as they had hers. Didn’t know why they were all here, didn’t care, had ruined her mood completely, stood and waited on the elevator to go back up to her room.
“Oh, my goddess, you’re Piper Harper.” a voice cried out all excited.
Piper rolled her eyes, so not in the mood, the woman or girl sounded very young and very excitable, a bride to be she thought, only brides would know who she was, turned and looked to where the voice had come from, saw a very pretty young woman hurrying towards her.
Dressed in a beautiful white cashmere sweater, black leggings and white furry boots, but it was the scent she gave off that made Piper look back to the elevator and pray it would open before the woman got to her. She had seen the rather large man strolling along behind the young girl, an Alpha, he was likely the girl’s father, they had similar looks, same dark hair and slate grey eyes, he was smiling at the girl.
She reached Piper before the elevator did “Oh my, I love your Goddess Gowns, I want one when I get married.”
“Married?” that was a human thing. Playing at being human seeing where they were she guessed.
“Yes, I can’t wait to meet him one day, the man I will marry.”
The elevator opened and Piper stepped into it “I suggest you find him first, then buy a dress. Not the other way around, might seem desperate otherwise.” she told the girl, as she hit the button for her floor.
Saw the girls mouth open in an ‘O’ of shock and just stand and stare at her as the doors closed on her. “Can’t seem to catch a break.” she muttered to herself as the elevator took her up to her floor.
Must be some sort of Alpha meeting going on, just our bloody luck, go away to get away from wolves, only to find a whole bloody hotel full of them, on the bright side they did know what she was and would leave her alone.
Bradley POV
Bradley was sitting in his office, frowning deeply. He’d not liked hearing his Beta Cooper tell him that Piper Harper the designer had made Hadley cry. Had not like hearing she’d torn up the picture of the gown that she wanted either, the girl had been dreaming of wearing this particular gown for years. Hadley was such a sweet-natured kid, never hurt anyone, did not have a mean bone in her body.
Now some human designer had not just refused to make the dress she was dreaming of wearing but had torn up the picture she had been hanging onto and saved all these years, waiting for the day she was old enough to get a gown of her own.
He’d always told her no; she was too young. But now she had turned 18 and at some point, she would find her Mate and wanted that dress, always had, never once in the past 4 years of seeing it had she changed her mind.
Her older sister Megan wore a Piper labelled dress when she found her Mate, and apparently, they had been sold here in one of the packs stores, before this Piper Harper woman became famous and whet by just Piper, only made wedding dresses now it seemed.
Now this Piper Harper woman was not only rude but had not been the slightest bit intimidated by Cooper either, a human had simply stood her ground, raised an eyebrow at his aura which he’d rolled right at her, apparently didn’t even flinch when Steel, Cooper’s wolf had risen, to try and startle or shock the woman into backing down, and going along with giving Hadley the dress she wanted.
“It’s odd Brad, I couldn’t smell anything about her, not even a human scent. I don’t think she is human; most would have pissed themselves with Steel staring them down, not this woman.” Cooper had told him.
“What’d you make of her exactly?”
“Nothing, for all intensive purposes, looks human.” Cooper replied.
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