The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 30

Conner POV

Conner showered and dressed in clean clothes, headed downstairs for dinner with his unit. His eyes moved about the room, no one looked at him like they knew anything. Marlo was with his usual group of friends. They were all pretty quiet, moved his eyes to Brayden. “How’d it go with father?”

“Fine.” He stated simply.

Conner wanted to ask a bunch of questions but was not about to, it would raise suspicion where he was concerned. Looked at Adam who was quiet himself today, “Did they get punished?” he indicated to the group of people that had been with Eliza.

“Not that I’m aware of, reprimanded is all.”

His father, it seemed, was being more lenient with the pack members. He wasn’t overly happy about that. They had been hanging out with Eliza, had lost track of her, and then just returned without her, thinking she’d come back on her own. How could they think that? When her stuff was still there.

He couldn’t intervene without everyone knowing what she was to him, but he really did want to go over there and yell at them, pull them into line. If it had not been for Marlo looking for Eliza when he got home, they may never have even known she was out there. She could well have drowned today, and he’d not known about it until it was too late.

Atlas was quiet inside his mind, not even he, it seemed, had sensed anything wrong at all, now she was just up there in her room, hopefully sleeping like the pack doctor told her to be. His father and Brittney were seated there at the table along with the current Alpha Unit and their families.

He was surprised that Brittney was there and chatting happily with the others at the table. She should have been up there in that room with her daughter who nearly drowned today. That made him frown, he saw his father’s eyes on him and nodded to him, but said nothing. What could he do other than tell her? He thought she should be up there with Eliza. He wasn’t about to start telling the Luna what to do, though he did want to.

At least it was Friday and there were no classes for him for the next two days, he could monitor her himself, from a safe distance. Make sure she was actually okay, though how he was going to do that he didn’t know yet. Also had a feeling she’d be hanging out with Marlo and his friends, not something he was handling seeing very well at all.

He saw Marlo get up when he was finished his meal and asked Brittney how El was, asked if he could go up and check on her himself, hang out with her.

Brittney had smiled at him and shaken her head. “She was asleep when I left Marlo. Best we let her rest, you can see her in the morning.” He was told.

“But she’s alright?”

“Yes Marlo.” Brittney nodded with a chuckle.

Watched him walk away, looked more than unhappy about not being allowed to go up and see her, but at least Conner had gotten the answer he wanted from listening to that conversation. She was asleep, likely accounting for why Brittney was down here having dinner with them.

He heard his father chuckle softly and murmur “I think young Eliza may have a Mate here.” He sounded happy about that. It was not the first time Conner had heard the man say it either.

“That would be nice, she would want to stay.” he heard Brittney sigh.

“She just needs a bit more time, Brit, and now she’s making friends, that will help.” His father commented.”

“I hope so.”

Looked right at Brittney, she really did want her daughter here. He realised, “I had a chat with Marlo earlier, Luna.” It was Jared. “He said he’d been more than happy to stay on campus with El.”

Heard several people chuckle now, and as Conner looked at them all he realised his father and his entire unit were all smiling, they would all be happy for El and Marlo to be Mated to each other if that happened on the next full moon.

They had Conner’s undivided attention; she’d not filled in the paperwork, he’d seen it all sitting there still blank. But it seemed his father was actually going to allow her to stay on campus, not be here in the pack, if it would keep her here close to her mother and the pack.

He shook his head and returned his attention to his meal, to replace Adam’s eyes right on him, looked right back at him “What?” he asked quietly.

“Nothing.” Adam shook his head slightly “Are we headed into town tonight? I thought we could go clubbing.”

“I thought you slackers should finish that group assignment due on Monday.” He looked at each one of them, Brayden and Cameron had not come back from the mating ball marked and mated, so there was no need for them to be distracted, but yet they still hadn’t done it. His part was done.

Heard all three of them huff at him and Cameron muttered “Come on Conner, it’s Friday night. We can do it on Saturday arvo, let’s go out and have some fun. Those girls are still here in town. Text me for a night out.”

He found three sets of eyes on him, “Go, but if you slackers drag my grade down you can explain to father why.” He was not going to go, was not interested in going out and having a bit of fun, certainly wasn’t interested in those human girls he knew Cameron was talking about.

He was too damn tired himself to go out, even to his own pack club. Was going to stay here. He had plenty of study to keep him occupied as did they for that matter. Though if he was honest with himself, the reason for not going was because he knew Eliza was here and was feeling like s**t. Tired and not sleeping well.

There was a way to fix that. He just couldn’t do it with everyone around him, so if his unit was headed off into town for clubbing, that was better for him anyway.

“You’re not coming?” Adam asked him as he leaned back in his chair and looked right at him.

“No, I’m not interested in…” snapped his mouth shut when he realised he’d been about to say humans. His eyes moved to his father and saw the annoyed look he was getting, his father had told him to get over his human-hating fetish.

“I’ve got studies to attend to.” He stated flatly and turned back to his group. “Go and have fun, just don’t do anything silly.”

Heard Brayden and Cameron laugh “Oh, we’d never do that.” No, they wouldn’t, he rolled his eyes at them. “Don’t be out late. We have training at 5 tomorrow. Alpha Unit training at that.”

Heard them all g***n now, smirked right at them when he heard all their fathers laugh, tomorrow was the current Alpha Unit training the next generation. Their fathers all took great pleasure in that one day a month training session. Saw Jared rub his hands together, as he looked right at Adam, that man did love taking on his own boy.

Their day would start with a full competition on the agility course, fathers against son, and then a full run around the packs border at full wolf speed to again compete against their fathers. It had started out as a bit of fun one day when they were 17, he’d tossed out a challenge and it had been accepted and now once a month, it was regular competition between them. Then the real training would begin, the fighting would be hard and lengthy, likely train for two or three hours, in hand to hand only. Wolf training was out at the moment with Eliza inside the pack. Unless they could guarantee she wouldn’t come on down to the training grounds.

Though he’d trained every day since she was here and not once seen her, he didn’t think she was an early riser at all. Which was good for their training. Though he was curious as to what she would make of it, if she came across them all training like that, a hundred of them all paired up and training in hand-to-hand combat.

The boys were going out regardless, it seemed, shook his head, and told them not to come home hung over, Cameron had laughed and said “Not gonna happen heading to The Wild Bar, it was not a pack bar, was owned by the Valentines, he wouldn’t be seen there ever, knew Milton would also be there.

“Why there?” he’d asked.

“Ah, one of the girls’ uncles works there” he’d shrugged.

“Alright, watch yourselves.”

“Will do.” Adam had nodded at him.

He’d watched them go and sighed. They should know better to go into a bar owned by the Valentines. He would never walk into that place. He knew some of the pack members went there, to hang out with the human girls they knew from uni. It was better for them to go to the pack club, Moonlight, but sometimes they ventured away from that. Went where the humans wanted to go.

He headed upstairs himself and prowled around, strolled down the hall in the west wing, saw Eliza’s door open and stopped walking, thought she was up already but it was just Brittney coming from her room.

“Conner?”

“Just going to my suite, to think about how I want it.” he told her. There was nothing unusual about that, he was often down here. Wanted to be in his own suite away from the eastern end and his father’s watching eyes. Also knew so did his unit.

“Won’t you be letting your Mate decorate it?”

“I don’t have one.” He commented and felt Atlas huff at him. But technically they didn’t currently, they hadn’t scented her, missed that opportunity, had to wait a whole month on that now.

“But won’t you let her do that? Your father told me it’s tradition for the Luna to decorate the Alpha Suite.”

“It’s called the Alpha Suite, not the Luna Suite.” He muttered and walked on down the hallway, to his room. He had not been going to his future suite at all, had actually been going to check on Eliza, wanted to make sure she was still sleeping. Lucky for him, he’d been strolling and taking his time, otherwise could well have let himself in and found Brittney staring right at him wondering why he was in there or had a key card to her room for that matter.

Walked around in his future suite and sighed, it had 6 bedrooms, a family suite. Prowled around in there, Atlas didn’t usually take that much interest in this room. Today was different, he realised. His wolf was looking at the rooms. Though he was keeping his thoughts to himself, Conner realised.

He left that suite and got himself coffee took it with him as he went to lean on the balcony railing up on the fifth floor to kill some time. It seemed Brittney was going to be checking on Eliza periodically. Looked down at the packhouse below him, had a full view of the packhouse foyer from here. Could see Marlo down there with his friends all hanging out and chatting about what they wanted to do on the weekend.

They were all planning on heading out of the pack for a day, it seemed, the whole group of them hanging out together, nothing unusual about that but he was listening to them, especially when Marlo started talking about wanting to take Eliza into Salt Lake City for a day of shopping and show her around the town of Logan properly.

Take her to the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, knew she would like that, seeing as that was going to be her major. He wanted to take her to the wind caves. She enjoyed hiking, so he thought she might like that. Then he wanted to take her to the Canyon Jams on Saturday night for an outing, and stated she might like being out of the pack for a whole day. The boy, it seems, had gotten to know Eliza over the past few days. What her degree was going to be, the things she actually liked doing and was planning a day around all those things.

The boy was pulling out all the stops, it seemed, and was aiming to spend the entire weekend with her, day and night. He could feel Atlas arcing up inside his mind at the thought of Eliza going out with Marlo, all day and all night long.

Saw the boy turn and look right up at him, could likely feel Conners eyes on him, as he stared right back from the fifth floor, they both had wolves and their hearing and sight were keen. Conner’s mouth quirked in one corner, and he raised an eyebrow at the boy. He’d warned him off once already. Seems Marlo didn’t heed that warning at all. Was going to try and date Eliza regardless of what Conner told him.

Watched as Marlo practically glared at him and then turned back to his friends, continued on with his thoughts on the weekend.

‘Did I not warn you Marlo.’ He sent via the mind-link, just to remind him once more.

‘You did, Conner. However, I have permission from the Alpha and the Luna to date Eliza. In fact, they asked me to spend time with her, make her feel welcome.’ Saw him turn and look right at him once more, ‘Why do you even care? You’re the one who told her to leave, I believe. Everyone knows how much you hate humans.’

Conner stared right at that boy, he was challenging him, and he knew it. Pushing that boundary of authority, Conner was the heir, but the actual Alpha had told Marlo to go right on ahead and date her. He’d seen them all his father and his unit. They liked the idea of her and Marlo together.

‘How do you think Eliza will feel about you being asked to spend time with her? I’d be willing to bet she won’t take it well.’ He commented casually, tried to keep that smirk off his face, he knew she wouldn’t. She would see it as just another way to coerce her into staying, and then, if and when she found out, would be quick to shut that boy down.

‘I like the girl Conner, I offered to spend time with her, stay out of it. It’s none of your business who she dates.’

Oh, yes it was, he stood up as he felt Atlas bristle inside him, wanted a piece of that boy down there, “Son, what are you doing?” his attention was drawn by the sound of his father’s voice.

Conner turned and looked at him. He was walking with Brittney, heading for their suite he guessed, “Just looking over the packhouse, nothing more, why?”

“You don’t normally stand up here and look down on everything.” His father commented.

“No, I’m usually out with the boys, but they all went into Logan, to the Valentines club.”

“Ah, so your solo today.”

“I am,” he nodded “How is Eliza doing?” he moved his eyes to Brittney, he could see it was the direction they’d come from.

“Sleeping.” She sighed.

“Is there something wrong with that?” he enquired. “That was the doctor’s orders.”

“Is not sound sleep, she’s restless.”

“Not sleeping well.” His father shook his head, “We need to make her more comfortable here, then she’ll likely sleep better.”

“It is likely.” He nodded “Are you turning in for the night?” he enquired.

“We are son.” His father smiled at him. “It’s quiet and nothing needs my attention right now…well, except my Mate.”

“Go.” Conner shook his head and watched the two of them walk off down the hall. He had other plans this evening himself. He just couldn’t do anything about it until his parents were in bed. Till there was no one checking on Eliza herself.

There was a way to help her sleep better, help him sleep better for that matter and one that his wolf was in full agreement on as well. He strolled back to his room and rinsed that coffee cup, changed into long dark blue pyjama pants, and then casually strolled through the packhouse, heading for Eliza’s room.

He used that key card to access her room and slipped inside. The bedside lamp was on, and she was in the bed laying on her back, her head turned away from him. He walked across the room and flicked the lamp off. It wasn’t necessary. Conner settled himself on the bed next to her and watched as it took less than a minute for her body to roll towards his.

Pure instinct to be closer to one’s Mate, he slid an arm around her waist and settled himself with her. She would sleep better with him next to her. This also made Atlas happy. Though it was Conner who had made the decision to stroll down here and sleep next to her. He’d heard her tell the doctor she wasn’t sleeping well, before he’d opened that examination room and he knew why.

She looked terrible, tired, and worn out and he understood it was because they were at odds with each other. A night in the same bed would not only be good for her, but likely for him and Atlas as well. Closed his eyes and both he and Atlas breathed in her scent, soft and delicate, slid a hand up through her hair gently and heard her sigh softly in her sleep.

He’d set an alarm already, so he could wake up before her and get back to his room and shower before going to training in the morning. But he was going to spend the night with her, he had nearly lost her today and he had not liked it at all. Hadn’t liked hearing her tell him it would have solved all his problems in one foul swoop either.

He never wanted to hear her say those words again, had to start working on getting her to like him just a little bit, it would be better for both of them, though how he was going to do that he didn’t really know yet. Would work it out, felt Atlas settle in his mind, seemed happy to be here with her. His wolf was also happy to hear Conner was actively going to try and get along with her from now on.