The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 38

Conner POV

It annoyed him greatly to hear Marlo state that he and Hayden would bunk down with Eliza. That was not going to happen on his watch, there was no way in hell Marlo would ever be sharing a room with Eliza.

Though he had been completely surprised that she had apparently agreed to attend his university finally, had filled out the paperwork and submitted it along with the on-campus living form as well. Not that she would be living on campus either. Come this full moon he was going to claim her, and she’d be living with him in his suite, hopefully, by the time university started for her.

Would be claiming her as his goddess gifted even if she wasn’t. They were already mated to her. All he had to do was mark her, but he couldn’t go doing that till he’d laid eyes on her on the full moon. It wouldn’t go down well with his father if he did it before then. They had rules to follow with humans. He could have s*x with her all he liked, just couldn’t go marking her. She needed to replace out what he was first. Though even that was too late, she was bound to him now.

Though he could see that she didn’t seem all that happy about being made to study here, but she was answering questions when asked. He pretty much let everyone else talk and ask all the questions. It was mostly Marlo and his group of friends. They were the other Gamma and Delta children. It seemed everyone had been called to have a massive family dinner. Usually, it was just the Alpha and his unit plus he and his unit at this table. Not tonight, it seemed.

She wasn’t super excited about it, but then why would she be? It hadn’t been her choice, was being made to go there and she knew it. She commented only once about it not being where she wanted to go, but then had just said nothing after that. He could feel Atlas watching her, they were trying to figure out if she meant it.

Seemed more like she was just resigned to the idea of being stuck here and unable to leave. Which is what she was. He couldn’t really expect much else, no-one here could, he thought. He only made one comment about her in a mixed dorm room, made sure to add that Marlo could have a room next door if he wanted.

He could feel Adams eyes on him the moment he stated, it wouldn’t be Marlo and Hayden, but even Adam knew there were no mixed dorm rooms. After that, he just left it alone. He’d been staying away from El, though that was hard to do now. Atlas wanted to crawl into her bed every bloody night, had woken up twice to his wolf strolling him down the hall to go to her room. Had managed to rein in his beast both times. His bloody wolf was going to out him if he wasn’t careful.

After dinner, he was sitting around with his unit and a bunch of girls all on the front lawn and saw her walking with her mother. They were chatting about her getting a sailboard of her own. His attention was on their conversation, instead of his friends, it seemed she was looking to pick up a few things to do around here. He’d told her he’d get her a sailboard if she just told him what colour she wanted.

He didn’t like it at all when Brittney suggested she talk to Marlo about helping her choose one, as they walked into the packhouse. He could do that himself, would like to help her pick one out, would be better if he did it. He would buy her a top of the line range like his was. He would much prefer if she came to him for those things. But he’d not told her that either, she wouldn’t know it.

Atlas snarled right at the she-wolf that dropped herself into his lap, and smiled up at him. They’d been together before, but it was not going to happen ever again. His wolf was all aggression. And she was quick to move her a*s off of him.

Though that one snarl at her, it drew everyone’s attention right to him. He wasn’t known to snarl at girls, just brush them off if he wasn’t interested in a night with them. G*****d internally as he found Adam’s eyes right on him, a single raised eyebrow at his response, or Atlas’s response to having a she-wolf in his lap.

He’d not really been paying any attention to any of them while they were all lazing about relaxing and having a beer. Though he himself had not touched his beer either, he thought about apologising to that she-wolf, but didn’t. Atlas didn’t want anyone touching them but El now. Didn’t want her feeling anything if someone did either. Not that he knew if she would or wouldn’t, that was still unknown to him. But his wolf was having none of it.

He stared right back at Adam, raised his own eyebrow at him as if to say ‘what?’ watched that man just shake his head ever so slightly, his arms were around a she-wolf, one of his regular girls. Heard that man ask her what she thought of El? Voiced it out loud for all to hear. Though he was staring right at Conner the whole time. Oh, now he knew that man knew or was pretty damned certain he was sure he knew.

“I don’t know, don’t go near her. Seems a bit…bitchy to me.”

Conners jaw tightened, he knew exactly what Adam was doing, he was trying to make Conner defend the girl, or get severely ticked off, which a Mate would do, would take full offense when someone insulted their Mate. He, as the future Alpha, would not stand for anyone, insulting his Mate. She would be the future Luna of the pack. It would be completely disrespectful and punishable as well.

Needed to keep his cool, he had a feeling Adam was going to be trying to push him into it. He wanted to know what he suspected, and it appeared he was out to replace out the truth.

“Never does smile.” Adam nodded “Got that resting b***h face too.”

Conner’s eyes narrowed right on him, “You’re insulting the Luna’s daughter, you know that right.” He stated flatly.

“It’s nothing you haven’t said yourself, now is it?” Adam smirked right at him.

He had him on that one. He had said that the day she’d arrived. “I wouldn’t let Brittney hear you say it, you might replace yourself on the bad side of father. He doesn’t like it when his Mate is upset.”

“No Mate likes that.” Adam smiled at him. “They get all angry and want to beat the hell out of the one that upsets their Mate, regardless of rank.” Conner knew that in that one sentence, Adam was referring to Atlas trying to take a piece of his father after he’d scared the girl and she’d run off.

“Anyone else got an opinion on the Luna’s daughter, they want to voice?” Conner asked and glanced around the group he was sitting with. Kept his tone as light as he could, though there was a slight edge to it, he just couldn’t keep it out of his voice.

Saw several of their friends look right at him, most of them just snapped their mouths shut and shook their heads. They knew better, but Adam didn’t seem to care. “I think she’s a bit of a tease to be honest. Marlo said she was all friendly but then just gave him the brush off on their last date. Then there was that Xavier guy in California. She was playing with him too. Said he was her boyfriend.”

Conner could feel Atlas getting angry inside of him, that was a full insult to his Mate, who he knew was not interested in Marlo. She’d told him she didn’t want to date him, they’d heard that with their own ears. As for Xavier, he was nothing to her. He knew that. Though he couldn’t stop himself from glaring at Adam, which just made that man smile even more, it seemed he knew he was barely containing his beast.

“I think Marlo should get over himself” Conner grated out “From what I saw, he was itching to be all over Eliza, and now just is with someone else. Got tickets on himself and lost a few. Did she hurt his ego when she turned him down? I can only presume she did.”

“Why so angry Conner?” Adam shot right at him. “Did I upset you?”

“No Adam you didn’t.” he commented. “It’s my duty as her stepbrother to take care of her. Father told me I have to be a perfect gentleman if you recall. Behave myself and get over my human-hating fetish.”

“Ah, so your using Eliza, to better yourself, are you?”

He did not like that statement at all, it wasn’t just Atlas now that was mad. He could feel Atlas up inside his mind, knew everyone here was likely to sense that Atlas was now on the surface, but they were not using Eliza, in the manner that Adam was referring to, and he wanted to beat the living hell out of him for it for putting it in such a manner “Enough Adam.” He managed to grate out “Atlas doesn’t like your insult to us.”

“It’s only an insult if it’s true, now isn’t it?”

“This is your only warning Adam, there will be no others. Enough.” He grated.

Saw that man stare right at him, and then just shake his head and turn away to talk to the others, Adam likely thought that’s exactly what Conner was doing. The whole lot of them, the entire group had gone completely quiet. They all knew there was nearly an Alpha on Beta fight about to start.

Both Brayden and Cameron were looking right at him now as well, he’d never taken to his Beta before, they rarely argued.

He got up and walked off, couldn’t stay there or he was likely to try and have a piece of his best friend. Didn’t want that, also didn’t want his Gamma and Delta replaceing out, what she was to them at this point. Though he was certain that they were both going to now ask Adam what the hell was going on.

It probably would appear to Adam that he was using her now, let him tell them that, it would likely make sense to Brayden with what he’d felt roll off of Eliza the day she’d run away. They’d put it together that he’d been with her and likely tossed her aside. It wasn’t going to go down so well, but that is what they would expect of him, because she was a human.

Conner stalked off into the packhouse only to see her sitting with Marlo and the friends she had made. Marlo himself was sitting with his new girlfriend right on his lap. She was all smiles even though his eyes were on El. The man was trying to make her jealous, it seemed. That 17-year-old she-wolf was oblivious to her own boyfriend’s actions, or was trying to ignore them.

He could sort that out, with one quick mind-link to her, to let Willah know what Marlo was doing would do it, but if she was on Marlo’s lap then he was leaving El alone. So, he was going to leave it as it was. Didn’t think it was fair to Willah, but if she couldn’t see it, that was her issue.

She should know better, had been out with Marlo before, he’d left her for another only about 6 months ago and now he was back with her. It wasn’t going to end well for Willah. She had to remember what he’d done, that he’d hooked up with someone else after leaving her. But with the way she was looking at him, it was likely the girl was in love with him. She was going to forgive him all his errors, wasn’t likely to go down so well if he left her again for another. Girls would only stand so much of that.

Male and female wolves tended to deal with it better than humans. If one wasn’t your Mate, moving on was something that was expected at some point. The girl was only 6 months away from turning 18 but whether she turned out to be Marlo’s actual Mate he had no idea. Though he could tell that Willah was hoping for that outcome. Likely why she’d gone back to him, she probably thought she was going to be his Mate.

Headed for his room, would take an early night for himself, needed it, his eyes were on El though, as the elevator doors started to close, ‘Don’t look at her like that.’ He heard Marlo tell him via a mind-link.

Conner moved his eyes to the boy. It was a very bold statement sent to the future Heir of the pack, not something one would normally do, and he found that boy staring right at him ‘Why do you care, you’ve moved on. Though Adam thinks Els a tease and a b***h for what she did to you.’ Saw anger flare right in the boy as the elevator door closed. He stepped out of it on the fifth floor and smiled to himself as he looked over the balcony. The boy was gone and so were half his friends. Likely he was going to have a piece of his brother.

Conner couldn’t do it, but Marlo would, seems that the boy was indeed using Willah to try and make El jealous, not that it appeared to be working at all. She was strolling up the stairs, didn’t seem to be concerned with what was going on, probably didn’t know what was going on, she was texting on her phone as she headed upstairs. Half Marlo’s friends had gone after him, including Willah it seemed, none of them knew what was going on. He watched her walk up the stairs, she was smiling, had to be Cordi, he thought to himself, she was her best friend.

Conner picked up yelling out the front with his wolfen hearing, Marlo and Adam arguing about the insult Adam had laid down. It wouldn’t get all wolfed out. He’d never seen those two punch it out or wolf out against each other. They were quite close normally, though he did see his father’s Beta Jared heading that way out the front door, he had been in the Alpha’s office and he could likely hear his sons yelling at each other.

Watched from up there as the two of them were hauled into the building, by their own father, a hand locked onto each of them. He saw Adam look up and his eyes locked onto him, Conner smirked right at him, two could play that game. ‘Low Conner, that was f*****g low of you.’

‘You started it.’ Conner sent right back ‘Think twice next time on insulting me. Or El for that matter.’ Then he turned and walked away to his suite.