The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 59

Conner POV

Conner spent three days in that room, just staring at what was left of her things, touching the clothes that were left in her walk-in. Sleeping in her bed and staring at the ceiling mostly, his whole unit came by the morning after they got back. They all knew what had happened. It was not something he could have hidden even if he wanted to.

He had been brought low by losing her, right in front of all of them, he’d not really cared to speak to any of them. He was still dealing with the loss of her. He’d not even really known he was physically attached to her until he’d had to go off to the New Moon Pack and had been rubbing his chest. If that connection to her hadn’t been there, then he’d not even have known she was gone from his pack, he now realised.

Not until he came home and found her missing that was, part of him was glad for that connection they’d had, but another part of him wondered if it would have been better not to have it at all. But that part of him was just angry she was gone. He was angry with himself for not telling his father what he suspected either.

He was angry with himself for being such an a*****e, pushing her away at first. If he’d not had that stupid hate of humans embedded into him, he’d likely have treated her very differently at the beginning.

Likely she would have felt welcomed and wanted to stay, hell he knew he would have treated her very differently. If not for that one human who’d tried to ruin his name, he’d have been very different with El. He’d liked humans up until that incident with Vivian Valentine. He’d been soured on humans after that and now he’d taken it out on his own Mate.

She’d left him because of it, had not even known what he was to her, but had left him. He wondered if it would have made a difference at all, if she had known? He doubted it, he’d been a real a*s, they’d had s*x, hell a lot of it, damned good for her and him. But he’d always gotten up and walked away afterwards. Never stayed with her.

The one time he had spent the night with her, she’d not even known he was there, though she had looked much better and even he’d felt better himself, after sleeping in the same bed as her, curled around her. They’d both benefitted from that, only she didn’t know about it.

His father was right and he knew it. If he’d told his father what he suspected El was to him, he knew his father would never have let her leave the pack. But it was clear she wanted out of here, away from all of them, nothing had been done right around her. She had been brought here against her will and, as Sloan put it, been locked in and had all her rights taken away from her.

Even his own father had treated her terribly. It wasn’t just him. She’d not had a nice time here, had planned to escape the whole time apparently, even after she’d mated herself to him, was still planning on leaving. Her one real desire was to leave and get the hell away from him and this place. A place that she truly belonged to, should be her home.

She was clearly half something, and that half was Alpha-blooded. It was no wonder she fought so bloody hard to get away, stubborn and wilful because of that shifter half in her. He and Atlas had not smelled anything really, though they had thought they’d seen that flash of Amber that day in her eyes when she’d mated herself to them.

Brayden had stared right at him in Els’ room, not really said anything much, just sighed heavily, he was pretty much Conners’ constant companion for those three days. He would often just come and sit in this room with Conner. He had brought several books on shifters with him to go through. They’d all obviously heard about the conversation he’d had with his father, with Sloan.

That Sloan was a shifter of some sort and had not even flinched at his full Alpha Aura rolling down the phone at her, told him she wasn’t afraid of him. Brayden was trying to figure out what Sloan was. He answered questions that were asked of him, but other than that, he and Atlas didn’t want to do anything but be in her room.

Adam had told them he or Kade hadn’t picked anything up on Sloan that day they’d met her. She’d just smelled like whatever soap she was using. Which is exactly what Conner had stated, that she just smelled clean, mostly.

None of them had sensed anything in El. She was human, as far as they could all tell. He’d been through her bathroom and smelled the body wash she used, the shampoo she used. It was why she smelled so soft and delicate; it was all delicately scented as well. Smelled just like her, exactly like her actually, he’d commented.

Though it was Brayden that got up and looked at it, smelled it himself, commented that it was unusual for her to just scent like that, and nothing of her natural scent to pass through. He’d strolled off with the bottle of her bodywash and sank down to research it. It was made by a company that shipped world-wide and was based out of Seoul, Korea. Its company logo was a simple dark pink hibiscus flower, similar to that of the country’s national flower itself.

It had branches in six continents around the world, was a widely sold product for something that only had a handful of different products, all body care products. He ordered a bunch of it out of curiosity, only took two days to get to them, didn’t even have to express ship it. Apparently, the company prided itself on not just the quality of its products but being able to deliver within a 48hr timeframe.

Brayden had brought it right to Conner, and Adam had strolled into the room with him, along with Cameron. Those two were happily Marked and Mated, and from what he’d heard, both of them had moved into their official suites up this end of the building. Their Mates were settling in well too.

He’d looked at the pair of them, and they’d both shrugged and stated requested to come here. Brayden had opened the box that had been delivered and gotten them to smell each one. It hadn’t taken him long to pick the one that Sloan used, she’d simply smelt of white linen, which was the scent allocated on the bottle as well.

Then he’d given them all a bottle and told them to use it. Obviously, he had a theory of his own, that the product itself was the reason behind not being able to scent out what Sloan was. He’d not been wrong either. When they’d all come back, none of them could smell the pack scent, or what they were, their natural scent was gone, and they all just scented of the bodywash and shampoo used.

He’d looked at all of them and shaken his head. “Whatever they are, they don’t want people knowing about them, likely use this to roam about at will undetected by rogues and other packs.”

They all had to agree with him, he’d finally gotten off his a*s after that and packed a suitcase. He had no idea where Sloan had taken El, but his wallowing and self-pity party was done, it was time to get out there and look for her and he knew he should have done it days ago but was too down and out at losing her to get up from her bed. Even Atlas wanted to just bury himself in the bed they’d shared with her, smell her clothes and generally be where she had been while here inside this pack.

She had holed herself up in this room, not really cared about being alone, or it didn’t seem that she did. Which made him wonder about shifters that didn’t mind being on their own, were solitary creatures there were a few. Although that flash of Amber he’d seen, he now knew that was her shifters’ eyes. Many creatures had amber eyes when shifted. Wolves, bears, foxes, many of the cat shifter breeds, cougars, leopards, panthers and tigers all have yellowish to brown eyes that could lead them to having amber eyes, though most would have green.

She could be anything, and all those animals bar wolves were known to be solitary type creatures, that might stroll around in human form and hide their scent from other shifters. He had no idea. Though he had to agree with Brayden that whatever she was likely originated in Korea. They had Asian black bears and Siberian tigers as part of their history, and some of the other animals were leopards, lynx cats, and foxes.

They were no closer to knowing what she could possibly turn out to be. Then there were the Korean mythological creatures, that they’d looked up, nine-tailed foxes, dragons, lion creatures that did not help their search either. But he did know that not one of them would be afraid to take on a wolf either.

The shifter cats would likely be, and maybe a fox, but all the others would hold their own. Would also likely be bigger than a wolf in its true form. Told Brayden to pack, he couldn’t ask Adam or Cameron. They both had new Mates that would go into heat soon. Though both did tell him they would catch up to him wherever he was in his search for El.

His father didn’t even stop him from leaving, though it was 90 percent Conner’s fault. His father had let her leave the pack, had told him that with the possibility of a war coming to them, he’d honestly thought she would be safer out there with her grandmother away from the pack. Seeing as she had no idea what they all were.

His first stop was not Sloan’s place. He had a feeling that not only was that woman expecting him, she was going to be in full protection and fight mode. There was a possibility that Sloan had dropped El off with her friends in California, so that was his first port of call. The Lake Valley Pack, his father, had given him the address. Conner didn’t even ask him how he’d gotten it. It could be any number of means.

He just drove himself and Brayden out to that pack. It was out by Irvine Lake, backed right on to the eastern side of the lake and stretched out into the mountains beyond it. Parked his car at the gate and got out along with Brayden, announced himself and requested to speak with Collin, Cordi and Xavier.

Wanted a look at that man’s neck. If he was marked and had claimed El for himself, the man’s head was likely to come clean off. She was not his mate and both Conner and Atlas knew that. One didn’t just go about taking something that didn’t belong to them, and he had laid his claim on her, they knew what she was to him.

It didn’t take long for the three of them to drive down to the gate, his eyes moved right to Xavier and his neck, there was no filigree on him. Had to stop himself from actually sagging with relief. But that didn’t mean she wasn’t here. It wasn’t likely they would bring her here to him. It might well be a nightmare getting her out of another pack.

“Conner?” it was Collin.

“Collin, is Eliza here?”

“No, did you lose her again?” he smiled right at him.

“I didn’t lose her.” and technically, he hadn’t. “She was taken.” He stated.

Watched Cordi step forward “What do you mean, she was taken Conner?” he could hear the concern in her friend’s voice.

“Her grandmother took her, was supposed to bring her here to her father’s grave, and then bring her back to the pack. She never came back.” He told her.

Heard Xavier laugh now, “Well, ain’t that karma for you.” He’d already warned Brayden of who Xavier was, and that he’d had designs on El, had called her his girlfriend.

Narrowed his eyes on that man, “Do you really want to piss me of Xavier, my wolf has no qualms ripping your head off.”

“It would start a war.” He snorted, “and we out number you.”

“You think that, but just because I’m standing before you, doesn’t mean my Beta and Delta aren’t else were with a bunch of warriors ready to rid this pack from the world, if you’re hiding her here.” He didn’t have any of that, but they didn’t know that.

They did know Adam was his Beta and that it was very rare for an Alpha to travel without his unit, so it was plausible that he had Adam somewhere out of sight but close by.

“Alright boys, enough. I get it you’re both interested in Eliza. Stop this. El wouldn’t want it.” she shook her head. “Why? Do I always have to be the one in-between all of you?” she walked right over to him “Conner, El is not here. If she was, I would actually put her in front of you.” shook her head “You are an a*****e but you are her Mate yes?”

“Yes, and am actually mated to her, or was till she vanished and was severed from me 5 days ago.” He nodded.

“May I?” she indicated his collar.

“I have not marked her, there is no need to look at that Cordi. But I, and my wolf Mated her, she Mated us back.”

“Then how did you lose her?” it was Xavier.

“I had to go and attend an allied pack that was being attacked, and with the threat of war reaching out to our home pack, father opted to send her away. She was still unaware of what we were at the time.”

“You’re an i***t,” Xavier muttered, “I’d never have let her leave the pack. Would have sank my fangs into her before leaving.”

“That would be irresponsible with the full moon only 3 days away.” It was Brayden. “Could have killed her.”

“She’s tough.”

“Do you actually know what she is?” Conner asked.

Saw all three of them look right at him now. “No, I guess not. She’s not human, she is a shifter herself. unknown as of yet what.”

His eyes were on Cordi, that girl was her best friend. If anyone could hazard a guess, it would be her. He could also see her brain ticking away on it. He noted that everyone was watching her, “You were human once, weren’t you?”

“I was.” She nodded “Not so much anymore.” She stated “El, was human. I grew up with her, slept over in her family home, she stayed at mine. We’ve both even been here and stayed here with Collin and Xavier inside the Pack.”

“Her dad was here a few times, worked for the Orange County Parks, ran a few studies around these parts. Had permission from my father to be inside the pack all the time.”

“Likely he wasn’t human either. Some sort of shifter himself.”

“Then dad would know.” Saw that man’s eyes glaze over, was only a few minutes, then shook his head. “Dad says he was human, but we are on extremely good terms with the OC Parks, their people come and go as needed.”

“Cordi, I would appreciate any help.” He looked right at El’s best friend.

“You’re going to claim her then?”

“Yes.” He nodded.

“Didn’t really seem like you were nice to her. She doesn’t like you Conner, called you an a*****e, said you had a girlfriend. Did you?”

“No, not at all.”

“Then why would she tell me she saw you with someone else just hours after she gave herself to you?”

Heard his own Gamma snarl in anger. He didn’t know the full extent of their relationship, and was just now replaceing out. He could feel anger rolling off his Gamma, and ignored it for now. They could argue about it later. Were likely too, by the sound of that snarl. Saw all of them look right at Brayden and knew they knew he didn’t know.

“I didn’t know she was my Mate then, I have issues with humans. Or had issues, I was trying to make her go away.” he shook his head, “not so much over the past month. My wolf never cared, she was human, just wanted her. I couldn’t deny what she was to me over the last month, couldn’t bloody keep my hands to myself either,” sighed “Yes I treated her badly, but I won’t do that now, I want to replace her, apologise, I want her, we both want her back.”

He could tell she was weighing up his words, this was her childhood best friend he was talking about. “She Mated you?”

“She did, I don’t think she even knows what she is. But yes, Mated herself to me.”

“How do I know you speak the truth?”

Though about that long and hard “I guess you have to take my word for it.”

“I don’t actually.” She shook her head “I haven’t spoken to El in 5 days myself, all her social media is gone, her phone is disconnected, vanished even from me. I am concerned we would normally talk daily.”

“She always smiles when texting you.” he nodded.

“I can’t help you Conner, I don’t know where she is. If her grandma took her, you’d best question her. I would like to know she is okay myself.”

“Sloan is not human, she is an Alpha or some sort herself. Questioning her will not be easy.”

Heard Collin laugh “Are you telling me our El is Alpha-Blooded?”

“In part, yes, half we believe, her mother is definitely human, her father not so much.”

“Do you know what her grandma does for a living?” it was Cordi.

“I do, is not only a truth seer, but a retrieval specialist.”

Heard Collin whistle now, “Well, Conner. I wish you luck getting your Mate back from that woman. Will protect her grandchild fiercely, I imagine, and if she knows anything about your and El’s relationship like we do. I don’t think she’s going to just give you that information.”

He already knew this, unfortunately, nodded his head and turned to walk away.

“Conner, give me your phone.” It was Cordi. “I’ll put my number in it, call me when you replace out where she is. You might need help swaying her.”

He handed her his phone and she called herself from it and then handed it back to her. “Call me or text me.” She stated.