The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 61

Conner

He spent the next week in front of a computer in his suite, and had simply moved all of his and El’s things there regardless of the look his father gave him. Brayden had now also moved into his suite at Conners’ insistence. There was no need for one of them to remain in the eastern wing.

All four of them were now down in the west wing of the pack house, though both Adam and Cameron were currently attending to their Mates who were in heat, Adams mate Sage’s two younger sisters were with another gypsy family while this was happening. This was normal so no issues on that one.

He’d seen that the gypsies had all settled into the pack as well, had opted to live together as they did within their old pack, three or four families to a house. His father was currently having proper homes that would house their needs being built for them.

He, on the other hand, was actually trying to track El’s leaving of the country, which he was dead certain she had done. When she had actually left, and where she had landed as well. That would help with his knowing where to fly to himself to start his hunting for her.

He’d questioned his father about the day she’d left. He’d put a tracking device on not only her suitcase but her car as well, and had her check in with social media. He’d had a whole plan to keep track of her, it seems. The question was? When had that plan been changed by Sloan? When did that woman get her granddaughter out of the country?

His father had not seen anything out of the ordinary at all. She’d checked in and answered all his calls or Sloan had and he’d heard El in the background, before getting to speak to her. Though his father had not noticed it wasn’t actually El. That it was likely a recording of her, only at some point, her grandmother knew exactly what to do.

It took him near on a week to replace out that she’d left on a plane from Salt Lake City just hours after she’d left the car. It had a layover in New York and then a direct flight to Rome. It cost Sloan a small fortune as well. Not that the woman seemed to care about that.

So, everything his father had seen and heard was all a lie. Sloan had taken El’s car all the way to California and it was now nowhere in particular. All the tracking devices had obviously been accounted for, and now disposed of. They all stopped working the day of the full moon and his confrontation with Sloan.

She’d known about them and simply destroyed them in all likelihood. This made him wonder just when she had intended on shutting El’s life down and altering them to her being just gone from them. Who knew? The woman had planned everything out, it seemed.

El had landed in Rome and that was all the information he had. So that was where he was off to the minute his men were able to leave their Mates. Brayden was not going to let Conner go without him, she wasn’t likely going to welcome him, and Brayden was going to try and contain her with his Gamma Charm, though if that would work on a fox he had no idea, but it was worth a shot. Adam and Cameron, he could leave here with their Mates to train and protect the pack as needed, but he had a feeling they would want to go and help.

He was downstairs talking to his father and Brittney about his planned trip to Italy, when Marlo and his friends walked by, saw Willah and Atlas snarled right at that girl. His father’s hand landed right on his shoulder. “Relax Conner, they are aware of El being your Mate. The whole pack is aware of it. I informed them while you were away, didn’t really need to with you living in her room after you got back.”

Watched as Willah stared right at him wide-eyed and bowed ever so slightly, she knew what she had been going to do. To the future Luna, no less. She was still sporting her silver cuff, he noticed, but was no longer under house arrest. Something he would still want, he didn’t want to see her walking around at all.

“She tried to harm El.” He snapped and actually saw Willah move behind Marlo. The boy just looked at her but said nothing. He, too, was aware of what Willah and her friends had done, and didn’t look impressed that she tried to hide behind him.

“It was dealt with and you yourself said El was fine, none the wiser. Try to let it go, son.”

Glared at his father, “I should beat her for it.” he snarled loud enough for the girl to hear even without her wolf.

“Focus on replaceing El, Conner. Let everything else go, I’ve had Brittney trying to recall where in Italy they stayed.” He got out a map and laid it out for Conner. “There were a few places.”

Brittney got up from her seat to come to the map. “We had several trips there while El was growing up.”

“Wherever it is there is a body of water. A lake.” He commented.

“Yes, she would go swimming nearly every day with her cousins,” Brittney nodded.

He was looking at the map. There were many lakes, each of them small, but each of them was a potential place he was going to have to search out. And according to Google, there were 1500 of those. That was a lot of places to search for her fox den to be located.

He watched as Brittney touches several places on the map; Bari, Bologna, Naples, Rome, Milan. He looked at those places they ran all the way up the country, looked at her questioningly “We would fly into different airports. I’m sorry. I don’t speak Italian, didn’t really understand the place names or recall what they were.”

He just nodded, was looking for places close to bodies of water, though only a few had them within an hour’s drive of the places she had pointed out. Most of the lakes were up north. Her father’s alma mater had two lakes east of it within an easy commute.

“Did you always replace yourself in a singular place, Brittney, somewhere that you always stayed?”

“Yes, his mother’s family has a home near Milan, it was never a long drive from there, maybe 2 hours into the mountains, it was a nice estate, had a large orchard. Lots of people lived there… Oh.”

“Hmm. Not people a pack. Likely a fox pack.”

Saw her sigh and rub her slightly distended belly, watched his father step closer to her when she frowned as she did so. Growing pains Conner could only imagine. To be expected for the woman, “I guess we’ll start there then.”

“Conner, you’ll bring her back, right?”

“I will try.” He nodded “If she doesn’t want to.” He sighed, he didn’t really want to think about that. “You might have to come and convince her yourself.”

“Son, Brit can’t fly right now.”

“Then, after the baby is born.” He commented as his eyes moved back to the map before him. He looked at the bodies of water around Milan. There were many and all off into the mountains, but it was as good a place as any to start. “One more question, Brittney.”

“Anything Conner.” She nodded at him.

“Do you think she’d still want to go to her father’s university?”

“Yes, it was where she wanted to go, stay on campus where he did, they talked about her staying in the very dorm building he stayed in and everything.”

“I’ll check there, though from what I can tell, Uni doesn’t start till September/October over there. So not for two more weeks.”

“Likely she would go early, to sort out and meet her dorm buddies, being an international student and all.”

He nodded, was in agreement with that, “I’ll book us all on a flight to Milan, Italy, and we’ll stay till we replace her.” he looked at his father. “Could be a while.” Months or bloody years the girl’s scent was masked by that bloody soap she used, if she stopped using it he wouldn’t even know what she smelled like.

“I would expect nothing less of you, Conner, than to devote all your efforts into replaceing your Mate. The pack is fine, we have good allies and it’ll be here waiting for you when you come home with El. Though I would prefer you Mark and Mate her here inside our pack. I understand that could happen elsewhere.”

He just nodded, and left the office, to go and sort out flights. His Beta and Delta were not yet ready to leave, but that was likely only a matter of days now. Returned to his suite and sat down to replace a flight, they could all get on together.

Booked them first class and one way, seeing as they had no idea how long they would be gone, not a short flight, 17 and a half hours and two lay overs, of 2 and a half hours each. He was not going to make his unit stay with him, they would have the option to return home. All of them, especially Adam and Cameron, now they had Mate’s. He knew they would miss them being so new, would likely want to be with them, go home for a week here or there.

Though if they wanted to go home and stay home with their Mates, he was not going to deny them that either, this mess was his doing and he was not about to go forcing them to be apart from their own Mates. If he had to stay and search on his own, then that was what he would do.

He was planning on staying and replaceing her, packed a large suitcase to take with him. As he noted, so did Brayden. He was un-mated and enjoyed the company of human girls, so was not likely to worry about coming back. He was certain to replace girls over in Italy that would love him as much as they did here. Had a cheeky smile that drew all the women to him. Looked fun and friendly all the time to most women. His Gamma was never short of a woman, human or she-wolf. Though sometimes he just enjoyed talking to them and having a meal, other times he was itching to get them into bed, depended on the girl, Conner guessed.

They landed in Milan a week later, a week from the university year starting here in Italy. It was late in the afternoon and they hired a large four-wheel drive to get them around the country, and headed for their hotel for the night. Would spend a few days here, looking around. There were 8 or 9 universities within a 2 hour radius that El could attend if she was commuting back and forth. They would look at some of those this week.

He might get lucky, and just accidently replace her. Coming across her wouldn’t that be nice? He was driving, both his Beta and Delta were already on the phone to their Mate’s. Being this far away from them was likely causing that ache in their chest, something he now realised he’d had because El had left the country pretty much the day after he’d gone off to help with the New Moon Pack.