The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 65

Conner POV

Conner woke up to his phone dinging with a text message in the middle of the night. It was from Cordi “Conner, El just called again. Still couldn’t get her to tell us where she is.”

He already knew what she was a fox, so that didn’t bother him too much, “How is she doing?”

“She didn’t really say, but at this hour for you, I’m guessing doesn’t sleep well.”

“Hmm, I know that feeling.” He acknowledged he didn’t sleep well either.

“She had questions about her dad’s death. Collin is going to ask his father now…if you and El can make it work, I need you to do me a solid Conner, no if’s, and’s, or butt’s.”

“What happened to her dad? I don’t know anything about that, is it suspicious?”

“He was actually killed just outside the pack’s border, shot by a hunter. It was an accident, as far as I know.”

Conner blinked at that, “Was it an accident, or was it pack related?”

“I don’t know! I wasn’t part of them back then. But El, now that she knows about shifters, wants answers to that very question. She has likely seen something or heard about something from her aunt, that makes her curious. Asked me if we were like you and your dad? Collin will replace out about her dad, and we’ll tell her, when she calls again.”

Conner sighed just great, what if her dad had been killed by other wolves, possibly in the crossfire, though shot. That was odd. Not many used guns in their world, only a few. His pack didn’t, though the hunters did. Was that a coincidence or not?

“I’d like to know the answer to that myself now?” he typed back.

“Alright, that solid I need from you Conner.”

He stared at Cordi’s text for a long moment. He didn’t like making promises that he couldn’t keep. He was also not currently the Alpha of the pack, and might never be at the rate he was going due to their pack’s rules about being Marked and Mated before being allowed to take over. “I don’t know if I would be able to keep any promises, Cordi. I’m not the Alpha in Charge. Perhaps you should take whatever it is to my father, Logan.”

“No, I want it from you. It will also be better if El knows it was you who made the deal with us.”

He shook his head. “Lay it on me Cordi.” He sent back, if it was going to help El, he’d push for it. He also didn’t think the current Luna would let her Mate say no, not if it meant getting her daughter back or helping her daughter in anyway.

“I want an alliance with your pack, so El and I can still hang out, come and visit each other, so to speak.”

He smiled at that, she was so very bold, not even the Luna to her pack, mated to the second heir of the pack, so not likely to ever be the Luna, yet here she was trying to make a deal to ally their packs together. “Bold aren’t you.” he text back.

“Yes, I’ve been Els’ best friend since we were five, I’m a shifter, she’s a shifter or will be once she gets her shift, so it’s only natural that we’d be allied to each other. Alpha Cole actually knew El’s father for many years, and knows El. I don’t think he’ll have an issue with it.”

“You can say that, Cordi, but without a discussion between the two current Alphas, I can’t make that deal. I would say yes, to keep El happy. And let the two of you hang out, but that is a current reigning Alpha’s choice. I’m the Heir Cordi.”

“But, would you do it?”

“I would.” He replied simply. He knew how important it was for El to have those choices, to be able to go and see her friends, though not unless she was Marked and Mated by him officially. Xavier was still inside that pack, and he’d heard that man state he’d just bury his fangs into her. He got the impression that if she turned up there and he asked her to be his chosen and she said yes, it would take that man less than a second to do just that.

“Good, we’ll talk to Alpha Cole, and he’s got your father’s number, right?”

“I gave your Alpha’s number to my father, likely the number that displayed your Alpha would have logged it.”

“Excellent.”

“Cordi, just so you know. I’m not putting El anywhere near Xavier unless she lets me claim her fully first.”

“Lol, jealous much!!!”

Glared at that text but she wasn’t wrong, “It’s just not going to happen, he’s unmarked, as is El, I will not put that Beta near my Mate. Not when I know he wants her for himself.”

“Hmm, I wonder Conner. How many unmarked males are in her new pack, eyeing her off???”

His eyes widened at that, he’d not actually thought of that, didn’t want to think of that at all, “Enough Cordi.” He texted her and then shivered, goddess he was more like his father than he realised sometimes.

“LMAO.”

“I’ll bloody strangle you one day, you know that right.”

“Hahaha. You’d have to get past El, first.”

He smiled and shook his head. “I can see why she likes you. Even I bloody like you.”

“Ha, everyone likes me. I’m lovable.”

He snorted with amusement himself, “Good night Cordi, thank you though, for letting me know you talked to El.”

“Anytime.”

He’d not pressed the shifting question, though he had seen her statement, once she shifts, which could only mean she hadn’t yet. He was actually a little bit happy about that, wanted to be there for her first shift, to help her through it. She hadn’t known anything about shifters as far as he could tell, and now was going to shift, it seemed, likely had said something to Cordi about that herself.

‘Find her before she shifts.’ Atlas huffed.

‘Might actually need you there to shift.’ Conner sighed, they’d not even known she was a shifter or that she was going to get a beast until they’d seen that amber flash in her eyes. ‘Likely being Mated to us has helped her get her fox. Is half human, Atlas, might not have ever gotten one, unless Mated to another shifter.’

‘She’ll be sad, missing us.’ Atlas huffed again. ‘I miss our Mate.’

‘I know, me too.’ He agreed with his wolf. He did miss her, that attitude and her resting b***h face, that he was so used to seeing, smiled to himself. ‘She’s always going to be a handful, you know.’

‘Tough and strong.’ Atlas agreed. ‘Alpha-blooded, hot-headed like us.’

He chuckled at his wolf, she was hot-headed and had no qualms about putting people in their place or trying to. That Alpha fox in her trying to assert itself. ‘Well at least we’ll know when she’s unhappy, go all quiet and lock herself away.’ That was something they did know about her.

‘We’ll cuddle her lots; snuggle up and roll around with her, I could chase her, we’ll make her happy.’

‘We will certainly try.’ Conner told Atlas, not that she had ever really smiled at him, but he’d seen her smile at Marlo, seen her smile right at his dad, though that had been an act. Wondered if everything he’d seen that was her being happy was in fact an act, on her part. Just to try and look like she was fitting in, so that his dad would grant her the freedom she had longed for.

It was entirely possible, though she had looked to have made friends with Marlo and his social group only to have something happen and turn it sour, she’d not really been friends with them after that, had stayed away, locked herself up in her room again.

Looked at the time. It was nearly four in the morning, so nearly 8pm back home, he texted Marlo. “What happened to make you and El fall out of friendship?”

It took several minutes for him to reply, “I don’t know.”

Conner didn’t believe that “What happened the day your girlfriend decided to try and take a piece of the future Luna?” he worded it in a way that would make the boy answer him.

“I don’t know Conner, I was with the boys when Willah made that decision. I was not involved.”

“Before that then, what set Willah off?”

“Ask Willah, Conner.”

“If you don’t answer me, Marlo, I’m going to beat you senseless when I get back, or just let Atlas have at you, until he gets the answers, he thinks you’re lying about.”

“I’m not lying Conner, come home and Alpha order me if you like. I was with the boys that day. Whatever went on between Willah and El, I don’t know about it.”

Left it at that, no one willingly offered themselves up to be alpha ordered, hurt to blazes from what he’d heard, to feel that much aura pouring over you, even if you were willing to have it done to you, it still made one bow down before the Alpha.

Sighed and stared out the window, was not likely going to be able to go back to sleep, only slept in fitful states at the best of times. “Where are you El?” he murmured into the quiet of his room. Just needed one break was all. One thing to help him track her down, to get to her, to talk to her. Just one lead that led him back to her pack.

The one they had currently wasn’t going anywhere, was happy out here in the human world with his human girlfriend and he didn’t want to step up to him and ask him what pack he was from or where it was. Where El was, for that matter? He could well make sure they never see her, call her, and tell her he was there looking for her. Call their Alpha her aunt and then he could have an Alpha Fox coming for him, though that didn’t particularly scare him.

He was an Alpha Wolf, their species was stronger than the fox species, but he didn’t want to take on anyone in her family, he just wanted to talk to her. He also knew that Brittney was not having any luck with Sloan, and got daily updates on that from his father. Sloan either didn’t take Brittney’s calls at all or answered to tell her to stop calling. El was apparently no longer Brittney’s concern.

Brittney wasn’t doing so good on that front. She might be human but had obviously been Mated to a fox shifter and had a half human half kit of a child, would be as attached to her daughter as much as any she-wolf would be, he supposed.

Likely wasn’t doing her pregnancy any good either. It was already going to be difficult on her, now with the stress of El missing, or being removed and sent elsewhere by her own Grandmother. That was only going to apply more stress than she would naturally be under, her body trying to adjust to a rapidly growing Alpha pup inside of her.

Growing pains and then the delivery was going to be tough as well. It could drag out for hours or be extremely fast and painful. No one knew if Brittney was going to be able to handle it. He was hoping she would. It might be a nice way for all of them to bond. El didn’t much like his father and he had nothing to do with her mother. Though that was on him and his human hatred.

Which he no longer had at all, thought he’d been mated to a human, hadn’t wanted it but then just couldn’t bloody stop himself from wanting her, had yet to even scent her out officially, hell, he didn’t even know what she really smelled like, he realised. Everyone just smelled the soap she used. That made him curious. If she stopped using it, would he be able to recognise her at all if she walked by him and he didn’t actually see her? Probably not.

Neither he nor Atlas actually knew what her real true scent was, but he’d still practically drowned in her scent of arousal. That was odd. To them she just smelled like Jasmine and Vanilla, the same scent as her brand of bodywashes, shampoo and conditioner. Perhaps it was similar to her scent, or was it her scent, but something in those products just hindered him scenting her as a shifter. He didn’t know.

If she suddenly changed to different scented products, he likely wouldn’t know it was her unless he was actually looking right at her. That thought bothered him a lot, it was entirely possible her aunt would have her do that, to keep her hidden just from him.