Healing The Ruthless Alpha

Chapter 40

KADE

I paced the cell the warriors threw me into without respect for my dignity. The people here did not know who I was and it showed. If they knew - If they knew I deflated. The people in Alpha Blood pack were untouchable. They could not be wronged without their Alpha going berserk. Still, eded to do something about these people. Especially their Alpha.

How could he - No, how dare him undermine me like this?

“He has to pay!" Flint was snarling but I shoved my wolf's anger to the back of my mind. I didn't need his anger to fuel mine and make me act without thought.

Cahir Armani could not be underestimated and the way he flung a challenge at my face, I would be stupid to fall for his trap. He wanted me angry, he even encouraged it.Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

Take your pound of flesh from me.

He spoke with a sort of confidence and a gleam in his eyes that made me wary.

Cahir Armani, you bastard!

eded to do something about the smug bastard but common sense told me to tread with caution.

"What caution?" Flint growled. "He deceived us! He made a fool of us!" Flint snarled but I pushed him back again.

The anger he felt tripled the one I felt but if I ever needed a time to walk as if on a rope while watching my back, it was now. Even a fool would know that Cahir was up to something and that thing involved me and my pack.

He wanted me to do something stupid, act irrationally, and then he would come down on Silver Moon with all his might. I knew he wanted to play games with me, to scare me the way he did with Alpha Boston but unlike the dead Alpha, I was not a fool. I wouldn't risk my pack for anything, not even a woman I loved.

Dammit!

The stench of sex he carried on him made me want to hurl something at his head. That man!

I looked up when I felt a presence. One of the burly men that threw me in here came to open the cell door with a glare on his face.

“Alpha Cahir has ordered your release. If you ever step feet on this pack land without prior notice to the Alpha, it would be considered a threat.” Sitting Alphas weren't allowed to enter another's land without permission but I threw caution to the wind by coming here.

"I understand." An involuntary sigh escaped my lips as I walked out of the cell.

Why was all this happening to me at such a time? Was this my punishment for what I did to Sia? Did I catch bad karma? Tears stung my eyes but I held my head high and walked out of the holding room.

**

"You called a meeting?" My father and Beta entered my office.

The first thing I did when I got to my pack, rather than freshen up or rest, was to call for a meeting. We had to work fast if we were to avoid a disaster with Cahir Armani who was obviously looking for trouble.

"Have a seat." I downed my glass of alcohol mixed with wolf's bane. "I just returned from Alpha Blood pack."

"We know that." My father's tone was dry and his body language closed off.

“Alpha Cahir Armani has mated with Sihana." He lost the hard look on his face. My father forgot to school his expression and his mouth fell open. "He can't do that," Bata Markus exclaimed with his eyes wide.

"He did," I growled at him, his sudden exclamation aggravating my headache.

"We signed a blood contract. It is impossible to go back on a blood contract," my father said in a drawl as if he was educating me. Did he think I didn't know that blood contracts were binding whether the parties changed their minds or not?

"Bata Markus, you will review the contract. If there is any loophole which he may have taken, we too will have to take that loophole because he's threatening me."

"Threatening you?" Father shouted. I massaged my temple wishing these men would be quiet. Their shouting made my head throb harder. My vision blurred for a split second and the room danced around me.

"What is that tyrant up to?" Father demanded.

He was after me. Me and my pack.

For the crimes against my mate, someone has to pay. Those were his words. That was his plan. He was coming after Silver Moon. I could feel it in the way he looked at me in that cell.

"Riddle me this," I said to my father. "If Cahir strikes today, what chances do we have of winning against him?" The faces of the men crumbled one at a time. We had no chance in heaven or in hell. He would flatten us to the ground and it would not take him a week.

His blood lust made him unstoppable against Alpha Boston but with military the size of Alpha Blood and with expertise in many battles, Cahir Armani was darn near untouchable.

"We need alliances," I told the men who looked shell-shocked. "Father, you are more familiar with the Alphas. I need you to find any and every one of them that have a grudge against Cahir and have the courage to go against him."

"Are you preparing to attack him?" Markus asked with a subdued air around him.

"I'd be stupid to." The room blinked out of focus for a second. “He expects me to lash out at him for what he's done so he is already prepared for that.” Let him come to me if he wanted a fight.

"You - You are going to let him go? With my daughter?" Markus asked with a snarl.

"I don't have the capacity to fight

Cahir and as for your daughter -" I swerved my chair so that I was totally facing him. "You could have done something to make her stay. If you begged her to stay, she may have considered it because she loved you." The expression on his

face disgusted me.

Beta Markus had become a shadow of himself in just a few days. One could tell he wasn't sleeping and he had also become quieter. The once fearsome Beta of Silver Moon pack had depreciated in less than a week.

"Why is this my fault?" He snapped at me.

I used to be afraid of this man at one point in my life. He carried himself with the authority of an Alpha. He had a strong presence and when he glared at a person, they felt like opening up the ground to hide.

"I'm not saying it's your fault." We all treated Sia as a second-class human and now she was gone forever, to become the Luna of a pack from which we could not snatch her.

Damn you, Alpha Cahir!

"We have to do something. He can't

make a fool of us like this and get away with it. This will set a precedence for your rule, Kade, people would begin to undermine you if you let this go without making a stand," my father's advice would be solid if he was advising me to go against another Alpha than Cahir.

"I'm not taking advice from a man that put me in this position in the first place." Resentment still rang in my heart against my father.

If only he did not force me to believe any female outside of an Alpha was undeserving of being my Luna.

"Kayden -"

"Get out of my office. Both of you. I'm expecting a report on your individual tasks by Monday."

"But -"

"Out," Flint growled at them and they stormed out of my office leaving behind a stench of anger.

I went back to drinking. This mess - How could I get out of it? Would I find another mate now that my connection with Sia was completely broken? Flint whimpered at that thought.

"I don't want anyone else," my wolf whimpered. "I want Sihana Asena.”

"We can never have her," I growled in anger, throwing a bottle against a wall. "Everything is ruined! We lost her!" The computer on my desk crashed to the floor as I overturned the desk in a single flip.

"K - Kayden -" I looked up from my haze of red to see Felicity and my mother standing in the doorway with frightened expressions.

"You're the last people I want to see," I glared at them, hoping they would feel the truth in my words from my glare.

"Kade, we are your family, please don't shut us out." Felicity cried out, her eyes glistening. "Let us help -"

"Felicity, if you aren't trying to get your head bashed open, you better shut up," Flint growled at her as if she was an enemy. "And you -" I looked at

my mother.

She was pretty and petite, looking to be Felicity's sister instead of her mother. She took advantage of her youthfulness to lure in young men to sleep with. Did she want to act as a mother now? This same woman who abandoned her family to ride the dicks of men her son's age?

"Two of you - Don't ever approach me again."

"Kade!" Felicity screamed with tears on her face. "Let us help you. I don't like - You don't look good. Please, let us help you!"

"Except you are able to bring Sia to my side, you are useless to me."

"I - I can try." Tears streamed down my sister's face. I understood they were worried about my sudden quarrel with dad and my drinking but her words

made me laugh.

"You can try. I won't stop you." Let me see how they could give me another man's mate!