Healing the Ruthless Alpha novel Chapter 13

“Oh, hi,” Aristo said, a grin taking up a huge part of his face as Beta Maria scrambled to find something to cover herself. “There’s no need for that now.” Aristo chuckled as she grabbed two throw pillows, holding them against her front.

“What are you doing here?” She demanded of me, pretending not to see the Beta checking her out.

“I should be asking you that.” My voice was cold when I spoke.

I wanted to assume she came here for Beta Aristo, after all, it was no secret that the Beta was a lover of women. However, this was the Alpha’s room. She cleaned it herself so there was no way for her to pretend she was in the wrong room.

“You dare talk like this –“ She walked backwards and got a blanket, wrapping it around herself. “You disappeared, leaving behind all that work –“

“Lady, I don’t know who you are but you’re in Cahir’s room,” Aristo cut her off. “You’ve missed your way, haven’t you?” He asked with a condescending smile. “My room is the one next to this.” He motioned to the left.

“No – I –“ She stuttered, looking away with her tomato face.

“You didn’t miss your way,” I said in a quiet voice despite me boiling inside. Asena was pushing to the forefront, rage egging her on to do something stupid. It took all my willpower to hold her in.

“How dare this crazy bitch try to seduce my mate!” She was screaming while I tried to hold her back. “Imagine if he walked in here and not us!” She was imagining a lot of things, multiple scenarios flying through my head, all of them involving Cahir and Maria locked in a passionate embrace.

“You –“ If she got any redder, she would combust. She hid her embarrassment in a show of anger against me but she didn’t know how hard my wolf was riding me to attack her. “Will you leave this place?” She demanded, crossing her arm against her chest.

“Lady, you should do the leaving. You’re up here trying to seduce her mate, not cool.” Aristo shook his head with a small disapproving sound escaping his lips.

“Her – What – Cahir –“ Maria stuttered, her eyes jumping from Aristo to me as her face turned purple.

“You should leave,” I said to her, folding my hands over my chest. “Before he comes.” I made my tone threatening but a bit of unease wracked though me as I didn’t know how Cahir would react to Maria’s presence. For all I knew, he had invited her up here to wait for him and I was the intruder.

“Uh – Right.” She looked around her for her clothes for a second but ran out without them when suffocating silence stretched in the room.

Even after she left, Asena was not placated. My eyes darted around the room as if expecting another naked woman to saunter out with my mate’s name on her honeyed lips. Asena urged me to do something about Maria but I knew better than to attack her. I would not win.

“Do you want to punch something?” Aristo’s face entered my line of vision as he hunched over to stare into my face. I stepped back with a nod. “You should punch the wall then,” a pause, “or you can punch me.” I whipped around and punched the nearest wall to me.

The haze of anger flooding into me from my wolf died down as pain shot through my knuckles to my whole arm, making my body buzz.

“Someone has to teach you how to land a proper punch.” Aristo chuckled, walking into the room.