Healing the Ruthless Alpha novel Chapter 22

Chapter 22

*KADE*

I felt like a schoolboy seeing tits for the first time. The giddiness that made me want to smile like a goofball was all thanks to the woman in my bed. My mate. She was not asleep, that much I could tell, and I knew she may not sleep with me in the room but I hoped with time she would relax enough to rest.

“We have her now. You better not mess up this time and mark her fast,” Flint warned me. The mutt had refused to speak to me for a while, going silent in protest of Sihana being mated to Cahir, but now, he would not shut up.

“I won’t,” I promised myself and my wolf.

I had decided to make Sihana my Luna. Fuck, the thought made me want to howl to the moon. The goddess’ kiss was not hereditary but no one in my lineage had it. Her great-grandfather had it so our children or grandchildren may have it. She could bring the kiss of the goddess to my lineage and for that, I was ready to risk having omega pups with her.

My member hardened at the thought of breeding the petite omega in my bed. I was pretending to read some documents on my system at the desk on the left hand of my bed, but in reality, I was scrolling past pages and seeing nothing. Sneaking a glance at her, I caught her staring at the ceiling with a blank expression on her face.

That expression worried me. I had seen her sad, happy, tired, but I had never seen her with such a defeated expression. She seemed subdued, broken even, and it worried me that I could not get through to her in such a state. She recoiled from me every time I got close to her. I knew the reason she was still here in my room was because of the lack of motivation to do anything which I could see in her eyes.

“That bastard!” My wolf snarled.

Cahir Armani was one of the worst men on the planet. A cruel, murderous Alpha who did not care for anything or anyone as long as he got what he wanted. When we arranged the meeting to bargain with him not to mate with Sia, none of us expected him to bring her along. Remembering it made me clench my fists. Why would he hurt her like that? She was like this because of him!

“Sia,” I called her, getting out of my seat to join her on the bed. She curled into herself when I sat on the edge of the bed. “I’d like to talk to you,” I said in a civil tone despite the curling of hurt in my chest.

“Why is it –“ She started in a raspy tone before taking a deep breath. “Why is it you won’t leave me alone?” She turned to me with her dead eyes and my heart twinged.

If I accepted her from the beginning, we would have a pup by now and she would have never had to deal with a man like Cahir Armani. I should have protected her from the start. I should have seen she was a diamond in the rough and nurtured her, not thrown her away like a dirty piece of rag. Nineteen-year-old me was stupid and that stupidity was something I would regret till the day I died.

“I want to apologize to you.” I brushed her hair from her forehead. Her skin was wet, her forehead damp with sweat but the room was chilly. Could a healer fall sick?

“Kade, no matter what you say to me, I will never forgive you.” I gasped as a sharp twinge of pain pierced my heart. Her words made my wolf whine and my skin too tight for me. “You think I am a foolish person but I’m not. Yes, your pack denied me a proper education, forcing me to work even during schooling hours, but I am not a fool,” she hissed. I would be happy to see her dead expression come to life if it wasn’t for anger replacing her soulless eyes.

“No one is calling you a fool,” I told her. “I’ve made some mistakes in the past –“

“Stepping on a bug is a mistake. Overfilling a glass is a mistake. What you and your pack have done to me for twenty-one years is not a mistake.” She sat up in bed, throwing the covers off her. For a second, I felt she was about to leave the room and I knew I could not let her do that. I could not let her leave me.

“Two days ago, you killed my best friend, you tried to assault me and you swore to never let me leave this pack. You swore to keep me as a slave for life but now you know I am a healer and you feel you have made a mistake?” She taunted me, her beautiful doe eyes looking at me as if I was the biggest piece of shit to ever exist.

To Sia, I may not be much but I vowed to myself that I would do anything to make sure she understood how much she meant to me. I could have lost her if my wolf did not know better. If Flint did not hold on to the mating bond while I severed it, I may have lost a person as precious as Sia.

“I was stupid and I –“ She did not let me finish before she screamed.

“Did your foolishness suddenly end when you found out I was a healer!? Do you think I would ever use my gift to help the wretched people in your pack who have hurt me time and time again?” She exclaimed, wheezing. “You just wasted your resources, Alpha Kade, because I would rather die than heal any member of this pack.”