Healing the Ruthless Alpha novel Chapter 25

Chapter 25

I woke up to screams and shouts and a frantic knock on my door. I rushed over and saw the warrior stationed outside my door in a frenzy. People were rushing out of the pack house as I came out.

“We have been attacked,” the man informed me. I blinked twice to make sure I was awake and I hadn’t heard wrong. Who would dare attack Silver Moon? As if hearing my thoughts, he answered, “The Eastline thugs are in the vicinity and causing a ruckus, setting things ablaze. The pack house is on fire as we speak so we have to evacuate.”

He gripped my forearm and stirred me with him while my brain went into overdrive trying to understand what was happening. I didn’t see the fire as we went out but people were exiting the pack along with us.

“Sia!” I turned to see Kade jogging towards me. “Are you alright?” He asked, drawing people‘s attention with how loud he spoke. “The doctor said you needed rest so I let you be. I don’t know why this is happening when you should be resting.”

“What is happening?” I asked, stepping away as a girl almost ran into me.

“Those vandals that call themselves the Eastline boys are passing through pack lands and decided to cause a commotion. We are dealing with them, there’s no need to worry.” He patted my head. “Make sure you stick close to your guard.” With that, he was gone.

I didn’t need to stick close to my guard as the warrior acted as my shadow. I and several others stood outside the pack house waiting for the firefighters to extinguish the fire. From where I stood, I could see the fire was not a large one but the fact that several others had been started in different areas on our pack land made me nervous.

It felt like the distraction before something major happened. Words that I had paid no attention to resounded in my head and I turned to the man shadowing me.

“What’s the time?” I asked. He pulled his phone from his back pocket and said;

“It’s midnight.” I looked at the stars twinkling in the skies as I shuffled on my feet, my eyes scanning the vicinity for what I did not know.

“Could it be him?” Asena asked in a subdued voice but because we were one, I felt the anticipation in her words as she paced.

In two days, at the stroke of midnight, be ready to leave.

I was fairly certain it was him but self-preservation stopped me from getting ahead of myself.

If it was Cahir – Why would it be Cahir? He already sold me off. He would be going back on his trade deal if he did this and everything – the whole bargain, would be for nothing. He would get no oil and make an enemy of Silver Moon. Although my pack paled compared to his, we were still one of the top twenty most successful packs in the world.

“They are coming back!” A girl shrieked and everyone scattered.

A truck’s headlight illuminated the road as it sped forward with people jumping off it and yelling obscenities as they charged at the crowd in front of the pack house.

What the hell –

They really were vandals. People started to scream and run as they jumped out of three vehicles, machete in hand, hacking at the front garden and chasing people. People ran back into the pack house, others took to the road while some ran in circles.

The snarls of our warriors charging after the shirtless men laughing loudly as they chased those running like headless chickens made my feet move. Unable to decide what to do, and where to run

to, I followed the people taking shelter inside the pack house. I was better off hiding indoors than running around and being chased by armed me.

“Fuck you, Silver Moon!” I heard a roar so close to me, I froze.

Turning, I saw a man with half his face painted running towards me with a tree branch. Our eyes collided and he skidded to a halt, surprise shining in his eyes and his mouth fell open.

I didn’t bother dwelling on what his expression meant. From the paint on his face, I already knew what circle he belonged to. Men that painted their faces such colours were rumoured to be solitary wolves banding together to terrorize packs as a means of livelihood.

“I found her!” I heard a yell as I dashed into the pack house.

The hoodlums, the people running about and the warrior wolves snarling and charging at the enemies made everything chaotic. My head pounded as I joined a multitude of people trying to squeeze back into the pack house. Those inside tried to shut the doors to protect themselves so a tussle ensued.