Healing the Ruthless Alpha novel Chapter 40

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, I needed 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.NôvelDrama.Org exclusive content.

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!

I needed 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.”