Healing The Ruthless Alpha

Chapter 42

*CAHIR*

... You treat me like shit!

Those words resonated in my head as I drove to my office at midnight.

What the fuck did she mean by I was treating her like shit!? Considering ver wanted a mate, I felt I was doing good enough with one. ver wanted a mate but I did not want any woman in my life to feel as if they were being mistreated.

"Trouble in paradise?" Aristo walked into my office behind me.

"Don't bother me, I have to work." I fell into my seat and powered on my computer while my Beta snickered from opposite me.

"Why are you working when you can be balls deep in your Luna?"

"Aristo." I raised my head from my computer screen.

Every day, he spoke about my woman and sex in such a casual way, that it irked my wolf. My Beta may be a man ruled by his dick ny percent of the time, but he was smart enough the other ten percent of the time to know better than to continue discussing my mate as if she was a common woman and not his Luna.

"Hey, don't eat me. I am only -" He laughed, raising his hand in the air in surrender.

"You may be my Beta and best friend, but take this as your last warning. The next time you talk about Sihana in such a crass way, I will rip you to shreds. Beta or not, never forget your place."

"I am sorry." He hung his head but this display was familiar. "I was trying to lighten the mood, not insult your Luna."

"Whatever your motive is, think about your head before you speak. You are too replaceable to crack such expensive jokes."

"Ouch, what a way to hurt a man's feelings." He rubbed a fist over his chest but that gesture too was familiar. "I understand." He gave me a beaming smile that did not reach his eyes.

"Why are you still here?" I asked him, keying in the password to my computer. "Is there a girl waiting at your office right now?" I asked him and he laughed.

"There's no girl in my office, but I wish there was," he sighed, scrubbing a hand down his face. His skin looked dry and his eyes were heavy. His cheery expression was forced with a wry smile on his face that made him look older.

"I saw you drive in through my window so I decided to bug you. There's a ton of work that needs completing, that's why I am staying this late in the office."

"If you have a ton of work to complete, don't waste time in my office. Get out." My work rate had slowed since I met Sihana so I too had a backlog of work that piled with each second that passed.

That woman distracted me in the most unusual ways. One minute I would be working on a project and the next, my mind would be appraising an image of her in my head.

But I treated her like shit.

"Nah, let's have a conversation. You have become more stuck up since you found your mate. Tell me what's happening."

"She says I treat her like shit." The words burst from my mouth without my consent. They were ridiculous in my ears so eded someone else to make sense of them for me.

"That's because you treat her like shit." My eyes narrowed at Aristo's flippant words. "Have you forgotten how you pretended to sell her off?"

"I claimed her already. She must know by now that was only a ruse."

"How would she know if you never told her?" He challenged.

"She is not a fool. She can piece things together for herself," I answered.

The men I sent to raid Silver Moon pack and retrieve my mate were given a simple instruction. They were to make sure not to force her hand in coming here. If she did not want to be my Luna, I had no plans of forcing her. Before she got here, she knew the destination. She came here so she must have pieced things together.

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Aristo's voice. "Not only did that happen, but you also had that Luna Ceremony and I warned you not to. She was overwhelmed that day by all those reporters. It was very obvious on her face so I know you never informed her. The poor girl looked like she would collapse from all that attention."

The Luna Ceremony? Did that ceremony already cause problems for us?

I hosted such a grand ceremony because I thought she would like it and I wanted all of my enemies to know her - to know her name and her face. I

did it to show them that she was under my protection as I completely acknowledged her as my mate. Did she not see that?

“Cahir, she is more or less a stranger to you. If you don't talk to her, she may never understand your motives and may come to see it as if you're purposely trying to make her uncomfortable."

She could not think that. I'd made sure the pack was comfortable for her in the best ways!

"The rest of us have known you for a long time so your methods are familiar but to her, you are a strange and powerful man. Don't forget that the world is terrified of you. You can be intimidating just by breathing and I can bet she is afraid of you."

"She should be afraid of me." Aristo facepalmed. "Fear is a useful tool, Aristo. You need to understand that." With fear, I could guarantee complete cooperation without having to make a single threat. It made ruling easier for me.

"Yeah, yeah, fear is a useful tool but have you forgotten that she used to be bullied in her former pack?" My eyes narrowed again. I crossed my arms and leaned back in my seat.

"Is there any update from Kade?" I asked.

How could I forget those idiots bullied my mate? They were an insignificant pack to me but now, they were at the top of my hit list.

"Silver Moon is quiet for now but I got a message from Felicity, Kade's sister. She wants to come here." My lips stretched in a grin that took some of the burden off my chest. "Your smile is scary. Stop." Aristo shivered.

"She is welcome here whenever she likes," I said with a smile, ignoring Aristo's shiver.

Alpha Kade was not a stupid man. I knew he would not attack me because I encouraged him to. Men like Alpha Boston would respond to that challenge the way I wanted them to, but Kade would tread with caution and try to attack me in a way he thought would surprise me. Was his sister a part of this plan?

Kade and Felicity, from what I

remembered, had a good relationship. He did not seem like the kind of person who would bring his little sister into his war so was she coming here of her own accord? On the other hand, the relationship between him and his sister had a small hole in it now so he could be throwing caution to the wind to use her. No, she would be too obvious as a spy on me.

"I think she wants to come here to ride my cock. That girl has it hot for me, don't think it has anything to do with your issue with her brother," Aristo warned. He may be right but he was never completely right.

“No matter.” I stretched out the kinks in my neck. Working Sihana to countless orgasms had been an intense workout for me, one that my body was yet to recover from. "If she is here to ride your cock or not, make sure she comes. I want her here for as long as possible or at least until I am ready to wipe Silver Moon off the pl."

"What are you planning?" Aristo asked.

"You know me better than most. I am planning to destroy Silver Moon. The more of her people I have under my claws, the better my plan can

proceed."

"If you say so." He got out his phone and typed a rapid text to his buttbuddy. "She should be here by tomorrow. She's quite excited but who can blame her,” he winked at me as he pocketed his phone. “One taste of this man and all the ladies go gaga —“

"Get out of my office." The idiot laughed.

"Look, Cahir, you are my best friend.”

His expression turned serious. "I want you to be happy and this is your best shot at happiness. You don't need Sihana to be scared of you. They used fear to control her in her former pack so if you try to do that with her here, she may end up hating you. That's the last thing you want, my man."

Hating me?

Shit, why did the thought make Perseus bleed with anguish?