Healing the Ruthless Alpha novel Chapter 17

Chapter 17

“She’s coming with me,” Cahir enunciated his words to the room. Kade, Warren, Aristo, my father and I, listened as he spoke but the men of Silver Moon bristled with obvious indignation.

“Sihana is a member of my pack and I’m not releasing her to you,” Kade leaned back into his seat with a pronounced glare at Cahir. To my surprise, rather than get angry, Cahir smiled with a relaxed posture. My gaze bounced between him and his Beta. Aristo looked as confused as I did.

“You’re still trying to fight me for my mate.” Amusement sounded in Cahir’s tone as he stared at Kade with an unflinching expression.

“I told you –“

“Ahem!” My father cleared his throat with a sudden loudness that startled us all. No one had been paying any attention to him until he inserted himself into the conversation with a loud throat clearing.

When I looked at my father then, taking a good look at his features, I was surprised at what I saw. His skin looked chalky with sunken eyes and huge, dark eye bags. He wrung his hands together and his usual put-together demeanour seemed to have fled, replaced by a man unsure of himself.

“Sihana is my daughter so I think I have a say in all this –“ He started but Cahir cut him off in a tone cold enough to freeze.

“You don’t.” Those words shut my father up in an instant.

Warren shared a look with my father as a secret conversation passed between them. The longer they spoke through mind link, the more wretched my father became while Warren reddened in the face as if he was going to explode.

“Alpha Cahir –“ Warren turned to my mate with a saccharine smile on his lips. It would always surprise me how fast this man’s expression could change. He could go from looking murderous to

holy in the blink of an eye. “There are a lot of women in Silver Moon pack. How do you feel about us hosting a ceremony for you to meet someone – more befitting of your status?” He grinned at Cahir as if he was offering him a business deal too mouthwatering to be refused.

“Yes,” Cahir started with a cruel laugh, “A lot of women, something Alpha Blood knows nothing about.” He sneered.

“Excuse me. Excuse me!” Aristo leaned forward in his seat, his voice pitched high in a dramatic fashion. “Why in fucks name should my Alpha choose another woman when his mate is sitting right next to him?” In truth, I wasn’t sitting right next to Cahir, I was half atop him, my legs across his thighs. All text © NôvelD(r)a’ma.Org.

The men of Silver Moon turned to my father. All these seemed too rehearsed. They spoke in turns as if they had concluded what needed to be said and who would say what before they called for this meeting.

Most of the people in the pack were still asleep as the ceremony of last night lasted into the early hours of this morning. Even I was still asleep when Cahir entered the room this morning to tell me my Alpha requested a meeting with him and he wanted me to be there. When I entered the room flanked on both side by Cahir and Aristo, it became clear to me that I hadn’t been invited.

Did these assholes really invite my mate to a meeting by nine a.m to try to get him to leave me!? I knew Kade was a possessive little shit who would try to hold on to me for as long as he could, but it made no sense for his father and my father to join him in trying to trap me here. They hated me and considered me a waste of space so they should be jumping for joy that I was leaving.

“Sihana is not cut out to be a Luna. As her father, I know her the best and I can assure you that she is not the woman you think she is. She is a weak and pathetic thing who clings to men with power to feel a bit of relevance in her life.” My father took a breath as he continued his speech. My eyes

bulged out of their sockets as he continued to speak of a Sihana that wasn’t fit to be a Luna because she was a weak slut who ran after powerful men.

“Kade, what do you want with my mate?” Cahir ignored Warren’s sugar-coated insults at me.

“She’s not your mate!” Kade exclaimed with a ticking jaw.

“Yes, she is not my mate, she is yours.” The men in the room wore matching looks of surprise for a split second before they schooled their expressions. “She is not fit to be my Luna but she is fit to be yours?” Cahir snorted without humour. In fact, he seemed to be boiling with anger on the surface but looking at his face, he looked bored and uninterested.

Did I feel his emotions so candidly because of our proximity or was it possibly because of our mate bond?

“Only a foolish man would take a woman like Sihana to be his mate!” My father exclaimed, desperation ringing in his tone and shining in his eyes.

“Beta Markus –“ Aristo’s words held a tone of warning.

“Yes, only a stupid Alpha would take a healer as his mate.” My eyes widened. “You want to keep the healer in your pack, don’t you?” He smiled a smile that chilled me to my bones.

By the look on their faces, he was right.

Fuck! How did they know!?