Healing The Ruthless Alpha

Chapter 37

"What the hell is this?" My eyes jerked up as I heard that familiar voice.

“Alpha Kade, you did not tell us you would be attending!" Aristo was still with the microphone so he shouted into it. He had his back to me so I couldn't see his expression but I heard the amusement in his tone.

"Were you expecting him?" I asked Cahir in a whisper as Kade glared at us.

Kade stood at the door with people staring at me but he did not notice them. His eyes were fixated on Cahir and I with pupils that glowed red.

"No," Cahir answered me, humour in his tone also. Then in a loud voice, he asked, "What are you doing on my land, Kade Warren?"

"What am I doing on your land?" Kade shouted back. "What are you doing with my mate?!" Heads whipped from Cahir to Kade as he walked into the room. Someone in the crowd gasped and another pointed a hand at Kade.

"Careful, I can slit your throat right here and now," Cahir sounded cheerful. I too looked between him and Kade as the air around us charged with tension.

"You lying, deceiving bastard!" Kade screamed, his face going red.

I noticed then that the black shirt he wore hung on him. His face looked sunken with eye bags around the eyes he used in glaring at my mate. "What does this bastard want now?" Asena asked, fidgeting. "Why is he ruining our ceremony?"

"Careful." All traces of humour fled from Cahir's tone as he linked our fingers on my thigh. Kade's eyes zeroed in on our hands and he growled. "You bastard!" He charged at the platform, breaking into a run but warriors caught him before he moved two steps. "Let me go, you idiots. Let this thief fight me Alpha to Alpha!" Kade shouted at the men holding him, a vein pulsing at the side of his neck.

"It is insulting to compare yourself to me, Alpha Kade." I felt Cahir's anger even before I heard his prickly quiet tone. He squeezed my hand so I put my other hand atop his. It was inaudible, but I heard him sigh.

"How dare you deceive me? What was the point of signing a contract when you would go back on it!?" Kade shouted.

"Who is this man disrupting the Luna Ceremony!?" Someone in the crowd shouted, breaking the spell of silence on the audience. People started to shout and complain, pointing fingers and insulting Kade who was being restrained by two burly warriors.

"Warriors, show him to a nice, warm room. We will talk when the ceremony is over." Cahir instructed the men restraining Kade who started to shout. "Unhand me! Do you know who I am? I am Kade Warren, the Alpha of Silver Moon pack! Get your filthy hands off me!" The warriors of Alpha Blood pack must have been built different because just two of them were able to retrain a seating alpha of a powerful pack.

"Continue," Cahir said to Aristo after Kade had been dragged away.

I thought of Kade's display and sighed. Did he not see that the place was swarming with reporters? He should never have come here. He just disgraced himself and his pack with that little show he put on, giving the reporters a nice, juicy story to write. But that was none of my business. My initiation into Alpha Blood was about to begin. What happened to Silver Moon would no longer affect me after this.

They brought the earthen bowl to Cahir and I while we stood. Cahir pulled a blade from nowhere and he instructed me to cut my right thumb. My blood spilt into the bowl while Cahir held it. The women instructed me on what to say.

"I, Sihana Asena Armani, pledge myself to the Alpha Blood pack, to rule beside Alpha Cahir Perseus Armani over the wolves of Alpha Blood pack. I pledge myself to this land and all that dwell in it, to foster and nurture, to guide with love and stand as a pillar to my mate for as long as we live. My ties to anything and anyone outside of Alpha Blood cease to exist from now till eternity. This pledge, I make before the goddess, my mate, and my people." My teeth gnashed and I fought down tears as I made the pledge.

The blood flowing from my thumb did not stop. With every sentence, I felt something rip inside me, something tearing me open. I had to force myself to continue with the words because the stabs and tearing inside me that came from saying the words were unbearable. Stopping was not an option so I soldiered on.

"I, Alpha Cahir Perseus Armani, accept your oath." I gasped at the final severance of my bond with Silver Moon pack.

Cahir caught me by my waist as I doubled over, sweat pouring down my face as a thousand hands pulled my insides from a thousand directions. The experience of shifting for the first time was tame and enjoyable in comparison with what I felt from the initiation.

"Welcome to Alpha Blood pack, Luna Sihana!" My wolf opened a link with the pack and a hundred different voices shouted into my head, congratulating me and praising me.

"I don't feel good." I ignored the voices in my head, not having the strength to silence them. Leaning my head against Cahir's bicep, I allowed my weight to sag against him as the women went with the bowl with my blood in it.

He led me back to our seat, pulling me into his lap this time. Aristo took the stage again and started to rev up the crowd. Their chants and cheers became too much for me. They almost split my eardrum with the noise.

"Let us eat and drink to celebrate the new Luna!" Aristo shouted and people cheered again.

I could do without the noise!

As if hearing my thought, Cahir stood and climbed down from the platform with his arms around my waist, exiting the banquet hall. In his arms, I gathered the strength to shut the mind link I opened with his pack as he led me away.

“Alpha Cahir, Luna Sihana, why are you exiting the ceremony so early?"

"Who was that man who caused a ruckus in there?"

“Luna Sihana, what would you like to say to the people cheering you on?" The reporters outside the pack house who were interviewing other pack members rushed to us as Cahir came out.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

We walked past them and got into the sleek black car that brought us and zoomed off from the pack dwelling. I could not be happier or more relieved to be in a quiet place.

"You did good," Cahir purred into my ear as he half-hugged me in the car.

My wolf purred and preened and I felt myself blush.

"T- Thank you." I snuggled up into his side, allowing Asena to feel her mate's warmth, something she had been disturbing me for all day long.

Cahir kissed the top of my head, a

gesture that made me feel warm from head to toe. He kissed my eyebrows and then my eyelids one at a time. Asena preened and purred while theld him tighter. He kissed the tip of my nose then he hesitated before brushing his lips against mine.

Lust zinged through me like a bolt of electricity. I wanted - no, eded more.

I pushed closer to him, my lips

chasing his in a sloppy kiss. He let me kiss him, allowing me to explore the crevices of his mouth in a clumsy manner that had me panting. I trailed my lips down to his jaw, wanting to kiss down to his chest. My hands went ahead to pop the first button on his chest, then the next, before he stopped me.

"You shouldn't start what you can't finish, love," his tone had changed, becoming raspy.

"I - I can finish it." I went for the third button.

"Alright, love. You can do what you want with my body for the next five minutes until we get home."

His words kickstarted a frenzy in me that had me reaching for his buttons, almost tearing off his shirt in a hurry.

Five minutes. I had five minutes!

I unbuttoned his shirt and tugged it out from his slacks. He stayed still as I wrestled the shirt off him.

"Get it off," I mumbled, feeling my time wasting away trying to take off his shirt. He obliged me, sliding his shirt off his broad shoulders. His biceps flexed as he took off the shirt, making my mouth water.

Brown nipples, a hard, taut, eight packs stared at me after he pulled off the shirt: I went back to kissing him, pulling his hair backwards to get access to his Adam's apple Ì sucked on it, feeling Asena purr when he sucked in a sharp breath.

"You're a tease.” His Adam's apple bobbed underneath my tongue as he spoke, snaking a hand around my waist and pulling me flush against him. The heat of his body made me moan out loud.

I proceeded to kiss down his throat but when I reached his nipple, pressing my tongue against the left one, he stopped me.

"Time up, love." The car had come to a halt in front of his home. He carried me out of the car and past the people in the house who had come outside

to welcome us with fanfare. Women ogled his chest as he left his shirt in the car.

Then we got into the room and he dumped me on the bed. "It's my turn now."