Healing The Ruthless Alpha

Chapter 49

*CAHIR*

There was every possibility that Aristo was right and that my mate did not see what I was doing. I should tell her but there was no reason to burden her with things outside of her control. As her Alpha, it was my duty to deal with every threat to her life instead of worrying her unnecessarily. "Did you find out the things I asked?" I entered Aristo's office to see him canoodling with the new girl from Silver Moon pack - Felicia was it?

"Do you never knock?" Aristo exclaimed as the girl jumped from his lap to straighten her skirt. Her skin flushed but she held up her chin and gave me a snide look.

"Alpha," she barred her neck.

"I am not your Alpha," I asked Aristo to keep close eyes on this girl so I didn't expect him to still frolic with her but I should have known my Beta was too much of a man whore to stay away from a woman who gave him an obvious green light.

"Yes, Alpha." The girl insisted and barred her neck again before leaving the office.

"If you'd just waited ten minutes, bro." Aristo shook his head. "What's up?" He fixed his shirt and whipped a smear of lipstick from the side of his lips. "It's been three days since I asked you to find out about Beta Morris and his firm," I reminded him. "Rather than chasing skirts, you should focus on being my Beta."

"You can't blame me, man, I am twenty-five and mateless. It gets lonely." That was a new excuse, one I didn't buy.

"If your loneliness is going to affect your duties to me and my pack, then step aside. There are thousands of people willing to fill your position." "Chill, jeez!" He flipped open his computer. "Yes, there are thousands of people eager to take over as your Beta but none of them is your best friend and none of them work as well as I do." He raised his head with a wink.

"Yes, I looked into Beta Morris and his company. They have started trade with the Crescent Moon pack," Aristo said.

"I didn't give them the permission to," I muttered but there was no need for me to voice it out. Beta Morris was affiliated with at least three packs which did not hide their hatred for me.

"Yes. What's more, he is in talks to start trading with Dark River pack."

"Interesting."

Indeed, it was interesting because I already asked my gamma to look into the Dark River pack. Their spy had become a lot more obvious these days, hanging around my mate, most definitely fishing for information about her.

"Aren't you worried?" Aristo asked, putting his hands behind his head as he leaned back into his seat. “I can smell the betrayal from right here." He wrinkled his nose.

"I am ready for him."

When I told Aristo I would be announcing my Luna to the world using her Luna Ceremony, it was for men like these to know the woman I mated with had my protection. It was for them to see I valued her which would make them come after her. They were a predicament and I wanted to get their annihilating over and done with as soon as possible. They wouldn't be fun to play with so I'd crush them fast and hard. Alpha Kade on the other hand was smart so I would enjoy crushing him.

"Have you told her about Maribeth? She has to be careful about the spy," Aristo commented.

It was annoying to observe, but my mate didn't have an eye for people. She misjudged people which was the reason she still hadn't seen through an obvious spy. Maribeth was from the Dark River pack, a pack that bordered ours. They pretended to support me but unlike my mate, I had a good eye for people. I could tell they were plotting something with two other packs that also pretended to be on friendly terms with Alpha Blood.

"If I tell her anything now, all she will do is worry." I sighed, annoyed that my mate had to go through all these with people she didn't even know. Mating with me was dangerous and now that she had done it, the least I could do for her was to protect her from all those trying to use her to get to

me.

"That's dangerous. It's better for her to be on guard and worried than for her to be lax when she's surrounded by danger."

"I can protect her," I reminded Aristo. Did I need to remind him that there was no one on the pl who could come close enough to hurt me and mine?

"What if you're not there?" He asked. "Are you willing to take chances with her life, Cahir? For once, my beta actually looked serious and concerned. "I've said this before and I'm saying it again. She's your Luna, she deserves to know what goes on around her, especially since they concern her. With all due respect, Alpha, don't you think she should know that there are people already plotting against her as we speak?"

“No, as a matter of fact, I don't think she should know that there are people fucking preparing to kill her!" I slammed my hands against his desk. "What the fuck would she do with that sort of information?" I asked my Beta who flinched.

"She'd be prepared," he muttered.

"Prepared for what? Are you doubting my ability to protect my mate, Aristo?" Perseus snarled in anger.

Why would she need to be prepared because men who could not speak in my presence were planning to use her against me? She was my mate currently in my house and on my land. No one could touch her within this pack because I was the fucking Alpha. I was more than enough to protect her! There was no need for her to be 'prepared' because nothing would happen to her, not as long as I lived!

"Cahir -" Aristo massaged the point between his eyes. "Be reasonable. You're mated now and your mate should come before your pride as an Alpha. Even if you stay with her for the twenty fours hours in every day, it doesn't change the fact that she is in danger and that she deserves to know. Fine, you can protect her, but isn't it better for her to know what to expect at any given time so she isn't taken by surprise?"

"She won't be taken by surprise because no one will come close enough to touch her."Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Taken by surprise? No, there would be nothing like that. She was home now and the place was littered with security. Any man that loitered too close to our home without good reason would find himself in the dungeons before he could blink.

"You're being unreasonable," Aristo said and Perseus snarled.

He is getting too mouthy. Shut him up. The demons in me reared their heads but I squashed the voice in a second.

"Do you plan to keep her locked up at home forever? Do you think she'll be content to be left in the dark forever?"

"Since when are you a relationship expert?" This bastard had never had a relationship in his life. He was unqualified to advise me on how to treat my mate.

"You may have forgotten but I am the king of women." He spread his arms with a grin. "I've been in a lot of them so I know how they think. Women are natural over thinkers so you better tell her what's going on before she creates a fake scenario in her head to fill the gaps you're hiding from her." Fake scenarios. Fake scenarios. Was that why she said I treated her like shit? Had she created fake scenarios in her head that made me seem wicked to her?

"Go back to your work, Aristo." I pushed out of his seat. "Keep a close eye on Morris and the packs he trades with. They will strike soon so be

prepared." "Aren't you scared, Cahir? One of these men can hurt your mate," Aristo muttered with a strange expression on his face.

"Even you - Aristo, even you can't lay a hand on my mate." And he was the closest person on my scale in the world. "The next time Maribeth leaves for her pack, make sure she finds her way to the dungeons." With that, I slammed his door shut.

Throughout that day, I tried to find flaws in my plans but I saw none. Sia was safe with me and there wasn't a need to alarm her. She couldn't protect herself but I could protect her.

"You're safe with me," I said as I pulled her into my arms that night. She fit with me like a puzzle piece, as if she was created just for me - the goddess did.

No one, no one on the pl could harm her as long as I lived.

"It doesn't feel that way," she answered in a strange voice.

My heart pounded and my head hurt. Shielding her from the horrors in my life was the right to do, right?