He caught up with me. Of course, he caught up with me. He was the hunter and I was the prey. There was no outrunning a hunter as skilled as Cahir Armani. “Stay.” The command that fell from his lips – the words that fell from his lips, they were not his. The voice wasn’t his!My eyes darted all over the place in search of an exit but I ended up looking directly at an unmoving body – the corpse of a man who he slaughtered in less than a minute! I wrestled as he grabbed me, my heart beating an erratic staccato. Even Asena wanted to run as fast and as far away from him as possible.“Stay!” I heard a gnashing of teeth as my body went still at the Alpha’s command. “God dammit, you’re causing a lot of trouble!” He shouted, still clutching me to him, my back to his front. How voice had returned to normal but I didn’t think I could ever be normal again. Not after I discovered this.Everyone said Cahir Armani was a ruthless killing machine, they called him a blood-hungry monster but no one actu
His head jerked back at my words then a frown creased his brows for a second before he swallowed, his Adam’s apple bobbing. “I don’t make it a habit of protecting those I hate.”“How would I know that when I don’t know you?” He let out a short, mirthless bark of laughter that made my mouth dry. The laughter died as quickly as it had started. He faced me with narrowed eyes and crossed arms.A loud phone blaring startled us. Cahir reached into his pocket for his phone, turning away from me to answer it. My body relaxed, I rubbed a hand on my face then let myself fall back into bed, spread eagle.“Yes, I’m there. What do you want?” Cahir barked into the phone. When I strained my ears, I heard Aristo on the other end of the call. Despite everything, he ratted me out and I was grateful for being found out earlier than I had planned.My teeth worried my bottom lip and my hands shivered beside me. I closed my eyes andforced my lungs to expand as I took in a deep breath but reality was settin
“Come in,” Cahir answered the door meanwhile, I was already burrowing into his skin. My hands found their way around his neck and I pressed my scrunched face into his chest as I awaited whoever it was on the other side of the door. Another assassin/kidnapper disguised as room service? “Alpha.” A familiar voice greeted. I raised my head from Cahir’s chest to see a raggedy-looking Sebastian enter the room.His hair was sticking out in spikes, clothes dishevelled with what looked like puke on them, and his mismatched shoes.“I have contacted the Alpha in charge of the island and cleared out the parking lot,” Sebastian spoke in a low and subdued tone with his head bent.“You have done well,” Cahir replied in an unimpressed tone. “Begin your punishment before I decide what to do with you.”“Yes, Alpha.” Sebastian bowed himself out of the room. He looked smaller somehow. Perhaps the way he hunched over had something to do with it.“What is he going to do now?” I asked Cahir, worried about t
“A – Alpha Cahir –“ I’d never seen a man this big look this terrified before. A sturdy, heavy-built man walked towards us with a stooped gait and his hands clasped behind him. Sweat soaked the collar of his shirt and he looked everywhere except at Cahir who he was addressing.“You are?” My mate asked in a gravel voice that had the man taking a step back.“I’m Alpha Matthew, the manager of the hotel. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” He held out his shaky, sweat-soaked hands to Cahir who looked at the hand for a second and then looked back up at the sweating man.“You’re too late.” Cold pricked my skin from his icy tone.“A – Alpha, excuse our insufficient and lack – lack of foresight. We should have provided the madam with adequate – adequate security. Please – punish me, not - not my poor staff.”“I’ll punish you, all right.” The man jerked back, raising his head a fraction before hunching over again. “You and everyone in this pack.”“S – Sir, please –““I wasn’t born yesterday. Your Alph
I was happy but I didn’t think Cahir was impressed. Who knew something as simple as ice cream could make me feel this way? After I went through a tub of ice cream while Cahir watched, he asked if I wanted more. He shouldn’t have because I knew I shouldn’t have more but it didn’t stop me from wanting more. With his prompt, I decided to have a cone which I carried along with me as he got some clothes to change into.After we visited two stores and couldn’t find anything that fit his taste, he started to get huffy. Unfortunately, this was an island and because of their festival most shops were closed and the ones open catered to tourists. They stocked colourful attires. There were very few suits on display but none fit him– well, there was one but it was a bright lemon that made him flinch. No dress shirts, no black trousers and thus nothing of his taste. I’d been nursing my ice cream but it was starting to melt and create a mess but it pained me to see it go.“You can get another one.”
“You did good,” Cahir commended as we entered our luxury suite. “You think?” If I had a tail, it’d be wagging but no matter how much I tried to hold back my happiness, it couldn’t be helped. The part of me that was starved of affection and validation surfaced despite how I tried to hide it.“Your smile is pretty.” An unfamiliar warmth spread through me, and then that fluttering in my stomach started back up.“T – Thank you.” I ducked my head for no apparent reason but then I raised it back up, feeling ridiculous.“I should make you smile more often,” he muttered to himself but those words made meblush even more. “Now you see I am not useless, after all.” The words slipped from my mouth with no thoughts as I tried to understand why I felt like hiding behind my hair from what he said.I was deep in thought when I noticed the uncomfortable silence in the room and felt a gaze piercing my face. Raising my head and pushing my hair from my face, I met Cahir’s eyes boring into me.“Who said
I was surfing on a cloud. Life couldn’t be better. My vacation turned out better than I expected. Who would have thought that the person I was running from would be the same person to make the vacation worth it?“This will be your first bargain,” Cahir reminded me. As if I could forget.It was time for me to cash in on Alpha Malachi’s blank check. I’d prefer to wait until the end of our vacation but delaying things would make me look indecisive and that was not a good look for me.“Yes, and I’m buying up shares in the FT Hotels. And because an attack against me is an attack against my pack, Alpha Blood has to receive something,” I replied.“Foreigners can’t own more than one percent share of FTH but we’re going for twenty. Start as high as you can but don’t go lower than twenty,” Cahir advised. “Entering their market with Wolf’s bane is a bargain they may not accept but pitch it anyway.” I nodded at his advice. I hoped not to fuck it up but as Cahir said, I had nothing to lose.“Luna
*CAHIR*"You're doing it again," Perseus said while I worked."What am I doing?" Without Aristo, there was an even larger backlog of work to be dealt with. Who even knew where that bastard was?"You every minute asshole," Perseus said. "And worrying our mate. Isn't it better to tell her what's wrong?""What's wrong?" I wished the mutt would shut up but my wolf was an inner voice that could not be silenced."Are you going to pretend you haven't reverted to being standoffish since we returned? You're going to make her misunderstand us again and who knows, maybe when she leaves this time, we won't be able to find her!" He shouted, his patience running thin."Darn it!" I pushed away from my desk, feeling my head ache from all the things flying through my mind at the same time.I wasn't even sure why I felt this way but I did. After so many years, I was supposed to get over this insane feeling but Alpha Blood still put a bad taste on my tongue. The taste became unnoticeable after a while b