I ignored Nick again and stood up. Stepping close to Seth and hovering my huge figure before him. Making him see who I am and what I can do.
“I. Am. The. Alpha. Even if you start wiggling your tail to her, you’ll still think of what’s better for your leader. And that is me.” My body trembles as I surge my power around them, making their knees shake, making them know who holds power.
Both of them cowered and now their head, not fighting the superiority I had for them.
My breathing is heavy. I can feel my blood boiling in my ears and I controlled myself not to hurt both of them unconsciously. But I’m at the edge of it.
I got a stealer for a mate and I have a Gamma who’s fooling me around.
I inhaled hastily, letting my nose flare-up. When I exhaled, I decreased the power I’m making them receive, and both of them breathe again. Relieved.
Seth is the first one who looked at me.
“I know my fault, Alpha. And I apologize for it. But I believe Ashira. And she is without bad motives.”
Nick turned to him before looking at me. He shook his head and walked to the couch, slumping his body on the soft furniture.
“But why did you keep it from us, Seth? You’re the first one who should have said something about this. Not Titus.” Said Nick.
“He’s a traitor. What do you expect?” I smirked and Seth closed his eyes shut like he’s frustrated.
“I am not. Aiden, I didn’t want for this to happen. Ash said she will tell you. When we talked to Titus today-”
“Today? At the ceremony?” Nick interrupted. I exhaled and slumped on a couch as well, trying to hear everything Seth is saying because right now… I needed it.
“No. Earlier. That day when Ash first saw Titus at his house, he immediately found out about her but he made a deal with her. He asked if Ash can convince Aiden to let him keep his position until he’s properly healed from his loss.”
My nose flared again when I thought of the night of our fight. The root of that is this. The reason that she’s talking about Titus’ position is because of this. Because she wanted to keep her secret.
I stayed quiet but low growls came from my wolf. He’s not happy with how Seth tell the story. My wolf is agitated that it sounds like our mate is truly trying to keep her abnormality a secret from us because she made her end of the deal.
“She agreed? That’s doubtful, Seth.” It was mostly Nick and said talking and I’m analyzing what I’m hearing from it.
Nick is right. If she agreed then she’s head over heels desiring to discrete this to me.
“I know. But she have her reason. Where is she? You can ask her about this.”
I snapped my head and turned to Seth.
“She’s not going to join this conversation!” I growled between gritted teeth.
Seth frowned from my reaction. My lips turned flat after my sudden outburst. Seth knows nothing about anything with a stealer involved. Nick on the other hand shook his head slowly.
“I agree with Aiden, we shouldn’t.”
“What? But how can she defend herself? What if she’s your true mate, Aiden? You are hurting her with this!”
I growled. I know. I already know that. But I’m not sure who she is to me. There’s always the opposing if. What if she’s not my mate?
“Sit down and we’ll discuss this calmly.” Nick said and looked at me. “You calm?”
I huffed and looked upstairs. To where my room is. “Barely.”
“That’s better.”
Seth slowly stepped backwards to the chair behind him, careful of his actions like I might jumped at him any moment.
“So where is she?” Seth said and looked around. Trying to sniff her scent. My wolf groaned. Damn, why can’t I stop getting irritated when someone seems attracted to my mate?
‘Worse is yet to come.’ My wolf huffed and slumped inside my head, reminding me that my mate is a stealer and more wolf may come for her. I ignored him when I felt getting agitated by the thought.
“Aiden left her in his room.”
“Why isn’t she coming down? We can talk to her and you’ll find out she’s not-”
“I locked her up.” I said, resting my body on the backrest of the chair as I run my hand on my hair. Until now, I’m still unsure of what I did but it’s what’s best at the moment.
“What?!” Seth looked at me with widened eyes like he can’t believe me at all.
Nick on the other hand examined me for a second before nodding.
“Its for the best.” he said.
“What’s wrong with you both? She is not a danger!”
“You can’t understand, Seth. Stealers are more dangerous to the opposite se*x than you can imagine. If she is one of the bad kind, she can make the three of us fight for her.”
Nick was right. Both of us have enough knowledge than the rest. We’re already around when the Ravenous pack tragedy has took place. It was private, no one knee about it but some. It includes me and Nick.
“What are you talking about? That’s impossible. I have my mate.” he hissed, I almost growled at him when he indirectly implied that Nick and I are thinking like we’re insane.
“A stealer can steal. She can steal you from mine, she can steal you from yours. With mate or without.” I explained. Seth jaw dropped and I continued. “I haven’t claimed her. No one had and that’s why she can pick anyone to deceive. And the three of us, Alpha or not, can kill each other if she’ll like too.”
“But she’s not like that!” Seth defended.
“We’re not saying she is, Seth. But we are not being careless, too.”
Everyone went silent. I looked up, watching the chandeliers as it moved a little. I closed my eyes and let the mate bond sense Ashira inside my room.
Even if it’s a wolf proof room, the bond between mates is strong.
She’s not moving. But I can hear her breathing, low but never peaceful. I sighed.
She’s not even crying. She had stopped trying to get out of the room. What is she thinking right now?
‘She hate us now!’ My wolf growled at me, angered by his assumption. I almost flinched from it but I growled back to him inside my head before ignoring him and completely shutting him. I can’t trust him now. Wolves intend to think of just their libid0 and desire when it comes to mate.
“How do you know this? We met with Titus to know more about stealers. Even Ash lacks information about what she is.” Seth asked. I did not look at him and stayed my eyes close, trying to focus on Ashira’s breath since its the only thing that I can sense right now.
“You heard about Alpha Zeuracious and the stealer right?”
“Yeah? Everyone knew that.”
“Yes but not everything. Informations are sealed and within our pack, only Alpha James, Luna Tina and my father learned about it.”
“How did the both of you know then?”
“My Father told us both. Aiden has started his role as an Alpha back then and I’m training so I’m always around.”