Page 47 of Her Cold-Hearted Alpha: Part 1

Fuck, I wasn’t expecting them to show up. Although I had business with Bill… I didn’t expect him to come so soon. Jasmin was someone I had a bit of a fucked up relationship with. The occasional fuck partner and someone the council was pushing me to accept and make my fucking queen. I had been considering it… but… Kiara. Her green eyes rimmed with that dazzling blue entered my mind and I knew I was a fucking mess. Well, who says I can't play, even if I accepted Jasmin…? Maybe I’d hurt Kiara enough for her to hate me and stay away.

I didn’t know exactly what I wanted but-

‘Alpha?’ I realised he was waiting for a reply.

‘Send Darien to greet them and give them housing in one of the empty apartments. I’ll meet them tonight.’ I said curtly. If they came fucking unannounced, then I was going to keep the dipshit waiting.

Bill had vast unclaimed land, the land I wanted to search for clues to possible Wendigo or Manangal hideouts. The only problem was, he had a lot of animals and that land was used a lot for hunting and training. If I was to follow a trail and track, I needed minimum disruption. Although I was king and I could just fucking take the land and do what I wanted, I didn’t want those who were behind the Wendigos and Manangal attacks alerted.

Just then, my phone rang and I took it out of my pocket. Well I was expecting Elijah, but the fucker didn’t seem to want to harass me so quickly. Smart move. The current call was Rafael’s.

I hesitated. Should I answer it? I rarely talked to him these days… It had been years since we had much of a conversation… He was my only link to the past. The reminder that I too had feelings at one point.

"What do you want?" I answered coldly.

"Hello to you too, Brother." His reply came.

I hated it, the warmth in his voice and the fake front of care.

"Cut to it, I don’t have all fucking day."

"I know, you’re a busy man now."

Fucker.

"Don’t put that shit on me. If you’re done, shall I hang up?"

"No, wait. I just wanted to thank you for letting the kids come down. I appreciate it… It means a lot. Raihana’s been on about it for ages."

"Yeah well... It’s you who never bothered to bring or send her sooner. Guess no one wants to send their kid to a fucking monster. Understood. But don’t fucking pretend to thank me for useless bullshit."

"That wasn’t my aim, Al-"

"You done?" I cut in. I hated this. This fucking conversation. All of it.

"Yeah… I guess. I’ll see you soon, Brother."

"Maybe. Or even better, hopefully never." I replied, cutting the call.

I clenched my jaw, tossing my phone onto the table. I hated this whole fucking socialising shit. Sure, Rayhan and Raihana were my nephew and niece… But did I really know them? No. Did I want to make links with them? No. I needed no one. Not now and not in the future. I liked the way my life was, I didn’t need a place to call home.

Her face flashed in my mind once again and I closed my eyes. I didn’t need her... Or I was fucking trying to tell myself that anyway.

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It was a while later and I had needed to clear my fucking mind, deciding to go stop at the hospital. Yeah ok, Kiara was probably there... Either way, I was going. I reached the hospital and I wouldn’t lie, the smell of hazelnut chocolate drowned out the rest of the scents that filled the air and I let it lead me to her. Pausing on the way to talk to one or two of my men, checking how they were doing. I now stopped outside the ward where Kiara was, she had a pair of medical gloves on as she was crouched down near one of my warriors’ legs. A sharp burst of jealousy rushed through me as I saw her hand on his leg.

Callum stood arms crossed, and Serena was smiling as she listened to Kiara.

"So, what would you suggest miss?" Callum asked curtly.

The man had an ego but he was an impressive doctor.

"I know they say bandages should be kept dry etcetera but we aren't really human. The correct mix of clove, dhatura and goldenseal soaking on a bandage would ease the pain and heal any infection caused. We have to remember that although yes, we are part human, we don’t work the same way." Her sexy-as-fuck voice came.

"So, you’re saying this works?" Callum replied sceptically. "It could just cause an infection by getting the wound wet for a long period of time."

"I have tried it, so yes. If Luca here doesn't mind being the test subject, then you could try it on one of his wounds and see if it heals any quicker?" She suggested, flashing Luca a smile. My eyes burned as I felt the ugly feeling of jealousy rise within me and all four turned to me, probably sensing my fucking aura.

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