Page 130 of Her Destined Alpha
“Why Raihana?” I asked suddenly, without even thinking. He paused, mid-lift, before carrying on.
“I don’t want broken bones again, so I’m not going to answer that,” he replied cockily. I turned my head towards him, my eyes flashing in annoyance.
“Did you forget who she was?” I asked.
“For a moment, yeah…” His reply was quiet.
“What you did was wrong. You were told to guard her… not to cross certain lines,” I said, sitting up. He did the same, turning and looking at me, and unwrapped the bandages he had wrapped around his hands.
“I know that. Although you may not have heard, I fucking stopped. It was hard, but I did stop when I realised what I was doing,” he said quietly. “She was angry, and she-” He frowned deeply as I looked up at him.
“Care to share?”
“She was basically pissed off with me, and we were arguing... then yeah, shit happened. I lost control, and she’s no angel,” he said, clearly not wanting to tell me exactly what happened. Whatever it was that he was hiding, he was covering for Raihana. Yeah, I know that. Heck, Ri… it takes two, even I know that.
“I get that. But she is not one of your one-night funs, Chris. She can’t be,” I said quietly.
“Yeah, I know. She’ll probably find her mate at the next mating ceremony or some shit,” he muttered.
Was he actually affected by that? I mean, he didn’t care if a she-wolf found her mate.
“Probably. Are you going to attend the next one?”
“No,” he answered quietly, looking at his hands.
“Happy with your one-nighters?” I remarked. He gave me a cold glare, his piercing green eyes meeting mine.
“Those don’t really seem so fucking appealing anymore,” he muttered.
Those words surprised me, and I wondered if there was more to it with Raihana? Was it wrong to restrict them if that was the case? I guess I’ll keep an eye on them… If there was more to it and they wanted to pursue it, I wouldn’t stand in their way. Chris never did relationships, and if Raihana meant more to him, then who was I to stop them? I just didn’t want him hurt if the Blood Moon came and Raihana found her mate... nor did I want him to hurt her…
“I’m sorry for hitting you. I shouldn’t have lost it,” I said, looking him directly in the eye.
“Yeah, you shouldn’t have. It was a dick move, but I don’t blame you, man.” Chris gave me a smirk. “She is your sister, after all.”
“Yeah,” I said, giving him a small smile. I was glad we’d sorted our crap out.
“Tonight we need to meet the girls and have a movie night or something. Del might like it too.”
“Yeah… if it’s okay, mind if I call Raihana? She and Delsanra are getting pretty close.”
“That’s your call, and if she wants to; I don’t have an issue with it,” he said.
I didn’t reply, lying back down on the bench. Yeah, I’ll ask her… I wasn’t going to let my ego get in the way of ruining any of my relationships.
Spells & Dreams
Delsanra
The following day, I spent some time with Raihana. We read through the grimoires, but I made sure we started with simple spells. I was also teaching her how controlling emotions and channelling them would help. I wasn’t able to do many spells thanks to the seal on my powers.
We were taking a break; Rayhan had been there up until twenty minutes ago when he left as he had some alpha work to attend to, and I was fiddling with my new phone that I loved. I’d never really had one, and the ones I knew how to use were so much more basic than this. Raihana had even downloaded music for me and set up some social media accounts. I had taken several pictures with Rayhan. He was currently the wallpaper on my phone, his arm around me as I kissed his neck whilst he was looking at the screen with a sexy grin on his face.
“So, I was thinking…” Raihana spoke, bringing me out of my thoughts.
“Hmm?”
“You said your powers are sealed, right? And the spell is strong?”
