Healing The Ruthless Alpha novel Chapter 36

*KADE*

*THE DAY SIA LEAVES SILVER MOON*

Guilt weighed on me as I returned from the hospital where the doctor told me there was nothing wrong with Sia. As a healer, her body could repair itself once she rested after doing so much work in the pack hospital today.

I hadn't wanted to force her to work at the hospital but I knew this was a sure way for people to appreciate her in the pack. She'd been trying to win everyone's approval before but with time, I saw her give up. It was not a secret that she wanted to be loved, with how readily she did whatever was asked of her, no matter how degrading, but over the last year, she had started to withdraw from the pack. It was how I knew she had given up on Silver Moon.

My phone rang then and I picked it up from the nightstand.

"Alpha! There are vandals destroying things in the pack!" One of my warriors shouted into the phone once I picked up.

"Goddamit!" I grabbed my keys from the desk beside my bed and dashed out of my room. These vandals must be looking for a quick death for them to try to destroy the properties in my pack!

I was directing my warriors on how best to approach the situation when the attacking hoodlums started to retreat. They shouted, waving twigs and machetes in the air as they held their trousers and ran off, jumping into the vehicles they came in.

"That's right! Run, you fools!" A girl who had been trying to enter the pack house shouted at the retreating men.

Those around who had been trying to find a place to hide a minute ago turned to see the men fleeing. They abandoned their quest to hide and started to insult the men, jeering at them.

"Something is wrong," Flint said but I didn't need him to tell me.

"Why the hell are they retreating all of a sudden?"

Vandals like these had increased in the werewolf community over the years as more and more wolves left their pack. There was no clear-cut manner to deal with them since they were not rogues so we could not just murder them in cold blood. They were like wolves bonded together to form criminal gangs. They would not just attack and leave without carting away something expensive or robbing enough people while pretending to fight.

"Alpha Kade, the vandals are retreating," my Beta came to stand beside me and I almost growled in his face.

"I can see them, Beta Markus." Beta Markus was due for retirement and he got on my nerves with his know-it-all attitude but until I found someone suitable to be my Beta, I would have to make do with him.

"Investigate this matter. I want to know what prompted this attack and what they must have taken from us." I turned and walked back into the pack house. The wing of the house which they set on fire was far from mine and the fire had already been put out. I was going to sleep off this crazy day!

"Sia," Flint whispered. "I can't feel Sia!" He growled. "Kade, they may have taken her!"

Fuck! How did I not realize that sooner!?

I called all the head warriors and trackers and instructed them to find Sihana. None understood why I was so concerned about finding her until I growled at them.

"She is my mate. Find her before anything happens to her if you want to keep your heads!" I growled at the bastards gawking at me.

I shifted as the warriors left, allowing Flint to tear through to search the pack lands. It was already three in the morning, a full hour after the vandals retreated.

"Why did they take her? What could they possibly want from her?" I mused as Flint covered the distance in a shorter time than usual.

"You bastard, she is a healer!" He growled at me. "Do you know how rare healers are? Another pack must have taken her!" He screamed, racing at full speed.

We had no destination in mind but my wolf would not rest until we found a lead.

"Please be safe, Sihana," I mumbled. "Goddess, protect her." If anything happened to her, I may not survive.