Alpha's Return Mate

CHAPTER THREE.

CLAVE’s POV,

The moment I ended the call, I replaced the landline while my mind drifted off to her.

Ayita knew me when I presented an award of the best graduating student to her but I knew her long before then as my mate but everything about her were red flags to me.

She was half human, half wolf and what more, she was obsessed with me and wouldn’t miss a chance to be near me but I couldn’t take her as a mate. She was everything below average to me even if she was one of the most beautiful women I have ever come across.

Her eyes sparkled and her long wavy hair always drew me in but that was it, nothing more.

I purposely let her organize a wedding at the pack house to make my announcement, I couldn't take her as my mate.

Watching her break down after I announced my rejection, I saw a girl who was always smiling break into a thousand pieces. That was the first time I saw tears in her eyes because of me but I didn’t change my decision because of her.

Taking her as a mate was sure to mess up a whole lot of things for me and I was not ready for that. I had a lot of things going on and having a woman like Ayita by my side was not worth it at the moment.

Even at the club yesterday, I saw her walk in and take shot after shot until she got drunk and sighted me. My whole attention was on her the whole night and when that creepy man walked up to her and pressed his hand against her shoulder, I wanted to chop his hands off immediately. How dare he?

My thoughts were interrupted when the door pushed open and Ebony sauntered into the room.

“Everything is ready now,” she said.

“I will be there in a minute”

“You look worried, is something bothering you?”

I glanced at it for a moment and my lips curled into a smirk.

“How about I tell you about this later? Right now we have something to take care off”

“Of course”

I pulled my drawer open and picked up the gold coated gun that was lying inside of it.

This was the gun my father gifted me the day he made me the new head of the Herminwood family. A family he grew from the very scratch to become the most feared and ruthless mafia family of all.

Two years after he made me the leader, he was killed in an assassination which he was already aware of from the onset but he didn’t try to stop it.

“You will lead this family to become more powerful than I ever did” were his last words to me before he passed away at the family residence, I never shed a single tear since then till date.

A week after he died, I fished out the people responsible for his death and I cut off all of their heads and handed them over to their families and since then, no one had dared to come to me, I would kill them all.

Father was less ruthless than me, I would defeat the devil if I so wished.

This was one of the many reasons why I could not take Ayita as my mate. She knew nothing about this part of my life, she only knew me as the alpha of her pack but not the dreaded Clave Herminwood and she definitely doesn’t need to know. This was a kind of business that required life and death almost everyday, she would die even before

She knew what I was.

For this kind of a job, I needed a strong woman like Ebony, one who is not afraid to die for me and for the family.

Together we both were the two strongest wolves who ruled the Herminwood family,

I picked up the gun and we both made our way out of my study towards my personal torture room.

I allowed my men to torture the less important people but this particular person annoyed me to the core, i couldn’t let him live, not after what he did.

The door opened and I ventured into the room with Ebony and Zina, my right hand man behind me.

The man who was tied to the chair already had blood dripping all over his body but this was little compared to what he was about to witness, how dare he?

Zina pulled out a chair for me and I lowered myself on it before pulling my gun out.

“Please do not kill me” he begged and I chuckled lightly, I hated people who begged the most after doing something wrong.

“Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you, Gustavo?” I asked him, “what makes you think you are better than all those people i have killed”

“I didn’t even know you until yesterday night Clave” his scared voice reached my ear, “and I didn’t know that lady was your person, I wouldn’t have gone after her”

I scoffed, was he kidding me right now?

I had gone to the club on my own yesterday to find this bastard and he came right in front of me by hitting on Ayita, a crime he shouldn’t have committed in front of me but that was little compared to his actual crime. His father owed me and he has gone Mia.

“I am sorry Clave, please do not…” the words hung in his throat when I whacked him hard across the face and blood spattered from his already swollen mouth in the process and he cried out in pain.

“You shouldn’t have shown me your face when I was looking for your father, i***t” I growled and grabbed his neck, his blood immediately getting on my white shirt.

“If I had known you would be there, I wouldn’t have come there sir, you”

“Shut up!!” I hissed in anger as I tightened my grip on his neck, my claws digging deep into his neck and fresh blood sipped out of him.

“Like I said, Gustavo. You should have hidden like a coward till the very end” I whispered into his ear before shoving him off.

I turned to Ebony and handed her my gun while Zina dropped the tool box beside me and the look on Gustavo’s face changed dramatically and I wanted to laugh.

If only his father didn’t run away with my money, I would have only been punishing him for daring to touch Ayita in that manner.

“What are you going to do?” His eyes opened wide as saucers, “are you…

I picked up a pair of pliers and grabbed his hand making him scream out loudly in fear.

I grabbed his hand and pressed the plier against his index finger,

“Don’t you dare go next to a woman you don’t know” I said in mock whisper before clipping it off and his loud howls reached the roof, his blood spilled all over me as I glanced at the finger which was on the bloodied floor.

“Please… please” Gustavo was begging like he had hot food in his mouth but I didn’t care, he had already committed too much of a sin.

I pressed the plier against another of his finger again,

“And make sure to tell your father to bring what he owes” I warned him and clipped another off.

Gustavo would have jumped out of the chair if he wasn’t tied down with a rope.

After that, I returned the plier to Zina and collected my gun from Ebony again. Gustavo was still howling like a child who had stepped on a boiling coal.

“And for the last time” I pulled closer to him and pressed the gun against his knee,

“Don’t you dare look at Ayita with such lust in your eyes again” and I pulled the trigger sending the chair flying away from me as his cries doubled.

I cleaned the gun with the kerchief that Ebony handed to me before I pushed my body away from the chair.

“Get rid of this trash” I told Zina, “and set up a meeting with the others, I have something to discuss”

“Yes boss” he answered with a bow before I made my way out of the room with Ebony behind me.

***

As soon as I entered my room, she slammed the door close before walking up to me with a huge smirk on her face,

“You should have killed him,” she said while snaking her hand around my waist.

“He doesn’t deserve to die yet” I answered while she wiped the blood off my face.

Ebony was one of father’s most trusted persons when he was alive and she was one of the strongest betas, we naturally clicked and I eventually fell in love with her, the second reason why i couldn’t be with Ayita.

“But I thought you didn’t care about that weak wolf, why did you…

“Will you keep asking questions or calm my anger down?”

The smile on her face widened, “of course I will calm your anger clave, i just want to be sure that in a room full of a thousand Ayita’s, you will still chose me”

“I have always chosen you, Ebony” I placed my finger under her jaw, “you do not need to fight for that space with anyone”

She leaned in and pressed a kiss on my lips before tightening her grip on me,

“I know, I was just messing with you”

Aside from being one of the strongest betas and the woman I loved, Ebony’s family was a major part of the mafia family. Her father was the leader of the minority group and we have coexisted peacefully for years. It is safe to say that Ebony and I share a symbiotic relationship.

As she pressed her lips against mine, the image of Ayita sleeping peacefully on the hotel bed became fresh in my head yet again.