Desire for you- ALPHA RYAN Book 1
Chapter 46

ILAY

I was beside myself with rage. How dare he attack her?

I stormed out of the room and went in search of Ryan.

I caught sight of him running down the stairs and walked faster so I could catch up with him.

I grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him to face me. I punched him in the face as hard as I could with my fist. "You son of a bitch, how dare you touch her? Do you actually realize that she could lose YOUR child because of the stress factor she's under right now?" I shouted at him and bumped him on the chest.

Ryan held his cheek in pain and picked himself up. "Oh yeah, when she was in bed with you, her stress levels weren't high either?"

"You wanted it yourself, otherwise you wouldn't have bet me. Have you forgotten that neither of us have been marked by her yet and her bond is pushing for it?! YOU IDIOT!" I shouted at him again and grabbed my hair.

"Why do you think I made a bet with you?" I said to him, glaring at him angrily. "An Alpha should know how the women are actually keen when they haven't marked their mate yet. Turn your damn brain on already." I let out a frustrated sigh and paced around the room.

He shook his head in bewilderment, "You're just trying to play me off against Catherine so she'll reject me. I can see your intentions, Ilay..." he said, his black eyes glaring at me.

I laughed, "Playing you off against her?" I shook my head and moved closer to him, "Listen to me, friend, she can't reject either of us. Otherwise she'll die. Do you understand my language better now? Otherwise I can tell you in Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Russian."

"Since when did you know that?" Ryan hissed at me and stood in front of me with his head held high, apparently ready for another fight.

My eyes narrowed, signaling him to stop getting on my nerves "After I fucked her, she told me." I hissed at him.

It seemed as if his heart paused for a moment at my words. "YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" He shouted at me and pushed me hard against the wall, banging against a piece of art. The picture was in a frame of glass, which now shattered into a thousand pieces.

I got up quickly, a few shards of glass couldn't hurt me. "I don't know who the real asshole is here. You couldn't even tell Catherine the truth about her having your child and you're blaming me? You're the problem, Ryan. Open your fucking eyes already. I should have killed you when I found out she was having your child! But I pulled myself together for her sake. She's in a damn predicament herself. When will your brain finally understand that?" I punched him in the stomach with my fist, sending him staggering backwards.

He was apparently so angry that he didn't really understand all these connections.

"BOTH OF YOU STOP IT!" A woman's voice shouted and came stomping towards us.

Achira.

She looked at us angrily and slapped us both in the face.

We both looked at her in irritation. "You're acting like two toddlers who can't get anything done. Do you realize what you're doing?" she preached at us.

"You'll both calm down and replace a decent solution. You won't get out of this room before then," she said and pushed us both into my office.

She locked the door... Damn, she had locked the door? I could have just teleported out, but this was really a situation we needed to sort out.

Ryan was still holding his cheek from Achira's slap. Apparently she had hit him a little harder, so his cheek had an imprint of her hand.

I had to stifle my giggles and stay serious.

"Sort that out..." Ryan mumbled and finally started pacing back and forth around the room.

"Where did you keep the alcohol?" he asked me with a raised eyebrow. I nodded towards the rack "Help yourself..." I mumbled and sat down on my chair. I leaned against it and turned in circles.

The tiger had to calm down for the first time. He grabbed a glass and poured himself some bourbon. He looked at me and pointed to a glass. I shook my head "No thanks, but I don't feel like it anymore..." I said with a sigh.

He nodded and sat down on the Chesterfield sofa and took a sip of his drink.

"What are we going to do now?" I finally said. He looked at me and didn't know what to say. He tasted his bourbon and then finally shrugged his shoulders.

"What are we supposed to do? You come into my life, rip my mate away from me, make sure she kills herself and now you're still fucking her and asking me what WE should do?" he said with raised eyebrows.

I sighed and rolled my eyes "Be honest, how reluctant would you have been if I had met her before you? Be honest Ryan. We both want her." I finally argued.

RYAN

I was about to go off like a bomb. Ilay was stealing the last nerve I had left for myself.

"We both want her?" I finally said, shaking my head.

"It's not going to work, forget it. I can't stand a day in the same room with you, do you think I'm going to spend my life with you and pretend to be happy? On top of that, there's another baby in this world in a few months and he'll have to join in the fun. Great, isn't it?" I said shaking my head and had to stop myself from taking another glass.

Yes, the situation had escalated completely earlier and I should never have laid a hand on Catherine... It was all so chaotic and for me it was just awful. I've never been so rejected by anyone in my life as I was by her. The fact that she was in the same bed as Ilay didn't make it any better.

I sighed again and didn't know what else to say. I had made my point.

"We both only have one choice, Ryan. Do you think I'm happy about this situation? We can both agree to it or we both have to give it up..." he finally said and leaned forward against the desk.

I shook my head, I couldn't just accept this "There must be a way out of this... That can't be it." I finally said.

Ilay shrugged "Azrael, the Angel of Death showed Catherine everything.... EVERYTHING. She knows about Julieth, she knows about Dimitri and she knows about Ragnol.

He also told her that she had to make a decision. A life with the two of us or hell... She chose us."

He looked at me seriously. I, on the other hand, had to laugh "Great, hell on earth." I mumbled and touched my temples.

"Yes, it really is hell on earth for her," he said, shrugging his shoulders.

"She didn't have a choice either, she couldn't resist me because of the companion bond... Why do you think I was so sure about everything?" he finally said.

His talk alone annoyed me, let alone his provocations.

"Now make up your mind Ryan, are you just going to let his mate die because you can't handle me?" Ilay asked me. "Hell NO!" I shouted at him and had to regain my self-control. It wasn't easy.

He shrugged his shoulders "Then you have to accept that she's my mate too, period. There's nothing to shake about that. You in your pack home, me in my home and she can and go as she wants and as often as she wants. Done." Ilay suggested.

That was easier said than done. The thought of her being with Ilay and having her fun while I waited for her at home? That sounded more like I'd end up a desperate househusband who might be allowed to come once a week.

I slapped the table, "Forget it." I finally said, glaring angrily at him.

Ilay bit his lower lip, "Okay, then Catherine gets her own cabin and we stay with her for as long as we want and as long as she wants us to. We can stay with her for twenty-four hours or if she says she's fed up with both of us, like she did earlier, then we leave."

He broke as a compromise. I still couldn't get my head around this idea, even though I had known it for many days.

"You have no other way out, Ryan... Think it through... You're creating an iceberg between you and Catherine right now. This iceberg isn't necessary, especially since she doesn't know about her happiness yet..."

That jerk of an asshole, for some reason, had the right words ready every time.

I bit my lower lip and sighed, "Is there anything else I should know?" I finally asked him.

Ilay nodded "Yes, for Catherine's delusion to stop, she has to mark us both..."

"Delusion?" I asked him, frowning.

"Go and lie next to her for half an hour, if she doesn't fall all over you and have perverted dreams about you, then I'll capitulate myself." He said, shrugging his shoulders.

"She has this desire because she still has to mark us... We both still have to work that out. I'll leave the pregnancy thing to you..." he said with a shrug and stood up. He was still in his underpants and I was naked from the transformation.

He flicked twice and we were both decently dressed again.

"Is this a deal, Ryan?" He asked me.

I sighed and rolled my eyes in annoyance "I still have to get used to it, but yeah." I mumbled, biting my lower lip.

"The house needs to be accessible to me without flicking and while she's pregnant with my child, I want you to keep your cock with you. Is that clear?" I instructed him, needing to keep myself and Onyx under control.

Ilay nodded, "I will respect that completely." He said and held out his hand to me.

I looked at his hand and shook my head.

"Come on Buddie, we'll be best friends for life!" Ilay said with a lot of irony.

I rolled my eyes and chimed in.

"Best friends... don't make me laugh." I finally said and took my hand again.

"So what are we going to do about Catherine?" I bit my lower lip, feeling guilty about her now.

Ilay shrugged, "She needs time to cool off, when she does we'll both talk to her and make our proposal."

"What if she doesn't agree?" I finally asked myself.

"She has to agree, we just have to convince her perfectly and make her believe that we'll pull ourselves together." He acted as if it was that easy...

"Maybe those were the wrong words... we HAVE to pull ourselves together. We have to pull together, do you think if we fool her she'll buy it? She can see through us with just one look." Ilay said seriously.

I rolled my eyes.

"You like to preach so much Ilay and you end up throwing gasoline on the fire every time."

He shook his head. "This time it has to be different Ryan, or we lose them both..."