C7 punishing Heather

Alpha Warren's POV

A week goes by and I must say I have never been torn in between emotions as much as I am with Heather.

Most times, she's the woman I want to wrap around and scoop and kiss and fuck and I even get the urge to mark her and make her mine, but the other times, she's talking back to my grandmother and Nanny Deliana is always having to report her to me.

Those times just override the good joys and thoughts I have of her which has in fact forced me to ignore her and with everything in me avoid her since the morning I woke up to her in my bed.

It's all suspicious.

The fact that she keeps trying to see me to plead and explain to me that she's misunderstood while my grandmother says she's the villain.

My grandmother will never do anything to hurt me, but this just keeps getting me confused.

"Alpha, Heather is here to see you again and she appears even more aggressive than usual", my secretary says as he hands me an iPad with a live security feed.

One of Heather being held back by two security men but still fighting to reach the gate. Something in my twists and becomes aggressive at the sight of those two pairs of hands on her body that I immediately command that she be brought in.

I remember her telling me that I was her first and I have since then felt possessive of her even though I keep her farther than arms length.

See what I mean by feeling confused?

"Bring her in!"

"But Alpha Warren, you have another very important meeting with the Beta. He is arriving from the Survey in a few minutes."

He says, but one look for me sends him nodding.

"I'll bring her in and leave it to you Alpha Warren", he says before rushing out.

I haven't seen her for a week and now that I'm finally letting her come close, I feel anticipation and extreme excitement.

Like I feel when I've missed someone for so long.

"Lucas, Lucas, you need to hear me out, you were my first and I would never give myself to someone I wasn't sure of. You said you love me and also, you're my …"

However as soon as she appears, my best buddy and Beta comes in looking as smug and full of himself as ever.

"Oh dear alpha who is the beauty you have here. Did you finally find a woman or can I have her for myself? I wouldn't mind if it's just for one night", he says and I notice him giving her sultry gazes as he checks her out.

This infuriates me, making me possessive even up until this point.

"Don't you dare, she's not that type of woman", I find myself saying.

"Then what type of woman is she?" He asks as he winks at her.

"Come in princess, come have a sit", he says as he motions for her to share the single seated couch as him.

I'm seething in rage for a lot of reasons as I look up to Heather, wondering if she would take the bait.

With everything in me, I'm hoping that she would reject him, but then even I recognize how charming and good looking Keegan is.

"No thank you, I need to talk to my Alpha and I was doing that before you interrupted", she says.

"Sassy, uhn I like that", Keegan continues in an attempt to flirt with her, but I still find myself stuck on the fact that she rejected him for me.

Plus how possessive she sounded when she called me her alpha.

"Lucas, please hear me out, you are my…", again, she is cut off when my secretary comes rushing in and brushing against her rudely.

"I see you both are on first name basis already, but if I may ask, what is your beautiful name, miss?" He asks as my secretary proceeds to rant about whatever emergency had him running about.

He doesn't recognize her from the night of the selection anymore.

"Alpha Warren, your grandmother is around and she seems really angry about her", he says as he looks behind him, referring to Heather.

I feel like he is being disrespectful to someone he is supposed to respect as my own guest, but I haven't shown her any iota of respect either, so I keep my thoughts silent.

"Lucas, please give me just five minutes or just two and hear me out. I didn't do anything that night and it was you who came to me…",

"How dare you!" Nanny's voice comes from behind her and I watch as Keegan runs into my closet.

He has always found Nanny Deliana fierce and has always done his best to avoid her. So I am not very surprised about that.

However, the change in Heather's eyes, from that of a weakling to someone ready to defend herself.

"You dared me, godmother. You dared me to tell him the truth and now you're stopping me!" Heather seems angry.

"So why wouldn't you just maintain your stance and let me do one thing. Let me tell Lucas about the whole truth and how you have actually been treating me so far", she continues with her arms crossed under her breasts.

The full naked breast that I still remember from one week ago when I woke up to their peaks reacting to my gaze on them. I wonder if they will again if I decide to take her now.

"Do you mean I am trying to harm my own grandson and that I am being too dramatic? I have raised Alpha Warren by myself for years ever since his parents deaths and even before that and I have been there for him and done everything in his best favour." Grandmother says.

It looks like they are about to have a show down. One I consider quite impressive because no one has ever dared to face my grandmother. They usually always ran away to hide,just like Keegan in my closet right now.

"Yes, you will hurt him if you keep lying", that's one strong accusation that shakes everyone in the room.

But she continues because she gets interrupted, "and I also think that you see me as a victim you can use for your ploy, but let me tell you what, I am no easy prey and I am more than a Predator. So either you find someone else to bully or you rest, I have had enough", she says and I can tell that my grandmother is taken back.

But she is of course not someone to back down easily.

"Oh, let's see if you can still run that witchy mouth of yours when I bring forth the evidence of what you've been doing all through the time you sent my grandson away from home", she says and stomps off.

"I am confident because I did not do anything." Heather maintains and we both watch my grandmother disappear to bring whatever evidence she was talking about.

I try to focus on that and wonder what it would be, but heather has my full attention

Then I ask her the question at the tip of my tongue.

"Why are you like that? You can stand up to my grandmother like that and do the other things she said you did, but when it comes to me, you whimper and become a child. Why?", I ask after grandmother has walked a considerable distance off and I am sure she is out of hearing reach.

"B..because I'm in love with you Lucas and also because you told me to be brave. Please believe me Lucas, I didn't do any of those things she mentioned. I know what it is like to have a rough life and I would never wish that upon anyone else no matter what position I am in." She says.

My heart melts and moves with her.

My eyes soften, I can feel it in a way that makes me yearn to have her in my embrace.

"So you mean I am lying!"

Yet again she is interrupted. We are interrupted by my grandmother who enters the room with a badly beaten girl.

And it feels like deja vu from the previous week.

"Who would have done this if not for the person who you put alone with us. Alpha Warren my grandchild, you need to do something about this witch before she gets out of hand." My grandmother wails as she drops to the chair.

My gaze is between the three women.

The whimpering and weak one, my grandmother and Heather who looks like she's ready to fight and do anything to defend herself.

Then I remember the words whispered in her ears the night I saw her cry.

No wonder I thought she had changed so much.

But I'm not too sure I expected her to try to fend off my grandmother like this.

Also, how do I explain the wounds on the Princess' body if I want to believe her.

So again, I am forced to harden my gaze on the woman who melts my heart and makes me yearn for her because I trust my grandmother and I have known her all my life.

"I promise to have her punished this time", I tell my grandmother just what she wants to hear, and I know that she will see to the end of it. I plan to save Heather from that but how, I do not know yet.

"Lucas", Heather's painful voice pleads to me.

"It is Alpha Warren to you, you disrespectful witch", my grandmother says as I watch Heather breakdown.