Alpha Loren

Max's POV

After leaving Blair and Luca searching in Caracas and keeping his men out all over South America, the Alpha recruited me on his hunt for Gustavo Escobar. After a long, torturous car journey to Colombia in a car with a frustrated and angry Alpha, we finally arrived at the house on the coordinates given to us by the Caracas head of police.

"I was joking when I said we should just ring the doorbell and ask politely, you know?" I said as we stood on the doorstep of the house.

"Got a better idea?" Leo snapped. "And I don't think anyone's in."

"Either that or we're about to get shot," he mumbled.

He ignored me and we stood there for a few minutes with no sound or movement coming from within the house.

"Fucking hell," I cursed. "Now what-?"

Before I could finish, he'd kicked down the door.

"Exactly what Ella would have done," I said. "Do you two have some kind of breaking and entering kink?"

"No, we have a get shit done kink," he replied, stepping into the house.

It seemed empty, totally quiet and still, but the faint smell of freshly cooked food lingered in the air.

He stepped cautiously into the house, towards the kitchen where the smell was coming from.

"They can't have been gone long-" I began looking at the freshly chopped vegetables on the side and pot on the hob.

Leo held his finger up to silence me and we stood in total quiet for a few moments.

"Do you hear that?" he asked.

"Hear what?" I replied.

He suddenly marched forward and around the kitchen counter before reaching down.

I heard a high pitched whimper and a few seconds later, he pulled a young girl up from behind the kitchen surfaces.

She looked from him to me and then back to him, her lip shaking and a terrified expression on her face as Leo kept a tight grip on her arm.

"Do you work for Gustavo Escobar?" he asked.

She nodded quickly, "but he's not here."

"When will he be back?" I asked.

"Tonight," she said. "Please, I am just the maid-"

"I'm not going to hurt you," Leo told her, finally releasing her arm. "I just need to speak to your boss."

She nodded and stepped back, clutching her self.

He leant his elbows on the worktop for a few moments before taking a particularly red apple out of the fruit bowl and looking back up to her,  "Mind if we wait here?" he asked taking a big bite from the apple.

on

out into the garden, "Max, help her with the coffee."

he was gone, she turned to a cupboard and opened it, her

worry about him," I said reaching over her getting the mugs out for her. "He's just a man that cares for

you people?" she asked. 

Alpha Loren and I'm his

Loren?" she questioned her voice turning

won't hurt you and we're just here to

right," she replied and

taking it outside, "When he arrives, tell him we're out here, okay?"

I left her alone.

pouring him a cup of coffee.

with a sigh. "Ella is my only priority

sitting down at the little patio table. "Just saying what she would say if she

tilting his head back into the evening sun. "I've been in the mood to kill someone for weeks and I don't want it

this mess," I mumbled under my breath, referring to the murder of Ella's brother that triggered a whole chain

he glared, "You're one to speak. Remember when you almost got her killed...many times...one of which was

we?" I asked rolling

it," he replied as he leant back into the

mention when I saved her

time you lost our daughter at the park?"

slide! Nothing bad happened," I

an hour to find

let's not forget who dropped Stefano's baby food on Zacharias's head and just scraped it off and gave it to him anyway,"

night before. His head was

for a nice Daddy and Sons dinner out at a gay strip club?" I

his mouth defensively

mistake a place called 'The Speedy Weiner' for a sausage restaurant?!" he questioned with a scoff. "They even had a fucking

'the big and juicy' and the second being 'the small but powerful' with every

was for the boys. At least they were too young to either understand or remember. I've been trying to block what I

couldn't help but laugh before another taunting

when you used a

agreement that in exchange for me never telling Ella how you nearly put Lili in with the laundry, we

holding my

sat quietly enjoying the coffee for a few moments. He seemed in a slightly

hour or so and another pot of coffee later, we heard the front door open from

door presumably to explain the situation because a few minutes later, a man came out

but otherwise in perfect health. He stood tall, dressed in a smart suit, no tie, top three buttons

looking over his

approached and hesitantly sat down at the table as Leo smiled but also held an

I was expecting to have Alpha Leonardo Loren on my patio when

smiled and nodded, "All good,

up the pot

and eyed me suspiciously, "I'm okay, thank

added holding up his hands. "We just have