Alpha Loren

The next morning I felt like literal death. My lips were so dry that as I slowly parted them to let fresh air into my stale mouth, the skin on my lips pulled and peeled. I tried to grasp for the glass of water by the bed but my entire body was too limp, but somehow also stiff, to even move. So with my corse throat itching to be soothed I just lay like a corpse shrouded in the sheets of the bed, trapped in the coffin that was my life right now. Just like a morgue, the room was empty of any other life too which was the only real positive here. Andrea was gone and although company is usually beneficial in times of despair, I'd rather be on an isolated desert island than with him.

Despite my severe lack of motivation and will power, I was eventually able to sit up and chug the water which instantly brought me halfway back to life. Brushing my teeth and showing helped too and soon enough, I had enough strength to go to the library. The first book I picked up being the 'Drugs for Dummies' where I researched exactly what the fuck Andrea had forced into my system the previous night.

"The boss wants you in his office," Chico said entering the library and hour later.

I closed my book and leant back into the chair.

"Immediately."

"Tell him I still have an unhealthy amount of... benzod...iazepines in my body," I said looking back in the book at the section on what I believed to be the culprit of how shitty I felt.

He looked at me with a confused expression for a short moment before brushing it aside, "Don't make him come up and get you," was all he said before disappearing again.

Not wanting to be eager, I waited a minute or two before slowing going downstairs and towards Andrea's office. 

"Good morning, Ella," he said to me as I entered. "How are you feeling?"

"Like utter shit."

"But you slept like a baby?" he replied with a mischievous grin. 

I scowled and turned to the door.

"Hey, did I say you could leave?" he asked. "Sit the fuck down, Blanca. I need to ask you some questions."

After a short sigh to make my dissatisfaction known, I sat down on the opposite side of his desk as he reached into a drawer.

"So," he began. "My plan to kill your mate and take over the Stella back and consequently the rest of North America has been brought forward."

I opened my mouth to speak but no words came out.

"He's causing me more issues than I anticipated so his death date has now been scheduled for ASAP," he continued.

"Why are you telling me this?" I asked in a hoarse tone. 

"Because..." he said pulling four pictures out of the drawer and putting them in front of me. "You are going to help by giving me information on these men."

Luca and innocent expression of Max's face, I would guess that they were all old photos. In Blair's picture, he was stood by a car that he hadn't even

to first target those he relies on

to keep me out

pack affairs. I want personal details. Their full names, their

stated folding my arms. "I don't care what you do, I will protect

"I knew this would

around to my side of the desk before sitting on it in front

the lengths I will go to get the information out of

glared for a few moments before standing up, scraping the chair

not doing this," I

I felt him grab my wrist and haul me back in front

about these men?" he asked again, this

I hissed and his jaw tightened.

him. I won't lie. But my love for Leo and the pack had a greater magnitude than any fear and I wasn't just going to give them

see any sign of pain,

gripped my face in one of

until I came to the decision I'd do exactly what he said. Talk. But without

good at talking. So let's put

waiting," he said.

old," was

finally

without wanting to give away too much. "Max now has one grey hair by his ear that isn't there in that photo and Luca's eyebrow-"

he snapped. 

even alive," I continued, ignoring

the same darkened torment on his lips with that sadistic glint in his eye that I knew all too well.

asked, suddenly

"Yes," I confirmed.

muttered looking down at the photo. He rested his teeth on the end of his pen before looking back up to me. "He just died of natural causes...or?"

mouth before leaning

to do with information on a dead man?" he asked.

do you need

replied. "Tell me."

kill Leo. And maybe if I told him this he'd let me go without trying to get anything about Luca,