Chapter 167 Chapter 167


    When I got back to the warehouse, Andrea was sat slouched at a table with his long legs stretched out


    and twirling a gun between the fingers of one hand and a smallptop to the side of him.


    I walked over to him and put the parcel on the table, along with the ''you owe me'' note and the gun


    before sliding it across to me.


    "You could have told me," I stated.


    "Told you what?" he asked looking up for the first time.


    "That one, I needed 5,000 dors and two, the gun isn''t loaded," I said.


    He didn''t respond but instead gestured to the man who had driven me.


    He picked up the parcel from the table and left the warehouse again. It was at that point that I noticed


    the four smears of blood on the floor.


    "Whose is that?" I asked quietly.


    "Oh, the blood?" he asked casually before he pointed to the first smear. "That one is Esteban. Then


    Richardo, Eduardo and Guillermo. They are all dead."


    "W...what?" I stuttered although slightly relieved that Luca and Leo''s names were not amongst them.


    "You failed the test," he stated.


    "I brought you your stuff, didn''t I? Is that not what you wanted? And how is this anything to do with


    shooting four people?!"


    He reached forward and pressed a button on theptop and a muffled recording began to y. It took


    me a while to realise what it was but when I did, my heart sunk three miles into the ground.


    A tape of my conversation with Leo in the phone box.


    Andrea looked up to me, with a dark expression a cocked his head to the side as he stared me down


    before turning off the recording.


    There was an agonising moment of silence before he finally had the kindness to end it.


    "I''ve always had my suspicions that you were lying to me, nca, and then that phone call earlier was


    one of my men telling me that he couldn''t trace the existence of an Eleonora De''Meritchi fitting your


    description anywhere. So I had to put it to the test," he exined. "Now do you understand why they


    had to die? I can''t have this ''Leo'' finding you and you gave their names as leads for him."


    I didn''t reply? How could I? There was nothing I could say that would make anything better.


    "Who is he anyway?" he said tapping the gun on the table. "Your real mate? The owner of that huge


    mark?"


    "Yes," I said shakily.


    "Would ''Leo'' by any chance be shortened from Alpha Leonardo Antonio Loren?" he asked still staring


    intently.


    I looked up to the ceiling and took a short breath in. It just kept getting worse.


    "And that makes you the Luna of the Ste pack...yes?" he said deviously. "E Jones Loren?"


    I nodded. There''s no point trying to lie to him.


    "You know I don''t appreciate being fucked about with, E. I don''t like being lied to either," he said


    standing up from his chair slowly and with a sort of calmness that made me uneasy. "I also hate hassle


    and you''ve caused me a lot of that. And finally, I was fond of Eduardo and now he is lying dead out in


    the desert."


    He neared me and began to gradually circle me, without taking his eyes away even for a second. If


    intimidation was his objective, he was certainly achieving.


    "That gives me four reasons to be very fucking angry," he growled in my ear.


    "How is this my fault? Did I chose to get involved with you?" I spat. "I was just minding my own


    business and you had me abducted! And what did you expect when you kidnap someone and give


    them money for a phone box?!"


    "That was the real test. Congrats for getting me my wolfsbane though," he replied. "I wasn''t expecting


    you to seed...Jóse is not an easy man...but that doesn''t change the fact that my guys are dead and


    I now have to deal with an Alpha."


    "I didn''t make you kill your own men and if you wouldn''t have to deal with my mate if you just left me


    alone in the first ce!" I growled.


    With that, he struck me across the face and hard. It stung like a bitch and made me feel far less


    inclined to open my mouth again.


    As a matter of principle, I didn''t ever like to back down from an argument. I valued my own opinion and


    was always going to defend myself but I also wasn''t stupid. Andrea could and was clearly willing to hurt


    me so provoking him would only be a foolish move here.


    "You have a fierce temper," he replied picking up a lock of my short hair and feeling it between his


    fingers.. He then took a deep breath out and dropped it down again.


    "You know that I have to kill you now, right?" he asked. "I like you but you''ve be a liability," he


    said.


    Once again, I had nothing to reply with.


    "But first I have one question? What was Leonardo Loren''s mate doing in Mexico getting involved in


    trafficking?"


    "I was with a friend and he had to get the shipment before we went on vacation," I replied quietly.


    "Ah yes, ''Romano De''Meritchi''," he said. "Or Luca Romano as I have recently discovered to be his real


    name. We will have to find him and kill him too now that I know he works for Loren and my guess would


    be that he has been using his position in my cartel to the Ste pack''s advantage. Did you get on well?"


    "Yes," I replied with confusion.


    Why would he care?


    "Then I will have the good grace to bury you in the same whole out in the barren desert," he said in a


    disconcertingly kind tone.


    "What does it matter to you whether we live or not?"


    "I have a reputation to maintain, nca," he said. "If I don''t kill you, I will have let you walk all over me


    and I can''t let my other employees see that in case they get any ideas."


    "In killing me, you are signing up to live in constant danger. Leonardo will not stop until you are dead," I


    said.


    Andrea shrugged, "If he''s going to want me dead anyway, then it doesn''t matter if I piss him off even


    more, does it? I might as well take this wonderful opportunity to put his mate to use tonight."


    "What?" I said, furrowing my eyebrows thinking about thest time he gave me a job to do. "You don''t


    trust me."


    "Yourck of loyalty makes you useless as an employee but it doesn''t change how hot you are," he


    said with a grin as ced his hand on my hip. "And there''s something weirdly exhrating about


    sleeping with another man''s mate and the fact that the other man is Leonardo Loren only makes it even


    better."


    My eyes widened.


    "Andrea-" I began.


    He suddenly lurched forward and put his hand between my legs on my upper thigh.


    "Do not call me that," he said covering my mouth roughly. "I am boss to you now. You lost all your


    priveledges and protection and safety the second you dialled that number. You are nothing to me."


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    I shook his hand off me, "Let me speak."


    "What could you possibly have to say," he growled.


    "Go to hell."


    Big mistake.