Alpha Loren novel Chapter 199

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.

She nervously shook her head, "There's a table on the patio. I will make you some coffee."

Leo nodded and headed for the doors that lead out into the garden, "Max, help her with the coffee."

Once he was gone, she turned to a cupboard and opened it, her hands still shaking.

"Don't worry about him," I said reaching over her getting the mugs out for her. "He's just a man that cares for his mate."

"Who are you people?" she asked. 

"He's Alpha Loren and I'm his Luna's cousin," I replied.

"...A-Alpha Loren? Leonardo Loren?" she questioned her voice turning hoarse.

"Again, don't worry about him," I reassured. "He won't hurt you and we're just here to speak to Gustavo. Where do you keep coffee?"

"Top shelf on the right," she replied and I got it out. 

When I'd made the coffee, I began taking it outside, "When he arrives, tell him we're out here, okay?"

She nodded and I left her alone.

"You scared her, Alpha," I said pouring him a cup of coffee.

"Not sure I care," he replied with a sigh. "Ella is my only priority right now."

"Whatever," I said, sitting down at the little patio table. "Just saying what she would say if she was here."

"Don't piss me off, Maximus," he growled closing his eyes and 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 to be you."

"Killing someone got her in this mess," I mumbled under my breath, referring to the murder of Ella's brother that triggered a whole chain of events leading to this.

He snapped his head back up and he glared, "You're one to speak. Remember when you almost got her killed...many times...one of which was deliberate?"

"We're doing this again, are we?" I asked rolling my eyes. 

"Looks like it," he replied as he leant back into the chair.

"Then I should mention when I saved her life multiple times too," I added.

"What about the time you lost our daughter at the park?" he questioned.

"She was hiding under the slide! Nothing bad happened," I pointed out.

"But it took you an hour to find her," he grumbled.

"Okay, but 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," I said.