Chapter 127
Love
I went to the meeting with my team. They were pitching to me, but I wasn’t impressed with them.
“Guys, we need to think harder, deeper. What is needed out there right now?!” I told them.
“A dating app? I can’t seem to have a date,” Jamie suggested. As the meeting continced, my hands itched to text Ellis to ask how everything was going, but I needed to learn to tame my emotions. Luis did mention that I wasn’t trying to much I wanted him.
Hours ticked by, and I was ready to go home. I met Margot on my way out. I smiled at her. I was sure she was on mater Why was she back? Besides her, there was a lovely girl, no older than four.
“Hi, and who is this cutie,” I asked; my heart warmed when the little girl smiled at me.
“This is my eldest daughter, Amelia,” the little girl waved at me and hid behind her mom’s leg
“Too cute,” I said.
“Why are you back at work? You should be on maternity leave,” I said. Margot smiled faintly at me. From what I heard, hard labor and was instructed by the doctor to rest longer at home,
“Taking more than a month’s leave would be without income. My husband is in between jobs right now, so I can’t afforc she said. I hurt for her, especially since she was living paycheck to paycheck. The policy needed to change, especially with thriving large corporation like this. I needed to talk to human resources about this soon. I smiled at her.
“I’ll talk to human resources about this policy of women returning to work four weeks after labor. It’s unfair,”
I knew the amount of mental and physical stress childbearing was on a woman.
She thanked me, and I watched as they walked away. I was in the elevator when my phone rang. It was a strange number I
answered.
“Hello,”
Hello, is this Love Chasia?” The voice that asked was deep. I didn’t recognize who it was.
Speaking,” I answered.
“We have your fiancée here, and if you don’t come to the casino in the town square, we will cut off his fingers, each for what owes us,” the man said. They had David. He probably lost money-gambling. I took a sharp intake of breaif,
“I don’t have a fiancée,” I said, about to end the call,
“Love,” I heard David’s voice in the background. Why were they calling me and not his parents?
I ended the call and went to the car. I received a message; it was from an address. I sighed and asked the driver to take me theat couldn’t just let those men harm bán. I’d feel incredibly guilty. I wanted to text Ellis my location, but I didn’t. He woukin 14 to let me help David. I reached the Casino in ten minutes and went straight to the loft upstairs.
A tall, bulky man wearing a mask opened the door for me. My eyes scanned the room there were about leat huge v with guns. In the middle of the floor sat David.
His hands were bound against the table, and different sharp tools were laid tally before him, Clearly, they beat Rite bleeding
Are you alright?” I asked. He looked up at the weakly, his eyes unfocused. They drugged he
Wolfsbane was a toxin that made a werewolf weak.
“Love – I know I messed up… I was going to get everything back today, but these guys, they-” he couldn’t even mak sentences as he hiccuped.
“Oh, shut up, David,”Tgroaned. Lstared at the man who looked like the boss. He was elegant and wore a mask. I cou his eyes. There was something familiar about him. His gaze roamed over toy body. Although I wanted to back off, I di
How much does he owe you?” I asked, my voice cold. He glanced at another man. However, there was movement be mask, maybe a smirk or frown. I didn’t know.
“A lot,” his voice was mechanical. Just who were these people?
“I asked how much,” I growled. He only scoffed and lifted a masked hand to touch my cheek, but I raised my finger to My eyes flashed. I realized my alpha aura intimidated them,
“Your fiancée owes us over five million dollars, but we have collateral of 2 million, so we need three million to let him
said.
I grabbed my phone and typed in my bank details. I gave him the phone to enter the account number. He took the phone me hesitantly and entered the account number before giving it to him. I sent the money to the account.
#1
Successful,” the other man in the room confirmed just as I received a notification.
“Release him from me,” I said. He walked around the room boldly. He gripped David’s hair and punched him in the face alpha heir of one of the most recognized packs was reduced to this.
David Kofflin was associating with criminals and debtors. I didn’t flinch when he hit him again. This time, he was watchi as he hit him.
“Are you done?” I asked softly.
I don’t understand. You come here and pay so much money for him, yet you don’t show any emotion when I put him in p he seemed intrigued.
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