Finding Forgiveness

Ella's POV

"Three, two, one and...he's late,” Andrea said looking at his watch after what had been an agonising 24 hours. "It's 2 o clock and Pedro hasn't texted me to say he's got the money. In other words, your Alpha has failed you and now you get to pay the consequences.”

"Stay away from me," I hissed as he began to walk closer to where I was still sat in the warehouse.

He laughed and crouched down to my level.

"How do you like it, Blanca?" he asked holding my face in his hand with an uncomfortable degree of force.

I didn't answer and instead glared into his eyes.

"Rough and hard? Or gentle and slow?" he questioned.

"Go to hell," I spat.

He suddenly lurched forward and grabbed my shoulders. I fought against him and managed to break a hand free and punch him in the face. The sound of impact was loud and he paused for a short second, his grip loosening on me as he brought one hand up to his nose. I stared in utter terror and tried to shuffle back as his face transformed into an expression of pure murder.

"That hurt, Blanca," he said as a drop of blood fell from his nose onto his hand. "But if you wanna play rough, I can play fucking rough.”

He then grabbed my legs and hauled me across the flow so that I was underneath him before gripping his hand around my neck and slamming my back onto the hard floor whilst his other hand went for the zipper on my pants. The more I fought, the tighter he squeezed my neck and the less I could breathe until finally, I had no choice but to give up as lack of oxygen was making me begin to black out.

My vision was going stary and colourful and I heard the fateful sound of the zip undoing. But before he could get any further, he suddenly stopped and looked up to the door of the warehouse.

"Get the fuck off her,” a deep voice growled.

I moved my head as much as possible to the side to see Leonardo stood tall with blackened eyes and a large duffle bag in his hand. I could see his absolute fury at what he was seeing in front of him and he shook and growled. I'd never seen him like this before and he was certainly only one step away from losing the ability to control his wolf. Since we met, he'd always protective over me and got pissed off if another man so much as looked at me in the wrong way so for him this? This was something else.

I then cast my eyes to Andrea. He was just as shocked as me to see him and his hold on my windpipe had decreased so that I could breathe just enough to stay conscious. He soon composed himself though and turned to Leo, smiling.

"You failed to understand basic instructions, Loren," he said with a shrug. "I said 2 o clock in Hermosillo. So as the agreement goes, now I get to fuck her.”

He then looked Leo dead in the eye and leant down to kiss me once more as he ran his hand down my leg, "And you can watch every second.”

Before his lips could even reach my skin and before he had enough time to even think about withdrawing his gun, Leo had thrown him off me and across the room. Andrea landed with a thud and a grown as Leo stood in front of me, blocking me from his sight. I sat at up and gasped for air, not only because Andrea had almost strangled me to death but because the fight that was so clearly on the horizon involving my mate was making my heart pound.

"Are you alright?" Leo asked quickly.

I nodded and swallowed, "Kill him, Leo," I said with spite.

"Oh don't worry," he replied. "That I will do."

"I'm gonna make you regret that, Loren," Andrea growled as he rolled over and got back to his feet. Pain from his landing was evident in his voice and the first few steps he made back in our direction were more of a stagger than a walk.

Both of their scents reeked of adrenaline and anger and testosterone and it was the most suffocating and fear-inducing smell I've ever known.

"Ella, get out of here,” Leo ordered me. "Now."

"Ella, don't you dare,” Andrea countered as he pulled his gun from his belt.

As if it was a reflex action, Leo snapped forward before Andrea could aim and in a matter of milliseconds, they were wrestling each other on the floor...with a gun. I shuffled back even further and looked around to find any resource I could to help out my mate. But my hands were tied and the warehouse was barren.

There was nothing I could do but stay out their way.