Chapter 2

Alessandro:

“I am fine, baby, I just had a few things to work on and had to sleep in the hotel.” I said, assuring my girlfriend through the phone. The fact that she was the one who called and woke me up was something that took me by surprise, and I was thankful for the fact that the huntress didn’t wake up when the phone rang. Otherwise, I might have had to deal with more shit than I could handle from Daniella, my woman, and that wasn’t something that I wanted.

“You could have at least called me, Alessandro. I stayed up almost all night waiting for you.” She said, and I purred, knowing that she liked it when I did that. 

“I know, baby girl, I was just a little too busy.” I said, and she hummed. “I’ll see you when I get home, yeah?”

“As if you have another choice.” She said, making me chuckle. I knew that I was going to need to take a shower before I saw her. The last thing that I needed was to have her catching a different female scent on me. It was a risk that I was not willing to take and I knew that I had to be cautious about how I was to be acting with her for a while. Knowing her, I knew that she most likely might end up sending someone behind me to check where I was going. And though I didn’t like it when she did it, I knew not to argue with her as I took care of things myself.

“I’ll see you in a bit, baby.”

“Bye,” she said, and I hung up. I walked toward my suite, and I couldn’t help but frown as I caught sight of Valerie walking out of the hotel. She had a jacket wrapped around her body, mine, and I shook my head at that fact. Well, I had to admit, she was wearing a short dress, and if she were to be taking any public transportation, it would be best for her to be wearing it.

I shook my head and turned to the elevator as I ignored the clench that I felt in my chest. The fact that a human, a wolf huntress blood, had such an effect on me when accepting the rejection was something that surprised me. Nevertheless, I was done with the curse that I was thrown into, and now all I had to do was focus on making my relationship with Daniella last. 

She was my woman, a chosen woman for me, and that was going to be something that I was going to cherish. She was going to be a woman that I would be cherishing.

My phone rang, and I raised an eyebrow when I saw that it was my beta, Ezra, calling. “Tell me that no one is dead.”

“Not yet,” he said, and I chuckled. “You might want to come down to the club later. A few girls have caught a certain hunter within our walls.”

“Which one?” I asked, my eyes hardening as I clenched my fist. The last thing that I needed to hear was for it to be Valerie, and knowing that she was within our grounds, I didn’t want her getting caught in this.

“Vadim Morozov,” he said, making me frown. My mate’s fucking brother.

“Let him leave.” I said, and I could tell that Leonardo was frowning in confusion. I took a step back as I headed toward the club door. It was the backdoor of the hotel, but I had an entrance of my own, directly from inside the hotel. I hung up the phone as I approached them in the club to find the man tied on a chair. 

His resemblance to his sister made my chest burn, but I knew better than to allow him to see or suspect anything. 

Walls had ears, and the last thing that I wanted was for this to be spreading around.

“Boss…”

“These are safe grounds, Leonardo.” I said, stopping my beta before nodding at the men to unlock his cuffs. He raised an eyebrow at me, knowing that the last thing that I cared about was safe ground when it came to the hunters. The safe grounds were between us as wolves or members of the mafia alliances, the hunters were not part of that. 

Vadim got up to face me and I growled in warning as I saw him pulling out his knife. The knife was similar to the one that Valerie had on her last night, and I couldn’t help but wonder whether or not the man actually knew that she was here.

“Where is she?” Ah, I asked a little too fast.

“She is?”

“You fucking know who I am referring to.” He said, and I crossed my arms over my chest as I bared my canines. The man frowned, and I growled in warning. 

“Careful, these are still my grounds, and it is broad daylight. The two of us don’t need to get caught in an argument.” I said, and Leonardo raised an eyebrow. Normally, I would have had his head, but right now, after fucking his sister solid, I was more or less relaxed.

“Where is my sister?”

“Try calling her. You know, we have devices called phones now.” I said, taking a step back. “Your sister is not within my grounds; therefore, you have five minutes to get the fucking hell out of here. Otherwise, you are not going to like the consequences that you are going to have to deal with.”

“Is that a threat?”

“I think that you and I have fought enough to know that I don’t throw threats, Vadim.” I said, looking at the man over my shoulder. “What you’re looking for is not here. So, I do recommend that you go search for IT elsewhere. That is, unless you want to have a problem with me…”