Luca's POV

"Alpha, I've screwed up big time," I said to Leo after he finally picked up his phone.

I was in the process of dragging the man that had been pointing his gun at me to my car by the scruff of his collar. The more he resisted the more time he was wasting and the further away that white van was getting. This could be Ella's life in danger and I wasn't messing around.

"Get in my fucking car," I growled at him, pausing to hold the gun to his head.

After that, he went easily.

"Who are you talking to? Are you with Ella?" Leo asked.

"That's the thing," I said opening the door to the passenger seat of my car and bundling the man in. "I was but now I'm not. Someone's taking her."

"Someone?" he asked. "Where are you?"

"It's where we were," I told him as I got into the driver's seat and immediately started the engine and began driving the same direction as the white van did.

"For God's sake, Luca. Just spit it out. Who has taken my mate!?" he growled.

"Andrea Martinez," I said, uttering the name of the man otherwise known as 'the boss'.

There was a pause on Leo's end of the line for over five seconds.

"How the fuck did Andrea Martinez get a hold on my mate?" he said slowly and deeply.

"I had to collect this month's shipment and things went tits up from then on," I said. "You don't want the details. What's important is that Ella is in danger.copy right hot novel pub