Page 114 of Alpha Leo and the Heart of Fire
Operation Fated,Ace adds.
Quit it. Get moving and focus. Jin is following her, and Li Sheng is already waiting for her.
Okay, we’re on it,Ace’s reply comes.
I get into one of the cars that I use when I want to keep a low profile and hook up my phone to my headpiece before driving out. Here goes nothing.
“Call Alejandro,” I say clearly.
“Calling Alejandro,” the computer’s voice follows. I wait, half of me wishing he doesn’t pick up at all.
“Alejandro,” he answers.
“Yeah, I fucking know. I’m the one who called you,” I reply icily. Silence.
“Leo?” He does his best, but he is unable to hide the shock in his voice.
“No, it’s the King of England,” I reply sarcastically. Well, depends on what aspect. I hold far more power than Alejandro knows…
“Fucker.” So, he isn’t going to ask why I called, but I don’t like the emotion in his voice. I need to get this over with.
“I called for a reason.”
“I would fucking assume so.”
“Don’t ask me any questions, but I would suggest you have someone watching your daughters at the academy.”
“Why?” He asks sharply, but even the coldness in it can’t disguise his worry.
“Just trust me. There’s someone who has made Azura and her friends a target. I will make sure Azura is safe but watch your girls.”
“So, you called in concern for your sisters?” He asks tauntingly. Why the fuck does he have to be so fucking antagonising?
“I don’t consider them my sisters,” I reply coldly. My mind flits to Kataleya, remembering the shit she had suffered when she was a kid. I felt bad for her. No child deserved that. “Just keep an eye on them.”
“Understood. Thanks, and before you hang up, I just wanna say it’s good to hear your fucking voice.” I don’t reply, hanging up as I stare ahead.
Alejandro… it is weird how years of hatred and anger are beginning to ease up. Almost as if I am looking at things fromtheir point of view…
I put my foot down on the accelerator, my mind on Azura. I click on her camera, seeing her hailing a taxi. Perfect… that is Li Sheng.
I got her,his voice comes through the mind link.
Great.
Years ago, when I had told Alejandro how I felt, he had gotten Rayhan and me into a room together to talk shit out. They both got my point, but it had felt too late. I felt like I had been trying to be heard for years, but no one fucking cared…
I remember them asking if they could come to the pack and apologise, but I was the one who said no to them. They still did after I had left. Kiara had healed those who had suffered, and Rayhan had apologized - to those who were willing to see him anyway. But I always held that hatred within me, always trying to control it as it continued to fester inside of me. My priorities are changing, and I don’t have control over them…
Because of her. Or is it because of what I did to her? Azura…
Marcel and many others said I’d get it when I have a mate… imagine your mate being tortured and abused how Delsanra was. The anger I feel towards Judah… but what will I do? Will I find all his friends and allies in blind rage who had a hand?
Yes.
But if it was someone forced to do something just like Azura had been forced to kill someone, would I punish her? Just like I’m sure Alejandro and the others won’t blame her for being blackmailed into doing something because they knew who she was. But me? I won’t blame Azura. Even when I refused to accept her or want her, I still saw her as a victim. Even putting Azura in the same context as Delsanra, I know my answer.
No, I wouldn’t. It just doesn’t feel humanely right… especially punishing those who have been forced to commit those crimes. No, what he did was wrong. So fucking wrong. But I have givenher my word that I’ll talk to Rayhan, and I know I’ll have to deal with that shit at some point or another.
