Chapter 71

Elton:

“What do you fucking mean that she is nowhere to be found? If she is fucking dead, then I want her body.” I said, snapping at Yandel. His eyes avoided mine and I growled, waiting for his response. “Check every playboy house, and every slave market. I want her to be fucking found, do you understand me?”

“Yes, boss.” He said, and I watched as he walked out before looking down at the picture that was on my desk. 

It was one of me and her. She was almost seventeen at the time, and the smile that was on her face reached her eyes as I pulled her to my chest. 

“Where the fucking hell are you hiding, Eleanor?” I asked, voicing out my thoughts as I walked out of my office. I had other things to do and the last thing that I should have been worried about was Eleanor disappearing. 

“Boss, we have a problem.” Antonio said, looking down at his feet. Antonio was human, and though he knew that I was a wolf, he didn’t really care. 

“Speak.” I said, looking at the man over my shoulder. 

His heart raced against his ribcage and I watched, waiting for what he was going to tell me before he took a deep breath to try and voice out what he had to tell me. I raised an eyebrow at the man and he clenched his fist.

“Killian Ivanov has sent the heads of our last men,” he said, making me frown.

“How?” I asked, glaring at him and he shook his head at me. I clenched my fist and I glared at the man, waiting for what he was going to say.

“He had his men swarming around us and around the men. He managed to somehow kick them all out, those who managed to flee are trying to get back in but they were quick to know that they wouldn’t be able to enter their grounds as they either lost their lives or were under threat of losing them.” He said, and I nodded, pinching the bridge of my nose. 

“The men who died, you know what you do to them. As for those who are trying to get in, bring them back for a while, we’ll send the women.” I said, and he frowned in confusion at my calm state. But at this point, I knew that nothing was better than a woman seducing a man when it came to getting a job done. “I want them sprawled around all the Ivanov clubs. One of them will enter the Ivanov bed, and if she needs to carry the man’s child to get things done, then she is to do so.”

“Yes, boss.” He said, and I nodded as I walked toward the car. “Call for a meeting with Lorenzo. It seems to me that I am going to have to make a deal.”

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“To what do I owe the honor?” Lorenzo asked, raising an eyebrow at me. I crossed my arms over my chest as I looked at the man before showing him a picture of Eleanor.

“No one knows the market more than you do,” I said, and he nodded in understanding, waiting for what I was going to tell him. “I want my woman back, and…”

“No one is crazy enough to dare touch Eleanor, Elton.” He said, stopping me. “We all knew her father and we know how protective he was about her being exposed to other men. Needless to say, lives were taken for the thought of her. And I believe that you took the lives of those who touched her yourself. Even though it was you who allowed her to be touched to begin with.”

“It was a test that they failed, and they paid the price. Nevertheless, they got to taste her before losing their lives because of it.” I said, my tone hardening and he chuckled. I tapped my desk twice before pulling a bag of money out. He raised an amused eyebrow now clearly impressed as I had his attention and I extended the bag to him. 

“I have to admit, the Bernardi women were always expensive.” He said, and I knew that he was referring to Eleanor’s mother. The woman was the most expensive slave that was brought in at the time, and though an Alpha’s daughter, the Alpha didn’t hesitate or think twice to give her daughter to Luca to pay off the debt that he owed. The man lost his life the next morning along with the rest of his pack as punishment for the deal that he broke. 

“And you know that we always pay our due.” I said, and he nodded, now more than a little impressed. I crossed my arms over my chest as I waited for what he was going to say. He wasn’t dumb to lose an opportunity like this one, but I knew that he had to pretend that it wasn’t something that he was purely interested in.

But if anyone would know how to find a woman, it was Lorenzo Del Gardi. And that was something that I was going to depend on.

“I am curious though, why is she so important that you would be willing to pay this whole amount for her?” Lorenzo asked, shaking his head in question. “The two of us know that there are thousands of other women who are cheaper than she is, virgins and untouched, and well trained to know what to do to both please a man and obey without question.”

“I am not paying to fuck her.” I said, and he raised an amused eyebrow. “But she is mine, and the two of us know that I don’t like losing what is mine, not the way that I lost her anyway.”

“You are paying to kill her?” He asked, and I got up from my desk and walked toward the bar table that I had. I poured the two of us a drink, and he smiled as I handed it to him.

“I am paying to make her pay first, then to kill her.” I said, and he smirked. “You know, I never give anyone an easy death, especially when they have wronged me. So, what do you say? Do we have a deal?”

He took a sip from his drink and he got up from the chair, heading toward the door as he put his jacket on.

“Consider it done,” he said, and I smirked. “Your maiden will be in your arms soon enough…”