59. Update on Elena's assault.

Deangelo.

“Tell me a name, Elena. Please, just a name so I can be able to protect you properly from whoever it is, you have nothing to be scared of, telling me will do more good than harm, I promise you.” I kept pestering Elena who was scrunched into a ball before me, I tried so hard to keep my hands to myself and not let it roam over her body as I tried to get something, anything at all out of her mouth concerning her trauma.

The fact that she had told me that she would rather not talk about it was enough to let me know that it was so not about the trafficking that had happened to her. it was about a particular person, someone and I needed to know who so I could get to the bottom of it all on my own without having to push her too far.

On a normal day, I could have simply forced this out of her one way or the other, that was my original way of doing things like this, traumatic or not, but I would never out Elena through something like that all because I wanted to punish her assailant, it made no sense to. I cared very much about her to even watch her being forced to do anything she does not have an interest in doing.

When she still did not say anything, adamant on protecting and keeping the identity of this beast to herself, within herself, I was pissed, “Elena! Please!” I snapped, caught up in my rage and possessiveness of her that I almost completely ignored the fact that she was literally crying now.

I snapped out of my temper as I realized that my desire to find the truth was actually causing Elena more pain than I thought. I felt very ashamed of my behaviour and I started to mutter soft apologies for the umpteenth time, “I am sorry, Elena. I am so sorry about that.” I said and even Elena looked surprised at the fact that had yet again apologized to her for raising my voice at her.

And for some reason, her reaction made me even more annoyed even though I tried not to let that be seen my her as I bottled it up in myself instead.

“Have I really been that much of an inconsiderate asshole to her?’ I thought to myself and even I answered the question myself. Of course, I was an asshole, that was not even a debate, I never cared about how anyone felt because I had always thought that it just wasn’t my business and I always treated people anyway I deemed fit without taking their own feelings into consideration.

I found myself promising not to act that way again, at least not to her or my pack.

“Fine, I would let you be and just leave now, you can go out of my room when ever you are ready to, I would also not ask you about it anymore, and don’t beat yourself up about what had happened between us yesterday, it is fine and you very much still have your job.” I said to her as I walked away.

On opening the door to go downstairs to my study, I was shocked to find Luca and Sofia behind it looking like they were both trying not to act suspicious which only in turn made them look suspicious. It instantly felt like I had just walked in on something very serious between them, the air was tight with tension and I looked from one person to the other, wondering what was going on and why I had just found the both of them at my door.

“What is going on with you both? You act like you have just been caught red handed in bed together.” I asked on a lighter note but Luca simply chuckled and shook his head, “I waited for you for hours at you study and when I did not see you for so long, I just needed to come up to your room but it was locked and I was told about the issue with Elena and how she is in there with you so I waited, it has not been long though, not even up to five minutes that I got here.” He explained with a smug smile on his face and I resisted the urge to wipe it off his face with a punch.

“Oh really? Why have you been waiting at my study if I may ask? And why did not just communicate with me through mind link so I could just get to you faster?” I asked as i threw him a playful glare.

“Well, you must have been very busy to have noticed my messages because I definitely sent more than a hundred texts.” He responded, “you say that like mind linking is some technological device...” I retorted.

“Anyways, on a serious note, I did indeed try to communicate but it just was not possible and I needed to give you an update on Elena’s assault.” Luca explained and my interest instantly piqued and I noticed that it was the case for Sofia too whom i had not really paid much attention to until now.

“Uh... alpha... I was just here to ask Elena what she would like to eat because it has been a while since you have been with her and we are all concerned, me especially. I wanted to know how she was doing now and I was surprised to know that she had been moved to your room, that is why you met me at your entrance. I was just here to check up on her.” Sofia said and I nodded.

“That is very thoughtful of you, she is getting better now. In fact, I think you should go in and keep her company, she needs a friend right now, to be honest.” I said to her and she went in reluctantly.

Luca and I decided to take a walk at the woods right behind the estate, one that I had also succeeded in purchasing and adding to the vast Ferrari lands. I felt very restless in my human form so I suggested that we both shifted and go for a run, I needed it at the moment and a run with Luca was always very fun. We ran through the woods, free and wild.

The Ferrari land was very vast and covered several square foot acres. The woods which was now a portion of it was like a semi forest where wildlife was allowed to inhabit. My men and I, loved to shift into our wolf forms and occasionally hunt them and use them for food when the fancy strikes us, I made sure that it was legalized too. I hunted with Luca and we ended up killing some rabbits and even an antelope.

When I we both grew tired, we shifted back to our human forms and covered ourselves up with robes that were always readily available and after we settled at a cool spot and made some fire to grill the meat we had succeeded in hunting, Luca started to speak.

“I found someone who matches the look of Elena’s assaulter in the city but this man is not considered to be an homeless drunk who lays in wait for helpless women like Elena’s assaulter was dressed. Instead, this man is a well respected bartender and his name is Bernard, his employers which happens to be a gay couple described him to be a very punctual and assertive young man, perhaps a little too needy but a good guy nonetheless...” He started to explain and I cut him off with a scoff.

“Well, no good man tries to rape a woman though, right? So they are definitely wrong about that, must have hide that criminal side of him quite well.” I said.

“Ugh! Will you let me finish, Deangelo?”

“Right, carry on.”

“Good, so for days now however, Bernard has not come in to work, they said that they do not know where he is and he has not been responding to their calls either...”

”Well. that is not surprising, I did snap his head off his neck after all, no dead man picks calls or resumes to work...” I cut Luca off with sarcasm again and he glared at me, “Sorry, sorry. Go on.” I apologized with both hands in the air.

”So I did more digging to find out more about Bernard’s friends instead but these employers told me that Bernard never mixed business with pleasure and so they had no idea who his friends are, which is a bit suspicious too and... I am at that crossroads right now. We went from thinking that this was just a random attack by some homeless man to getting to know that this homeless man is actually a respectable bartender who has no friends.” Luca concluded and I sighed as I took it all in.

“Well, keep digging and keep me posted, remember that this is now of utmost priority over every other thing, Anna and the other gammas would keep a look on other things.” I instructed and he nodded.

It looked like there was more that he wanted to say but he was being skeptical about it, “Spit it out already, Luca!” I snapped at him.

“Well... I am honestly just considering the fact that Elena might be targeted by someone that we need to watch out for because if a bartender can be hired to cause such damage to her then who knows what next they would do. Do you think that this is being done by the Amato pack or some other rival of ours? And even if that was the case, why on earth would they be after Elena out of every single person in our pack? It is quite confusing.” Luca let out and I remained silent while only the sound of the woods and burning could be heard.

I battled with the answer in my mind and I arrived at no conclusion other than the fact that I would kill anyone who dared to lay a finger on Elena, whoever they might be and this force of conviction stuns even me myself.