"You can open your eyes Cassie," She didn't realise it but she had instinctively shut her eye just like anyone would. Hesitantly she opened her eyes and found Leonardo's grip on the gun turning the tragectory of the gunshot. What the hell, she could have swore he was just besides her.
"Fuck!Fuck! How could I miss?," Even the enemy didn't realise Leonardo was just besides him until his eyes caught Leonardo's grip on his gun and in a blur he was skillfully disarmed by him while the guards rushed to apprehend him.
"NO! NO! NO! This cannot be happening," A year ago due to his Alpha's resistance in joining his pack Lorenzo Giovanni and his ruthless pack had laid waste to his, slaughtering everyone including, women, and children. He had lost everyone and everything, all he had left was vengeance but he couldn't act carelessly knowing how powerful Lorenzo is.
He had bided his time and waited until the opportunity arose to strike, and it did when news reached him about Lorenzo finding his mate. It was as though heaven had delivered an opportunity on a silver plate, what better way to enact vengeance than to take away Lorenzo's mate.
He had even casously infiltrated the castle, all for this moment, "No Lorenzo cannot get away with it!" He thought, he comprehend how there wasn't a bullet in her pretty skull or how Lorenzo's half brother had seemingly teleported besides him. Even for a royal Werewolf that speed was impossible.
"He cannot get away with it, I WON'T LET HIM!"He tried to forcefully pull way from the guards when Leonardo knocked him out with a single punch to the chin.
"Take him underground, my brother will deal with him when he gets back," He told the guards before turning to Cassie.
"Are you alright?," He gently touched her shoulders, "It must have been quite a scare,"
"How...How did you?, you were just besides me," She stuttered her words, "You were just besides me I'm sure of it,"
"Huh?, What the hell happened here?, was that a gunshot?," Gianna frowned walking up to Leonardo when she caught sight of Cassie and immediately her brows furrowed even deeper.
"Why is this prisoners taking a walk?, shouldn't be in her cell?," She scoffed arrogantly. Two things fueled her hate, the first being she was her crush, Lorenzo's mate, and the second, Cassie was simply too beautiful, it wasn't that she wasn't beautiful herself but next to Cassie, she looked plain.
"We both know she isn't a prisoner Gia," Leonardo Replied stepping in front of her to shield Cassie from Gia's piercing gaze, "Someone tried to kill her but he has been dealt with,"
"Huh kill her?, why?,"
"Obviously to get to Lorenzo," He replied vaguely that had Cassie raise a brow. what the hell did he mean kill her to get to Lorenzo?
"Tsk...shame he couldn't complete the job, what a useless fucking assassin," She sneered and Cassie's fist balled in rage. gosh she wanted nothing more than to smack this arrogant princess, but she knew she needed to thread lightly, she was in unfamiliar territory in the midst people who wouldn't hesitate to skin her alive if she ever laid a hand on Giovanni's silver princess.
It was quite common for cousins to marry in rich powerful houses to strengthen and maintain power, but still, it freaked her out.
"So where is this assassin?,"
"You should head back to your room Cas," It sounded like a suggestion but Cassie knew it was a command, well there was no point refusing, she glanced over at Gia who looked at her with a scornful expression.
"Well what are you waiting for?, besides being stupid, are you also deaf?,"
"Bitch!" Cassie whispered but again Gia caught her words, luckily Leonardo came to the rescue
"That reminds me, Lorenzo wants to have dinner with you in his private lounge," His words flipped a switch in Gianna's brain as her pursed lips turned into an excited smile
"Really?,"
"Yes he told me himself, but before then, In the meantime how about we pay the enemy a visit, I know you'd love to have a nice and peaceful chat with him," Leonardo suggested.
Cassie winced, knowing the arrogant Giovanni bitch, there was no way she was simply going to have a nice and peaceful talk with that prisoner. sneakily Leonardo signaled her to walk away before the Giovanni bitch turns her attention to her again.
"Walk away slowly good luck," He mouthed inaudibly with a thumbs up, did he just wish her good luck?, she sighed and like a cat sneaked back into the house.
Getting to her room she shut the doors and dropped tiredly on the mattress wondering if this is how her life would become, getting shot at repeatedly. Has she become some sort of bullet magnet?, to be shot at twice, last night and today, it was like she was in some sort of movie.
Still,, she felt relieved knowing there was a sane person in this house. Lorenzo was too well....fucking evil, Gia hates her guts, Kai creeps her out. Leonardo had his odds, but she felt safe with him.
Suddenly she began to feel a sharp pain at the spot where Lorenzo had bitten her, she got to her feet and walked over the mirror checking the mark,
"What the fuck?," She noticed it became unusually red as her eyes began to blur and her feet to wobble. she fell to the ground and clutched her chest feeling a tightness in her heart making it difficult to breathe.
"Help!" Her words came as barely a whisper. she found it difficult to speak, "Help!" She whispered again,
What began as a sharp pain quickly became a sensation of being burned alive, forcing a scream from her lips before she fell unconscious. Her final image was Lorenzo the very last person she expected carefully picking her up and laying her on the bed.
Was that panic on his face? She must have imagined it. Someone like him couldn't care about anyone but himself, she scoffed internally, never. That would happen the day freezes over.