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Mason
We leave in the armored vehicle and head to California. We take Linda, Alex, Colton, Leo, Aiden, and Khalani. Our fathers instructed us to stick together that if the leader of the Southside GuNz comes to West Hillside, none of us can be taken out. Our legacies depend on it. They want Lucy but what they are going to get are ruthless cartel Kings and gang leaders protecting her.
Alex checks the scope of his rifles and Glock 19. “You ready, killer?” I tease.
He is sitting up front with me and everyone else is sitting in the back.
“Shoot to kill,primo. We heading to Joaquin and the Kings’ house in L.A.?
“Yeah, they are waiting for us to arrive. I have something set up after we take thisputoout for Lucy.”
“What surprise do you have for her this time? I can’t keep up with you.” He smirks.
“Something she saw that she really liked.”
“You buy her anything she points at, huh?”
“I always have. I bought her the Porsche when she got her driver’s license.”
“That was you, primo,” he says, raising his brows. “I thought it was her father or her brother.”
Shaking my head and I tap the leathered-wrapped steering wheel. “She found out a couple of months ago. She never knew it was me.”
“That must suck.”
“Why do you say that?”
He laughs through his nose, shaking his head. “She was thanking the wrong person all this time. Must have sucked watching her thank her brother for something he didn’t buy.”
“It is nothing compared to the hurt I gave caused her. I hurt her, and we lost a baby.”
Alex goes silent and he nods. “Yeah, that must have sucked. She has been in a dark place for a long time. Hiding who she is and her feelings for you. She was always worried about what everyone else feels, she just sucked it up and kept it inside.”
“You love her, don’t you?” I ask. My chest constricts because I’m jealous when it comes to Lucy’s affection. I know she cares and has a certain type of love for Alex. She cares about him deeply, but I know she loves me. She declared it in front of him, and I saw the hurt filter through his expression.
He visibly swallows. “Yeah, I do. I love her so much that I know she is happy when she is with you. I don’t want to come between you two. I never did but you have to understand. If it wasn’t me, it would have been some otherputowe would have to kill.”
I laugh. He isn’t wrong. “Yeah.”
“This means that you won’t be coming to fuck random girls anymore like you did your senior year.”
“Nah, ese. I’m a married man.” I lift my left hand to show him my wedding band.
He chortles, “Good. Because I wouldn’t let you fuck around on her. I‘ll tell her myself.”
“You are loyal to her now and not us Kings?”
He shrugs. “Yep. She isla reina.The queen of the Kings of East Hillside.”
“Are you ever going to get married and have a family?”
He shakes his head. “Nah, man. I have Linda, and I can’t have that being who I am.” His head turns slightly, looking at me. “I appreciate you giving me my cut as your cousin within the Cortez cartel and we have an understanding. I gave my heart to your wife, and that is where it will always stay. You marrying her doesn’t change that.” He waves his hand. “All that other gang banger shit andputasdon’t mean shit to me. My loyalty is to Luciana and the Kings, but Luciana and Linda come first. Always,primo.”
I nod. He fell in love with Lucy, and I have to live with that for the rest of my life. Luciana’s father is a puppet master and he made sure his daughter is loved my ruthless men that would kill for her. It was his way of making me pay. My wife is powerful, and no matter what happens, she will be a target for anyone that wants to harm her father or me. I will protect her and if someone touches my wife, they die.
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We pull up to the Kings’ house in California. I purchased this house and Aiden purchased the one in Arizona. We all exit the Knight XV armored SUV and walk up to the four-bedroom, one-story house on the east side of LA. Funny how Lucy was around Joaquin training with the Kings and the whole time I owned the house. Probably, one ofEl Diablo’scruel jokes. He should have called himself SAW like the movie with the way he plays around with people’s lives.
