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The flightfrom Dallas to LA has been the longest of my life. I’ve never felt so agitated, and nervous in my entire thirty-seven years, and given the life I’ve lived that’s saying something.
There’s a car waiting for me on the runway. I climb inside and see the familiar face of one of Alejandro’s longest serving employees, his driver, Jacob.
“Mr. Decker,” he says with a polite nod.
“What the fuck, Jacob? What’s going on?” I ask as I sit back against the seat.
He shakes his head.
“Come on. I’ve known you since I was fourteen. What the hell is it that you can’t trust me?”
“I don’t know anything,” Jacob insists. “Something happened this morning that made Mr. Montoya as mad as hell. I haven’t seen him so angry in a long time. Alana was doing all she could to calm him down, but…” he shakes his head. “Then Lucia arrived back from taking Matthias to school and it was like they were pretending nothing had happened.”
I close my eyes and take deep breaths, wondering what the hell I’m about to walk into.
Chapter18
Jax
Jacob’s car hasn’t even fully stopped when I open the doors and jump out, running to the front door of the house. It’s opened before I reach it, by one of Alejandro’s security detail.
“Where is he?” I ask.
“In his office,” he says with a curt nod.
“And my wife?”
“In the pool with her mom and the boys. He’s asked that you don’t speak to them and go directly to his office.”
“Fuck that,” I snarl as I push past him.
“Jax,” the guard hisses. “I have my orders. You are not to go back there. Please don’t make me take you down.”
“You think you could?”
He glares at me. “There are a dozen more men who would stop you before you get back there.”
“A dozen?”
He nods solemnly and I swallow hard. He never has that many men at his house. What the fuck is this? “Fine. I’ll go see him.”
“Thank you,” he replies and then he steps aside before he escorts me to his boss’s office.
I mean Alejandro is technically my boss too, but I never really think of him as that. While he might give me my orders, he also treats me as his equal. The guard opens the door for me and I walk inside. Alejandro is staring out of the window, but at the sound of the door closing he spins around. His eyes lock on mine and I swear I haven’t seen him this pissed since I told him I was in a relationship with his daughter.
“What the hell is going on?” I ask.
He grips the back of his office chair, his knuckles turning white with the effort of controlling the rage that is clearly coursing through his body.
“I fucking trusted you, Jax,” he snarls. “She’s my fucking daughter and you... you…” he puts a hand over his face and sucks the air through his teeth, as though he can’t even bear to say the words.
Meanwhile, I stand here wondering what the fuck I could have possibly done that would make him think he couldn’t trust me with his daughter’s safety. Like her and Matthias aren’t always my number one priority.
“I what?” I snap.
He nods to a brown envelope on the desk. “That came this morning,” he hisses.
