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“Alejandro!” my mom hisses.
“Enough!” Jax snarls at my father as he laces his fingers through mine.
“We need to tell Toni too,” I say to him as another rush of shame almost overwhelms me.
“We will,” he nods.
“Well, tread carefully. I’d rather her brothers never found about this.”
“Her brothers?” I blink at him.
“Dante and Lorenzo Moretti? You grew up in Chicago,mija, surely you’ve heard of the Morettis?”
I look between Jax and my father. “Wait? Toni is a Moretti? Like a Chicago Moretti?”
“Yes. A genuine pure blood Moretti.”
“She’s their half-sister,” Jax adds. “She moved to LA with her mom when she was fourteen. She and Dante have always stayed in touch though. The oldest brother, Lorenzo isn’t her biggest fan.”
“I had no idea she was one of them,” I say, hanging my head. “I’m so sorry, Papi.”
I keep my head bent low, too ashamed to look any of them in the eye and pick at a stray cotton on my tank top with while Jax squeezes my other hand in his. Then he cups my chin with his other hand, turning my face until his eyes meet mine. “You have nothing at all to be embarrassed about, angel,” he assures me.
I offer him a faint smile.
“Jax is right, sweetheart,” my mom adds.
But my father can’t let it go yet, and his anger at Jax is obvious to anyone in the room. “I trusted you to take care of her,” he barks.
“He does, Papi,” I insist. “This isn’t his fault.”
My father rolls his eyes at me but at least it stops him glaring at me.
“Do you have any idea who sent them or what they want?” I ask.
“We don’t know who it was yet, but we’ll find them, angel,” Jax says.
“And as for what they want — money? Plain and simple greed,” my father adds.
“How much?”
“Five million dollars by noon tomorrow or they upload the videos to every free porn site there is and send the stills to anywhere that will print them.”
I cover my eyes as the thought of that makes me want to throw up.
“We won’t let that happen, angel,” Jax assures me.
“Can you find out where this has come from? Take down any videos if they do get posted?” I ask him.
“I can take anything down. Hell, we can even get a legal injunction to do that. Filming people having sex without their knowledge or consent is still against the law. I can find these fuckers too…”
“But?” my father asks.
“Once something is out there, it’s out there. I can’t guarantee we’ll remove every trace of it. There are screenshots and the dark web. I could spend the rest of my fucking life hunting this down once it’s released. We need to find the source, and I can’t do that by noon tomorrow.”
“You’re saying I should pay them five million dollars? Let some piece of shit use my beautiful daughter to blackmail me?” my father growls.
“I’m saying you should buy me some time. Pay the money. I can follow its trail.”
