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“I didn’t see anything, I swear, brother. I didn’t see anything, Rosie,” Matias tries to reassure. “Well, I saw your leg. The upper thigh. That’s it, though.”
Ari growls, kissing the middle of my forehead. “Anyone else would have a bullet between their eyes.”
“It’s ok, Matias. You barged in here for a reason, right?” I ask him, gently taking the gun from Ari’s hand. “You don’t need this,” I whisper, placing it on the bed.
He stands, slipping on a pair of sweatpants, and I watch him slip them on over his bubbled butt. A few red lines from my nails are all over his back and I blush, thinking back to every moment I dug into his skin because I needed a way to release the pleasure.
I’ve marked him.
“What is it, Matias? You can turn around now.”
He spins, his cheeks flushed, and he doesn’t even look in my direction but waves his hand to greet me anyway. “Hey, Rosie.”
I cover my mouth to stifle a laugh when I see how uncomfortable he is. “Hey, Matias.”
“Focus.” Ari snaps his fingers. “I’d like to get back to my morning, Matias.”
Matias exhales, shifting his eyes to me quickly before looking back at Ari. “A dead body has been delivered,” he announces.
Ari straightens at the time as I gasp, covering my mouth in a different manner this time. “Who is it? One of ours?”
“No one has touched it. We thought we needed to come to you first. It’s in the basement.”
“Okay. We’ll be down soon.”
“We?” Matias and I ask at the same time.
“We.”
We wait for Ari to explain, to say more, to emphasize but he doesn’t.
“We’ll be down in fifteen minutes. I’m assuming the body can wait that long?”
“We’ll put in on some ice just in case,” Matias says casually as if it isn’t the first time he has had to do that.
It should bother me more than it does. It sounds like an everyday thing, something they do to check off from their list first thing in the morning.
“Good.” Ari opens the bedroom door. “Next time, knock. Or the hole in the wall will be in your body’s shape. Don’t make me shoot my own brother.”
“I’m sorry. It was urgent. I thought you needed to know.”
“It’s fine. This time,” Ari’s voice drops, and the message is clear.
Don’t let it happen again.
The door shuts and I’m finally left in peace with Ari.
“Come on, Tesoro. Let’s shower and see who has been delivered to us.”
I toss the blankets from my body and climb from the bed. I think about my family, wondering if they got caught. Maybe someone found them and brought them back to America.
“Hey.” One arm wraps around my hips while his finger tilts my chin up.
My eyes water as I look at him, trying to hold in my worry, but I fail.
“Talk to me, Rosie.” Those monstrous eyes set on taking over the world only soften for me as they dart over my face. “What’s wrong? What can I do?”
“Do you think it’s Caplan? Is it my family? God, Ari. I don’t know what I’ll do if it’s them. I can’t go down there. I can’t. Not if it’s Caplan. The thought makes it hard to breathe.” I press a hand against my chest. “I can’t. Please, find out first if it’s him. I’m not strong like you. I won’t be able to handle it.”
