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‘Well, yes, I felt it pressing against my ass in the night and it was very hard,’ I said and then started to giggle before the effort hurt my ribs. ‘Ooow,’ I winced.
He leaned down, brushing my hair back from my face, and kissed me softly before pulling back. ‘Rest for a few days, princess. Because you are going to need it. As soon as you’re fully healed, I am going to fuck you harder and longer than we have ever fucked before. You won’t even be able to tell me what your own name is by the time I’m done with you,’ he growled against my ear and I felt a rush of wet heat.
‘Your filthy talk really isn’t helping matters here,’ I grinned at him.
‘Are your panties wet?’
‘Soaking,’ I nodded.
‘Fuck!’ he hissed as he palmed his cock through his sweatpants.
We were disturbed by a soft knocking at the door and Alejandro jumped up. ‘That will be Lucia. She’s been checking in every fifteen minutes since she woke up over an hour ago.’
I nodded. ‘She must have so many questions.’
‘Come in,’ Alejandro said and a few seconds later, Lucia’s head popped through the doorway.
‘You’re awake?’ she said softly.
‘Yes,’ I said as I shifted myself up into a seated position. ‘Come in, sweetheart.’
She smiled at me and walked across the room before sitting on the bed beside me where Alejandro had been just a moment earlier. So much had happened the night before. So much had been said that neither Lucia nor I had understood. We both had so many questions. But last night had been about getting home, getting checked out by the doctor, and processing the shock of being free from that terrible basement.
Alejandro pulled up the chair from the dresser and placed it beside the bed before sitting down.
‘I suppose you have a lot of questions, Lucia?’ he asked.
She nodded. ‘You said… You said Carlos was my father?’ She almost choked on the words.
He nodded. ‘Did you have any idea at all that Miguel Ramos might not be your real father?’
She shook her head. ‘No. None at all. I mean, I always felt different to them, but I thought that was just because I was a girl, and you know, not a psycho like him and my brothers. But he was my father. He would have told me if he wasn’t — wouldn’t he?’
Alejandro rubbed a hand across his jaw. ‘I don’t think so. He wouldn’t have lost face. I know that my Uncle Carlos and your mother had an affair. It lasted almost a year and it ended a few months before you were born. It seems that your mother chose Miguel and my uncle didn’t take it well. He was always a liability, but after your mother ended things, he completely lost it. He ended up in a mental health facility for over a year.’
‘And you really think he was my father?’ she asked.
‘Yes. And he certainly believed so too. And your mother. At least according to her old friend, Crystal.’
Lucia smiled faintly at the mention of Crystal’s name. ‘She was always good to me,’ she said softly. ‘Until the drugs really took hold of her anyway.’
‘So is that why Carlos took us?’ I asked. ‘Because he thought Lucia was his daughter?’
Alejandro cleared his throat. ‘No. It was slightly more complicated than that. He knew that my father was getting ready to hand everything over and he wanted to expedite that process, so he tried to kill him. He also resented the fact that it would be me taking over the family business, rather than him.’
I opened my mouth in shock. ‘He had your father shot? His own brother?’
Alejandro nodded. ‘He wanted to destroy our family. He wanted to ruin me so that he could legitimately take my father’s place. He knew that I would burn this city to the ground to find you. He counted on me getting myself killed, or just being so lost without you that I’d self-destruct.’
I nodded my head while Lucia sat beside me in stunned silence. It was all so much to take in.
‘Perhaps he would have eventually used your freedom as a bargaining chip? Who knows what was going through his mind. He was loco. But, he knew that the easiest way to get to me was through you, princess. Then when Lucia came into our lives, that just added more fuel to his jealousy. I honestly think he would have never harmed you, Lucia. I think he wanted to try and be a father, at least in the only way he knew how,’ Alejandro finished.
‘So that was why they treated me okay?’ Lucia asked. ‘Well, compared to Alana, anyway?’
‘Yes, it would seem so,’ he nodded, looking at me and frowning slightly, as though he was thinking about what I’d endured at his uncle’s hands.
‘Do you think it was him who killed Blake?’ she asked.
