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She blinks at me, in a daze, so I reach over and take it from her.
“I’m going to fucking drown you in a pool of your own blood,” Alejandro snarls.
I check the email. It simply says.
You should be careful who you trust.
And then there are half a dozen images of Toni and me. Heads huddled together and deep in conversation. They look like they were taken in LA, but I have no idea when. It’s only when I come to the next one that I realize I have no idea when they were taken because they’re one hundred percent fake. It’s a picture of me and Toni and in this one we’re kissing — and it ain’t no friendly peck on the cheek either.
“Angel, these are fake,” I insist as her father reaches us.
“Even the last one?” she snarls.
I frown as I scroll to the last one on the email. It’s not fake, but it’s old. It’s a photograph of me nailing Shannon at the stables back at the ranch. She’s naked with her legs around my waist as I fuck her against the wall with my head buried in her neck.
Fuck!
I look at her, ignoring her raging father beside her.
“Lucia, that’s from years ago.”
“Do you ever fuck women somewhere normal, like a fucking bed?” Alejandro shouts, like he can talk.
“It’s years old,” I insist.
“Papi, can you please let me handle this?” she snaps at him and he backs off. “And the ones with you and Toni. They have a date and time stamp, Jax. It was four weeks ago.”
“They’re fake, baby. Before last week, I hadn’t see her for months-”
“You’re kissing her!” she yells at me,
I reach out to take her hands but she pulls back from me and the look of disgust and pain on her face almost breaks me. “Luce, you know how easy it is to manipulate photos. That is not me, angel. Let me prove it to you.”
“Did the two of you plan this?” she whispers, ignoring every word I just said. “The video and the money?”
I frown at her. I can’t believe she would even consider that for a second. “What?”
“What the fuck were you two doing then?” Alejandro barks as Lucia sinks back into her chair looking utterly defeated. I have to convince her that someone is trying to set me up here, but she won’t even look at me.
“We weren’t doing anything!” I shout at him. “That is not me.”
“Is that why you were so keen on me paying so quickly?”
I jump up from my chair and it falls to the ground as I do. “You’re suggesting I would fuck you over, not to mention my own wife, for money? I have known you for twenty-four fucking years.”
His Adam’s apple bobs as he swallows. Deep down he knows I’d never do that. “You’ve broken my daughter’s heart,” he snarls instead. “Now get the fuck out of my house.”
I look down at Lucia who stares at me with her mouth open, her lower lip trembles and all I want to do is carry her to my truck and drive us a million miles from here so we can escape all of this bullshit. If she would just give me some time, I can fix everything.
“Luce?” I plead as my world starts to fall around down my ears. My chest is tight and I can’t breathe.
Then my damn cell phone starts ringing. I take it out and my aunt Molly’s name flashes on the screen. With a heavy sigh, I answer the call and press the phone to my ear.
“Jackson, he’s awake,” she says with a deep sigh.
“Good,” I breathe again, thankful for some good news.
“But, he said…” she sniffs as though she’s trying not to cry, “he said the men who attacked him told him that you paid them to do it.”
