Rodney thought all was gone, but when Lilly returned in the evening, she seemed calmer. He was in the bedroom, staring at photos of him and his late mother when she walked in. he expected a rude comment, or even an insult but she just came and sat next to him. She placed her head on his shoulder.“I’m sorry, I’m just really emotional right now and I didn’t know how to deal with everything.”“You don’t have to be sorry for anything,” he told her. “You’re in this mess because of me.”“I wouldn’t want to be in a kind of mess like this with anyone else,” she said. “Ever since I met you, my life has been great. You brought light and joy into my life, things that had been missing for a very long time. I was just existing, dead inside, but you made me feel alive again. i have been thinking and I know you’re right. Something needs to be done about Alberto. None of us will ever be safe while he roams free.”Rodney turned and hugged her. Warmth and joyful emotion spread all over him. “I love yo

When he entered the market, he stuffed the gun into his pants the way he had seen Alberto do it and slowed down while looking around for a hiding place. He spotted a young woman at a piñata and flower stall and went for it. When he got to where she was, he quickly pulled out a gun and went to the space in between the flowers. The girl was too scared to say anything.He found a tiny space in between the flowers and looked at the route he’d used to enter the market. There were two burly shifty looking guys making their way inside. They scanned the place while moving.“He went over there,” a skinny lad pointed to a corner of the market which had an exit. Rodney felt relieved when they started going there. He wasn’t worried because he knew that Rodrigo could take care of himself. Rodrigo was, after all, Alberto Roco’s true son. He was the one that would follow in his father’s footsteps.After some minutes, Rodney hid the gun and decided to come out. He was sure those men did not know him.

Later that day, Octavio came home. Octavio was Rodney’s cousin who had warned him about Alberto when he first arrived at the mansion. Octavio went to Emilia’s room and was in there for a long time. When he came out, he went to the living room and started to drink. Rodney decided to join him.“Emilia told me you were around,” Octavio said.“Yeah.”“I don’t believe that you’re only here for the little girl,” he said, taking a long sip of his beer. “What do you think I’m here for?”Octavio stood up and looked around. “Let’s go outside and talk if you want.”“Okay,” Rodney said without questioning the rationale behind it. It was possible that there were recording devices here and there. For Alberto Roco to evade capture like that, he had to be very cautious. Rodney was pretty sure the man did not trust his own family.“What is it?” Rodney asked Octavio when they were outside.Octavio stood near a tree trunk, placing his leg on it. “You hate Alberto, and you wish you could do something to

Rodney and Octavio spent the night at the big house. Thankfully, Alberto had left soon after they arrived so Rodney had not had the misfortune of running into him. There were about thirty guys living in the large two storied building. Most of the room upstairs were bedrooms, some with bunk beds. The ground floor was filled with loaded boxes and packages and the basement was basically a drug factory. Drugs were being produced, weighed and packaged there. There men working there seemed to never stop working and they were guarded by people with guns at all time.Phones were not allowed for people except the top guys, the gun wielding ones. They did not have some phones but button phones for only calls and messages. Octavio’s and Rodney’s had been confiscated before they even got into the car. The men had also ensured that the boys did not get to know where they were. Rodney could see that the security was tight and it was going to be hard for him to reach his goals. Still, he decided to

A part of Alberto was amused by what Rodney had tried to do, but another part was proud of him. That boy had the courage of the Rocos, and the Nelsons. Sara Nelson had been one hell of a woman, and he had loved her at a certain point in his life. That was before she ran away with his child without telling him about it. The next time he saw her, he was not very happy with her. And it annoyed him very much when she stood up against him. Sara was not one to sit back and do nothing. He had felt that she would create problems for him sooner or later, which was why he decided to get rid of her. He hated that it caused a big rift between Rodney and him but he figured there was nothing to do. Life had to go on, and Rodney had to find ways of coping with the new reality.Alberto was surprised when Rodney built his life and became a great man. He was not very happy when he decided to leave everything in New York just to come and play nurse to a little girl. Although Rodney accepted to join the