For the next day, we drove South down the West coast of the country. By late afternoon, we had reached Sacramento and Luca needed gas.
"Why Mexico?" I asked as we drove around looking for a gas station.
Before long, it was getting late. The sky was growing darker again and the streaks of fiery red that had stretched out over the landscape as the sunset were beginning to fade again. I was exhausted just from sitting in a vegetive state and Luca had been driving since 2 am."Are you sure you don't want me to drive?" I asked with a yawn after waking up from my tenth nap of the journey so far.
"You fucking shot him in the foot," I said about half an hour later. "He's not gonna be able to walk for months.""They weren't taking us seriously," Luca replied."How do you even know how to use a gun?" I asked.
Luca's POV"Okay so quite obviously the plan is that you won't have to come across any of these people. I'll have it all sorted and we'll both be on our way to Paris before we know it," I said a day later as we sat across from each other at a freeway diner somewhere in Texas on our way to Miami. "But there's still a risk you'll stumble into danger so you've gotta learn to play the game."
Luca's POV"Alpha, I've screwed up big time," I said to Leo after he finally picked up his phone.I was in the process of dragging the man that had been pointing his gun at me to my car by the scruff of his collar. The more he resis
Leo's POVI slammed down the phone and marched out of my office. I had my one-year-old son, Zacharias, in my arms but Max was in the living room with Lili."I have to go to fucking Mexico," I announced, "Immediately."
Ella's POV"Mommy!" I heard a voice cry. "Mama! Higher!"
"Do you guys have a toilet?" I asked the men stood silently behind me after about an hour.Andrea hadn't returned but he had sent a glass of water which had, of course, due to the lack of food in my system, travelled straight through me
Leo's POVI arrived in Mexico less than 12 hours after Luca called me and it had been one of the worst half days in my life. I'd been away from Ella before not knowing where she is but the difference this time was that there was no ques