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Alonzo:“You need to eat.” Sienna said, walking toward me with a sandwich in hand. “It is not the best that we can find, but it is the best that I can get in the hospital. You’ve been standing for hours, and you are going to weaken.”“I’m not hungry, Sienna.” I said, and she smiled.“I wasn’t asking. You have to eat something. Your system needs it, and you know that there is a lot that will find its way with us right now. You are going to need to be at your full strength to be able to cope with it.” She said, looking at me, her eyes softening as she waited for what I was going to tell her. “I know that you are worried and I understand both your fear and pain, but right now…”“It is not fear that I am feeling, Sienna.” I said, stopping him. “We are born into this world knowing that we are going to be dealing with bullshit.”“It is okay to be in pain, then. He is your best friend, and it is only logical for you to fear for his life, but as you said, we are born into this world knowing th
Sienna:I walked out of the infirmary room where I was sitting, making sure to be slow with my steps only for an arm to wrap around me, Alonzo’s.“I can assume that you are done being rude?” I asked, and he chuckled before guiding me to a chair. He gave me a juice box, and I removed the straw, ignoring the haziness that I felt before taking a sip of the drink.“I didn’t know.” He said, and I nodded.“Don’t worry, I understand that you’re worried about him. To a certain extent, you can’t be blamed. You have more enemies around.” I said, and he looked away from me for a second.“You could have left. Or you could have been free of this marriage if something happened to him, why are you fighting so hard for it not to happen?” He asked, taking me off guard with his question, and I sighed.“Sometimes, you have to make the good out of everything that happens to you. I understand that my reason might not make any sense to you, but Diablo was kind to me. When I found myself being alone, he was
Sienna:“You can leave, Sienna.” Netania said, catching me off guard as she took a seat beside me in the waiting room, looking at Diablo as he slept in that ER room through a glass window that separated us from him. “You have exhausted yourself enough. He doesn’t seem to be waking up, and you are going to need to regain your strength as well.”“I am fine here. I will be staying here, and if I need to doze off, I can just lay my head on the armrest. I want to be by his side if he wakes up.” I said, and she frowned in confusion as she looked at me.“Anyone who sees you would mistaken you for old lovers. You went ahead and donated your blood to him without hesitation, and now this.” She said, looking at her son. “Why the sudden urge to want to be with him? I know that the two of you didn’t want to marry, why do you suddenly want to do this for him?”“I don’t suddenly want to do this for him, Netania. I am his wife, and though yes, I will admit, it is not out of love. The two of us might
Sienna:Flashback:“The fact that you are calling, Diablo, amazes me. Is your first task as Capo to call me?” My father asked as I sat at his desk, reading through a paper with him, doing the math that he didn’t want to have his accountant doing.He put the man on speaker, and I couldn’t help but shake my head, knowing that my father was not going to pay him any attention. His own father was never a friend to us, but we shared one boarder, at least, until we left the city for him to deal with. Our part was done here, and I agreed with my father on the fact that we needed to leave this place. “I need help. I know that we are not the closest of allies, but I need your men’s help to save my sister.” He said, making me frown in confusion.“Why would they need to save an eleven year old girl? What harm could she be in?” He asked, mocking Diablo. The man didn’t say anything to respond, making me frown in confusion. I was sixteen at the time, I knew that he was two years older than I was. T
Lexi:“Answer the fucking phone, Maria.” I snapped, running my fingers through my hair, fighting back my tears as they threatened to fall from my eyes. I paced around my room, not knowing what else that I could do.It’s been hours since I heard of the accident from Louis, and since then, Maria hasn’t been answering. No matter how many times I called, she did not pick up that fucking phone.“I am curious about who you’ve been calling for the past hour. You’ve been roaming around like crazy holding that shit in front of your ear,” Louis said, entering the room, not bothering to knock on the door, he never did anyway, and I looked away from him.“I am calling Maria.” I said, choosing to be honest. He wasn’t going to believe me anyway, but being honest was the better option. The man would kill me if he caught me lying, that I knew for fact.“The child? You would expect me to believe that you have anything to do with the Duraturo child? Her parents are stricter than any…”“I am not going to
Diablo:I frowned as I opened my eyes to find myself in a white room, a room that I knew was not mine.It was white and white duvet sheets covered my body. Bandages were everywhere, but I felt no pain. It was as if was floating on a cloud, one that I didn’t want to get up from. It was a lot peaceful here. Too surreal, a better feeling than I had in a long time. One that I did not aim to lose.The heart monitor beeped, and the one thing that I could remember was being at home with my wife, Sienna. I didn’t even understand how I ended up here to begin with. “Did we get into a fight? Did the woman shoot me?” I asked voicing out my question, looking around the place that I was in as my voice sounded as if it was coming from a distance. I was surprised to find myself holding a hand, well, to be more specific, the hand held onto mine as mine was loose around it before I wrapped my hand around it. The small hand let me know that the person was asleep. Her grip was soft, but the just the fee
Sienna:“What’s going on?” Netania asked, frowning when she saw me walking out of the room where Diablo was staying. Thankfully, he was out of the ER, but the fact that the first thing he did when he left the room was choose to kick me out scarred me deeply. I didn’t even know his reason, but I didn’t want to care about asking at this point.“Diablo is awake. I am going to get something to drink, he asked me to tell you that he woke up.” I said, choosing not to tell them about their son kicking me out of the room. The last thing that I needed or wanted was to give Maria that satisfaction. Though I knew that she might find out from Diablo, I would rather not have it coming from me.I walked toward the cafeteria, ignoring the pain that I felt in my chest as I stood in line to get myself a cup of coffee. The lack of sleep was getting to me, I had to admit that much, and I knew that the number of things that I had to deal with were not easy.I still couldn’t even reach Lexi. The woman was
Diablo:“Brother!” Maria said, running inside the room. Mom and dad followed close behind, and I smiled when she slowed down before throwing herself in my arms, hugging me tightly.Despite the pain that I was in, I hugged her back, pulling her to my chest. Alonzo smiled as he shook his head at me, crossing his arms over his chest as he looked me in the eye.“You worried all of us, Diablo.” He said, and I smiled at the man.“You don’t need to worry. I am as strong as a bull. I’ll be out of here in no time,” I said, and mom rolled her eyes at me.“Of course, you won’t. You lost more blood than you should have, and had it not been for Sienna donating her blood to you, God knows when we would have found a donor in time for you. It took us a long time to find it, thankfully…”“Sienna donated her blood?” I asked, and mom nodded.“The woman didn’t move from your side the second they opened the door, allowing us to see you. She wouldn’t even go home to sleep, she has been here for the past two
“This war is just getting started, I do hope that you realize that.” He said, looking at us Alonzo, who did not bother to say a word. He knew what it was he was signed up to when he did. And he was well aware that this war was going to take a lot more out of them than it was going to give them.“This war is going to end with the death of Diablo. This is going to be the only way of this family to break and when it is broken, we will know how to act.” Alonzo said, choosing to respond calmly. “You managed to play your daughter well, I have to admit. I did not expect that out of you, but Sienna seemed to fall for the act of you being on her side. I believe that Myla would have told her the truth by now.“My love lost the one person who would have stood by her side, and that was going to be Elton. With the man dead, she knew that she had no reason to live. She knew that I would not allow her to be my wife anymore. And that was something that you did not want. And after Carlos's death, she k
Diablo:We stood by the door, knowing that we had to get things done.The night was going to be a long one and I knew that Myla expected us to be arriving.I looked at Sienna, who was in pain, but I knew that asking her to stay back was not going to help. She was going to be stubborn and was going to choose doing what she wanted anyway. Might as well allow her to come. Being able to see her would help me focus on the target and the job that we needed to take care of.“We're going to go inside and trust me, this is going to be one hard task. Are you sure that you are ready for it?” I asked, knowing that this was my last shot, and doing so, my eyes met Alonzo's as she stood from the window, watching us in silence. His men were stationed around the windows and I knew that it was only a matter of time before they pulled out their guns. They were just waiting for the order.“This is going to be our one shot Diablo. The last thing that I want is for us to back away. The men are outside and h
Sienna:“How did you manage to leave? Mom just literally calls me. How did you arrive?” Diablo wrapped an arm around my waist. He pulled me to his chest and I could tell that he was both worried and frightened.“Your phone was bugged, son, and we figured that we could use that to our advantage. We were already here when we called you. The one thing that happened was that we were waiting for Alexandra to show up. Sienna wanted to give her a chance to be honest, but it seems to us that it is impossible.” Natania said, taking her son off guard. I knew that Diablo did not expect her to be there, and the fact that she was here with me was one that I didn't even expect. I expected her to fight me. However, I was surprised when she told me that she was coming with me.“I can't believe that the two of you went off whatever arguments that you had for this. And you should be at the hospital. You're still yet to recover, Sienna.” Diablo said, and I raised an eyebrow. He smirked and connected his
Diablo:“What do you mean that she wants to leave the hospital, Mom? I literally told you to keep her there. What do you mean that she's leaving?”“Your wife here does not listen to a word that is being said. I told her what you said but she said that it doesn't make a difference. She is going to leave. And trust me, she has good reason for that. But Diablo, you are going to need to be careful, both you and Maria.” She said, changing the subject. I frowned in confusion and I knew that something was going on. If Sienna was leaving the hospital like that, then something had happened or was going to happen.“What do you mean that we need to be careful? My wife is going to leave the hospital when she is still sick and you are asking me to be careful about something that is yet to happen.” I said Snapping got her. I knew that it was not like me to do so, especially with my mother, but right now I had a lot to think about and Sienna leaving the hospital was the last thing that I needed to be
Sienna:I found when I opened my eyes to find myself in a white room.I was your sleep on the hospital bed. And though I still could not remember what happened, I knew that if I was here that either I was shot or something bad happened.This was the 4th time that I've woken up. Only at first, I was alone. This time I knew that I was not. And that fact alone had me aware of my surroundings. I had tried to sit up four times until now. And on each attempt the nurses would stop me. The last time she had put me to sleep. This time it seemed to me that she was no longer here.I looked around the room, trying to find Diablo, only to frown in confusion when I found Natania sitting on the couch. Her eyes met mine and she smiled before she got up. I tried setting up which you gently pushed me back, not allowing me to do so.“What happened?” I asked weakly. My head throbbed and it felt like I was being hit on my forehead with a hammer. I was not going to mention the top of my head, which felt li
Maria:“Are you sure that you want to do this, Diablo?” I asked, looking at my brother, knowing that he was in conflict. The fact that Sienna was at the hospital was not something that I liked. I did not know who shot her, but I knew that this was something that he had to take care of. It was supposed to be a priority, not Lexi.“We are not going to go back from this, Maria. The number of things that we have to deal with are countless and delaying one thing is not going to help us. At least we might as well get this one done. If we managed to get her, capture her, then things are going to end the way that we want. At least I hope so.” He said, not bothering to look at me.I knew that he had a lot on his mind and that he was thinking of so much. Sienna was someone that he loved. It pained me to know that I was going to be a reason to separate the two of them.The idea of being the person that was to be the one that hurt him was not something that I liked. I was just thankful that he wa
Diablo:Anger was a small word to describe what I felt.I kept my eyes on my wife, who was breathing heavily.An oxygen mask covered her face. Without it, she would not be able to breathe.The bullet that hit her left lung, nearly touching her heart.The sight of her blood as she lost conscience, not processing that she was shot, played in my mind.I didn't know who did it, who shot the fucking bullet, but I knew that it was not something that I could just ignore or let go of. Whoever did this was going to pay with their lives and I was going to be sure that they knew it.“Diablo, you are going to need to eat something.” Mom urged trying to get me to get up from the couch. She knew that I wouldn't get up. I would not leave her in this state.The idea that the person, whoever they were, was as close to the house as they were angered me. It made me furious to know that I could not protect my wife.“Please Diablo, you are not helping yourself in any way and she is not going to be able to
Alonzo:“Where do you think you're going?” I asked, looking at Lexi who already had her bags packed.“I don't think this should matter to you. I already have permission from Myla and Elton to go. Plus, who the hell do you think you are to ask?” She asked, glaring at me.“What do you mean who the hell am I? If anyone knows who you are and knows how twisted you can be, then it is me. If Myla chooses to ignore that, and if Elton does not know you enough, then I do. I know that you are up to something and you would not just be leaving simply because you wanted to go on break, especially after everything that we've have been through and especially knowing that you have Sienna, Diablo and the whole Duraturo family after your head.” I said, and she laughed.“My friend there after your head and not mine. While yes I am part of this war but the main thing that they need to take care of is the man who shot their daughter. You really need to set your priorities straight and you need to understand
Sienna:“I'm sorry, what?” I asked, glaring at my husband, who just gave me the news that they were going to see Alexandra and that they would not want me to be there. “Diablo, what the hell do you mean that I'm not going to be there when you see Alexandra?”“Now is not the time for jealousy, Sienna.” Netania said, and I raised an eyebrow. At the moment, she couldn't actually believe that I was being jealous of Alexandra, the woman who was my husband's ex-girlfriend.“Do you really believe that this is out of jealousy? My mother is siding with that woman, ignoring the fact that she is the Diablo’s ex. I have a lot to deal with when it comes to her, and I'm going to start with the fact that she was going to marry my brother.” I said, and Natania looked away from me. “You can't be serious about this.”“There is a lot that you are going to have to deal with at home. I don't want you to be there when things break close and if something does happen…”“Unlock will happen. Alexandra's not go