His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika

Chapter 257

24 hours until release

Elena

Dear Marvin,

Link me up with your thirty cousins, all of them! (I’m serious)

Thanks for your concerns, I know there are many bad people in this world, but I actually really enjoy talking to you. Tell me if I’m wrong, but I feel like we’re even becoming friends!

Unfortunately, it’s just me, my dad, and my brother, but I might’ve overreacted a tiny bit. They’re honestly not as bad as I made them look, and they also have some good sides to them.

I admire you for your dreams, and I can’t even imagine how hard it must be too hope for freedom. Keep dreaming. Marvin, and who knows? One day your dreams might come true!

I also took a look at the pictures you send me, and just like you, I also had to hold my breath. I think you might be one of the ugliest human beings I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and trust me, I’ve seen a lot!

(I only gave you the reaction you wanted.)

Dear Marvin, I have something to confess.

I haven’t had a genuine smile on my face in a long time, but somehow you’ve managed to cheer me up. I want to thank you for your time, and please know that I appreciate it a lot. Your emails are the highlight of my day, and I’m always looking forward to them!

I truly hope we can continue this friendship, and I hope you feel the same way

Love,

Lena

“It looks like you’re busy.” Alex spoke as he leaned over my shoulder to see what I was doing. I let out a surprised gasp and closed my laptop.

seemed impossible, and my brother snooping on my laptop to see what I was doing was the

him to see was me confessing my love to a

friend, and I enjoyed talking to him. The best thing was that he would be in prison for his entire life, so I

were you doing, and why did you close your laptop?”

+5 Bonus

recipes.” I twisted the truth. It wasn’t exactly a lie, I was busy with the recipes for the wedding, but it had been a spontaneous decision to email Marvin

were wealthy, only made me more nervous. I had to make sure

for that wedding you were so happy about yesterday?” Alex smiled. I gave him a nod and handed him my notebook. “These people are willing

browsed through the notebook. “Caramel popcorn cocktail?” Alex laughed. “Somehow, you always come

snatched the book from his hands. “And as you can see, there are many people

going to give me, he

doing here anyway?

hand on top of mine and looked at me with a worried look on his face. I shoved my notebook to the side and stared at him. “Alex, what’s

breath and sat

preparing myself for the worst. “Dad isn’t doing very well,” Alex spoke. “I need you to take it easy on him. It turns out the DEA had the wrong person after all, and the person who supposedly

moment. My dad’s worst dream was becoming a reality, and there was nothing he could

is so convinced that the Castillo’s are behind it, while the evidence clearly shows that they’re not,” Alex explained. They said it was a setup, and we

through the names in my head. I was a bit inexperienced in that field, so it was challenging

of him to do so. Only that was more than enough to prove that the situation must’ve been

on Alex’s face that he doubted his decision

DEA to take down the apparent real issue, the Hernandez

clue what all of this had to do with me. Just the thought of these groups made my body cringe. “Will dad be fine or-

Alex spoke. “He’s been suspended for eight weeks for attacking our senior,

but my dad was so far already that it wasn’t even all that shocking. “So, how are we going to stop him?”

person to keep calm, and I had never seen him worry like this before. What the hell was my dad even thinking? He couldn’t

can’t prove that

just to go after some family broke me into pieces. It wasn’t supposed to go like this.