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

Chapter 271

Elena

“Girl, why the hell wasn’t you picking up your phone!” Victoria waited for me in the driveway. I rushed out of the car and flew into her arms.

“Did you get the memo? Did you know that Marvin of yours killed your dad’s partner-agent Maddens?”

“H-he what?” I freaked out. Tori’s cruel way of speaking wasn’t that much of a help. I slowly put two and two together as I connected the missing puzzle piece to Marvin’s prison sentence. Did I really go to lunch with the killer of my dad’s best friend?

“I-he-I didn’t know!” I hyperventilated. It was quite a surprise that I was able to drive back home as my thoughts were all over the place. I almost fell into Marvin’s trap, and this entire situation was too good to be a coincidence.

“Okay, the first thing you need to do is calm down.” Tori rubbed her hand over my back. “Close your eyes and breath.”

I did as told and closed my eyes, but all I could see in front of me was Marvin and the eye-catching smirk he carried on his lips. No wonder he was that confident. I was exactly where he wanted me to be. “Tori, what the hell is going on?” I sighed.

“I have no idea, but you’re lucky I didn’t call your dad.” Victoria spoke. “I tried reaching you, but you didn’t answer-so I freaked out, and I was about to call the cops-”

“But you didn’t.”

“But I didn’t,” Tori repeated. “I was looking through some new case files of our new client, and I recognized Marvin’s face.” She explained. “He’s not a good guy, Elena. He framed our client, who’s not that much better than him, for the murder of your dad’s partner, and that’s why he’s able to walk out free-”

“Yes, I know-I know.” I stopped her from talking. The information was all too much, and I didn’t need her to remind me of what kind of idiot I was. “No, you don’t understand. Tori shook her head. “He is the son of Mario Castillo, a cartel boss you don’t want to meet.”

There it was again, that word.

The son of a cartel boss’

It was a word I had heard a few times too many over the past few weeks, and I couldn’t take it anymore. “I didn’t know. I promise you-I didn’t know.” I whispered.

“I know you didn’t because neither did I.” Victoria spoke in disbelief. “I mean, it’s a good thing I could reach you before you went to meet him.”

The breath which left my mouth was enough for Victoria to realize that the situation had turned out to be quite the opposite. “Elena, no,” Victoria cringed.

“Yes.

“No.

“Yes,” I nearly trembled. I paced back and forth while my mind went back to Marvin, who I had left behind without as much as a single word. “I told him I had to go use the restroom, and then I

disappeared.”

out. “What were you even

in her voice made me even more anxious.

to you?” Victoria spoke. I tried to ignore her words and rushed into the house, but Victoria wasn’t done

going to do?” I sulked with a slight pout. The look on Victoria’s face told me that she would not accept this as our problem and that I was on my

all, what are you going to do.” She corrected me. “And second of all, how do we know he

that had already crossed my mind, but some things just didn’t add up. I was the one who approached Marvin, and besides that, dad and

I was

I was doing too much?

our way to my dad’s office.

she scoffed. “Elena, you’re insane-of course, he’s not a robot, but this

they kill, and they move on as nothing has

files with information from my dad’s desk as I took in Victoria’s words.

blank as my mind went back to my dad’s words. The exact words from which I had been running

kept on rambling about the son of a cartel boss getting released from prison and called him out to be the one who had killed his partner, agent Maddens-and

many questions in my ears. “What are we doing? What are

of the same man who approached

The Castillo Cartel.

take a better look at the picture. She gasped and tapped her finger on top of

Vidal!” Victoria said. “Him being with Marvin is not really

eyes as I did not

was not a

got this nickname because he works fast, and he catches his prey as if it’s nothing.”Those were the exact words that my dad had used to describe him.

fact-Marvin is the one who orders him around.” Victoria read my mind. “He used to do it from a prison cell.”

afraid to flip the next page, which I knew would’ve been Marvin’s. Of course, Marvin was worse than

you because I didn’t think it was necessary-but

information almost made me gag as it was too much to take in. What the hell was going on in

cartel is framing another cartel? How convenient.” I

of cross and pleaded my hands as I looked at the ceiling and closed my eyes. “God, please forgive me for being such a hypocrite and for getting involved,” I admitted to my sins, unsure of if it would even matter anymore. I had been scolding dad and Alex

I had been lusting over had been in prison for committing murder, and

the page in one go, revealing Marvin’s

Marvin Romero Castillo.

were right in front of me, and I felt like an idiot. The most stupid thing was probably believing that Marvin could be innocent because he told me so. I was stupid enough to

him out to be some local