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.”

you’re so stupid!” Victoria called me out. “What were you even

anxious. “I left

Who knows what he’ll do to you?” Victoria spoke. I tried to ignore her words and rushed into the house,

pout. The look on Victoria’s face told me that she would not accept this as our problem

“And second of all, how do we know

already crossed my mind, but some things just didn’t add up. I was the one who

was

was doing too much?

way to my dad’s office. “We’re probably just overreacting—1 mean, he seemed like a

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

smile, they kill, and they move on as nothing has happened.

as I took in Victoria’s words. No matter how hot or attractive he might’ve been, Tori

words. The exact words from which I had been running away from.

from prison and called him out to be the one who

madwoman while Victoria asked way too many questions in my ears.

what I had been searching for. The page landed on the face of the same man who approached Marvin. The Panther guy whose name I had been mocking and the one who was an essential piece of that

The Castillo Cartel.

leaned over my shoulder so that she could take a better look at the picture. She gasped and tapped her finger

said. “Him being with Marvin is not really that

eyes as I did not want to read through this man’s crimes. From the way my dad spoke about him, I

that he was

he catches his prey as if it’s nothing.”Those were the exact words that my dad

who orders him around.” Victoria read my mind.

I knew would’ve been Marvin’s. Of course,

at your work?” Victoria began. “I never told you because I didn’t think it was necessary-but that’s the guy we’re representing…Danny Hernandez.” She spoke. “That’s the guy who’s been framed for murdering Maddens.”

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

another cartel? How convenient.” I mumbled sarcastically.

and for getting involved,” I admitted to my sins, unsure of if it would even

in prison for committing murder, and it wasn’t just any murder. It was the murder of

a deep breath before I flipped the page in one go, revealing

Marvin Romero Castillo.

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 believe him, but to be fair-it was mainly

him out to be some local drug dealer while he was