Mi Reina
**SANTOS**
I wait until the very minute he removes her pants, then I give the signal. Keeping my eyes on the screen in the next few moments is crucial. I don't want to chance Juarez hurting *mi reina*, but it doesn't seem I have much choice. When the limo in front of us skirts into the dirt and tucks behind a copse of trees, Juarez flies forward, slamming into the hidden camera near the partition. We skid to a stop inches behind them, our vehicle tumbling over a few low boulders and shrubbery, I leap from the backseat. My dagger and blade at the ready, I hear Luis exit behind me and turn my head just slightly, watching him in my peripheral, on the off chance he might choose to betray me.
In my line of work, you learn never to turn your back on anyone, no matter who they are or what they might mean to you. Red's trying to kill me, being a prime example of this.
The crazy truth is, should my plan to draw her back to me work, I can't say that it won't happen again. At least, not as far as she's concerned. She's the malignant cell, the exception to the rule, the mutation in the gene. She's the one.
And I can't see myself surviving her a second time, should she decide to end me, because no matter what - I refuse to hurt her ever again.
moment I arrive at the limo, I yank open the backdoor and slip inside. Taking a seat next to my half naked Red, I'm pleased to see Juarez scrambling to put his clothes back on. It's
blades, stopping him. "Portini,"
*I'm going to start by carving out his fucking eyes.* Red is well
the handle of my blade. "It's sad
at me. "She tried to kill you *twice*. How can you justify this? Huh? How do
can't, but that's *exactly* why you should have known better than to touch her. Because the way I feel about her defies rationality. It defies all my rules. Everything for me now, is her." Then I smile. "If you beg me, I'll
at my shoes.
"I was hoping you would
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