His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika novel Chapter 271

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.”

“God, you’re so stupid!” Victoria called me out. “What were you even thinking? Why would you do that?”

The tone in her voice made me even more anxious. “I left because you told me to run!”

“Yes, from the situation-not from that killer. Who knows what he’ll do to you?” Victoria spoke. I tried to ignore her words and rushed into the house, but Victoria wasn’t done talking and followed me inside.

“Victoria, what are we 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 own.

“First of all, what are you going to do.” She corrected me. “And second of all, how do we know he did not approach you because of your dad-

“Impossible,” I stated. It was something 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 Alex’s investigation was top secret.

Maybe I was overreacting?

Maybe I was doing too much?

“You know, Victoria,” I spoke as we made our way to my dad’s office. “We’re probably just overreacting—1 mean, he seemed like a really nice guy.”

“Overreacting?” Victoria raised her hands as she scoffed. “Elena, you’re insane-of course, he’s not a robot, but this is what these people do.”

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

I grabbed the files with information from my dad’s desk as I took in Victoria’s words. No matter how hot or attractive he might’ve been, Tori had a point.

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

He 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 I ignored him. He exposed Marvin on multiple occasions, and I ignored him.

I flipped through the files like a madwoman while Victoria asked way too many questions in my ears. “What are we doing? What are we looking at?”

I continued flipping until I had finally found 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 family.

The Castillo Cartel.