Page 89 of Violent Attraction
Serena continues to look at me dumbfounded by this information.
“Holy shit. I knew that something was going between you two that night he came to get you, but never thought that it would be a secret relationship. Mind blowing. I can’t wait to tell Aria.”
“You told your friend?” Does my life really have to be everyone's business?
“She was recovering from a kick to the stomach from Emilio and a kidnapping. I had to tell her something to distract her.”
She says it like it’s no big deal, and I guess it isn’t.
I’m glad she has a friend like that, someone to talk shit to. I wish I had that.
“I’m surprised Leo doesn’t know. Since Camila and my dad do.” I look down at the coffee cup in my hands.
“Wait. Ronaldo knows?”
I shrug, not taking my eyes off of the cup.
“Wow.” Serena says in disbelief then she all of the sudden, like something just popped into her head, she grabs my arm. “Do you think that there is a bigger reason behind…?” She trails off but I know what she wants to say.
I don’t look at my sister-in-law as I answer. “There has to be, but I don’t know unless my father says something.”
There’s no need to tell her that both Santos and I know that something is suspicious about this arrangement.
Serena places a hand over mine and gives me a reassuring squeeze. This time I do look up to face her and I see that she has tears forming in her eyes.
That right there causes my own tears to form. God, why can’t I hate this woman?
“I’m sorry, Isabella.”
“Yeah, I’m sorry too.”
We go back to watching the movie in silence. At the halfway point, she grabs the remote and puts the movie in Spanish and puts on English subtitles. When I ask her about it, she says she’s trying to learn more Spanish. Something about when her and my brother have kids, she wants them to be fluent, so she has to learn.
More power to her then.
I don’t know if putting the movie in Spanish worked though, she looked confused the whole time.
As the credits roll on the screen there’s a knock on the door signaling that my brother’s here.
This is a secure building, Leo made sure of that when I moved in almost eight years ago. There is security downstairs, and nobody is allowed up unless they are on the approved list.
Sure enough when I go to open the door, there is my brother with Santos right behind him. Santos, I wasn’t expecting.
I open the door for them to come in and they do. Leo giving me a kiss on the cheek before heading over to his wife and leaving me with Santos, who gives me the tight smile that I hate seeing.
Not long after Leo arrives, he and Serena leave, but not before he tells Santos to make sure I make it back to San Pedro. He tells him that he will and off they go.
Now, I’m left in my apartment with a man that I want in my bed more than anything.
We stand there in silence for what feels like hours, just staring at each other.
I break the silence. “I have a few things to do at the boutique in the morning. Would it be possible to head back to San Pedro then?”
I much rather stay behind in Austin then go back to Mexico, but with Camila home from school for break, I want to be there just in case anything happens.
Emilio already went after Serena, what if he goes after Camila too?
Santos nods, stuffing his hands in his pants pockets. “Yeah, that’s completely fine.”