Page 93 of His Team

The line falls silent again. However, this time, I think I hear her trying to muffle her cries. It’s then that I realize my face is soaked with my own tears.

I lean my head back and look up at the roof of the truck. My mind is racing. I don’t want to lose them. I’d die to protect them.

“Please, baby. I’d do anything for you. Please.”

“We need to be smart. You coming to me isn’t smart. I think he knows about us. He didn’t just kill him because I wouldn’t come back; he knows about us.”

“What makes you say that?”

“I found cameras in the apartment,” she says.

All the blood drains from my face. This guy is a fucking lunatic. Who cams up their fiancée’s place? It’s not even her place. That’s so fucked up.

“Okay, I was going to hire these special ops guys for Cal. I’ll hire two extras to be with you until I can meet up with you.”

“I said we have to be smart. That’s not smart. Not smart enough.”

“Okay, what are you thinking?”

I pick the phone up and take it off speaker. I breathe a little easier now that I feel some hope of getting to my family. My heart is still racing.

“Go to the draft and get drafted. I’m sure he knows all about you. If you don’t go, he’ll know you ran with me.

“We need you to look like you moved on with your life. Go through with things with Kay?—”

“What are you talking about? You want me to marry her? No, Maribel. No.”

“Cam, please. This man killed his own brother to get to the top. You and I are nothing to him. This baby is even less.

“If you marry Kay, that’ll be even more convincing that you’ve moved on and I mean nothing to you. He’s not going to watch you as closely or try to harm you to find me.

“You said I mean everything to you. If you care about me, trust me,” she says.

“I don’t just care about you, Mina. I love you. I need you to know I love you.

“I’m not marrying someone else out of love. Because it’s you who will always have my heart. I do this; I need you to know I did it out of love for you. I would do anything to protect you,” I say as my heart breaks.

“Cam?”

“Yeah?”

“I love you too. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean for this to happen.”

“I’m not sorry. I got you away from him, didn’t I?”

“Yeah, you may have. I wish I could go allColombianaon his ass. He killed my dad. That can’t go unanswered.”

“One thing at a time. We need you and our baby safe. Maribel?”

“Yes, Cam?”

“He’s never going to take you from me. I’m coming for my family as soon as we figure out how to get rid of him.”

“You’re getting married and getting drafted tomorrow, Cam. Stop sounding like your world is over,” she teases.

“I’m getting married to the wrong woman and I’d rather be with my family than be at a draft.”

“You will be with your family. Your brother needs you. You need to do that thing you do for him. Whatever it is you do.”

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