Page 83 of Hidden Lies

We enter the Cortez cartel mansion to have a meeting with all of our fathers. This is mine since I turned eighteen and became the leader of my family’s cartel in Culiacan, Mexico. We have to fly into Honduras and kill thatputoJuancho or Juancito. Whatever his name is. He must die. They shot at Lucy and almost killed her, and that obviously doesn’t sit well with me.

I enter the dining room, and everyone is seated. All our fathers are here, including us Kings, Alex, and Linda. I take my place at the head of the table and all eyes look between me and Lucy. My father looks at me disappointed, but I couldn’t care less.

“I’m glad you made it, Mason. I’m very displeased with how this all turned out,” my father says.

I give him a hard glare. “I don’t care how displeased you are.”

Lucy was treated and stitched up at a discreet location when we arrived by plane from Arizona. I decided to have the doctor wait for me in a small house that is on the outskirts of Culiacan.

“Give him a break, Vincent. He has done well.”

My father turns towardEl Diablo. “No, all he has done is stick his cock inside your daughter. He disobeyed me. I told him he could not be with her.”

“Why? She isn’t good enough for Mason?”

“I’m not saying she isn’t good enough,Diablo, but she fell pregnant and lost the baby. All eyes will be on Mason, and you have turned her into a stone-cold killer. She executed four of thepinchecabronesfrom Southside, whatever their name is.”

“She saved your family!”El Diabloroars.

My eyebrows pinch. “Our family?” My eyes move back and forth between my father andEl Diablo.

“What do you mean, I saved his family?” Lucy says to her father.

“Yeah, what the fuck do I have to do with your family?” Alex chimes in.

“See what you have done,” my father scoldsEl Diablo. “Your son hurt my daughter. Do you think I wouldn’t make him pay?”

“What are talking about, Daddy? You promised you wouldn’t hurt Mason.”

He points his finger. “Physically.”

What is he talking about? Is this some kind of joke?

Lucy’s father slides his hand over his chin. “See, I had to hear my daughter cry herself to sleep. Watch her life wither away because she lost the greatest love of her life. She had to witness him fuck somepinche putainside my home. She lost her child in a fucking shower. I know everything.”

I look around and everyone bows their head in shame, not wanting to look at me. Except Alex. He looks betweenEl Diabloand my father.

“Get to the good part. We are all waiting for the ball to drop,” Alex says, annoyed.

“Mason, get a good look at your cousin Alex. You are family and are both in love with my daughter.”

Alex slams his hand on the wooden table. “Stop lying,” he seethes.

“It’s not a lie. My brother is your real father, and you took your mother’s last name. Your sister is from the man you think is your father. The one that left. You are truly cousins. I’m sorry, but you are.”

My eyes find Lucy, and tears fall down her cheeks as she looks at her father. “You lied to me? You lied to Aiden? You knew, and you didn’t say anything.”

“I didn’t lie. I let you do what you wanted.”

“With a price to pay!”

“Watch your tone with me,” her father warns.

I lean over the table. “Talk to her like that again, and I’ll strangle you. I don’t give a fuck who you are. I’ll end you,” I seethe.

El Diablochuckles. “How does it feel to have your woman ride your cousin’s cock, Mason?”

“Fuck you,ese,” Alex says.

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