Page 34 of Violent Attraction

Did I see who did it? No.

Did you hear a car drive off? I wasn’t paying attention. Thank you for reminding me that I need to be vigilant at all fucking times.

Whose truck is this? My father’s.

Who was driving? I was.

Were you hit? No, only him.

It felt like hours were spent there answering question after question from the police. At one point when they were loading my father’s body to be taken away, I told them to fuck off.

Pendejos.

And they did, but only for a moment. They will come back to ask questions. I know they will. Especially when it comes to light that Cristiano Reyes had cartel ties.

Somehow through all the shit I was able to call Leo and he was there in no time.

Now we comb through video after video trying to find something, anything.

All the footage from the truck stop is showing us nothing, and the only thing that we see is the aftermath of this morning.

After two more hours of looking, we move from footage of the shooting to any footage we can find of the truck and who might be following us.

“Dark grey suburban.” Leo points out the vehicle on the TV screen that we currently have playing all the videos.

I look at the other videos from last night. At every location that the truck passed that had a camera, the suburban passes a few seconds later.

“Motherfuckers!” I grab the nearest object and throw it against the window.

“How? How the actual fuck did I miss this?!”

“You’re not going to notice everything.” Leo is trying to calm me down but fuck that.

“We have been trained to notice every single thing. Feds, other cartels, everything. How the fuck did I miss a fucking suburban following us?”

This shit doesn’t make sense.

How can I be so blind?

We were tailed from the second we left the drop off point. I should have noticed something.

“Maybe Cristiano noticed. Maybe he noticed and that’s why he made you stop. He knew what was coming.”

He would have told me if that was the case.

Wouldn’t he?

Not if he thought that you were in danger.

Did he risk his life, in order to save mine?

“Go to your mom, be with her. We’ll deal with this in the morning.”

If I do this in the morning, or right now, it will only have the same outcome.

But he’s right, I have to go be with my mom.

The woman just lost her husband and I haven’t been with her all day.

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