Temptation

Chapter 95 - Bandaid on a bullet hole

I spent my entire morning working out, my muscles and body were aching, I was in need of an ice bath. "Alright, I'll give you the pleasure of putting the ice in." Mateo had a smile on his face and struggled to carry the buckets of ice. "That's if you can carry it." I laughed. "I got it." He dumps all of it in and I held a tight grip on the tub, it was freezing. "Holy f-" I then realized that Mateo was still here. "You should probably get out before I start cursing my lungs out." He nods his head and runs away. "Where were you? We were supposed to be sparing." I said to Jayden while shivering. "I went paint balling with the guys. You might wanna go check on Marcus, I shot him in the arms a couple times. Be thankful it wasn't his face I hit."

"Just help me out of here." He helps me out of the tub and I immediately run over and get a towel. "Don't fall going up the steps!" I made it to Marcus's room, which he only had because my uncle didn't want us sleeping in the same room even though we were already doing that. He opened up his door to him having bruises on his arms. "Jesus, you look like a human punching bag. Who busted your lip?" He was trying to hide his face from me, I picked up his chin and he started to laugh. "What are you laughing at?"

"Cause you look like a fucking cherry, it's not that cold here." I gave him an angry look. "Not the point... and it was ice bath. So what happened to you?" He points at his lip. "There was a fight we were in, it turned physical after the opposing team took it to heart. the rest of these bruises were Jayden or billy." He held an ice pack on his arm. "Just be careful and we're you guys not wearing protection?" I started to clean up his lip from all the dry blood. "Don't look at me like that, it was lex's idea, he even almost shot Jayden in the face."

"Now why were you taking an ice bath?" He places his hand on my arm to see how cold I was. "I was working out and decided I need one but my body still hurts." A grin appears in his face. "I can help you with that." I shook my head. "Not a chance, although the cut on your lip brings out your eyes." I pat his cheek and went back to my room to take a shower but he followed me. "I know why you're following me, I'm not saying no but we are not doing anything but showering." I looked after him over my shoulder. "Fine." He whined.

After we gotten out and had changed, we went downstairs to go check up on the kids and saw them eating together with the boys. "Nice face, Marcus." Billy says. "You're lucky there's children here." We all age and Maria finally came back from staying with saya for a while. "Mira quien regreso. How did it go?" She came in through the door. "Great but her family kept an eye on me like a hawk, it was uncomfortable." Our families don't really get along but if it's business they are willing to work with one another. "Esmerelda vein aquí!" I heard my uncle yell from upstairs. "I don't think I did anything bad this time, you're going to hear the yells soon enough." I warned them and went upstairs. "Did you go to visit Jeremy Garcia yesterday?" I sat in the chair.

"Yeah, he was trying to buy us out and I said no. He offered 15 million but it's not enough and I wasn't going to say yes even if he offered a lot more money. Anyways what about him?" I asked. "The FBI raided his house and warehouse. Whatever drugs he had wasn't cocaine, it was fentanyl." My jaw dropped to the ground. "I did not expect that, at least we don't have an issue now. He threatened to take over San Francisco and Mexico, he wouldn't be able to pull off."

"Que estúpidos son para quieren se la gran cosa. We worked our asses off to let something like that happen, we just have to be on high alert incase of anything that seems abnormal. Good call by the way." I nodded my head. "Is that it?" I was sure he was going to knock some sense into me. "You thought I was going to yell at you? What did you do this time?" He sighs and puts his files away. "Nothing, I swear. It's just that when you yell from your office it typically means that I'm going to get yelled at for something I did but since I didn't do anything wrong, I'm leaving." I get up and was about to leave until he stops me. "I'm proud of you for making that call, it could've ended up going bad." I turned back to him. "Thanks."