Pregnant and Homeless✔

Chapter 45

Uvaldo's POV

"I was in a gang. They robbed a bank and killed someone. I was the driver of the getaway car." By the time I was finished speaking, Jakoby was staring at me with her eyes wide open, shocked.

My past wasn't something I was proud of, but as my wife, she had the right to know.

"When I was sixteen one of my classmates introduced me to some guys. He told me they would pay a lot of money to just drive their cars from city to city. I didn't question why they wanted me to drive the cars I just did what they asked because I needed the money. They'd pay me $500 just to drive a car from Harlem to China City. I was earning $5000 a week. That was twice as much as my mom got a month. I saw it as a great opportunity to make our lives better. I had no idea it was a gang until they asked me to drive them to the bank. The case never made it to court, and so we never ended up going away." The Ravens were led by the Giovannis', the biggest mafia family in New York and so it was easy for the evidence against us to disappear. I got off easy because it never got on my record.

"I left the gang after that." I only left it because of how devastated my mother was when she found out what I'd done. When I was free, she begged me never do anything of that sort again, and I promised her I wouldn't. By that time, I had already saved enough to pay for college, so it was easy to give up the lifestyle.

"It never occurred to me that you'd been apart of a gang. You don't seem like the type." Most gang leaders didn't look like they were criminals either.

"I was oblivious to the fact that I was working with a gang. I never socialised with the members. I just did what I was asked, and I got paid." It crossed my mind a few times to investigate the people I was working for, but I didn't want to ruin my chances of securing my future. My only regret being apart of The Ravens was the security guard that was killed in the robbery. His wife was five months pregnant when he died.

Jakoby shrugged, "I'm glad you're no longer apart of that life."

I smiled at her and placed my hand over hers, "This is my life now, and I'm happy with it."

...

I found it challenging to focus on the work in front. I couldn't stop thinking about Jakobia. Last night when we got home, I told her about my biggest regret in life, the killing of the security guard. It haunted me for years to know that I was apart of a crime that took a boy's father away from him. Especially since I knew how it felt to grow up without one. The child was now eleven, and his mother never remarried.

Jakoby didn't judge me. Instead, she wrapped her hands around me and comforted me. It was exactly what I needed. Sometimes I worry that the cops would start digging for old Ravens cases and they would come after me. To prevent that, I had to do small chores for the Ravens now and again. I'll always be in their debt no matter how powerful and rich I became because the Giovannis' would still be ten times richer and powerful.

Jakoby kissed all the worries out of my mind. She made me forget about all my problems in seconds.

God, I love her!

I love her smile, her laugh, her scent, her body. I love everything about her. I loved her since the moment I laid my eyes on her.

Something inside me said, 'Protect her.'

I'm so glad the hoodlums let her go that night, and I'm glad she remembered my offer.

She's made me so happy. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life loving and protecting her.

I looked down at my watch and sighed. I wanted to go home and spend time with my beautiful wife and daughter, but it was only a few minutes after two, and I still had plenty of work to catch up on.