Freedom by J. L. Drake

Author:J. L. Drake [Drake, J. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-09-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Catalina

Abel’s face was white and confused as I closed the door. I cupped my mouth as I rushed into my room, in fear someone would hear my sobs. What the hell just happened? Why were Mike and Cole here? How? My insides rolled and stirred like a storm gaining speed as my mind spun out of control.

My secret had just been exposed in the worst way possible, to the one person I wasn’t ready to share it with. I was the daughter of Salvador Esteban, son of Alamo Esteban and brother to Sebastian Esteban, a long ancestry of drug lords. Criminals.

My hands shook so hard I dropped them to my knees and squeezed them hard. I heaved in a few deep breaths. Footsteps made their way into my chaos, but my muscles were frozen, and I couldn’t get my brain to connect.

“Catalina?” A voice broke through my panic attack. “What happened?” I opened my eyes to find Elena, one of the girls I shared a bathroom with, looking at me in a panicked state of her own. “Come on.” She tugged my arm and helped me into the shared bathroom.

Once behind the safety of the restroom walls, I dropped to the floor. Elena dampened a towel and pressed it to my head.

“You look like you might pass out,” she whispered, and her kindness broke past my pain. The word had spread quickly that I wasn’t like the rest of them when I arrived home a few days ago, but for Elena to be this bold with Salvador’s daughter showed me she didn’t care who I was.

“You need to pull it together or Salvador will know something is wrong.” She shifted to sit next to me on the marble floor. “Are you…” she paused, “are you pregnant?”

“What?” That stopped the storm inside momentarily. “What makes you ask that?”

“You looked so pale and like you might get sick, so I just assumed you were.”

“No, God, no.” I closed my eyes and shook my head.

Please, someone stop the spinning.

“What happened, then?”

“Nothing.” I took a deep breath but couldn’t contain my nerves. Everything confused me, sounds, lights, the cool floor. Ahhh! I held my head in fear it would spin right off.

“The big guys in the bar?”

“Yeah.”

“I heard they’re looking for some mules.” She leaned back against the wall and covered the bruises that purpled her thighs. “What I wouldn’t do get the hell out of this place.”

My heart broke all over again, but anger quickly took over. How could I have left these women behind? How could I have never looked back and lived a life that was so much better than this? I felt shame in that moment.

“Have you ever thought about running?” she continued without a care. “Just running without looking back? Or speaking up to one of the border patrol agents?” She sniffed. “I almost did once, but Ana beat me to the punch, and it turned out the agent worked for Salvador…I never saw her again.” She paused. “Maybe a bullet to the skull would be better, just end it all.

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