by Macias, P. T
“Okay we need to keep this to ourselves, today anyway, until he tells los tios,” says Ricky looking around.
“That sounds great,” says Bella smiling at sus primos. Si we’re truly lucky that we all have such an incredible familia, thinks Bella. “Now I’ll have another hermana.”
Chapter Forty-Three
“Buenos dias mi reina,” says Ricky walking into the accounting department.
Jacki is still alone because she’s always at work early. Jacki stands, walks to Ricky, and throws her arms around his waist. “Baby it’s getting harder every day when you drop me off at mis padres’ casa. I miss you all night,” says Jacki hugging him tight.
They stand hugging each other tight and wishing it was different. “I love you mi reina,” whispers Ricky in her ear feeling her tremble.
“Mi reina we’re almost there, we need to live through this week, and next week, okay?” says Ricky pulling her closer before her working colleagues start to arrive for work.
“Baby I know,” says Jacki attempting to be strong. “Can we have a long lunch so that we can spend some time alone,” asks Jacki looking into his precioso green ojos.
“Mi reina, si we can, eres mia,” says Ricky kissing her with todo his pasión, running his manos up and down her back.
Mi reina is hungry, thinks Ricky feeling her touch his shaft, trembling with pasión.
“Baby I need you,” whispers Jacki in his ear, resting her head on his shoulder.
“Si mi reina, I need you to, we’ll have an early lunch,” says Ricky looking down into her hermosa cara. He hears some footsteps down the hall and pulls away, and sees her disappointment.
“Mi reina let’s go to my office, si?” says Ricky taking su mano.
He takes her to his office, locks the door, and pulls her into his arms kissing her. He picks her up, walks to the sofa. He takes off her dress, leaving her in her sexy bikini and bra. I’ll make love to mi mujer, now, thinks Ricky.
Jacki starts to take off his tie and coat. I’ll touch mi esposo, thinks Jacki undressing him. She kisses every inch of his skin, loving him as she aches to do.
They spend time making love and talking, wrapped up in each other arms. “Mi reina do you want to go home now, you don’t have to work?” asks Ricky. Hmmm, maybe she’s just tired and sensitive with the pregnancy. We need to have a pregnancy test.
“Mi reina do you think that you could be pregnant?” asks Ricky looking into her eyes, kissing her all over, waiting for her response.
Hmm, I haven’t thought about it. I was supposed to have mi period a few weeks ago, can I be pregnant, contemplates Jacki. She looks at Ricky trying to see if it will be good or not.
“Baby I don’t know, I can be,” says Jacki a little apprehensive, not knowing if this will be good. “Will you be upset if I am?” asks Jacki looking into his ojos to observe his reaction and feelings.
“No mi reina, I have always felt that mi bebe is growing from the first time that I made love to you. You know that I have never used protection. I felt you get pregnant. I have been waiting for the right time to get a pregnancy test. Do you want mi bebe?” he asks. I wonder if she’s not ready or feliz. I wanted her to get pregnant. I never used protection, because I wanted her to have mi bebe, thinks Ricky with concern.
“Baby, how can you even doubt that I wouldn’t want tu bebe? I love you with my entire being, alma, and corazon. I want todos tus bebe’s. I just want to be sure that you want a bebe,” says Jacki kissing him with felicidad, feeling his tight hug.
“Mi reina do you want me to go get a pregnancy test now?” asks Ricky standing, starting to get dressed to go to the store.
“Si baby, I want to know. I didn’t think about it. This can be why I’m so emotional and hungry,” says Jacki grinning. “I want to stay here and wait for you, will that be okay?” asks Jacki with a shy smile, not knowing how he feels about her not working.
“Mi reina, I only want you here working so I can see you all day if I want too. If you don’t want to work anymore today or ever, you don’t have to. If you’re pregnant, I would love you to stay home to relax, and to enjoy our pregnancy,” says Ricky smiling with pleasure. “I think that you should go home today and return until after the luna de miel if you want.”
“Baby that sounds like a great idea and next week I can start fixing our casa up after we get the keys,” says Jacki pulling him to her before he leaves.
Jacki is hungry, emotional, and I have always known that she’s pregnant. Today we’ll confirm if mi reina is pregnant. I’m so feliz. Mi reina should be at home. I don’t want her to go back to work, thinks Ricky kissing her with todo his amor.
“Baby I want you, I need you, and we’re always apart,” says Jacki with frustration, looking into her baby’s beautiful green eyes. I can see that he feels the same and I’m not helping, thinks Jacki.
Jacki pulls him down again, gives him a hot beso. “Baby, make sure the door locks. I don’t feel like getting dressed,” says Jacki stretching out on the sofa looking out of the window.
Ricky leans down, kisses her before leaving to the store across the street to purchase the pregnancy test with felicidad.
He hurries to the store asking for assistants. He purchases the pregnancy test. Si I will know for sure in a few minutes, thinks Ricky racing back to his office. Opening the door, making sure he locks it. Ricky walks to Jacki handing her the test.
Jacki looks at him with excitement and reads the instructions. “Okay Baby let me go to the restroom and I’ll be back in a couple minutes,” says Jacki kissing him grinning.
Ricky waits for her to return. Dios mio this is so exciting, thinks Ricky. Jacki returns sitting on his lap.
“Baby the test is supposed to take a few minutes,” says Jacki kissing him with todo su amor. “Baby I love you.”
Ricky and Jacki look at the pregnancy test, waiting. They see the results start to appear. It’s a positive sign indicating that she’s pregnant. Jacki starts to cry, she’s ecstatic.
Ricky pulls her close, kissing her, touching her, and makes love to her. “Mi reina you have made me tan feliz, we’re having our bebe, and I knew,” says Ricky loving her again.
Jacki undresses him again, kissing him, touching him driving him wild with pasión. Jacki straddles him, taking his hot shaft into her heart, causing them both to moan out in pleasure. “Baby I love you,” says Jacki. She loves him, moaning out her pleasure.
Mi reina is going to kill me. Mi reina gets me so hot that I feel that I’ll explode with need, thinks Ricky loving his favorite mujer ever, yeah she’s toda mia for eternity.
They both reached their release together and feeling their almas merge becoming one.
Ricky holds her tight. I don’t want to let go. I do need to start to work. I want her to go home and relax, thinks Ricky smiling. Mi reina is having mi bebe and it feels great.
“Baby I don’t want to go home yet, I want to stay with you until lunch,” says Jacki gazing into his eyes.
“Mi reina okay, we’ll spend some more time here loving you,” says Ricky smiling. “But I do want you to go home after lunch, okay?”
“Si baby I will, I have been feeling tired and now I know why. You will be home at five?” asks Jacki kissing his neck, going down his chest making him need her again.
Ricky whimpers and moans. How can I still function after taking her twice this morning, mi body still wants more, this is unreal, whimpers Ricky.
They have lunch and Jacki gets ready to leave. She’s in the restroom taking a shower.
“I went to get your purse from your office,” says Ricky, putting on his jacket, smiling at his reina. He walks over to her, and hugs her. She looks so adorable and sexy in that cute little red dress and jacket outfit.
“Baby I love you and I can’t wait to be able to cook dinner for you in our casa,” says Jacki smiling, looking into his beautiful eyes that she loves. Biting her lower lip, well I love everything about him, she thinks.
“Mi rei
na that’s so sweet, I can’t wait until we’re living in our casa,” replies Ricky kissing her cara.
“Maybe we can paint the nursery room when we come back from our luna de miel,” says Jacki sighing, looking at Ricky.
Mi reina wants to start fixing up the nursery and I didn’t even think about it, but it’s a great idea, thinks Ricky. “Mi reina that will be great, we can go get the paint and we can paint the nursery. We can get the crib and dresser,” says Ricky grinning, thinking about his bebe.
“Si baby that will be so fun,” replies Jacki smiling at him with todo su amor.
Ricky walks Jacki to su carro. “Mi reina drive home safe and take care of mi bebe,” says Ricky helping her into her seat giving her a beso.
“Si Baby, I’ll text you that I’m home. See ya later Baby,” says Jacki smiling at him, pulling out of the parking space.
Ricky stands there watching her leave the parking garage. Now we’re going to be una familia and me bebe is going to be here by New Years. He feels his corazon swell up with emotions, strides back to his office to get some work done.
I need to remember to go see Jose Enrique around three to see if that jerk will call again, thinks Ricky with anxiety.
Chapter Forty-Four
“Jamie tienes que llamar a los De Le Cruz’s, ya ese hora,” says Mextli looking at his segundo. “vamos a poner presion.”
“Si Mextli,” replies Jamie going to the phone to make the call.
The phone rings and Jose Enrique answers it signaling to Carlos to give him a minute. “Thank you for calling De La Cruz Inc.,” says Jose Enrique without remembering that the Mexican Cartel had threaten to call him again today.
Ricky enters the room wanting to see if it was the stupid bastards calling as they had threatened. I know it’s them. I have been waiting for this time. I think that Jose Enrique forgot all about the call, thinks Ricky with anxiety.
He turns to look at Paty and he didn’t recognize the Chico that’s holding her hand. What’s up with this? Is he her novio? Is he the one? I need to look into this and make sure that he is the one and not playing with mi prima, thinks Ricky looking back at Jose Enrique.
Jose Enrique stares at Ricky and remembers that this call can be them. “Hola Jose Enrique its tu amigo, I’m calling you to see if you have reconsidered our offer. Like I said on Friday it will be real lucrative for your familia and the compania,” says the unknown caller with the machine that is distorting his voice.
Jose Enrique looks at Ricky that is motioning for him to put him on speaker, he nods as he answers the caller looking at Carlos and Paty. He motions to them to stay quite before pressing the button.
“Jose Enrique did you not hear me? Do I need to remind you that your familia could be at risk if you don’t associate with us? It will be lucrative and beneficial for your familia wellbeing,” says the caller with a smirk in his voice.
Jose Enrique is furious and afraid for his familia. “I told you last Friday that we are not interested. Thank you for considering us. Have a nice day,” replies Jose Enrique ending the call. He rubs his face with frustration.
“Primo I told you we should have told Christian and Claudia about the call on Friday. They could at least give us an idea in what direction to go,” says Ricky with anger pacing back and forth undoing his tie.
The phone rings again and Jose Enrique looks at the phone dreading to answer the call.
“Primo will you answer the damn call and send them to hell. We don’t have to do anything,” says Ricky with agitation taking off his tie.
Jose Enrique looks at Ricky. “Thank you for calling De La Cruz, Inc. how I can help you?” asks Jose Enrique putting the phone on speaker so Ricky can hear the guey.
“Jose Enrique, we are not playing games here. You will become an associate as we told you or else you will be having issues with your familia and the constructions? We will not give you another opportunity to think about it. I will call you on Monday at this same time. I will be expecting good news,” says the caller. The caller ends the call without giving Jose Enrique the opportunity to respond.
Jose Enrique stands and starts pacing, taking off his tie, trying to take deep breaths. What are we going to do? Should we call the police? The caller warns us against that, thinks Jose Enrique with fear and anguish. He runs his hands through his hair.
Paty stands. “Hermano what was that all about? What does that man want from you?” asks Paty going to her hermano trying to see if he’s okay.
“Should I call the ambulance? Are you okay? Primo?” asks Paty.
She’s worried about her hermano and looks at Ricky that is also in the same state of shock and fear.
Carlos is observing the entire situation thanking dios that his best amigo and familia are not involved with the Mexican Cartel. I knew that they were honest and hardworking. I need to still keep my cover for now until I figure out how to help them, thinks Carlos.
“Amigo what’s wrong? Who is that caller? What do they want?” asks Carlos trying to play ignorant of what is happening.
“He’s un hijo de la chengada that called on Friday asking us to associate with him in money laundering. He said that one of our new clients referred us, highly recommending our association. He told us not to involve the police because they would hurt la familia. I told him on Friday that we are not interested. Ricky and I thought or hoped that it was a prank call,” says Jose Enrique looking out the window wondering what will happen if they don’t associate.
Everything that I and mis padres have worked hard for will go down the drain. We will be slaves to the Mexican cartels whims, thinks Jose Enrique with anxiety.
“We don’t know what to do. Everything we work for will go to hell if we associate with the Mexican cartel,” roars Jose Enrique hitting the wall with his fist in anger and frustration.
“Hermano, are you okay? Are you sure it is the Mexican cartel? Why would they want us, we don’t do anything illegal,” asks Paty looking at all of them for answers.
“Prima, they want us because they can hide their drug money with our profits and also they can think of a million things to involve us in that will make us criminals,” responds Ricky pacing back and forth attempting to think of a way out of this huge problema.
Paty sits down staring out of the window thinking and praying that this was only a nightmare. Knowing the law as she did, she knows that they were a step away from being forced into becoming criminals?
“We need to call Claudia, she’s a FBI agent, she can tell us what to do?” says Paty pacing with Ricky and Jose Enrique. “Have you told our padres?” she looks at her hermano and primo that shake their heads no.
“Prima we were praying that it was a joke,” answers Ricky standing still, grabbing his nap that is throbbing painfully. “Why would we tell our padres? They will have a heart attack, look at us,” states Ricky taking deep breaths.
“Do you think that they’ll hurt la familia or cause issues with the constructions?” asks Paty looking at them waiting for some answers.
“Hermana, I think that they have started causing issues with our constructions. The materials at the job site this morning didn’t arrive. I’m talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars lost today because the concrete didn’t arrive to start pouring,” replies Jose Enrique looking at his watch.
“The job site manager is scheduled to report here at three to give be the breakdown of what happen to the concrete and if the other materials were ordered incorrectly. This could be happening because of them, I don’t know,” says Jose Enrique with frustration.
“Primo that’s a lot of money that we are losing. We need to go and keep track of the jobs. If this job manager is not doing his job we need to can his ass,” exclaims Ricky with frustration in hearing this.
“I will go out and monitor the job sites like I used to. Paty can do the building contracts,” states Ricky pacing. “When this job site manager shows, I want to hear his report. I will can his ass if he fucked up,” says Rick
y looking at his watch.
“We have everything scheduled to the day. We have been doing this for years. We have great suppliers. There is no reason for this to be happening. I will start manana taking care of the job sites. I know that Christian will take the job that you offered him on Friday,” says Ricky. “Christian told Tony that he’s taking the job. I will do it until he’s here working.”
Jose Enrique is happy to hear that Christian will take the job as the job site manager. It’s a good thing that we all worked each position as we went through college, thinks Jose Enrique. We all have the knowledge and skills to work each position. Our padres believed that was the only way to know how to build a building. I’m just happy that I’m not alone in this mess, contemplates Jose Enrique.
Jose Enrique looks at his amigo. “Carlos I’m sorry that you had to witness this mess,” says Jose Enrique looking at his amigo and knowing in his heart that he’ll be marrying Paty.
“Amigo, no worries I just wished I could provide some help,” replies Carlos feeling helpless and frustrated in the role he has to play.
“Maybe I should leave. You need to have a familia meeting,” says Carlos suggesting, attempting to provide a direction for la familia.
“I’ll take you to the elevator,” says Paty knowing that he didn’t know his way out.
Paty enters the office and notices that Ricky and Jose Enrique are still pacing and frustrated. She looks at her watch. Hmmm it’s a few minutes after three. That’s why they are so frustrated, thinks Paty.
“We need to call Tony, Bella and Jessy,” asks Paty looking at Jose Enrique.
“Si hermana call Tony, Bella and Jessy,” says Jose Enrique looking at his primo to see if he wants Jacki there.
“No primo, I don’t want mi reina to get scare and she went to her casa. I think that Monique will be the same case. I don’t think that Christian will want her to know,” says Ricky running his hands through his hair pacing thinking of a plan.
