Chapter 378 - I'm an Idiot! - four meters
Gladis
"I'm getting married, Mom. My son has nothing to do with my engagement. We want to do things right. And I want Gustavo to give me away like he did with my sisters. I want your blessing. It won't be a big party... besides, I've foolishly already planned a lot... I just want a dinner, something simple."
"Why don't you live together first and see if you get along, then get married?"
"My last two birthdays I spent with Máximo because Alfredo forgot. Patricia turned red. "Do you want me to continue listing my hardships? All the ones I kept quiet about because I was ashamed that everyone else had a family while I was begging for affection!"
"Alfredo loves you," said Mrs. Josefina.
"But he didn't want to show it. And I don't want to talk about him anymore. Right now, he must be with the woman he left me for, and my husband will be Máximo."
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Alfredo
Two weeks ago, we arrived in Turkey. Today, Saturday, Alex was coming to pick us up to go to a club where, according to the information we received, negotiations take place. Freddy has hallucinogenic pills in his pockets, just in case he needs them.
If I feel like hooking up with a prostitute, I do it. Nothing matters to me anymore. I chose to be alone. We've gathered a lot of intelligence; these bastards traffic young women.
There was a knock at the door. Freddy went to open it. We were staying in a luxury hotel, almost like an apartment with two bedrooms, a living room, dining room, and kitchen. My partner's phone rang. He put it on speaker while he finished adjusting his tie. We had to dress formally. We were in the living room when I greeted Cuajao.
"Hi, gorgeous." It was Arinka.
"Hey, skinny." There was noise in the background.
"You're on speaker because I'm putting on my tie. Where are you?"
"Is Alfredo there?" I signaled Freddy to say no.
"No, I'm in the room. Why?"
"We woke up to the news that Patricia is getting married on Monday in a civil ceremony and next Saturday in a church. She's two weeks pregnant."
Arinka's words sent a chill through my body, the same kind that numbed me at that moment. Alex stood beside me. I was processing things but couldn't understand. Was this another dimension?
"Gustavo decided to throw a big party for her, just as she always wanted. Remember I once told you that Patricia had everything ready in case the IDIOT Alfredo proposed?"
"Don't call my friend that."
"And I care about him, but Patricia put up with a lot. When are you coming back? I'll order your suit. I was still frozen. The ring Máximo gave her is beautiful!"
I closed my eyes. I never gave her anything. When I opened them, it was a plea to my friend to find out everything.
"Gorgeous, I don't understand. How did all this happen?"
"Are you still on speaker?"
"Yes, and because of the news, I can't tie my knot. Alex will be here soon to pick us up. We need to work."
"Look, I just came from being with her. In fact, we were all with her shopping for her wedding dress. She told us that for eight days, she waited for him to come looking for her, and he didn't. Then she dared to look for him because she wanted to talk and see if they could get back together," Arinka said, and my body started to react, my skin prickling. "And the IDIOT."
"Don't shout."
"I have to! The truth is, he was a fool. He was so shameless that he slept with someone else eight days after they broke up, in the bed they shared for years! You don't do that! Not unless Patricia had been a bad woman.
"We all saw that for Alfredo, being with her was a huge sacrifice. I saw her cry several times when we all got gifts at Christmas, and she got a trip. It was clear the gift was for himself. Once is fine. But always?
"Arinka..."
"No! Ask him yourself if he was with Patricia on her last two birthdays. His excuse was that he had to visit his mom." Now that they were exposing my disgrace... Patricia... Did she endure all that?
"For Alfredo, it wasn't important, and when I see him, I'm going to tell him. Can you believe that in five years of living together, he never introduced her to his mom? He doesn't love her, never did, and if he did, he's a coward who lacked the guts to cross the line. He didn't show his love, and that's not how a relationship works."
"Beautiful."
"Maybe Patricia doesn't love Maximo, but that man has been there for her, and perhaps the anger of feeling mocked led her into the arms of others who were just waiting for a chance to put the world at her feet." I walked to the table, took a piece of paper, and wrote her a note.
"Ask about the pregnancy."
"Could that child be Alfredo's?"
"We all asked her the same thing, only Alfredo can answer that. Two months ago, she stopped taking precautions, she wanted to get pregnant; it was a desperate cry from her to see if it would close the gap between them, but according to her, they were intimate very little. And since she moved in with Maximo, they've been doing it daily. In the ultrasound test, she told us she's two weeks along." I walked away, went to the bedroom, and locked myself in. I have no fucking idea what I'm feeling.
The last time I was with her... she gave me oral sex, I didn't want to penetrate her, and eight days before... I made love to her quickly to get her off my back. I covered my face, I can't even verify if she got her period because I haven't paid attention to her for a long time.
If she were pregnant with my child, it would have been a month and a half, and she would have told me because that's what she wanted. My hands started trembling. Someone knocked on the door, I went into the bathroom. Think about it after the mission.
"Patricia is getting married tomorrow in a civil ceremony and on Saturday in a church." "For years, she had certain preparations in advance in case the idiot Alfredo proposed to her." Another one touched her, I was the first in her life...
A thick fog clouded my mind, what the hell did I do? At what point in my life did I say she wasn't important? If since I'm not with her, I can't get her out of my head... but I haven't done anything to look for her, nor have I begged her...
"We have to go, Alfredo, turn on the audio, the Boss is already in front."
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Roland
The operation was underway, they were going to blend in with the investors, they have to place trackers on as many as they can, then we hit them. Onur got us direct entries to the place where there will be a virtual auction, the girls aren't there.
The damn organization operates that way, they pay at that place and then go to a hotel, that's where they'll spend the night, where they'll take the girls. We didn't know, so we'll have to act, we're going to block the delivery.
"Remember, Any didn't have time to arrive or organize anything, because it was just observation, we didn't know we'd run into this."
I told the group by my side. The guys in Turkey put on their contact lenses, and now we had a view of the hotel where they were, and we could see what they saw. Three views.
Cuajao was happy to work with us again, but now he was Onur's best employee, he doesn't like to do without his security chief, he did it because of the debt he has with me and only did it for a few moments.
"Lobo, call Onur, have his people ready without drawing attention." I had the guys' cameras, they were in Alex's car.
"Cereza, Churrusco, be alert to every face, information instantly." They nodded.
"Cebolla, Rasca culo, and Mojón, once the guys place trackers on as many of the perverts as possible, I want surveillance on all of them."
"Rata. I need you with satellite tracking, ready to access the hotel cameras where it will take place, very likely there are more women, but we'll save those being auctioned. Any is already on her way and negotiating with the government."
"Onur reports he has his people ready, waiting for the address. He says he already has the snitch who met with Marcela, it turns out he's a gambler and owes money in one of his casinos, they have him under that concept, they haven't talked to him about anything else."
"Reserve him for Any."
Muestra reina, the avenger, had managed to press more charges against Marcela and directly told her that for snitching, she would now stay more years in prison, if she insists on talking more, the years will add up. The guys arrived.
"Has anyone noticed something strange?" Anibal said, looking at him. "Rino hasn't spoken, and we're not in the operation, even though when he's quiet, he always cracks jokes, he's only been breathing."
"Has anyone told him Patricia is getting married tomorrow?"