His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Chapter 252

Marvin

Hi again, Lena.

I wasn’t done talking to you, so it’s a bit rude of you to cut off our conversation, don’t you think?

I would’ve never guessed you were a 21-year-old, but I like your energy.

Thanks for the heart, although you missed the big letters, displaying this is NOT a dating site, I feel flattered.

Now that I know your age, I want to know more about you. What are your hobbies? What are your goals?

Waiting for your reply,

Marvin

(Ps. please stop with the emojis.)

“Is there anything wrong with my reply?” I asked my lawyer, Steven Laine. We had a meeting about the upcoming court date, and I felt the need to show him that I had finally replied to someone on the message board. The only issue was that this girl was a bit rude and left me hanging. “It has been two days already, but she has not responded.”

Laine let out a sigh and looked at me as if he asked me whether I was serious. “What?” I asked, oblivious. “Did I say something wrong?”

It was always something. After all these weeks, I finally responded to someone on the message board, only for that random girl to ghost me. She wasn’t really that interesting anyway.

“Don’t you think it’s a bit passive-aggressive?” Laine commented. I shrugged my shoulders and turned around the laptop so I could read the message one more time. “No?” I frowned. “What about this is aggressive?”

“You really don’t know?” Laine tilted his head while I was still trying to find out what the hell he was talking about. “Mr. Castillo,” Laine sighed. “The point of this program is to show the court that you’re capable of interacting with others…like a normal human being.”

“Right?” I spoke, surprised. “It’s so selfish that I do know how to behave and am stuck in here, while some girl doesn’t even dare to reply to my message and gets to stroll around free.”

“Hmm.” Laine hummed. “How about you find another

pen pal?”

Torres. I was interested in what kind of person she was and wanted to know more about her.

even stalker-ish, but I had no bad intentions. I just wanted to get to know my pen pal a

could do was

I grinned as

table. “Everything is still going according to

“But?”

barely whispered. I rolled my eyes and leaned back in my chair while I waited for the bad news. He called me

remained silent, which only added to my nerves, so I leaned forward and looked him in the eye. “Laine,” I spoke in a threatening tone. “I have told everyone, from the goddam guards to the stone in the damn yard, that I’ll be getting out soon, so I will be getting out.

Castillo!” Laine tried his hardest to reassure me, but it was already too late. I

“Good,” I spoke

what’s the problem?”

they do decide to let you go, you’ll never truly have your freedom.” Laine suddenly

“What?”

the court that you had nothing to do with the transport or the murder of officer Maddens,” Laine spoke. “Play it safe and put all the blame on the

ruin my reputation

you to come to your senses and to blame the

with the Hernandez cartel, and it was mainly because both sides expected each other to have something to do with

do that.”

place?” He asked. “The leak did

enough for the both of you, and someone has to go-the Hernandez had already decided

why haven’t they moved against us?” I asked. All of this didn’t make any sense. If

silent enemies. Would Freddie really go that far?

not a threat to them. They seem him as weak, inexperienced,

meant to get out. They had hoped for the Castillo’s to extinguish-but now that you’ll be

and the moment I’d step out, it would mean dad had a true heir. Someone powerful who would

anyway,” Laine reassured me. “No one will know you as a rat. It won’t even come out it was

after the Hernandez right after I get released

shrugged his shoulders. “No matter how it sounds, it sounds better than having both the DEA and the

We could only handle that much at a time, and I would not sacrifice myself to get stuck here for much longer. “I’ll do it, but only if we can bump the six weeks to six days.”

on his own spit. “You want to get released next week?”