Maya
Swallowing hard, I steeled my mind. This is now my life. This is part of my identity now. It's either I adapt like Tami, or I move out of their lives. Do I want to be separated from Alejandro now or do I accept this as my life now? By continuing their discussion when I arrived, showed that they had welcomed me as one of them.
“We trust you uncle-” Paolo rose from his seat and grabbed the bottle of Jack, unphased when the man cut him off.
“Question him or his men, I tell you.” His words showed it was a discussion they had before. “Why would he show up to a meeting if he did that?”
“To give himself an alibi, Uncle,” Thomas gave his two cents worth then, the back of one of his hands swiping at his eyes. I could tell he was repeating what he had heard.
“Rubbish. We don’t operate
