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Chapter Fourty-nine:

Everyone is celebrating the engagement as Dawn hears the phone ring.

"Hello." She smiles at everyone celebrating.

"Hello, will you accept the prison charges?"

Dawn smile fades worried what this would mean. "Yes." She speaks in a worried tone.

"Hello." The nurse at the infirmary greets.

"Hello."

"I am the nurse at the prison." Dawn covers her mouth at the fear of Sergio's health. "Yesterday evening, he got attack by some of his cell mates."

"Oh my-" She states in astonish.

"He didn't look badly bruise when the prison guards put a stop to it."

"Yes, he looked healthy today when I visited him." She doesn't understand how he would be injury in a span of a few hours.

"He was until something internal went wrong. Luckily, he has a cell mate concern for him. He called the guards when he kept throwing up and moaning in physical pain."

"What is wrong?" Dawn almost in tears.

"He has an appendicitis from some internal bleeding. He is in the infirmary to manage the problem, however, he needs surgery." The nurse informs.

"Why isn't he already at the hospital for surgery?"

"He is under order care of Romeo Mendez. Since he had no one really except his wife, Sasha, Romeo is the next person to call. Furthermore, he asked us to call him."

"Can't I approve it he is celebrating some great news?" She doesn't want to derail this exciting, happy moment.

"I am sorry, but you are not officially the one to make this decision. I am so sorry." She hears the distress in Dawn's voice.

"Okay, I will call him."

"Thank you."


"So when is the wedding?" Angelle asks assuming he has booked the date.

"Whenever you want. You make it your dream wedding no expense too big." Romeo offers.

"What if I want to elope?" She challenges.

"Then we will." Romeo accepts with any hesitation.

"No, I want to be the flower girl." Sophie complains. "I am so excited I even bought my dress already." She whines.

"You did." Angelle asks.

"She did. As Soon as she heard about Romeo's proposal, she bugged us on getting a new dress. Of course being a daddy's princess, Anthony gave in." She blames Anthony.

"Hey, you try to say no to those puppy dog eyes. Obviously AJ, Miss Bumble Bee has taught her, her tricks." Everyone looks at AJ who shrugs not denying it.

"I know what you mean her expression both times made me tear up at the end. Okay, we are going to have a big, fancy wedding." She official announces.

"Yeah!" Sophie cheers as she goes to Angelle for a hug.

"Okay, Sophie will be the flower girl, Anthony will be the best man." She looks towards Romeo who nods. "AJ or Layla will be the maid of honour. I haven't decided yet. The rest will be bridesmaids and grooms, does that sound like a plan for everyone?" Angelle inquires. Even though it is her day, she wants everyone to be happy.

"Perfect, Jennifer, Dawn, and I will be some bridesmaids while Alberto, Phil, and Stanley will be the grooms." Layla repeats.

"You want to be a bridesmaid." Her sister questions.

"In my condition, I will be great as a bridesmaid. AJ will be great as the Maid of Honour." She offers.

"We can share responsibilities." AJ suggests.

"It will be too stressful. I can't have that much stress." Layla explains.

"Okay." Angelle reluctantly agrees.

"Speaking of Dawn, where is she?" Everyone looks to see that she has disappeared.

"There she is." AJ points to the door. "She looks…" She runs to her. "What is wrong?"

"A nurse at the prison needs to talk to Mr. Mendez." She speaks quietly.

"Why-" AJ sees her tears. "Oh come here." AJ helps her towards them. Dawn is still in shock on how this happen.

"What is wrong, Dawn?" Romeo wonders. Dawn just hands him the phone. "Hello." He answers in a confused tone.

"Hello Mr. Mendez, Sergio is in the infirmary and needs surgery. Do we have your permission for him to leave the prison?" The nurse asks.

"Absolutely, just wait for us to get there." He grants permission.

"Of course, we will see you soon." She hangs up.

"What is wrong, baby?" Angelle asks concern as well.

"Sergio is in the infirmary. He needs medical surgery. They need permission granted to transfer him. Dawn and I will head there to be there for him."

"What?" Dawn answers.

"I know you are worried I can see it in your eyes. If he is going through this surgery, he needs the person he loves by his side. This will help him fight more. I am going because you shouldn't be alone waiting."

"And you shouldn't be alone either." Angelle includes. "I am coming too."

"Sure, the rest of you think of wedding plans; any of them." He orders. He might have a secret plan of his own.


Dawn is by Sergio's bedside. When they arrived at the prison, the transport bust was already waiting for them. Sergio got into surgery right away with Dawn holding his hand all the way to the hospital.

"Hey." Romeo joins her with coffee. Since it is early morning, they both stayed awake in case something happens. Angelle reluctantly fell asleep when Sergio came out of surgery. "How is he doing?"

"Still the same, but the surgeon said that they fixed everything. All we have to do is wait for him to wake up." She kisses his hand.

"He will wake up." Romeo assures her. "He has someone waiting for him. You just have to remind him." He advises. AJ and Angelle speaking to him helped him to return back to them.

"Thanks, I am guessing this is what AJ and Angelle were when you were here."

"It was brutual." Angelle yawns awake.

"Someone had a nice nap." He pecks her cheek.

"I did. Dawn talk to him tell him how you feel he will hear you." Angelle agrees.

"Okay thanks."


An hour later, Dawn is still speaking to an unawake Sergio. She tells him how Romeo propose to Angelle to how they will have that when he wakes up. She admits that she doesn't need anything too big, a simple one knee proposal will do. As she continues to talk, she feels him groan and move his fingers. "Sergio." She says hopefully.

"Oh, my everything hurts." He groans as he tries to move.

"You just had surgery to fix the bleeding inside." Dawn informs him.

"I had surgery. Last thing I remember is that I was in the infirmary." They gave him a drug to calm him down.

"Yes, you were throwing up and was brought to the infirmary. They diagnose that you had an appendicitis from the internal bleeding." She mentions to him.

"How do you know?" Sergio doesn't remember Dawn at the infirmary.

"They called the house. Luckily for me I answered the phone."

"I told them to call Mr. Mendez directly." He complains not wanting her to worry.

"Why would you do that?"

"I knew if they did call the house you would answer."

"And what is wrong with that?" She inquires upset that she is important enough to have him call her first.

"I just don't want to worry you. I promised you that I would be safe so we can be together and I failed. You shouldn't be worried about me." He explains.

"I am always worried. Anyways, Romeo would have told me." She kisses his hand again. "What happened, you were fine when I visited?"

"The Equalizer-"

"Jamie." Dawn provides his real name.

"What?"

"The Equalizer's real name is Jamie Ives."

"Really." He is glad to finally hear his real name.

"Yup, he was one of Romeo's students that he expelled when he bought the school." Dawn replies back.

"Why would he do that?" Sergio knows the situation, however doesn't really know the details; he wasn't paying attention.

"I can't say I don't know if I can."

"Oh." He sighs.

"Hey, come on you know how loyal I am to them. For someone who didn't want me to know about this, you could understand that." She argues.

"Touché. Come here and give me a kiss." He smiles. Dawn perks up as she gives a sweet kiss.

"Someone must be awake." Romeo chuckles with Angelle as walk through the door.

"Hello Mr. Mendez, Angelle." Sergio greets.

"Oh, someone is showing respect." Romeo is surprise by his attitude. He didn't do this for him only for Dawn's affection to him.

"I guess Dawn is rubbing off on me." He compliments.

"She is rubbing something." Romeo mutters.

"Romeo!" Angelle hits him hard.

"Ouch." He rubs his arm.

"Aren't you use to it Romeo with Angelle?" Sergio fires back.

"Sergio!" Dawn calls back insulted.

"What, he started it." Sergio defends.

"You call it truce now." Angelle orders not wanting anymore tension between them. Being Dawn's boyfriend, he will be in their lives for the foreseen future.

"I don't-" Both Romeo and Sergio start to object which causes deadly stares from their women.

"Truce." Romeo extends his hand.

"Truce." Sergio gently shakes his hand.

Their women kiss them on the lips for agreeing with this truce.

"How are you feeling, Sergio?" Romeo inquires to change the subject.

"Not bad, just sore everywhere."

"They had to make an incision and open you up to fix the damage." Romeo informs him.

"Yes, Dawn inform me about it. I must have passed out before we headed to the hospital I don't remember a thing."

"What happened?"

"Jamie and Casey make-"

"Jamie, who is Jamie?" He wants to know if it their Jamie; the Equalizer Jamie."

"Jamie Ives, the Equalizer's real name."

"Oh, his real name is Jamie Ives." Romeo acts like it is new knowledge.

"Mr. Mendez, you already knew that." Dawn shakes her head.

"Yes, but did he know or did a certain girlfriend tell him." He wonders.

"My girlfriend told me, isn't that right?" Sergio signals that he wants to be an official couple.

"You two are an official boyfriend and girlfriend?" Romeo wonders.

"Yup." They both agree.

"Congratulations." Angelle supports.

"Yes, so back to Jamie and Casey." Dawn and Angelle roll their eyes. "What?"

"It is okay, Jamie and Casey made friends fast in prison, especially in my wing. There are mostly the calls in they had for the company." Half of the calls in got at least a year sentence while the others either got months' sentence or freedom. In what he does best, he wanted me banished from existence. With being a form of a traitor, that means he wants to make me pay by beating me up fast, but effective. He knows how to leave internal damage not physical damage." Sergio states what happened.

"He tried to put you into the infirmary to finish the job." Romeo assumes.

"Yup, that is his calling card." Jamie like to watch his victims suffer before they die.

"You are not safe there." Romeo concern for his safety even though he won't admit it.

"My ego says yes I am safe, but my heart says no. I don't want to be dead and leave Dawn. For that I need to tell you some information." He takes a breath for this confession.

"What kind of information?"

"It is about why we targeted you. You must have heard this from Jamie when you visited."

"We didn't get a confession it wasn't worth it."

"Well, you don't know that he wants revenge for expelling him from High School."

"I knew that." That confession confirmed his suspicion.

"Did you know that I have him my key card as I replace it with a fake one."

"Now that I ponder that, it would make sense how they got in."

"Yup, they made one distraction to have another person use to the card. I was part of the situation when AJ got kidnapped. I distracted Dawn while my co-workers distracted your bodyguards." Sergio continues to confess how they sneaked into the house.

"What about the almost kidnap of Dawn?"

"Those are my fault, especially hurting her." He is still guilty for that.

"Let that go, please." She kisses his cheek.

"I can't. I can't believe I did that." He doesn't if he will every forgive himself for that.

"You redeem yourself for admitting your crimes."

"Not all of them." He looks down. "Before you ever saw Alberto and I, I was spying on you. I took pictures and posed as a police officer to get those police files. Romeo, I am more than a worker for Jamie I am the informant. I am the one that knows everything about them and the jobs. I know their faults and weakness. I am the one who collects and gathers the information to start the execution." He confesses.

"Is that why they wouldn't lose you the times they would get caught?" Romeo inquires.

"Yes, they are afraid I would expose them." He never noticed how much power he had until now.

"How long have you been following me?" Romeo is astonish on how deep this goes.

"Since AJ was a baby, well before she was born." He admits.

"Is that why you had a picture of me with AJ as a baby?" Everything is finally coming together.

"Yup, what no one knows, except Jamie and I, is that this was planned long before the High School incident. What happen anyways with that?"

"Jamie was AJ's Senior boyfriend who embarrassed her in front of the whole school." Romeo vaguely tells him.

"Oh, say no more. So those pictures I showed her brought up some bad memories?" He cringes.

"Yes and if you didn't delete them, we would have showed a video and pictures of you and Dawn that she provided." Romeo divulges.

"I did." Sergio defends.

"Yes, Dawn showed us. Why did he want revenge before I even knew him?"

"Actually, you have seen him although you haven't met him."

"You mean he wanted revenge because his father-"

"Yup." Sergio cuts him off already knowing what he would say. "He was jealous that he had to share his skills with you. To him you had everything and you threw it all away to be with a girl."

"How did he even know about my whole story?"

"He investigate after his father's death. He found out the truth and wanted to follow his footsteps. However, he needed to make sure that nothing would bring him down. When you became a famous millionaire, he had a problem. He bided his time to get his revenge."

"Wow." Romeo is still surprise that it goes back to his childhood.

"Yup, Jamie can hold a grudge for a long time." He informs.

"Wow." He repeats as he sits down.

"Romeo, are you okay?" Angelle asks concern for him. This is all shocking for them.

"I will be okay." He kisses the back of Angelle's hand.

"I am sorry Romeo I thought he would have told you already." Sergio feels guilty with putting him through this. He should be celebrating their engagement.

"Don't worry about it. We finally have closure. Thank you for that." He appreciates.

"Don't thank me I caused all this." He doesn't deserve any recognition.

"You changed your ways at the end."

"What can I say, a special woman changed me for the better." He brings her close.

"Women can do that." He is reminded on how Rosalie change his life and how Angelle kept him and his family alive.

"Now that you know everything, you two should go celebrate." Sergio request.

"We can't leave you two here." Romeo reminds Dawn.

"But-"

"We can't leave without any protection for you two. You never know who might come to finish the job. Stanley, along with Seth, will watch your room. Dawn, you get three hours to spend with him until Phil picks you up."

"Thank you, Mr. Mendez." Dawn appreciates the extra time with Sergio.

"You are welcome. Get better Sergio, I will see what is happening at the prison. We need to keep you safe for Dawn's sake." Dawn blushes at the approved request he asked.

"Thank you."

"I almost forgot, when you plan to get married we would like to help." Romeo offers as they exit.

Dawn and Sergio look at each other in shock that he knows.