A/N: I cannot stop writing for this story! Let me know what you guys think of this chapter! It's kind of a filler one, but it's going to get more and more interesting!

"I've only been here a handful of times and each time, it makes sense why you and Evangelina are the way you are." Xander shook his head as the Santo Padre heat seeped in the vehicle. "Can you at least turn on the fucking air?"

Ailee laughed at Xander's complains, turning the car on and the air. "How have you survived this long? Lina hate people who complain."

"We're married, hearing your significant other complain is literally what you sign up for."

She laughed again, shaking her head. They were currently in her car, surveying Angel. He was at some dress factory, which was quite peculiar. Ailee didn't have to think hard as to what they were doing in there. She was impressed.

"You know, being an outlaw biker always seemed cool," Xander chuckled. "I grew up in Charming, the Sons always made it look so damn cool."

"And yet, here you are, working for the government, basically the antithesis of an outlaw biker."

"But are we really that much different? I think we're much worst than them. Our actions, it doesn't really have a consequence under the law,"

"As long as we're within limits."

"What limits?"

It was true. They rarely had any limits. The government gave them free reign as long as they can do the job efficiently and as quietly as possible. They had a few close calls, but they placed rules in order to keep everyone safe or as safe as they could be.

"Why'd you come to Santo Padre? I thought you didn't want to be involved in this assignment."

"I was merely expressing my opinion, I don't think you should do the mission for reasons, but you're my sister. I want to be there for you."

"Aw, Xander," Ailee wiped fake tears and Xander just scoffed.

"I'm trying to be nice and sincere, yet you're being the grade A asshole I know you to be," Xander laughed. "Never change Lee."

"You know I love being a pain in your ass."

Ailee watched as Angel rode away from the dress factory. He didn't have a consistent schedule, but he went to the same places. From time to time he detoured, but otherwise he went to the junkyard, the factory and his home. She marked the time and handed the binoculars to Xander. With one last look to assure herself that he was out of sight, she looked at her side view mirror and no bike was in sight. Also, the roar of the motorcycle was no longer nearby.

"You're really going to go through with this?" Xander questioned as she drove towards the outskirts of Santo Padre. The lighthearted air between them was gone. Even though he was with Ailee more than he was with his wife, he still wasn't used to how quickly her mood changed.

Ailee shrugged, fully aware of what he was to her, he's a family member, in some ways. Angel's parents took her in after her parents died. Like she disclosed before, Angel was her older brother's best friend, their families became close through that. John was a close friend of Ezekiel, Angel's younger brother. Felipe and Marisol Reyes were great people, but as Ailee slowly lost her sanity due to her brother's death, she pulled away from everyone, including her siblings. It wasn't like she wasn't close to her other siblings, but she had a different connection with Vince. In all honesty, she truly felt bad for cutting off communication with Felipe and Marisol. They were always so kind to her and accepted her into their family. Felipe offered to help her with college, that if she decided to continue, he would help her out, but she declined.

She appreciated his hospitality, his kindness.

For that reason, she shouldn't kill his eldest son, but this was business.

"Don't really have a say in this," Ailee shrugged, turning at a dead-end street, where the entrance of their base was located.

"Yes you do, I don't know why you accepted this," Xander shook his head. "He's like a brother to you." Xander's words caused you to slam on the brakes, his head almost connecting with that dashboard. "What the fuck is your problem?"

"Don't ever, ever call Angel my brother. I have two brothers. One is six feet under and the other is in Washington D.C." Ailee growled out, removing her foot off the brake. The car moved once again and she maneuvered the car to park it in her spot.

"Sorry," he murmured. "I know you'll never get over it, but Angel did reach out to you when your brother passed away. And for some time, you even held on to him, then you just stopped."

Ailee didn't need any reminders of that time period in her life. Her brother passed away five years ago. She appreciated Angel's help, his persistence on being there for her after everything that occurred. And for some time, she let him in, but as Elena had pointed out, Angel was a weakness that anyone could exploit. She knew he could hold his own, but she wasn't willing to sacrifice that.

Due to the close relationships their families had, it was inevitable for Angel and Ailee to become close. Ailee was Vince's shadow. He took his sister wherever he went, which of course provided the way for her to become quite close to Angel. They had an age difference, but it wasn't much. Angel was two years older than her, while Vince was four years older than her. She wouldn't call Angel her best friend or even a brother figure, but he was quite close to her for some time.

But all of that didn't matter. He was her next target. It's nothing personal, its just business.

"Business is business," She reminded Xander. The more Ailee repeated that, the more she began to believe in that statement. "What we do for a living is not for the weak at heart."

"There's a limit to business, he's a family member." He argued. "Do you not feel any remorse about doing such a deed?"

Ailee scoffed. "I've been numb for four years, killing Angel wouldn't do anything for me."

"Being bitter is only going to consume you, you're going to end up hating yourself, alone in this world."

"I'm already there."

Xander and Ailee walked in the building the empty halls were daunting. It was a cover of course. No one came this way. The first floor was rigged with traps in case someone decided to come their way, specifically an enemy. Again, the government had them protected. This building was a government building so the government made sure that no one would disturb them. Reaching the elevator, Ailee placed her hand on the scan, leaning forward to let one of her eyes to be scanned. The doors open and they both walked in. The elevator descended to the ground as the two checked their phones for any updates.

Ailee received a message from her older sister, which she ignored. Evangelina was in town and wanted to get together, but Ailee wasn't exactly ecstatic to go out with her sister. She loved her sister, she had to, that was her older sister, but their conversations was repetitive and obnoxious at this point. If it wasn't about her occupation, it was about her love life.

Not everyone can be happily married with children like she was.

"You should be nicer to your sister, she's trying." Xander informed her.

"Listen, just cause you're my brother-in-law, does not mean you get to tell me what to do." Ailee teased him. "I honestly have no desire on seeing my sister today."

"Come on Lee," Xander took off his jacket as they got out of the elevator.

Ailee's team was busy with their assignments concerning this new project they had. There were four people in her team. Xander, Michael, Arthur and Jennifer. Xander was the manager of some sorts. He handled the meetings and accepted the missions for the team. Arthur was the tech genius of the team, hacking into systems to assure that everyone had access or was unseen. Michael was the janitor, cleaning all the mess the team made. He had his own team to handle the destruction Ailee tended to do. He also doubled as the muscle of the group. Jennifer was the temptress. Whether one was a politician or a regular average Joe, they were men. And men, at least some of them, could not resist a beautiful woman. That's where Jennifer came in. Some politicians were harder targets than others, the team used Jennifer to capture the politician's eye and usually when Jennifer brought him back to the room Ailee or Michael was there to finish the job. But at times, Jennifer took care of the target.

The team has been together since Ailee started and there was no one else she trusted more in this world than the four people in her team.

"Jen, what do you have for me?" Ailee ordered as she sat on the table in front of the screen.

There was a table in the middle, which had the computers on it. An enormous screen was on the wall in front of the table. Behind the center table that held the computers, there was a table, one you would find in a meeting room, where the profile of their target was spread out, papers containing the information and the target's routine were on the papers.

Jennifer stood in front of the big screen, a remote in hand.

"So, the coffee shop that you strategically bought across from the Reyes' butcher shop is almost done. Just a few more machines have to be brought and it should be good to go," Jennifer clicked on the remote in her hand. "In front of you is the schedule we have gathered on Angel, EZ and Felipe. The Reyes patriarch has the most set schedule as you can tell, it's mostly the shop and home with him."

It was a strategic move on Ailee's part. She wanted to be seen. There would be no secrets regarding her presence in Santo Padre. She was going to make sure that the Reyes' knew she was back in town.

Jennifer clicked the remote. "EZ is the one that mostly helps out his father, but Angel comes from time to time to help out as well, mostly to pick up EZ."

It's been 2 months since Ailee received this assignment. She knew this was taking longer for such a mediocre job, but she had to make sure all the cards aligned. This was a different type of assassination and she had to be careful.

"Does anyone live with him?" Ailee questioned as she sat at the head of the table.

"No, Angel lives alone, though he frequents his father's place much more often lately," Jennifer answered, clicking on the remote again. "This is his schedule," Jen has been following Angel, collecting the information for the group. Though the stakeout today was her and Xander, but the past few weeks, ever since she decided to open up the care, it's been Jennifer who was in charge of Angel. "I'm not sure where you plan to execute, but I think the best time would be after one of his runs. We can make it look like a break-in."

Ailee nodded her head.

Truth be told, she hasn't even thought of how to approach this. Sure, they've done their research, but they haven't actually tried to put everything in motion. She wasn't having second thoughts, she just didn't know how to execute the plan. Politicians were easy to assassinate since there were so many people gunning for them that there would be no trouble covering their tracks. And it also helped that the government was around to help them out.

Angel was an easy target as well, he was part of a MC, a dangerous one at that. She knew of the Mayans reputation and the enemies they had. She easily could make it look like one of their enemies, hell, she can make it look like a rival cartel who decided to takeout one of the Galindo's outside help.

"Not a bad idea," Michael nodded his head. "I can be the lookout, his apartment isn't exactly in a gated community."

"He doesn't exactly have a security system either," Arthur added. "So what's the plan Ace?"

Ailee stood up and turned off the projector. She nodded her head at Jennifer who took a seat beside Michael. Ailee let out a breath and bit her lip. "This is an easy kill, but I don't want to underestimate him either." She looked over at Jennifer. "Second floor?"

"Second floor, one bedroom," Jennifer reported. "He also isn't very tidy, which is expected," Jennifer scrunched her nose.

"Do I even want to know how you know that?"

Jennifer smirked. "I just roamed around his place, he wasn't home." She shrugged. "Just wanted to check what you're working with. I got the blueprints of his apartment."

"Such an overachiever," Ailee returned Jennifer's smirk. "Can you send them to me?"

"It's already in your computer." Jennifer winked. "So what's the game plan?"

Ailee was silent for a moment. How should she approach this? As respect to his friendship with Vince, his parent's kindness, basically their history, Ailee didn't want to just kill him as if he was never anything in her life. That he was just another notch on her belt. No, that wouldn't be fair. She wanted to give this time. She might not even brutally kill him, poison works just as well as a stab wound. Though, she should at least give him some mercy because of their history, so a quick easy kill wouldn't be so bad.

"We'll sit on this, Angel isn't as easy as he should be." Ailee sighed. "Let's work on the other assignments we have piled up. We should infiltrate his social circle."

"That's pointless." Michael argued. "This is an easy kill Ace. You don't need to actually take your time with this kid. He's not protected and I'm pretty sure you can take his ass down."

"Who's the commanding officer here?" Ailee questioned. Michael, who stood up during his tirade, sat back down. "I don't like using position here, but as it stands, I'm the commanding officer."

Xander who carefully watched Ailee as she spoke shook his head. She was making excuses that he knew for sure. The way Ailee has been lately, history or not, she would have already taken out Angel. Was it her history with Angel? He wasn't exactly certain, but he'd have to talk to his wife about this.

"Lee, what's going on? We know what Angel means to you, if you don't want to do the job, it's okay." Jennifer has known Ailee since she was twelve. Vince was her first boyfriend and due to her relationship with him, she met Ailee. Even though their relationship fizzled, she remained friends with Ailee.

"No," Ailee said through clenched teeth. "He's the target and it's going to be done. I just don't think there's any rush with this assignment." Her body was tensed and they knew she was going to close them off; there would be no discussion between them all about this topic. "We'll infiltrate, that's the plan. I'm starving, we'll meet back here in three hours to finalize the plans."

Ailee left her team looking at her back. The four looked at one another and waited for Ailee to be out of range before they spoke to one another.

"So, are we just going to let her do this? This man is basically an ex of hers, do we really need her to sink deeper?" Jennifer's question was directed to Xander, who sighed.

"You think she's gonna listen to me?" Xander scoffed as he stood up. "I'll talk to Evangelina. We're all worried about her, Ailee hasn't really been herself since Vince died. She was okay at first, but the more she killed, the more she changed." He gave his friends a small smile. "Just be ready for whatever the fuck she comes up with, we'll try to save her from making a mistake."

"Xander," Jennifer called out, preventing the oldest member of their group from leaving. "You think we can still help her? I feel like we should have done something a long time ago."

"Can't give up now," Xander shrugged. "We've made numerous mistakes in the past. We didn't really see it happening till it was out of our hands."

It was true. Ailee's violent streak didn't just happen overnight, it was a gradual process. Her grieving turned from sadness to anger. There was never acceptance. When she stopped following the code they all lived by, they should have noticed then. This code of ethics they built was something they respected and developed for reasons. When Ailee threw it out the window they stupidly let her reasoning that she wanted to start anew without Vince's influence. They thought she would set up her own code of ethics, instead, she just turned into a ruthless killer.

And in some sadistic way, they enjoyed it.

Having limitations could be troublesome at times, so playing under no code of ethics wasn't so bad. But as the body count grew higher and higher, the need for a code became evident.

But they couldn't turn their back on her.

Loyalty was one of the most important things they taught at Maquina. You do not leave a man behind and you sure as hell do not stab them in the back.

So they stayed, playing her game, letting her do what she wanted. Because in some ways, they hoped that it was a phase. But it wasn't a phase.

They waited to long to fix their mistake, they had to act now before she lost the small amount of humanity she still had.

This case with Angel Reyes was a gift from above. They all knew that Angel struck a cord with Ailee. For once, they actually saw hesitation in her actions. Ailee liked to get assignments done as quickly as possible so that she can move on to the next project. The fact that she was putting this assignment off meant she was hesitating, that had to be it.

They were praying for a turning point and it seemed that it has finally come.

At least, that's what they're hoping for.

Angel walked in his home, relieved to finally have some time to himself. Closing the door behind him, he locked it before walking further in his home. Slipping his phone out of his pocket, he had a few calls from people, but decided to push it aside, wanting some relaxation after meeting with Adelita.

His life has been a roller coaster for most of his life, but this whole situation just had him on edge. He wanted to help their cause since in turn, it would be helping the MC, but shit was getting complicated and now,

"Took you long enough to get home," he heard a voice behind him say.

Angel jumped, placing a hand over his chest. He turned around and found Evangelina Michaelson-Cruz standing behind him, a smirk on her face.

"Sorry, did I scare you?"

"Yes, because normal people do not break into people's fucking apartments." Angel snapped. He shook his head and made his way towards his kitchen. "Unless they have a fucking death wish."

"I apologize, your apartment isn't exactly that difficult to break into." She followed after him. "You're going to make this easy on her."

Angel sighed. "Have you spoken to Ailee?"

"No, she hasn't exactly answered my phone calls." Evangelina sighed. "Ailee isn't the same anymore, we don't exactly have the best relationship, but you know, she's still respectful."

"Family first," Angel told her. "Look, if you came here to talk me out of my decision, you know it's not going to happen."

"I'm not, I'm trying to throw caution at you. I have faith Ailee won't kill you, but this is not the same person. She literally would kill you with no qualms whatsoever." Evangelina walked back out to his living room, sitting on the armchair. "Angel, this is such a bad idea."

"She's not going to kill me. Do you not have faith in your sister?" Angel took two water bottles from his fridge and gave one to Evangelina. He sat on the couch, opening his bottle.

"Maybe four years ago, but with her recent behavior, I don't." She hated to admit it. If anything, she felt ashamed to admit that she had no faith in her sister, but she didn't. Maybe she won't kill her siblings, but she literally cut Angel out. Ailee was so close to Angel and she did it with such ease.

The year after Vince's passing, Ailee was very dependent on Angel. Ailee was an assassin, she knew how to be sneaky with no problem. Whenever she wanted some time alone, she went back to Santo Padre, to be with Angel. But in a flash, Ailee disappeared from Angel's life. No explanations, she just walked away and never really looked back. It hurt Angel and even Felipe. She became such a big part of their lives, especially with the passing of his mother and EZ's prison stint, Ailee helped ease the pain.

Ailee was always such a good girl, but after one assignment, she never came back. At first, Angel feared she had died, but Evangelina had called him telling him that Ailee was in Oakland with her and Xander.

Angel didn't push, he should have, but he didn't. He let Ailee go because he wasn't sure what to do. But he knew Ailee, she just needed time and she eventually came back. Except she didn't this time. Life got in the way and he wasn't really able to focus on Ailee till now. Evangelina reached out to him, hoping he would talk to Ailee, to snap her out of whatever she was still going through. But from what Evangelina was telling him, he wouldn't be able to get Ailee's attention unless he was an assignment.

So he became a target.

He called Evangelina to set it up for him. It was an attempt to break her out of her destructive nature.

Ailee hid her secret life from him well, he always thought that she was in college in DC, living with John, being a college girl. It was Vince who broke the news to him that Ailee was training to become a Maquina agent. He never understood this shady ass government agency, but he knew how powerful they were. Vince never hid anything from him, all the secrets he had, he trusted with Angel. He even asked Vince to try and get EZ out of the hospital, but he knew that due to their governmental ties, they had rules to follow. He just had to give it a shot.

This whole thing with Ailee, it was a nice break from the shit show that Angel has been brought upon. Sure, helping Los Olvidados was technically for the benefit of the club, but he was almost certain Bishop wouldn't see it that way. Regardless, he had to do this to assure the club would be safe.

"Eva, you have to give your sister a bit more credit than that." Angel wasn't exactly sure where Evangelina and Ailee stood. He just knew that she was closing people off left and right. "She loves you, she's loyal."

"Well, you haven't seen her destructive streak lately, so maybe that's why you still have faith."

"You giving up on your sister?"

Eva sighed. "No, of course not, she's my little sister. I just worry for you, I shouldn't have brought you into this." She frowned.

"Believe me, you're not the one who did it."

"What if she kills you Angel?"

"She won't."

At least Angel was hoping she wouldn't.

How much could she have changed?