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Chapter 13

Catalina drove up to Benjamin's house and began to pound on his door.

"Benni!" She continued pounding on the front door. "Benjamin!"

Benjamin quickly swung the door open, wide eyed and with a gun in one hand. "What happened? Are you ok, Cat?"

Catalina shoved him out the way as she made her way into his house. "Aurora. Beba. What do you know about her? And where can I find her? And DON'T GIVE ME NO BULL SHIT!"

He sighs heavily as he closes the door behind him. " Beba... I just met her last, but I've always heard OF HER. Alvarez helped her out when she needed it most and... he's been with her for a long time now."

"How long?"

"About five years, but has known her for the past seven years. I'm sorry, Catalina."

Catalina flops down onto one of dinning room chairs and runs her hands through her hair. "Five years? In what way did he 'help' her?"

Benjamin walks to his fridge and grabs a beer. "That's something you'll have to talk to her about. It's her story to tell, not mine. All I'll say is, prepare yourself for it. It ain't an easy story to dijiste. Hear her out, before you go making assumptions or going all psycho on her."

Catalina chuckles sarcastically " You defending her now?"

"No. I'm not. But just knowing her past what's she's been through... Well that alone makes her one tough son of a bitch. Dare I say she's alot tougher than you." He quickly puts his hands up. "Go listen to what she has to say. She'll answer all your questions, bluntly. You can find her in Lodi. I'll write down the address. But... you didn't hear shit from me. Got it?"

"Got it. Thanks primo." Catalina gets up and takes the note from Bejamin. "I owe you one."

"Be careful, Gata."

"I will." She walks out the house and drives away.

Benjamin pulls out his phone from his pocket and shoots a text to Alvarez.

Catalina pulls up to Esai's driveway. Esai walks up to her. "Esai wanna give me a ride to this address?" She hands him the note and he exhales deeply.

"Sure you wanna go there? You know my dad won't..."

"I don't care. I need to do this. Seems like everyone knew about her, except for me. Am I right?"

" Well. Yea, Gata. I mean you can't keep someone a secret for five. Seven years. Can you? I mean you now know. C'mon I'll take you. But it's gonna get me into some shit with my dad. You know that, right?"

"Yea." Catalina speaks softly. "I'm ready let's go."

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...Lodi...

Esai pulls up to a small but cute red brick house with the nice white picket fence you only see in a movie. Catalina climbs off the back of Esai's bike as so does he. He simply leans back on it and motions for her to go on ahead. As Catalina rolls her eyes at him she takes a deep breath and begins to walk towards the front door. Suddenly the door opens and Aurora steps out and leans against the door frame.

"Took you long enough. Come in we don't have much time before Marcus 'Mysteriously shows up'."

Catalina follows her in as she looks confused. "What? He doesnt..."

"Know you're here?" Aurora chuckles. " That's funny. Sweety he knows. His goons done gave him a heads up. You know the two that you spoke to before coming here." She laughs. "They may be your friends but they are HIS soldiers. Now what do you wanna know first?" She sits on the couch across from Catalina.

Catalina clears her throat. "Everything. From the very beginning of y'alls encounter. Make it short and sweet." She smirks.

Aurora smirks back. " I can make it short. But nothing about it is... sweet. Well let me gather my thoughts. I ended up at Mar... Alvarez door step... just simply by coincidence? More like destiny put me there. I had ran away from home, and man did I literally run for my life for a long time. Stopped at his door step it was raining so I knocked and I asked if I could stay the night. He took one look at me and let me in. I was heavily bruised all over, wet, my clothes were ripped. He asked how old was I... I was nineteen at the time. He then asked what had happened to me..." She takes a long pause as she looks up at her ceiling as if to be looking right into the past. "My mother had passed away about four years prior to that night and I was left with her husband and his son. A month after my mother's passing... they began to... sexually assault me. It went on for four years until one morning I decided that they weren't going to hurt me any longer. So I killed my step brother tried killing my step dad too. After that rainy night when Alvarez took me I found out that my stepdad survived so Alvarez took him out for me. Two years later Marcus and I hooked up and it's been that way ever since. I never asked him to make me his girlfriend, wife, old lady, or any of that. I just simply became... his. You know? I moved out here three years ago and he comes around every month or so. Guess we're just use to each other."

Catalina wipes a single tear away. "Oh my God. Your own family hurt you? You must of been only fifteen?" She looks at Aurora as she nods her head yes. "I can only imagine what you must of felt." She gets up out of her seat. "I'm kind of engaged to Marcus now. So..."

Aurora gets up and shakes her head. "Kind of? Sweety either you are or you're not? Which one is it?"

Before Catalina could answer a sleepy little girl walks into the living room. "Mamì?" She looked to be only about two or three years of age.

Aurora eyes go wide as she rushes to her daughter and picks her. "Mamì is here. I got you." She tries to walk away but quickly feels herself being spun around.

"Is She? Marcus's?" Catalina looks at Aurora with wide eyes.

Before Aurora could answer. The girls hear rumbles of motorcycles. Catalina rushes to the front door, but before she could open the door Aurora shouts out...

"He doesn't know about her! If he finds I've hid her from him... I don't know what he'll do. I, I just never knew how to tell him. I mean we aren't anything. I was suppose to be taking care of myself. I don't know! It just happened!"

Catalina begins to panic as well. "Shit! Aurora!"

Suddenly there's a knock at the door and the girls just stare at one another.