⚔️Carlos POV⚔️ I was sleeping when my phone buzzed.  I looked down, seeing it was a message from Junior...saying   "We are even...Truce", followed by a video.  When I clicked on the video, my insides churned.  I realized right away.  They got Maria...but how?  She was asleep beside me when I fell asleep last night.I immediately got up and threw some clothes on, my holster with two guns and a few knives.  I jumped in my car, speeding off into traffic, calling Marco.  " They got her!"  I shouted.   "What, how?"  Marco shouted back, when a text message came through.  It was from Sebastian.  "She's here with your mother...Gemma is fine, but Mar

❤️Maria's POV❤️ I looked into Carlos's eyes.  They had that anger and firmness to them, but also that beauty that I adored. "Do you understand?"  He asked me again. I nodded.  " I understand. " Carlos got out of the car, walked over to my side, unlocking the car, opening the door, and letting me out.  He put his hand on my lower back as was expected of him, but was light to the touch as I was still sensitive to touch.  I made sure to wear a dress that covered my back, so that my stitches wouldn't be seen. We arrived to the restrau

❤️Maria's POV ❤️ The next morning I woke up to find Carlos in his office. I knocked before I went in.  " What are you doing?" He patted his knee for me to sit on.  "Browsing a few ideas." I sat down and he gave me a sweet morning kiss.  "What kind of ideas?" "Honey moon...now that your homeschooling...We can go on a proper honey moon...Where would you like to go?" I look at him, surprised and happy.  "Disney World." C

⚔️Carlos's POV ⚔️ Marco, Maria, and I were on our way home from the airport, Maria asleep in the backseat, when I realized we were being followed. "We have company..." I told Marco grabbing my gun out of the console.  Our car was rear ended, waking up Maria.  "Stay down!" I shouted at Maria.  Marco grabbed his gun, and we started shooting at the car behind us.   Maria unbuckeled her seatbelt and rolled to the floor as the back windshield busted out. She grabbed a gun from under the seat, and crouched up slightly and started shooting out the back window.  " Damn it Maria, your going to get yourself killed!" I yelled at her.

❤️Maria's POV ❤️ The next morning,  Carlos woke me up early to leave.  We drove over to another safe house, in the Hamptons, where we had breakfast with my mother and sisters.  My mother was being questioned by some of the soldiers.  Carlos had told me that mother had given Father our location of our apartment and that's how father knew where to locate his snipers. "How could you?"  I asked. Mother was in tears, and feeling ashamed.  Carlos had his stern face, the one that terrified me.   " We were trying to work t