THE BOSS I HATED TO LOVE
“You think everything you did would just go away? No, my girl… up here, there’s law. And you know what it is? A pregnant woman is sacred. Like Mary, the mother of Jesus. That’s why she became a saint. And you… you messed with a pregnant woman. That’s unforgivable.”
She swallowed hard, her face drained of color.
“You’re evil, Isabela. Evil on a level that’s hard to compare—but I’ll try: worse than a diseased sewer rat spreading plague and killing unseen. At least a rat is an animal, acting on instinct. You’re not. You chose to be evil.”
The silence grew heavy. Distant gunshots echoed across the hill, but inside that room, the tension carried a different weight.
“Later you’ll take a bath,” he