Hot & Spicy: De La Cruz Saga

by Macias, P. T.

  “Primo, Senor Lopez called, and he is requesting that you meet him mañana at the job site. He has some concerns and wants to go over the process. He requests that you meet him at nine,” he said, looking at Tony, knowing very well that this doesn’t make him feliz. “Will you like me to go with you?” he asks, not liking the idea of any of la familia spending too much time with Senor Lopez, just in case.

  “No, primo, I will go, and it really is no big deal. It will also be a little change in mi routine,” he said smiling, continuing to draw his design.

  “Okay, primo. If you change your mind or need anything, let me know,” said Jose Enrique, walking out, returning to his office to finish his work before lunch.

  Yeah, then I will spend lunch with mi amor, he thought with a grin.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

  “MI AMOR, ARE YOU READY for lunch?” asks Jose Enrique, walking into Jessy’s office. I know if I don’t come and get her, she will not remember what time it is. She has been working hard.

  “Is it lunch time?” she asks with a smile, looking up into his hermoso green ojos. I love him so much, she thought, getting up to go into his brazos.

  “Si, I saw Bella y Monique down the hall going to lunch. Didn’t you hear them say they are leaving?” he asks, looking at her bella cara and noticing how exhausted she is.

  “I did hear them say they are leaving, but then I just got all caught up on mi design that I forgot,” she said, hearing her stomach growl for food.

  “I’m hungry, mi vida,” she said, pulling him closer to give him un beso.

  “What do you want to eat?” he asks, giving her un beso quickly to hear what she wants to eat.

  “I want a sandwich with a piece of chocolate cake,” she said with a grin, knowing very well that she is craving. I need to take a pregnancy test soon, she thought, kissing him again.

  “Okay, mi amor,” said Jose Enrique, pulling her next to his side y walking out the door to take her to get some food.

  “Mi vida, what’s bothering you?” she asks, knowing that he is concerned. “Are you still worrying about tu familia y those criminals?” she asks.

  “Si, mi amor, because I’m scared that they will harm you, mi familia, or la familia company,” he said, helping her into his carro.

  They went to have lunch, and Jessy ate half of the cake with gusto. Hmmm, that is yummy, she thought smiling. Yeah, I’m craving because I never ate chocolate cake before, she thought with felicidad.

  “Mi amor, I can see that you were hungry, and I’m glad that you ate well. You haven’t been eating much lately,” he said with concern, standing up, pulling her into his side. They stroll to the carro.

  “Mi vida, I think that you need to give me un beso,” she said, leaning into him before he leaves to return to work.

  He leans into her and gives her un beso before returning to his office.

  Paty knocks on his door and opens it, walking in smiling. “Hermano, Carlos wants to say hi,” she said, looking around the office and noting that he is by himself. I wonder why he has the door close.

  “Hola, Carlos! How are you today?” asks Jose Enrique, getting up, extending his mano in greeting.

  “I’m doing great, amigo. How are you doing? I have been concerned,” said Carlos, taking a seat.

  “Hermano, I need to return to finish some paperwork,” said Paty with a smile, turning to Carlos. “See you later,” she said walking out.

  Carlos turns to see her walk out, thinking, Wow, she has a great rear end, and she’s mia, only mia.

  He then turns to look at Jose Enrique who is looking at him checking out Paty with one of his eyebrows up in a question.

  I think I better talk real fast before he gets real pissed off. “Jose Enrique, I’m seeing Paty, and I’m serious about her,” he said, seriously praying that he has no objections. “I want to marry her.”

  Jose Enrique looks at his amigo and sees that he is truly serious. He is in love with Paty. I can see it in his ojos. Okay, no problema as long as he marries her quickly because I know they have been together by the possessive look he has on his cara.

  “I only know that you better marry her quickly or else I’m after your ass,” he said, seriously looking at his amigo’s cara get embarrass y incriminating. Yeah, just like I thought.

  “Si, Jose Enrique, as fast as we can. We will be getting married this Friday in Vegas and after by the church. I don’t want to wait any longer,” he said, knowing very well what Jose Enrique is concerned with and agreeing.

  “I see that we are in agreement. I will keep this from mis padres. Are you planning on leaving after work on Friday?” asks Jose Enrique, wanting to know the details to make sure everything was legit.

  “Si, we will be leaving after she gets off, unless we can leave earlier?” he asks, looking at Jose Enrique, wondering if he will help him cover her absence. “Can you cover her absence en tu casa? I also want to stay the night on Saturday.”

  Jose Enrique sits there, looking at his amigo. I know he is serious. I also know how frustrating it is not being able to be with tu amor.

  Paty will be his esposa, and who knows what mis padres will do. What if they do the same as Jessy’s padre did and not be able to be together until after the church ceremony takes place? Hmmm, what should I do?

  “Okay, amigo. I will cover for Paty,” he said, looking at him.

  “Thanks, amigo,” said Carlos with a smile. Now it makes it easier to question him about the calls and what they’re doing. I’m part of la familia and so is mi hermano.

  “Jose Enrique, I’m real concern with what transpired ayer. I want to know how I can help you. I don’t want you and la familia to become involve with those criminals. They will make yours and la familia’s vida miserable,” said Carlos, praying that he will confide in him.

  “Amigo, you’re right. We don’t want to get involved with these criminals. Mi familia has worked hard to have what we have. Ricky and Tony are monitoring our jobs y materials. We have verified our orders that we have with our suppliers. Gracias a Dios that our padres made us all learn every position when building on the job sites,” said Jose Enrique, noticing how concern his amigo is.

  He should be concern if he is serious about mi hermana. This will also affect him in the long run. “We also have established security guards at the each job sites, our parking garage, and as you can see, you had to get a badge today. Security has been implemented permanently in la familia’s company,” he said, looking at Carlos.

  “That sounds like you have gone in the right direction. Have you put security guards outside tus padres’ and tios’ casas?” he asks. I’m concern with the possibility of the cartel trying to kidnap his padres to pressure him to associate, thought Carlos with alarm.

  “No, we didn’t think of that. Do you think that they will do something that low? Of course, they will. They are the scum criminals of the entire underworld. What was I thinking?” he said, running his manos through his pelo in frustration. “I better call Bella and get her to place some security on our padres’ casas,” said Jose Enrique, calling Bella.

  “Prima, do you have a minute, I need you to come over to mi office?” said Jose Enrique with urgency.

  “Si, primo, I’ll be on mi way,” she said, leaving her office, forgetting about dreaming of Greg for the moment. He sounds stress, she thought, walking into his office, looking at him undoing his tie. “Primo, what’s wrong?” she asks, concerned with how he looks.

  “Bella please set up security for our padres’ casas. We forgot to protect our padres,” he said, standing up pacing like un loco.

  “Si, primo, I’m on it,” said Bella, going to his phone, contacting the security company that she hired the day before. Bella installed the best security monitoring system and some outside guards at each casa. We cannot allow anything to happen to our padres.

  “Primo, security is in place. They will install alarms inside each casa mañana. Are you okay?” said Bella, concern with how Jose Enriqu
e looks.

  Jose Enrique takes deep breaths, trying to calm his panic. I need to take control of our vidas and make sure that mi familia isn’t hurt in any way. “Si prima, gracias,” he said, sitting down, breathing slowly, y deep, trying to regain his calm.

  “Okay primo,” she sat down, wanting to monitor her primo for a few minutes. “Primo, I have scheduled a meeting every day for four weeks with the financial advisor that you wanted me to call, Gregory Preston McKenzie,” she said with a huge smile.

  “For that long?” asks Jose Enrique with curiosity, looking at his prima Bella.

  “Si, primo, he said that he needs to review our entire financial status y see what will be beneficial for la familia compania,” said Bella, looking at her primo.

  “I see,” he said, looking at his amigo Carlos, wondering if something else is going on. “Okay, prima, just let me know what’s transpiring,” he said, observing Bella and noticing how feliz she is. Hmm, I have to look into what is making her so feliz.

  “Si, primo, I will. Are you okay?” she asks, looking at him.

  “Si, prima, I am, thanks for coming, and taking care of our padres’ security,” he said appreciative of her quick managing.

  “Okay, primo. I need to leave,” she said, standing walking to the door. She turns to see that he is okay and turns to smile at Carlos. “Adios, Carlos,” she said, leaving.

  “Adios, Bella,” said Carlos, looking at his amigo begin to look better. “Amigo, I want you to know that you can count on me in anything,” he said, looking into his ojos.

  “Si, Carlos, I know, and especially since you and tu hermano are part of la familia,” he said, observing him. “Carlos, before you leave, I want you to meet mi novia,” said Jose Enrique smiling with pleasure, standing. They exited his office, strolling down the hall, turn, continues down another hall, y enters Jessy’s office.

  “Mi amor, are you done?” he asks, going to Jessy and giving her un beso on her cheek, as she looks up from her paperwork smiling at him.

  “No, mi vida, I’m almost ready. Mona just left,” she said, turning to look at Carlos with curiosity, and smiles.

  Wow, what a bella chica. No wonder Jose Enrique is crazy about her. Carlos smiles at her.

  “Mi amor, I want you to meet mi amigo Carlos. He is also Paty’s novio y Gabriel’s hermano,” he said smiling enjoying her astonishment. Si she is surprise.

  “Wow, when did Paty get a novio?” she said, standing, smiling at Carlos, thinking, Mi amiga hasn’t told me about him. Hmm, what’s going on? She extends her mano. “Mucho gusto, Carlos,” said Jessy, greeting him with a huge smile.

  “Mucho gusto, Jessy,” said Carlos amused, recognizing that she is wondering where in the hell he came from. “Si, Paty es mi novia,” he said, smiling.

  “Si, mi amor, and Paty will be done in a few. She is finishing up some paperwork. I just wanted to introduce you to Carlos,” he said, leaning down giving her another beso on the cheek.

  “I will see you later. You will be done soon?” he asks her, looking into her hermoso golden ojos.

  “Si, mi vida,” said Jessy, smiling at Jose Enrique with todo su amor.

  “I don’t want you walking out to the garage by yourself. I will wait for you in mi office. Let me know when you’re done, and I will come get you,” he said, turning strolling out of her office.

  “Adios Jessy” said Carlos.

  “Si, adios” said Jessing grinning at Carlos. Wow mi amiga has some explaining to do.

  Carlos follows him down the hall back to his office, wanting to learn more information. “Amigo, I want to know if you heard from your job site manager. What did he say?” asks Carlos, sitting down on the chair in front of his desk.

  “We haven’t heard from him. I don’t know what happen to our order. We decided to handle our orders and monitor our job site like we always did before. We cannot rely on employees,” said Jose Enrique with anger, looking at Carlos.

  “Okay, amigo. I think that you y tu familia have taken a good approach. I was just real worried,” he said, standing up. “I need to leave. I will see you mañana,” he said smiling, looking at his amigo, praying that he didn’t lose his friendship.

  “Adios, amigo, y welcome to la familia,” said Jose Enrique pleased, thinking, I can’t get mad at him. I did the same thing, and I understand. I just need to make sure he marries Paty. That’s it.

  “Gracias, I really appreciate that,” said Carlos, stepping close, giving him a hug with todo his affection that he feels for him.

  Jose Enrique returns the hug, slaps his back, con gusto. “Okay, I’ll see you mañana. Let me walk you to the elevator. I don’t think you know your way around yet.”

  “Si, that will be good, thanks,” said Carlos, following him down to the elevators, thinking, Gracias, Dios mio, that he is not pissed off at me.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

  JOSE ENRIQUE Y JESSY WENT out to dinner. Jessy is getting worried with his silence. I wonder if he’s still stressing out about the cartel.

  “Mi vida, what’s bothering you?” asks Jessy, looking at him, wanting to see if she can figure out what’s bothering him.

  “Mi amor, todo that has been happening at la familia’s company is bothering me. The cartel is bothering me. I’m really scared for la familia y tu,” he said immensely frustrated. “I hate that I’m not able to control or stop them.”

  “Mi vida, Dios will protect la familia, and we will survive,” said Jessy, looking at him with a smile.

  “Si, I know and believe, but I’m worried,” he said, trying to smile at Jessy.

  “I love you,” said Jessy, leaning in to give him un beso.

  “Mi amor, I love you, and that’s why I’m scared that they might try something to hurt us,” he said, looking into her ojos and noticing that she looks tired. “I think that you’re working too hard, and if Mona is not enough help, we will need to hire another interior design assistant. In fact, now that I think about it, we should. That way, the new assistant will be trained and ready for when we go on our luna de miel and all the other occurrences that will transpire with la familia,” said Jose Enrique, thinking about pregnancy and bebes.

  Jessy gazes at him and thought about what he said. He is correct because after our luna de miel, I will be out on maternity leave and so will Mona. La familia will be full of bebes, she thought with a smile.

  “Mi vida, can we go to a hotel tonight?” she asks, wanting to take the pregnancy test with him.

  Jose Enrique looks at his amor and notices that she’s feliz y eager to go to the hotel. “Si, mi amor, we can,” he said, looking for the waiter to bring him the tab.

  They arrive at a hotel y quickly enter the cuarto. Jessy is excited about taking the pregnancy test. I know that I’m pregnant, she thought with felicidad. I know Jose Enrique will be incredibly feliz.

  Jose Enrique takes her into his brazos starting to give her un beso y to undress her. Mi amor is all I ever wanted, he thought, kissing her neck y marking her.

  “Mi vida I want to take the test first,” she said as he starts to love her breasts.

  Jose Enrique hears her, stops his progress to pull back to look at her, raising one eyebrow in question. “Mi amor, what test?” he asks in curiosity.

  “Mi vida, the pregnancy test that I purchased,” she said, smiling at him y waiting for his reaction.

  “Pregnancy test,” he croaks, looking at her with surprise y then felicidad. “Mi amor, do you really think you can be pregnant?” he pulls her close to kiss her deeply.

  “Si, I think that I’m pregnant, and I want to take the test to be sure,” she said, looking into his hermoso green ojos.

  “Okay, let’s take the test,” he said, sitting on the cama, watching her go to her purse to get the test.

  They both read the instructions, y Jose Enrique kisses her. “Okay, go take the test and come back, so we can both see the results,” he said with a grin, watching her go to the restroom.

  A couple minutes late
r, Jessy returns y sits next to him, looking at the test tube. “Mi amor, these minutes are dragging,” she said with impatience.

  Jose Enrique pulls her onto his lap, wraps his brazos around her as the test tube starts to turn into a positive sign.

  Jessy screams with joy and turns to give him lots of besos all over his cara.

  Jose Enrique is overwhelmed with felicidad, thinking, un bebe y es mio. “Mi amor, I love you, y gracias,” he said kissing her deeply, loving her with all of his corazon y alma.

  Mona gets up early y went into work, enjoying the fact that she has a great job y a great esposo. I love his familia. They are all so sweet, she thought, walking into the office.

  “Good morning, Jessy,” she said smiling, going to where she’s working after putting her purse in her desk. “Is there anything you want me to start on today?”

  “Si, Mona. I want you to start reviewing all the packages that we have to offer our clients. I want you to be familiarized with the products and our suppliers. Mona, we need to get this department running smoothly.” Jessy smiles looking at Mona, “Both of us are part of la familia and la compania. I will be getting married at the end of July. We will most likely be having our bebes about the same time. Jose Enrique and I were discussing the fact that we will be out more often than not in the next six to eight months.” She smiles, looking at Mona blush.

  “Si, Jessy, you’re right. I just didn’t think about mi marriage y bebe effecting mi job,” said Mona, blushing.

  “I know what you mean. I never dreamed that I would be getting married y having un bebe,” said Jessy, sitting down. “Jose Enrique suggests that we hire another interior design assistant because we will be out often. I know I will because after the bebe is born, I don’t know if I will be able to leave him.”

  “I haven’t thought of the bebe and its needs. I will discuss this with Chris and see what he wants,” said Mona, sitting down to work.

  “Do you think it’s a great idea hiring another interior design assistant? I don’t want you to feel that we are replacing you,” said Jessy, looking at Mona with concern.