Chapter 52

ALEX

The cartel would be mine. So I had thought.

Not until that night, not until I read that very terrible message. With the buzz of my phone and me picking it up. I could have ignored it, oh, I could just toss it aside but then I checked it. It was the strange, it was unusual, it was the most unexpected message I have ever seen and received.

My heart skipped two beats, my whole body had erupted and the shock travelled from my legs up to my face, making me go all pale and shivering and I had mistakenly dropped the cup of water I was holding, letting out a loud, "What?!"

That night had been the most terrible, apart from the day I lost my mother. That night, I felt all I ever looked after crumbling. It was like I had been pregnant for nine months, nursing my baby in me which was the Cartel, and then when it was time to give birth, I was told the baby died.

For all my life, for all of my life, all I think of was owning the Cartel. Apart from dangerously loving hockey, the Cartel was very