Head above heart III
Alejandro's POV
"You need to get some sleep so you can think straight."
I run my hands through my hair for the millionth time before slamming my fist down on the table. "I don't need to do shit. I didn't fly you out here so you could tell me to fucking sleep." I snap.
Marco and Ethan share a look, we've been up all night trying to find her and there's been no more leads other than the security footage that shows Camila exiting the hotel and walking towards the beach.
I haven't been able to think, sleep, eat or even breathe properly since Camila 's gone missing.
No-since I opened my fucking eyes and realized she's been missing.
The air is tense and along with me in the penthouse is Alexi, Ethan and Marco who had all flown in immediately after I called them.
There's a silent question in the air that no one asks. She's been missing for nearly twenty four hours, the chances of her alive and well were slim.
And although Marco and Alexi seemed fine, Ethan was slowly losing it and I could feel the anger radiating off of him.
He's been quiet but I can feel his stare on the back of my head. "Maybe if you took a break from running around like a mad man you could think of something. This isn't you." He snaps doing little to hide the bitterness in his tone.
He's blaming me and I've been driving myself insane with guilt, I didn't need him in my fucking ear.
I tense and the room erupts in silence as I rub at my tired eyes. I haven't slept but how could I when Camila was out there.
Marco sends Ethan a warning glance. "Not the time." He bites but I'm already turning around and glaring at Ethan while I try my best to remain calm.
He was only being disrespectful because he was also stressed about Camila . Taking out my anger on him was the last thing we needed right now.
"No." Ethan spits moving forward and pushing past Marco.
"Maybe if you didn't drive her away she wouldn't have been storming out of the hotel crying." And then he's in my face. "What did you say to her?!"
My jaw ticks and I stare into Ethan's emotional eyes, I'm calm and my eyes are hard but on the inside my emotions were building up.
"Do you know how alone she already feels? Why would you tell her to leave?!" He's screaming in my face now.
I step forward. "You don't know what your talking about, Ethan." I warn.
"Yes I do!" He explodes. "I've always kept my mouth shut but I've seen it. The things you say to Camila , you're not there to see how much they hurt her! You're not there when she's crying herself to sleep because of something you said or did!" He's getting hysterical.
I grip onto his collar and stare into his eyes. My patience is wearing thin. "Stand the fuck down." I spit angrily.
But he continues. "Do you really even care about her? You treat her like complete shit, we all see it."
My nostrils flare and my hands shake. Now was not the time to be throwing all my mistakes in my face. "What about you?" I snap. He's never there anymore.
He scoffs and eyes me with so much disgust. "She's not upset with the things I do because she doesn't love me like she does you." He clarifies.
My chest heaves as my grip on his collar tightens. "You don't deserve her." He continues and my control starts to waver.
"You don't know shit!" I snap in his face. He didn't know what he was talking about.
But he doesn't stop. "You ruined her image of her parents, you took her mama from her. Not to mention you strung her along like some side piece with Greta instead of doing what you should have done and just fucking threatened to kill the bitch!"
"It doesn't work like that." I spit. I wasn't going to risk the deal going south by bringing violence into it.
"You don't make her happy enough." His eyes that are welling with tears stare into mine. "And now whoever killed Laura, will do the same to Camila ."
And then I lose it.
I push him back into the wall and instead of taking the hint, Ethan throws his fist forward and my head snaps to the side.
And then I charge for him. "You don't fucking know what your taking about." I spit angrily as I dodge his next move and throw my fist forward. My fist meets his face and I hear the satisfying crack of his nose breaking.
Bur that doesn't stop him from running his mouth. "What? Did you think she'd come home perfectly fine?" He laughs.
I throw him into the coffee table and watch the glass around him shatter. He wipes his bloody face and looks up at me. "That you'd bring her home like the night in shining armor and apologize by showering her in gifts?" He taunts.
I move on top of him and throw pinch after punch at his face, he tries his best to dodge them but I don't stop and neither does the shit spewing out of his mouth. "Apologize with a new pair of earrings? A bracelet maybe?" He laughs.
I move closer to him again and my fists shake as I move to throw another punch but then I stop, as my mind takes a moment to breathe.
It might have been the adrenaline finally wearing down and replacing itself with clarity but my heart momentarily stops while my brain clicks.
The next thing I know I'm dashing upstairs into the bedroom and moving towards the closet with Marco in tow. "What are you doing?"
I shake my head frantically as I nod towards the bedroom. "Help me find her diamond bracelet." I breathe.
He nods not question it and I tear the closet apart in search for it. "It's not here." Marco says his brows furrowed and I instantly dash back downstairs and towards Alexi.
I had a chip put in the clasp of her mama's diamond bracelet. After the incident at the diner a while back when it was nearly stolen, I had one put in, so that if it were to be taken in the near future I could find it for her.
I knew how much she cherished her mama's bracelet and now that I knew she was wearing it, I had an idea.
"Alexi, pull up the info for the chip on her diamond bracelet." I command moving up to where he's sat on the table.
I needed to put my emotions aside and focus on the task at hand.
He opens his laptop and eyes me wearily. "Capo, I'd have to activate it." He says slowly.
I purse my lips and rub the side of my jaw as I think this through.
If I were to activate it there was a big chance the location could be out of range. It would be risky.
The second the activation starts the bracelet sounds an alarm. It would alert her and possibly her captor that she was being tracked.
We had a small window of time from the moment we activated the chip to the time her captor would realize. It would give us her location but it would also give her captor time to move her and she could be gone by the time we reach her.
And then there was the other possibility. The one where her captor would kill her if she isn't dead already.
It was extremely risky, but we were running out of time. There was no other way of finding her, but at the same time it could trigger her death.
The question is, was I willing to risk it?
If Camila was still alive, I didn't want to put her in any more danger.
But then there was another question nagging at the back of my head, telling me that if I didn't activate the bracelet and take the risk, I could lose her.
And then it all came down to one question.
Am I willing to lose the woman I love?
Fuck no.
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