Chapter 50

ALEJANDRO IT HAD BEEN TWO DAYS SINCE MY MEETING WITH CARMICHAEL AND I HAD been on edge ever since. I had snapped at everyone around me, including Alana. I sat in my office looking out at the L.A skyline and wondering what she was doing. She was probably in the shelter. I checked my watch and sighed. I had another two meetings to go to before I could get home to her. I heard the office door opening behind me. I knew it would be Jax. Everyone else knocked. ‘You okay, amigo?’ he asked in his soft southern drawl as he walked into the room. I spun in my chair to face him. ‘You seem a bit wound up lately. A bit more than usual anyway,’ he said with a half-smile. ‘That meeting with Alana’s father has me rattled, Jax. He’s such a fucking snake. He makes my fucking skin crawl.’ ‘So, do something about him then?’ Jax said with a shrug. ‘He’s my wife’s father! You suggesting I just make him disappear and lie to her face every day?’ ‘You’ve lied to e