He"d spent the day dreaming about her. He couldn"t help it. Somehow he"d already fallen for her. This left him with two challenges. The first was to convince Ericka that he was the man of her dreams, and the second was to somehow talk Cocoa out of having her killed. He wasn"t sure which one would be the hardest.
Meeting Ericka felt like kismet. Chino didn"t know if he believed in God and had never really cared one way or the other. But if there was a God, Chino hoped he would give him this. Just this one thing. Chino had been a bad man and had done bad things, but he believed he"d paid his penance. And if he saved Ericka, that had to count for something.
Tonight would be a make-or-break situation. It could change the course of his life. Was he prepared for this? He didn"t know, but he wa
