Into the Darkness

Ernesto POV

Ernesto POV

After taking a shower with Angel she had fallen asleep and I texted papa and told him that I am ready to get Angel out of here. My phone was blowing up with text messages and phone calls from Emiliano. He finally stopped calling and I texted papa again to let him know that Emiliano has been calling and leaving voicemail messages and text messages asking about information on Angel. Emiliano called again and I picked up the call and he asked if I got any of his messages and I told him no that my phone has been messing up and I asked what is going on? He said that him and Angel had a disagreement. I asked if it was because of that night on what he did to her? I told him that maybe this was his karma for how he treated Angel. Emiliano told me that no one will take his property away from him and that she is his. I yelled at Emiliano that Angel is not a piece of property but a woman who deserves to be treated with f*****g respect! Emiliano asked why I am so f*****g mad, and I had to try and control my anger. He asked me if I know where Angel is, and I told him that I don’t know where she is at. After that I just hung up on him because I was having a hard time of controlling my anger because there was so much s**t that I wanted to tell him. I wanted to tell him how I wanted to kill him slowly and torture his f*****g ass. I want him to die slowly and to suffer for what he did to my woman!

Papa called me and told me that the guards are on the way and that he got a call from one of our men that he received that word was put on the streets that I was to be looked for and to be brought in to Emiliano. I laughed at that and I told papa that this motherfucker was f*****g stupid to think that he has that much pull! Papa said that still to be careful, he said that I needed to let Angel know what was going on, for us to work she needed to have full disclosure of what was going on. I told papa that I understand and that I will wait for the guards to arrive. I hung up the phone and I had a strange feeling and I could feel the hairs stand up on the back of my neck and something made me look through the curtains and I seen Chino, and Beto driving through the parking lot of the hotel and they stopped behind my truck. Beto got off and was looking in my car and he pulled out his phone and was looking around. After 10 minutes I noticed other cars started pulling in and I woke Angel up and told her that there was a problem and I told her to get her stuff and to be ready to leave right away. I told her that no matter what happens to stay in the restroom until I call her out. I called papa and told him that they found us, and the parking lot is surrounded, and I told him that I have Angel in the restroom he said that the guards will be there in three minutes. I was a little relieved because in my rush I didn’t bring my f*****g gun and I was naked without my piece.

I peeked out the curtain and I seen that Emiliano had arrived now. They were walking up and down the halls trying to look for me and I was f*****g angry to think that they thought they were big s**t. My phone started ringing and it was Emiliano calling again. I wanted to go out and face him, but I needed to keep Angel safe she was my main priority and there was no way in hell that I would let anything happen to her. I seen Beto come out the main office of the hotel and they were walking towards the room that Angel was in and they started to bang on the door and Emiliano was yelling for Angel. I could hear her crying in the restroom, and she called for me and she said just to let her go because she didn’t want to cause any problems for me, and it would be worse for her. I told her that I could handle myself and that I am not worried about them. I told her that I am not letting her go with those motherfuckers. I told her that I promised her that I wouldn’t let anything happen to her and that I would keep her safe.

Emiliano started banging on the door and I pushed Angel into the restroom and told her to lock the door and get into the shower and crouch down on the floor. She said okay and she kissed me and told me that she loves me and locked the door right away. I had to mask my expression and then Chino busted the door open. I had to pretend to not know what is going on. Emiliano looked around and he said that he knows that Angel was here, and he wanted to know where the f**k she was. I told him that she is not here as he can see, and he was trying to look around the room. I was standing in front of the restroom and there was no f*****g way that he was going to get past me to get to her. Emiliano tried to move past me to go into the restroom and I blocked his way and he looked at me and just smiled and said that I f****d up bigtime. He said that I was a dead man if I think that I could take his old lady from him. I told him that he needs to turn around and walk away now and to take his f*****g dogs with him if they know what is good for them. Emiliano turned around like he was going to walk away, and he tried to rush me, and he threw a punch at my face which I easily blocked. I gave him an uppercut and punched him in the jaw with my left hand. He staggered backwards, and then Chino came at me and tried to cut me with a knife on my side. I was able to knock him over the bed and he fell back and then Beto came at me and started to taunt me saying that if Angel told me how he f****d her and was choking her until she almost died. He was laughing and told me that if he gets the chance again that he is going to f**k her again and choke her so that he can kill that little w***e. That f*****g pissed me off and I went at him and picked him up and rushed him and flipped him over my back and threw him on the floor. I turned around and started to stomp on his chest and face with my foot. I kept kicking him and stomping on him until he was no longer moving.

When I looked up, I seen that Emiliano had Angel in his arms and he has his arm wrapped around her neck, and I f****d up they banked on me losing control so that they could distract me, they succeeded. f**k!! Angel was crying, and I told him to let her go or else he will be f*****g sorry and pay with his f*****g life. He laughed and said that no one takes his woman and gets away with it. He licked the side of Angel’s face and she was crying and screaming for me to help her. It was killing me to hear her screams and he started to drag her out of the room and Chino was blocking my way from going after her. Chino rushed me and he still had his knife out and I moved out of the way in time and was able to twist his arm and thrust the knife up into his throat and twist it. He dropped to the ground and was bleeding out. I ran out of the hotel room to see that Emiliano had left with Angel. f**k!!! Just then I can see my papa’s guards pull up outside the hotel room and they rushed out of the cars and I yelled at them asking where the f**k where they at. I ran to my truck and sped out of the hotel parking lot and went after Emiliano and Angel. The guards pulled out of the parking lot and followed behind me immediately. I called my papa while driving and told him what was going on. I told him that I need everyone out right now and that I am going to take Emiliano out on the streets. He asked what happened with the guards and I told him that they showed up to late and I could hear papa cussing out loud and he was just as angry as I was. He wanted to know what kind of car Emiliano was driving and wanted to know who was with him I told him that I already killed Chino and Beto. I told him that I don’t know who else was with him just some street warriors. I told him that I am catching up to Emiliano and that the guards are behind me. Just then I see the passenger door swing open and Angel was thrown from the car and her body was rolling all over the road and she almost got hit by another car. I yelled NO ANGEL and papa asked Ernesto what happened, and I’m screaming loud as I stopped my truck and ran out to go to her. I can hear tires screeching all around me and I was screaming and crying for Angel. The guards were all around me and I was yelling for someone to call for the paramedics. Angel was not breathing, and I was holding her in my arms, and I was yelling her name telling her please baby open your eyes for me please don’t leave me and that I love her so much! I can hear sirens in the background, and I felt like a f*****g failure because I couldn’t protect her even after I promised her. f**k!!!! I was going to f*****g kill that f*****g son of a b***h!

The paramedics arrived and I was holding her in my arms and the guards had to pull me away so that they could administer aid to her and they asked my relationship to her and I told them that she is my wife and that she was kidnapped and was tortured by her ex-boyfriend. The cops arrived and questioned me, and I hated to talk to the cops, but I had no choice because of how Angel looked. The ambulance had already left, and I wanted to hurry up and go to the hospital to be with her. I needed to see that she was okay, she had to be okay. When I arrived at the hospital, I ran into the emergency room and got to the front desk and asked for Angel and I told them that she was just brought in. They asked what my relationship is to her and I told them that she is my wife. They asked if she has any identification on her and I told them no as we just barely got married and she is waiting for her new identification to come in. They called to get a status on her condition, and they told me that they have her in surgery right now. I tried to get more information on her, but they couldn’t tell me anything else. I was sitting in the hallway and I had my head in my hands and I was so f*****g angry, shaking and I was thinking of the ways of how I was going to kill that motherfucking dog. I closed my eyes and I just keep reliving the scene of her being pushed out of the moving car and her body flopping and rolling all over the place. My heart stopped when I saw that, and I couldn’t protect her, I failed her, and I just pray that she will be okay and that she will come out of this strong in the end. Angel is such a strong woman and I know that she will be okay. I didn’t even get to tell her that I love her too. I started to cry, and I couldn’t control the sobs that wracked my body.

I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I looked up, my papa and mama were standing there. Mama wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tight and I cried so hard telling her that I couldn’t protect her mama. I told her that it hurts so bad!! Papa pulled me up and hugged me tight and he said that he is going to make Emiliano pay for what he did. He said that the guards filled him in on what happened and that they got a video of what happened. Mama was crying and she asked if I heard anything yet and I told her that all they said is that she is in surgery right now. Papa and mama sat down with me and we waited for 12 hours. Mama had stepped away to go and get us something to eat, I had refused but she said that I am going to need my strength so that when Angel is up, I would be strong for her. Finally, after the 12-hour surgery the doctor came out and asked for Angel Estrada’s family. I stood up and I told him that I am her husband and asked how she is doing. He said that she suffered swelling in her brain and that they needed to go in and relieve some pressure. They told me that she is in a coma and she has five broken ribs, and her leg was broken as well. So far, her vitals are stable and are where they need to be, so he said to remain optimistic. I asked how long will she be in a coma and they said that all depends on her and I started crying and I asked if I could see her and they said that I needed to wait at least an hour because they are situating her in her room. The doctor said that the nurse will come and get me when they are done with her.

As soon as the doctor left papa asked about me telling the doctors about Angel being my wife and I told him that she has no identification and that she will be my wife no matter what. He smiled at me and he said mijo she will be fine. Mama was crying and I got up and pulled her into my arms and I told her thank you for being here for me mama and I told her to go ahead and go home and get some rest. She asked me if I was sure and I told her yes mama I will be okay. I told her that I can’t leave my Angel. She smiled at me and she said that she will leave once she gets to see Angel first, I told her okay that is fine. I sat down and I started to talk with papa about what needs to be done. I told him that I want everyone looking for Emiliano and I want him found within 72 hours and that I want him alive.

The nurse came out an hour later and told us that we could go in and see Angel and I was not prepared to see my beautiful Angel. I felt like someone stabbed me in the heart repeatedly. Angel was hooked up to a breathing machine and she had wires all over her and she was swollen all over her body. I walked towards her and I fell to my knees and cried for her and I kept saying that I am so sorry baby that I couldn’t protect you. I blacked out and when I came too, I look around me and I didn’t recognize where I was at, and I started to panic. I could hear a beeping sound next to me, and I looked around me and I am in a f*****g hospital room. I looked towards the sitting area and I could see my papa and mama. I cleared my throat and papa woke up and he came to me and he asked me mijo how are you feeling? I asked him what happened, and he said that after I saw Angel I blacked out. I asked him then that really happened to her and he made a sad face and he said yes mijo it did. He said that he was so sorry and that if there is anything that I need of him to tell him. Mama had woken up now and she came to my other side and she was crying and telling me how I scared the hell out of her. I told her that I am sorry, and I asked how Angel was doing and she said that her vitals had improved, and her brain waves are doing better. I said that is good then right? She smiled at me and said yes that is. I was happy to hear that, and I told them that I was ready to leave so that I could go and see Angel and they both told me that I need to make sure that I am okay before I go and see her. I needed to be strong for her right now and I needed to make sure I was okay first. I hated that they were both right, but I wanted my Angel right now.