JOAQUIN Midnight. I was parked outside of Sofia’s apartment fresh from getting changed and showered. My thoughts were on hearing my sister over the phone wanting to meet for lunch and tell me something that I already suspected. The thought of her being with a man that was like me, and I thought of as a brother had caused a knot in my stomach. Gael was just as ruthless and only leveled me out when I went too far, but we had many years of drinking, women, and killings between us. Now to see him possibly want to start something with my little sister was unnerving. I removed the key out of the car, got out and headed into her building. I nodded at the receptionist and security guard. I’d paid them to keep an eye on when she comes and goes. The people that enter the building had all been che

