OLIVIA


    "Lupita, what are you doing here?" She crossed the room and walked over to me. "I came to talk to you." I was truly happy; I felt like things were going back to how they used to be. "Before that, how did you get in here?" that was my dad. I didn''t know why he asked that, how else was she supposed to get in.


    "The men let me in." Lupita responded looking confused, I was as well. I didn''t know what my dad wanted to do. "Come on, we can talk in the salon."


    "Wait, before you go talking." My dad again, he was on the phone with someone and in a few minutes the head security as we call him, but he was far from being the head of security, he was one of my dad''s men.


    "How did thisdye in here." My dad asked, the guy looked confused. "We let her in sir." As they should have, they knew Luputa and had no reason to not let her in. "Who did you inform before letting her in?"


    Okay, my dad was going too far now. "Dad..."


    “Shut up, Olivia. You get hurt and get everyone hurt because you are too trusting.” I was taken back by his outburst, it was Lupita we were talking about, why was he being like that. He turned to the head of security.


    "I asked you a question and I am not going to repeat myself." the man swallowed hard, I nced at Lupita, and she looked nervous. I scanned the room for Ethan and the kids, but they were long gone.


    I appreciated that, I didn''t want them to see what my dad was doing. "No one sir, it''s just that we know her and what she is to the family." My dadughed as if the man had told the funniest joke in the world.


    "I want you gone in the next hour and I want someone more capable recing you." I was taken back, why was he reacting that way as if the man let in a thief in the house. The man agreed and walked out.


    My dad turned to Lupita, he looked angry, and I was curious to know why. He knew Lupita and if he was still angry about what she did before then he should give her a chance to apologise before dismissing her like that.


    "What are you doing here?" he asked, his voice low and temperament something I had never experienced before. I had heard the guys talking about it, but I never got to experience it myself.


    "I came to apologise and fix things with Olivia." My dad smirked as if he were mocking her. I didn''t like it because it seemed as if he didn''t want me to fix things with Lupita.


    I was already alone surrounded by them; I needed a woman to talk to as well. Why couldn''t he understand that?


    "Why do you want to fix things with her now?" what kind of question was that? I threw a re his way, but I ignored it as if he didn''t see it or me.


    "I realized that she was not the one I was angry with but Nick. I know she didn''t ask Nick to do what he did and ming her for it is wrong. That is why I came."


    My dadughed this time, he was starting to annoy me because I didn''t know what was funny about what Lupita was saying. "Really, then tell me, who are the men you have been meeting?" men?


    "Mr ck, have you been following me? also, why does it matter who I have been meeting, am I not allowed to meet people now and why do you care about that, this is my life, is it not?" I didn''t know if I was confused or just dumb.


    Why would my dad be following Lupita, did he still not trust her?


    "I know it is your life, and I don''t care who you associate with, but I do care when youe here after meeting them all this time acting like you want to fix things."


    Okay, I didn''t know where the whole thing was going but it was starting to worry me, what the hell was going on.


    "Unlike you and your family. I don''t have anyone to depend on, if I want to start a business, I need to look for suppliers myself, I need to make my own connections and


    acquaintances. I don''t have rich friends to call and ask for help.


    Moreover, I am not going to stand


    here and exin myself to someone


    who doesn''t understand."


    Lupita was starting a business. I wish she had told me; I would have helped her. I


    owed the woman a lot after everything me and my family had done to her.


    Now my dad was questioning her


    like a criminal making her feel even worse. "Dad..." he lifted his hand "Dad...


    silencing me. that annoyed me to no


    end. He could have just let me talk and say what was on my mind. Why did he have to silence me like that as if I were a brainless child


    "I find that very interesting, Lupita, you know why?" he came closer to us, closing the distance and looking Lupita dead in the eyes. I could tell how nervous she was and how she was trying not to show it.


    "Because your so-called acquaintances, some of them are Xander''s men, do you have something to say about that?" my eyes widened in shock, I thought we dealt with all of Xander''s men and why was Lupita involved with them?


    "What can I say? Do I have a way of knowing who they are at first


    nce? No because I don''t belong in that world, and I won''t know just by looking at a person that the are criminals. I also, don''t have Ethan who can do a background check on a person in minutes." She sighed looking frustrated.


    I didn''t know what to think at that point. "Really, so what you are trying to say it that you didn''t know that the men you have been meeting are Xander''s men, the very same men who got your grandmother killed. Is that what you are telling me?" Lupita looked angry. "Just when I thought I coulde back here and fix things you use me of shit like this?" she clicked her tongue and walked to the door. She opened it then turned to look at us.


    "By the way Luke, Olivia, your daughter is the one responsible for my grandmother''s death. Xander just helped."