It was just me, her, and the priest. Her father is miraculously still with us and is in the same condition as he was months ago when we first met. However, I didn’t want to risk bringing him here or planning a wedding with his health declining.
He was the only person I told we were doing this and agreed it would be a nice surprise for Summer. So, I did it.
She looks like a mermaid in the shimmering sun with her long hair floating in the wind and that soft green bikini gracing her body.
I’ll join her out there in a little while when I finish talking to Alejandro.
I switch my focus back to him as he pulls up a chair and sits opposite me on the porch of the beach house I’ve rented for my stay here.
I place the envelope I have for him on the table between us and he gazes at it. I’ve been helping him, and the trail has run cold.
I actually don’t think I’ll be able to find more than what I have. This isn’t like when I was hunting Robert. Even when I knew Robert had aliases. At least then I still had some ideas up my sleeve.
With this nameless, faceless person we’ve christened El Diablo it’s different—too vague. And I’m not sure how Alejandro is going to take the recent evidence I found.
“Hey, how’s married life?” he asks, glancing my girl on the beach.
“Perfect.” I smile. “I can’t believe that woman out there is my wife.”
“Love is a blessing few have. Savor it.”
I nod and think about him. He’s never been married but that look in his eyes speaks of love lost and pain. As a man who’s good with reading people I know what certain things are without the need to be told what they are.
He glances at the envelope, and I do too.
“I don’t think you’re going to like what I got for you,” I tell him.
I open the envelope and the pull out a ring in a little plastic bag.
Alejandro straightens up when he sees it. “Where did you find that?”
“I thought you would recognize it.” He should because he’s wearing a ring just like this.
The ring has an insignia in the center of a griffin with the flower inspired symbol of the Fleur De Lys behind it.
“That’s a ring worn by the men in my family. It bears our insignia. Apart from me all the men in my family are dead. I’m supposed to be the only one left with a ring like that.”
“I found it among Robert’s things that came over from Monaco and I remembered seeing yours. People I’ve spoken to said our El Diablo was wearing a ring like this. They never see his face but they’ve seen his hand with this ring on it. I don’t know why Robert had it.”
“This just gets stranger by the minute. You’re telling me we’re dealing with a ghost?” He raises his brows.
“Yes, or someone who wants you to believe that.”
“I don’t know where to begin tracking a ghost.” He sighs with frustration.
“That’s why I’m going to keep looking.”
The same way I set out to destroy everyone who wanted to destroy me, I plan to help anyone who helped free me from captivity.
“Gracias, amigo.”
“De nada.”