Hot & Wild (De La Cruz Saga) (17 page)

“
Christian,
I’m going to believe you
,
but I want you to take this to heart. I will
not forgive you next time that you omit or lie to me. I will not tolerate it. Te
amo, but I will not live with lies, deceit, or abuse of any type,” says Monique
with firmness, glaring into his hermoso green eyes.

“My Cielo, I promise that you well never experience
any type of omissions, lies, and I will never abuse you. I’m not that type of
hombre. Si, I’m a macho Mexicano, but I also value my mujer,” says Christian,
gazing into her eyes with all of his amor shining.
Damn, my mujer is toda
mujer
, thinks Christian proudly.

“Ok, I will believe that until you show me otherwise. Where
am I supposed to stay while you’re away? I can stay at mis padres when you’re
away and I can stay with you at your padres when you’re on leave. But I don’t
know if mis padres will go for that. I don’t know your padres and that makes it
awkward to stay with them now,” states Monique, pondering their situation.
I
wonder what we should do.

“Baby, I want you to stay with your padres until
Friday. I’ll take you with me to mis padres’ casa when I’m on leave. You will
meet my familia. I don’t know if I will be on leave or training,” says
Christian, studying Monique, creeping closer.

Monique contemplates what Christian says.
This
means that I have met some of his familia in the interview.
“Christian in my
interview I met Bella and Paty De La Cruz. Are they your hermanas?” asks
Monique, wondering if she did meet at least one of his familia.

“My Cielo, Bella is my hermana and Paty is my prima. Remember
Ricky in the hallway, he’s my primo,” answers Christian, smiling, flashing his
beautiful dimples. “You see, you do know some of my familia.”

“My primo Jose Enrique is the CEO of the familia company.
He’s the one that requested that I inspect a job site and write up a report. That
was the same report that fell out of my hands when we collided,” says Christian.
“My primo Jose Enrique asked me to consider working as the job site manager on
Friday. He wanted to know if I was going to re-enlist.  At that time I told him
I would think about it. After being with you on Friday, drinking mocha, I knew
that I will be marrying you, and that I would not re-enlist in the Navy. I also
told mis padres that I was marrying you in six months. Did I not ask you to
marry me in six months?” 
Yeah, I’m reminding her of our conversation this
morning
.
Dios mio it feels like a long time ago.

Monique ponders everything that Christian says,
staring out the window. She chews the right lower corner of her lip.
He’s
right. He did ask me to marry him in six months. I was the one pushing him to
make love. He did what he felt was right to protect me and the bebe. He feels
that I’m pregnant. There’s a very good chance that I am. I understand his
actions, but it still makes me mad
.

What should I do? Should I stay mad at him and waste
the precious hours that we have left together? Should I forgive him and spend
our time together loving each othe
r?
She turns to gaze into his beautiful green eyes
. I do love him
.
He
does love me
, muses Monique.

“What do you want to do now?  Where do you want me to
stay until you’re on leave?” asks Monique.

“I want you to stay with your padres if that will make
you feel better. On Friday, I will collect you from your padres, and take you
to mis padres’ casa until we get our own casa,” replies Christian, gazing into
her eyes with amor.

“Christian, you’re going to be real tired manana when
you’re in class,” says Monique, thinking about herself going to work at a new
job as a newlywed mujer. “I have to be at work at eight manana.”

“My Cielo, I asked Ricky to tell Bella and Jose
Enrique that you will start on Tuesday. I told Ricky that I didn’t want you
going in all tired from our rush wedding,” says Christian, smiling, flashing
his dimples.

“Oh, okay, thank you,” says Monique, thinking about
the new job. She stares out the window at the neon lights, but not really
registering what she sees. She turns to look at him with her eyes narrowing. “You
didn’t have anything to do with me getting the job, did you?” asks Monique,
observing him, starting to get pissed off again.

“Monique, I didn’t have anything to do with you
getting the job. You did that all on your own. The only thing I did was call
you for a date. I knew that you had gotten the job, but I didn’t interfere with
the process. I waited until Bella called you. I knew when I saw my hermana. She
told me when I was asking about you. They had already made up their minds about
you,” replies Christian, proudly, grinning.

“You know it makes me real proud that you got that job
all on your own. I had nothing to do with that,” says Christian, pulling her
into his arms and kissing her.

Gracias Dios mio, she’s not mad at me anymore. I never
want to get her mad at me again. I will die if she never lets me touch her,
love her, or If she leaves me. She’s everything to me,
she’s mia,
only mia,
whimpers Christian,
thinking about losing her.

I learned my lesson real quick
, thinks Christian, falling onto the sofa, pulling her
onto his lap, moving his hand up her dress to touch her.
Oh dios mio, she’s
so wet and hot.
He moans, feeling his shaft get hard.

My Baby is hungry again
, thinks Monique, shifting from his lap. She lowers
his pants zipper and pulls him out. Monique turns and straddles him, impaling
him deeply into her hot waiting heart, grasping him tightly, making him
whimper.

Christian unties the dress top and starts to kiss her
breasts, taking small love bites all over. She rides him hard and fast holding
onto the sofa, moaning her delight.

“Baby, you feel so good,” says Monique, as she went up
almost completely off his hot shaft and takes him deeply, quickly, and makes
him groan. “I love loving you.”

Christian is going out of his mind with the exquisite
feeling of her tight hot heart squeezing him tighter as they reach their
release together as one complete alma. Christian moans, devouring her nipple,
sucking it deep, and taking tender bites. He yells out her name as she grips
his shaft tightly and goes crazy. He buries his face in her soft beautiful
breasts.
All mio,
thinks Christian,
only mio
.

Monique hugs him to her, loving every moment loving
him. He is mio, only mio.

Wow, we had our first disagreement. We talked about it
and worked out our issues.
Monique
pulls back to look at him. She gives him lots of besos all over his face.
He’s
my esposo
, thinks Monique with felicidad. He gazes at her with awe

The entire De La Cruz familia are relaxing and
enjoying their gathering.  In the background you can hear playing the romantic
Mexican love songs.  The night is beautiful. The sky looks like a navy blue velvet
and sparkling diamonds.  

The
comadre
s are happily finishing cooking the
dinner meal. Los hermanos, los padres of la familia’s are happily chatting,
playing pool and drinking their Coronas.

All of the primos are sitting down chatting about the
week and the pact that they had agree to on Friday night at the club.

“Yes, primas, thanks for thinking up the pact. It will
really make our lives easier,” says Jose Enrique, grinning. He looks at his
novia.

“Yes, primas, I second that,” says Ricky, looking at
his Reina on his lap.

“Who knows what happened to Christian, he’s late,”
asks Tony, looking for his party primo. “We always go out after dinner.”

Ricky looks around and didn’t know if he should say
anything.
Christian might want to tell them himself,
thinks Ricky
.
He
looks at his Reina who shrugs her shoulders, smiling.

“I know that he has a novia,” says Bella smiling,
thinking about Monique.

“No way, not another one falling,” says Alex. “Who is
she and where did he meet her?”

“Hermano, she’s really muy cute, cute. I know that
she’s perfect for Christian. I think that he’s truly excited about her,” says
Bella, nodding.

Yeah, he’s so excited that he married her
, thinks Ricky, trying not to say anything yet.
I
do have to tell Jose Enrique and Bella about Monique not
coming
into
work manana
. He takes a sip of his Corona looking around.
Yeah this is
awesome. I don’t think that even mis tios know what he’s up to.

“That’s right, I saw his novia and she is cute,” says
Ricky, smiling, looking at his bella reina.

“Are we talking about Monique Acosta?” asks Paty,
looking at Bella and Ricky for confirmation.

“Si prima,” replies Bella, nodding. “He ran into
Monique after the interview on Friday in the hallway, just like Ricky and Jacki.
Hmm, is the hallway a matchmaker?”

The primos start to laugh with amusement. “If it is, I
will make sure to walk it every day hoping that I run into my amor,” says Paty,
grinning with delight.

“Si, prima, and I will join you,” says Claudia,
grinning.

“You’re both silly,” says Veronica, looking at her
hermana and prima, shaking her head.  

“It looks like he’s not showing and we will not see
him until next weekend if he gets off,” says Alex, looking around for Gabriel
to see if he knows something.

Gabriel and Erica are far away at another table. They’re
talking, making wedding plans. Gabriel is also a Navy SEAL. In fact, he’s
Christian’s SEAL bud.
It doesn’t look like they even know what’s up
,
thinks Alex, shaking his head looking at his primo Jose Enrique.

It looks like slowly we’re all getting married
, thinks Alex, taking a drink of his Corona. He looks
at his primo, Tony, shrugging. “Let’s go primo. It’s just the two of us tonight,”
says Alex.

“Adios, primos,” says Alex and Tony, walking towards
their padres to say adios.

His Mama Maria asks if they know where Christian is. “Mis
niño’s, do you know where Christian is at? He has not shown up?” asks Mama
Maria, looking at their faces for any type of answers.

“No we don’t. I was just asking los primos and nobody
has heard from him mama,” answers Alex, looking at his mama with concern. “Do
you think that something happened to him?”

“No, I pray that nothing has happened to Christian. I
know that he went to see his novia this morning and has not returned,” says Mama
Maria, looking over at her esposo. “It’s still early and maybe he’s still with
his novia.”

“That could be it mama, he just lost track of time,”
replies Alex.
Yeah, like if I believe this for a minute. My hermano, being a
Navy SEAL, is always aware of time and everything that’s going on around him
,
ponders Alex.

“Okay, my hijo, dios los bendiga a los
dos
,”
says Mama Maria, nodding.

Las Tia’s Queta and Lupe also gave them their
bendicion
.

“Mis niñas we need your help to clean up,” calls out
las Tia’s. Las prima’s immediately start to clean.

“I’ll help to clean up the tables,” says Bella, at her
primas, looking at Jessy and Jacki. They also stand to help clean up.

Bella takes some plates over to the sink and returns
to get some more. Jessy and Jacki are also picking up the plates on the other
tables.

Ricky takes this opportunity to tell Jose Enrique and
Bella all about Christian and Monique.

Ricky scoots closer to his primo Jose Enrique. He looks
at both his primos. “Jose Enrique, Bella, I have to tell you something real
quick before the others hear,” says Ricky, looking around to make sure nobody
else is around.

This really catches Jose Enrique’s interest. He waits
to hear what Ricky has to say. Bella sits down next to them to listen to Ricky,
who’s speaking real low.

“Christian called me early today,” says Ricky, looking
at his primos before proceeding. “Christian is at this very moment in Vegas
getting married to Monique Acosta.” He sits back to contemplate their reaction.

“I don’t know if he wants me to tell everybody or not.
 I believe it’s better to stay quiet and let him take care of this,” says Ricky,
observing los primos.

They both look surprised and don’t know what to say
, thinks Ricky, grinning.

“He wants me to tell you, Jose Enrique and Bella, that
Monique will start work on Tuesday. He doesn’t want Monique to start working
manana being tired,” says Ricky, grinning.
Yeah I know what he means. I
didn’t want my Reina to start working the next day either
.