El Chulo ends the phone call and turns to see his men ogling Veronica who's been tied up. She had a gag in her mouth, but strangely enough she didn't scream, she was silent. That rubbed El Chulo the wrong way because it made him nervous. Any other woman in this situation would be begging for mercy right now. One of El Chulo's men was getting a little too aggressive as he watched Veronica, so much so that he licked the side of her face. As he licked Veronica's face El Chulo barked, "¡Ya basta!"
Chulo's goon stopped and went back to just ogling Veronica as Goon #2 laughed at Goon #1. Immediately a shoving match started between the two goons. Why am I working with these amateurs, thought Chulo, I should've brought my primo on, at least he could control himself.
El Chulo had more important things to tend to than refereeing a shoving match. Garrett mentioned he had something they had never discussed and that El Chulo wants. What the hell could he be talking about? Nah, he's bluffing. But why, Garrett is smarter than that.
El Chulo was right, if Garrett was indeed bluffing, Chulo's goons would have no problem killing Veronica, while violating her first.
"Alright, vamos!" called out Chulo to his crew.
The crew picked up and gathered their gear. There was so much weaponry, you'd think they were prepping for WWIII and not just meeting Garret and Jay. As soon as all the gear was packed, they headed out to Las Cruces.
Jay pulled up to the meeting spot as clueless as he could be. What does Garrett have that El Culo could possibly want? "Hey, boss?" asked Jay.
"Yeah?" said Garrett.
"Do you really have something or are you bluffing? Not that I don't trust what you're doing, I just want to know if I need to prepare for another gunfight."
Garrett turned towards Jay, which hurt his shoulder a lot more than he let on, and said, "Don't worry, I'm going to take care of it."
Jay hated when Garrett gave vague answers like that; what did that even mean? Jay wasn't worried because when Garrett said he'd take care of something he always did. Like when Jay's mom couldn't pay her medical bills after her hospital stay, Garrett said he'd take care of it and those bills were taken care of the next day. Jay just wanted a little clarification so he wouldn't mess anything up. "So what do you want me to do?"
"Just hang in the truck and I'll deal with El Chulo," Garrett said.
"Are you nuts? He's going to have at least 3 or 4 guys as his backup."
"You seem a little worried, Jay."
"You're damn right I'm worried, El Chulo is crazy."
Just then a lifted '89 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck pulled in front of Jay's SUV. Two guys sat in the back with guns, another guy driving and El Chulo riding shotgun
with Veronica sitting in the middle blindfolded.
Garrett leaned his head out of the window and said, "Hey Chulo, do you want to draw attention to yourself? You have two guys with guns drawn in your truck bed."
"Don't worry about me, just tell me what it is you have that you couldn't tell me over the phone."
Garrett hops out of the SUV and turns to Jay, "Wait here, it should be quick." Garrett walks in front of the SUV and leans against the hood still nursing his shoulder. "Are you at least going to get out?" Garrett asks El Chulo.
El Chulo opens the truck door and steps out with the two men in the truck bed hopping out and standing behind him.
"Really? Come on, man I have one arm, do you really need the doublemint twins with you?"
"Yes, now hurry this up and tell me what you have," El Chulo was losing patience.
"First we negotiate what I get in return for this information."
"We give you your bitch back and you can ride off into the sunset together. Only if I deem the information worthy of such an exchange," El Chulo said.
"Okay, deal," Garrett wasn't worried. "Let me tell you a story of a guy who lost half a million dollars a couple of weeks ago."
El Chulo's eyes widened and Garrett knew he had him. "This guy, let's call him, El Chulo, was supposed to deliver a very expensive package to Los Angeles, but he returned to Mexico with nothing, no money and no package."
El Chulo's glare was growing more intense with every word out of Garrett's mouth.
"I know for a fact that Vazquez gave you a lot of shit for losing him that much money and it's never been the same between you two. I even hear he's considering making someone else his number 2," continued Garrett. "What if I told you that I have that lost package that could restore Vazquez' trust in you."
"I highly doubt that, I looked everywhere for those putos that took it and couldn't find them."
"Then you weren't looking hard enough. I can take you to it right now," said Garrett.
"Okay, let's go," El Chulo motioned for his guys to get back in the truck.
"Veronica rides with us," said Garrett.
"No way, if she rides with you, then we both ride with you," offered El Chulo.
Jay wasn't exactly comfortable with El Chulo in his back seat, but that was the deal that Garrett made and at least they had Veronica in the truck too. Jay maneuvered his way through the uneven terrain, following Garrett's directions. Jay looked in his rear view mirror and saw Chulo's goons right behind them.
Veronica was still blindfolded, but was relieved to hear Garrett and Jay's familiar voices. She had no idea what the hell was going on and was just thankful that worse things weren't done to her.
"Okay, stop," said Garrett.
Garrett and El Chulo stepped out of the SUV and both looked up to see a helicopter headed in their direction. The helicopter stopped and hovered over the area where Garrett and El Chulo stood. The wind that the blades were creating was intense. Garrett yelled to El Chulo, "Are you expecting company?!?"
El Chulo shook his head and then BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM! rapid fire started
spewing from the helicopter. Jay and Veronica took cover in the truck as El Chulo and Garrett dove under the SUV.
The helicopter started to descend and the rapid fire ceased. Who the hell is this? thought Garrett as he watched from under the SUV. As the helicopter touched ground, an older gentleman hopped out of the helicopter and made his way towards Garrett and El Chulo. Both men crawled out from under the SUV and dusted themselves off. Garrett got a better look at the man walking towards them. He was dressed very well and reminded Garrett of the Most Interesting Man in the World from the Dos Equis commercials.
The man stopped in front of El Chulo and Garrett and said nothing. El Chulo turned to Garrett and said, "Garrett, meet Mr. Vazquez."
Hmmm..."The Man" shows up, huh? Ok.
dun dun dun!!!! i wamt the chapters to take up the whole blog, more i say!