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thought you were dead!” I ran over to him in the kitchen and hugged him.
    “ You have one hour,” Candy said as she left and closed the front door behind her.
    “ It’s been three years.” I backed up and looked at him. “Why didn’t you tell me you were alive? We have a baby, you know.”
    “ It’s a long story, Lilly and we only have an hour.” He pulled me close and tried to kiss me. I pushed him back. “What is it?” he asked.
    “ It’s been a long time, John.”
    “ John?” he asked sadly. “I don’t think you’ve ever called me that before?”
    “ Johnny,” I said, correcting myself, “I’m married now.”
    “ To Max or Diego?” he asked. My face flushed and totally gave me away.
    “ What?” I started to wonder if this was some kind of set up.
    “ I have people too, you know. I hear you and Max are always together. Holding hands, touching…” He stopped. “Are you and Max… together?”
    “ He’s my bodyguard,” I answered. “Why were you having me watched?”
    “ Because I love you, Lilly. My Easter Lilly.” He stroked my hair back away from my now sweaty face. “Make love to me. I’ve missed you.” He moved to kiss me and he held me close. I couldn’t break free.
    “ Stop!” I said. “Let go!”
    Just then the door flew open and Max was standing there at the door with a gun pointed at Johnny. “Lilly, you broke my most important rule!”
    “ I know,” I said. I pushed John away and ran to Max. “Don’t leave the house without telling you.”
    “ No sex with Johnny!” he shouted. Johnny laughed.
    “ Calm down, Max. Nothing happened that she didn’t want to happen.”
    “ This is a huge mistake,” I said. “Candy brought me here and dropped me off. I thought we were going to the store.” I was breathless and desperate for him to believe me.
    “ Tell her why I’ve been dead all this time, Max.” Max never took his eyes off of John, pointing the gun right at him. You could see it was a struggle for him not to just shoot him.
    “ Lilly, he’s married.” Max glanced at me for a second. “He knocked you up, dropped you off on our doorstep and married Diana.”
    I couldn’t believe it. I put my hands over my mouth and stared Johnny down. “How could you? You really are a pig, aren’t you?”
    “ Diego said if I tried to contact you or the baby, he’d have you both killed!” Johnny blurted. “He made me marry Diana so I wouldn’t be able to come after you.” He looked at Max who was still pointing a gun at him. “Come on Max tell her!” Max began to lower the gun. “We don’t live in God’s world, do we Max. We live in Diego’s world. He is in control.” Max picked up the gun again. Beads of sweat began to form on his brow.
    “ I should just blow a hole through you and put you out of your misery.”
    “ Max!” I cried. “Stop!”
    “ I bet you want her too, don’t you? But you’re going to hand her over to him, just like I did.” Johnny was pretty smug for a man with a gun pointed at him.
    “ She’s not mine to give,” Max replied.
    “ But she could be, right Lilly?” Johnny asked. “You want her so bad…” He paused and smiled as though he knew what he was going to say would destroy Max. “You can almost taste her.” Max’s eyes changed when he said that. “And I don’t mean just her lips,” he continued. Max shot a hole through the wall inches from Johnny’s face. “I think I hit a nerve.”
    “ Shut up, you idiot!” I screamed. “Max, is Diego on his way?”
    He put the gun away and grabbed my hand. “Watch your mouth with my brother,” Max said to John. “He’s on his way and he’s not in a good mood.”
    “ You know, I’m right, Maxwell!” he yelled after us. Max opened the car door for me and we took off.
    “ Is what he said true?” I asked.
    “ Lilly, you need to promise me that you will do everything I tell you until Diego has calmed down.”
    “ Okay Max, whatever you say.”
    “ I don’t care