Chapter 29 : Everything Changes

**Mateo My men had ascertained days ago that Agustin Rodriguez did not have my Lucia, as he'd claimed on the phone. Apparently, he'd wanted Arena—no, Catalina—back and had come up with the cruel ruse. I was prepared to rip his drunken head off, but if Catalina was Efrain's true mate, well, that did put a crimp in things. Though, I suppose I should have been thanking the bastard. Because of his slurred threats, I at least found out that Lucia had indeed been found. That, and El Lobo was finally dead. I didn't believe in coincidences. The slimy rat had my Lucia in his custody all these years. All these years, he was laughing his ass off as I came again and again to find my daughter. If he weren't already dead, I'd have killed him. This, of course, left a new problem: Marco del Rio. True, back in the day, I'd slaughtered his parents. But that was only because they'd conspired to kill my wife. If I hadn't needed his connections so desperately to find Lucia, Oscar "el Lobo" woul