Reinaldo

My home office was ostentatious and smothering just like the mansion where it was housed. This place belonged to Gerardo Ruiz, brother of Andrés and Nicolas. Mí padre put a lot of trust into the three brothers, all of them making it to the rank of senior lieutenant in the cartel.

Like many men their age, the Ruiz lieutenants had difficulty with Aléjandro’s and my advancement in our father’s organization. Case in point—Nicolas’s ridiculous show of sending a ...