Chapter 10

Jimmy’s fists balled, and he started to move, but Maria grabbed his arm. “Stick to the plan.”

His body relaxed. Maria slipped her hands around to Jimmy’s stomach and pulled him back against her body before looking at Brent. “Who said anything about court? The tide will be your judge and jury.”

Brent watched the gentle rhythm of the surf for a few seconds. “It’s not true, but dig me out, and I’ll make you rich ... and forget this ever happened.”

Maria knelt and held a sheet of paper in front of Brent’s face. “It’s so easy to get a DNA test these days, and you even paid for it.”

“Okay, it happened, I’m sorry, but it was my family, they made me do it. I was married. You know how my family is.”

“I do,” Maria hissed. “They probably called her a wetback, right? Told you to get rid of the stealing wetback, said she’s probably been fucking every guy in town? And you knew that wasn’t true, but you traded Juliana’s life for your reputation and the money you were afraid you’d lose in a divorce if your wife found out.”

“I’ll make it up to you, I promise, I’ll make you rich,” Brent pleaded.

Jimmy got behind Maria this time and put his arms around her stomach, looking over her shoulder. Together, they looked down and gave Brent a quizzical look. “We’re already rich,” Maria said. “It’ll be a week before anyone knows you’re missing, so if I wanted to, I could go home and get lots of money from the bank and disappear.”

She leaned her head back and let Jimmy kiss her before continuing. “But that’s not the kind of person I am. I don’t steal, and I don’t have to. That agreement you made me sign, it made you so confident that you didn’t worry about what happens if you had a kid because you never planned on giving me one. Your ex-wife, Miriam, she told me she wanted children, but you kept putting it off.”

“You talked to Miriam?”

“I did,” Maria said. “We’re very close, now. She’s a nice lady. Quite pretty and sexy, too. We’re very close.”

“You’ll never get away with this, so dig me up and I’ll forget it happened, and make you rich, Jimmy, rich.”

Maria reached back. “Mm, Jimmy, you’re getting hard again. Does that mean you wanna fuck me again while you’re thinking about his offer?”

Jimmy nodded. Maria got down on her knees two feet in front of Brent’s face and sucked the boy to a full erection, then looked at Brent and said, “If he wasn’t such a great lover, I don’t think I could have gotten through our wedding day, let alone last three years with you.”

“What? Our wedding day?”

“That’s right,” Jimmy said. “Twice, once before the ceremony and once during the reception. We snuck off and fucked while everybody was congradulating you. Every time I come to visit, we fuck like rabbits as soon as you turn your back. And Maria always in española says, ‘Oh Jimmy, follas mucho mejor que Brent.’”