10TERRITORY

Anna's heart was beating first as she made her way to where the sheriff was standing. The stench of liquor and cigarettes on him was intoxicating but he looked sober.

He looked like a man who was in his fifties but he looked fit compared to the customs officer. The customs officer was already pissing off Anna.

"Hello ", the customs officer said as she created the sheriff.

"Hello Donald ", the sheriff said as he ignored the hand that the man had stretched out to him.

"What a pleasant surprise today but I didn't know you were dropping by ", Donald said trying to smile at the sheriff.

"Yes it was impromptu I heard my friend was in town and I wanted to say hi to her ", the sheriff said as he glanced at Anna and she went along with the lie.

"Oh I didn't know you two were friends ", Donald said trying to look at both of them at the same time but they were all smiling and he didn't detect any lie told.

"You don't expect to know all my friends now do you Donald ?", the sheriff asked him as he dropped the cigarette that he was smoking and stomped on it with his feet.

"No ", Donald said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Are you done with her I'd like to go on a ride with her it's been a while we need to catch up ?", the sheriff asked Donald who nodded.

"I hope you had fled her goods with the care I don't want anything going wrong ", the sheriff said and Anna chuckled.

She did but know this man. She had never seen him even once in her entire life and he was claiming to be her friend.

"Her things are okay and yes am done with her ", Donald said as he waved them off.

"Okay now let's go Anna you have a lot of things to tell me ", he said acting like they were siblings or something.

"I'll ride in my car ", Anna said as she walked over to her car.

"The last time I checked you loved my driving ", the sheriff said chuckling and signaled Anna to follow him but she wasn't having any of those.

"Yeah I did but it's not the same now am pregnant the stench of cigarettes and alcohol makes me retch ", Anna said and the sheriff stared at her belly.

Was she even saying the truth?

"Okay, congratulations you'll just follow me then ", the sheriff said and let it go as he entered the car and started it.

Dylan stood there shocked he didn't know if what they had been talking about was true.

He hadn't known that Anna was friends with the sheriff and that wasn't what had shocked him. Was she pregnant?

His mind started racing and he remembered the events that had taken place in the hospital.

Could that be what the doctor had told her? Was that why she looked pale? She had been working on stopping while she was pregnant.

There was a bit of sadness. He didn't want her to be pregnant. I'd she as pregnant then she was going to start a family with Vincenzo.

He had lost her and there was nothing he could do about it.

He got in his car and followed them, he needed to talk to her before he jumped to any more conclusions cause he was good at that.

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"Do you know him ?", Mateo asked Anna as they drove behind the sheriff.

They could tell he was taking them to town. They knew he knew what they were up to and what they had been doing at the port.

This had not been on the list of things that Anna had prepared herself in doing.

"We're going to be okay ", Anna said and she believed that they were going to be. He knew the sheriff only wanted money.

If he had wanted to arrest her they would have opened the container again. She didn't want to think about it.

She wondered who had informed the sheriff that she was in town or what she had been doing down by the docks.

She was a nobody but somehow the sheriff had known of her.

"That motherfucker ", Anna said as she took out her phone and dialed a number.

"Hello, are you watching the kid ?", she said to the person on the other side of the line.

"Yes ma'am ", the other person said.

"Don't let him out of your sight and tell me everything that goes on. Who comes and who leaves ", Anna said as she cut the call.

"It was Scarface ", Anna said as she tried to calm herself down.

"Are you sure ?", Mateo asked her.

"He is the only person I argued with. The other buyers had no issue we conducted our business the way we're supposed to do it ", Anna said.

She knew that Scarface wouldn't go down with a fight but she had never thought that he would rat her out.

She had tried to be nice and give him a second chance to work together but it was clear only one person could do business there.

Scarface was hell-bent on making sure he made Acapulco his territory. It was a territory that Neegan would never let go of.

He didn't care how many people's blood needed to be shed for them to understand he was the king. He ruled there and people needed to understand and respect that but Scarface didn't see that.

He wanted to play a dangerous game that he was going to lose. He didn't know how far Neegan would go to prove a point.

He did not care who was caught in the crossfire of his rage and Anna didn't want to know either. She was trying to manage things but sooner or later Neegan was going to find out what was happening.

"What are you going to do about it ?", Mateo asked Anna.

"I'll take what hurts him the most m I told him to do as I say and not to pay with me. He has it coming. Seems like he doesn't love his son enough. I'll take care of him until he gets back to his senses ", said Anna as the car stopped at a restaurant that the sheriff had chosen.

She needed to handle him and go on with business.