No one messes with a Garcia

"Mom, Dad, I think Xander has been cheating on me and I have the video to prove it," Rachel deadpanned, staring both of them in the eye.

She couldn't even understand or interpret their emotion, her Dad looked confused while Mom looked paused, slowly and steadily she saw rage well up in her father while her mom was still paused, opening her mouth and closing back, it seemed she was having a harder time processing the whole information, what she didn't expect was to see coming was the devastating rage Mr. Garcia was going to display.

"Who the fuck those the Bastardo think he is!" Mr. Garcia stood up in full rage.

"Il mio amore, calmati," Mrs. Garcia stood up to put a hand on his chest.

"No!"

"I must call the Millers now, this is an insult not just to my daughter, but a full insult to me and you Amore," Mr. Garcia raged.

"Can you just calm down, we haven't even seen the video yet," Mrs. Garcia said taking Rachel aback, she Mrs Garcia like Xander but she didn't know, it was to the extent that she would choose not to believe her own daughter.

"Are you suggesting that my daughter is lying?!" Mr. Garcia said, looking at her.

"No,"

"Let's just see the evidence Antonio, we can't go fully prepared for the Millers and not have watched the evidence…" Mrs. Garcia tried to reason with him.

"Watch a video that continuously breaks my daughter's heart,"

"You can go ahead, I will not watch that damned video," Mr. Garcia said, going back to the couch and switching off the TV.

"Let me see the video honey," Mrs. Garcia said.

Rachel pulled out her phone and the first thing she saw was a ton of messages from Xander, apologizing and begging her not to show her parents and let them work it out between themselves.

"I guess it's too late for that," Rachel thought to herself.

She swiped the messages to the left, canceling them, she checked her phone for the video and gave her mom a broken look, she had to make them believe she was badly hurt by Xander, she handed the phone shakenly to her mother, and her father went by her side to hug her.

"Why do you even want to watch that damned video,"

"Can't you see how badly shaken up our daughter is!" Mr. Garcia exclaimed.

Mrs Garcia who was already broken by the video, all she saw was a blond bimbo on Xander's lap, she couldn't begin to comprehend the whole story, like has Xander been smiling to her face and going behind her to hurt her daughter, because if that was the case, he was in for some big trouble.

"How did you even get the video honey?" Mrs. Garcia asked.

"Emela!" Mr. Garcia exclaimed.

"I just want to know alright"

"Jesus, I'm shaken up as our daughter, I'm not about to stomp the Miller's estate without a proper back story, now that will make us look more stupid than we intend to look," Mrs. Garcia said.

"Well, if you so badly want to know mother, we were supposed to have a lunch date and just before the lunch date, I got a video sent to me from a strange number, when I tried to trace the number back thinking it was a hacking scheme, the number was blocked, so I played the video and first thing I heard was Xander's voice…" Rachel said, deliberately not telling the whole tale, she started faking a breakdown and her father continued to hold her tight.

"Emela!"

"I told you this will be too much for her, she needs a rest baby, tomorrow morning we go to the Millers, no one screws over Garcia and gets away with it," Mr Garcia.

"Mi amore," Mrs. Garcia said looking scared as hell at her husband

"Yes?"

"You sound like a top drug lord, it's scary."

"Sorry honey,"

"What do you want dear," Mrs Garcia said looking at Rachel with pity

"Soup?"

"Hot cocoa?"

"Some junk food?"

"Or Ice cream?" Mr Garcia suggested.

"Yeah! ice cream always cheered you up when you were a little girl and you would come back from school complaining that your friends didn't want to play with you and you would cry so much, we had to start getting cookie dough ice cream everyday," Mrs Garcia said laughing back at the old memories.

"Thanks mom, but no thanks,"

"I will be fine, I just need some rest okay. I have had a really long day, I can't believe we are still in a twenty hours scope," Rachel mentioned, smiling at them

"I will head upstairs now, goodnight Mom and Dad," Rachel said, giving both of them a kiss on the cheek.

"Good night mi amore,"

"Good night love," they both said respectively.

"Wait Araceli,"

"Yes Mom?"

"You left your brother in the game room," Mrs. Garcia said to her.

"Fuck shit,"

"Language," Mrs Garcia warned sternly.

"Sorry Mom,"

Rachel headed to the game room to look for Ace and saw him passed out on the sofa in the dim light game room, it was already five minutes till eleven, but it was fine since he didn't have any school tomorrow, but now she knew why they didn't let him go to school, Araceli went through shit in school, so they tried to avoid it with Ace.

Now she felt bad, she kept him waiting till he slept off, making a mental note to take him out, she carried him to his room and tucked him in, leaving the door slightly ajar like he always wanted it, she left his room.

She looked at her phone only to be assaulted with more messages from Xander begging her not to show her parents.

"Oh, so now he wants to beg," Rachel thought to herself.

She decided to save him from his misery by completely destroying him.

You

Oops, already showed them the video

Xander

Please tell me you are kidding…

Xander

You are kidding right?

Xander

Please answer me babe, You are getting me worried.

You

Lol, see you tomorrow babe. xoxo

Xander

Tomorrow?!

Xander

What's happening tomorrow?

Xander

Please babe talk to me I'm here for you

Xander

Please…

Rachel muted him feeling more satisfied than ever, finally Xander was getting just the treatment he deserved after all the years he had spent manipulating Araceli, he would finally get a piece of his own poison and tomorrow was going to be one of the best days of her life.

Her phone started going off with notifications, she thought she had muted the motherfucker till she realized it wasn't him, it was Alice.

"Just perfect," Rachel thought to herself as picked up her phone again but the brightness was not friendly anymore because she had turned off the lights in her room.

She took her phone to see texts from Alice telling not to take any hasty decision that they needed to talk it through, the last text that came in was a 'pick up the call pls' text, just as the text came in, a few seconds later, a call followed.

"Hey Araceli," the remorse in her voice brought a stale taste to her mouth.

"First of all, I'm so sorry, I never one time imagined Xander would do something that stupid," Alice started

"Alice…"

"Yeah?"

"Look babe I'm here for you and—"

"Hold it," Rachel deadpanned.

"I didn't tell you Xander cheated on me, so how exactly did you come about this information? Or were you at the hotel room where it happened?" Rachel asked in a flat tone, she was definitely not leaving Alice out of this fire, the she-snake deserved to burn too.

As expected, there was a huge pause as Rachel dropped a tongue tying question on her, Alice was confused, terrified and scared.

First of all, she knew Xander was desperate now and will do anything to keep his CEO position, and that anything included dragging her to hell with him, that's how she got into all this mess in the first place.

"What Alice,"

"Cat got your tongue?" Rachel asked, as she was literally tired of hearing Alice breathe erratically.

"Lol I don't even have a cat," Alice said trying to joke away the question, she knew at this moment, Araceli held all of the right cards and one slip up from her can cause her a shit ton of problems and ruin her effort over the past years.

"Look, Xander told me alright,"

"Trust me, I scolded him and told him if losing you was what he wanted, then he was a fool and he said he didn't want to lose you and he loves you…"

"Alice, what are you doing?"

"Huh?" Alice said, acting dumb.

"Shit...shit...shit Araceli wasn't having any of it," Alice thought to herself.

"Are you seriously taking his side right now?"

"I mean tell me, Is the dick that good?"