PROMISE ME (OSCAR DIAZ x OC)

Chapter Fifty-Nine (Oscar)

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

Oscar

Quick is an understatement.

By the time they got Alana into a gown and into the room, they got her into the bed and checked to see if she was dilated and they poked my son's fucking skull. Everyone was gasping and rushing around but Alana just blinked.

"I think I need to push." Alana said and I was begging for her to just hold on two minutes until they got the doctor in there.

The doctor came in at the perfect time because with a stone cold face she pushed one single time and our son was out. Placed onto her chest as he's red and screaming at the top of his lungs. Mia actually might have some vocal competition.

After nearly an hour they finally cleaned everything up. Alana was moved into a recovery room and it was finally quiet. Our son was bundled up in blankets and respectfully, our family and friends knew we just wanted some time alone to bond.

Geny and Ray had taken Mia from Cesar who in this moment is pissed at me. I told him that he needs to man the fuck up and be a father to the son he has with Vero. Liking Vero or not liking her no longer matters, that child is his and he needs to step up instead of sitting at home constantly pissed off because Vero lied to everyone.

I know that Cesar knew deep down it was his kid. He had been so adamant that I needed to fix shit with Alana and get back on her good side but under my nose he was doing whatever he could to avoid the truth about Vero and that child.

"I never wanted a son," Alana says softly as she holds the baby in her arms. "When Olivia moved in with us... I had a talk with her and Ruby... About you. I said living in Freeridge and being with you meant I could never have a son, that he'd be born just to take after you. Born with a teardrop tattoo on his face."

I look down and swallow hard. It explains why she was so fucking happy the day she found out Mia was a girl. She couldn't wait to be a girl mom and then her reaction to finding out we were having a boy shortly after... I could see she was happy but not as happy as she should have been. Not nearly as happy as I had been.

"I-"

"Oscar, I'm really happy now. Looking at him I realize how wrong I was to think so negatively. For so long I thought I wouldn't have had a chance to rewrite my fate. But with him... I can. I can teach him right from wrong and show him that there's a better way to live life. He will never know the streets the way you and I have."

Nodding and feeling every word I want to say caught right in my throat. Unable to speak as I see her kiss his little nose. Tears falling from her eyes.

"He doesn't look like an Adrian. I've been staring at him trying to figure out what to name him... I keep forcing myself to want t call him Adrian but it's not him."

I kiss her cheek, her salty tears landing on my lips but I use my thumb to wipe the rest away from her face. "I had told Ruby the two names we had been debating on at that time."

"He hated Adrian didn't he?"

I nod and a smile pulls on my lips. "He liked my pick..."

"What was it again? I honestly forgot."

"Nico." I tell her. "Nico Ruben Diaz."

Alana looks down at the baby in her arms. Staring at him for a few minutes. Her eyes searching his face and I know she's repeating the name over and over in her head to make sure it suits him.

I, myself, took one look at him when he was born and I knew that was going to be his name. There was no way I could look at him and be able to call him anything but that. It's been stuck in my head ever since Ruby agreed with me and then died in my fucking arms.

I try not to let it bother me but it does. Seeing his eyes glass over and feeling the warmth leave his body. Knowing that I had to be the one to tell his sister, who loved him so much no matter how wrong he was at times, that she lost her baby brother.

"Nico..." She whispers with a smile as she runs the pad of her thumb over his delicate cheek. "Mia and Nico... Nico and Mia... It works. It really does."

My heart thunders with joy and completion. "Thank you..." I whisper to her. "You have no idea what this means to me."

"It's not for you." Alana says with a tearful smile. "It's for my brother."

I climb into the bed with her and hold her in my arms as she rests her head onto my chest. Looking down at my son and falling in love all over again. I can't wait for Mia to finally meet her baby brother. I wonder if they'll get along like Alana and Mario did when they were children or if they'll be more like her and Ruby when they were younger.

-

The next morning the door burst open to the hospital room and I assumed it was Geny demanding to see her new grandbaby or one of the nurses that comes in every few hours to press on Alana's stomach and yell at her to get up and go pee even though she just got comfortable after feeding Nico or just wanting to rest.

Instead it was an officer who came in and crossed her arms looking at me up and down with distaste written across her face.

"Oscar Diaz?" She asks.

"Yes?" I reply confused. "What's this about? I'm sort of in the middle of something here. You're intruding on my wife's healing after giving birth."

"Where were you last night between 7:15PM and 7:45PM?"

I motion my hand around the hospital room. "I was here. With my wife. As the doctors and nurses. We got here at 6:58 and our son was born at 7:04. I'm going to ask again, what this is about?"

"Last night at 7:22PM we received a 911 call from a distressed woman who claimed her boyfriend, Joseph Quinos, or as you may know him as Joker, had been shot and killed in their home. She made it known he had some bad blood that had boiled over with your fellow gang members."

I shrug and shake my head. "I'm sorry to hear that but I've been with my wife and child. I no long affiliate myself with the gang since becoming a father. As I'm sure you've heard since you're very much on Sad Eyez's payroll- don't look at me like that. I'm not stupid, he gave me a list of officers he works with."

The officer huffs a breath and her eyes flicker toward Alana who's currently nursing our son. Talk about invasion of privacy, right? I cock my head to the side and cross my arms at the officer.

"We all set here? You can get a warrant for the hospital security cameras and see that I was here the entire time. You can check my phone too- I had no part in anything that had to do with that."

She sighs. "Do you have any leads? Any idea of who would want to kill Joker?"

"Do you have any leads on who killed Ruben Martinez?"

Silence.

"Mr. Diaz, I'm sorry. There wasn't any substantial evidence to help us with the case of Ruben Martinez. Everyone kept their mouths shut and I have a feeling it's going to be the same for your friend, yet again. The war with the Prophets is over. You're all just killing each other now."

I shake my head. "Don't include me in that."

"I just need you to lead me in the right direction.. Please."

I pause for a moment. "Find out who killed Ruben Martinez and then we can have a conversation. Until then... Don't ever bother me or my wife and children again. You won't stay on Sad Eyez's payroll for long."

"Is that a threat, Spooky?"

A smile curves onto my lips. "If you mess with my wife and children... Then yes. It is."