"Papa! Please let me explain!" Frida cried. She was now a nineteen years old and standing in the living room with tears streaming down her face as her father shouted at her.

"How could you do this?!" He shouted.

"Dad! Do whatever you want to me but please don't hurt Manny! It wasn't his fault!"

"Not his fault?! How can you defend him?! After what he did to you?! After what he took from you?!"

"I love him Papa!" She screamed. "We're gonna get married."

"WHAT?!" He shouted so loud that all of Miracle City heard.

"He asked me yesterday and I said yes." She showed him the engagement ring on her finger.

"You can't marry him! I forbid you!"

"Emiliano, what on earth are you shouting about?!" Carmela said running upstairs to find her husband's face the color of fire and angry tears streaming down her daughter's face.

"I'm not a child anymore! Tomorrow morning we're going away together and we will get married."

"That will never happen! If that piece of trash ever show's his face around here again I'll shoot him dead!"

"Emiliano!" Carmela gasped.

Frida ran into her room, slammed the door, and locked it. She cried for over an hour then picked up her phone and dialed a number. On the other side of town, Manny had just finished packing his bags when the phone rang.

"Hello?" He could hear Frida's sobbing on the other line. "Frida, what's wrong?"

"He knows Manny! He knows what we did!" She cried.

"What are you talking about? Who knows what?"

"My dad! He knows what we did a couple nights ago."

Manny felt his heart stop and his blood run cold. Emiliano knew, he knew what they did. Manny was terrified that he would find out. But how? Both of them promised not to tell anyone, especially not him.

"How? How did he find out? Who told him?"

"Manny don't come over tonight."

"Frida I-"

"No! I've never seen him act this way. He's going crazy! He's gotta gun!"

"What do we do?"

"Run!" She cried. "Run Manny Run!"

She hung up. Manny bolted downstairs to the door.

"Hijo, is everything alright?" Rodolfo asked.

He didn't answer his father. He grabbed his keys off the hook, got in the car, and drove like til he reached her place. Frida saw him from her widow, she made sure her father didn't see him. Luckily the man was too busy talking on the phone with his fellow officers. She went outside and ran to Manny with tear filled eyes.

"Are you crazy!" She threw herself into his arms crying. "My dad will kill you!"

"I don't care!" He said wiping her tears away. "I love you! And I am going to marry you weather he likes it or not!"

"But-"

"Let's leave now! Tonight!"

"Tonight? What about my mother and my sisters?"

"We'll come back and talk to them once your dad calms down I promise."

"Okay."

"I just don't understand how he knew. We never told anyone, how did he find out?"

"Manny." She said sniffing. "There's something I have to tell you." She swallowed hard and prepared to give him the news. "I'm-"

"RIVERA!" Emiliano burst through the door with a gun in his hand. "You won't take my daughter from me! I'll kill you for what you did to her!"

He aimed his gun at Manny and pulled the trigger.

"Please stop!"

Frida stepped in front of Manny. A shot rang out, Manny cried out in terror when he saw her fall. He ran to her and held her close. When he looked down his hands were red. Frida put her hand to his cheek and smiled weakly.

"I love you." She whispered.

Her hand dropped from his cheek, her eyes fell close as she lost consciousness. Manny cradled her in his arms while sobbing.

"Hija?" Emiliano said shakily.

He reached for her, Manny swatted his hand away and looked at him with green eyes, burning in anger.

"STAY AWAY FROM HER!" He roared. "Stay away from my wife!"

He spun his belt and carried her to the hospital. She was taken into the operating room. Manny sat in the waiting room while crying. His father, mother, grandfather, Frida's mother, and sisters came by when they heard the news. Emiliano was arrested and being held until Frida decided to press charges if she lived. They all waited nervously in the waiting room until the doctor came out. He wanted to speak with her relatives first. What he told her mother and sisters shocked and horrified.

"How is she?" Manny asked. "Is she alright?"

"Excuse me but who are you?" The doctor asked.

"My name is Manny Rivera."

"And what is your relation to Miss Suarez?"

"I'm...her husband."

"Husband?"

"Well we haven't made it legal but yes I am."

"You're wife." He said making quotation marks with his fingers. "Has taken a bullet to the chest, there's a chance she might live but it's very slim especially for a woman in her condition for the past few days."

"Condition? What are you talking about?"

"You don't know?"

"Know what?"

"Mr. Rivera." The doctor said with pity in his eyes, he took a deep breath and released it calmly.

"She's pregnant."