ESTANISLAO CONTRERAS

Estanislao Contreras took a seat on the deck at Cobbleheads with a long look on his face. He had thrown back four tequilas before he had taken a sip of his warm beer.

"What's the matter, compadre?" asked Jack O'Connell.

"My ex-wife, as part of the war she has declared, is turning my daughter against me. What does it say about a mother who turns a daughter against her father?"

"It shows that you were blind falling for her initially? Didn't you tell me that after the first time she fucked a new lover, he bored her. How long did you expect her to remain faithful to you? You put your trust in a woman who had fucked half of Brownsville. I told you from the beginning that you were a pendejo for falling for a recycled bitch, but you didn't listen."

"But she was so beautiful."

"Didn't her ex confront you at the Vermillion and tell you that on the long train that had stopped at her station, you were barely hanging on to the caboose? Didn't he tell you that you were feeding on the scraps after all the other dogs had feasted on her?

"I was a blind man who walked off the cliff into her bottomless pussy. She treated me like shit from the beginning, but I couldn't extract her from my system. My mother told me the first time she met her that she was no good, but I have accepted that God has decided that I should pay for my sins here rather than in purgatory."

"Everyone knows you're not perfect. That's why people love you. Everyone knows that you have been a stellar father. I know that dealing with angry children is painful, particularly when you're innocent, but now you know the truth about this woman. In the same manner she has never had any second thoughts about screwing others, she never had any second thoughts about screwing you. Unfortunately, the scores before you only thrust their weapon into her pussy. She has thrust her knife through your heart."

"Let me buy you a tequila, compadre."

"No, compadre. You have already paid too high a price. Let me buy you a tequila."