WPC #327: Mafia (Aitsuji)

Title: Married to my Coffee Maker

Concept: Arranged marriage, mafia romance, fluffy, slice of life

Character:

Mafia patron (ML)

Cafe Owner (FL)

Trader (Dick 2nd ML)

Plot outline: -refer to draft-

Draft:

Rich mysterious man chances upon a small cosy cafe and falls in love with the coffee there made by a talented lady. Rich men decides to become a regular patron and even if he is intimidating, she never stops smiling whenever she delivers his coffee.

One day she stops smiling and even her coffee tastes different. The rich man asks why she was not focused when brewing, lady apologises and rich men starts to probe for reasons when lady admits she was closing the cafe and apologises to her regular customer for not being to make more coffee in future. When asked why she had to close it, lady explains it was because she was getting married and her fiance did not want her working.

Rich man suspects that there was more to it. Married ladies should be happier. Sends his personal assistant to investigate before the week ends. Also decides to buy over the entire cafe rights.

Learns that the woman's parents were indebted to a rich trader who was a horrible human and marriage to her was part of the contract for lending her money to pay off her parents' medical bills. Decides to take matters into his own hand for selfish reasons because he likes her coffee.

On the last day of cafe, rich man visits lady and asks if lady still wants to make coffee in the cafe if she had a choice. Lady admits that she would rather keep the cafe if she could but she has no choice as her husband says no. Rich man asks if lady would rather marry a different man if it meant she could keep the cafe and continue making the coffee she enjoyed brewing. Lady was puzzled but answered the hypothetical question with a yes if that new man allowed her to do what she liked and not demand anything else from her or her family.

Rich man tells her to sign a contract with him and it turns out to be a wedding certificate. Behind the wedding certificate is also the cafe's lease that will only be transferred back to her after today if she signed the marriage contract. Woman is shocked and hesitated but rich man assures her he would do everything the right way such as rings, gowns and meeting her parents. He would also deal with the husband she was meant to marry and since there was no love between lady and the fiance it should be fine.

Lady asks for assurance that once she signed it the rich man will take care of her and her parents. Also warns rich man that her fiance has underground dealings and is not an easy character. Rich man raises a brow and pulls lady's hand inside his coat. Lady feels the handle of his gun and pales.

Rich man tells her that he was more than capable of dealing with any obstacles if she agreed and his only condition was that she must not stop making the kind of coffee he liked in this place. Lady quickly signs the documents and rich man leaves to prepare for it.

- Rich man deals with trader

- Rich man greets his parents in law with lady

- Lady moves in with rich man and makes coffee in his house so that he doesn't have to go the the shop

- Lady slowly discovers more things about her new husband and through brief interactions became closer than contract partners

- Rich men gets into trouble and lady was there for him

- Eventual romance

- Falls in love for real and not just a paper marriage (she will make him coffee every morning until the end of time) happy ending.

===** This is a complete outline for a book so feel free to adopt it if you want.**===