Rafaella Dutra

“What did you say?”
“I said that if you won’t touch me and make me yours, then maybe someone should.”
To my surprise, Archie smirked at me and his gaze drifted to my lips.
“No one’s ever going to touch you but me, Rosie.”

***

Rosie Fay is the daughter of the mafia, so she is used to being surrounded by guns, sulky men, and dangerous deals. But her father thought she shouldn’t lead things after he was gone, so he made a deal and offered her hand in marriage to Archie Donovan.
The arranged marriage wasn’t the problem though—Archie was. He treated her well and took care of her, but that’s all their relationship entailed. No romantic strings attached. But they clearly liked each other, so why did he always push her away?
As the tension between them intensified, the dangers around the family increased. Was happiness even a possibility for them? Or would the mafia life take that away from her?
Daughter of the Mafia is created by Rafaella Dutra, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Daughter of the Mafia

Archie drove us both to one of our hotels after all the men headed home and the police were finally gone. I was too exhausted to think about the next steps and everything we had to handle the following day. I knew he’d have to organize the funeral and everything, and I felt sorry for Archie to have to deal with all of this by himself. 


If I was suffering, I could only imagine how he must’ve been feeling. 


I wasn't ready to go back to that house, no matter how hard I thought about it. I wouldn’t sell it—not yet—but for now, we’d have to find another place to live.


“What do you think about living in Manhattan for a while?” I asked Archie as we stepped inside the presidential suite of the hotel where we’d be spending the night.


“What do you mean?” he asked with a frown. I knew he was distracted, probably thinking about everything that had happened, but I wanted to help him take his mind off things for a bit.


Chapter 53: Aftermath