GemNoir

“You need my help, Tesoro. You choose. A marriage with me or be torn apart by them” His voice was cool as though this wasn't a matter of life or death.

I didn't want this life. My father had gambled a lot and left me with a lot of enemies and now I needed the help of Don Vincenzo LaRosa who was my high school bully and now the Don of the most powerful mafia family in Italy if I was going to survive it.

It was just a marriage of convenience but I realized something. He wasn't helping me out of a good heart. I had been sold without my permission to him. I was the mafia's pawn.

Sold to the Capo

"Let me go!" I screeched as the man roughly grabbed my hair, a sneer on his face.

I had been lingering upstairs, peeking at the conversation happening downstairs, desperate to grasp what was happening when I noticed this man staring up at the stairs like he could see me.

Immediately I had retreated, tiptoeing to the room to lock myself in when I suddenly felt someone grab my hair roughly.

Damn, he was fast and silent. I hadn't even sensed him behind me until he was just…there.

"Let go of me, you bastard" I thrashed about but he just dragged me like I was nothing but an empty sack towards the staircase.

"Look what I found" He whistled once we got to the top of the stairs and I froze, my hands still grasping with his that was tangled in my hair but that wasn't the reason for my tense figure.

LIVING AMONGST MONSTERS