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

"That's not what you said, Salvatore. You said you'd give me the goddamn phone" I huffed in annoyance, my eyes wide as I stared at him.

It was barely morning, but after tossing and turning in bed, I resigned myself to the fact I wouldn't be able to sleep unless I wanted to subject myself to the nightmares that plagued me what felt like an eternity ago.

When I tried to recall my last nightmare, I realized that it had been a while and now, it was back as I left Italy… as I left Vincenzo. The person who was able to take away my nightmares even though he was the one who plagued them.

"I know what I said, Adriana." Salvatore's tired voice brought me out of my never-ending thoughts, and I refocused my eyes on him.

He had told me a few hours ago that I'd be given a burner phone to reach out to Vincenzo, but now he had simply confiscated my phone as planned but was saying he couldn't give me a burner phone.

THE SNITCH?