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

"Adriana, stop struggling. I'm trying to help you." Salvatore's voice was steady, but Adriana could hear the irritation seeping into his tone as he dragged her along the dimly lit hallway to the direction of his study. She twisted and squirmed, her muffled screams echoing slightly even though she knew no one would come to help her, but his grip didn't falter.

"Quiet," he muttered, tightening his hold around her. "Stop moving about and stay still, will you? Don't make this any harder for both of us."

Her movements stilled at his warning, but her glare burned into him. She wanted to scream, to bite, to do anything to free herself, but her instincts told her that he wasn't bluffing and would actually do something to make her quieten down.

THE SNITCH