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

Maybe it was absolutely stupid of me to leave my mansion in these trying times for us but today was her day and with the reports I was receiving then this may as well be the last time that I would see her so I decided to just take the risk.

The thought made me cringe because it wasn't something that came to mind a lotㅡdeathㅡ I never really cared about it but I remember wondering if I would ever be scared of death and my answer was always the same. A big fat no.

Fear was something that didn't come to me easily and these days, I found myself getting scared but it wasn't for myself but rather for the woman who stood a few feet away from me, her face contorted in pure shock like this was something she couldn't believe.

Salvatore couldn't also believe his ears when I had called him this morning to tell him that I was coming over. It had taken me less time than it had for her to come here to Costa Rica.

MY WOMAN