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

The blaring alarm jerked me awake, and I groaned, shoving a pillow over my head.

"What time is it? Just shut up" I muttered, voice thick with sleep.

I rolled over, my hand instinctively going to the necklace around my neck. The small pendant was cool against my fingers and I immediately jerked awake, my eyes flickering around the room as I toyed with the necklace.

I sighed, tracing the edges of it. He had given it to me before leaving, and now, I couldn't stop touching it. It was stupid how much I missed him already. It hadn't even been that long, yet I felt his absence in a way that annoyed me yet also exhilarated me. It was a weird thing.

FEAR FOR THE CAPO