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

I didn't want to involve Vincenzo because if I failed, it would put his life at risk but now, desperate times called for desperate measures which was why I had asked Val to contact him as he would be more likely to come if he heard that the woman who has stolen from him wanted to see him.

Now as I set eyes on him looking up at me with a smile on his face, I felt my heart literally melt into a puddle under his gaze.

He hasn't answered me yet when I said we needed to talk, it was almost like he was weighing the odds of something.

"Vi—" I started, but before I could get another word out, he was already on his feet, leaving Hale gasping on the ground.

IN HIS ARMS AGAIN