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

My jaw dropped and i stared at him wide eyed.

Don Stephen quickly pulled him inside and shut the door, pulling him by the collar before he pushed him to the wall roughly.

I gasped, wondering what had warranted that. "Don Stephen!" I exclaimed, my tone laced with panic.

He didn't answer me. If anything, his grip around Michael's neck tightened. "Bastard. I said I'd help you but I told you to never come over to the casino, didn't I?!" He barked at Micheal who raised his hands in surrender.

"Wait....I had to" He said. He didn't look like he was trying to struggle, it was almost like he was just there, accepting his fate but a part of me knew that if he wanted to, he could twist out of Don Stephen's grip.

Maybe I could too if I tried hard enough.

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