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 told you. I can fucking walk by myself" I hold back a groan as I'm helped to my feet regardless by my father's guard.

My father was standing right in front of me, observing me with a blank look. "You can rely on help, Vin" He said without a thought.

I leaned heavily on the crotch, trying to ignore the dull throb in my legs and the pain in my hands from where I tried to grip the crutches. "Are you seriously the one telling me this?" I asked with a soft scoff as I looked him over.

The man who had raised me to believe that it was an abomination to be weak was now telling me that it was fine to rely on people. Seems like I died and woke up in an opposite universe.

He nodded to his guard to leave the ward and the man steadied me before he walked out of the ward, leaving my father and I alone.

"Well?" I managed to wave a hand dismissively before I leaned back on the crutch.

A KISS FOR THE HEIR