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 was biting on my nails as I sat on the couch that night, staring at the door.

It was already unnerving enough that I knew what he had gone to do. It was even more unnerving that he wasn't back but I had called Valentina and she had informed me that Vincenzo had left the "red room" as she referred to it as.

The door was suddenly pushed open and I stood up instantly, my eyes wide as I stared at Vincenzo walk in, already unbuttoning the top button of his shirt but he stopped on seeing me and he quickly rushed to my side.

"Woah… why are you still awake? It's midnight. Babe, for fucks sake, just because I wasn't home, you decided to stay up?" He was cupping my face, concern in his gaze.

My gaze frolicked around his body…looking for something to show the evidence of what I knew he had done but I saw nothing.

He must have noticed my scrutiny because he sighed and pulled me over to the couch. "Tesoro…"

NOT A FAIRYTALE BUT OUR FOREVER