I woke up in a car. My hands were tied behind my back, scotch tape on my mouth, and my feet tied together in a way that was way too easy to untie by myself. I got out of the restraints but remained laying in the backseat as the two burly men sitting in the front talked in a language that definitely wasn't Italian.
I pulled the tape off of my lips slowly, then waited for the pain to subside. I breathed deeply. This wasn't new territory for me. And I had been prepared for this situation. Mariano had told me not to worry if something like this happened. I just had to be brave and keep myself safe. He would always be righe behind me. He'd come save me, soon.
"Hey guys, the last time I woke up in a car I found the love of my life. Tell me, do you have hot men where you're taking me?"
"Landon?"My heart sank. What the hell? What was sweet, sweet Landon who brought me pizza and brownies and made me laugh and watch Harry Potter with me doing here? The truth was hard to take in.I clenched my eyes shut, crying a lot more. Out of all the scenarios I had expected to play out, this had not been one of them. Of all the people in the world, it had to be him? I don't know what hurt more, my broken nose, or his betrayal."Hi, Izzy." He said.I shook my head hard. This was a dream. This had to be a dream. Landon wouldn't...But no matter how much I tried to lead myself astray from the truth, Landon had betrayed me. Landon was part of the Russian Mob.
I cried in the shotgun seat as Emilio drove. Mariano was lying in the back. I'd taken off his suit jacket, and his white shirt was bloodied. I couldn't bear to look at him, so I stared straight ahead at the winding road."He'll be alright." Emilio promised."It's so near to his heart." I sobbed. "I love him so much. I can't live without him.""You won't have to. We have the best doctors."How could he be so normal about this?"Why didn't he wear a fucking bulletproof jacket?" I shouted.Emilio flinched. "He was in a hurry."I cried harder. He'd come to save me, and now he was passe
The doctor had told us that Mariano should stay in the hospital for atleast another week. He was fine, but they wanted to keep a check on him. Mariano was...a little against that idea. He wanted to go home. But in the end I did convince him to stay, and he begrudgingly accepted. He did get, a private room, though. Turns out the Riveras had actually financed a wing of the hospital, which was the reason they enjoyed so much prestige her. I had just thought it was a mafia thing.I was currently in Mariano's room just chilling around him when Emilio peeped in through the door."Hey!" He greeted me, and handed me a packet. "I got you a proscuitto sandwich."Yum."Thanks!" Mariano chimed in, "I'm really hungry."Emilio hesitated. "Its not for you. The nurse will get you your food,fratello."I giggled. Mariano had been begging me to get him food from the outside."Thanks, Emilio." I told him gratefully, and he left.I q
He proposed the very day he was discharged from the hospital. Naturally, I was shocked beyond words. We'd known each other for all of a few months. I'd told him it was too early. But he'd insisted, and said we didn't have to get married right away."I'll wait." He'd said. "I just want my ring on your finger."So I'd said yes.We'd waited five years, until I had graduated, and had had a job for a year,Working was tough - being a mafia girlfriend and all. And I had to wear a bracelet every day to hide the black rose tattoo on my wrist which signified my allegiance to the Italian mafia.I was Donna, and Mariano had insisted that I just stay at home because he made money that was more t
Mariano and I had been married for 5 years now. It had been pleasant. No scratch that, it had been absolutely lovely being married to Mariano Wolfe Lionelli Montefiore Rivera.We loved each other so much, so hard, we needed nothing else.It was around 10 am on a rainy Sunday morning. I was in bed, naked, just having woken up. Mariano had had a meeting early in the morning so he'd left, leaving me in bed alone. I was about to leave this soft haven when the door to our room opened and Mariano stepped in."Good morning,dolcezzaBella." He said."Morning." I said, then rolled over to stare at him. "You're up early. And you're all dressed up."He was wearing h
For the last few months, there had been, only about, four days, when I had a good night's sleep. I had demons. And the night reminded me exactly why. My demons appeared vividly in my dreams. Each time I tried to forget, they reappeared. I couldn't escape them, no matter how hard I tried. This was something I was sure I would never escape, something that would always remain a part of me. Sometimes it felt like my past was embedded into my soul, I could feel its remnants flow through my body every passing day.My dreams - nightmares - were characterised by similarity. Most days, it was like an episode on repeat. Some days though, it was more real, more horrifying, and I felt everything down to my bones. It was
I was so glad that only Luca, and not Alessandro was the one taking me home. I really didn't like that guy. He was scary and looked like a cannibal. I kept thinking he’d rip out a part of my skin and chomp on it in front of my eyes."Ti sei divertito , giglio?"Luca asked as I strapped myself in the passenger seat of his Bugarti.(Did you have fun, lily?)
He was here. Don. Don was here. I did not have it in me to face him. We would be meeting again; I had known that. But this...soon? I was not so sure about that. What if he’d decided today was the day I died? What if he wanted to kidnap me and sell me to a cannibal? What is he sold me to Alessandro?!I told my co-worker, Millie to take his table. She looked at me weird - because, who'd deny a chance to wait on that sexy piece of a man?She pushed her chest into his face, smiling coquettishly at him as she asked him what he wante