Gifts

Chapter 11 – Betrothed–1

I’m laying back on my bed, all cried out, when I hear a knock at my door. I raise my head and groan inwardly. What’s next?

Before I can get up to answer it, the door creeks open a little. I sigh. No such thing as privacy in the Mafia palace.

“Fay?”

My mouth drops open as I hear a voice that I recognize. I’m too shocked to speak as I see him peek around the door, smiling shyly.

“Are you okay, Fay?”

Daniel. I just stare at him.

He grimaces and comes into the room, pressing the door shut behind him. Then he leans back on it, staring at me, quirking his mouth into that sweet smile I used to love.

I groan and lay my head back on my pillows. “Go away, Daniel. We can talk about our engagement later.”

“Fay,” he says, and I can hear the apology in his voice. I hear him come closer to the bed. “Come on, Fay,” he says. “It could be worse.”

I open my eyes and glare at him. “Are you serious, Daniel?”

He shrugs and again gives me that charming smile, sliding his

“Shh!” He puts a hand out towards me and looks anxiously at the door. “Seriously, Fay, watch what you say. We can’t talk about that sort of thing here.”

I glance at the closed door, confused. “Can they hear us in here?”

“My dad has ears everywhere,” he murmurs. He turns back to me. “Are you mad at me?”

alone have this weird conversation about why I didn’t want to be his mafia bride just because our parents promised us to

not mad at you,” I say quietly. “It’s just… I want to be married to someone who loves me.

look and I

attracted to me,” I finish.

me on the bed, reaching out an arm to put around my shoulders. I shoot him a look, though, and

this, Fay,” he says quietly. “Not all marriages work out anyway, and

at him, aghast.

Daniel? Don’t you want to marry someone

defeated. “This is not a world where what I want, personally, really matters. And with you, well.

a laugh

sorry about what happened in the coffee shop. But isn’t it kind of weird that we found each other out there on our own anyway, and

– he was my first love, and he totally

who is unfaithful to

husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl. Do you

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the door. “I get that you’re upset –

nod fervently

me and I’m

going out to him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the

floor. “It’s a different world here, Fay – that’s

are 100 years old, maybe more. And tradition is everything, family is everything. If I don’t get married, don’t have kids to carry on the family line…not only will they consider me a failure, but it will cause massive chaos in the city as the other bosses try to

perfect face, feeling for him. He’s trapped and

he knows it

people like me,

head no, not

sexuality, who they are, and if they do it again, they…they

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