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?”

awkward. I never wanted to see Daniel ever again, let alone have this weird conversation about

who loves me. Not to someone who is only marrying me because of who my father is, and certainly not someone

worrying look and I sigh, watching my words.

attracted to me,” I finish.

reaching out an arm to put around my shoulders. I shoot him a look,

Fay,” he says quietly. “Not all marriages work out anyway, and at least we know we

at him, aghast.

Don’t you want to marry someone you love?”

he says, shrugging, his voice defeated. “This is not a world where what I want, personally, really matters. And with you, well. At

a laugh at this.

when we broke up!” Daniel continues, trying to be upbeat. “And I really am sorry about what happened in the coffee shop. But

him with all of my pain showing. I can’t help it – he

who is unfaithful to

voice to a hiss. “And I don’t want a husband who is into men, considering I’m a

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Gifts

– Betrothed–2

Fay,” Daniel says, his eyes skittering for the door. “I get that you’re

nod fervently

he turns worried eyes to me and I’m surprised to see true fear in his face.

heart going out to him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first century – it’s so backwards to think that way about sexual

a different world here, Fay – that’s why I spend so much time outside of it, at school, in the

family,” he says, “all their values 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

feeling for him.

he knows it

know what they do to people like me, Fay?” Daniel asks, turning to look

shake my head no, not even wanting to

beat the crap out of them,” he says, “make them denounce their sexuality, who they

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