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?”

to see Daniel ever again, let alone have this weird conversation about why I didn’t want to be his mafia bride just

to someone who loves me. Not to someone who

worrying look and I sigh, watching my words.

to me,”

arm to put around my shoulders. I shoot him a look, though, and

marriages work out anyway, and at

up at him, aghast.

you actually on board with this, Daniel? Don’t you want to marry someone you love?”

what I want, personally, really matters. And

laugh at this.

you were really upset when we broke up!” Daniel continues, trying to be upbeat. “And I really am sorry about what happened in the coffee shop. But isn’t it kind of weird that we found each other out there on

him with all of my pain showing. I can’t help it – he was my first love, and he totally betrayed me, and

who is unfaithful to me,”

out in emphasis. I lower my voice to a hiss. “And I don’t want a husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl.

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his eyes skittering for the door. “I get that you’re upset

nod fervently

me and I’m surprised to see true fear in his face. “You’ve got to promise to keep it

it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first century –

down at the floor. “It’s a different world here, Fay – that’s why I spend so much time outside of it, at school, in the bookshops and coffee shops.”

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 grab what my dad has built.

study Daniel’s perfect face, feeling for him.

he knows it

to people like me, Fay?” Daniel asks, turning to look at

my head no, not even wanting to imagine it.

them,” he says, “make them denounce their sexuality, who they are,

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