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 why I didn’t want to be his mafia bride just because our parents

I say quietly. “It’s just… I want to be married to someone who loves me. Not to someone who is only marrying me because of who

gives me a worrying look and I sigh, watching my words.

to me,”

the bed, reaching out an arm to put around my shoulders. I

could be good things about this, Fay,” he says quietly. “Not all marriages

him, aghast.

Daniel? Don’t you want to marry someone you

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

huff 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 isn’t it

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

don’t want a husband who is unfaithful to

a husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl. Do you really want us to be in a

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Gifts

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the door. “I

fervently at

we can talk about there. Please,” he turns worried eyes to me and I’m surprised

it such a big deal? It’s

he says, shaking his head and looking down at the floor. “It’s a different world here, Fay –

this 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 massive chaos in the city as the other bosses try to grab what my dad has built. What I will inherit, whether I

face, feeling for him. He’s trapped and

he knows it

me,

head no, not even wanting to

denounce their sexuality, who they are,

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