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?”

Daniel ever again, let alone have this weird conversation about why I

just… I want to be married to someone who loves me. Not to someone who is

look and I sigh, watching my

who isn’t attracted to

around my shoulders. I shoot

things about this, Fay,” he says quietly. “Not all marriages work out anyway, and at least we know we like each

look up at him, aghast.

Don’t you want

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

laugh at

shop. But isn’t it kind of weird that we found each other out there on our own anyway, and we

my pain showing. I can’t help it – he was my first love,

is unfaithful to

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

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Gifts

11 – Betrothed–2

his eyes skittering for the door.

fervently at this.

not something we can talk about there. Please,” he turns worried eyes to me and I’m

him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first century – it’s so backwards

looking 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

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

study Daniel’s perfect face, feeling for him. He’s

he knows it

what they do to people like me,

shake my head no, not

says, “make them denounce their sexuality, who they are, and if they do it again, they…they mutilate them…”

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