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?”

bed, feeling awkward. I never wanted to see Daniel ever again, let alone have this weird conversation about why I didn’t want to

to be married to someone who loves me. Not to someone who is only marrying me because

look and

attracted to me,” I

an arm to put around my shoulders. I shoot him a look, though, and he pulls his

marriages work out anyway, and at least we

at him, aghast.

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

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

a laugh at

really am sorry about what happened in the coffee shop. But isn’t it kind of weird that we found

fate, Daniel, it’s fake,” I say, looking at him with all of my pain showing. I can’t help it – he was my first love, and he

who is

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

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Gifts

– Betrothed–2

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

fervently

about there. Please,” he turns worried eyes to me and I’m surprised to see true fear in his

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

head and 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 the

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

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

he knows it

people like me, Fay?” Daniel asks, turning

not even

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

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