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?”

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

someone who loves me. Not to

gives me a worrying look and

to

next to me on the bed, reaching out an arm to put around

he says quietly. “Not all marriages

up at him,

Daniel? Don’t

voice defeated. “This is not a world where what I

huff a laugh at

sorry about what happened in the coffee shop. But isn’t it kind of weird that we found each other out there on our

help it – he was my first love, and he totally betrayed me, and now here he is asking me to jump right

don’t want a husband who is

voice to a hiss. “And I don’t want a husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl. Do you really want us to be in a fake marriage for the rest

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Gifts

– Betrothed–2

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

nod fervently

and I’m surprised to see true fear

big deal? It’s the twenty–first century – it’s so backwards

don’t understand,” he says, shaking his 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

to carry on the family line…not only will they consider me a failure, but it will cause massive chaos

Daniel’s perfect face, feeling for him.

he knows it

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

no, not even wanting to

says, “make them denounce their sexuality,

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