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?”

up on the bed, feeling 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

want to be married to someone who loves me. Not to

and

attracted to

the bed, reaching out an arm to put around my shoulders. I shoot him a look,

about this, Fay,” he says quietly. “Not all marriages work out anyway, and at least

look up at him,

Don’t you want to marry

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

a laugh

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

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 now here he is asking me to jump right

don’t want a husband who is unfaithful

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

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– Betrothed–2

Daniel says, his eyes skittering for the door. “I get that

nod fervently at

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

to him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first century – it’s so backwards to think that way about sexual

his head and looking down at the floor. “It’s a different world here, Fay – that’s why I spend so much time

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

face, feeling for him. He’s trapped and

he knows it

you know what they do to people like me, Fay?” Daniel asks, turning to look at me, agonized.

not even wanting to

them denounce their sexuality, who they are, and if they do

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