The Mafia's Pregnant Bride

The Mafia's Pregnant Bride

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"It won't be a straight death from where you're standing." I blink, turning around. "What?" But he doesn't give me a reply. At least not yet. Instead, he takes hold of my arms in his large, gloved hands, and pulls me to him so that we are standing toe to toe. "What are you doing?" I whisper. This new position has brought us closer. So close that if I stand on my toes, and he dips his head down a bit, I'd probably have the best kiss... "If you fall from here, the possibility of you dying immediately is 98% at the very least," He begins as I stare at him with my mouth slightly agape. "Falling from where you stood before is about 35% lesser. You'd die eventually, maybe after a night or two of trying to revive your shattered bones, but not immediately." Having made his point, he steps back from me and climbs down the somewhat elevated platform. "Did you just make way for me to kill myself?" I murmur, feeling like I'm losing my mind all over again. What kind of a man is this? *** Sonia's life is going great one minute and then takes a spin for the worse when she is betrayed, gets pregnant and worse, is told that she will be getting married to Italian mafia heir, Anthony Romero, who doesn't mind raising another man's child. She abhors the idea, but having also recently been disowned by her father, she has no choice but to accept the marriage proposal if she wants protection for herself and her child. But she has questions. Why would a sane man from her world want to raise a child that isn't his? Surely they're ulterior motives in play. *** Anthony Romano gave up on love a very long time ago and swore never to let another woman in. Then in comes this one woman he calls 'wife', breaking down walls he spent years building. But he's not about to let some flimsy feelings get in the way of his one need.

Protagonist

: Sonia Dexter, Anthony Romano

Chapter 1 A DOSE OF BETRAYAL

SONIA'S POV

"I don't know how I feel about your boyfriend, Sonia," Jessica, my best friend says from inside the apartment while I work on my laptop in the balcony of Shaun's apartment.

I playfully roll my eyes, "Yeah?" I say, encouraging my friend to go on without looking away from my laptop screen. It isn't news anymore that Jessica hates, and that's using capital letters to emphasize it, my boyfriend, Shaun. It has been evident in the way she always schools me about him. In her words, I wasn't supposed to end up with someone like Shaun after years of being single.

"It's just that I think he's a sketchy human being. Who leaves their girlfriend in their apartment for days while they go away to another city? Who knows what he's doing as we speak. Who knows who he's with?!"

I sigh and get up on my feet, going back inside. "Don't put images in my head, Jess. He's away on a business trip." I say to her for the umpteenth time in three days.

"That's what you keep saying, my friend." Jess walks up to me and guides me to the couch so we're now sitting on it. "You know I love you and I only want the best for you, right?"

I nod while keeping my face neutral.

"Leave Shaun. He will break your heart and leave you ruined for your soul mate. I don't want that. You're way too good for him. You know I know a guy who knows a guy, I could hook you up with someone better. And richer too."

"Jessica?" I stare intently at my best friend who is as beautiful as they come, her Brunette curly hair a perfect contrast to my ginger, wavy one.

"Yes, honey?"

"I'm not interested." I deadpan and with that, we both start laughing. The conversation switches to something lighter from there.

In all honesty, Jessica's comments about Shaun hasn't escaped the rational part of me. Each time she fly's in from the UK, she always tries to change my mind about him and when that is done not once or twice but past five times, it only leaves me to wonder if Jessica is seeing something in Shaun that I'm not.

Whereas Shaun isn't necessarily my first boyfriend ever, Jessica has had so many experiences in the dating field so if she says Shaun isn't genuine, then maybe she could most definitely be speaking from experience.

My mind immediately goes to that night two weeks ago when I saw that small black box in the jacket of his suit after our dinner. Sitting pretty and all shiny inside the box was a diamond ring. I had thought he didn't find the perfect time during our date to pop the question but up until now, he hasn't either.

Long after Jessica leaves to catch her evening flight back to the UK, I lay in Shaun's bedroom, enveloped in the warmth of his bed that emanates his oud perfumed scent. Like a bee drawn to honey, I pick up my phone from beside me and break the one promise I made to myself when I had installed a tracker into Shaun's phone. I know I initially said it would be only for emergencies but in case you haven't noticed, there's an internal crisis going on inside me which is in fact an emergency.

Finding the tracking app connected to my phone, I input Shaun's phone's IP address and hold my breath as a green circle rolls on the screen, indicating that it's loading. By the time it's done loading, my breath still remains hitched in my throat and a million thoughts races through my head.

Maybe, Jess was right after all.

I can hear my consciousness say, but I push her voice far away. Now's not the time.

The red dot on my screen indicates that Shaun is here in New Orleans. Specifically at the New Orientals Hotel, the largest hotel chain in North America.

He's supposed to be in Japan on a research trip with his colleagues. Just this morning he said he wouldn't be back until Friday night and today was just... Wednesday.

Before I can think better of it, I grab my jacket and car keys and in two minutes, I'm driving down to Shaun's location. There's no doubt he's cheating, exactly as Jessica had suspected.

Less than twenty minutes later, I'm parked in the hotel's parking lot and despite my inner turmoil, I will myself to look unbothered as I walk into the hotel, clad in a black satin skirt and matching bodysuit. Colors that match how I feel inside.

I don't stop to speak with any of the receptionists, neither do I use the elevator. I climb the stairs one at a time, until my green dot is directly aligned with Shaun's red dot. I look up and find myself in front of Room 213.

My heart begins to thunder. Not from my walk on the stairs but from what lays behind the doors. Today I have decided to make peace with myself. The life I live isn't truly the one which has been destined for me since birth and Shaun's actions has just given me a reality check, reminding me that we were probably never meant to be.

Probably?

Oh, who am I kidding? My family's affiliation with the mafia world would always be a barrier stopping me from having or creating anything meaningful with the real world.

My knuckles connect with the cold surface of the door, sending two series of raps against it. I can hear muffled sounds behind the door but because I've had years of experience in overhearing conversations that I shouldn't have been listening to outside the doors of my father's office, I'm able to make out the words.

"Who is there?" I know for sure that that is Shaun's voice.

Clearing my voice to make it sound as unrecognizable as I can muster, I reply, "Room Service."

"Babe, I think your meal is here."

"Finally! I'm famished."

That voice... If my listening wasn't as skilled as it was, I would have missed it. But...

The door flies open and I'm not the only one who stands frozen in their stance. My mouth is slightly agape and it's not from the shock of seeing Shaun's equally shocked and shirtless form behind the brunette that answered the door.

I'm shocked because the woman holding the door open and looking at me with a flustered face while wearing a thin material of nightwear that leaves nothing to the imagination ... is Jessica.

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The Mafia's Pregnant Bride
1

Chapter 1 A DOSE OF BETRAYAL

24/01/2025

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Chapter 2 THE STRANGER

24/01/2025

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Chapter 3 TWO BUNS IN THE OVEN

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Chapter 4 MEETING ANTHONY

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Chapter 5 MRS. ROMANO

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Chapter 6 CRAZY ITALIANS

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Chapter 7 A PLAN IN MOTION

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Chapter 8 FOR THE RECORD

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Chapter 9 HONEYMOON

24/01/2025

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Chapter 10 A WAVE OF SADNESS

24/01/2025

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Chapter 11 ALL ALONE

09/02/2025

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Chapter 12 BURGLED

10/02/2025

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Chapter 13 THE DRIVE BACK

12/02/2025

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Chapter 14 STICKING WITH MY RULES

12/02/2025

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Chapter 15 NEW PRIORITIES

13/02/2025

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Chapter 16 I NEED A JOB

15/02/2025

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Chapter 17 THE PERFECT PLAN

15/02/2025

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Chapter 18 A DAMN SHOW

17/02/2025

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Chapter 19 PARTY 1

18/02/2025

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Chapter 20 PARTY 2

19/02/2025

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Chapter 21 UNDERGROUND

25/02/2025

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Chapter 22 DISTRACTIONS

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Chapter 23 THEY CAN'T KNOW

27/02/2025

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Chapter 24 NO FRIENDS

28/02/2025

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Chapter 25 DONUTS

02/03/2025

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Chapter 26 THE DIFFERENCE

04/03/2025

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Chapter 27 LOOK THE OTHER WAY

06/03/2025

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Chapter 28 ADVANCES

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Chapter 29 CHANGE OF PLANS

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Chapter 30 EMERGENCY CALLS

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Chapter 31 TENSION

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Chapter 32 KISSES

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Chapter 33 THE BEGINNING FB

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Chapter 34 TAYLOR

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Chapter 35 SUNKEN SPA DATE

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Chapter 36 FORGOTTEN MISSION

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Chapter 37 MEAN SCOWL

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Chapter 38 SPILLED

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Chapter 39 UNDERSTANDING

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Chapter 40 MORE THAN ONESIES

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