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Rejected by the Son, I Chose the Don
On my wedding day, my father sold me to the Chicago Outfit to pay his debts. I was supposed to marry Alex Moreno, the heir to the city's most powerful crime family. But he couldn't even be bothered to show up. As I stood alone at the altar, humiliated, my best friend delivered the final blow. Alex hadn't just stood me up; he had run off to California with his mistress. The whispers in the cathedral turned me into a joke. I was damaged goods, the rejected bride. His family knew the whole time and let me take the public fall, offering me his cousins as pathetic replacements-a brute who hated me or a coward who couldn't protect me. The humiliation burned away my fear, leaving only cold rage. My life was already over, so I decided to set the whole game on fire myself. The marriage pact only said a Carlson had to marry a Moreno; it never said which one. With nothing left to lose, I looked past the pathetic boys they offered. I chose the one man they never expected. I chose his father, the Don himself.Switching sides on my very stony bed was I. I didn't know if I was strong or feeble. I also didn't
have an idea if I actually had a sweet night's rest. This was always how my life was. Most times,
I'd wake up with very swollen eyelids signifying that I didn't get enough sleep at night. To make
matters worse,it was almost like I lived with a woman who didn't care about my well being at
all.Unfortunately, she happened to be my mom...
" Julia!!" I heard someone scream my name as I was adorned with fatigue and I whispered a
reply. I shuffled myself off my bed and reluctantly went to see why my mum was calling me. I
walked out of my room and to the living room to see her looking so drunk on our weevil infested
couch.
" Mom? You're drunk? By this time of the morning?"
" What the hell is your business?" She said, sounding like a complete junkie which she is.. I
twisted my neck left to direct my eyes to the clock. I was so shocked to see that it was just
11:30a.m_______
" Mom, it's not even 12 o'clock yet and you're this drunk?"
" Just Shut Up You Fool!!!" She shouted. As she stood up staggering.
" You're the cause of all the problems I had to go through in this life. If only you never came
along then maybe I would have been happier. You stupid girl.. I actually called you cause I'm
fuckin' hungry. Get me something to eat" she ordered me as all I did was breathe a sigh and let
her be. I went to the kitchen to cook something for my mom. The truth is, my mum doesn't value
me at all. She always sees me as the cause of all her problems.
It makes me feel really bad each time she tells me shit like that... I actually care so much about
my mum cause she's all I've got... I kept being drowned in this pool of thoughts as I kept stirring
the food and thought to myself... Was this all because my dad abandoned her and because her
family left her and threw her on the streets that got her to be so cold hearted ¿??
"Julia!!!" She screamed my name at the top of her voice. The rate at which she shouted made
my heart skip a dangerous and horrified bit. I had to run down to my psychopathic mother's
room and saw her lying down on her bed so tired. All I could feel for her at that point was
pity_______
" Yes mom?"
" Where's my meal?" Is she insane? It's not even up to 5 minutes since she told me to make her
meal and she's already asking for it.
" Mum, I'm not done yet"
" What the fuck is taking you so long? I'm fuckin' hungry. "
" Please give me some more time, I'll make it soon"
" ...why should I be Julia?? You didn't give me time to enjoy my youthful days before you just
came and ruined my entire life so why should I give you time?" I was actually just left so
dumbfounded at her statement. Did she really have so much anger and grievance towards me?
" Answer me Julia. Why on earth should I give you time? My whole life has been ruined. I don't
have any family. They all abandoned me at your birth." It put me in very serious tears and a tear
just crawled down my mother's eyes. I've never seen her so unhappy. This was the first time I saw my mother cry remembering this. The experience made her so stony that she doesn't even
cry anymore_____
" Mum, I know you're hurting and I'm so sorry for everything you went through because
you_______" before I could even finish my statement, I received a huge slap on my face that
led straight to the ground.
" Just shut up... Just shut the f**k up Julia. You aren't sorry. Cause if you were sorry,then you
would have never come in the first place. I hate you Julia. You disgust me and I hate the fact
that I'm the one who gave birth to you." All these things she said plus the slap she gave
me,made me tear up heavily. I just let them all flow.
" Get up from the damn floor and go and get me something to eat immediately. I'll forever treat
you as a slave till my last breath. Get out" I immediately stood up from the floor
" But mum" I sniffed
" GET OUT!!!!" She screamed so I just obeyed her and left. As I got to the kitchen,all I could do
was just shed tears. I was so disheartened and sad.I didn't want to think about it too much so I
quickly made her food and took it to her room for her. Once she opened the door, I gave her the
tray of food______
" That's better" she dragged the tray from me. She didn't even say "thank you"
" ... What are you doing standing there? Stop looking at me like a fool which you are and get out
of my sight" she rattled as I left her. After that I went to my room and started sobbing profusely. I
was so sad with unhappiness.
" Why does she have to hate me so much? " I asked myself as I kept crying and crying...
RICARDO'S P. O. V...
*****. *****. *****. *****.
I just climbed over the fence at noon to go see my best friend through her room window. I
climbed up the tree to her and her mum's apartment which was at the last floor of the building.
Once I reached there, I dived into the window and fell to the ground. I noticed she was sitting on
her bed facing backwards so she didn't know that I entered her room. I decided to play the trick
which I normally do each time she doesn't notice that I entered her room. She falls for it all the
time and it never gets old. I tiptoed to her and then I'll made a sound
" Bhooo!" She gasped in fear as she turned around and I started laughing_____
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