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Too Late, I Married The Mafia King

Chapter 2

Word Count: 1098 | Released on: Today at 16:02

Family Estate was overflowing with Made Men

int was the most important, and m

lavish estate, my arm a brac

rsh, wet rattle that sounde

e only thing keeping him upright

las stood by the massive stone fountain, hi

the same dark,

ched out and intimately pinned a glittering di

pread among the lower-ran

ances at me and laugh

rn dress and my fingers brushed the cold,

I pulled it out just far enough for the sil

yes locked onto the glint

manicured finger at me, her scarlet lip

ead with an air of

he silver chain laced through my fingers

thered as he shouldered his way through

dered, his voice a low ru

oying blend of bergamot and the cigars he favored-masked the scent of tobacco, bu

ed around my knuckles, the met

se today, Silas," I said. My

t a harsh, m

me with disdain. "You cannot even afford a decent dress for this Feast, yet you bu

ing his voice to a venomou

l that I am willing to keep you. Do you think any other

d by a coughing fit that t

own ribs together. His face turned an alarming shade of p

hammering against my ribs

at my dying father as if he were an u

ia," Silas commanded, his

a thick stack of hundred-dollar bills. There were dark, dried stains bloom

he money

xt month," Silas said. "But you only get it if yo

ca materialized beside him. The diamond pin on her chest c

etness that made my stomach clench. "Don't be stubborn. Your poor father is dying. You

blood-stained

g blue. I remembered kneeling on the freezing pavement outside Silas's car, begging hi

as rusted iron, preparing to swallow my

triumphant gleam

eliberately opened his hand. The entire stack of bil

up," Sila

ed across the cobbles

ees, and gathered the stained bills with fingers that shook not with fear, but with a cold, c

aze, now burn

g above the faint music of the courtyard. "And you will have to spend a f

s flying to her mouth i

rned a deadly,

llar. He stepped forward, his chest bumping against

, spittle flying from his lips. "Y

to his massive bodyguards who ha

ht here to watch how a real woman is honored." A cruel smile twisted his lips, and in his eyes, I saw the prom

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“For six years, I endured my fiancé Silas's calculated cruelty, believing it was the only way to pay for my dying father's black-market lung medication. Then, I overheard him talking to his secret lover-his late brother's widow. "Once the old man suffocates, I'll put Aria in a fortified apartment as my personal whore, and you will wear the Capo's ring." At the syndicate's annual Feast, Silas put his ruthless plan into motion. He publicly humiliated me, tearing my dress open from collarbone to shoulder in front of hundreds of leering mobsters. He deliberately scattered my father's bloody medical money across the dirt and forced me to draw the White Carnation, making me the ultimate laughingstock of the Family. My frail father coughed up blood trying to protect me, while Silas and his lover sneered at my absolute ruin. For six years, I swallowed my pride, thinking I was making a noble sacrifice to keep my father breathing. I never realized I was just a disposable pawn in his sick game, kept on a leash only until my father was in the ground. But Silas didn't know that the night before, I had taken the last of my money to buy a silver Vendetta Rosary. I had ventured into the shadows and pledged myself to Dante, the terrifying, newly ascended Don of the entire syndicate. As I sobbed on the cold wooden floor, the courtyard fell dead silent, and a pair of large, scarred hands reached into my vision holding a flawless Crimson Rose. And in the heavy silence that followed, I understood: either salvation or damnation had come for me, and I was no longer the one choosing.”