Chapter 42

Nico

Just looking at her with her lifted chin, the sorrow in her eyes at an arranged marriage, pulls on my heart. Dammit why do I have to start having feelings for this woman? How did this even happen? She was merely supposed to be a tool, a weapon, a woman with the Gianluca name to marry to give me the ownership of the streets. Our two families blending to be the biggest in New York City.

What can I say? I can’t tell her I love her; how do I even know it’s love? It could just be infatuation. She is intriguing, her strength and her dry sense of humor are challenging and maybe it’s only that, which makes me feel strange inside. She makes me dizzy; she drives me insane, I’ve never met a woman like her before.

The woman who I am engaged to, to be married to. “Let’s get it over and done with,” she says as she makes her way up the stone steps leading to the registry office. I follow behind trying not to look at the curve of her hips, the way her ass sits high on her lean legs. My dick want