Chapter 1

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Published 2022.

Ally woke up squinting her eyes because of how bright everywhere was then realized it was the light coming from the window, the first thing that came to mind was how thirsty she was and her throat ached. A few minutes later, everything came rushing back to her from when she ran away then witnessed something she was very sure she should not have seen. She whipped the blanket of her body expecting to be naked but found herself clothed.

Fuck her head hurts, she thought as she put her hands on her forehead rubbing it as it it would soothe the pounding beneath her skull.

"I would not make a fuss if i were you, It would only make it worse " she heard a deep voice say.

She looked to the door and saw a man standing in front of it. She tried to speak but her throat was so dry, she needed water, it felt like someone scratched her throat.

"Oh hermosa I see you are thirsty, that is why I brought this," he said as he walked to the table at the other side of the bed to bring the cup of water that was sitting there for her, she had not seen it because when she sat up on the bed her back faced the table.

"Drink up.......you will need it," he said after he watched her stare at the cup hesitantly, but she'd be stupid not to drink it, at this point she couldn't care less what was in it.

"Okay now why don't you start by telling me your name and how you got here, and Hermosa, speak the truth I can tell if you lie and the Don would not like that" he said.

After one minute of contemplating she said.

"My name is Ally and I ran away from my uncle's house..due to personal reasons," she said plainly.

He looked at her to see if she was lying, he was waiting for any subtle change in her facial expression to give her away but there was none.

"I do not know how I got here because I just wanted to run away ...and I won't say anything if I could just leave," she pleaded.

He looked at her from the bruises on her body he could tell she was being abused. He pitied her , who knows how long she had been going through this. One of the rules her was never to hit a woman (depends on the woman though) especially for no reason, if you did you would get killed.

"Well that is enough for now, if I were you I would get used to being here because if the Don spares you get used to working as a maid because you will be here for a long time." He said as he walked towards the door.

"And I am Carlos, why don't you sleep food will be brought to you soon" he said and walked out the door, she felt light headed all of a sudden and knew something was it the water he gave her. A shaky exhale escaped her. Her stomach turned. The room began to blur. She swayed, blackness tugged on her subconscious, and then it dragged her all the way under.

Later in the Don's office Carlos walked in and saw Marco busy with some work as usual, his friend was such a workaholic, he thought. He did not look up when Carlos entered so he sat down at the edge of Marco's table and said.

"The girl woke up" Marco looked up from the table. So that got his attention, Carlos thought.

"Apparently the girl's name is Ally Dawson and she ran away from her uncle, she was telling the truth I could tell" he said and Marco nodded, turning back to his papers

"It seems he was abusive, she had bruises, I put a sleeping drug in the water I gave her so she could sleep, so when she wakes up you can talk to her." Carlos said while Marco said nothing, After a while Carlos said.

"If I may ask what are you planing on doing to her, she saw what happened and when you see you die. I think maybe she may be useful since she was telling the truth,may be she could work as a maid" said Carlos.

"I guess you are right we should give her a benefit of doubt, Anita mentioned earlier how she needed help in the kitchen" Marco agreed after a while, to make it look as if he was thinking about it when the truth was that he had been thinking of a way to keep the girl here without any suspicion, which was why he was glad Carlos had been the one to bring it up.

"She better not cross the line, the fact we are spearing her life she should be honoured" Marco said sternly.

"Of course don't forget to bring that up when you both talk " Carlos said then left the room a few minutes later after they talked about business as usual, and about Giovanni leaking information to the Russian underboss, but typical Marco already had a plan on how they were going to ambush.

An Hour later.......

Ally woke up feeling really hungry but she did not know what to do because she was kidnapped and stuck in this room, oh God she thought what if they kill me I don't want to die. She still wanted to do alot, she might not be sure yet but She just wanted to be free and have her own life.

"Oh God please hel___" she was talking to herself when the door opened and Marco walked in closing the door behind him and locking it.

She laid back down quickly till Marco walked to the side of the bed and said.

for hurting her.

She opened her blue eyes to look at his brown eyes and he was handsome , she thought. His well defined cheek bones, his pretty brown eyes, his eyelashes were long too, his pink lips looked soft she wanted to touch___

"You should stop staring, gattina. That's rude" he said and she blushed. She sat up on the bed quickly and said.

"Sorry...sir" she said looking down at her fingers and missed the smiled that played on his face. He cleared his throat and said.

"Carlos tells me that you ran away and if I may ask why and do not lie."

"My uncle" She stops and sniffs looking down at her fingers.

"He was mean, did terrible things" as she said that her stomach rumbled so loud that she was sure that the guards outside heard to prove her point. One walked in.

"Sir are you alright we heard something" one of the guards said as her rushed inside the room.

"Everything is alright, you may leave oh and tell one of the maids to bring her food upstairs" he said she was blushing so hard she was sure she was beet red. She did not say anything, then there was a knock on the door and Marco said come in and a lady came in with a tray of food. Marco said she should give it to me and put it on my lap and left the room.

That was fast she thought, she looked at the tray it was filled with pancakes, bacons, syrup, orange juice and an apple and she licked her lips because she was already salivating, she did not pick the spoon, not sure if she should eat yet.

"Eat" Marco said and she didn't need to be told twice started scarfing down the food literally until Marco said

"Slow down you might vomit" he said looking at her and he thought to him self that she must have been hungry.

"Okay" she said looking up at him with a mouth full of food and he could not stop the smile forming on his lips and she smiled back with food in her mouth. Maybe he was nice, she thought. He sat on the bed and waited.

Later when she finished eating she burped and covered her mouth but she was to late he had heard but said nothing.

He waited for a while which was  awkward then he said.

"Now that you have eaten let us continue our conversation earlier on" he said and she nodded feeling sad she didn't want to talk about her uncle.

"He was really um.. abusive and I could not take it any more so I ran away" she said looking down at her fingers

"How old are you" Marco asked

"24 I will soon be turning 25 soon" she said.

"When" Marco found him self asking.

"December 25th" she said and he thought on Christmas day.

"I have decided to spare your life and decide you will work as a maid here, if you try to escape I will not hesitate to kill you, you hear me" he threatened and she nodded her head.

"Thank you " she said.

"I will send someone to show you to the maid quarters to get your clothes and this is where you will be staying...which is my room...for now" he said and walked out before she could say no while she sat on the bed....

Frozen.

So this was his bedroom, suddenly she felt uncomfortable so she stood up from the bed feeling sore and went to the bathroom to freshen up after she was done she walked into his closets to find only his clothes, designer suits most of them black some dark red and dark blue.

She took one of his white shirt and wore nothing underneath hoping he would not complain because he seemed so nice, at least he was okay.

He killed that man her brain said and she sighed and was about to go to bed when there was a knock and the door opened.

The maid walked in and gave her some clothes and said.

"Work starts at 7, be up early" the girl practically hissed at her it seemed she didn't like her but she nodded and the girl walked out.

She was starting work tomorrow, she sighed her body still ached from the beatings her uncle gave her the day before. But she had to be strong, she would mind her business and may be they might let her go.

She needed to survive.

It was the only way.

Little did she know they were never planning on letting her go any where most of all Marco was never letting her go any where.