“You need my help, Tesoro. You choose. A marriage with me or be torn apart by them” His voice was cool as though this wasn't a matter of life or death.

I didn't want this life. My father had gambled a lot and left me with a lot of enemies and now I needed the help of Don Vincenzo LaRosa who was my high school bully and now the Don of the most powerful mafia family in Italy if I was going to survive it.

It was just a marriage of convenience but I realized something. He wasn't helping me out of a good heart. I had been sold without my permission to him. I was the mafia's pawn.

My eyes watered above the gag and I struggled with the restraints as I stared at Vincenzo's shocked expression.


This wasn't what I had planned. I had never thought I would get kidnapped for the second time and just like the first time, I felt like shit knowing that they were using me to get to Vincenzo.


I was at the casino, heading back to the room at the end of the hallway when something had hit me in the back of my head and before I lost consciousness, I was pulled into an adjacent room.


The casino was tight with security, meaning they hadn't used the doors, they had probably used the windows to get out of the place and immediately hid me from sight and the thought made me sick to my stomach.


"Tesoro?" Vincenzo's voice cracked and my heart dropped as I watched him lower his gun, his lips slightly parted, several expressions warring in his gaze: Shock, anger, fear, confusion. Each one felt like a knife twist because I never wanted to be a liability to him. 


Chapter 123 - SECOND ABDUCTION