Page 21 of Unwanted Marriage with the Mafia Boss

Someone picks me up in their arms. Blue? No, there’s no Blue. Blue was a happy dream. A person who doesn’t exist.

Now there’s only Adriano, and he’s pure evil. I’m a magnet for bad guys. If I ever survive this, I’m never, ever going near a man again.

Darkness falls down on me, and I can only hope that Adriano won’t be the end of my family.

CHAPTER 11

Adriano

As soon asI enter the building with Chiara in my arms, I frown. There are plenty of apartments and rooms where I could keep her, but I want her in mine. I want to keep an eye on her, and I don’t want my men around her.

They might be good and reliable guards, but I don’t trust them with her safety. She should be less afraid around me because of our time at the club. I don’t have any spare rooms in my apartment, though, so she’ll have to be in the only bedroom. Mine.

I glance down at her beautiful face. She looks like an angel when she’s asleep, and I have a strong feeling that she shouldn’t be here in this place. It’s like bringing a torch into a cave. It’ll lighten up the place, but it’ll eventually extinguish and get swallowed by darkness.

But what the hell am I thinking? As soon as I get in touch with Paradossi and tell him I have his daughter, he’ll rush to give me whatever the hell I want. Chiara will only be my wife for a short while.

I still can’t believe it’s her. My Sunset. It would be much better if she were here under different circumstances. Now I’ll have her in my bed. So close, and yet so far away. Maybe she’llremember all the good times we had together, and she’ll forget all about who I am and how I brought her here.

She was in shock, and I was surprised myself too. I should’ve taken a look at Chiara’s photo. Rocco even offered it to me, but I waved my hand. It didn’t matter to me what she looked like. She was just a means to an end, and she still is.

Maybe this is the universe’s twisted way of toying with me. Chiara got into my life and made me crave her more than anything else. And now I have to choose. Her or my plan. The answer is obvious.

I want both, but I’ll satisfy myself with only one. I’m not giving up my project for a woman, no matter how sweet and seductive she is. She’s distracted me enough. Actually, the universe might have rewarded me. Once this is all done, Chiara will be out of my mind too.

She won’t want to have anything to do with me, and that will be it. The betrayed look in her eyes... It was so damn intense. No one has ever looked at me like that, or at least I didn’t care enough. I don’t care about her either. She was just fun.

Once I enter my apartment, I head straight to my room. I lower Chiara onto my bed. She’s still so fucking hot. I find some padded cuffs in another room and then return to tie her left wrist to the headboard.

It’ll be enough to keep her in place. She won’t be able to get too far, but she won’t hurt herself either. As I grab all the weapons I have hidden all over the room, my gaze keeps going to Chiara.

Fuck. Having her like this is distracting. Impossible to ignore. I want her to open her eyes and look at me with a smile on her face and fire in her eyes. Then I want to fill the room with her moans. I grab the bag with the weapons and toss it into the closet that’s actually like a big safe. No one can open it except for me.

“Adriano?” Rocco’s voice behind my back makes me jump.

What the fuck? How has he managed to sneak up on me? That should be impossible. Everything was perfectly quiet. I was just lost in my thoughts because of Chiara. Something like that has never happened to me.

“What?” I snap.

His gaze goes toward Chiara and I step into his line of vision. He shouldn’t be watching her like this. She’s mine. I lead him out of the room and into the hallway.

“We found out that her parents are visiting her uncle. Different town. Four different mafia families in our way.”

“Then I’ll have to call Paradossi.” It would’ve been better if I had the whole family here under my control.

Then Paradossi would sign all that needs to be signed and that would be it. Deal done. With them being away and out of our reach, things could get complicated.

Paradossi might get stupid ideas, like trying to go to the cops or getting in touch with Gennaro or Matteo. There’s no way for him to contact them, but they could reach out to him and promise him crazy things.

“Do you want me to make an announcement or something about your and Chiara’s marriage?”

“Not yet.” I’ll need everyone to know I married Chiara eventually.

It’s another part of my plan. I could’ve done all of this before, but no one would’ve believed she’d gotten married without leaving her home. Now that she’ll be gone for a while and her parents too... it’ll be easier to spin a story if I need it.

Chiara marrying me—the neighborhood’s enemy—will cause everyone to distrust Paradossi. It’ll be easier if he cooperates and does what I need him to, but if I have to use my marriage with Chiara, I will. It’s always good to have multiple plans and backups because things never go the way you expect them to.

“There’s also another thing. Matteo has been attacking our network. Trying to get into our secure line and mess up our internet connection,” Rocco says.

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