Page 18 of Dare You to Catch Me
“Emma, I'm sorry but your father is up to something, that's whyI encouraged this marriage now. It was always a possibility, but I forced it to happen now.” He states.
“Why? Everything was fine before Ace came home.”
He takes in a deep breath before his lips part. “You are of age to marry, and I'm almost certain, your father has some deal with Luca.”
My heart finally breaks, a piece breaking off, falling deep into my chest cavity, and to never surface again and repair my broken heart. After everything my father has done to me, that little tiny piece still held love for him, but that love will never be repaired and has formed into an uncontrolling desire of rage, hate, and pain.
“Why is he going along with this marriage then?” I ask.
“That, I haven't figured out yet, but I think he is going to use the wedding to attack and I need you two to be prepared. He is adamant about how it happens and where.”
“I had the same feeling, the reason why I wanted to get the marriage finalized, knowing it will be over if he stops the wedding before we say I do.”
The words "I do" sting a little. I'm getting married to someone I don’t know anymore. There's a connection with Ace, but does he feel that same connection, are his words true?
“That's why we will go along with your plan to marry, telling no one, you will have your engagement ball tomorrow night. You will act as if nothing is going on, Emma-” Ryan's eyes pierce through mine, straight to my heart, meaning with his coming words “I need you to sell this, and be the Queen, your grandfather and I know you can be.”
Through the tears welling in my eyes, a smile forms on my lips with Ryan's words, especially regarding my grandfather. But then, I nod as my tears dry from my eyes, replacing those tears with a lit fire, ready to burn someone to the ground. “I will sell this, and hand over my Empire, as long as you make me a promise.”
Ace raises a brow, and Ryan's lips curl into a dangerous smirk. “You want your father?”
“I want to be the one to cut off every finger. And then, move to his hands, removing them, then I will slice his throat andwatch life seep from his body. You make me that promise,” I throw my arms out, as I sit back in my chair, before my eyes meet Ace's with a deepened stare “Then I'm all yours.”
Ace's brow raises as his lips twist into a wicked grin.
And I mean every word of it. I want my father to suffer for everything he has done to me, and for trying to sell me to the Devil. Well, you better look out Daddy-o, because the daughter you saw nothing in, is twice as twisted as you! There is no shame, no quilt, no feeling for my words besides promising I will make good on my word.
Ryan chuckles, snapping me back as he stares at me, with his head tilted, resting his chin to his knuckles. “You are everything your Pop said you would be.”
“I'm afraid to ask if that's a good thing?”
Ace and Ryan both let out deep chuckles. Ace's eyes scan my every move, obsessively watching me as he chews at his lip.
“It's good you're a little unhinged, you will need to be for what is coming. If what we think is happening, you will need to turn off your feelings, Emma.” I swallow hard, knowing what he is talking about, but I know what I have to do, and will turn every emotion I have off to ensure my father's slow and painful death.
“Lucky for you both.” Ryan gets up from his chair and walks to a bookcase, sliding a book to the side as a small door opens, revealing a safe. He types in a code then pulls out a file after opening the safe, shutting it, walking back to his desk with the file. He hits a button on his desk phone and a woman answers.. “Yes Sir?”
“I need you to come in here and witness.”
“I'll be right there.”
Ryan ends the call and looks up at Ace and I. “I have the contracts already drawn up and ready, I was smart, had them prepared before anything started, with Charles' signature already on them. “He pullsthe documents out, handing one to Ace then one to myself.”
My heart hums in my chest. I'm doing this, I'm fucking signing a marriage contract, but is it really all that bad?
RYAN
I knew staying faithful to Emma's grandfather would pay off. That man practically raised me. Charles and I were always close, but the greedy fucker has just gone too far.
I knew everything I imagined, sending Ace to Russia to train, and keeping eyes on Emma, even though I play it off I know nothing about her, I know everything.
Not to be all sentimental and shit, but fuck I'm proud of my son, he is smart, has kept tabs on this city since he left, and has figured out the dangers that are lurking...
And made a fucking plan, and a good fucking plan, and when thetime comes, I know, he is going to turn into the worst version of the Devil, what he was trained to be. And he will have a dangerously unhinged Queen by his side, making them the most powerful Mafia King and Queen in the country.
Chapter seven
EMMA
