Diablo:I had to admit, I didn’t expect her to be willing to shake hands on a deal. But when she did, I smirked, respecting it.“Where are we going?” Sienna asked, looking at me from the corner of her eyes. “I thought you said we had some meeting to attend. This route is different from the one that we took earlier.”“I know,” I said, looking up from my phone. “We are going to the airport directly. While I did have a meeting, I chose to postpone until we got home. It’s already late as it is, and the less time I spend here, the better it is going to be.”She nodded, not saying another word. I looked down at the phone again, and I couldn’t help but frown when I saw a message from Lexi. The fact that she was sending one now was surprising to me, but I knew not to bother questioning her motives. The woman had her ways and her emotion breakdowns, it was the way that she was; I knew that for fact.“What are we going to do when we get to the Estate?” Sienna asked, breaking my train of thought
Sienna:I had to fight back the urge to want to call my family, wanting to ask them why they did what they have. But I knew to wait, I didn’t even know whether or not it was them to begin with.I wanted to find ONE lead that would prove me wrong, that the people that called me daughter did not betray me this way. They couldn’t be responsible for such an attack. At least, I hoped not.I shook Diablo’s hand, ignoring the clench that I felt in my chest. But I had no other option. It was the only way to keep myself safe.If my family wanted me dead, then I wasn’t going to lose the one person that was willing to help me out, even if he was only doing it for his own benefit.We got out of the car, and I looked up at the house, the estate that I was now to live in with my ‘husband’. Regardless of what the two of us might have said, I couldn’t help but find myself doubting that he was being true to me. The man could have only been doing that to make sure whether or not I was on his side.“The
Diablo:I looked at my wife whose eyes met mine, knowing that she was in pain.She sat on one in front of her dresser inside the bedroom, fixing a bunch of jewels inside boxes that would later be going to the dressing room. There was a safe there for her to keep them there.I didn’t know what she and mom spoke about, but I knew that it was often that a mother-in-law would be speaking to her son’s wife, especially as a new bride of a different family, to let her know of our ways. But knowing my mother, I knew that the last thing that she would do is force anything onto Sienna. She was herself, a rebellion once too.“Are you okay? You’ve been quiet for a while.” I asked, and she nodded as she raised the box, her jewelry box, that she was fixing.My eyes landed on a particular gem, an emerald, and I couldn’t help but find myself admiring it, being one of my one of favorite stones.“Your mom was kind enough to have the maids fix things for me, but the jewels, I would be fixing myself. It
Sienna:“What is this?” I asked, smiling at the sight of the white tables, the reception, and the guests who were arriving.Flowers were laid out almost everywhere and the number of people who turned to look at the two of us as we walked out to the garden took me by surprise. I had to admit, I didn’t expect many to be interested in seeing me as his bride. It seemed to me that I was wrong, very wrong too.“This, my beloved wife, is how we celebrate a Capo dei Capi’s wife. While our marriage is not the most ideal, we still have our ways before constituting the marriage.” Diablo said, making my eyes widen in surprise. He looked at me and smirked before looking at his parents from a distance. “At least, that is what they’re going to believe.”“For a man who said that he didn’t intend to touch me, I am surprised that you are bringing up the topic about constituting the marriage.” I said, looking up at the man with a smile on my face, making sure to keep a low voice as I knew not to allow a
Diablo:“She is a beauty, that is something that I have to admit,” Nathan, one of my allies said, looking at Sienna who was talking to a bunch of women, getting to know them. Mom was by her side, and I could tell, despite not knowing what they were talking about as women, that mom seemed to be proud of her. “How much for a night with her?”“Excuse me?” I asked, making the man step back as he knew that I heard him. The man knew and understood that he did something wrong, and I raised an eyebrow, waiting for him to say otherwise.“We are all aware of the fact that she is not the woman that you wanted to be with. You know, with this arrangement, I figured that you wouldn’t mind us taking turns with her.”“One more word out of you, and I am going to be sure that I break your face, do you fucking understand me?” I asked, and he looked down at his feet, knowing not to say another word. He knew that I was serious, and one thing that I never allowed was anyone talking about my women.“I never
Sienna:“Your husband seems to be obsessed with you,” Lexi pointed out as the two of us sat at the table together. Diablo left to talk to his friends, and I chose to sit with her for a while.I turned to find Diablo looking at us. His eyes met mine and he nodded, I returned the nod with an assuring smile before turning to Lexi.“The two of us are newlyweds. It is only normal for him to be curious, you know.” I said, and she nodded. “How did you find out about the celebration, though? Even I didn’t know about it until Diablo told me about it a while ago.”“I heard your mom talking about it. They were debating on whether or not they would go, and I figured, judging by the way that they spoke, that they might not come.” She said, avoiding my eyes. “I figured to be here by your side as not to leave you alone.”I put my hand on top of my best friend’s, thankful for her being there for me. “You are the one person that I trust in this world.”She smiled and put her left hand on top of mine, s
Diablo:“Come on,” I said, pulling Sienna to the door.She raised an eyebrow at me, but chose to follow me, not saying a word until we left the house.“You seem to have a habit of leaving your guests when you’re supposed to be with them.” She said, and I chuckled.“Not at all. The whole family is here to tend to them. You know, the two of us are newlyweds, and that can be used as an excuse. But from here, it is going to be a drunken night and women gossiping, and I don’t want to find myself dealing with that.” I said, and Sienna laughed.“What has you listening to women gossiping? Don’t you have a place to be sitting as men while the women enjoy their gossip?” She asked, and I rolled my eyes.“Yes, it is called a couch, with our women glued to our hips in fear that we would be bringing hookers for our pleasure.” I said, and she frowned. “It is not a way that I like, nor allow in the house. But I will not say that others don’t. When I’m around, basically, our family, things are more con
Sienna:I didn’t bother speaking to Diablo as he walked inside the room after dismissing himself from the men who hung around for a drunken night.I had to admit, the sight of their women glued to them annoyed me more than ever, and thankfully, neither one of them bothered asking why I didn’t want to join them. I was still an outsider, their ways were foreign in my eyes, and I wanted them to stay that way.He walked inside the bathroom, and I sat on the chair, staring at my reflection in the mirror.“What have you gotten yourself into, Sienna?” I whispered to myself, shaking my head in question as I grew annoyed with everything that I had to deal with.I stared down at my phone, which Levant, one of the Diablo’s men brought to me after I walked inside the house, for a few seconds, and I had to admit, I wished that my parents called. The idea of them not doing so made me fear that they might have had something to do with the bomb.I sighed and put my phone away, not saying a word as I g