CHAPTER FOUR

BELLA’S POV

Bella sat on her bed after the party and she felt drained, her energy was depleted, she had to smile to all the guests who came for their engagement and her family but at least she had Claire and now a Friend in Alexia.

She felt hurt that Luca had left the party without even trying to get to properly know her.

How where they going to spend the rest of their lives together if he couldn't stand to be around her for a few minutes, this is going to be tough.

She looks at her beautiful diamond ring on her finger and thought about how being in his presence for the little time they had been together had actually made her attached to him, His handsome face,his dominance and aura was addictive and she still can’t believe he was going to be her Husband.

She shakes her head No, what was wrong with her, she was being delusional, i think being Alone and the isolation that she has lived in has taken a toll on her.

She looks at the beautiful Ring on her finger, With these thoughts in her mind she gets ready for bed hoping for the best in the future as sleep finally comes.

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Waking up the next morning and the days that followed the week leading to the wedding were exhausting for Bella, she was frustrated with so much but also because Luca never reached out to her. her mom hired all the best wedding planners and decorators and everybody that dealt with wedding stuff and everything seemed to be looking good and ready for the big day.

she was grateful for Alexia who always came over to help her in choosing stuff and also the wedding dresses that were there for her to choose from. So it was indeed a busy week of preparing for her wedding with a groom she doesn't even know and who doesn't even want to get married to her.

She has not seen Luca ever since the party, he did not even get her number and neither did she have his.

She had to rely on alexia to tell her things about her brother that she needed to know somehow.

For example what was his Favorite color ? She needed to know that because even the wedding planners needed a theme color and she had to know his color somehow to at least be nice to him so they can incorporate it to the wedding.

but obviously she could guess from their first meeting that he is a dark and black color kind of person when it comes to everything which wasn't that surprising to her because he acted and looked like a vampire himself.

She was going to tell them to incorporate black but did not really want her wedding to be the all black and dark Mafia wedding that usually happens with her kind of families, it already represented most of her life and the kind of world she wad born into, but this was her wedding no one else’s. so she only incorporated black here and there.

At the end of the day every body involved in the planning came here and there to her to ask her for what she wanted, even if she had wanted to not think about the wedding she would have still been reminded about it everyday that she was indeed getting married sooner than she thought.

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To Bella’s surprise during the week out of no where, she had received a message from an unknown number only to learn that it was one of Luca's Assistants and they had been instructed by Luca to tell her to come over to his house.

The nerve of that man, he couldn't even text her himself, she was going to be his wife for fricks sake. but no he couldn't waste a second of his life.

She got ready that day and he had sent one of his drivers to come pick her up.

She got out her family mansion and saw some of Luca's men who led her to the black Suv and drove her to Luca's Mansion.

It was her first time going there, they arrived by the big gate and went through the long drive way leading to the big mansion, of course her fathers mansion was big but this was way bigger and it was very beautiful, this was going to be her home very soon.

They opened the door for her and led her through the big double door and she Met the Housekeeper her name was Losa who looked to be in her fourties’ who then continued to lead her through the big house, it was so beautiful everything looked clean, expensive and dark in color no suprise there regarding it was occupied by a man who had a dark personality.

She came from a rich family herself but knowing that this house was going to be hers too was getting her excited,she knew she was going to add her own style to it even if no one allowed it, and knowing that that might somehow upset Luca made her smile deviously to her self. What was she becoming.

While she was looking around and thinking to herself she saw a guy coming her way with his hands in his pockets, she remembered him from the party he looked confident and he looked like exactly like Luca they had the same eyes,with the same handsome faces but he looked younger than Luca he might be the same age as she was.

when he smiled at her she liked him right then and there she knew then she might actually have made another friend in this house after all, he came forward and spoke to her

"we never got introduced, I am Luca's brother Sebastian". He took her hand and kissed it with a smirk on his face.

Bella blushed but smiled anyway " nice to meet you, Sebastian".

"You are much more beautiful, than i remember "he winked at her and they both laughed.

Bella felt at ease with Sebastian and liked his funny teasing personality, at least now she will have someone to talk to when she moves here.

“I could talk to you all day beautiful but I have some business to attend to , i will see you around." He said.

He then went the other way and was gone from site and thats when she realized Losa was still waiting so they went up the never ending stairs and Losa stopped at a big door which looked to be the study and knocked for her, unmistakably Luca's deep smoky voice said "Come in",

Bella felt nervous all over once again,The housekeeper did not come in with her so she had to go in by herself, she went in and being the shy girl that she was she almost suffocated because he was looking at her as soon as she opened the door and he was sitting behind his big office desk looking all powerful while she was standing, it made her feel exposed and he felt and looked too intimidating.

It was Unfair, his office was too masculine and the air all around smelt like him.

"take a sit", She heard him speak.

She stared at him for second,because of her nerves all she felt like doing was turning back around going home.

He was intimidating her and it did not help that she was a small person and everything else in this office looked so big in size.

She went forward and sat on the chair opposite him with his big desk between them.

He was looking at her but at the same time it felt like he was just in thought and was actually looking through her to the other side of the room.

"i can see you are doing fine, tell me how you feel about the wedding, Bella ? He spoke to her in his dark deep voice.

His voice was something else all together but at least he remembers her name, Bella thought to herself.

"i am nervous about it, because we don't know each other ", she says to him in a small voice.

"What makes you nervous, Are you afraid of me ? He asked in his intimidating voice

Well of course she almost said out loud but instead she lied and said "No, Maybe a little". Which was a lie she was very much terrified of him but he didn't need to know all that because what if he ends up using that against her.

He looked at her after her response and she still being unable to look him straight in the eyes looks at him for a second and she knew he could see right through her and he knew she was lying.

"Well, i think You should be afraid " he said. While looking at her with no emotion on his face just a blank cold stare and then continued.

"I have an agreement that i need you to agree to,we both know I never wanted this arrangement."

Bella knew he did not want to be married to her since the very first time she met him he did not look like he wanted anything to do with her, she already knew the marriage was arranged by their fathers, but hearing him say it like that made her sad and kind of Angry.

"what do i need to sign? ," she asked.

“I don’t need you to sign anything, He said slowly, “but you will remember what i say today”, He says to her.

“I don’t need a weak wife, i work with dangerous people and they will take advantage of that, you will need to play an important role and make sure everybody and my people respect you, you will need to be tougher than what you are right now, i don’t need weakness around me because that makes me look weak.”

Bella was offended and it hurt her that he insinuated she is weak having met her just once, but she knew that to be true, she knew she wasn’t badass and cutout for the Mafia life even though she was born in it. She had been worried about this, and how he was going to view her and it didn’t take him long to throw it in her face, at least she knows he never beats around the bush like her dad.

she gulped put ok a brave face and Nodded while saying “Yes” of course.

“this house will be yours too, do whatever you want with it, i use the Master Suite there is another empty bedrooms in there, you can have it.”

“I don’t need anything from you, but i have my reasons why i am marrying you,” He says and then adds to say “ An Heir in the future will be a necessity when the time comes we will discuss and do what’s necessary.

"Until then, your role is to represent our family.” you need to toughen up, understand”? He says

Bella wanted to scream at someone but she had to keep it in,how dare him, this is not what she wanted, she had waited, never dated any Man and kept herself for her future Husband and what he was describing felt like a Let down of all her dreams. She was going to be used as a statue and a baby maker then forgotten.

Her face was also probably red at that moment one reason was due to the anger she was feeling mixed into also her trying not to imagine what would have to happen for them to be able to produce the heir he just mentioned.

Luca saw the emotions on her face probably all the anger too, But all she said was "I understand, am not as weak as you think ".she fired back being unable to hold her anger back.

"How many men have you been with,? He asks after looking at her.

“Because when the wedding happens, i will not allow any other men you have known in your life near you, you will be Carrying my name." Luca said this while looking bothered probably thinking in his head of his how many men this little wife to be of his might have been with.

Bella looked at him when he finished his sentence and she felt so disappointed and angry that he would think to ask that after all the bullshit he had just spilled since she came in here.

He should have asked her if she has ever been with any man, not ask her how many men has she been with, He just assumed she must have been with many Men before just like he probably has been with many many women. While in reality she still had her Virginity and had never had a boyfriend in her 22 years of living.

“I have never been touched by any Man,” She spoke with emphasis. She was annoyed and over it.

Also overwhelmed because of everything he has said since she walked in his office so she stood up from the chair nervously and walked to the door this was uncomfortable she needed to leave the room and so she did and Luca never stopped her.

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