ONE

THALIAThe gun went off seven times.I counted each shot. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Sharp cracks that sounded wrong, muffled by the silencer but still loud enough to make my ears ring. Or maybe that was just the screaming. My screaming, I think, though it didn't sound like my voice at all.Rafael's body jerked with each impact. I felt it. Every single bullet that tore through him registered as a shudder against my chest, my stomach, my thighs. He'd thrown himself on top of me maybe two seconds earlier, his hand shoving my head down into the mattress hard enough that my teeth cut into my lip. I tasted copper. Blood. His blood was everywhere now, hot and wet, soaking through my wedding dress."Rafael. Rafael, please. Someone help!" My voice cracked. I tried to push him off, tried to see his face, but he was too heavy. Dead weight. The thought made me want to vomit.The shooter was gone. I'd seen them for maybe half a second before Rafael moved. A shadow in the doorway, so

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TWO

THALIAI didn't sleep.How could I? Every time I closed my eyes I saw it again. The door opening, the shadow, Rafael's body jerking on top of mine. Seven times. I kept counting them in my head like some kind of sick mantra.Rosa had put me in a guest room after the bath. Clean sheets, soft pillows, everything perfect and untouched. It felt wrong. Rafael was dead down the hall and I was supposed to just lie here in the dark and rest? The whole thing was insane.Around three in the morning I gave up trying. Got out of bed and walked to the window. The Torrisi compound stretched out below, I couldn’t help but stare at the manicured gardens and security lights. Guards were everywhere now, way more than earlier. They moved in pairs, talking into radios, checking shadows. Locking the barn after the horses already ran off. Or got shot. Whatever.My reflection in the glass looked like a stranger. Rosa had braided my hair to keep it out of the way while she cleaned me up, and I was wearing som

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THREE

THALIAMy father arrived the way he always did when he was pissed off, loud and impossible to ignore. I heard him before I saw him, his voice carrying through the hallways of the Torrisi compound as he demanded to see me immediately. Rosa had tried to give me breakfast earlier but I couldn't eat, my stomach was too twisted up in knots thinking about what was coming. Now it was here.The door to my room swung open without a knock. Dad stood there looking older than I remembered, his salt and pepper hair more salt than pepper now, lines around his mouth deeper. Behind him were my brothers. Nico first, twenty-eight and already taking over parts of the family operations. Then Vincent, twenty-six and always spoiling for a fight. Finally Luca, twenty-four and the most level-headed of the three even though that wasn't saying much."Out," Dad told them without looking back.My brothers hesitated but they knew better than to argue when he used that tone. They filed out and the door closed agai

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FOUR

THALIADinner was in the formal dining room, a space that probably seated forty people comfortably but tonight only held about twenty. The Torrisis on one side, the Corsinis on the other, with Salvatore at the head of the table and my father at the foot. Very symbolic. Very tense.I ended up seated between Rosa and Nico, across from me sat Dante.I'd only seen him briefly at the wedding reception yesterday. He'd been in the corner with some other men, drinking and looking bored with the whole thing. Now I got a much better look and immediately understood why people found him intimidating. He was identical to Rafael in terms of features, same bone structure and coloring, but everything else was different. Where Rafael had been polished and controlled, Dante was rough. There was a scar cutting through his left eyebrow from something violent. His hands were scarred too, knuckles that had been broken and healed wrong. He wore his grief like armor, face completely shut down, jaw clenched s

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All Chapters of Blood Wedding: A Mafia Romance: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

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