All Chapters of Corrupted by the Mafia King: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Nico and I may as well have shared different bedrooms. He didn’t sleep in the same room, but all his clothes were in the master bedroom along with mine. The last time he and I slept in the same room was way before we even got married.After Tally told him all about the phone call she overheard, things were never the same. I could try and convince myself it was because my plans would go to shit if he didn’t trust me, but deep down I yearned to go back to how we were.In the bedroom, Nico was on the balcony looking over everything. He was smoking a cigar with his back to me. He was in a black button-down shirt and black slacks. His hair was tousled, and his sleeves were rolled up to his elbows.Surprisingly, he was the least tatted of all the brothers. He had a few tattoos here and there, but he wasn’t covered in them. He could wear a suit, and you wouldn’t guess he had tattoos. That is, if he buttoned his shirt all the way up and wore a tie.He must have sensed my presence because he t

PRESENT DAYMy thoughts were all over the place. Nico said he wouldn’t cheat on me, but he also said he wouldn’t be sharing a bed with me. It hurt more than I liked, and I wanted to fix it, but my mind was blank.Serena didn’t know, but what she overheard was what she suspected it was. How was I going to explain away all the things I said? Nico was clearly doing things because that was what spouses were supposed to do.The flowers were because he saw how upset I was. He didn’t do it because he wanted to. When he left me on the balcony, all I felt was frustration. He was pushing me away. He said he didn’t trust me.There was no way he would invite me to be in his meetings. And if he didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to get information to bring down his organization. I had to find out how to earn back his trust.When I went back to the bedroom to find his present, I found it laid out on the bed. It was a long black silk slip dress. It was accompanied by silk stilettos and a jewelry set contain

PRESENT DAY“How could you do this?” Greta screamed.People were looking at us. We were causing a scene, and I was starting to feel uncomfortable. But I wouldn’t let anyone walk all over me.I didn’t care if we were in a crowd or who could see us. All I knew was that I wouldn’t let her get away with trying to touch me. She tried to slap me, and I grabbed her hand to stop her and slapped her instead. There were more gasps when it happened as Greta looked as embarrassed as ever.“I’m not the girl you want to mess with. Next time, I won’t go so easy on you.”“You’ll regret this. Nero will hear about this, Tallulah. He’ll make you pay for this when I tell him. He cares about me, and he’ll defend me no matter what. We’ve known each other since diapers, and you’ve known him for what? A year at best?”Just before I could slap her again, Nico approached us. He stood next to me and stared at Greta, who was holding her cheek. As soon as she saw him, the waterworks erupted. She grabbed his hand

PRESENT DAYI tried not to think of what my husband was doing inside with that woman he had been flirting with. I was supposed to hate his guts. Why didn’t I? “You’re not jealous. You can’t be jealous. Nico is a murderer, a thief, a liar, a criminal, and so much more.” I chanted, but no matter how much I said the words, I didn’t believe them.There was an invisible string holding us together. He was my first everything, and he took care of me better than anyone had all my life. That’s why I was so transfixed on whether or not he was faithful in our marriage. My own father cheated on my mother several times. Then she died, he married another and continued cheating. That was how men in the mafia operated. Lots of women wanted them, and they rarely resisted. I still felt like there was something stuck in my throat the more I replayed their body language when they were talking. He was inside flirting with another woman while I was out there worrying if she was the woman he was cheating

PRESENT DAY“You look so beautiful,” Serena said as she adjusted my dress. Nico and I were having another small wedding to make up for the one that blew up.Nico hadn’t been home for days. Since the incident at the gala, he said he went to Switzerland for a business deal and he didn’t come back until the morning we were supposed to get married again.He barely talked to me. The silence was suffocating and Samson kept telling me to seduce him. I had already seduced him and gotten somewhere with him but then Serena destroyed it all.“You don’t look very happy,” she pointed out, “Nico is not cheating on you if that’s where your head is at. I told you Nico is a very loyal person and he is fond of you.”She sighed when she realized I wasn’t changing my mind. She changed the topic, maybe in an effort to make me feel better but it wasn’t working. “Your parents weren’t able to make it but we are all your family,” Serena said as she gently rubbed my back. She didn’t know I was not in good st