OWNED BY THE MAFIA DON
“Back to my story. So, I told you about the two choices I had, to kill him or to usurp his power. I chose the second option because killing him outright would have dire consequences. All his loyal contacts would come after me for it, and making it look like an accident would also be problematic because someone else just as bad, or worse than him would take over, and the cycle would just continue. For the sake of all the others who were either too weak to fight for themselves, or had lost all hope of ever being free, I had to somehow get stronger than the boss.”
She held him closer, offering silent support because she knew that even if he wasn’t acting emotional, it couldn’t be easy to relive such an awful past.
“The females had it worse than us. At least most of us males were given positions of authority, or earned some form of wage as rewards for successful jobs. The females were basically treated like dirt, used and abused so badly that many of them ended up addicted to drugs just to try and escape their new reality. Some of them died from abusive clients, some committed suicide, and some were killed by drug misuse. It was horrible to witness. Seeing their gazes so
fucking empty, and lifeless. Like walking corpses.”