The Mafia's Slave: Claimed By My Stepbrother
Mia said, almost sounding as though she was scared, and I wondered if she would soon begin to tremble.
I didn’t want that.
I didn’t want Mia to be scared of me, or to tremble in my presence, but at the same time, I also needed her to understand that I would also sound like this; stiff and gruff.
Life hadn’t been fair to me in any way, and as a mafia, I had learned to become this tough. Softness was never taught to be a part of a mafia, so oftentimes, this was the only way I could communicate with her. I wasn’t like the boys she must have gone to college with. They were privileged kids, and as such, they would be tender and soft spoken, but not me, and besides, I wasn’t even as young as the b