Throne of Diamonds: A mafia romance by Emily Bowie

Author:Emily Bowie [Bowie, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

“Who pissed you off?” Capree falls into the outdoor lounge chair beside me.

“Everyone.”

“The more you fight with him, the deeper you both dig in your heels. He loves you and is doing what he believes is best.”

“He loves a little girl who thought the world rose and fell by his hands. I’m not that girl anymore.”

“Is breaking his heart worth the damage it will do to our family?” my sister questions with no judgment in her tone. She’s merely asking out of curiosity.

I lift my sunglasses to watch my younger sister. It has me wondering if I haven’t been as careful as I thought and maybe she knows.

“I want him to be proud of me, not break his heart!” I argue.

“You break his heart every time you fake your death.”

I rear back, hurt that she’s defending him. I love my sister, even though we’ve had a hard time understanding each other. She didn’t sit in her own mother’s blood as a baby. It’s not that I remember, but I swear my body remembers the feeling of it. She never watched her father murder a man, I did, at the age of four. She grew up with the perfect loving family from the start, whereas I was raised by nannies for the first four years of my life. Everyone leaves me eventually. It’s how my life has gone.

New anger surfaces about Savio taking away my friend. If anyone, it should have been me sending Klaus away. I should have done it, and Savio destroyed my chance. He’s just like my father. They’re the protectors I don’t need. Soon they’ll see they made a mistake by underestimating me. I will rise and be just as powerful, and no one will ever mistake me again.

My muscles are tight by the time Savio enters our house for family dinner. He and my father shake hands.

“Charlotte, you look beautiful tonight,” Savio greets all polite like, as if he wasn’t whispering dirty little nothings in my ear as he took my virginity. I narrow my eyes, refusing to smile. It makes both Savio and my father pause. I’m not in the mood for fake pleasantries. My head continues to battle my anger. One wrong move, and I’ll spark like a lightning storm.

My mother looks confused, while my father wears his strained smile that looks like puppet strings are pulling at his face. Capree is smiling, enjoying the show and shoving bread into her mouth.

“I’m surprised you men have time to sit with the women when you have so much work to do.” Katrina kicks my foot at my outburst.

“Mom, why did you kick me?”

Savio clears his throat. “Thank you for inviting me.” He looks to both my mother and father with his perfect manners once again. Everyone is being fake. Savio and I have seen each other enough to be past this small talk bullshit. Not that my parents know.

“As my fiancé, you will be required to come to a lot more of these dinners,” I dryly respond.

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