One Bossy Arrangement: An Enemies to Lovers Arranged Marriage Romance (LA Boss Daddies) by Ruby Emhart

Author:Ruby Emhart [Emhart, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TEN

MARCELLO

“Please, let me explain before you get fired up,” I pleaded as I sat straighter in my seat and set my glass down. Our conversation had taken a turn in the wrong direction, and I needed to get it back on track. I turned so that I was facing her, and she could see my eyes as I spoke. “This was all my thought process before meeting you and getting to know you. I know it’s a shit way to think, believe me. But the more time we spent together, the more my mindset changed. I changed.”

“How so?”

“Bella,” I started but stopped to think about how I wanted to phrase the next part. I didn’t want to fuck it up. I grabbed her hands in mine before continuing. “I don’t know when it happened. Perhaps when you played my mother’s cello, but somewhere in the last week and a half, something inside me shifted completely. I want to see you every day. I go to sleep thinking about you, I dream about you, and then I wake up thinking about you and figuring out ways to see you. I know it sounds insane. We barely know each other. But you feel like home to me, Mila. As though we have lived many lives together and finally found one another in this one. Marrying you no longer feels like an arranged duty I am being forced to carry out. I look forward to seeing you walk toward me in a white dress, knowing that you are tying your life to mine. But I need to know you feel the same. I need to know that you want this the same as I do.”

My heart was pounding in my chest, and I could hear it in my ears. I knew my palms were sweating, but I thought that if I let her hands go, she would drift away. I had never opened up that way to anyone and feared she would make me regret it. That she didn’t feel the same and didn’t want to marry me. She sat there looking at our joined hands in silence, making me panic even more. But when she lifted her face to mine, she had tears running down her face.

“I feel like I’m in an impossible position, Marc. I can’t deny that there is something between us. You’ve managed to work your way into my heart even when I wanted to hate you. I’ve even caught myself imagining what life would be like for us. But then I remember who we are, and I am reminded that I am being forced into a life I despise and am being refused the life I’ve dreamt of.”

My heart broke as she spoke. I knew she wasn’t happy about the arrangement, but I never realized just how much I hated that I was connected to the source of her anguish.

“How can I make this easier for you, bella?”

“I don’t know. Let me have my business, for starters.”

“I can’t do that, Mila.

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