Love In The Mafia (book 1)

Chapter 36

Marco's pov*

The bright light from the sun rise slipped in the dark room. Jasmine slept soundly on my chest. I didn't want to move. I wanted to stay there and hold her until she woke up.  But duties called and no matter how much i wanted to stay there with her I can't. I slipped my body out from underneath her, she moved around a bit and I first thought that I woke her up but then she found a comfortable spot and she fell alseep right back again. I walked quietly to the closet and put on a

pair of jeans and a hoodie. I left her a little note by the bed so that when she woke she wouldn't have to guess. I grabbed something from the kitchen and got into my car.  It was early enough to where the only people on the road were people going to work or were out the night before and just getting on the road from the one night stand's house.  I truly dont miss those days. I remember come home from the one night stands i met at bars or clubs, I would leave before they woke so I didn't have to talk to them. I was the classic fuck boy. Until I met her. Before her I never took a woman home, i always went to their home. I didnt want them to be in my room, to see the things I could buy, and then to try and stay. All the woman i have been with were only one night stands and nothing more. For some reason Jasmine changed that. She made me want to care, she made me want to stick around, shit shes the only woman that has ever been in my room. Before the night of the dance I knew that she was gonna be the one to change me, her father wouldn't shut up about her. He showed pictures and talked about how she was more than a pretty face, he talked about how he trained her to perfection and how she was going to be the one to take over his mafia and how she could fill my "needs".He wanted to give her to me to pay his debt. I wanted to kill him right there but the way he talked about her made me want her more than i wanted to kill him. I knew i couldnt get both then so I waited and i got her. And now it's almost Christmas so I'm out shopping for her which i thought i would also never do.

When i think of her i think of someone who would never leave unless they had to, so for a present I wanted to get her something that was just as loyal as her. I pulled into a pet store and parked. I know nothing about most woman but her i do know some things about her, she's someone who doesnt show her emotions to someone she doesn't know or if shes so over powered by it but she's truly a good person unless forced to abandon that. That's why the animal im picking for her will match that.

I picked up a cart and grabbed a bed, food, cage, treats, bowels, and toys. My cart was full of things but i still had one more things to buy, but just not yet not until the day of Christmas. I have to keep all of the things i bought in my car and hope thag she doesn't go looking. I paid and then left, I have one more place to go to. I hoped into my car and drove to my last store, a jewelry store. I had Layla help me pick out what to buy for her. I bought her a necklace and on the back of the diamond i had our initials carved into it so that it would be special.

She is special so I wanted the necklace to be special. She's so damn important to me which scares me. Every damn time I leave her it scares me, I want to be by her side all the time but i can't suffocate her like that no matter how much i want to. She had a life before me and i know that i ruined her old life but I also know that she wouldn't go back even if she could. She wouldnt go back to her abusive and alcoholic father, her mother that left her, and her sisters that were treated differently from her. In some ways i saved her but im also one of the reasons shes in danger. But either with me or without me she would have be in the mafia and she would have to lead it too and that's just a red target on her back but at least this way I can try and protect her. No not try, I will protect her even if my life will depend on it. Shes my soulmate and I can't live with her.