she comes from a wealthy family being an only child front New York, covered in tattoos and piercings, who doesn't feel any emotions, she's very kept to herself, but until she meets him...everything changes
he's a ruthless, feared Italian mafia lea...
we were all sitting in the living room talking, alessandro's grandmother told me about her restaurant in New York. i've never seen it before so i'll definitely be going to it when we get back to New York.
after talking with alessandro's grandmother, rosa and gia. i looked at the time and it was 6:30. i headed up stairs to take a shower. i got to my room and closed the door after a few minutes i heard a knock at the door. it was gia, she came in with the gown i was going to wear for tonight.
it had a plastic dress protector over it keeping it from getting wrinkled or damage, she walked it on placed it on the back of the door.
"i'll be waiting out here once you get out of the shower to help you zip up the dress" she said sitting on the bed.
i nodded my head and walked into the bathroom. i took a quick shower making sure i got all of the suds out of my hair and off my body. i stepped out wrapping my hair and body like i always do.
i walked out of the bathroom to grab the dress. it was heavy, why was it so heavy, this is why i hate dresses.
i took the dress into the bathroom hanging it up on the door. i unzipped the protector and took it off. the dress was beautiful. it was a black spaghetti strap and tight at the top. of course it was black, alessandro had something to do with this.
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i stepped into the dress leaving my hair in the towel, i walked out of the bathroom and saw gia sitting on the bed
her hands went flying to her mouth covering it, she had tears in her eyes,
"oh my nicole, you look beautiful. sandro with fall to his knees when he sees you" he said wiping the tear from her eyes
"thank you, but i don't think so" i said turning around so she could zip it up.
she rolled her eyes at me. "i see the way he looks at you nicole, he likes you" she said finishing the zipper
what way does he look at me? i never noticed it, he always has the same look on his face, it was hard to read him
she sat me down at the vanity in the corner of the room facing a window, she took my hair out of the towel it was in and dried it while brushing it out, it took a while because i had thick hair. i never wanted to cut it, i loved my hair.
she sectioned out my hair and started to curl the bottom layer, moving to the next layer and then the next. she did my makeup to a soft elegant look. putting some blush on my cheeks and highlight on my nose and cheek bones.
she did my mascara and put the makeup back in the vanity drawers. i looked in the mirror on the vanity and i was shocked. it was beautiful
"so what do you think?" she said with her hands clasped at her chest
"it's beautiful. thank you gia" i said giving her a small smile. i got up and she hugged me. she walked to the closet and handed me a pair of black heels to match the dress. i sat down and put them on. i got stood up and looked in the mirror one last time
this is it, this is the night i go to a ball with a mafia leader and a bunch of other mafias. i was nervous, i didn't know how to react. but i pushed all of those feelings down with a deep breath. i walked out of the room with gia behind me holding the back of my dress.
we reached the bottom of the stairs and i saw enzo and alessandro standing next to alessandro's grandmother.
"you look beautiful nik" enzo said taking my hand and kissing it
"thank you enzo" i said smirking at him
"nicole you look amazing darling" rosa said kissing my cheek.
"thank you" i said kissing her cheek back
i met eyes with enzo and he looked at me with a small grin. we stared at each other for a few seconds before he put his hand out and i took it, i walked down the last few steps holding the end of my dress with my free hand
we were all outside our the house and gathered in a circle. "nonna will you say a prayer for us?" he asked looking at her. we all held hands and bowed our heads in silence. after a few minutes we broke the circle and got our cars
i got in the car with alessandro who opened the door for me and i got in, enzo got into a car with gia andes lied rosa. we drove out of the drive way onto the street with enzo following behind us.
"you look beautiful angel" alessandro said cupping my cheek while rubbing his thumb along my cheek and then dragging his thumb down my bottom lip.
"thank you alessandro" i said looking at him
he nodded his head and focused on the driving, the drive was silent the whole time. after 20 minutes of driving we finally arrived at the place the ball was held. enzo pulled up behind us. he stepped out opening the door for gia and rosa
alessandro got out of the car and walked around to to open to door for me. i reached for it but it had already opened.
"you didn't have to do that" i said as i stepped out and took his hand.
"i know bits it's a respect thing in our mafia" he said looking at me as i took his hand
i nodded and we walked up to the entrance then men standing outside the doors asked for our invitation cards and we took them out handing them to the men.
they patted us down making sure we didn't have any weapons. one of the men went through my small hand bag only seeing my phone and handed it back to me. we walked inside and sat at our assigned table. the place was huge it was filled with women and men and some children. they were all dressed so nicely. there was classical music playing low on the stage.
many men and women were talking to each other soon after enzo, gia and rosa all walked in. we were all sitting down . alessandro was beside me and enzo was across him while gia and rosa sat next to each other. after a while a waiter came by giving us all a glass of champagne. i took the glass having a small sip and setting it back down.
