Nova Grace

15

15| The past

Emilio
26 (ish) years ago

"I'm getting married"

Being in the heart of a decade long rivalry between Mafias, I thought I had heard quite an ocean of messed up things that had left me rattled

But hearing Camry, mi lunita, tell me that she was getting married to another man? That was definitely on top of the list

"I thought the deal was off" I murmured, still absorbing, albeit slowly, like a sponge swallowing a pool's worth of water

Camry came from a family with a century long history of arranged marriages and partners of convenience. I don't think a single LeBlanc has ever married out of love

Están malditos, hijo. Te hará bien alejarte de esa muchachita, nada bueno puede salir de esa relación mientras esa familia siga viva, my mama told me the first time she caught me with Cam

Their family is cursed, stay away from that girl, nothing good can come out of that relationship as long as her family lives, was what she meant

Oh how right she was, I just didn't know that yet

Years ago, mi lunita was promised to a man named Amir Alistair. Their parents signed the contract when they were 6...to be married on the night of
Cam's 21st birthday

The loophole? The contract held no value if any of the LeBlancs were to meet an untimely death.

It was a way Camry's father of saying hey, any of you kills me or my wife and the deal's off so make sure to keep the safe on your guns when you're around us got it?

Anyway, when Cam's parent's beach house mysteriously burned to ash with them inside, so did the contract that bound her future to Amir

The eldest LeBlanc sibling, Bash, became the boss...automatically giving him the right to determine what became of his sister

Even though she was a legal adult, things in the Mafia tended to be fucked up. Understatement of the year

That meant that a woman couldn't leave her parent's home (mansion is more like it) to become independent until her hand was claimed in marriage

Sexist much?

That, among many other reasons, was why I didn't care about that kind of life although my mama and papa were the best kind of people there was, so was my brother Joel

I could have had a great future, leading side by side with my brother...but Camry couldn't rid of her shackles until she was far away from there

I had no interest in the future if she wasn't in it with me

"The deal was definitely off but money is running low, Bash said Amir's money isn't nearly enough to make a good alliance. Emi he's marrying me off to Carlos" she said

The warmth I felt on my chest upon hearing her say my nickname was short lived when my blood drained from my body then came back boiling all over

"Carlos Mulley? The drunk who got his whore pregnant...twice? Lunita what is Bash thinking? He's not even descended from a Mafia family" I said

"I told him the same thing, he said it didn't matter as long as our marriage brought us wealth and alliances. It's not like I'm gonna make it to the wedding anyways" Cam smiled

I grinned at her and pulled her onto my lap, her blonde white hair made a curtain on one side of our faces when I pressed our lips together

There was nothing as sweet as her lips, as soft as her skin and as kind as her heart. I'm so whipped, man