Mafia

Chapter Eleven

I had awoken in the morning to the sound of birds chirping through the window that I had left open by accident, my hair was a mess after I had spent the night tossing and turning, and my stomach growled with hunger. A knock at the door startled me, and before I could respond the door open and Giovanni entered holding a cup of tea, and some food that was on a plate. He placed it beside me and I thought he was going to leave however he sent on the end of the bed. 

He was clearly stressed about something, he had stress lines all over his forehead and he looked as though he had not slept a wink last night. I took a sip of the tea before biting into the toast that he had made for me, my eyes still staring at him as he looked towards me. "We need to get married." He stated as I almost chocked on the piece of bread that I was chewing in my mouth. 

"You're joking right." I ask, he doesn't respond instead he shakes his head. 

"Trust me this is not want I want either." 

"Then why are you forcing this on me?" I ask annoyed at his previous comment. 

"Because my father found out about you. Trust me when I say this V, he won't think twice about killing me for not following his instruction's." I have never met his father, and yet he is forcing me to marry him, how is that fair. 

"We can just pretend that we got married..." I say as he stares at me in disbelief, shocked at what I just said. 

"We are getting married in two weeks V. My mother and sister will be round today to start planning, I only came to warn you." He says as he stands up to leave the room. "Oh and V, don't think about running away again, trust me when I say my father is worse than me." And with that he left the room, leaving me to process everything that he had just said.   

I know for certain that I do not want marry that man, and if I had the option I would have said no a million times, however I watched Giovanni shoot a man yesterday, and I even though I have never met his father I am guessing he would do the same to me if I was to not marry his son. And now I have to meet his sister and his mother and discuss a stupid wedding that I do not care about. It will probably only end in a divorce in a years time anyways.

I manged to finish my breakfast and was ready for the day, I had picked a black dress that slightly showed my bump and had made an effort to put makeup on and sort my hair out. It wasn't long however until the doorbell rang, and I rushed downstairs to meet our new guests.

"Hello lovely to meet you darling, I'm Rose and this is my daughter Lilly, we are just so exited to finally be meeting you! Giovanni always speaks so highly of you, glad he could finally settle with someone! And oh my god your little bump is so cute!" She said before finally stopping for some air. 

"Nice to meet you guys to I'm Valarie, but you are welcome to call me V." I say as we head towards the living room, his sister Lilly doesn't say very anything and I can feel her eyes burning on the back of my head. She must be around the age of 18 still very young, she has long blonde hair and her eyes are bright blue like Giovanni's, she looks like the spitting image of her mother, just younger. 

"So how did he propose?" She asks as Rory comes in with tea for everyone, both their eyes where now focused on me, and I felt myself start to panic slightly unsure what to say. 

"Oh it was rather romantic, we was on a boat ride through this lake, and there where all these house and beautiful buildings that we went past, and at the end there was this picnic set up, which we had before he went on one knee and proposed." I lied as his mother clapped her hands in glee over the thought of her son doing something romantic.

"Oh that is truly romantic, I wish his father done something like that for me, he just asked when we where in bed one morning." She said laughing as I smiled lightly feeling uncomfortable about the fact that I was lying to her face.   "So for the wedding I was thinking these flowers because they are truly beautiful and we need to order a dress today as it is such short notice, but I suppose your pregnant so you don't want a big stomach for the pictures. I am just so exited!"