Addiction| 18+

10|arranged marrage

.Grey.

5 months prior

The last two weeks I had spent traveling all over the world where all of my hotels were located. I already had Harrison, who I trusted to run all of the hotels for me full time since I'm unable to be at all of them 24/7. But I still had to do my check ins here and there to make sure I was thrilled with how the places were running and catching up with clients and business deals. I used my hotels as a place to hide any potential threats or people who start to look into my business. I was able to hide my identity but still be able to show my face at the same time. But being away from home was becoming harder as I became more known in the underworld. My father, Russo had only retired four years ago- leaving me in charge as the new Don.

Growing up my father was one of the worlds most feared crimes bosses to exist. He was cold and ruthless when it came to business. But he reserved his soft spot for family and thats exactly how he taught his children to be.

No matter what family always comes first.

If someone didn't have our families blood running through their veins then they were not considered your true family. Thats what my father taught us since day one, it's how I've lived the last 26 years of my life, and I wasn't planning to change it any time soon.

Family mattered the most.

My younger sister Amaya was my only biological sibling. She was only a couple years younger than me. She had my moms dark brown hazelnut eyes and long dark light brown hair while I inherited my fathers dark hair and grey eyes. Amaya had her own part in the mafia as she ran beside me as my own personal undercover spy. She could dress up as anyone and pretend to be who she pleased to find out information on anyone I told her to.

Then there's my team Mathew, Harrison, Aaron, and Silas. They where the people I trusted the most in this cruel life I was born into.

Aaron and Silas are my cousins on my dads side. They were fraternal twins who looked nothing a like but still had the same personalty. They where both dick heads who caused nothing but pure trouble. They were always doing stupid shit or running around like morons. They were also the youngest out of all of us, so I'll give them that.

Mathew and Harrison where the only ones closer to my age. So they didn't pull stupid shit out of their asses all the time like the other two did.

Mathew was my right hand man. He was next to me through most of my business deals. He was my cousin on my moms side. We basically grew up together in this cruel world. I trusted him more than I trusted anyone else. He always has my back which is what I need as leader. Someone always on my side.

"If we want this deal to go through then we have to come up with a better plan than whatever this shit is. Because whatever you brought me isn't gonna cut it," I spat out.

"I understand but how will we find something thats better than this." Mathew was gesturing back to whatever bull shit plan he had to gain an alliance with the Whites. I read the first statement and already knew his plan wasn't going to work. The Whites wanted money and power not just some half ass agreement.

"This won't work especially not for the family. If we want to have more control over Sicily then we need to have a better plan and in fast. I already told the Whites that we would have a proposal in less than five days on Monday and today's fucking Thursday."

Mathew looked down like he was trying to think of another plan. Meanwhile I was thinking of how the fuck I let him be my right hand man.

"Have you ever thought of an arranged marriage? If you marry there daughter than that would give us all we need to be able to cover more land and get an alliance in the process. It would be a two for one type of business deal."

I have never wanted to settle down or ever think about marrying someone else but for how desperate I'm starting to become for more territory this could be worth it.

Although nobody has heard about the Whites daughter in years, from what it seems like she ran away for attention and to get her daddy's love back. Pathetic.

"Find all of the information about the Whites daughter and bring all of her files to me by the end of the day and then we will talk."

Mathew nodded taking it as a sign to leave the room.

I knew I needed this alliance but I couldn't stand the fact of marrying someone right now. It just wasn't in the picture of me, especially with the amount of stress it would add to my plate.

I spent the rest of my day sitting at my desk continuing the loads amount of paper work that has been waiting for me ever since I left two weeks ago. It was all just signing bullshit for my warehouses and my company's as long as a couple of business deals I happened to make while I was away.

By the time I had finally finished Harrison had handed me everything I needed to know about the Whites. I skimmed through the first half only because it was about Warren and his own mafia. I had no interest in it because his was weak and not nearly as strong as my own so I had no worries. I stopped once I got to a picture of a girl.

Hayley White

She looked very young, my guess was sixteen. She had dirty blonde hair pulled up into a messy bun. Her eyes were a bright green with a hint of brown and she was wearing a black strapless dress. A mean she looked hot. She had a spark in her eyes that was unlike anything I had ever seen before in a woman. I looked down at the bottom of the picture that read,"Hayleys Sixteenth Birthday."

This was the girl I would have to marry.

I remember Harrison saying this was the latest picture he could find which happened to be from three years ago.

I sighed and slouched down in my chair. Was I really going to do this. Be married to a woman that I didn't know.

She would be considered family the second I put a ring on her finger. Which meant having double bodyguards for her sake and mine. Once my enemies realize i'm married they will make her the first target assuming that she would be the closest to me.

I grabbed my whiskey and drank the last of it as I called my team to make the a deal around the idea of an arranged marriage.

I was going to get married.

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End of chapter

I'm kind of going back in time here.. I want you guys to know how he made the deal.

I will continue to add more of his povs into the story.

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