My hardest fall - a short mafia romance

9

I slowly blinked my eyes open seeing Dante hold me. "Mila baby..." Dante said.
"Dante..." I mumbled. 
"I'm here baby." He said. "You fainted. I'm sorry baby, we shouldn't have shouted." 

I looked around to see we were sitting on a couch and my brother and father were sitting on another one nearby. I slowly got up and got off of Dante's lap. They all looked at me with worry. Once I regained full consciousness I spoke. "You are going to speak like adults and tell me the truth. ALL OF YOU. First, the truth is Dante is my boyfriend but I'm not really feeling that confident that he is considering the biggest bombshell has just been dropped. Second, we have a baby together her name is Mavis and I am her mother and that is not changing. And finally, I want to know everything, from the agreement to whatever you guys were saying about Dante being obsessed with me." I say, Elio and my father look at me in shock. 
"He's your boyfriend?" My dad asks and I nod. "How and when did it start?" 
"It doesn't matter. I love him but he has a lot of explaining to do." I say. 
"Mila... you know as the daughter of a don, you have a responsibility... A responsibility that you've known about for a while." 
"To marry a man just so your mafia can gain power? Yeah I've known for a while." 
"That's not it Mila..."
"Yes it is though dad." 
"What about this." Dante interrupts. "Mila and I will get married but when she is ready. Whether that be 5 or 10 years time." I scoffed. 
"Wait." I told him. "No new deal is being discussed until you and I talk." I told him and he nodded. 
"Let's talk in the study. Once we're done, you can speak to your dad and brother alone." He said. 

We walked out and I watched the expressions on their faces, disappointment and discuss, tears filled my eyes. I shut the door of the study behind me and Dante sat in his chair. "Tell me everything..." I whispered. 
The first time I saw you was 4 months before you arrived in Italy. One of your men, Frank, had slept with a married woman. That married woman was married to one of my men causing a fight. I came to Miami to sort out a deal to settle this with your father and then I saw you." Tears started to fall. "You were outside by the pool and you didn't see me. I was so captured by your beauty that I proposed the idea that you'll be my wife. Your father went crazy and we settled on a different deal." 
"So that was the first time you asked for an arranged marriage between us?" I asked and he nodded. 
"Yes and ever since I saw you I couldn't stop thinking about you. So I did lots of research, I found out everything about you, from your favourite food, to what you studied in high school. Your brother and father were right, I was obsessed, I still am." He said shamefully. "Then when I found out you were on a plane to Italy, I immediately followed. When one of my men hacked into your brother's computer and saw the co-ordinates of that horrible woman. I knew what you two were doing. Then when I arrived, you two had already killed her, I was happy but I would've loved to have seen you kill her. When I was on my way to you, Enzo called letting me know about what was happening back in Miami with your father's mafia and I found the perfect opportunity to finally have what was mine." I cried. 
"But I am not yours Dante!" 

"I know..." He choked. "But I saw an opportunity and took it. I wanted you so badly. I know you probably won't be able to forgive me but-"
"When you told me you haven't slept with someone else since the first time you saw me, did you mean when I arrived in Italy or Miami?" 
"Miami." He said. 
"But why? Why didn't you sleep with someone else?" I asked. 
"Because it didn't feel right. Every time a woman touched me, I only thought of you, so I'd have to stop it before it went to far because if I had sex with another woman, I would be thinking of you and that wouldn't be fair to that woman. If you want to leave and go home. Your father and I can come up with a new contract, I still haven't sent off the papers yet for Mavis's adoption because I knew things would change." 
"Wait when did you find out my father was here?" I asked, already knowing the answer. 
"When Enzo called me yesterday. I couldn't tell you, it was your birthday and I couldn't do this entire deal on your birthday. Also here is your phone." He said. "I took it yesterday to stop you from seeing what your father was going to tell you." I cried more.