Bloody City: Temptations

Chapter Eighteen

Standing in my room in the satin mermaid style dress with a single shoulder strap and slit into the dress I felt beautiful enough in it. What made me do more was that other women of the Familia would be there, wives, fiancés and girlfriend's. The latter being rare though more common under Alessio's reign as Don.

Putting on white gold jewelry that was adorned with flawless diamonds I quickly realized I didn't have anything that would speak to the position I now found myself in.

"I believe I have something to get you to stop worrying," Alessio says standing in the doorway dressed in a nine piece black tuxedo and bow tie along with holding a shiny black box that he handed over to me.

Accepting it, I glanced to him and Carmilla my security guard who seemed just as excited as me before I lifted the lid and found a necklace with slowly growing diamonds in size set into white gold.

"Alessio," I gasp, "it's stunning". I then lifted it from the box as I set it down before lifting it with the velvetine elbow length gloves I'd chosen to wear with the dress, watching as the light danced over the gems and seemed to cast colour everywhere.

"I looked everywhere to find that, it was why I'd stayed up so late last night," Alessio says as I handed it to him to put on me while I lifted my hair.

"Carmilla would you make sure the car is ready," I request and she nods before walking off leaving me along with Alessio.

"I also bought the necklace because a gorgeous woman needs a stunning necklace," he whispers, tickling my ear as he does so.

"I may have done something," I say turning my head to look back at him and caught his dark expression, the one that told me he was preparing himself for completely falling into his duty as Boss of the Familia.

"What did you do?" he asks and I gestured to the mirror which he looked to and I moved the slit of my dress to reveal the lace underneath the dress.

"Fuck," he breathes and I try and stifle my amusement at the dark look in his eyes. For some reason it had become my favourite look of his. Maybe it was because he hid his darkness so well behind the stony civil persona of being Don, but in private even when being the gentleman he set out to be there was a shadow that existed in him that teasing made me feel alive.

"No touching, remember," I smile and he looks down into my eyes and if there was a look for saying I belonged to him he was giving me it.

"I'm going to have a fucking hit list by the end of the night," Alessio growls and I reach up and cup his bearded face.

"Only yours, remember trust goes both ways," I remind him.

"I trust you, other men I don't trust," he points out and I opened his jacket to stare at the pistol he had kept there unnoticeable from the outside of the jacket.

"Are you planning on shooting someone?".

"I'm planning what I intend to do with you when I have to behave while lying next to you," he says.

"You're a criminal, you've never behaved, and I'm going to enjoy teasing you all night," I muse.

"We'll see how often you tease me by tomorrow, now let's go it's a two hour drive to Ticino," Alessio says putting his hand on the small of my back and leading me from the room.

Stepping out of the mansion I caught sight of the gloss black and chrome sedan roll to a stop in front of us. When Alessio had said that there wouldn't be a convoy, what he had forgotten to mention was that his personal Maybach was, one bulletproof, and two modified to be more powerful in the event we needed to leave the venue quickly. There were various points that made that clear that the vehicle was bespoke, and meant just for Alessio's usage.