Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with? I have, I am, and it's probably the hardest thing trying to walk away from.
My father is the leader of one of the world's most notorious families, italian mafia family that is. It was passed down to him from my grandpa months before I was born and The Matteo family have been up on top, running things in New York City for years now.
My best friend, Iridiana, her dad, he just so happens to be my father's second in command, his right hand man. And I just so happened to be madly in love with his daughter.
I wasn't supposed to fall in love with her. I'm supposed to be her protector, her guardian, I guess I took that to a whole different meaning.
Both her father and mine have warned me to stay away from her, to not cross any boundaries and start creating problems within the faction. At the end of the day my dad's second in command will put his daughter above everything else and I definitely don't want to be the reason why their friendship gets strained.
I'm trying to keep my distance because I know I can't have her, but I want her so bad.
After all, I am my father's son, I am a Matteo, and we're used to getting what we want, even if I have to go against my own father and hers.
In a garden of forbidden love, the most beautiful flowers bloom, and she's a delicacy that I need to have in my life, I will have in my life.
"You love him" she says taking me in and I look away. "Of course, you love him any girl who experienced what you did would love him" she tells me.
I frown is she saying what I think she's saying that I fell in love with him because of the things I got from him. Do I look like some school girl to her? Does she even know who my family is or who I am? I shake my head stepping to her she has no idea who she is dealing with.
"Let's get one thing clear nothing he gave me I can't get on my own his money and trinkets don't impress me. I'm not a school girl with a crush who's easily impressed by bright lights I have my own lights I don't need his" I tell her plainly.
I look up to find Dimitri standing there watching us his golden-brown eyes taking me in and everything I was trying to fight comes rushing to the surface and tears start forming in my eyes but I dismiss it I am not going to shed a tear over him.
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Estella Gooden, she has always been a good girl always there for others helping out where she can; she comes from a loving family who ensured that she and her brother never wanted for anything. But as we all know high society and the lives of the wealthy and powerful is never simple or easy and love is never something that comes easy but or Estella there was only one person who caught her eyes.
From a young age she has loved the guy next door he was everything she never knew she wanted and when she understood love he was all she wanted. But love is not one sided it needs two hearts not just one.
Will Estella be able to get the man of her dreams to love her or is she doomed to love from a far....