His Redemption

PROLOGUE...................................................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER ONE (1).........................................................................................................................................2
CHAPTER TWO (2)........................................................................................................................................6
CHAPTER THREE (3)...................................................................................................................................10
CHAPTER FOUR (4).....................................................................................................................................14
CHAPTER FIVE (5).......................................................................................................................................18
CHAPTER SIX (6).........................................................................................................................................21
CHAPTER SEVEN (7)...................................................................................................................................24
CHAPTER EIGHT (8)....................................................................................................................................28
CHAPTER NINE (9)......................................................................................................................................32
CHAPTER TEN(10)......................................................................................................................................35
CHAPTER ELEVEN (11)................................................................................................................................40
CHAPTER TWELVE (12)...............................................................................................................................43
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (13)............................................................................................................................46

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HIS REDEMPTION

PROLOGUE
Adriano looked at the girl sleeping beside him and was disgusted. Not because he
thought she was ugly, no, she was breathtakingly beautiful, she was in every sense

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perfect and that was the problem. Why had he agreed to this union in the first
place? She was perfect, sweet and innocent. She was not supposed to be married to
a man like him. But now, they were joined in this union ‘till death do them part’. It
wasn’t just a vow; it was how things worked in their world. Divorce was not an
option and running away from your marriage was probably the worst mistake you
could ever make as a woman. It was a death sentence. The only thing that could
break a marital union was death. This sweet, precious girl was bound to him
forever till either of them died.

CHAPTER ONE (1)

ISMERALDA

Most girls her age would be thinking about graduating and going to college in two
years and were most probably planning out their future and their careers. Ismeralda
Romano had known that getting married was inevitable. That was how things

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worked in their world. Every girl was supposed to have been married before they
turned twenty and they were to be engaged before they were eighteen. Ismeralda
was sixteen and it hadn’t taken her father long to find a husband for her.
Ismeralda stared at her reflection in the mirror. She had been looking at herself for
almost ten minutes. She was dressed and made up properly in a navy-blue dinner
dress that was super long. She was wearing a diamond necklace around her neck
that was a bit too heavy but her mother had insisted that she wear it. Thankfully,
the diamond earrings she had on were not so heavy and they would be bearable for
the evening. Her mother had allowed her to wear flat shoes because she knew that
if she wore high heeled shoes, she would fall and make a fool of herself because
although she hated to admit it, Ismeralda was hopelessly clumsy.
The make-up on her face made her look way older than she was. It was probably
for the best since her fiancé was over 5 years older than her.
The reason for all the dress up was because today was the official engagement
party for her and her soon-to-be husband, Adriano Ferrari who was also the capo of
the Lato Oscuro mafia organization.
Adriano was every girl’s dream and, in all honesty, Ismeralda too had developed a
crush on him when she had first seen him at a party at his house a year ago so she
wasn’t all that annoyed at the fact that she was getting married so young.
Adriano was incredibly handsome. He had nice, thick, black hair. Thick, curly
brows, piercing, dark grey eyes and nice tanned skin. He was six foot and five
inches and obviously from his body structure, you could tell that he worked out a
lot.
He was quiet a lot and didn’t say much of anything. Even during parties, he tried
not to mingle with people but she knew he wasn’t shy because he had an air of
confidence around him. Everybody knew it and that was why nobody ever dared to
cross him.
She wondered how a girl like him could ever survive in a house with a guy like
him.
She had once heard her father complaining that he was a control freak and that he
hated to relinquish control to anyone. If he could be controlling with her father
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And nothing upset her more than someone trying to control her. She could hardly
even tolerate it from her father.
“Mom told me to tell you that Adriano is here and that you should come down
now.” Her little sister Sienna said, breaking her out of her thoughts.
“Okay, tell her I’ll be right there.” She replied without taking her eyes away from
the mirror.
She took a deep breath and tried to calm her nerves. She hoped her hands would
still by the time she got downstairs because she felt really shaky. Again, thank God
she wasn’t wearing heels.
With one last glance at herself in the mirror, she turned around and left the room.
When she got to the staircase, she saw that her parents were already deep in
conversation with Adriano. They were probably telling him all the sweet things
about her and most of what they were probably saying were exaggerations.
She descended the staircase slowly and her movement probably caught his
attention because, Adriano looked up at her immediately. She was hoping to get
some form of reaction from him but all she was met with were cold grey eyes. But
his face wasn’t hardened, she’d just have to console herself with that.
When she was one step away from them, he brought his hand out to her in
invitation. He was being a gentleman because courtesy demanded that he be one.
“Good evening, Ismeralda.” He greeted her in a soft voice. She was surprised with
the sound of his voice because she had expected his voice to be cold like his face.
“Good evening, Adriano.” She replied before he linked their arms together.
“Well, come into the hall, the guests will start to arrive soon. “
They both followed her parents into the event room of their house.
“My parents extend their apologies. They had a matter to attend to but they will be
with us soon.” Adriano said.
“Oh, it’s alright.” Her mother responded with a smile on her face.
~*~*~*~
The room was filled with guest and Adriano and Ismeralda had to stand at the
entrance to receive greetings from the incoming arrivals. His parents had arrived an

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hour after the party had begun and they were now in deep conversation with her
parents. It wasn’t really a surprise that Adriano and Ismeralda were engaged
because her father had been consigliere to Riccardo Ferrari for years and was now
consigliere to Adriano and when he retired, her brother Gabriele who was nineteen
would take his place but that would be after he finished his initiation process and
he was deemed fit to be consigliere.
Adriano’s mother and her mother were also longtime friends. Ismeralda suspected
that since from the beginning they had already planned that their two children
would get married.
As the party progressed, Ismeralda felt herself getting drowsier with each passing
second.
She slept so little the night before just thinking about the and now that she had
gone through the party and she was able to calm her mind, her tiredness was taking
over.
“I think you should go and rest now. You look exhausted.” Adriano said. She felt
embarrassed she was so tired that it was obvious.
“No, I can manage.” She smiled at him sweetly sort of expecting his to push
further but all he did was shrug with the same blank look on her face.
How was she supposed to be in a marriage with someone who was so hard to read?
Wasn’t the most needed thing in a relationship communication? How could she
communicate with someone who had a big, impenetrable wall up 24/7?
She had so many questions in her head that had no answers. She guessed they’d
figure it out when they got married. Hopefully.

~*~*~*~
ADRIANO

There was nothing Adriano hated more than parties or get-togethers. They annoyed
the hell out of him. But it was part of Mafia cultures to make a big fuss out of
parties.

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This whole engagement was not even something he wanted. Left to him, he would
be a Capo without a wife but his parents would hear none of it. They said that it
was in poor taste for a man to be a leader without a wife.
So, he had to go through the torturous process. At least he had two more years
before he was sealed to marriage for life.
To make matters worse, his parents chose the most innocent looking girl they
could find to marry him. Ismeralda screamed innocence and naivete. He didn’t
know how in hell a man like him was supposed to be married to a girl like her.
Yes, he knew that every man that was part of the Lato Oscuro mafia was
dangerous but everyone knew he was the worse of the worst. He knew their
marriage was because of the good relationship that their parents had but it still
didn’t make sense. As much as he hated it, there was nothing he could do about it.
He hated that he had no control over the situation.
The only thing he could do was hope for the best in this situation and pray that he
doesn’t pull this innocent soul into his dark world. It would be unfortunate for the
both of them.

CHAPTER TWO (2)

ADRIANO

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2 YEARS LATER...
He looked exactly the groom he was; he was dressed in his black three-piece suite,
a white shirt, navy blue tie, black oxfords and his hair was styled in a neat side
part.
He looked perfect, he looked good but he didn’t feel good. He felt like crap. He
was anything but happy about his marriage but he had to pretend to be the happy
groom that he was not. It was a good thing that he was good at masking his
emotions.
“Are you ready?” His brother Julio asked.
He didn’t know how to answer that question. Would he ever be ready for this
marriage? Would he ever feel right about getting married to Ismeralda? He had had
two years to prepare for this marriage, two years to enjoy being a bachelor, two
years to convince himself that the marriage might not be as bad as he thought it
would be but he was finding it hard to convince himself now.
“Yes, I am. Let’s go.” Adriano said with more confidence and conviction than he
felt.
When they got to the church, the place was already filled up. That was one
disadvantage of being a Capo, everybody wanted to be at the wedding because
everybody wanted to be on your good side. One thing they didn’t know was that he
couldn’t care less about any of them. He only wanted to keep everybody in check
and make sure that nobody messed up.
He was ushered to the front of the church with his brother and his two cousins,
Adolfo and Alonso behind him.
They arranged themselves as they were supposed to be while they waited for his
soon-to-be wife and her bridal train.
To make matters worse, they were having a church wedding. How the hell does the
captain of the mafia or even anyone from the mafia get married in a church? It
didn’t make sense and neither did this wedding.
The audience grew silent all of a sudden and then the Bridal Chorus began to play.
He tore his eyes away from the priest to look at Ismeralda as she walked up to him
with her father.

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The moment his eyes landed on her; he inhaled a sharp breath but didn’t show any
reaction on his face.
Ismeralda was beautiful in her white, shiny ball gown. She looked more matured
and taller than the last time he had seen her two years ago. He tried his best and
succeeded at avoiding her after the engagement party. He didn’t know why he did
that but then he did.
She looked more confident and walked with more poise and grace but Adriano still
didn’t forget that she was still eighteen and probably still naïve.
When they got to where he was standing, her father kissed her forehead before
placing her small hands in his. This was it, this was the beginning of the rest of
their lives and he didn’t mean that in a good way.

~*~*~*~
ISMERALDA
The morning of her wedding, she was all dressed in her beautiful white dress and
her high heeled shoe. Her make-up was done by the best of the best and her shoes
were ordered and customized from Versace (Leave it to her mother to overdo
everything). Her hair was styled up with a few curly strands falling around her face
and of course her veil.
She wore only a simple silver chain around her neck with a diamond pendant and
earrings to match.
She looked like the bride she had imagined herself to be when she finally got
married. She didn’t feel sad because she was getting married but she wasn’t happy
either.
Truth is that she was really nonchalant about the wedding because she had
prepared herself for it and she knew it would come.
The only thing she was worried about was the fact the she didn’t know how it
would be like to be married to someone like Adriano.
She was very opened about her emotions and how she was feeling while he was the
direct opposite.

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He was cold and closed off. Sometimes, she wondered if he even had the ability to
feel things.
If he didn’t have the ability to feel emotions, then she was doomed in their
marriage.
She didn’t even have time to ponder over her thoughts anymore because she was
being yelled at by her mother for her to hurry so they wouldn’t be late.
When they got to the church building, she took in a deep breath before climbing up
the stairs that led to the entrance of the building. Then she took in another deep
breath when her dad linked their arms together.
“You look beautiful, princess.” Her father told her with a sweet smile on his face.
She could see his eyes becoming wet and she smiled softly at him.
“Thank you, papa.” She replied and placed a small kiss on his cheeks.
Then the doors opened for them and she inhaled another deep breath. She was
probably more nervous than she thought she would be.
As she and her father walked slowly down the aisle, she noticed her future husband
looking at her. His face was void of any emotions as usual and that made her heart
sink. It took all the strength in her not to turn on her heels and run away but she
wasn’t stupid enough to think that she’d get away with it.
This was just how things would be for her from now on. She didn’t have a choice
about anything.

~*~*~*~
After all the vows were said, the moment that the audience couldn’t wait to see and
the moment that Ismeralda had even forgotten about was about to happen.
For some weird reason, Ismeralda had not thought about her first kiss that would
be given to her by Adriano today. It was odd because she had thought about how
her first kiss would feel like countless times and on the day she would finally get it,
it totally skipped her mind.

“I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.” The priest said.

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Ismeralda looked at her husband's handsome stone-cold face. He gave her a tiny
smile before bending to place his lips on hers.
His lips were gentle on hers and he moved slowly. Ismeralda was grateful that he
hadn’t tried to deepen the kiss because God knows she would have done something
embarrassing.
The crowd stood up and cheered. Julio, Adriano’s brother howled and then
Adriano broke the kiss and they both turned to face the crowd.
They walked down the aisle hand in hand and tried to look like the happy couple
that they weren’t.
They both knew how awkward it would be for the two of them. They were as good
as strangers who had been forced into a marriage that they both couldn’t walk
away from.
So, no matter how unhappy they were or would be in the marriage, the only thing
that could separate them was death and neither wanted to die soon so they’d just
have to manage.

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CHAPTER THREE (3)

Ismeralda

~*~*~*~
The wedding guests had just finished having dinner and everybody was now
dancing.
Ismeralda tried to have a good time but she kept thinking about what would happen
after they were done at the reception and they had to go back to Adriano’s
apartment.
They’d have to consummate their union and that was scary. Adriano had probably
done it multiple times and that thought made her cringe. She’d never done it
before, she’d never even been kissed until today at the altar. In truth, she didn’t
think she was ready.
She had always imagined that her first time would be with a man she loved and
who loved her right back. She didn’t know Adriano well enough to have even
fallen in love with him and she was sure as hell that he wasn’t in love with her
either.
It also scared her because Adriano didn’t look like a gentle man. He looked like he
was rough with women. He had been a gentleman with her since the beginning but
that was only because that was what was expected of him.
“Ismeralda, care for a dance?” Julio, Adriano’s brother asked breaking her out of
her reverie.
She looked up at him and smiled. Julio looked just like his bother. They had the
same thick black hair and nicely shaped face. The only difference between the two
brothers was that Julio had heterochromia. One eye was grey like his father’s own
and the other was blue like that of his mother. It wasn’t creepy the way it sounded,
it actually made him look so handsome. He was younger than Adriano and was the
Enforcer for the Lato Oscuro.
“Yes, I would love to.” She replied and she put her hand in his.
They moved over to the middle of the dancefloor and he pulled her close to him.
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“So how does it feel being a married woman?” He asked trying to start a
conversation and put her at ease.
“It’s good, I guess. I won’t know till we start living together.” She said and he let
out a soft chuckle.
“That’s true. Look, just be a bit patient with my brother. He’ll get the hang of this
whole marriage thing eventually.”
“Neither of us even know how this marriage would be like.” She replied.
“Yeah, but you might handle it better than he would. He was very strong about not
wanting to get married but my parents would hear none of it.” Julio said making
the Ismeralda inhale a sharp breath.
He had just confirmed that Adriano was literally forced to marry her. That was the
case for the two of them but the only difference was that she had made her peace
with the marriage. She was okay with getting married to him but he still didn’t
want to marry her.
“No, don’t let that make you lose hope in the marriage. Adriano is a very
complicated man and he has been through a lot, more than most made men have
been forced to go through but I’m sure with time he’ll let you in.”
“But how do I get through to him, Julio?” She asked.
“Well, there’s no real answer to that question. As I said, he is very complicated,
but you are a smart girl, you’ll figure it out. Just be patient with him, he will come
around.” He said then took a step back.
He took my hand in his and kissed the back of it. “It was a pleasure to dance with
you and the talk too.”
“You too.” She replied sweetly and smiled at him.
Immediately he walked away, Adriano took his position. He grabbed her by the
waist and pulled her really close to him.
“What did Julio tell you?” He asked.
“Nothing, he was just congratulating me on the wedding.” She lied easily.
“Really? Is that why the conversation lasted so long?” She knew he didn’t believe
her but she wasn’t going to tell him what they had discussed about.

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“He also said I look good. Something you haven’t told me today.”
“I don’t give out compliments.” He replied with a slight shrug.
Ismeralda was so pissed, it took all her self-control not to lash out and throw a
snide remark at him.
“It is now time for the bride and groom to go to their new home.” The master of
ceremonies announced.
The crowd started to clap and cheer. “But before they do, kiss her!” Julio yelled.
“Kiss her! Kiss her!” the crowd started to chant.
Adriano pulled her into his arms and placed his lips on hers. This kiss was a bit
more thorough than the one on the altar and it made her feel hot all over. It shot a
chill up her spine but it was a good feeling. It was amazing. She was very sad when
he pulled away.
He took her hand and led her towards the exit of the Ferrari mansion.
Soon her nerves had spiked up and her body started to shake. What would happen
when they got to his mansion?”
With the way he’d kissed her, he’d definitely want to consummate their union
today.
The crown gathered around the parking lot so they could see them leave. She
hugged her mom, her dad, Sienna and Gabriele goodbye before going to where
Adriano’s car was park with him.
His car was parked just in front of the mansion. When she saw the car, she almost
squealed like a little girl. She’d always had an obsession with cars and looking at
the beauty that was his car made her want to run mad.
It was the car she had always hoped to have; a 2021 Chevy Corvette C8.
She had to stop herself from gazing at the car dreamily.
Adriano took her hand and led her to the passenger’s side where he opened the
door for her. She got in excitedly and closed the door herself.
For a few moments, she had forgotten about her nerves until Adrian came into the
car and started the engines.

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He drove out of the parking lot slowly as people waved at them but then he picked
up speed when they got to the gate and he drove out. Now it was only the two of
them in the car and the air was thick with tension.
Ismeralda didn’t know how to ask him if he could wait for her to be ready before
they did anything.
As if the he had read her mind he said, “You don’t have to do what you don’t want
to do tonight.”
She exhaled a deep breath. Thank God.
“Thank you so much for that. I really wasn’t ready to do it tonight.”
“It would have to happen sometime, it is inevitable.” He spoke coldly this time.
She cleared her throat and said, “Yeah, I know but just for today.”
“Yeah, just for today.”

CHAPTER FOUR (4)

ADRIANO

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When they had arrived at his mansion, they were both silent. The awkwardness
filled the room. None of them knew what to say to each other.
Carlos, his butler had already taken Ismeralda’s things to the master bedroom
while he and Ismeralda sat in very awkward silence in the living room.
She played with her fingers while he scrolled through his phone. He wasn’t doing
anything important on his phone, he was simply trying to keep his mind busy. He
was tired and he wanted to go up to his room and rest but he knew he had to sleep
in the same bed as her and that was not something he looked forward to.
He couldn’t tell her to sleep in the guest bedroom because that would be too brutal,
even for him. She was now his wife and they were expected to share a room
together.
But sharing a bed, especially with a woman was not something that he was used to.
He normally never shared a bed with the women he slept with, he felt like that was
too intimate.
“You have a nice house.” She said obviously trying to break the silence. She
sounded like a visitor not like someone who now owned the house to. “Thank you.
It’s yours too, you know.” He responded in a matter-of-fact tone.
She let out a soft chuckle in response and for some reason, the sound made him
twitch his lips a little but it wasn’t a full smile,
Adriano couldn’t remember the first time he had smiled. It was probably when he
was still a young teenager. That was before the brutal reality of his world had
struck him violently at a very tender age.
He turned his attention back to his phone, the awkward silence was back.
He knew there was no way he could avoid sharing a bed with her and he would
have to get used to it.
For the moment though, he stalled because he was still trying to convince himself
that he wasn’t all that bad.
He looked up from his phone to find her now on her own phone. She looked bored
and she wasn’t even paying attention to the fact that he was now staring at her.
He couldn’t help but check his new bride out. She was extremely attractive. She
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screamed innocence and when his eyes landed on her small, pink lips he thought he
would run mad.
He let his eyes wonder down her body, she was tall, not as tall as him but she was
still tall. She had long, shapely legs. She had a very attractive structure too; she had
the nicest curves that he had ever seen on any woman.
The more he looked at her, the more he started to want her. Why had he told her
they could wait? It was his right as her husband to consummate the marriage. But it
was too late to go back on his word, he’d already told her that they didn’t need to
do anything tonight and he never went back on his word.
~*~*~*~
Ismeralda
When she looked up from her phone, she saw Adriano staring at her with a look on
his face that she had never seen before. She watched as his eyes trailed down her
body and heat crept up her face instantly. He was checking her out and it was
obvious from the look in his eyes that he found her attractive.
He was so mesmerized that he hadn’t even noticed that she had caught him staring.
When his eyes finally met hers, the heat in them could literally burn her whole. She
gulped slowly. She felt her stomach turn but not in a bad way exactly.
“You really are breathtakingly beautiful.” He breathed the words out and that made
her blush furiously.
“I thought you didn’t give out compliments.” She said challengingly.
“Well, don’t get too used to it. It would not be something that happens often.” He
replied with a shrug and got up from the chair he had been occupying.
“I am tired and I know you are too. So, let’s go and sleep. I have work to do early
tomorrow.”
“You’re going to work a day after we have gotten married? What time are we
supposed to spend together then?”
“Spend time together?” He said with a scoff, “You can’t really expect me to put
my work on hold simply because I am married now, do you.”
“Well, yeah. At least if only for a day.” She shot back.

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She saw his eyes flash at her tone. “Now, listen here Ismeralda, nobody talks to me
in that tone, do you understand me?” He said scaringly.
But she was relentless. “Well, I am not just anybody anymore. I am your wife.”
“A wife in a marriage of convenience.” He muttered.
That was when it hit her hard in the face. He didn’t see her as his wife. She was
simply something thing that was being pushed down his throat.
Tears pulled into her eyes and she stormed off. She had no idea where she was
going to but she the first room she would find was where she would spend the
night.
When she got to the top of the stairs, she saw a door to her right and barged in.
Immediately she was safely behind closed doors, the tears started to rush down her
eyes fully.
What had her parents gotten her into? They had pushed her into a marriage with a
heartless idiot who didn’t care about anyone but himself.
She knew she couldn’t leave the marriage and she had to make it work but she
didn’t know how to get through to a man that was so guarded about everything.
The only type of emotion she had ever gotten off of him was when he had stared at
her in his living room.
It was the first day of her marriage and she was already frustrated and crying
heavily.
She wondered what the rest of their lives would be like if the first day already
made her feel like crap.
But she knew she couldn’t continue to live like this, she would try no matter what,
to get close to her husband. Whether he liked it not, he would not make her
miserable.
But for tonight, she just wanted to be alone.

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CHAPTER FIVE (5)

ADRIANO
He stood looking at the spot she had occupied not too long ago before she ran off
to God-knows where. He didn’t know if he was supposed to run after her or if he
was just supposed to leave her alone.

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He stood there for some time without feeling any emotions. What was he supposed
to do? Let her defy him? She should have known that even if she was his wife, she
still needed to give him his respect.
So why did he feel this way? He felt like an awful person and right in that moment,
he really felt like the monster he truly was.
He had made his new bride cry on their wedding night and he still hadn’t gone
after her. He didn’t know if it was his pride or he was just simply being a coward.
This was exactly why he didn’t want to get married. He knew something like this
would happen and he also knew that he wouldn’t be able to handle it.
It was part of his nature to be ruthless to everyone, not just his men and his
soldiers, every single person. He demanded respect and he didn’t like people to
talk back at him, he liked to control everything and hated it when things didn’t go
the way he needed them to do.
Being in the mafia meant that you had to do things with accuracy, efficiency and
precision. One mistake could be fatal for everybody involved. That was why
Adriano felt the need to be the way he was.
He inhaled a deep breath before he began to walk towards the staircase and ascend
it.
He wondered which of the rooms she had stormed into and began to walk slowly
towards his master bedroom. He didn’t get too far because coming from the first
door to the right, he heard sobbing sounds.
Great. He thought to himself. He didn’t know how to be sympathetic and he had
no clue about what he was supposed to do now that she was crying. Apologizing
was not an option because that would show weakness.
With a deep sigh, he twisted the handle for the door and pushed it open.
He saw her lying face-down on the bed with her face buried in the pillow. Her
body shook with her violent sobs and it made his stomach dropped.
He really was a monster. The girl had done nothing to him. She didn’t hurt him,
she didn’t even insult him. She was just a poor, naïve little girl that had been
forced into union with a monster like him.
He walked slowly to the bed and sat down on it.

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“I didn’t mean what I said.” He said slowly. Well, it wasn’t like what he said was a
lie but he hadn’t meant to throw it in her face.
She didn’t give a reply and he couldn’t think of anything else to say. He got up and
left the room.
The whole situation exasperated him. He knew he was thought of as heartless and
cold but he didn’t like to hurt people who didn’t deserve.
When he got to his room, he changed out of his suit and went straight to bed. He
was really tired and all he wanted to do was sleep. On the brighter side though, at
least he got to sleep on his bed alone.
~*~*~*~
Ismeralda
The sun shone brightly into the room and directly into her eyes that were already
swollen and hurt from crying last night.
She was still in her wedding dress and it made her really uncomfortable. The last
thing she remembered yesterday was Adriano coming in and saying he hadn’t
meant what he said but she knew it was a lie. She cried some more after he left and
then finally fell asleep.
She felt groggy all over and all she wanted to do was take a bath and read some
books to help her forget about the fact that she was in a loveless marriage with a
cold-hearted man.
She dragged herself out of bed and left the room. She hadn’t even bothered to ask
where the master bedroom was the night before and now, she didn’t know where to
find it.
She started to walk aimlessly down the hall in her bewildered state. It was hard for
her to see anything because her eyes were still blurry and swollen shut.
Which was why she bumped into a hard wall. The moment she collided with the
wall, pain shot up her head making her groan.
“Damn it, Ismeralda! I didn’t see you there.” Adriano said strongly and put his
arms around her to keep her on her feet.
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“No, I’m sorry I didn’t see you, I was just trying to find the master bedroom.”
“God, your eyes are swollen and your head probably hurts. Come on, I’ll take you
to the room.”
He said and guided her to the master bedroom.
“Let me help you out of your dress and then you can have your bath.”
His voice sounded so soft. She had never heard him sound like that before and he
was treating her as though he actually cared about her.
He brought his hand to her zipper and pulled it down slowly. He brought his hands
to her shoulder blades and then started to push the thin spaghetti straps down
slowly. When it was all the way down to her elbows, she removed her hands totally
from the straps.
She was a bit shy about removing her dress fully in front of him but before she
could think too much about it, she felt his fingers trail down her neck slowly and it
sent shivers down her spine.
She inhaled a sharp breath and then exhaled slowly.
He wrapped his arms around her waist and placed a light kiss on her neck. She felt
goosebumps appear all over her body and she didn’t know how to react.
“I’ll ask Carlos to bring you some aspirins and some breakfast.” He said in a bare
whisper before walking out of the room leaving her in utter shock.
She didn’t understand what had just happened but she pushed it out of her mind
and went to take her bath. She knew he wouldn’t treat her the same way when he
got back later in the evening anyways so why dwell on it.
This was her life now and she would just have to find a way to deal with it.

CHAPTER SIX (6)

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ISMERALDA
It was two ‘o’ clock in the afternoon when Ismeralda finally woke up from sleep.
The aspirin had knocked her out once it kicked in and she’d slept majority of the
day. Her swollen eyes had gone down considerably and her head didn’t hurt
anymore.
She wasn’t surprised that when she woke up, Adriano still wasn’t home. This was
how all her days would be like; locked up in a big house with nothing to do and no
companion.
It was thirty minutes past three when her sister called her.
“Hi Sienna.” She said cheerfully when she answered the phone. She didn’t want
anybody to know that just two hours into their marriage, her husband had made her
cry violently.
“Isme, it’s only been a say but I miss you so much! Although, it’s not that bad
because I get to wear all the clothes you left behind.”
“I miss you too, Sisi. And, I am coming back for all those clothes and they better
be complete when I come for them.” She teased. She wasn’t really going back for
the clothes, she didn’t need them.
“Whatever.” She replied making Ismeralda to chuckle.
“How are mom and Dad and Gabriele?”
“They are fine. Although Dad and Gabriele are hardly ever home. Mafia stuff.”
She snorted and Ismeralda knew she was rolling her eyes.
“Well, you know that’s how it is in this world.”
“Sure. How is it being married to the Capo of Lato Oscuro?”
“It’s pretty normal. Adriano’s been out the whole day. He said he had a lot of work
to do.” She said in a very casual tone.
“On the day after your wedding?!” She screamed and Ismeralda had to take the
phone away from her ears.
“Sisi!” She groaned when she brought the phone back to her ear. “Well, I was okay
with it.” She lied
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“Yeah. I guess.” She mumbled.

They spoke for a few more minutes before they ended the call.
Ismeralda took her book to living room to read while she waited for Adriano to
return home.
She had already told herself that if she was going to be stuck married to a man for
the rest of her life, she would do her best to make it work. She wouldn’t be
miserable for the rest of her life.
So, she would do everything that a wife was supposed to do. She would wait for
him every night like she was supposed to and no matter what he did, she wouldn’t
spend the night in another room. She would suck it up and sleep right next to him
like she was supposed to. Then she would muster up the courage to become his
lover to.
That was the only way this would work. The only thing that bothered her was that
she would be the only one making the effort and that was a heavy load to carry.
She had to talk to Adriano.
But Ismeralda knew that the toughest challenge she would face in her marriage was
trying to melt her husband’s frozen heart and try to make him open up to her.
She couldn’t get something that Julio had said to her at the wedding out of her
mind. He said that Ariano had been through worse than what many made men had
to go through. What did that mean? Had Adriano gone through some sort of
trauma? That would explain a lot of things.
Well, that was probably another thing she had to figure out.
~*~*~*~
ADRIANO
It was seven minutes past twelve when he came back home. He found Ismeralda
asleep on the couch in the living room.
She looked so at peace and for some reason that put him at peace. He walked over
to her slowly and sat on the couch.
She looked so beautiful... He wondered when she would be ready for him to take
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This marriage was a very bad one. Most people wanted to make their marriage
work and of course there were men that used their wives as though they were
common whores.
But Adriano didn’t even know how to make their marriage try to work, he didn’t
know what a husband was supposed to do and he was very certain that he didn’t
have a single romantic bone in his body. Even at that, he wasn’t brutal enough to
mistreat his wife.
He had very little values but one thing he was strong on was that he would never
hurt somebody who he didn’t think deserved it especially women. He had never
once seen his father lay a finger on this mother, his father had never even raised his
voice at his mother. That was one of the few things that he had actually respected
about his father.
Ismeralda moved slightly before her eyes started to open slowly.
“Why did you fall asleep here?” He asked as though she had done a stupid thing.
She winced at his tone. “I was waiting for you.”
“You don’t need to wait for me. I will be coming home very late.”
He had expected her to complain but then she simply shrugged and got up from the
chair.
She started to ascend the staircase but she stopped and looked at him. “One of
these days, you’d just have to spend time with me.” She said and ran up the stairs
before he could give another reply.
~*~*~*~
ISMERALDA
When she got to their bed room, she slammed the door behind her and leaned
against it.
She didn’t know why she let him get to her the way he did. She knew and
understood the type of man he was but she couldn’t help it.
She needed to find a way to get through to him and she knew there was only one
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The only time Ismeralda saw any form of emotion on his face was when he was
admiring her body.
The only thing that would move him was if she slept with him, or at least that
would be the first step.

CHAPTER SEVEN (7)

~*~*~*~
ISMERALDA
It was another beautiful and boring day of doing nothing. When she woke up, she
went for a run, took her bath, had breakfast and then read books.
If she didn’t have her books, she didn’t know how she would survive. Her books
were her life and she could read a single book over ten times. It felt so good to live
in another reality and escape her own.
Sometimes, she would imagine that Adriano was like the guys in the books she
read; they were sweet and always treated girls with respect, they always had time
for their wives or girlfriends and they were always open about their feelings.
She knew that deep inside Adriano there was a heartless and brutal man but she
wanted to believe that he could become better.
She had seen softness in his eyes sometimes especially when he spoke to his
brother. His brother and his mother were the only two people that Ismeralda had
ever seen him be gentle with. He was always so cold and harsh with his father. It
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Ismeralda wondered why Adriano felt the need to be the way he was. It was as
though being cold and distant was his shield, an obstacle so no one got close and so
no one could know what he was thinking or feeling. She didn’t know how she
would ever break that barrier that he had up if he wouldn’t even let her close
enough to him.
He was hardly ever home and when he eventually got home from work, she would
probably already be asleep or he would always be too tired to do anything.
She was sick and tired of doing nothing the whole day. She had breakfast alone
because he was always out of the house before she woke up and she ate lunch and
dinner alone because he always came back home late.
Her patience was running thin and she didn’t know how long it would take before
she had a big blow-out of anger.
It was getting late and Adriano still wasn’t home, not like that was a surprise. She
got up from the chair on the balcony that she had been sitting on and walked into
the living room.
She sat on the couch that she sat on every time she waited for Adriano to get back
home. She pulled out her phone and began to go through her social media pages.
An hour later, she had fallen asleep as she always did.
~*~*~*~
ADRIANO
He was so frustrated that he picked up his files from his office desk and threw it
across his office.
The Sangue Nero had attacked one of the Lato Oscuro casinos and they had taken
down three of his men.
The Sangue Nero were a very powerful mafia organization and the were the
biggest rivals that the L.O had.
For years the two mafia organizations had fought to take over the whole of south
America.
The rivalry had caused many bloodshed and it had also cost the L.O a lot of
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Adriano was really angry because they had barged into his territory and that was
the worst thing they would have done.
They had control of Nevada, North and South Carolina, Indianapolis while the
Lato Oscuro had control of New York, California, Texas, Colorado and Michigan.
But the two crime organizations wanted South America too.
The two mafia organizations had lived in peace with each other for some time but
then Adriano’s great, great, great, great, great grandfather had wanted the South
and unknown to him the Capo of the Sangue Nero at that time had also tried to take
over the South and that was when the war between the two had started.
Adriano had to think of a very strategic way to get back at the Sangue Nero. He
had broken the greatest rule ever and that was that they had invaded Lato Oscuro
territory. He was out for blood now.
~*~*~*~
ISMERALDA
The sound of the door closing loudly startled her away. She was still in the living
room and she hadn’t been asleep for very long.
Adriano walked into the living room slowly. He looked like a mess. His shirt was
flying instead of being in his usual neat tuck-in, his hair was disheveled and messy
instead of being in a neat side part like it always was and she noticed the anger
burning in his eyes the moment she caught them.
“Adriano, what’s wrong?” She asked with concern heavily laced in her voice.
He didn’t say anything, he just stood looking at her with an intense look on her
face.
She got up from where she was sitting down and walked over to him slowly. When
she got to the spot that he was standing, she placed her hand on his chest and she
could feel his heart beating rapidly. He was really angry but she knew that he
would never tell her why.
So, she did the only thing that she could think to do in that moment. She stood on
her tip toe and placed a kiss on his lips.
At first, he had been taken my surprise and he didn’t react but soon after he kissed
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This kiss was nothing they had shared on the altar. They had started with playing
each other’s lips slowly but then he slipped his tongue into her mouth and they
started to kiss more thoroughly.
His mouth devoured hers and she surrendered willingly. She pressed her body
against his and then he tightened his arms around her waist.
He carried her and placed her the double sitter. He climbed on top of her and took
control of her mouth again.
She had expected him to do more than just kiss her, not like she was ready for it,
but she was still surprised when he pulled away from her.
He stared at her again but this time, he didn’t have anger in his eyes. His eyes were
back to being cold and hollow and that made Ismeralda die inside.
“We should probably got to bed. I have a lot of matters to take care of tomorrow.”
he said and got off her and stood.
As usual, his work came before her and now she felt a level of anger that she had
been burying.
Without saying a word, she stormed out of the living room and ran up the stairs to
their room.
No matter what, she would not sleep in the guest room, she had vowed that to
herself and she wasn’t going to go back on her words no matter how sad she was.

CHAPTER EIGHT (8)

~*~*~*~
ISMERALDA
The alarm rang around four-thirty in the morning. Ismeralda woke up feeling really
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alarm so she would be able to see Adriano before he left for work. She knew that
would be the only way she could spend so more time with him.
She heard the shower running in the bathroom and her face split into a big grin. He
was still around. She sat up straight on the bed and released her hair from its
ponytail. It was the only way she could look pretty for her husband in the morning
after just waking up.
A couple of minutes later, the shower stopped running and she knew Adriano
would come into the bedroom soon.
Just as predicted, Adriano stepped into the room but she wasn’t prepared for the
sight that she witnessed.
Adriano stepped into their bedroom fully naked.
Ismeralda stared at him with a dumbfounded expression her face. His body was
gorgeous. She hadn’t see any other naked men before but she knew a gorgeous
body when she saw one.
His shoulders were broad, he had a toned muscled body and a beautiful six pac.
His legs were long, hairy and muscular. He had a tattoo on his right pec, a beautiful
but scary design of a man being swallowed by the darkness, she wondered what the
tattoo meant but she decided not to ask. He had other tattoos on his upper body but
they weren’t very visible.
Very soon, her eyes wondered to the one part of his body that she had avoided
looking at at first. His manhood was huge and it stood firm and erect. Her mind
wondered to all the things that he could do to her with it and her body immediately
started to responded. Her lips went dry and she sub-consciously licked them
slowly.
Her eyes left his crotch and went up to his eyes and the look he had on her face
made her lose her breath.
His eyes were burning with lust and he just stared at her like something he wanted
to eat.
He cleared his throat and said, “Good morning, you’re up early.” His voiced was
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She shook her head to come back to her senses and said, “Yeah! I wanted to at
least see you before you went to work.” She said cheerfully and turned her back to
him.
“Ismeralda,” He started. “Why aren’t you looking at me anymore? You’ve already
seen everything.”
When she gave no response to the statement, she heard him chuckle softly then she
felt his hands around her waist and she froze.
“It’s okay to look, it’s all yours now. We are married and it’s okay to want it.” He
whispered in her ear.
She turned to look at him, he was still fully undressed but she couldn’t find the
words to say. She knew he was right though, they were married and it was about
time they consummated their marriage but she still wasn’t sure that she was ready.
“I was thinking about it and if you aren’t ready for us to do the real thing, we could
do other things.” He said with a suggestive look on his face.
“What other things?” I asked.
He moved away from me and started to get dressed.
After he was done getting ready, he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed
her neck.
“I’ll get home early today and then I can show you what other things we could do.”
Then he walked out of the room leaving her breathless and hot all over. She left the
spot she was standing and went to take a shower.
~*~*~*~
The day went by in a flash and Ismeralda's spirits were high the whole day. If she
had known that it would have been so easy to get Adriano’s attention, she would
have done it since.
Maybe she didn’t like the idea of their relationship being based only one sex but it
would be a start.
She loved the way he looked at her in the morning and she wanted him to look at
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When she checked her phone and she saw that it was eight ‘o’ clock, her heart
started to beat. He said he would be back early but he never gave a time, but she
knew he would be home soon.
She took a book and went to her favorite couch in the living room and sat there to
wait for him.
As usual, the sleep captured her.
Not too long after she had fallen asleep, she was startled by a person’s footsteps.
That’s how she knew that she hadn’t been sleeping for long. She hadn’t fallen into
a deep sleep yet.
She opened her eyes and was greeted with the sight of her husband staring at her
with a wondering look on his face.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t come home sooner, we had a situation that I really wanted to
sort out this night.” He spoke.
I nodded and got up from the chair. “I just fell asleep anyway, it’s not like I had
been sleeping for long.”
“Are you too tired to do anything now?”
She shook her head and that seemed to please him.
He took her hand and started led her towards the stair case. They walked slowly
and with every step her heart started to beat faster and faster. She knew that they
weren’t going to have real sex but she wondered what “other things” he had in
mind.
She anticipated it but she was also equally scared about it.
When they got to the bedroom and he closed the door, she knew that there was no
turning back. She had to follow through with it and in truth, she was really excited
about what he would do to her.
“Okay, I am going to need you to relax.” He said.
He moved closer to her and stared at her intently. “Do you trust me?”
Without saying a word, she nodded her head slowly.
“Good.” Was his response before he pulled her closer to him and placed his lips on
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She immediately responded by kissing him back. Their kiss was thorough and
filled with lust and want. He kissed her as though he had been craving her for years
and she kissed him with equal intensity.
He pushed her towards the bed and pushed her gently on it.
He pulled his mouth away from hers and said, “I won’t use my length to satisfy
you, I will use my tongue and my fingers.”
~*~*~*~
ADRIANO
The look on her face when he made the statement made Adriano’s lips curl into a
satisfying grin. Their marriage was certainly not a fun one and he knew the only
way to spice it up was by finally bringing sex into the marriage. That was the only
time he felt any real emotions aside from anger.
Every time he looked at Ismeralda since they had gotten married, he had always
what it would be like to touch her, to taste her and to know how it felt to be inside
her but he didn’t want to force anything, he wanted to take things slowly but the
way she had looked at him in the morning had pushed him over the edge and he
couldn’t take it anymore. He couldn’t f*ck her the way he wanted, at least not
tonight, but he would get to taste her and feel her snatch with his fingers.
Since they had gotten married, he had tried to use the women at the whore houses
to satisfy his longing but it didn’t work, for some reason, he couldn’t stop thinking
about what it would be like to have his wife.
He began to unbutton her trousers slowly. The moment he started to pull it down,
she inhaled a sharp breath. It turned him on even more to know that he was the first
and only one to have her.
After her trousers were fully down, he began to take off her panties. He knew she
was tired and so was he, so he wanted to make it fast.
When she was fully bare down, he asked her to take off her top and her bra. She
obliged immediately and very soon she was naked in front of him.
She had to have been the sexiest woman he had ever laid eyes her. Her body was
absolute perfect and his length immediately reacted to the sight.
“You are breathtakingly beautiful, Angel.” He said.

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He saw her cheeks flush and turn red and that turned him on even more.
Now, they were ready to begin.

TO BE CONTINUED

CHAPTER NINE (9)

ISMERALDA

His tongue trailed down her mouth to her neck and she drew in a sharp breath.
“I need you to relax, Angel. Focus on the pleasure I am about to give you.” He
whispered in her ear and bit it softly.
She raked her fingers through his hair and did as he told her. She pushed
everything out of her mind and focused on the feeling of his tongue on her skin.
His lips left her neck and went all the way down to where her breast was. He took
one of her breasts in his mouth and sucked it causing a moan to escape from her
mouth. He bit her nipples slowly and that caused another sharp moan to escape her
mouth. She could tell that he enjoyed the sounds that came from her because he
became more thorough. While his tongue and his teeth attacked her one of her
breasts, his hand was on the other one, squeezing it, pinching her nipples and
playing with them. She had never experienced such a feeling like this and she had
a feeling that he had only begun with her.
His lips left her breast and trailed down to her belly button where he sucked and
licked it, causing another waved of ecstasy to wash over her.
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Adriano looked up and her and smiled. “Now, Darling, this is where it gets
interesting.” He said with a mischievous smirk on his face.
He began to pull off her panties slowly which was the only piece of clothing left on
her body. Once they were fully pulled off, he spread her legs open and her heart
started to pound because she was scared. She still wasn’t ready to have him in her
so she wondered what he wanted to do to her.
He looked up at her and he must have seen the fear in her eyed because he said,
“Don’t worry, it’s not what you think. There will be time for that another time.” He
said and she sighed in relief.
“Wow, you are beautiful everywhere.” He said looking at her snatch. “And you are
so wet and so ready.”
“Remember, don’t think of anything. Focus on the pleasure I am going to give
you.”
Without waiting for a response, he lowered his mouth to her snatch and started to
lick it slowly, she arched her back as the feeling started to spread all over her body.
He slipped a finger into and started to move it rhythmically with his tongue. She
grabbed his hair and moaned loudly.
He quickened his pace which increased the intensity of the ecstatic feeling in her
body and she began to moan his name.
That must have spurred him on because he started to eat her out viciously. Before
she knew it, a powerful feeling of pleasure washed over her and she screamed with
delight.
She expected Adriano to stop but he kept going over and over till she had
orgasmed three more times.
He finally removed his finger from he and straightened. He licked his fingers clean
of her juice.
She laid panting breathlessly. She closed her legs slowly and breathed out a sigh of
relief when the moment had passed.
“How was that?” He laid next to her and asked.
“It was really good.”

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“See, and there will be more. This was only a preview.”

“Well, I can’t wait to do more.”
Adriano simply nodded to that and said, “You must be tired, go to sleep.”
She wanted to ask him if he would hold her while she slept but then the words got
stuck in her throat. She didn’t want to ruin the feeling that she had just experienced
with the bitter feeling of rejection.
And she was indeed very tired and within only but a few moments, she had fallen
asleep.

~*~*~*~
ADRIANO

After she had fallen asleep, Adriano sat up in his bed just watching his wife sleep.
She looked so peaceful. That was how her life was supposed to be life, peaceful.
All he did was have just a taste of her but he felt as though he had already
unleashed part of his darkness on her.
If she knew what he was really like with women and the things he liked to do to
them, would she still want him to touch her.
She wouldn’t understand that everything about his life had been designed under
torture and pain and that included sex too.
It was inevitable that anyone who got close enough to him would be infected too.
That was why he never let anybody close enough to let them see the things that he
hid in the deepest parts of him.
That was why he had been so opposed to the marriage in the first place, because he
didn’t know how to cope with sharing his life with another human being.
Ismeralda may believe that she knew everything about the Mafia but she didn’t
know a single thing about them. The only things she knew was what her father and
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She didn’t know the things that a man had to go through to be a made man and
worst she had no idea of what you had to do to become the next Capo of the Lato
Oscuro.
Things that will shape your life into a big black pit with no other way out.
Ismeralda, although born into a mafia family was not and could never be part of
the mafia. So, there was no possible way he could explain to her why he was the
way he was and she would understand.
He had just opened the door of sex between them and that was how he would leave
it. There would be nothing more than that between them. He couldn’t love her
because he had lost his ability to love a long time ago.
He didn’t even know the meaning of love of how it felt to love so why bother
trying. And one thing he couldn’t do was pretend to love her because that would
just be so much worst for her and for him.
The best thing he could do for her and for himself was to keep her at a distance and
hope that she would get used to the fact that she wouldn’t have her fairytale
marriage with him.

CHAPTER TEN(10)
~*~*~*~
ADRIANO
It was becoming more and more apparent that the Sangue Nero were growing more
and more balls. They had landed two attacks on the Lato Oscuro clubs and had
kidnapped some of the women working in the one of their whorehouses.
The situation was getting out of control and Adriano felt like he looked weak. He
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He had been putting off landing an attack on the Sangue Nero because he felt like
they would give up trying to conquer their territory but now he needed to show
them who he really was.
He was in his office coming up with a plan on how to hit the Sangue Nero where it
would hurt them the most when a call came in.
He pulled the pulled the phone out of his pocket, annoyed because he thought he
had put it on airplane mode. He was ready to ignore the call but he saw that it was
Ismeralda calling him. It was really unusual for her to call him during the day.
“Hello.” He said slowly and softly when he answered the call.
“Hi. Are you busy?” She asked in the soft voice of hers that always turned him on.
He had never been so turned on by a woman like the way he was with Ismeralda.
He was getting impatient because he really wanted to thrust his hard length into her
warm pussy.
“A little bit but is there anything you want.” He tried to sound nonchalant but the
thought of fucking her had already made him lose his control.
“Yes, there is.” She said and her sounded a bit seductive, causing his length to
twitch.
“And what is that?” He tried to sound as in control as possible but it was without
success. His voice sounded husky and irregular.
“I want your tongue and your fingers in me.”
Fuck! The girl really knew how to affect him. He liked the fact that she wasn’t
afraid to talk dirty anymore. He liked that she had become extra bold.
“I’ll be home in ten minutes, he said and hung up the phone. He could continue his
work later but he needed to satisfy his dick.

~*~*~*~
Because of how fast he had driven, he got home in less than ten minutes. When he
walked into his apartment, the first image he was greeted with was Ismeralda. She
looked gorgeous and sexy. She was a sexy, black, lace garter corset top and thigh
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was made up with dark eyeliner, mascara and deep red lipstick. The final touch to
her look were the red, high-heeled stiletto shoes.
He’d seen this look on woman a billion times but it had never made him feel the
way he was feeling while looking at her. She was beyond beautiful and he wanted
nothing more than to take her to their room and fuck the hell out of her.
“You know dressed liked that, you reduce my self-control by more than half. I
might have no other choice than to fuck you mercilessly.” He said darkly as he
walked slowly towards her.
A smirk appeared on her face and she approached him slowly too, slow, purposeful
strides.
When they were close enough to each other, she leaned into him and whispered in
his ear, “So what’s stopping you?”
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ISMERALDA
When she woke up in the morning, Adriano had already left for work and that
frustrated her because she had woken up in the mood to have in touch but since he
wasn’t around, she’d have to manage.
As the day went by, she became hornier and hornier, she wasn’t accustomed to
touching herself so she didn’t do it. She wanted Adriano deep in her, she didn’t
want his fingers this time, she wanted his dick in her.
The thought of having Adriano make love to her excited her and she knew that it
was time for her to give up her virginity.
Besides, she didn’t know how long Adriano would last before he finally decided
that he had waited long enough. He had actually been really patient with her even
though she was denying him what was rightfully his. It was time to make up for
that.
That was when the idea had popped up in her mind to seduce her husband. She
called her stylist and told her what she wanted, then she called the hairstylist and
the makeup artist to work on her.
After she was done getting ready, she placed the call to her husband. She knew that
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She knew Adriano wasn’t in love with her but he loved having sex with her. That
would have to be enough till she was finally able to puzzle together the mystery
that is her husband.
After they ended the call, Adriano arrived in less than ten minutes which was really
fast. She must have really started a wild fire in him and that thought made her
proud.
When he got in and saw her, he stood staring at her for what seemed like her
eternity. He had that dark look in his eyes that always melted her. He admired her
body for a long time before he started to walk towards her slowly and spoke, “You
know dressed liked that, you reduce my self-control by more than half. I might
have no other choice than to fuck you mercilessly.”
She smirked instantly, loving the effect she knew she had on him. She started to
walk slowly to till she reached where he was standing. Then she pressed her body
against him seductively, making sure her breast made contact with his chest.
“So, what’s stopping you?” She whispered in his ears.
Almost as though that was the question he had been waiting for, he grabbed her
and kissed her fiercely. She could feel his body shaking with want and that gave
her more courage. She wrapped her leg around his waist and he pushed her against
the wall.
She started to grind against his crotch but he held her firmly stopping her.
He pulled away from her and stared at her for a long time. For a moment she was
afraid that his mask would return and he would push her away.
She didn’t see the cold look appear in his eyes; they were still dark with desire but
this time they had another emotion in them. He looked uncertain.
“Adriano, is everything okay?” She asked to break the silence.
“Are you sure this is what you want? I am giving you the option to push me away
now because once we do this, there’s no going back.” He said softly.
“I know. You’re my husband and I am supposed to please you.”
“No, Ismeralda, you don’t understand. I am not a good man. You want to please
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. She rose a brow up in question, making it known to him that she didn’t
understand what he was saying. He put her down slowly and took her hand and
brought her to the three-sitter couch.
“Ismeralda, what I am about to tell you might make you not want to ever have sex
with me again and I am okay with that. The truth is that it is what I need and I can’t
be pleased without it.” He said slowly.
“What is it, Adriano? You are scaring me.” She spoke.
“Follow me, I can only show you.” He said and started to walk towards his office,
Ismeralda got up from the couch in her confused state and followed him.
When she got to the office, he was already seated behind his desk. “Come and
stand here.” He pointed to a space behind his chair.
He turned on his laptop and went into his browser then he turned to look at her
with an intense look on his face, his cold mask was back on.
“What I am about to show you is what others, even you might consider horrific but
it’s now. It’s something intriguing and wonderful but if you feel like it is
something that you can’t handle, then you have to tell him now.”
Isme simple nodded.
He turned back to his screen and typed in the search bar: BDSM videos
She didn’t have to wonder what BDSM was for long because the search result
appeared and answered a part of her question.
With a deep breath, Adriano clicked on the first video. When it had finished
loading and it started to play, Ismeralda was flabbergasted by the images that was
on the screen.
The video started with a girl on a bed and her legs split and stretched out on what
appeared to be a pole. She had ropes tied around her leg to probably hold her in
place. Her arms were also tied around the with two cuffs, one for each hand
holding her in place. The girl appeared to be pleased because she was moaning.
How could somebody be held in bondage and be enjoying it? She asked herself.
But it only got worst. A man appeared behind her with a whip and started to spank
her on her ass, this appeared to arouse the girl even more because her moans got
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The man takes off his trousers and slams into her hard. He begins to pound into her
and for some reason, that arouses her Ismeralda. But this time it was normal to be
aroused by the fucking part but not by the spanking.
He goes around to the other side of the bed where her face is and grabs her hair.
The he slams his dick into her mouth.
That’s when Adriano turns off the video and shuts his laptop down.
He turned to look at Ismeralda who had a shocked look on her face.
“You like to torture girls when you have sex?”
“It’s not torture because the girls I do it to enjoy it.” He said and got up from the
chair.
“And you want to do that to me?”
“Only if you would allow me. But we don’t have to do anything immediately. We
can start off on your pace.” She saw a look of hope in his eyes. He wanted her to
agree but her brain was too messed up to make a decision.
It probably isn’t as bad as it looks but she was still skeptical. She didn’t like the
idea of being beaten during sex.
“What if I refuse?” She asked.
“Then I won’t force you. I can get it elsewhere.”
The honesty and brutality of those words slapped her hard on the face. He actually
admitted that he would cheat on her without flinching.
She looked at her husband and swallowed back her rude comment. She walked to
the door and opened it.
But before she left, she said, “Give me a few days to think about it and then I’ll
give you, my answer.”
Then she walked out and slammed the door.

CHAPTER ELEVEN (11)

ISMERALDA
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It had been days since she and her husband had touched each other and she was
becoming rapidly frustrated. Adriano kept his distance but she had spotted him
staring at her a lot. They slept in different rooms because Ismeralda was worried
that she would give in. The truth was that she really did want him but she couldn’t
get the images he had shown her out of her head. It was really sick that people
found pleasure in pain and it irritated her even more that Adriano was part of those
sick people. Hurting people gave him pleasure and she couldn’t understand why.
It was already 8pm and Ismeralda was getting drowsy so she was about to drag
herself to the guestroom where she had been sleeping. She had stopped waiting for
Adriano to come back home mainly because she had been avoiding him. She was
still trying to figure out an answer to his request. Was it really something she
wanted to subject herself too? But then again, if she didn’t give it a try, Adriano
would get it somewhere else and that thought made her stomach drop. It was the
only way to make her marriage work.
In a way she was fascinated by the whole thing and she wondered if it was as bad
as it looked.
As she let her thoughts wonder, she was overcome by a deep sleep.

~*~*~*~
ADRIANO
It was already a little after eleven when he got home. He was frustrated because of
the issue with the Sangue Nero and he was frustrated with the situation with his
wife. He craved to be with her and no one else. It was weird because he tried to be
with one of the women from one of his whore houses but when it didn’t work so he
just stopped halfway and then left the place. It frustrated him that the only woman
he wanted to be with wouldn’t even let him touch her.
He wished there was a way that he could convince her that what he was proposing
wasn’t as bad as she thought but there was no way he could so that without first of
all showing her what happens and how it happens.
He took off his jacket and put it over the armrest of the couch and went to his
cellar to pour himself a glass of scotch. It was the only thing that could calm his
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He kept asking himself why Ismeralda was the only woman he wanted. It had
never been like that for him before. He knew he wasn’t in love with her. It was
probably because he couldn’t have her that he wanted her so much.
He dropped his glass on the table and proceeded upstairs to his room. Maybe if he
slept and he woke up he would feel refreshed.
But as he was heading towards his room, he heard moans coming from the
guestroom and he stopped in his tracks. He moved closer to the door to listen more
properly and be sure that he wasn’t hearing things.
He heard Ismeralda moaning again and this time he twisted the door knob and
peeped in. To his maximum surprise, his wife was asleep and moving restlessly on
the bed still moaning.
He was shocked as he had never witnessed such before in his life. He moved closer
to the bed and watched as she kept moving sensually on the bed and moaning. The
next thing that fell out of her lips left him dumbfounded. “Oh! Adriano!” She
moaned his name.
He smirked to himself. So, she wanted him too? That was his breaking point. He
had no patience anymore.
He got on the bed and moved slowly towards her. When he was directly above her,
he tapped her on the arm and said softly, “Wake up, angel. I am right here.”
She jerked awake immediately and tried coming up but he had her pinned to the
bed.
She looked at him for a long time obviously still trying to understand the situation.
He let her go and moved away from her because he didn’t want to scare her.
“What are you doing here?” She asked softly.
“I was going to my room and I heard you moaning.” I told her.
She looks wide-eyed at him and them turned her face away from him in
embarrassment.
He moved closer to her and turned her face to his own. They were only a few
inches apart. “You were moaning my name Ismeralda.” He said brushed his lips
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“You are craving me.” He brought his fingers to her face and stroked her cheeks
and then he places his other hand on her waist. “I can feel it in the way you tremble
under my touch. You want me.”
“No, I don’t.” She said but it came out with zero conviction in her voice.
“Then why were you moaning my name?” He asked with a smirk on his face.
“I can’t give you what you want, Adriano. That kind of lifestyle is not for me.” She
spoke.
He pulls away from her and he looks at her for a long time. “We can start slowly if
you want. I won’t throw everything at you all at once. We’ll start very slowly. I
won’t do anything you don’t want me to do.”
That was the only thing he could think off. It wasn’t a part of his nature to beg and
he wasn’t going to beg her but he was going to make a compromise.
She was quiet for a long time and he thought she was about to reject his offer so he
stood up and was about to leave when she said, “Okay. So long as we are taking it
slow.”
He turned and looked at her and then he smiled. Finally, he would get to have her
and he’d be the first to fuck her and that thrilled him a lot. He looked forward to
doing all the things that he wanted to do to her since the day that he brought her
home on their wedding night.
Without another word, he walked out of the room. She’d given him all he wanted
to hear for the night.

~*~*~*~

CHAPTER TWELVE (12)

ISMERALDA

She woke up to the sun shining brightly on her face. She had promised herself that
she would not sleep in any other room aside the one she shared with her husband
but what Adriano had shown her on his computer had overwhelmed her. She had
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never seen or heard anything like it before. It was psychopathic how people
actually got arousal from pain being inflicted on them. She figured that there must
be something about it that made them happy. She was scared and horrified by it but
at the same time she was also very curious and intrigued. How does a person find
pleasure in pain?
She pushed away all thoughts of the BDSM or whatever it was called out of her
mind and got out of bed. She went down stairs to get some coffee because the sleep
hadn’t fully cleared from her eyes. When she got there, she saw that Adriano was
sitting at the island having breakfast and weirdest of all, he was wearing
sweatpants and a plain white t-shirt. It was highly unusual that he wasn’t at work
already and that he still wasn’t dressed for work.
“Good morning, Ismeralda. I do hope you rested well?” He spoke with the same
nonchalant look on his face as always.
“Urhm.. Yeah, I did.” She answered slowly.
“Good. So, are you going to stand the whole day or are you going to sit and eat.”
He rose his brow up to accompany his question.
Without answering, she walked over and took the seat next to his at the island. The
cook served her a breakfast plate of fried eggs, bacon and pancakes with a tall
glass of orange juice.
“Are you not supposed to be at work by now?” She asked finally.
“No, not today. I figured I could do without working for just one day and hang out
at home for some time.”
“Are you sure you won’t die in the twenty-four hours that you have to stay away
from work?”
He rolled his eyes at my statement and for some unknown reason to me, his action
caused a laugh to leave my mouth.
He looked at me now like I was crazy. “What is so funny?”
“Nothing. You just always look so cold and hard and serious that it looks weird to
see you roll your eyes. Where did you even learn that?”
He let out a low chuckle and shook his head. “I think everybody is born with the
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“Yeah, maybe.”
They ate the rest of their breakfast in silence before she got up from the table and
decided she needed to take a bath.
It was weird having Adriano at home, she didn’t know how to act around him so
she just decided that she would do all the things that she normally did when he
wasn’t at home and ignore his presence.
So, she took her bath, got dressed in her Nike shorts and her baggie hoodie, tied
her hair in a high ponytail and then went up to the balcony with a book in hand to
read. She could basically read the whole day and never get bored of it. Sometimes
she wondered if she wouldn’t just write a book of her own. The sun wasn’t totally
out, it was a very beautiful weather.
She was just about start reading when the book was snatched out of her hands. She
looked up to see a tall frame standing over her. It was Adriano. He held her copy of
There are no Saints by Sophie Lark in his hand and looked at the book intriguingly.
“This looks like an interesting book. What's it about?”
“First of all, it is rude to snatch a book out of that person's hand. Second of all, I'd
tell you what it was about, but I don't think it's really your type of book.”
“And how can you be sure of what my type book is?” He asked with a questioning
look on his face.
“I feel like you read a lot of boring books that were most probably written by
archeologists or some Dante Specialist.”
He took a sit next to her and handed her the book before saying, “Well, it’s not my
fault that I like to read books that are educational. Not books that fill my head with
nonsense about love and romance and strawberries and sunshine.”
Now it was her turn to roll her eyes. Yes, the books she read were all romance
books but not the kind he was thinking about.
“This is not the kind of book you would find sunshine and strawberries in,
Adriano. And this book is infact educational.” She responded with a smirk on her
face. The book was packed with a lot of heated erotic scenes. Reading a lot of dark
romance was the only education she had ever had about sex. It was funny, really.
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She was at one of those scenes she mentioned earlier and without a single word but
with a smirk on her face, she handed him the book. “The page on the right, read it.”
She was quiet as he read the part without any expression on his face. When he was
finally, done he looked at her with a smirk on his face and asked, “So, do you care
to show me what you have learnt? I mean, reading is not just enough, practice
helps too.”
I see his eyes turning dark and my lips go dry. I lick them sub-consciously and that
particular action seems to heighten his excitement. My body starts to react but I
shut it down. I still aren’t ready to do what he is asking.
He must’ve noticed my change in expression because he says, “I’m not asking you
to get into all that stuff that I showed you just yet. But we’ve been married for
almost two months and we haven’t consummated the marriage yet. And I know
you want to, I just don’t know what is holding you back.”
“I don’t get why it’s so important that we do it, I thought in the mafia men are
allowed to have sex outside their marriages?”
“We are. But is that what you want?”
It wasn’t what she wanted. What woman would want her husband to be having sex
with someone that wasn’t her. She knew that the more she made him wait the
longer he would want to be with other women.
And he was right, she wanted him so bad and he was her husband, there was
nothing wrong with it. She had just heard many stories about how other girls’
experiences when they lost their virginities. They said it was painful and she didn’t
want to feel the pain and see the blood. But she couldn’t put it off any longer. I was
bound to happen so why not let it happen now.
“Promise you won’t be rough.”
“You have my word.”

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~*~*~*~

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (13)

ADRIANO
The excitement he felt that he was finally going to have his wife was nothing
compared to anything he had ever felt before. For weeks, he had been frustrated at
the fact that he couldn’t hold or touch her. He moved around with a hard on every
single day and when he tried to get his release by using one of the girls from the
whore houses, it did nothing to make him feel better. If anything, it only made him
feel frustrated and when he would come back home at night and see his wife, his
desire multiplied by a hundred.
He understood that he couldn’t just dive into the whole dominant submissive thing
with her because she had never even been touched by any man. That was one thing
that he had craved the most about her, the fact that he would be the first and only
one to touch her. She belonged to him only.
When they finally got to their bedroom and the door was closed firmly behind
them, without a moment of hesitation, he grabbed Ismeralda and kissed her. He
was shocked but also pleased when she returned the kiss immediately and with the
same passion and energy. He broke away from her to pull off his t-shirt and then
took a hold of her again. He pulled off her shirt and unhooked her bra and then
returned to kissing her again.
He pulled his tongue away from her mouth and then trailed his tongue down to her
neck where he sucked and bit her softly, leaving a mark on her, branding her as his.
Her moan filled the room as he took one of her breasts in his mouth and then
sucked on it softly. He bit her nipples and her moans became louder. He pushed
her on their bed and then continued to play with her breasts, alternating between
the two.
He removed her trousers and her panties and then took a moment to admire his
beautiful wife. Her body was like that of a Greek goddess. He had seen the naked
bodies of a lot of women but none as magnificent as his wife’s own.
“Damn it bella dea! You are the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on.” He
breathed out. “And you’re mine. All mine!” He growled and then kissed her hard
again.
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ISMERALDA
She felt her husband’s fingers move down to her cunt and she inhaled a sharp
intake of breath when he put one of his large fingers into her. He started to move
slowly and she started to moan into his mouth as his lips were still on hers. He
moved slowly and gently and continued to move in the same pattern. He took his
lips from hers and returned them to her breasts which increased the feeling of
ecstasy she was already feeling. “Oh! Fuck you’re so tight and so wet. So ready for
me to have you.” He said, his voice husky. She whimpered in response as he added
another one of his huge fingers, stretching her even more.
When she was close to climaxing, he withdraws his fingers and put them into his
mouth and licked and sucked off her juice. It was the sexiest site she had ever
witnessed.
“When you cum, you will do it when I am inside you. After I have stretched you
out and you have become mine fully. But for now, I want you to take my cock in
your mouth.”
Her eyes widened, “I have never done that before.” She told him.
“There has to be a first time for everything. Come on bella dea, you have to get
your mouth used to it. I know you’ll love it.”
She still looked uncertain. “Do you trust me?” He asked.
“Yes.” She was surprised at how fast the words left her mouth before she could
even think about it.”
He pulled down his trousers and his boxers and shoved them to the side exposing
his beautiful body. He had chiseled abs, his caramel skin was shining under the
fluorescent lights. Her eyes traveled down to his big cock that was erect from his
arousal.
She moved closer to it without thinking and wrapped her hand around it. He
inhaled a sharp breath and grunted. “That’s right baby. Don’t be scared of it, it’s
yours now.”
It was really thick, heavy and hard in her hand but at the same time it felt soft and
velvety. She began to move her hand up and down the length and Adriano’s breath
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She got down from the bed and knelt in front of him. She brought his tip to her
mouth and then licked the pre-cum from it cautiously. It didn’t taste bad, it tasted
salty and warm.
“Yes, Isme. Now put it in your mouth slowly.”
She nodded her head and wrapped her mouth fully around it. Adriano moaned and
the sound pleased Ismeralda. It encouraged her to take more of it in her mouth. His
cock filled her mouth but as her saliva began to drip from her mouth, it made it
easier for her to move. She started to suck it slowly and then started to move faster
when her mouth got used to it.
Adriano grabbed a hold of her head and started to fucked her mouth, he went
deeper and gagged her but she was determined not to pull away. In fact, his
roughness turned her on even more.
“Oh! Fuck!” He exclaimed and then pulled out of her mouth. “I am not cumming
in your mouth now. I want to be deep inside you when I release.”
“Get on the bed now.” He ordered, his authoritative tone made heat spread in her
core.
“Do you want me to fuck you?”
“Yes.”
“No, when I ask you if you want me to fuck you, I expect you to say ‘yes, daddy’”
She nodded her head.
“Do you want me to fuck you?”
“Yes, Daddy.”
A smirk formed on his face and anticipation spread through her body.
He climbed on top her and then he kissed her again. “Spread your legs for me.” He
told her and she obeyed.
“I am going to be as gentle as I can but it will still hurt.”
“I know. I want this.” She replied.
He nodded and then took her lips in his and then started to kiss her softly. He
aligned his cock with her entrance and then pushed slowly into her. His length was
so full in her it stretched her.
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He went in fully deeper and then that was when she felt the pain. She couldn’t help
the scream that came from her mouth.
“I know it’s painful baby, it will get better, I promise.” He kept kissing her slowly
but he wasn’t moving. He was giving her time to get used her length.
After some time, the pain subsided and she gave him the go ahead to move.
He started to move slowly. She could still feel the pain but this time it was mixed
with pleasure. The friction felt so good.
He kept going in and out of her very slowly and her cunt soon got used to him.
Without warning, he picked up pace and started to move faster. She felt his cock
throbbing inside her and knew he was about to cum. She wasn’t even near her
climax and she was sure she wouldn’t climax at all.
Adriano’s breathing increased and then she felt the warm cum inside her. Then he
slowed and collapsed on her.
“Wow, my cock feels so good inside you. I know you didn’t cum but I promise
you that next time you will.”
She simply nodded because she was already exhausted and couldn’t talk. He kissed
her forehead and then pulled out of her.
He left her in bed and then went into the bathroom and a moment later, he came
back with a damp cloth and then cleaned off the blood from her legs. Then he
cleaned his cock and returned to lie down beside her.
He pulled her back him and wrapped his arms around her. Within a few minutes,
they both fell asleep.

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