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10. Amaya
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The Chosen Bride 11. Alessio
Her reaction to my words was as if she had been stabbed."Doesn't your daughter have any idea how the Yakuza operates?" I asked Hiroshi incredulously."Don't get involved in this..." the man retorted defiantly.I shook my head, crossed my arms, and cut him off with an icy stare."She agreed to be my wife, my woman, interamente mia, so I have every right in the world to ask, to know how ignorant she is of her origins," I replied sternly.I wasn't sure if it was the tone, I used that frightened her or the realization that things went much further than what had been told to her. I just saw Amaya become dizzy from the impact of it all, so I quickly held her and helped her sit down.She was trembling, her hands cold and sweaty."Are you okay? Do you need anything?" I asked immediately."I..."She looked conflicted, and then her father approached, which made her react."Suki...""I want you to answer him. Come on, tell him what you don't have the courage to tell me, tell him what you've ref
The Chosen Bride 12. Alessio
Hiro led me through some corridors, turning left, and Hiroshi's wife watched the scene with anger, which annoyed me. I didn't bother letting her know that, to me, she was like an annoying insect, and she had a lot to lose. Maybe too much, which made her the most composed woman in the world."What happened to her?" she asked."She got overwhelmed," her father replied. "Maybe she hasn't been eating well; she tends to skip breakfast at university, and we brought her straight here..."This made the woman look at him with a red face, as if she were engulfed in flames."She's going to university?""Not now, Nyoko, it's not the time," he snapped, and Hiro opened a door."She'll be comfortable here; I'll call the family doctor. He should be downstairs with the other guests," he announced and then left so that his father and I could enter.I laid Amaya on an impressive bed with carved wooden posts. The bed and pillows were covered in imported Egyptian cotton, which pleased me, and I positioned
The Chosen Bride 13. Amaya
Trafficking in women That was the phrase I woke up to in the middle of an unfamiliar room, with a piercing headache and an immense desire to cry over the nightmare it could signify in my life. What was curious, though, was that in a few seconds of rational thinking, I became aware that something was in my arm. So, I focused my eyes and saw that I had an intravenous line in place. On instinct, I moved to remove it, fearing they had drugged me. However, a voice stopped me. “I wouldn't do that.” Turning to my right, I saw none other than my fiancé. He was leaning against the window, his body facing it, but his face oriented towards me. From that perspective, with the moonlight shining on his golden mask, he seemed like a creature of the night, a God of darkness who had come to take me away. My heart began to beat strongly, like a madman in search of comfort. “I...” “You fainted in the middle of the conversation we were having with your father, it happened quickly. How much did you
The Chosen Bride 14. Amaya
"Well, you'll know what you're doing, but having a child..." I shook my head at his audacity, his boldness, for abandoning him when I had been a child born out of wedlock. "I know very well what loyalty to the woman we share our bed with, the one who sleeps by our side for us to protect, entails. Our laws and customs prepared me for it, how we handle the details, frankly, dear father-in-law, is not entirely your concern." Wow. It was the second time he disarmed him. Hiroshi had no moral ground to say anything, question him, or reproach him. In the entire context, I didn't know what he was referring to, but I was pleased that he said something capable of freezing the illustrious oyabun of the Yakuza. "Very well..." "Can you leave us alone to talk? We were discussing the details of our agreement," the Camorra boss requested, and my father frowned at me. "Go, if anything happens, I'll kick him where it hurts," I said, making Alessio laugh genuinely, for the first time since I had
The Chosen Bride 15. Alessio
The look the girl gave me was one of complete bewilderment. "But..." "It's a warning, and as I told you, I don't like to repeat myself. The wedding will take place in two weeks, enough time for you to get your things in order before moving," I offered, but she stared at me as if I had given her the greatest insult. "You can't be telling me this..." "I've already told you, and how you interpret it doesn't change anything, Amaya. You will be my wife in two weeks, what happens after that will be of little consequence, but I'm giving you enough time to adjust whatever you need to. In other times, I would have taken you with me as soon as possible, and this discussion would have ended," I pointed out. "It's just that the fact that you think this is a type of discussion says a lot about the way you approach a merely informative conversation," she accused, and I liked seeing fire in her eyes. "It's a discussion in which I win." "Like all the ones you have?" "Well, I see you're not sl
The Chosen Bride 16. Alessio
"I'll ask him in a different way, show him that I'm genuinely interested in my future wife; that will make him cooperate." "Between us... from one best friend to another; I don't think it's good to lie to him or get her hopes up too much. Gemma, despite what she went through, is a believer in opportunities. You have to be careful not to insult her intelligence; otherwise, she'll cut our heads off, impale them in some port, and take over the city," he said humorously. I would never do the latter, but I could completely side with Amaya. "I'm just counting on the fact that the fact that my fiancée is a newcomer to the mafia life will soften her heart to help her prepare," I pointed out. "Well, let's see how it all ends..." That's what I was hoping for. We arrived in Las Vegas quickly, I had organized a nice lunch with my sister, and I patiently waited for her to arrive from the airport. When she saw me, she ran up to me; I was the only man she allowed to touch her. After the trauma
The Chosen Bride 17. Amaya
Waking up in my father's family house after what was supposed to be a presentation dinner but turned into an engagement dinner was not how I would have ever wanted to spend a Saturday morning. It took me a while to fall asleep, perhaps too long, due to all the information bombarding my brain, but I became aware that nothing I did would change the course of my life; I had nothing left to do but cry. I needed to vent, but it wasn't the best moment, let alone the best place. My sisters made it clear to me when I arrived at the family breakfast, a breakfast where Hiro was the only one who smiled at me and gestured for me to sit beside him, while my father had not yet returned from whatever he was doing. "Crying causes dark circles, wrinkles your face, and weakens the nervous system, making you look like a child," mentioned my exuberant sister Ima. "But I suppose your education isn't based on the kind of strength required... What a shame." Then all three of them laughed with amusement,
The Chosen Bride 18. Amaya
Returning to Berkeley to gather my things, as well as making arrangements to complete my remote study plan, truly killed me. Mostly because of all the freedom, anecdotes, and good moments I had experienced there. Unlike the Yakuza men my father had assigned to watch over me, it was the men from my future husband who handed me tissues when it became impossible to hold back the tears. The first of them was to cancel the housing contract. Saying goodbye to the building was terrible because it had been my home for the past four years. It was where I had started to come out of my shell, to bloom, to feel completely like myself, to grow as a social being. Although I wasn't much of one. "Andrà tutto bene, signorina," Octavio, a man who could be my father, said. "Grazie." After that, I had to go directly to each of my professors. They all lamented my departure, especially Dr. Craston, a handsome man in his forties who was the sensation among my classmates and the best in morphology I knew
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