Chapter 2. Marriage by contract. *Marco*.

My father was holding his glass of white liquid and looking at me quite seriously. I knew exactly what he was going to say, I had been preparing for that moment for years.

_ I have to retire now, I have done my business and given you all a great life. I promised your mother that I would delegate everything to you, once our last son finished university and married to a lady from a wealthy family.

And that is about to happen Marco.

_ You don't have to worry, you can retire and I will always take care of everything.

_ I hope so son, I think you're the only one of the three of children who has a brain _ he said with a pessimistic and depressed look on his face.

It was true that my two brothers did not shine for their determination, hard work or intelligence. My father had spent years bribing university chancellors who had practically given them their degrees. They were only interested in partying at big rich parties and sleeping with beautiful models, operated, superficial and interested, who only wanted to hunt them down to get as much money as possible. And in the end, they ended up going after my brothers, dying for a bit of attention that was only given to these women in bed.

If there was one thing my two brothers had, it was the same as me, an enviable body and something that seemed to attract women. The truth is that it was never difficult for us to get what we wanted. On the contrary, it was very easy to lure into my territory any woman I wanted to possess. I must admit that I was used to seduce, to be intense and to leave an unforgettable memory. I loved to be liked, it made me feel important, even more than the world of luxury and success in where I lived.

My father had numerous properties all over Italy that he rented for large sums of money, and he also had two huge companies, one dedicated to building luxury villas and the other to renting and selling them. I knew perfectly well that my family was also involved in some dirty stuff in order to get the maximum profit. If they had to corrupt, threaten or hurt someone in order to obtain a property or a payment, they would do it. In addition, they used their contacts and their money and influence to suborn high officials if they needed a fiscal, administrative or any other kind of role they were interested in.

My family was very extended and did not deprive itself of anything at all. It was a daily routine the financial profligacy, spending on luxury and being generous with third parties in business to get what we wanted. Sex, money and power was something I had grown up with, and to conceive of any other reality was hard for me. But the only thing I had never experienced was love, in my family there was a tradition based on economic interests, and marriages were for convenience. My brothers had also accepted that and within my superficiality, I thought it was not difficult to accept a beautiful and submissive woman from a privileged family. I had been intimate with many women, but I had never felt something intense that connected me strongly with the other person. Moreover, after the pleasure that sex gave me, I used to feel quite empty for several minutes... as if my heart was cold, and I really started to think that it was a kind of family curse, a price we used to pay for being at the top of the modern social classes.

 _You will learn to love your wife, in time....                  

_Did that happen to you and mom?                                        

 _Of course, love is a matter of time, nothing else, the rest is just lies. _Said my father as he took a sip of his expensive whisky. _Besides, I don't think you'll have much trouble falling in love with the Dimou's daughter.

_Mackenzie Dimou was an associate of my father's, they had done business together and both had built in Italy and Greece. _She's a real doll, better than a miss, tall, blonde, and beautiful. She's never had a boyfriend before, she'll be yours.

In my family they encouraged women to be virgins, it was shameful but we had sexist values, in which the man could do whatever he liked. And the woman, on the other hand, could be completely innocent and pure. Even I came to believe that this was the right thing to do, and when I slept with women, the easier they made it for me, the sooner I got bored... even if they were incredible models with hundreds of men behind them.                                                                    

_With your future marriage, our families will be united and our blood will mix with the blood of the Greeks.             

 My future wife was Greek, from one of the most influential families of Mykonos. And according to my father, she was desirous to marry me, just like her father, who saw in our union also ties of protection and economic wealth like mine.                                              

_ I only ask you not to touch her.                                              

_What do you mean?                                                                              

 _ Until the wedding, try to keep your fly zipped.              

 _Of course I will.                                                                                          

I didn't even know her, I didn't care, if I was going to marry a woman I had never seen in my life, that was the least I was thinking about. Tomorrow you will come to Naples and you will have your first meeting. You will meet her parents, try to look serious, responsible, ....                                         

  _ Yes dad you have nothing to worry about.                                

 _Son, in a month and a half our families will be united, just try to hide it in front of the city, people know us.   

_I know they know us.                                                        

 _ I know you are meeting a lot that pretty girl from your university, the one whose father has a small wine business.

_Luciana...                                    

 _Yes ....       

Not that I was exclusive with her, but I did spend a lot of time with her. She was funny and pretty, slim, with long brown hair and light eyes, and so much time in the library made us bond, mainly in bed, as was usual for me.                                                

_ Please get rid of her, end whatever relationship you have.                                                                    - _Relationship? _I asked ironically.