“You want to know?”
“Yeah, I do.”
“You’re not afraid of me.”
This made her frown.“Am I the only one?”
“Yes and no.Look, it’s not a big thing, and I know you were quite young when you first talked to me, but that actually meant a lot.”
“You’re talking about that party, where so many women had approached you, and some left crying?”she asked.
“That’s the one.”
“I always wondered what you said to them.”
“I told them to fuck off.”
She opened her mouth, a little shocked.“You did?”
“Yep.There was no point in letting them all fawn over me, and it was pissing me off.They were only interested in trying to earn my attention.They wanted to be linked to the Salvatore name.”
“And that bothers you?”
“I’m not after a title chaser.”
She frowned.“But my parents—”
“Were sending you to a man we both know would have killed you.”
She nodded.“Yeah, I was shocked by their announcement.When I questioned it, do you know what I got?”
“What?”
“A slap to the face.My dad told me I was an ungrateful bitch.I was sent to my room for three days.I’m still shocked they remembered to feed me.”She shrugged.
“Did you cry?”
“Nah, it wasn’t the first time my dad had hit me, you know.”She sighed.“So, how did that impress you?”There was no point in dwelling on what happened in the past.All they had was their future.
“You came toward me, and you were not blushing.You were not even giggling, or attempting to win me over.You literally talked to me.There was no agenda with you.”
“There was,” Adelina said.
Now both of his brows were raised.
She couldn’t help but laugh.“I was bored as well, and I had watched you stand in the same spot for I think an hour, as these women, one by one, came to you.Even the men, and I’m pretty sure they left crying as well.”
“I hate those fucking functions,” he said.
“Agreed, but if you hate them so much, why do you still go?”she asked.
“I’ve got to represent my family and with my dad’s current situation, it is left to me.”
“I never met him,” Adelina said.
“He has a couple of scars on his face, and it bothers him.He used to be known as one of the most handsome men in the Russo Mafia.There were rumors that he could get any enemy to talk, man or woman, by just being there.He believes without his looks, they would turn on him.”
“Wow, I guess he’s not wrong.They are vultures when they start.I thought he might not have agreed to the wedding.”
