Chapter 2

PROMISED TO THE MAFIA PRINCE

(She is his to ruin)

Chapter Two

She jumped up startled as the car door opened and two men entered the front seat, one as the driver while the other keeping eyes on her until he joined them in the car.

This was the night she feared the most, the day she had always dreamt of escaping from. Rico, her worst nightmare, but once upon a time her everything.

No, she was his everything but she messed up. She left him, a husk of a man, a shadow of his former self, she pulled down and ground his pride to dust.

Tainted his reputation, and risked his chances as the next Don, the heir to his father's business, and the next boss to his family's Mafia empire. She hurt him and she knows it, but she had to run from everything, from him, because that wasn't the life she wanted.

She was born and raised in the mafia, a daughter to one of the underbosses of the most feared Cosa Nostra in New York. A mafia princess, that is what she was called back then but now she is more like a traitor who deserves death.

That is probably why he came for her, to kill her. It has been three years since she left home, moving from one place to another. She thought they had given up on her, but she was wrong.

They never forget nor forgive, most especially Rico, her betrothed. Never. She wondered if she could escape from him once again.

Maria sighed, a short and sad exhalation of air, that carries with it a great deal of regrets and self-loathing. She should never have tried it and now Joshua paid the price of her actions, just like someone else did three years ago.

The car door opened again and he entered, he sat next to her with nothing said, and the car thrums to life.

The drive was slow and quiet, which made Maria anxious, it was unlike him. Not saying anything, being quiet and that scares her.

Nothing good comes from him being quiet. "What are you going to do to me?" She asked but he said nothing, just fixed his gaze at the window next to him, staring out at the world.

"Are you going to kill me like you killed Joshua? You probably think people aren’t going to find out what happened to him. You killed a man, people will talk, his family. You can't quiet all of them" She pointed while Rico groaned and faced her with a scary look.

She should have said nothing, but she couldn't help her. His silence was killing her.

"Don't worry, no one will come to save you this time and also your little lover killed himself. He has been trying to get you to say yes for months, and today he had all his hopes up. But unfortunately, you rejected him and left, out of sadness he killed himself. Isn't that a perfect storyline" He grinned, showing no emotion or regret for killing the man.

That is the last thing that will happen to him, regret his actions. And that angered Maria more than ever, he killed a man. An innocent man, she hates him, every bit of him.

"You monster" She raised her hand to slap him but he caught her hand, pinning her to the car and almost choking her.

"Don't make me hurt you, Wait patiently, your time will soon come" He said, and let go of her but not with a despitefully look, he hissed and moved away from her, giving them some distance.

Maria hates herself right now, Joshua is dead, she caused it but yet seated in this car with his murder, following him back to God knows.

The least she could do is put up a fight even if it gets her killed or hurt, but she can't.

Running away is no longer an option, Rico will always find her and when he does, someone else will pay for it.

"You can't run away from me, you are mine. You belong to me, my woman" He wasn't lying when he said that three years ago.

No matter how far she goes, he will always find her. Hunt her down till she can't run.

Like always.

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Thirteen Years Ago,

“Maria Jose, stop eating your fingers. And also look at your hair, it is all messed up. Fvck" Victoria her mother cussed as she carried young Maria inside her room.

She opened the door to Maria's room, they entered and she placed her down on her bed, and stared at her young daughter with her hand crossed below her chest. “Young lady, do you have any idea the trouble you will have put me through, if your father has seen you? You were supposed to get ready for the party, Anna was supposed to get you ready"

"I just wanted to have some fun, Enzo won't play with me because of the stupid party, and how obsessed he is with proving himself to father and Emily is busy with dolling herself" The little girl complained, while her mother sighed and sat beside her.

"Enzo is busy, and Emily wasn't dolling herself, she is preparing for the party. Which you should also be doing, you are a lady why don't you act like one?" Victoria furrowed her brows, demonstrating with her hands as she talked.

Maria Jose grunted and stood up on the bed "I’m not a lady, am a girl. Am just 9 this month, and Enzo isn't busy. He just doesn't want to play with it because his father asked him not to. and Emily despised me...." Her mother stopped her before she could finish her statement.

"We won't want anyone to hear, do we? Miara, I understand everything you said but you must understand that tonight is quite important. Especially to your father's family, his sister is getting remarried to the Don. And as her only family, we have to support her"

"That is why I don't want to go, I hate that dangerous man who is getting married to Aunty, he doesn't deserve her....."

"Maria Jose" Her mother called, cutting her short again. But this time Mia could tell that she was serious, her mother only called her by her full name when she is getting pissed.

God knows she hated it when her mother called her that. She wasn't quite fond of the name, her older brother got Enzo, her sister got Emily and she got Maria Jose, because of her mother's late Spanish grandma she looked a lot like her. So her mother decided to give her name, but not without a lot of protest from her father.

So she heard, but she sometimes wondered how her mother was able to convince her father because the man was more stubborn than anyone she had seen.

"I am sorry, you can call in Anna to dress me" She gives in, with a cute face that always gets her mother.

Victoria smiled and stood up.

"Great, let's get you dressed for the party" Her mother giggled and went outside.

Maria Jose sighed and lay on her small bed. She hates everything about this place, even though she is young. She was aware of the dirty things that had been going on in their world, her father never bothered to hide them, every time he came with bloody clothes.

It was terrifying but dare not say it out loud. One day, she just hoped she could leave this hell.