CHAPTER 46 - Sex with the Mafia Boss

**ISABELLA**

A contract.

That was what completely changed my monotonous and unhappy life, I never imagined I would live to see this day, but it was an agreement and a signature on a contract that left my whole life in the past to become who I am today.

It was hard, but I stopped resisting and started to see the situation in a different way, I stopped suffering over something that could become good and actually did.

Surely everyone has heard the story of Beauty and the Beast at least once in their lives, I never even believed those kinds of fairy tales could become reality, but that was almost what happened to me.

In other words, I was the Beauty in the story and I was forced to sign a contract that would save my father’s life in exchange for mine, meaning I would be taken and forced to live in a castle with the Beast, but it wasn’t a castle or a beast like in the books.

It was an enormous mansion located deep in the forest, and it wasn’t a common or traditional beast like everyone knows, it was none other than Lorenzo Mancini, a powerful and dangerous mafioso from an Italian family.

He was ruthless and rude like any beast, but I had the mission and I managed to win the heart of that handsome, bad-tempered man, transforming him into a sweet and caring man with me, unfortunately only with me because his work and his position in the family needed someone like him.

How did I get myself into all of this?

It all started when my father became addicted to alcohol and gambling after my mother’s death, we never had a good financial life and that got worse after my dear mother’s death, my father quit his job and threw himself into his addictions until he began borrowing large sums from loan sharks.

He wasn’t working anymore so the debts started piling up one after the other, I had gotten a job in a snack bar and tried to pay the interest whenever there was some money left over after the household expenses.

But the amounts were too high and I couldn’t pay everything, I knew the men my father had messed with were dangerous, but I never imagined it was a very dangerous and well-known Italian mafia in the criminal world.

My life started to change when some men came to collect from my father at our house, everything fell apart when they gave my father a brutal beating right in front of me, I tried to stop them but I couldn’t do anything against a group of armed men.

We had no guarantees to offer their boss, the house was rented, and we had no other assets nor any way to pay the debts, it was already settled that my father’s life would be the price to pay.

But I couldn’t lose another person, the only person I had left after my mother’s death, my father was a drunken addict but I couldn’t let them kill him for that.

I love him too much despite everything, and I would do anything to protect him, and that’s exactly what I did, after being forced to watch the men beat my father almost into unconsciousness, I made a crazy and reckless proposal, I was desperate when one of the men put my father on his knees and aimed a gun at his head.

I sacrificed myself for my father, I sacrificed my past life and my freedom to save my father’s life, and through tears I proposed that they take me instead of the debt, I proposed that I myself would be the guarantee of payment.

In other words, they would keep me as collateral so that my father could settle all the debt, I knew that might never happen and when they took me away I stopped having any hopes because I didn’t know what they were going to do to me.

Even though it’s been exactly two years since it happened, I can remember everything and even the sensations of that day, I imagined I was at the mercy of an old, disgusting man who would put his hands on me and abuse me in the worst possible ways.

But that wasn’t exactly what happened, that same night I was taken to that mansion and it was that same night that I met my captor and the boss of the Italian mafia.

My shock when I laid eyes on the dark-haired man with green eyes was huge, the beast who would keep me captive turned out to be a man of peculiar beauty.

But unfortunately, what the man had in beauty he had twice over in pure arrogance, imagine the worst person in the world, he was that kind of person, I cried out of sheer rage because of how much I hated him, he never missed a chance to humiliate me by mentioning my father.

I suffered emotionally in the beginning, I was never touched physically, but I wanted to leave that place and go back to normal life with my father and I cried wishing for that every night.

I don’t know if it was good, but it wasn’t how I imagined, they didn’t keep me locked up in a place or tie me up, it was completely the opposite, they housed me in one of the rooms of the mansion located in a secluded and private area of the forest.

I said the story resembled Beauty and the Beast, as time went by while I was kept in the mansion, I was able to see the side of the man I hated most in the world, he really was dangerous, I saw him do unimaginable things, but the strange thing was that no matter how terrifying he seemed, I couldn’t feel a single drop of fear toward him and that infuriated him because he was used to everyone around him being terrified just at the mention of his name.

But that wasn’t what happened with me, I started provoking him every chance I got, I hated him with all my strength and I loved making him furious.

The story between Lorenzo and me is very long, but I’ll try to summarize the most important parts, the unimaginable ended up happening when I fell in love with that cold man who gradually lost all his coldness around me.

We fell in love with each other and now I’m engaged to one of the most dangerous men in the country, but I can’t stop loving the caring and attentive man he became with me.

TODAY

One of the things I love most about living in a rural area surrounded by nature is that I can feel the fresh morning air and wind coming through the bedroom window and the usual sound of birds singing.

All of that and more are part of this morning too, I open my eyes feeling the brightness and the sun’s rays hitting my face, I turn to the side of the bed and, as expected, Lorenzo is not in bed beside me.

My fiancé has important duties as the boss of an Italian family, duties that don’t please me at all, but I can’t change who he truly is, I tried…

I stretch in bed before sitting up and noticing that I’m still naked from the night before when Lorenzo gave me one of the best times in bed, it’s always like that with him and I love it so much.

I reach out to grab my robe before putting it on and getting out of bed, heading to the bedroom balcony, the entire mansion is everyone’s dream house, but this room in particular is my favorite of all in this home.

It’s a spacious room with an incredible view of the forest and the garden that Lorenzo insists on having on his property.

I rest my hands on the balcony railing and close my eyes, smiling as the morning breeze hits my face and messes up my hair.

It’s today.

Today is a special day and I woke up more than ready to start preparing everything for tonight, it’s Lorenzo’s 33rd birthday and one year since he and I confessed our love for each other for the first time.

And in celebration there will be a masquerade ball in the mansion tonight, Lorenzo doesn’t like nor usually celebrates his own birthday, but he insists that this party happens only because he always says it was on this very day a year ago that I lit up the darkness in his life.

But I also want to celebrate another year of life of the man I love, and today I woke up determined and with an idea in my head about what to give as a present to someone who already has everything.

I thought a lot about this gift, and knowing Lorenzo’s tastes and personality, I know he will really like what I have planned to give him on his big day.