Chapter 13: In Which He is Shocked

The moment they were out and clear of Mr. Gambino's study room and guards Isla took off in a sprint heading straight out the main door of the main house with Alexander following suite.

"Wait!" He tried to stop her, to ask her what's wrong as they ran right to the gardens.

Isla however, even though remotely aware of Alexander's presence, couldn't even hear him over the wind whooshing through her ears and the cold tears streaming down her face as she blindly ran not looking anywhere, trying to run away from this whole situation, trying to escape this cage.

"Isla listen to me" he tried to reason with her, tried to stop her but she wouldn't as they ran farther away from the main house.

Alexander's patience finally ran thin as he picked up his pace and easily caught up to her, grasping her arm and yanking her right towards him as he brought both of them to a halt.

Isla let out a heart wrenching sob as Alexander held her face in both his hands, making her look right up at him.

Alexander's eyes softened and brows furrowed in concern as he looked at her historically crying.

Looking at him made her feel even more vulnerable and she felt like crying even more than she already was.

"What's happened?" He asked softly but she didn't answer or was unable to in between her sons as she rested her forehead against his chest, one of his arms encircling her waist.

He sighed bringing her closer and just holding her.

After a while her crying partly subsided, enough that her previously shaking shoulders weren't so anymore as she sniffled a little.

Alexander realised how unprofessional and not right this was but fuck if he cared at the moment when she seemed so fragile.

"You wanna tell me now?" He asked, Isla could feel the vibrations of him speaking as her face was flush against his chest.

He smelt like gunpowder and after shave. Absolutely heavenly, Isla didn't even try to hide it as she snuggled and took a long breath in his scent which made a very tiny smile grace Alexander's lips.

She finally, hesitantly pulled away enough to look up at him, her eyes still glassy and cheeks rosy from all the crying.

"My dad..." she started off, her voice only an octave above a whisper but he listened carefully, giving her his undivided attention.

"He... he wants me to m... marry Jamerson Siegel" she confessed, her head down as fresh tears made their way.

For Alexander, he felt like someone was squeezing his heart as the words left her mouth, he was shocked at the revelation to say the least. The thought of her officially becoming some other man's girl was infuriating, he wanted to kill but in reality, it wasn't his decision to make nor did he have any right to her. She wasn't his to begin with and that's the truth of it.

Though Alexander's eyes hardened, fists clenched and jaw ticked with anger, his face remained stoic. Stone cold.

"I... I don't want to marry him Alex, I don't love him at all and my dad has asked me to meet up with him tomorrow" she said playing with her fingers in nervousness.

Hearing this Alexander quickly looked down at her. She didn't want to marry thus guy, she was being forced and that didn't settle well with Alexander one bit especially when she so sweetly called him Alex.

"Did you tell Mr.Gambino that you don't wanna marry him?" He asked tipping her chin upwards work his forefinger, making her look at him with her big eyes.

"I did but he scolded me and said it was for my own good" she told him and that only made Alexander more livid than before.

However, he could only make things better for her to a limit at the moment but there was definitely something he would do about this whole ordeal.

"Have you ever met this Jamerson Siegel before?" Alexander questioned.

"I have, at a dinner....umm... we were actually engaged at that dinner, my father didn't give me a chance to protest. He told me if I said something against this whole arrangement he'd move the wedding to just the other week" Isla said wiping the tears off her face with the back of her hand.

There was so much running through Alexander's head, he was in an inner turmoil. If it were up to him he'd whisk her away from this whole damn country that had fallen under the clutches of corrupt mafia leaders and this sweet girl was right in the middle of it, not wanting to do anything with it.

"So it's basically a business deal and if I am getting this right then this is the same Jamerson Siegel who owns the whole of Montana. He'd make an extremely strong ally without doubt" and what better way to sign his daughter of for Richard to gain this alliance, smart move but an asshole move. Alexander kept the last thoughts to himself.

"I don't wanna marry him" Isla stayed again.

Alexander wanted to kiss her and tell her he'd do everything in his power to assure nothing like that happened, yet, he didn't because he'd be making false promises, giving her false hope. Richard Gambino is a very powerful man and so is Jameson Siegel, it would take proper strategic planning to come up with something in order to stop this alliance or at least the marriage.

"When does he plan to marry you off?" Alexander asked.

"In six months" at least he had plenty of time to come up with something.

"I don't see any way to get you out of meeting up with Jamerson Siegel but Isla, I can assure you, I won't let anything happened to you. You need only give me a signal and we'll be out of there in a second, I'll come up with something to explain your dad if anything goes wrong alright?" He calmly and reassuringly told her and she nodded her head in response.

She didn't know how or why but she had placed her blind trust in him a while ago.

"Just get through tomorrow, I'll be by your side the whole time. The wedding is in six months, with the current situation, everything going on and all the rivalries who knows what might change. I'll see what I can do about this" Alexander said and she gave him a small smile.

Alexander was definitely going to kick some serious ass in training today by the end of his shift.