Unwanted Confessions
“Your grandmother’s family.” He said suddenly. “I knew your grandmother’s family well. There was talk at one time of me marrying your mother.”
“My mother?” she almost gagged with the thought. “How?”
“When your mother was born, your grandmother reached out to her sister back in Sicily. They were at odds over her sister’s involvement in the Lucchesi family. It was thought she would make a good, arranged bride for me. It was the plan until ultimately, she got pregnant at sixteen.”
“You were younger than her!” Icaro grimaced with disgust.
“In the grand scheme of things, it wouldn’t have made much difference. Only a few years. Your great-aunt and my mother are still friends to this day Zorah. I know without a doubt in my mind, your grandmother hated the idea of you being with Icaro. She went with it only because her daughter was at risk and more importantly, your grandmother was a very prideful woman and knowing her daughter, her miracle of a child, was being humiliated and embarrassed at every turn was difficult for her. My family has been watching you Zorah since the death of your grandparents at the request of your great-aunt.”
“You have got to be kidding me.” Icaro adjusted his weapon and tossed it back to the guard. “You were supposed to marry Zipporah Esposito and instead you’re lusting after her daughter?”
He addressed Zorah, “Yes. About three years ago, I made a special trip to Providence in person. I intended to meet with your mother and Ippocrate to let them know their aunt was looking to meet with them. Despite her allegiance to Lucchesi, she still loved her sister very much and has felt her absence in her life all these years. I arrived at the church to meet with your family, and you were in the choir loft, singing. You and Sidonia Gaines left, and I missed my appointment to meet with your uncle and instead followed you to a restaurant where you ate dinner. I watched you for three days until I saw one of Icaro’s men watching as well. I backed off. Since then, I’ve made countless trips to see you.”
“When were you going to tell me this Caiu?” She swallowed her anger down. “You’ve lied to me from the beginning. You think telling me you fell in love at first sight when I was on a balcony.”
“It was love at first sight, while you were on a balcony, but it was three years ago, and you were in the church.”
“Unbelievable,” Icaro growled. “You knew she was mine! You knew she was my one.”
“You don’t deserve her.” Caiu let his anger boil over. “She doesn’t deserve a man who couldn’t keep his dick in his pants despite knowing your wedding was coming up. You were fucking multiple women the same week of your wedding Icaro, more than one.”
“It’s not your business,” Zorah cut him off. “If Icaro opted to bring fifty women in right now and hold an orgy in my presence, it doesn’t concern you.” She saw him blink incredulously. “You don’t get it, do you? It is none of your business. At all. I don’t love you. I will never love you. Not in a million years. The one thing Icaro has been, no matter what, is honest. As much as his truth hurts sometimes, he tells it. You have done nothing but sneak around, lie and manipulate things behind our backs. I was kidnapped because you withheld information in the hopes he would die. Do not stand here and tell me you didn’t think it was a possibility. I don’t believe you. You were meant to marry my mother, not me. You were never meant to be part of my life. I want you to stop bothering me. I want you to leave me alone. I love Icaro.”
“You don’t,” his voice was pained.
“I do. I love my husband, Caiu and you will never compare to him. The way I feel about him is not anything you would understand. I don’t care about the women in his past. I don’t care he engaged in sex with someone the week before our wedding and it was plastered on the internet. I don’t care because I believe in his remorse and his apology. I forgave him. I know in my heart of hearts he will never do such things again. He is the only man I will ever love. You need to stop this.”
“You are falling victim to their –”
“Stop!” she held her hand up. “I want you to stop. If, as you say, you love me, then you will leave and not bother me with this again. It makes me uncomfortable, and it makes me sad. I do not like hurting anyone. It is not in my nature to be mean and cold and cruel and when you say thing which try to drive a wedge between Icaro and I, it makes me feel all those things and it makes me want to hurt you.”
“You might change your mind.”
“The sky would sooner fall,” she bluntly stated, watching his face fall. “You need to leave and stop harassing me. Stop plotting against me and Icaro. Stop interfering in our lives. You’ve ruined a decades old friendship over a dead end.”
“I will never stop loving you,” he stated uncaring all the men in the area were ready to shoot him.
“But this is not my burden to bear, Caiu. If I needed to be responsible for all the men who profess to love me, I’d be unable to walk from the sheer weight of it. It’s mind boggling when I think of it. All my life I’ve lived a good, quiet life as a god-fearing woman and rarely dated. For a woman who needed to google and have the mile high club explained to me,” she exchanged a grin with Icaro, “I sure have a lot of men professing love to me.” She looked back to Caiu, “but it’s not my burden. I want you to leave and if ever you see me on the street, in a club, at an event with or without Icaro at my side, I want you to keep walking.”
“If you don’t respect my wife’s request, you know the penalty,” Icaro said bluntly. He waved to his crew, “I want him off our property. He is not to be permitted in any of our locations ever again.”
Zorah turned her back on Caiu and looked at Icaro, “can we go inside now. I want to see my new home and I want to continue our honeymoon as we intended.”
Icaro swung her up in his arms bridal style and walked away from the men who were escorting the Walrus away, “your wish is my command.”
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