Dante POV:

Are you okay?" I asked.

She looked mad, but had tears running down her face. She didn't respond to my question, she just stared into my eyes, her eyes looked so broken, she tried not to show it, but I knew what broken eyes looked like and hers were just that.

"Ella!" I called out to her. No response again. I put my hands on her shoulder, and looked into her eyes, just as she was doing, everyone stared, but didn't talk.

"Ella, your father is gone now, you're safe here. I won't let anyone hurt you again, I promise" I said with sympathy in my voice.

I wanted her to feel safe with me, I wanted her to trust me. This isn't something I usually do, but I see myself in her so much, that I don't want her to go through the things I went through because of my father. Suddenly, I felt her arms wrap around my neck, she was hugging me and sobbing silently. I hugged her back, and I didn't really care about all the other people in the room, all I wanted to do in that moment was to make her feel safe.

"T-thank you" she stuttered, pulling back from the hug.

"You should get some sleep; you must be very tired" I said. She just nodded her head in response.

"Come on then" I said, grabbing her arm gently and walking her back to my room. I put her to bed, and she immediately fell asleep, I slipped the sheets over her and left the room.

When I walked out of the room, I was met by my most trusted man, Alessandro. I have known him since we were kids, we basically grew up together, we're like brothers. That's why I put him second in command.

"Your father wants to talk to you" he said.

"Great, what about?" I asked, displeased.

"I don't know, but I'm guessing about what you did earlier" he said.

"Oh god, I'll go talk to him" I said.

I walked off to my father's office. I was honestly ready for anything that he was going to tell me, I was even ready for him to punch me or something. I got to his office, and opened the door slowly and walked in.

"You wanted to talk to me" I said, standing in the doorway.

"Yes, I do actually" he said, flipping through papers on his desk, his eyes never leaving the papers.

"What about?" I asked, walking over to his desk.

"I think you know why Dante!" he said, raising his voice.

"I don't actually" I said, even though Alessandro already did give me some hints on what he was going to talk to me about.

"What were you thinking, punching Ella's father!?" he shouted.

This time his eyes met mine, but I wasn't glad they did. His eyes showed pure anger and rage, like he could kill anyone in a second.

"You heard what Ella said, what he did to her!" I said.

"So? What if she's lying about it? And even if she was, you had no reason to punch her father!" he said, looking back at his papers.

"He fucking slapped her!" I shouted.

"Don't you dare raise your voice at me son!" he yelled, slamming his hands on his desk, and standing up in the process.

"Was I supposed to stand around and watch him slap her?" I said. He sat back down on his chair.

"Have you already grown fond of her?" he asked, jotting something down on a paper.

"What?" I asked, blinking my eyes a few times.

"You never promise random people anything, except if those people are your family or closest friends, so what is going on?" he asked.

"Because she isn't a random person. She's going to be my wife in a few months. I have to make her trust me!" I said.

"So, all you said there wasn't true? All you said to her was just an act to make her trust you?" he asked, staring at me.

"No, I meant every word of what I told her. Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do!" I said.

"Fine, you may leave. Oh, and Camilla is coming back from New York tomorrow" he said, as I walked to the door. I probably heard him wrong, so I kept walking and exited his office.

Why would Camilla be coming back to Italy? She said she was staying in New York for a year. I mean I didn't really care if she was coming back or not. I made my way to my office and get some work done, because I have some shipments with drugs and weapons coming in tomorrow morning. Fuck! I forgot to tell Alessandro to get some men to go and get the shipments. I'll call him and tell him he couldn't possibly be asleep right now. Knowing him, he's probably working out. I headed to my office and sat down in my chair, as I got my phone out to call Alessandro.

"Hello?" he answered.

"Hey, can you get some men to go and get the shipments tomorrow morning, they're supposed to arrive at five in the morning" I said.

"Yeah, sure and I'll go with them to make sure they don't fuck anything up" he said.

"And this is exactly why you're my best and most trusted man and my consigliere" I said, with a chuckle.

"Hmm, well buona notte capo" he said, hanging up. (Good night, boss)

I got back to work so I could finish and go to sleep. My eyes start closing, but I fought the urge to close them and fall asleep. It was now like one in the morning, and I had just finished all my work, I left my office and headed to my room. I walked into my room to find Ella sleeping peacefully on my bed. I had almost forgotten about her, because of how tired I was. I made my way to my walk-in closet and changed, I took my shirt off, and stayed in grey sweatpants. I made my way to bed and slipped under the covers and fell asleep.

Ella POV:

I woke up to the warm heat of the sun on my face, I had almost forgotten that I was now in a mafia boss's room, the huge room, made me remember everything immediately, I remember the marriage I was sold off to by my father, of how I screamed at my father, and how Dante protected me from him, and how he promised me that he won't let anyone hurt me. But was he telling the truth? Did he actually mean what he said?

I quickly stopped thinking about what had happened yesterday and made my way to the bathroom. The bathroom was huge as well, it had a long unit, with a sink and mirror and a shower opposite of the sink, and a fancy bath at the end of the room, and a toilet beside the tall unit. I decided to take a hot shower, so I could forget everything that happened yesterday. I walked in the shower and turned the hot water on, I let the water fall and didn't do anything other than stand there. I mean, I get one good thing out of this. I don't have to get beaten by my dad anymore or have to deal with his drunk self anymore or have to work two jobs anymore. But the thing is when I walked in this place, I haven't even seen the face of a girl, all I saw were men. I have to spend the rest of my life with men, great.

I made my way downstairs, but I had no idea where anything was, I was only in Dante's room, so I have no clue where other places are in this place, and this place is massive. I started walking down the long corridor and when I made it to the end of the corridor, I was met by two huge double doors. I decided to open them and see what was inside. I slowly walked in, and everyone that was there turned to look at me. Oh no, I don't think I should be in here. This place looked like a training area, they use to train in. I was shocked and standing still that I didn't notice someone coming up to me.

"Hey" he said, with a huge grin on his face.

"Ah, Connard!" I shouted, stepping on his foot. He winced in pain and jumped back. (asshole)

"Che diavolo donna?" he shouted. He spoke in Italian, so I had no idea what he said.

"Hey, what does that mean?" I said, offended.

"It means 'what the hell, woman?" someone said, walking up to us.

I turned my head to see Dante. Oh my god he looked amazing. He was shirtless and had abs, and tattoos all over his chest, and his messy hair made him look even better.

"Ah! Put a shirt on!" I screamed, covering my eyes. I just heard both men chuckle.

"Am I the first guy, you've ever seen shirtless?" Dante asked, with another chuckle.

"Y-yeah" I stuttered, as my cheeks flushed red.

"You're joking right?" Dante asked.

"No, I've never had a boyfriend before!" I replied.

"I really wasn't expecting her to say that" the other guy said.

"Who even are you?" I asked the other guy.

"My name is Alessandro, and you must be Ella, Dante's wife" he said.

"W-what? We still haven't got to that point!" I said, as my cheeks flushed red.

"Can you please turn around; I don't want to talk to your back!" Dante said.

"I um, need the bathroom!" I said, running out of the room.

I somehow made my way to a living room, it had two huge couches on both sides of the room, and a drinking bar at the end, and there were huge glass doors leading outside. I took a seat on the couch and tried to erase what I just saw from my memory.

"Dante!" someone screamed running in the living room.

Who's she? I'm kind of glad it's a girl though, I can't deal with seeing another guy honestly. I stood up from the couch and faced her. She was so beautiful, she had brown wavy hair and hazel eyes, she wore a cute pink top tucked into a white skirt, and she wore pink boots.

"Who are you?" she asked, with a confused look on her face. "And what happened to your poor face?"

"Hi, my name's Ella. Who are you?" I asked.

"I'm Camilla, and I' looking for Dante, he's usually here drinking his sorrows away at the bar." she said.

"W-what? Why are you looking for him?" I asked.

"I need to talk to him, and what are you doing here?" she asked.

"This may sound weird but I'm marrying Dante" I said.

"WHAT?" she screamed.

With that scream, I got taken aback. Who is this girl? Could she be his girlfriend, and that he's playing both of us? I could see her leave all her luggage there and ran off.

"Wait, where are you going?" I shouted.

I made the decision to run after her and follow her. She ran to the room I was in just a few minutes ago. How did she know where Dante is? She ran in charging at Dante, and I ran after her.

"Dante Romano!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Dante turned his head and saw us both, I blushed again at the sight of his bare chest.

"Che cazzo vuoi?" Dante shouted, turning his full attention on the girl.

"What does that mean?" I asked Alessandro.

"It means 'what the fuck do you want'" he replied.

"Thank you, who is this girl anyways?" I asked.

"You're about to find out" he replied.

"You're getting married and didn't think to tell me?" she shouted.

"Camilla calm the fuck down!" Dante shouted.

"I will, if you would tell me why you didn't tell me that you got engaged!" she shouted.

"Father made me do it!" he shouted, making her silent.

"W-what? So, you don't actually want to marry her?" she asked.

Author's note:

Hey guys, who do you think Camilla is? And do you think she actually is Dante's girlfriend? I hope you're enjoying this story so far, thank you xx