Chosen By The Mafia by Nina Daniel (android pdf ebook reader .txt) 📖

20

“London?” I asked with the deepest frown I could form on my forehead, my hands were tightly clutched to my dress which I wasn’t wearing on the hospital bed, what had happened in the last few hours? 

“Yes, London,” answered casually as usual

“Why!? Does my permission matter nothing? Did anybody ask me for it? No, not even informed me about this, may I kindly be enlightened, why!?”  Since the day I lost my baby, I have become more infuriated. I can’t hold my aggression back after knowing what they all have done to me. I’m not a toy but I’m always treated like one, now, even if they kill me on this, I won’t be scared, I’ve already toured the death’s entrance.

“Because you were meant to be here for a long time,” his statement only multiplied confusion. I kept giving him a resting bitch face look and he got my point through it, “The Nicolas you knew is gone. Meet me, Nathan. Nathaniel Williams Knightley.” calling myself shocked was an underestimation, I was above than startled. What is this all happening and… “If you feel comfortable calling me Nicolas, I’ll be fine with it but know that I won’t act like him anymore. We are going to my region to keep you safe, you’ll be under my protection from now on and no Armando can even think of coming near you, I’ll snap their heads off. Live like you want to like you deserved to. There will be no restriction, no rules and yes, no enforcements. You are free to do anything you want but under check,” he dictated me with his unknown touch of authority which no lie suited him well, he was looking into my eyes with clear interest and I won’t lie those were the shiniest and warmest eyes I’d seen since I landed in Spain.

“Tell me more about you, I need to see if you’re trustworthy or not,” I said with a clear and confident voice. I gave him a different shade from what he calculated. I won’t be fooled by anyone by their smooth talk or promises, what I had been through is enough evil for me and I’m not going to accept to be treated like that anymore. 

He straightened his posture on the jet seat and sighed loud with a fainted grin, “Hi, I’m Nathan, CEO of Knightley Enterprises and a good son of my family. I’m 32-year-old but a quiet loner. I had a son who died in a car accident a few years ago. If I tell you about my ex-wife then we divorced each other a year after our son died because she blamed me for his death but after once we separated, my sources informed me that she had an extra-marital affair with a Spaniard and they killed my son and that bloodthirsty was no other than Armando. She thought he loved her but he was only using her for his needs, once we got apart, she went to him and caught him cheating on her, just like me. Guess karma hit her really bad,” he briefly explained me his life, which was really painful to listen but then bizarre thought arrived in my mind, 

“Did you come to hurt him? By h-hurting me?” I asked him with a minor audacity 

“Little one, I didn’t know that it was you, I thought of you as the type he’d dated, but gradually I learnt that you were there by force. When the moment I had laid eyes on you, I promised myself to bring you out of there. You were too innocent to be caged by him, and I saw him treating you like garbage, bloody shitpiece,” my heart came a little in peace after his statement, he was winning me over a little by little, 

“How did you succeed becoming my Bodyguard?” that was the question been bugging me for long so I blurted out

“Ah, long story short, I saved him twice in a shootout, that time I was gaining his training services and clearing myself with all personal documents. It wasn’t easy to win over his trust but I managed well. So, he hired me as your security head,” he explained further, I was quiet, not knowing what to say or ask about.

“You were kidnapped from his hotel, weren’t you?” he asked, narrowing his brownish eyes.

“You knew that?”

“My men told me. I’m also working to demolishing his empire, he took my meaning of life I’ll take his,” he exposed his hatred for him which was authentic

“I’m so sorry about your loss, I-i don’t have words to offer you my condolences,” by the time I said this, my eyes had tears in them because I was going through with the same,

“You don’t have to say this, you’re already going through with that,” he mumbled with a piteous glance. He stood up and seated himself beside my seat on the right, “But don’t be sad anymore, you will meet your friend in London, she’s waiting for you like crazies,” he tried to cheer me up with his sweet expressions and I smiled on that, 

I narrowed my eyebrows and asked, “Who?” 

He replied, “You’ll get to know once we reach there,” a chuckle left of his perfect face while he was looking away, I wasn’t aware of my eyes which were gazing at every part of his face, especially his jaw with high attention. His features were a lump of hot coal placed on my frozen heart, it wasn’t painful to me but melting the layers of Armando’s ruthlessness eventually, causing me to feel a little attracted. 

A low voice downy heart road said, “Kiss him, he’s your home,” 

And trust me I wanted to but I couldn’t, as the situation we both are in. I don’t even know what I should feel for him? My Knight? Saviour? Lover? Or in the worst case, a brotherly figure? Eww no!

“You’re staring at me for so long and it’s getting awkward,” Nico… I mean Nathan said, his head was facing the big screen in our section but he didn’t let go my weird behaviour unnoticed, 

I immediately changed my tracks towards the window in shame, my heart started pondering fast as always but this time, it was beating for him, giving me a different feeling to examine. The feeling inside me was beautiful. 

“We are going to land in London in just half-hour,” he told me, and I nodded, thinking that he would notice it too, which he did. His chuckling confirmed that. I smiled while facing the clouds.