Taken By The Mafia Lord

“What?” Marcel had a surprised look on his face. What was she talking about?

“You had this planned all along! To make me stay here, you matchmade my best friend with your cousin! That way I can never leave here for her sake!” She revealed his conspiracies.

“What?” Marcel felt like someone just slapped him on the face. Why would he do something like that?

“Oh please, don’t give me that innocent look,” Arianna rolled her eyes towards heaven, she was never going to believe a word he said anymore, “Don’t tell me that you didn’t have all of this sorted out in that smart head of yours!”

“Arianna, no-” He tried to explain to her but she wouldn’t listen at all. She was beyond reasoning.

“No, I’m not listening to any shit you’re about to mutter from that manipulative mouth of yours and stop touching me!” She tried to slip out of his grip.

“WOULD YOU LISTEN TO ME FOR ONCE!” Marcel bellowed at her face, startling her. He gripped her arm with so much strength that she had no choice but to calm down eventually.

Arianna lifted her head and looked him straight in the eyes, “Fine, say what you want to without touching me!” She said through gritted teeth, shrugging his hands off her.

.....

“I have no hand whatsoever in what’s going on,” Marcel said.

“As if I believe you,” She sneered.

Marcel frowned, “Or maybe you just want to believe it because that’s what you’re good at, always making me the bad guy.” He shot back at her, unable to stand her attitude anymore.

“Are you not?” She asked, brows raised, “You keep me here, Marcel! Against my wish and then you trick my best friend into working for you and kidnap her when you need me to behave. So tell me, why won’t I think of you as the bad guy!”

“I’ve done so much more for you than you admit, Arianna!” It was his turn to yell at her now, “I saved your ass when your amazing boyfriend wasn’t there to do so. Tell me how many Mafia don would treat their prisoner of war the way I treat you,” His voice was lowered this time as he spoke.

Arianna didn’t say a word nor did she look him in the eye either, not when it was blazing with intensity. It was true that Marcel treated her better than the rest of them, but it was only because he liked her and she was beneficial to his plans of capturing Elijah.

“Also,” Marcel was not through, “Don’t ever call me a liar. I’m not so scared of you that I’d lie my way through. You should be thankful I like you by the way.”

Although Marcel didn’t finish the rest of his words, Arianna was able to read between the lines and understood what he meant by that. If he didn’t like her, she’d be dead for laying such accusations on him.

But then, was she truly in the wrong this time?

“Marcel....” Arianna tried to say but he left her and at the same time, Mimi came into view.

Arianna’s unforgiving gaze fell on her best friend and she took her in. Although Mimi tried her best to look presentable and hide evidence of what she did, Arianna was able to see through it.

Her hair was ruffled even though she probably combed her hand through it. There was a hickey on her neck she hadn’t noticed and her dress was rumbled. In one word, Arianna wasn’t able to erase the event out of her head.

“What are you doing here?” She asked Mimi coldly, “You seem to be having the best time of your life with your lover, Victor. You should return to him before his bed, no, in that case, the counter gets cold.” She taunted her.

“Arianna, please,” Mimi decided to use a lowered tone knowing that her friend was not really in the best of mood right now.

Arianna winced, “How long were you planning on hiding it from me? A week? Month? Six months? A year? Years?”

But she shook her head, “I didn’t mean to hide it from you, Arianna. I was hoping to tell you the truth but considering your situation here, I didn’t know how you were going to take it,”

“Of course, I see,” Arianna muttered, as it finally made sense, “That was why you were persuading me to begin a sexual relationship with Marcel. You were hoping that would lessen your guilt and justify your actions,” She figured out.

“No!” Mimi said immediately, “I was hoping that would help you see them for who they are and not just the men their occupation made them to be.”

“Yeah, you wanted me to sympathize with criminals just so you could date one of them freely,” Arianna said crudely and that made Mimi’s expression change at once.

“Oh really? We are going in that direction now?” Mimi retorted, “So you’re the saint now? I guess when you were treating criminals in Ruth’s little hiding place, you didn’t realize you were breaking the law and that makes you a criminal as well!”

“Well, I’m better than the one whoring around with a Mafia’s consigliere!” Arianna replied in anger.

However, as soon as those words were out, she regretted it and wished she could take it back but it was too late.

“Oh no, Mimi...” Arianna saw the way her friend went pale instantly and her face fell. What has she done!

Arianna tried to go after her but Mimi had already taken off with lightning speed and she couldn’t chase after her.

“Mimi, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to say that!” She shouted after her but her best friend didn’t look back and continued to run till she was out of view.

Oh God, what has she done? She let her anger get the best of her. Arianna dug her hands into her hair and screamed hard. What was she going to do now? She lost others, she can’t lose Mimi now.

Arianna broke down into tears.