Her Mafia Daddy - Chapter 39: Chapter 39

I didn't want that life. I didn't want to be associated with these people. I was a good person, someone who believed in right and wrong. My father was a criminal, yes, but my sisters and I weren't. We deserved better.
I'm not entirely good, though, am I? True. By day, I had taken on a more parental role with my twin sisters, watching over them. At night, though, I snuck out of the house to find fun. To find a boyfriend and lose my virginity.
Apparently I was a rebel at heart which was why I could not be caged here in Italy, like a meek and docile prisoner. I had to find a way out. "He's going to try to seduce you."
Dimitri 's words startled me. "What?"
"My father. He is going to try to seduce you." Tingles raced up the backs of my thighs. "How do you know that? Did he say something?"
Dimitri lifted a shoulder. "No, but I can tell."
"That's crazy. I'm supposed to marry you."
"Not anymore. That's why he wants to talk to me as soon as we return." Oh, God. I was having a hard enough time resisting Rafael as an engaged woman. What happened when the engagement was off? "You have to tell him no."
Dimitri grunted and folded his hands behind his head, closing his eyes. "No one tells my father no."
"I do and you need to stand up to him. Tell him you want to marry me." He cracked a lid at me. "Why would I do that? I don't want to marry you."
"Dimitri , please. You have to help me. I cannot get involved with your father. That would be worse than marrying you no offence."
"None taken, but you are crazy if you think I can stop him."
"Can't you convince him we are madly in love?"
"He'd never believe it and I don't like lying to my father." I pulled my sunglasses down and gave him a pointed look, to which he nodded. "Exactly. One lie is enough, believe me."
"Then help me escape." Dimitri sat up and turned to face me, his expression curious. "Why? You could do a lot worse than my father. You like the estate and the castello...and he would treat you with respect."
Yes, but he would also consume me. I would lose to Rafael Ravazzani. "I can't. Please, Dimitri ."
"You will have to deal with him yourself. If you don't want him, then tell him. He'll accept it. He's a reasonable man." I thought about the man who had drugged me, had locked me in a dungeon.
The capo who had killed two men in cold blood. Reasonable? Ha! Hardly. I pressed my lips together and stared at the water. Clearly, I couldn't count on Dimitri .
He was too interested in saving himself. I had to do this myself. "Do not try and escape, Tina ," Dimitri said as he reclined once more. "It will only make the situation worse."
"Yeah? We'll see."
"You won't tell him, will you? About me?"
"God, no." I reached over and took his hand. "Even if that was my only way to escape, I wouldn't do that to you. I know what happens if everyone finds out." He pressed a soft kiss to the back of my hand. "Grazie, bella. I am very grateful."
"It's probably stupid of me. I should blackmail you to help me."
"You don't want to do that. First and foremost, I am a Ravazzani. Not many would dare to blackmail a member of my family." The threat hung between us until I finally said, "If I did, I suppose I'd be taken to the dungeon and shot dead, too."
His head whipped toward mine. "What?"
"I'd be murdered in the family dungeon...just like those two men the other night." Dimitri 's body relaxed. "He didn't kill them. He shot each of them in the leg. They'll limp, but they'll live."
I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding. Though my relief made no sense. No one rose to Rafael 's rank without killing a fair share of people. Just because he hadn't killed those two men didn't mean he wouldn't ever kill someone else.
"How did you know, by the way? Not even I knew they were bringing Sergio and Rocco to see my father."
"I saw them go into the dungeon and I followed." Dimitri 's brows flew up. "You spied on Rafael ? Ma sei pazza?"
"No, I'm not crazy. But I couldn't help myself."
"Bella, if you are going to stay with my father, you have to learn not to get involved in the 'ndrina business."
"Hello? Are you even listening? I don't want to stay with your father."
"It won't be so bad. You can share him with Katarzyna. She can have Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, and you can have….."
I shoved his shoulder. Hard. "Don't even fucking suggest it. He's probably so full of himself that he'd like that idea." Dimitri laughed. "I feel as if you are going to be the one to break him, Tina ."