Chapter 21 The dinner
“Are you sleeping with my daughter?.” Papa asked and a gasp falls out of my lips.
“Papa no.” I breathed out, my mind filled with thoughts as I stared at him
This is not what I expected him to say the moment when we saw him.
“Are you sleeping with my daughter?.” He asked again.
“No sir.” Adrian replied.
“We are waiting till after marriage like you would prefer and like I would prefer too, I promise we are not sleeping with each other.”
“But he has seen you naked.” Papa said
No, I am not having this conversation with my father, I know he stills sees me as his little girl but he does not need to worry about anything, I will be fine and I know what I am doing.
“Let’s have dinner Papa, we can talk about it later.” I said pulling him away with a smile on my face.
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Papa settled on the head chair and Adrian and I sat remotely beside him, the room packed with people I call my family.
I have my little cousin Harry, he is just seen, he is a sweet kid with horrible parents and then after that, I also have my cousin Alana, she is about nineteen years ago and she is about to get into college after flunking the las grade twice, and then we have their parents, Heather and Sam, who hate my father.
My father only has one brother, who I have never seen , not in picture of person, he never even talks about him, and neither does anyone.
I believe he hates him.
By the end of the room is Noah, Noah has had the biggest crush on me but as my second cousin, I just thought that’s disgusting and it made me feel creeped out and weird, beside Noah a girl I have never see, could be his girlfriend.
Noah’s parents are Jeremiah and Gabriella.
We stared at each other like it was a contest.
“You are finally getting your little girl married.” Sam smiled, that’s not a real smile.
“Yes and the mafia goes to my husband not you, nor any of you in the room.” I stated with even a bigger smile on my face, he didn’t look any happy.
“Are we sure he is in love with you, he could be doing all of this for the throne, we know how far people can go for money.” Noah spoke.
“One more word about Adrain and all of you would be dead, he is a good man, he is the Russian mafia leader and he will take all of you out if you don’t listen to him, he has no reason being a part of this fucking dinner but he is here for my daughter and I expected all of you to be respectful to him.” Papa yelled through the room.
The moment he named his status, I saw the way Alana stared at Adrian, like she wanted him and Noah didn’t look any happy.
“Can we just get this dinner over with.” I smiled, when I felt Adrian hand on my thighs, he was calm an he didn’t say any word, he had a smile on his face because I could tell he is trying to calm down, he didn’t what to hurt anyone.
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“So Elara, did you tell him about us.” Noah suddenly asked when we were half way through the meal, I stared at him for a second when he looked away from me.
“You slept with your cousin.” His girlfriend asked.
“Do you believe that princess, judging from the way you look, you don’t even know half the reason you are here, and to you, you think Noah likes you, which I think it’s sad because he is just with you because he is bored.” I stated
I was about to speak again when Adrain held my hand tightly.
“Speak about my future wife like that and I would have you dead.”
“You can’t kill me, I am family, it’s against the rules.”
“Not my family.” Adrian smiled and I had an even bigger smile on my face, my eyes were on his. “I can have you dead and no one in this room can do anything about it.”
“Do you hear that, or are you deaf, do you still want to pretend like something happened between us because you and I both know that I didn’t, I hated you, you always wanted to be close to me, I am sure your dearest father thought if you could just make me fall for you, the mafia goes to you and your family.” I stated
It was pathetic, I could never like him, I could see through his gane and I hated his family and anyone else.
“Enough.” Papa yelled when he chocked back on his saliva, he starts to choke as he stood up and he rushed out of the room
“What did you put inside the food?.” I asked.
“We didn’t come with anything.” Heather stated.
“If I find out anyone walked into the kitchen and you messed with the food, it would be the last thing you do.” I yelled before I rushed out of the room, I found papa in the bathroom and all over the floor was blood that poured out of his mouth.
This is what is happening to my papa. He didn’t deserve this, he is meant to be okay, he he is meant to be happy.
“Let me do it papa please.” I whispered when I took oh wiping his mouth. “Are you going through treatment papa?.” I asked and he didn’t speak.
“I will do die with a painful death and being strapped to machine, there is no saving me, I already asked as many questions as I can and money can’t solve what I have neither can power.”
“Papa.” I whispered as my eyes filled with tears
“Not here, never let your enemies see you cry.” He stated and I nodded.