{ Andrea's POV }
I'll enjoy this peace of forgetting..
Even if only for a few minutes....
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"Andrea.." Nicolás calls
I turn my head to the side slowly snapping out of it, and I realize it's almost dark outside.
"Yeah?" I answer
"Isla eventually told me where I might could find you, once she got worried enough." Nicolás explains
"I didn't realize I had been here this long." I tell him
"It's been over four hours." Nicolás tells me
"Seems like only fifteen minutes." I reply
"May I sit with you?" He asks
I give him a nod.
Nicolás walks closer to me, and sits down beside me on the stone bench.
"It's beautiful out here isn't it?" I ask him
Nicolás just nods with a smile starting to play on his lips.
"I would say it is but that would be far too cliche, even for a person of romance such as myself."
Nicolás says
Then he takes his finger, and turns my chin gently so I'm looking directly at him.
"But I will say that beautiful doesn't even begin to describe the view." Nicolás says
I give him a slight smile.
"Is this suppose to be the part that I excuse you of saying that to all the girls?" I question with a smirk
He smirks and says "You could but my answer would be no. No girl could compare to you.. and no other woman has caught my interest as much as you."
"Interest?" I question
"You hold my attention..Angel."
Nicolás says
"Go on..." I say quieter
"Your strength, your beauty, your personality, your story, the part of you that you keep hidden... I'm interested in everything about you."
Nicolás says passionately
"Well the interest should go away soon.." I tell him
"I don't think so. You see Andrea, you hold my attention and interest by simply just sitting still."
He says
"You already know my story.." I remind him
"I know parts of it.. and yet I'm still drawn to you for more." Nicolás says
"The interest will fade. I'm not as strong as I seem. I'll break soon and it'll more than throwing things around my room while drunk." I tell him
"Strength doesn't mean you won't break, it means you'll survive and keep going even after you do."
Nicolás says
"One day I'll stop going everyone does."
I say kind of depressingly
"Then I'll stop with you."
Nicolás says looking the grave
"You don't even know me." I tell him
"I know enough." He replies
"What is it that you know Nicolás?" I ask
He takes a breath and says "I know that your life growing up wasn't easy, and that it turned you into who you are today. I know the people you held closest to you are buried under us. I know that the next time I see your sperm donor he'll be in a cell hopefully rotting, and the next time I see the man that is supposed to be your husband that my hand will around his neck."
I take a deep breath and so does he.
"But that isn't all.. I know that although you grabbed my interest, and keep my attention... that you also hold my respect. I know that you don't get treated half as well as you deserve, and I intend to change that if you'll let me." Nicolás says
"Let you?" I ask
"I do my best to be a man of honor, and a man my grandfather and grandmother would be proud of despite this life we're in. I would never do anything to you or to any other woman without permission. I'd let you kill me, if I even dared to drunkenly try." Nicolás says
"Let me?" I ask with an eyebrow raised
"I'd bow on my knee and let you decide my fate without even putting up a fight." Nicolás says
He's definitely something different.
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The Mafia's Affair ( #4 in the Mafia Series )
ActionA baby born of an affair. A toddler who watched their mother die. A little girl who was raised by her grandmother. A teenager who was taken away from everything, and everyone she ever knew. A woman who was thrown into a marriage with a wealthy mafia...
