Married To The Mafia Lord

2. I WILL MARRY HIM

She glared at him in confusion. She understood what he meant but feigned not to. 

"Dad, I don't understand what you want me to do here. Do you want me to work for him?" She queried.

"He gave us conditions, Lena. He gave us conditions, you either become his wife, or I pay my debt." He bowed his head and rubbed his temples, closing his eyes, he felt a sharp pain hit his chest; he breathed hard and opened those eyes again, boring into his daughter's.

"You want me to get married to him?" She asked surprisingly.

"That's the only way to save me from this, Lena," Gavin stared apologetically at his daughter.

Lena stood up and turned her back to her father; she shook her head in disagreement, walking steps away from him.

"How can you, dad?" She frowned, "How can you tell me to go marry a man I barely know?" She was disappointed. "I saw him for the first time today and..." He held her shoulders, rubbing them gently; her heart softened, and she stopped speaking.

"I regret this mistake, depression led to all of these, and I'm so sorry. Please, Lena, save me, and the family, and you won't even have to be with him for long." He told her, letting go of her, he sat back on the couch.

"How is that possible?" She sat on the couch and glared at her father; she was mad at him. "How do you plan to repay him a whole sum of a hundred thousand dollars?" She was interested in the magic he wanted to perform to bring out the money.

"When you become his wife, you will have access to lots of things, and within a short period, we will get the money and pay him back, and then, you can file for a divorce." Lena shook her head and was disgusted with her father's point.

She wondered when he started to build up those ideas and how he even managed to get himself into that mess.

"And you think he would be foolish to let me get such an amount?" She scoffed. "Father, I can't do this. I'm sorry." She bluntly refused.

"Then, do you want to watch me die?" He held her hands and stroked her fingers. "Darian is merciless, he has strong connections, and he's even involved with the..." He paused and didn't talk further. "Maybe it's time to go join your mother in heaven." He relaxed on the couch, letting his thoughts completely control his mind.

Lena gazed at her father; she had adored him since she was little. He loved her so much and cared for her. Growing up as a child, he made sure he gave her all that she needed, and ever since her mother died, he had been the only one for her. She didn't want to watch him suffer when she could easily help him but getting married to a stranger was never part of the plan, she closed her eyes, and tears dripped down her cheeks. She had plans, great plans for her life, with her best friend, not this.

She wished she could turn back the hands of the clock and do some things right, her father had made a lifetime mistake, and now it would even cost her her own life. Lena was not ready for marriage —not to a stranger, but then, she had to save her father and herself.

"Lena?" Gavin called her again, she looked at him pitifully, and he was close to tears. She knew she couldn't watch him go to jail and die there; she would do it.

"I will marry him." She agreed to do it.

"You will?" There was a mixture of little excitement and more sadness on his face, it wasn't his joy to give his daughter away, but sometimes, when life hits hard, we have to move with the train.

"Yes, for you, father, for you." She sobbed, and he pulled her into an embrace. She cried slowly.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." He apologized and hoped that she would be able to forgive him someday.

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Lena returned to her tiny room, flopping on the bed. She thought of everything and wasn't sure she wanted to do it, but she had already told her father that she would.

When she was little, she planned to marry when she was twenty-four, and she was just a year before that. She sighed and rested on the teddy bear she got as a birthday present from Lisa, her best friend.

Life is not fair. She thought as she reminisced about everything that had happened so far. All her life, she'd never had a boyfriend, never loved a man, and now, she wasn't just going to love a man, she was getting married to a stranger.

She wondered how people could be crazy to make such decisions; she was thankful he had never been married, but that didn't settle it. She didn't plan to marry someone she didn't know.

She stretched her hand to pick up her phone, and she swiped on the screen. She dialled Lisa's number and placed the call in her ear, waiting patiently for her to pick up.

"Hey, baby!" Lisa's voice rang loudly in her eardrums. She sighed, wishing Lisa could stop yelling whenever they were on a call.

"Lisa, I'm getting married." She broke the news sadly to her.

"Married?" Lisa laughed for a few seconds and stopped, "To who?" She laughed again. "What the hell! Are you daydreaming?" She asked, "And stop this joke. I'm not in the best mood for this." She warned Lena.

"I'm dead serious! My dad wants me to get married to settle his debts!" She knew it was a shameful thing to say, but she and Lisa had gone past that stage; she was her best friend and more like a sister to her. She knew everything about her, and there was no point hiding things from her.

"Oh my gosh! That's terrible!" Lisa screeched. "Who is he?" She asked again.

"He's Darian Dawson, CEO of Darian's Holdings," she replied in a faint voice.

"Oh my gosh, oh my Gosh! Are you kidding me now?" Lisa squealed.

"I'm serious. Do you know him?" 

"Of course I do! That hot man? Oh my gosh, you need to see his body. He's so hot and devilishly handsome! Oh my God! That's a big catch." 

She knew it, Lisa knew him—Lisa was an avid reader of celebrity news and was sure she had read everything about Darian's life.

"Have you read about him too? What are his good and bad sides?"

"Oh my God! I don't know what to feel!" Lisa giggled over the phone.

"I don't know either, I saw him, and he doesn't even look nice; I didn't plan to get married this way. The plan was to work hard and get married at twenty-four, and now, I'm even jobless, I have no savings, I'm just twenty-three, and dad wants me to save him by getting married to this stranger. I do want to cry out; I'm unhappy about it." She sobbed and was about to cry again, "I'm sad!"

"Hey, calm down, okay? Just be positive about him." She told Lena.

"Positive about someone I barely know? How will I live with a stranger for the rest of my life? I can't handle this. I don't think I can do it." She said to her.

"Lena, you will be fine. You can't go back on your decision now. You have to save your father from going to jail, or do you want him to be in jail while you live your life?"

"I don't. But it's so hard to do, so difficult, and why does it have to be me?"

"It will get better, I'm always here for you, and I've got your back anytime and any day. Don't worry too much about it, be positive!" Lisa told her again, and they ended the call.

Lena closed her eyes, dropping onto the bed. That was it, she was going to marry Darian Dawson, she couldn't back out now, she had to save her father.

   

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