Daughter of the Mafia's Consigliere

MARIANNE

I opened my eyes slowly and yawned tiredly, it was another blissful morning.

My whole body feels tired and weak, I feel so lazy to even stand up right now.

Why does my bed feel so hard this morning? I sat up slowly and rubbed my sleepy eyes. I guess I'm a bit early this morning unlike yesterday. My eyes widened when I noticed I was on the floor, I looked around and noticed I was in the sitting room. Damn! Did I sleep off here last night?

Ricardo actually allowed me to order food last night when I complained of being hungry. I guess I will be ordering food from now henceforth till he is ready to get a chef or a maid in this house. He warned me never to try ordering food without his consent and last night was going to be just the first and last time.

I guess I'm going to be ignoring that warning since I've learnt the address of this mansion and I now know how to order food with my phone. Does he expect me to starve when I am hungry? I don't think I can do anything with my hands for the next few days.

Even some other normal and regular stuff like taking my bath, brushing my teeth, picking out my dresses and arranging my room would be a very difficult thing for me to do. Despite Ricardo applying first aid on it, it still hurts so much if I tried to use my hands for anything.

I stood up and cleared the mess I made in the sitting room last night. After my food delivery arrived home, I ate in the sitting room and slept off afterwards.

I heard noises coming from the kitchen and decided to check it out. Ricardo always leaves the house even before I wake up in the morning.

I was surprised to meet Ricardo in the kitchen, he was busy preparing coffee for himself. My throat itches that instant and I began craving for coffee too.

I cleared my throat to notify him of my presence but he didn't even flinch or look back at me. He should be given the best awards for snubbing and ignoring people.

I decided to ignore him and just go get water for myself. It was difficult opening the bottle of water by myself since I couldn't use my fingers.

It took me two minutes before I was able to open it, Ricardo didn't even spare me a glance and just kept acting like I was ignorant.

It was stupid of me to have thought that we are a bit cool since he helped me treat my burns and allowed me to order food last night. Maybe he suddenly recalls that we are to mind our business, this guy annoys me a lot for real!

He suddenly began making breakfast for himself I guess. I promised myself that instant not to ask him for help since he has chosen not to even acknowledge my presence.

I was in the kitchen with him till he prepared his breakfast, he made sandwiches. So he can actually prepare something like this? Just wow!

I pulled the coffee maker machine with my thumb and decided to make coffee for myself. There's no point asking him to help me since he is just going to snub me as usual.

I grabbed a tea cup forgetting about my bruised fingers and that instant, it fell off from my hands due to the pain I felt.

"Ouch!" I winced in pain and the ceramic cup shattered into pieces making me flinch a little.

I looked at Ricardo and this dude wasn't even freaked out or concerned, he just kept acting like nothing happened.

He puts his breakfast on a tray and carries it out. I stared at the mess on the floor and sighed. Why is he even acting colder this morning or was he a different person last night?

A cup shattered and he wasn't even concerned or even bothered to ask if I was alright or check if I was injured or not?

Damn! I guess his small act of kindness last night must have put so many ideas into my head.

Why should he care in the first place anyways? We are basically strangers according to him, so we should act like one. Right?

I cleared the broken glass and left the kitchen, I then went straight to my room.

I was literally so annoyed even though I couldn't place the exact reason why I was angry.

That jerk is a chameleon, a two-faced jerk!

Damn me for beginning to think he was changing into a better person slowly.

I ruffled my hair and just laid back on the bed.

My phone suddenly pinged and I checked it immediately thinking it was a message from Sophia because she is the only contact in my phone and also the only one I talk with.

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My face fell in disappointment and I got confused when I saw the sender's name.

"My hot husband" It was accompanied with a fire emoji, what's all these?

Where did this contact come out from? When did I save this contact with this kind of name? I opened the message immediately.

"Get ready tonight before I return, we are having an important dinner with my dad and also a family friend who is from another Mafia family."

This message is obviously from Ricardo but I don't even have his contact not to even talk of saving his contact with such name.

Hot husband my foot!

Another message came in while I was still trying to process what was happening.

"I know you have zero dressing sense but I plead with you, dress classy and neat, it's an important dinner." Ricardo sent another message and I scoffed.

Why is he sending me texts when we literally live in the same house?

I have zero dressing sense? He must be playing with me? How dare he even conclude something like that? He really has no regards for me.

If an award should be given each time Ricardo annoys me, I'm sure he would have like a hundred medals a day.

I think I get it now, that prick head must have gone through my phone and had his number saved like that.

I stood up angrily with the intention of barging into his room when suddenly I heard the screeching sound of a car. I peeped from the window and it turns out he was driving out already. "Ricardo! Damn you!"" I screamed out and gave him the middle finger. I really wished he heard me!

I fell back on my bed and released a heavy sigh, he won't be the end of me. Talking about the content of that text, what important dinner was he talking about and which family? For him to have asked me to dress nice and classy means it must be a prominent person. Oh, I almost forgot, he made mention of a family friend.

But still, he didn't have to insult my dressing sense, I will prove him wrong tonight. I guess it's been a long time since I dressed like a bitch right? I don't mean dressing almost completely naked though.

I dived into my wardrobe and began searching for the perfect dress, I still have hours to do that but the earlier the better. The pain I felt in my hands hurts a lot, but I obviously didn't care.

I got some hot dresses I procured last time I secretly shopped in Venice. While I was even getting the dresses, I was thinking it was going to be useless since I have nowhere important to wear such dresses to.

As I was still in the middle of picking out a dress, I heard a loud banging on the door and I froze.

That's obviously not Richard because he just drove out a few minutes ago and even if he was the one, I would have heard him drive back in.

"Open the door bitch!"

It was even a female's voice, who the hell was that? No one can easily gain entry due to tight security so how is that possible.

The loud and aggressive banging continued and I got scared. I immediately got my phone and texted Ricardo that someone was at the door. I slowly got out of the room and headed to the entrance door immediately. The scream and banging got louder and my fear increased. As I got closer, the voice began to sound familiar.

"Marianne, it's me! Open the door you fucking bitch or are you scared to do that?"

Wait, that's Kathy's voice! What the heck is she looking for? I thought I asked Ricardo not to allow her here because I wasn't comfortable with it? Why does he have to even allow a mad person like her to come here. I angrily opened the door and truly met Kathy breathing heavily, she was looking so mad and disorganized.

"Why are you here?" I immediately asked her and I couldn't understand what she did next.

She fucking slapped me so hard!!!

"Bitch! How dare you ask me such a question!"