Emily

"It was nice seeing you again" Vanessa says, hugging me tight. I smile.

"Likewise"

"Let me know when you are bored or anything, I want to go shopping with my girls. Especially now that I have you"

"Yeah, you should come!" Olivia replies, taking my hand. "We can have a lot of fun!"

"Okay, we should do that" I say back, exciting.

"Honey, we need to go! Let the young people have fun!" Giovanni says, looking me right in the eye. "It was nice seeing you but a little advice" he looks behind me were my lovely husband is waiting for me. "Follow the rules, it looks bad when the wife can say and do what they want. We don't do hearts and flowers, you need to know...we have rules in the Mafia community, understand?"

"I do, sir" I reply nicely.

"Good, come honey!"

We say our farewells. I look at Mateo who is on his phone, frowning.

"Don't worry, it's his usually face" Olivia says and I giggle.

"Are you going to come to the poker night?" Olivia looks me over like I just asked if she wanted to eat ice-cream all night.

"Of course I will! Why do you think otherwise?" I shrug my shoulders.

"Are you going to be riding with us?" I ask when we make out way to Mateo's car.

"Hell no! He is going to-"

"-Kill you?" Mateo finish Olivia's sentence, but she just grins.

"I was going to say that, but no. I'm going to ride with Sebastian and Celeb" and she is gone, but not before kissing me on the cheek.

"Get inside, the room is almost ready for us" Mateo says, not bothering kissing me or asking how I feel. I guess we are back at being strangers...

Sighing, stepping inside.

5 minutes have passed, 5 minutes of awkward silence but Mateo decide to break it.

"You need to follow the rules now!"

"Why?" I ask, but I know the answer. He arches an eyebrow.

"We have rules in our community, I let it slip a while so you could get used to me, to us, and I tried; look at the wedding night. It ended well, right?" he says sarcastically. "But it's time now that you take your part of being an El Ricci woman and a Bosses wife" he doesn't give one glance, just looking at the road.

"Okay..." I say. He is right, I need to follow the rules, otherwise it would make him a warm type of guy and that isn't a good sign for a Mafia Boss. "What do I need to do? I have read the paper you gave me but there are so many rules, I can't do them in 1 2 3..."

"Rule 3: don't talk back, woman don't have a say. That's a rule you just overstep" he says, looking at me know. "I know it's difficult but you need to learn to keep your sweet little mouth shut; it can get you in danger"

"Why?"

"Just because, our community have respectful wives who don't talk back, smile to everyone and do things their husbands ask them-"

"-You mean ordering or commanding?"

"Here you go again..." Mateo sighs. "Look, I can give you everything your heart desire. If you ask me to buy you all the diamond in NY, hell, in United States, I will buy them. If you ask me to buy you dogs and cats to make you feel less lonely, then I will buy it. Do you see a dress that you like? Here is my credit card, buy it"

"I don't want your money!" I say, crossing my arms. Mateo slows down, guess we are at the club. He parks and then faces me.

"I know you don't want my dirty money, but you get what I mean. I give you everything and more, I'm even giving you protection. Isn't weird that your family haven't contact you? Well wife, I send people to make clear that they can't come near you again. Hell, I didn't even want them at the wedding but you insisted!" I stare at him, amazed by what he just said. I'm kind of happy that I don't have to deal with my fucked up family. "One more thing though..." he grins at me. "I paid your debt at your university this week" my mouth makes an O shape. Did he really? How did he- "I didn't knew you had a debt, why didn't you asked me? I would paid it for you the minutes you told me"

"I don't know, I wanted to do that myself and I didn't want you to think that I want your money..." he chuckles. It's a sweet, low sound that makes my heart squeeze tight. It's something rare and I want to hear it every morning and every night but I know it's impossible. I scan his face. The smirk and the light dimple I only saw once shows, telling me that he is happy and the weirdest part is...now I feel happy too.

I think over what he said. I can give you everything your heart desire. There is one thing I want from him but I know I will never get....His Love...

"There is one thing we need to do" I look at him curious. "We need to make a sign so you know when to talk and to shut up"

"What do you prefer?"

"You have to choose, but I can tell you what my parents do" I nod. "My dad always nod his head to show her that she talk and when he shakes his head-"

"-Then she can't talk" I finish for him.

"You get it, now what I would recommend is maybe that I do this" his right hand lands on my left thigh. I gasp a little, surprised with his touch. "I will squeeze when you can talk but I will also squeeze when you can't talk, it's up to you to know what I mean" he leans closer, his mouth a few inches from my ear. I feel his breath, warm and hot on my skin. "But believe me; you will know when to shut up because you aren't a brat, right?"

We step inside the club, the music is hard and fast, the women are dancing all the way, showing their curves off and the men are staring at them.

Mateo leads me up a stair case I didn't see before. We go 2 staircases up and then I noticed the poker rooms. Of course there would be poker rooms in his club, I wouldn't be surprised if he also had a drugs room or something.

The two bouncers, one bold but build like a gorilla and the other small but I would bet my money that he is strong as hell, greet us and open the door.

"Are they inside?" Mateo ask them, putting is hand on the small of my back. They both nod.

Mateo leads me inside and I'm greeted with Kath stare. She looks at me and then at the hand behind me back. Her smile falls a little.

"Bro, come here, we are going to play" Celeb says, sitting down.

"Why do you even bother? I'm going to win" Enzo says nonchalant. "Hello Boss, nice seeing you again with your wife, is she going to play to?" What? I'm not going to play! I don't even know the rules! Mateo's hand goes lower, squeezing my ass a little and I know that is the sign he meant.

"No I won't, but my husband will play" I say, looking him dead in the eye. Enzo chuckles and sits down.

"Alright then"

Mateo's hand leaves my ass and he sits down on the opposite of Enzo who is smirking.

"I'm going to play to!" Olivia says. "Emily, do you want to sit next to me? Maybe we can work together?" I look at Mateo, he nods, giving me permission.

"Alright"

It has been 2 hours, everyone is still playing. Mateo and Enzo both have the most wins, Celeb is losing and Olivia is winning here and there. Sebastian is the one who do the card things; I don't know they call them.

The radio plays Yesterday, an old song of the Beatles. It's a nice song.

Everyone is smoking now, except me and Olivia. Smoking is something I never would do in my life. My grandpa sadly dead from lung cancer.

The barista serves us all extra drinks. I'm also not a bog drinker but this cocktail is delicious.

"Why are you grinning?" Mateo asksEnzo who indeed is grinning.

"Can't I grin? $500 000,00" he replies.

"$10 000,00" Celeb says. I feel a little sorry for him... he is losing his money, but he doesn't really care I guess.

"What is it, bro? Think you going to lose?" Mateo asks him and put his entire money in. "All in!" I gasp but he winks at me. I blush.

"You going to win this, baby" Kath says. Oh, did I forget to say that Kath is sitting next to Mateo. Her hands are around Mateo but he doesn't shrink her away to my dismay. I hate seeing this but I can't let jealousy het the better of me. I need to get use to this.

"I'm setting $15 000,00"

"Show your cards" Sebastian says. First go Celeb who has a flush. Olivia goes next, she has straight. Shit! It's lower then flush... Enzo goes next, smirking like a lunatic. "I have straight flush" Mateo chuckle with that because he show us his "ROYAL FLUSH!" we all say in unison.

"Mateo wins this round" Sebastian says giving Mateo all the fiches he won.

Kath jumps, kissing him on the cheek and that's my cue to leave.

I stand. "Where are you going?" Mateo asks me, drinking his whiskey and concentrating on the game.

"Toilet" I reply back, giving Kath the dead stare but she shucks. Her smile is evil while she show her boobs to Mateo...THIS WOMAN....I partially run to the door before Mateo says something.

"Go straight and the last door left is the toilet"

Anger boils in my body when I think about what happened minutes ago.

I HATE KATH! Mateo is mine and mine only! Of this...Bitch thinks he is hers then she is so wrong! I look myself in the mirror. I look... Nothing like her. She is so beautiful and something that should stand next to Mateo. They are like a perfect couple... I'm nothing more than a pain in the ass...No! Mateo married ME! I need to do something! I need to let her know that he is mine!

Washing me hands, I walk back to the room. The two bouncers nod and let me in. I scan the room and see that Kath is almost sitting on Mateo laps.

Oh...Not today...

I walk over to them. Mateo arched a brow as he sees me. Every eye in the room follows my movement but I don't care. They need to know too that he belongs to me. I'm just a few feet away before Mateo sits back, Kath's expression looks confused as I throw his card on the table and sits on his lap. Mateo's hands grip my ass and without thinking I kiss him.

He kisses me back; I feel his smirk against my lips. My hands find his hair and I massage it. His hair is so soft and kind of fluffy if you ask me.

His tongue enter me mouth, exploring.

"Out! Everyone out!" Mateo snarls.

I don't know when they leave the room but I know one thing, Kath now know that she needs to back the fuck off...

Mateo keeps kneading my ass, my hips move as I feel his hardened cock. In one movement all the fiches and cards are on the ground and I on the table.

"Mateo..." I moan as he makes his way down my body.

God...I want him...