Savannah POV

Dante had me stay in his office until lunch, we ate lunch together, and Sofia, who I found out is his younger sister, met us at his house and then we headed to the shopping center. The whole ride she gushed over Dante and I. Talking about how it was about time he found someone to marry and that he better not hurt me.

I also found out that I'm still in New York. Which is good I guess. We've been into three stores already and I don't want to go to anymore, but I'm being forced to. Dante has guards everywhere, and some are dressed as civilians. Even if I wanted to escape I couldn't.

"Next store. I think it should be just me and Savy." Sofia said to Dante.

"Why?" He asked cocking an eyebrow up.

"Look at the store Tae." Sofia said rolling her eyes.

I hadn't even looked at the store. I looked up and around my surroundings. Shit. Sofia was trying to drag me into Victoria's Secret.

I quickly turned away and removed myself from Dante's hold and took several steps back only to bump into someone.

"Sorry." I said quickly apologizing to the guard I bumped into.

"Savannah." Dante said in a warning tone. I turned around to see his angry expression.

"I-I don't need to go in there. We can go to another store." I said to him quickly. I was blushing hard from embarrassment.

"Tae you're scaring her. Come on Savy it'll be fun I promise. You guys stay out here." Sofia said quickly grabbing me and dragging me into the store I dreaded going into.

We shopped for almost an hour and a half. Sofia forced me to get nearly 15 different pairs of lingerie and many bra-underwear sets. By the time we left the store my cheeks were permanently red. Dante came up to me with a knowing smirk, his arm immediately went around my waist as guards took the bags.

"That wasn't so bad." Sofia said.

"Pure torture." I mumbled.

We kept going into store after store. Then we finally stopped to get something to eat at the food court. After that Dante decided we needed to get rings so we went to one of the expensive jewelry stores in the mall. Sofia and I walked in first because Dante was talking with a couple guards.

"How did my brother find you? Like I know you two didn't just meet or whatever, there's something more to the story." Sofia said as we looked at wedding rings.

"You know about his business right?" I asked not wanting to tell her something she didn't know.

"The mafia thing, yeah." She said quietly.

"Well, basically I ran away from my mom and her boyfriend, got kidnapped, sold in an auction, and when he was assigning our jobs he left me behind and said I have to become his wife." I told her.

"Wow. That's an interesting story to tell when you get older." She said with a small laugh.

"I guess...he said I had the option of going to the whore house or something. I wasn't going to go there so I quickly told him I'd be his wife which seemed to make him not as angry." I told her.

"Yeah he likes everything his way. He's never done something like this before, he hadn't even mentioned marriage at all, to any of us." She said.

"Oh..." I said not knowing what to say.

The bell to the store chimed and Dante walked in talking still with a guard. I noticed the lady helping us look at rings pushed her breasts up and licked her lips. Slut.

"He's hot isn't he?" I asked her.

Ally and I used to play pranks on people all the time before we stopped hanging out I, always enjoyed it.

"Yeah, he is." She said fixing her hair in the reflection of the glass.

"What are you doing?" Sofia whispered to me.

"Just go with it. I want to see her shook." I whispered back.

"Ok."

"Anyway, I like these rings." I said pointing to a set of silver rings. The engagement ring was a simple silver ring with a small diamond in the middle, the wedding ring had a nice sized diamond in the middle, two small diamonds on either side of it, and then a few smaller diamonds spiraling into the silver band. The man's wedding ring had a thick silver band and the diamonds on it matched the one on the woman's ring.

"Are you sure you can even afford those?" The lady asked. Man she's a bitch.

"Bitch we can buy the whole fucking store." Sofia said.

"Sof, it's ok. Yes I'm sure. I just hope my fiancé likes them." I said to the lady.

"I think she does." The lady said looking at Sofia who was also looking at the rings.

"Yeah they're beautiful." Sofia answered not really paying attention to the conversation.

Does this lady think Sofia and I are getting married?

"You two discuss, I'll be right back." She said putting some of her short brown hair on her shoulder, then walking towards Dante.

"I think you should go kiss Dante right in front of her." Sofia said.

"I've never kissed anyone." I said blushing.

"Oh...well just go with the flow. Or you could just peck his lips." She said with a shrug.

"What if it's not good?" I asked. Suddenly I'm regretting this.

"Oh my god Savannah, just call him babe or something."

"No. Ew."

She facepalmed herself.

"Well you better do something because she trying pretty hard." She said looking over at her and Dante.

"Ok fine." I said. I took a deep breath and walked over to Dante. One hand was in his pocket and another was hanging by his waist. I grabbed his hand and intertwined our fingers, my hand fit perfectly in his.

Smooth Savannah.

"I found some rings." I said looking up at him.

"Show me." He said.

"Ok." I said pulling him towards where the rings and Sofia were. I glanced at the lady that was flirting with him, she was glaring at me and I just smirked at her. We got to the rings and she followed.

"I thought-"

"I'm not a lesbian." I spoke quickly.

"I already have a boyfriend." Sofia spoke smirking also.

"It's not nice to jump to conclusions." I stated before pointing out the rings to Dante who didn't utter a single word. He looked at them for a couple minutes before he spoke.

"I want names engraved in them." He said.

"We can do that." The lady spoke sounding a little less flirtatious.

"I want it done in two days." He said.

"Alright. What do you want it to say?" She asked.

"I'll write it down. Sofia and Savannah go wait with John." He said referring to the guard that was in the store with us. I let go of his hand and walked to John. I watched as Dante wrote on a sheet of paper, then pulled out his credit card and paid for everything. When he was done he came and wrapped an arm around my waist and we left the store.

"Oh my God did you see her face??" Sofia said laughing. We both were holding in our laughter not to embarrass the girl anymore than she already was. We both laughed all the way to the car. When we got to the car Sofia got in then I got in and then Dante.

"You have a beautiful laugh gattino." He whispered darkly into my ear making me blush and shiver.

"Thank you." I whispered back shyly.

The whole ride back to Dante's house his hand was on my thigh, dangerously close to my private area. Sofia talked about random stuff and I just listened, Dante was on his phone and rarely spoke.

"I'll be back tomorrow, we have to go dress shopping, and I'll bring my mother too. She's going to love you." Sofia said when we got back to the house.

"O-ok." I said I was suddenly feeling uncomfortable and scared knowing I was once again going to be left alone with Dante.

"Bye!" She said and then disappeared into one of the cars parked in front and the driver drove off.

"Dinner's ready." Dante said as we walked inside.

"What about all the clothes?" I asked.

"They are already put in our closet." He said leading me to the dining room.

'Our closet.'

The dining room had a long table in it but there was only about 7 places that had plates in front of them. Dante sat at the head of the table and I sat to his right.

"You did good today." He said to me.

I gave him a small smile. The doors opened and a three men and two women walked in.

"Good evening." One of the men said to Dante who nodded his head at them. The one that spoke sat across from me and one of the guys sat next to him, and the other girl sat next to him, then the other girl sat across from her, and a man sat next to me.

"Steven switch with Anna." Dante said coldly.

The man, Steven, had short light brown hair and hazel eyes, he also had freckles and was a good looking man. He got up along with the girl Anna who had shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes, overall she was very beautiful. They swapped seats and then seconds later maids came out with trays of food. They began to place food on each plate. Then glasses were placed in front of us, the men got red wine, one girl got white, Anna and I got water.

"Can I get a straw please?" Anna and I said at the same time then we both looked at each other and let out small laughs. A maid quickly placed two paper wrapped straws on the paper and Anna and I picked up our straws unwrapped them and placed them in our drinks. Not at the same time though, that would be weird.

"Do you normally drink with a straw?" Anna asked me.

"Yeah, I don't really like to drink without one." I answered blushing.

"Same. Have you always been like that?"

"Yeah. I don't know why but I haven't drunk straight out of a cup in years." I said.

"Oh my God same. Ok what's your favorite straw?" She asked.

"Ummm...I think bendy but swirly straws come in a close second." I told her.

"Ohhh mine is opposite." She said with a laugh.

So while everyone talked amongst themselves Anna and I had a conversation about straws. Dead serious. We talked about straws. I also found out she's been living here for about six years. The other girl, who I found out name is Rossi, she kept glaring at me. She doesn't even know me and she already hates me. We even continued to talk even after we were finished, it was like we were a small family, it made me happy because I haven't had a real family in so long.

Dante got up along with the other men, then the rest of us stood up and Dante lead me out the dining room.

"Dante wait." I heard Anna's voice say. He stopped right at the door and turned around, as did I.

"Can I steal Savannah from you? Please?" She asked. Dante looked at me then her.

"No. You two can hangout tomorrow, it'll be a long day." He said before grabbing my hand and dragging me out the dining room. Though I quickly flashed her a sympathetic smile. As soon as we got into his room and his bedroom door closed I was slammed up against the wall and Dante's face was on my neck.

I gasped at the contact between my back and the wall and Dante's lips on my neck.

"You have no idea how hard it is for me not to take you right here right now." He said and something was different about his voice. It was cold and hoarse like he was holding back.

After a couple minutes of him kissing and sucking my neck he pulled up and his beautiful blue eyes looked into my gray ones. His eyes went from mine to my lips. Before I knew it his lips were on mine, our lips moved together in perfect harmony. I didn't imagine this would be how my first kiss was but honestly, it was perfect.

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