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Taken by Amy McKinley7/5/2023 I know the clock is ticking, so I’ll take every advantage of this small window-my last few weeks as a college student rooming with my best girlfriends-and live my life to the fullest. I still have time, even if it’s limited, to paint to my heart’s content and party all night long. My life is not my own, but neither are my siblings.įor the moment, I’m free, despite the noose around my neck in the form of an arranged marriage that will happen in a few weeks. What they don’t understand is we’re both broken, and only together are we whole. But our love is forbidden by his ruthless father and discouraged by my family. I fell in love with Stefano Rossi before my life imploded, and I was taken from those I love. Otherwise, I run the risk of losing him for good. For his sake, I need to keep him at arm’s length. He still considers me his, and in my heart, I will always be. The secrets scattered through our past were now like forgotten landmines ready to explode. That bubble shattered even before I graduated from high school. It was an allusion we were blissfully wrapped in. If I could run away from my future, I would, and I’m not the only one.Īt one point, he was mine, and I was his. The university my Mafia sisters and I attend is the one place I can get away and feel some sense of freedom-and escape from my father’s control and soon-to-be-announced, unwanted arranged marriage. Our senior year in college was supposed to go out with a bang, and it did, just not the way we’d expected.
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