His Bride: Being the mafia’s princess

His eyes flung open, blinking rapidly. It met with an unfamiliar white ceiling and roamed there for a while. He could swear he had never seen such a ceiling before.

It was of peculiar design and kind of devilish. He squinted his eyes trying to recall what might have made him end up there, and he did!

He remembered coming back from the store to get some items to prepare dinner for Lillian, but then he was obstructed by some mysterious gunmen.

He managed to run for his dear life after being attacked with a few bullets and that was the last thing he remembered.

He groaned out loud, trying to sit up, but he noticed something prevented him.

“You’re awake!” He heard, and he turned to where the voice came from.

It was a nurse, and it looked like she was fixing the C-line connected to him.

“Where am I?” He growled out, still attempting to sit up.

“You have to rest, sir.” She said, pulling him down to rest back on the pillow.

“Where am I?” He inquired now struggling.

He hoped he wasn’t caught by those people who tried to kill him.

“I’m sorry, sir, but you can’t stand up at the moment.” She tried to explain, but he wasn’t ready to listen.

“Let me go!” He yelled and pushed her away.

The boys in the room got alerted as they rushed to him.

“Pull him down, don’t let him get up.” The nurse said aloud, regaining her balance.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“Let me go, you dick heads!” He said adamantly as the boys all struggled to put him down.

In the cause of struggling, one of the boys unknowingly hit the bandaged area below his abdomen. He groaned out in agony as he stopped struggling.

The boys all took a few steps backwards, leaving him to wallow in his pain.

He continued to groan while moving uncomfortably on the bed.

“I warned you earlier, sir, you can’t stand up. You’re injured in your abdomen area and require a lot of rest presently.” The nurse said and glanced at the bandaged area.

“Who are you people?” Mark asked amidst groans.

“I’m a nurse, as you can see, and I’m here to get you treated.” She replied, taking out a new bandage. The one he had on him was stained heavily by blood already.

She proceeded to remove it, but he prevented her with his other hand.

“Stop! Where is this place? How did I get here?” He questioned, turning to stare weakly at the nurse.

“Please allow me to change this and stop the bleeding. You’re losing quite a lot of blood now.” She pleaded, but he paid deaf ears.

“Answer me first.” He demanded adamantly.

“We saved you from those guys who tried to kill you and brought you here to get treated as they’ve shot you even we came to your rescue.” One of the boys butts in.

Mark turned back to face the ceiling as his eyes tried fruitlessly to close on their own. Slowly, he drifted back into unconsciousness.

“Such a stubborn man!” The nurse muttered to herself as she went to work immediately.

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Smiles filled her lips as she came out partly from her hiding place. She grinned from ear to ear, still peeping out again.

She was trying to make sure Bella was no longer in sight before fully coming out of her hiding place.

“Well, I guess coming here was never a bad idea.” She muttered as she began hopping inside like a high school girl who just kissed her crush.

Though the guards around were staring at her weirdly, but she cared less at the moment. The information she had with her was something that took all her worries away.

She climbed the stairs smiling like someone who won a lottery, and finally, she got to her destination.

She exhaled sharply before going inside without knocking.

She scoffed within herself, seeing her position on the bed.

Lillian was laying on her back whilst staring at the ceiling. It was clear she was lost in thoughts, as she barely noticed Eva’s presence in the room.

Eva coughed repeatedly to raise awareness, but it was futile. She decided to do something more loud and maybe fun for her.

She walked straight to her and flicked her fingers at her face. This snapped Lillian out of her thoughts as she sat up immediately.

She lifted her gaze to Eva, who had a sly smirk on her lips.

“What are you doing here?” She asked, standing to her feet.

“Well, I came in to have an important discussion with you, but it looks like life is beginning to drain out of you even before I started.” Eva said, still smirking as she stared at her from the head to toe.

“I ask you again, what are you doing here?” She asked, picking her words carefully.

“I just explained that to you, you aren’t so dumb not to recollect any of what I said.” Eva replied, folding her hands beneath her boobs.

Lillian scoffed out, staring at her like she’d gone crazy.

“Anyway, I’ll just go straight to the point, so we’d get this done as soon as possible because as it seems, I’m beginning to feel suffocated just by standing this close to you.” Eva said, again, pointing to the distance between them.

“As I said earlier, I came to have a few words with you, and they’re words of advice.” She continued as she cat walked to the bed to have a seat.

“And who are you to give me words of advice?” Lillian questioned, standing akimbo.

“Someone who despises you but still wants the best for you.” Eva replied with her gaze roaming round the room.

It was obvious she was fantasized by the beauty of the room and maybe jealous too!

“To tell you what, I don’t need your damn advice. Just do yourself the favor and get the hell out of my room.” Lillian spat out, getting pissed.

“You know what the family does now, and I must confess, you’re actually what I portray you to be, dumb.” Eva continued anyway, paying deaf ears to Lillian’s words.

“I mean, why get married to a person you don’t even know what they do for a living? They all fooled you and, of course, as the fool that you’ve been, you listened to them.” She remarked, returning her gaze to the lady in front of her.

“I know that, and I agree with you. I was so stupid, having not known what my husband does for a living.” Lillian affirmed bitterly.

“Your husband?” Eva scoffed out and burst into a little laughter.

“I didn’t expect you would still refer to him as your husband even after knowing the truth, but I’m not shocked either. Like I said, you’ve always been dumb, and I don’t see you getting wise in years to come.” She stated plainly as she flipped her hair backwards in style.

“I bet you don’t know what these Mafia lords do, they don’t only deal in hard drugs and the likes, but they also kill, extort money from billionaires and politicians to do their dirty jobs and might also kill those politicians if by any chance they don’t give into their frequent demands.” She disclosed emphasizing on her words.

“They don’t care if they have to hurt their loved ones to make themselves happy. They’re literally selfish, and most times their wife gets to suffer the unbearable pains of their actions.”

Lillian’s mind almost flashed back to when she was accused of trying to kill Don, but she shook it off her head immediately.

“They’re all so…….”

“Why are you still with him?” She chipped in.

“Huh?” Eva said surprised.

“If everything you just said are true, then why are you still clinging to him? Trying all possible ways to make sure you’re the only woman he cares for.” Lillian uttered as she smirked after seeing the look on Eva’s face.

“You claim he’s all bad, dangerous and with all you’ve just told me, I don’t think he should be classified as a human any longer.”

“But, I’ll like to know one thing, does everything you just said only apply to his wife? What happens to his girlfriend? Or should I say side chick?” She questioned, rendering Eva totally speechless.

“Does that mean he’ll kill her if he has chances to? Because that’s just the only way what you said makes sense.” She explained in a shrug.

She sucked in her breath and shook her head slightly, depicting pity.

“Seems like you don’t have an answer to any of my questions, making you so useless here. Now, get out of my room.” She said fiercely, this time pointing to the door.

Eva silently stood up as she made her way to the door. She took one last glance at her, opened the door and left.

“Good riddance to rubbish.” Lillian muttered to herself.

She was feeling proud of herself already, just one of the things she needed right now, to feel accomplished about something.

She walked back to her bed and slumped on it in a heavy sigh.