Episode 4

Dimitri

This is going to be perfect. He's a man, he's black, and he's poor. There's no way to piss off my father and the council more. He's perfect, he's exactly what my father hates most. This is going to be the perfect revenge.

"Ivan, take Cutlher to the cell, Professor you come with me."

"I'm not going anywhere with you!"

"It's funny you think you have a choice, learn this for your own good, professor, when I give you an order you obey, one way or another."

I pistol-whipped him and knocked the hot-headed professor out. When we get home, I'll talk to him.

Malik

That brute, rude and uneducated, how dare that ogre hit me? And he even brought me to his house unconscious, and as if that wasn't enough, he's making me wait! I've been here alone in this room for about 40 minutes.

When I was already thinking about going down and leaving on my own, the door opened and the rude white boy walked in.

"You like your room?"

Oh no, seriously? You mean he's going to keep up with this marriage madness.

"I love my room, which is in my house back in Brooklyn."

"That's a shame, but this is going to be your room from now on."

"Oh yeah, and what makes you think I'm gonna stay?"

"Lesson number 3, remember? I get everything I want."

"Look, I'm not interested, okay? It's not because I'm gay that I'm going to accept to marry any stranger, I'm not that desperate."

"You're gay, this is getting even better."

Okay, now I'm starting to think he's really crazy.

"Look, I just want to leave, okay!"

"Sure, you can go whenever you want."

I sighed in relief, and already had my hand on the doorknob when I heard him say something that made me freeze.

"However, the second you walk out that door, I'm having my men blow Cutlher's brains out."

"Why are you doing this? Why are you so mean? You have no heart, no mercy?"

At that moment I saw his countenance completely transform, his appearance was cold and deadly.

"No, I don't have a heart, it was taken from me a long time ago, and mercy, well they didn't have any for me, I won't have any for anyone else either!"

He approached me, cornering me and making me walk backwards until my back was against the wall, he grabbed my chin very hard and spoke through gritted teeth, his eyes burning into me.

"Listen carefully how it's going to be, professor. If you want that whiny little brat to keep having a father, you better do exactly as I say."

The madman squeezed my chin even harder as he spoke.

"You're going to marry me, you're going to appear at all the Mafia's public events and you're going to appear happy and in love. You're going to be the typical reclusive, homebody husband. If you do everything right, I'll forgive Cutlher's debt forever, and you'll get a nice financial reward as well."

"How am I supposed to marry you, sir, I don't even know you?"

"And if it's up to me, you won't. This marriage will be just a deal, there will be no intimacy between us. I just need them to think we're a happy couple, I have people I want to annoy."

"Wait a minute, you want me to stop my whole life, stay away from the people I love, get involved with dangerous mafia people, just to annoy some people is that it?"

"Exactly."

"That's ridiculous!"

"If you don't agree, I'll kill Cutlher and his wife, and your precious little lousy boy will be orphaned and alone in the world, go into the foster care system and end up in some random house with all kinds of strange people, what do you think of my proposal now, professor?"

He let go of my chin roughly and I almost collapsed to the floor.

"You can tell me what you decided tomorrow morning. Have a good night, professor!"

Dimitri

The professor is quite cheeky, I need to make him understand who's in charge around here.

I called Ivan to my office.

"Sir?"

"Ivan, I want a full report on the professor when I wake up tomorrow."

"Yes, sir."

"I also want you to take care of everything for our civil wedding."

"He's accepted already?"

"Not yet, but he will, you know how persuasive I can be."

"I know very well, boss. So what exactly is the plan?"

"Simple, they want me to get married, don't they? Well, I'm going to get married, I'm going to marry someone who is exactly what my father hates. I'm going to make him regret meddling in my affairs.

I'm going to marry him in a civil ceremony, then schedule a dinner to introduce who I've chosen, my father will assume it's an engagement dinner and he'll call all the influential men he knows, so on that day I introduce the professor. And the best part, technically I haven't broken any rules, so they won't be able to make me resign, and they'll have to accept and respect another man as my husband. "

"It's a good plan, sir, but I have two questions."

"Speak."

"Can we really trust the professor? And you know they're going to retaliate, and they're going to come after you until they get you out of leadership."

"Well, my gut tells me I can trust him, I can read people and he's not the lying type. I know they're going to come at me with everything, and I'm going to be ready to win this war and shut them up for good, only by defeating them will I be able to be at peace in my position. When they see what I'm going to do to them, the other enemies will think twice before messing with me."

"Very well, sir, I'll take care of what you asked, have a good night."

I said goodbye and went to bed, I was anxious to know the professor's answer, but I know he has a heart of butter and will accept.

I can't wait to put my plan into action!

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