Summary
Hating The Mafia King: If only I’d known love will be my biggest threat. Rachel Green whose life revolves around the perfect things of life. Her world was shattered when she witnesses her mother's tragic death at the merciless hands of Richard Maranzano, the ruthless and enigmatic young Mafia king. Swearing to avenge her mother's death, Rachel plots to ruin Richard’s life by any means necessary. But fate has a wicked sense of humor when Rachel finds herself appointed as Richard’s personal secretary. As she weaves her way into his inner circle, Rachel is faced with a twisted turn of events when Richard, unexpectedly, proposes marriage to her. Seizing the opportunity, Rachel agrees to become his wife, all the while relishing the thought of using this newfound power to exact her revenge. Little does Rachel know, that Richard holds his own hidden agenda, carefully concealed from her vengeful eyes.
Chapter 1
I am sited on the couch with my laptop on my thighs and a black cup of coffee on the table. I took a sip of coffee and placed the cup back on the table. As always, I am researching on Mafia, not just any type of Mafia but particularly Richie Maranzano. That fucking Bastard has been on my browser history for years and I haven’t found a solid thing about him that will make him crave mercy, pathetically.
Every fucking girl I know likes Richie Maranzano, they could die for him, probably because of his wealth, facial beauty, or whatsoever but I don’t seem to like him at all. I find him a womanizer, a cruel, arrogant man and most significantly I see him as a menace.
My whole life, I have been researching rather than investigating his family, right from the time when his father was the Mafia King to when he got the power. I know every single detail about him and his family. Call me crazy but I know about his allergies and daily life routine, that’s how you know how serious I am about this. Richie Maranzano will get to my hands someday. I have thought of ways to bring him down, I have dug every fucking hole in his life and I won’t stop till I finally lure him into his grave. Don’t ask me why I dislike that man because I don’t, I don’t dislike him at all. I hate him, and if there is any other word greater than hate then that’s the perfect word to use toward him.
I took a sip of coffee, groaning at the sound of Rebecca arguing with her boyfriend. I feel like she argues with her boyfriend at least twice a week and whenever that happens, it leads to a serious fight which eventually makes them break up
Sighing, I take my EarPods and plug them into my ears to avoid any distractions. Right now, my main focus is Richie Maranzano and his family, sometimes I wish I had a spy that lives with him and would help me get Richie to his grave.
"I will end you, Richie," I whisper to myself once a photo of him appeared on my screen.
I feel like strangling him to death but I know that won’t pay up for everything he and his family did, and it certainly won’t hurt him the way I want it to. I just don’t want to ruin his life but I want to ruin his career, and his legacy and most importantly I want to see the pain in his bloody eyes; increasingly uncontrollable pain.
I was brought back to reality when the door swung open and Rebecca peek her head into the room. I glance at her and continued what I was doing.
"Speak quick, I don’t have much time, I’m very busy," I say to her
"We broke up." She says; her voice sinking into sadness.
"Oh lord not again" I roll my eyes. I’m not very surprised, they break up literally every week, I mean, don’t they get tired? It’s high time she stops this bullshit relationship of hers and moves on with her life.
"I can’t believe we broke up." She says; her voice sounding low and soft
"Well, I can. You break up with him every week."
"Oh please, I’m hurting right now." She sits on the edge of the bed
"Yeah whatever, just tell me what happened already." I’m seriously not interested in what happened, I know for sure that it has to do with something very stupid.
"Okay, so get this. John wanted me to meet his-"
"Wait a minute," I say cutting her off "Did you just say John, I thought that was Jerry"
"You see, you can tell which is which, right?" She says. Jerry and John are identical twins and to be honest, i can’t tell which is which.
"But anyways, that was the second offense I did, I called him Jerry instead of John. So back to my story, he wanted me to meet his mother-" She continues.
"Isn’t that a good thing?" I ask
"No, it’s not, I don’t want to meet his mother or anyone from his family. I feel like after meeting his mother he will want to take the relationship to the next level and-"
I increased the sound volume of my earpod and played a high-tone song. I seriously don’t want to hear anything about Mother, John, Jerry, or anyone else. Relationship things aren’t my kind of thing. I continued what I was doing as I glance and nod at Rebecca even now and then just so she doesn’t get suspicious of me ignoring her.
Rebecca and I are best friends, we meet at the western county’s orphanage; I was just sixteen back then when I first came to the orphanage, and after some months Rebecca got adopted, and soon the family that adopted her sponsored my college and now, as you can see I am done with college and will be starting my new job tomorrow; that is if I get the job.
Rebecca is a crazy bitch, if only crazy is the perfect word to use. I was just like her, a crazy badass bitch, always wandering around, partying all the time, moving from one guy to another, although she only does that when she breaks up with her so-called boyfriend who happens to be one of her cousin's best friends.
"Oh, my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!" I say taking my EarPods off and turning my gaze to Rebecca as a wide smile appears on my face
"What!" She exclaims standing up from the bed "What! What!" She repeats with the same level of excitement as me
"Richie Maranzano is going to be at the black club tonight."
"Shut up!" She grinned "Are you for real?"
"Yeah, it says here that he is planning on buying the club property and will be there for the contract negotiations." I read from the laptop
"Holy shit hole! I might get a chance to meet Richie, The Richie Maranzano." She says
Like I said, ladies die for him.
"But don’t get your hopes high, because it could be a rumor," I say recalling that this isn’t the first time I have seen something like this and it turned out to be fake news.
"Rumor or not who cares, this is Richie we are talking about, any chance we get we have to take it." She says with full excitement.
Seem like she had gotten over her broken relationship.
"But wait a minute, why are you so excited, I thought you hated him." She says to me
"I do but any chance I get to fish in with him, I will take it because internet research isn’t taking me anywhere," I tell her.
"You know what, I always wondered why you research on him, I mean if you don’t like him, you shouldn’t be concerned with anything he’s doing."
"Err- what are you planning on wearing tonight, any ideas?" I say changing the subject. I have never told Rebecca why I hate the Maranzano family and I don’t have the intention of telling her because of her big mouth. She can’t seem to keep quiet especially when she gets drunk.
"I have lots of new collections, we can try them on." She says.
Richie Maranzano, it’s high time we meet, I will do everything in my power to ruin you. I’m coming for you.