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𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐨
Being in the shadows, she gets no attention from her abusive father. Only wanting to go to collage and become successful her father takes that away by forcing her to be married by a cruel man.
𝐆𝐢𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢 𝐌𝐨�...
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I wake up to the sunshine beaming on my face through the window curtain.
Squinting my eyes to block it out. I stretch out my freshly awoken limbs and crawl out of bed to my bathroom and brush my teeth. Discarding the bonnet from my head afterwards I let my braids fall down my shoulders.
I do my skincare routine before changing into simple leggings and t-shirt. It's basic but I could care less. I slip on my fuzzy slippers before heading out to find Gio and ask him when we are leaving.
I first make a trip to his office where is 8 times out of 10 would be. Creaking his door open I see it to be empty and a frown appears on my face I go to close the door and a voice speaks up from behind me. "Looking for something." I jump and turn around facing the intimidating man I call my husband.
He is wearing a crisp black button up with black slacks to go with it. His gold jewelry sticking out against the black. His hair is in its natural state being soft and slightly wavy.
How did god create such a man like him? I stop myself from drooling and turn to face him fully.
"I was looking for you because I had a question."y voice is little and I won't lie I'm kind of intimidated by him. But you can't blame me. He's fucking huge.
"Well I'm right here so what do you want?" He grumbles and I can already tell he's not in a good mood. "I was just asking when we would be leaving."
He tucks in his collar and breaths out a sigh. "The jet leaves at 12 so you have an hour to finish your shit." His voice is hard and stern as his phone starts ringing. He reaches for his back pocket and I watch his movements. He groans out before answering it and walking past me into his office all while cursing at the person in Italian.
So he's angry. Got it.
He slams the door behind him and his voice is now mumbled by the door deprecating is. I walk back to my room and packing all my stuff. I make sure to pack two books because I know that one won't be enough. The only books I own are explicit books. But I mean who doesn't like a good book with some steamy hot men?
I also remember to grab my charged AirPods because no way in hell am I going to listen to crying babies the whole 5 hours.
With the time I have left, I paint my nails the color white. Soon enough I'm getting a knock on my door. Margot peeks her head in and I give her a small smile. "Boss wants me to tell you it's time to go." I give her a nod and a small thank you before she walks away.
Grabbing my bag, I make my way downstairs where I see Gio leaned against the back of the couch, impatiently checking his watch.
I stop a ways in front of him. "I'm ready." I mumble and he looks at my appearance. Granted it's only a shirt and pants but I'm not dressing fancy unlike this goody two shoes over here.
"Fucking finally." Grunted waking out with me following behind him. Did I do something wrong or is he just a bitch today?
I set aside his attitude, I won't let it affect me.
We get into the car after I set my bag in the back. He's waiting for me to get in and I sit my ass down in the passenger side.
We venture off to to airport and that's when it hits me. I'm fucking scared of flying. The idea of the plant crashing when I happen to be on it has always been an occurring nightmare if mine. I swallow my fear I'm hopes that I'm just being delusional.
We arrive to the airport pretty soon and he parks on the landing pad. A beautiful black jet is in my sight and I stop myself from squealing.
I grab my bag from the back as one of his guards takes it from me. Well tries. "No, it's fine I'm very capable of carrying my own bag." I tell him as he's still trying to take it from me.
"Ma'am, it's my job. I must." He urges. I attempt to yank it back but Gio'a dee voice interrupts us. "For gods sake Athena give the man your bag. It's his fucking job." I let it go with attitude as the man straightens his suit and walks on the jet with my bag in hand.
I cross my arms follow Gio onto the plane. "Now stop acting the a brat and behave. Don't make this trip harder than it already is going to be."
Is he serious? I didn't fucking ask to come in the first place.
"It's not like I asked to be here you know?" I sass and he stops walking making me bump into his hard back. He turns around, "talk to me like that again and I won't be as nice anymore." It's not like he was being nice in the first place.
I hold my tongue as he continues into the jet. As I step foot inside I see the beautifully decorated space. It was like it was made for me. There is a mini bar in the back and big ,spacey chairs for me to take a fat ass nap.
I claim the chair all the way in the back corner that is good enough to put a smile on my already upset face. Making myself at home, I start to explore the place and find things to do. As I am I hear the shriek of someone coming on.
"Gio baby where are you!" Celeste calls out as she walks through the jet. "I'm back here." He calls back to her as she makes her way back, completely ignoring my presence.
The frown enters my face again and I walk back to my seat. Why would he bring her?
I slump in my seat and bring out a book. I boy that looks to be about 18 comes in and tells me it's time to take off. I buckle up and that's when I start freak out. I look at the door and Enzo comes barging in. "Trying to leave without me?" He says to the boy and the boy apologizes. Upon seeing me Enzo sits beside me and releases a breath.
"You okay?" He questions me as he sees my shaking figure. I shake my head and clutch my seatbelt. "I'm scared." I say sound like a little girl. "Haven't you flown before?" He asks sounding more concerned. I nod, "Once but my mama was with me."
He grabs hold of my hand and intertwines it with his. "Well good thing I'm here." His voice is full of promise that he'll protect me at this given moment. I send him a tight lipped smile and squeeze his hand.
"Where's Gio?" He says from beside my as I flip the book over in my hand. "He's in the back with Celeste." I say bluntly. My shoulders shrug and I look at my book again. "He brought the annoying ass bitch?" He grumbled as he pulled his phone out.
The plane started to take off and shake and I held his hand as tight as I could.
Soon enough the plane steadied and we were allowed to take out seatbelts off. I take it off right away and run to the bathroom. I empty my stomach into the toilet and I feel hands come behind me, holding my hair behind my head. "Thank you." I breath out, feeling done and empty.
I don't know what came over me but I think it was the nerves. "No problem principessa." He says calmly. "Can you get me some water?" He immediately leaves and comes back with a water. I chug the water and gurgle some in my mouth before spitting it in the sink.
I walk back out into the room and slump down on the chair. I cover myself with my blanket and grab my book. Enzo came back in and gave me some crackers which I started eating right away.
He did good at not bothering me so I was indulging in my book have the ride before I finished it. I hate the books that have such detailed beginnings but once you get to the smut you rethink your life choices. I picked good when I grabbed this one though.
I feel my eyes get heavy and soon enough I'm drifting into peaceful sleep for the remaining 3 hours left of the ride.
A/n This was also a filler chapter because I've just been putting things together as I go
