Aria's POV My girlfriends had been texting me nonstop since the engagement party, and I haven't replied to a single one of them. How would I explain that in the two days of absence I took from my job as a cocktail waitress, I got engaged to a mafia boss? But when the weight of loneliness and guilt started to dawn on me, I had no other choice than to pick up the call of one of my closest friends, Sara. "No way you picked up!" was her first response when I accepted the call. She sounded both annoyed and happy. "Okay, Aria, what the actual fu—" "I know, I know. I have a lot of explaining to do, and I want to, I really do. It's just been a lot, and I don't know where to start from." "Why don't you start from why you've been ignoring our calls? Janice and Chris have been trying to reach

