His Little One

Chapter 14 Arranged marriage

Lorenzo POV:

Flashback:

4 years ago

"You can't do this to me ,dad, I am not accepting this shit." I said without spearing him a glance.

This was definitely not the news that I was hoping today. It was my crown day as the next king of the Russian mafia. But Dad had his own way of handling things. And most probably torturing me was one of them.

He was offering something, no forcing me into something that I couldn't accept. He shouldn't be this unreasonable.

I watched him chuckle. He was dangerously calm for my liking.

I hated it when he did it.

"Yes, you will , or else forget about your throne." Dad threatened me.

He just did not say that. I knew for a fact he would do that, he was a man of his word , so was I. But what was asking was beyond any business deal, at least not for me.

He arranged a marriage for me with some chick whom I didn't even know. Who did that in the 21st century.

I knew in our world true love and family didn't exist but still. I had my own preference.

And above that he already got me marriage certificate. Was he out of his mind?

Sometimes he was too much to tolerate.

I am fuming inside but didn't show it on my face. This was one of the things that I learned from him. Never showing any emotions on face.

"Are you threatening me?" My voice came out raw.

He better be had some good reason for threatening me or else.

He couldn't just made me marry someone whom I didn't love when he himself had a love marriage.

He knew it too well, how much sacrifices I had done just because of it. And he was the sole reason behind it.

"Yes, if that's what you think of." Dad replied in short as if it was some kind of joke. Except for it was not a joke. It only boiled my blood.

If you I want to play a game then pay a game dad. "I wouldn't accept this marriage Dad " I said firmly looking into his eyes.

Something flicked into him. May be shock or anger. He definitely not thought that I would chose something or some one over my throne. Especially after all those hardships.

Actually I didn't care if he gave me the throne or not. It was his lose not mine.

I wouldn't marry someone except her. Despite having all the risk I only wanted her to be my wife. Besides she was brought up in this environment so even if she was naive, she was mine to protect.

There was a chance that our enemy would use her against us but I wanted her. Only Her.

The only good thing I witnessed growing up that was my parents love and I want that in my life.

There was no doubt, I would protect my love at any cost, she would be my better half. Or else there would be no meaning of achieving all this power and wealth if I didn't have someone beside me whom I truly love.

"Do you love someone? " Dad asked me finally understanding the weight of my works. He was observing like a hawk.

"Yes " I replied without missing a beat. The shock on dad's face telling me he wasn't expecting this.

It was love or not I didn't know but what I know was that I couldn't see my life with someone else other than my little one.

The moment my eyes landed on her in Austin's house party. I knew instantly I was wimped. The way my breath hitched, goosebumps spread through my skin, the knot in my stomach.

We never met personally but for some reason I couldn't get her out of my mind.

No matter what I did or went, she always possessed my thoughts. It was like she captured my soul with her amber gold eyes.

I found out it was Austin's sister. I never knew he had a sister.

Later Austin explained me that his father didn't really want to tell the word about Orchid. He didn't told me the whole story. I assumed it was for her safety.

I did tell Austin about my intention with my little one. He was worried first then accepted.

Orchid was still a minor so I didn't want to hassle with anything, I wanted to give her time to accept me and when she got to her legal age I wanted her to be mine.

At first I thought to let her choose whomever she wanted to be with but the mere thought of her being with someone else made me wanted to kill all the men in the world. It felt like I was giving a piece of mine to someone else.

Then I realized that I couldn't think of her with someone else. She could be only mine, mine only.

"I am sorry son but this marriage is already done, Anthony and I made a promise to our wives to marry our children and I can't break the promise or hurt your mom." Dad voice snapped me back to reality.

He looked concern or hurt. It was only for a fraction of second. More like I imagined it.

He was explaining me. He f*****g explaining me for the first time. I almost couldn't believe my ears.

Wait what? What did he say.... Anthony and his wife. Was he saying what I was thinking he was saying.

God let's be it.

Did he want me to marry Anthony's daughter, my angel, my little one. Oh f**k I couldn't seem to process it clearly. My ears might be playing games with me.

I asked him. I needed to be sure.

"Are you saying you married me off with Anthony's daughter, like Austin's sister Angelana Orchid Blake."

"Yes, I guess That's what I am trying to say but you're not listening."

Dad eyed me suspiciously. Whatever softness he had was gone. Like it never happened.

I ignored it. I was used to his grumpiness. Heck I was exactly like him. His all softness only for my mom. I wanted to be that with my little one.

I made my face as neutral as possible. I didn't want him to know that I was in cloud nine.

Why didn't I just ask him who the girl was? Probably because I was too busy to plan my life with my little one.

"Ok I am fine with this marriage " I accepted it with a hard face, sure to made him feel that I was forced.

I was happy.. Heck I was thrilled, but he didn't need to know that, it would be the punishment for him for threatening me.

"You sure" . Dad almost sounded surprised.

If it was not me, no one would notice. He was very good at hiding emotions. But I was pro at catching it. It was the benefit to live with a man like him. Further I trained myself for it.

I laughed inwardly. I was happy to see him struggle to understand me.

He didn't expect me to accept it so quickly. My sudden change of decision might be blow for him when I literally gave up my title for it.

I didn't give a f**k what he thought. He shouldn't have threatened me at the first place. I respected him always but he couldn't just force me to do anything.

"Isn't that what YOU wanted ?" I replied coldly. My eyebrow arched.

He needed to know who the real boss was now. It was his time to retire.

He cleared his throat not able to say anything. I returned back to party. Dad came few minutes later.

The throne ceremony went smoothly. I took my father's position as a mafia king and Austin as my beta. We didn't announce about my marriage because Orchid was still a minor. It was not a big deal in our mafia world marrying at a small age but it's still illegal for ordinary people.

The event went by. I decided to meet Orchid. So my dad, Austin, Anthony, we all sat down to talk about the marriage thing. Anthony wasn't very happy with all of these things. Austin looked worried too. And for some reason, he seemed mad at his father.

I didn't get the chance to talk properly with Austin after coming from our training. Both were too busy and somehow I felt Austin was avoiding me.

I didn't mind really. But when he told us that my little one was missing and it was because of her so called dad, I lost it. Not because she was missing but she was missing for a whole year and the fucker father of her didn't even try to search her.

Then Austin told me the whole story. Now I understood why he was angry with her father. He also told me his plan about taking her away from here. But only if he had told me earlier.

Present day:

I turned off the shower, dried myself, then went to my study room. I needed to do a lot of things before going to Orchid's house.

The first thing was getting a new marriage certificate with my little one's new name.

I was sure she wouldn't be accepting Blake's name so soon. I didn't want any complications. I wanted her to be mine in every aspect.

So I emailed my lawyer to get everything ready before this very morning and sent it to my penthouse.

I also checked the details of our new Mansion where I would be shift with my little one. I made sure everything was ready before taking her there.

The investigator emailed me Olivia's details. I looked through it.

As expected, Olivia was also a victim of child abuse.

Richard Brown who rescued Orchid also saved Olivia and her little brother from her abusive father. Orchid met Olivia through Richard.

She helped Olivia a lot throughout the years to overcome from her traumatic past.

It explained a lot why My little one was so protective over Olivia even when she was 4 year younger than Olivia.