Ace's POV
Just as expected, more and more gangs had started coming out of the woodwork and were eager to meet the newly resurrected beauty who was to inherit the underworld's most feared gang. Many were hoping to form friendly acquaintances, but the others were dodgy business men offering their sons, and gangs offering their higher ranking members as suitors in exchange for close alliances. I of course am not an eligible suitor as she has told me on many occasions, because of the already close alliance between our two gangs.
Day after day she has my protection and I feel like it is all for nothing. I am protecting the woman I love, for what? So her father can marry her off to some Tom, d**k or Harry in some sort of profitable business transaction.
I throw my arm around Emilia's shoul
