Alessia's Pov
“Are you really going through with this?” the old man muttered, brushing his jacket as if Leo's slap dirtied it. “You’re marrying her?”
Leo looked at me like I was both his greatest pride and biggest burden. “Yeah, old man. She’s mine. And not even the Devil can take her from me.”
The court marriage was short and dry but it made me Legal. I couldn’t breathe the entire time as my chest was too tight and my brain was too loud. I kept replaying Clara’s words, ‘Lock him up.’ I wanted to. God, I wanted to.
But why did it suddenly feel like I was locking myself into something worse?
The judge pronounced us husband and wife, and I barely looked at him. Leo didn't care. He leaned close, brushed his lips just an inch from my ear, and whispered, “Now you’re mine, No running.”
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