His Unwanted Wife is the Mafia Princess novel Chapter 35

#Chapter 35 – Protectors

Third Person

“Mom? Is everything okay?” Sebastian asks as soon as he begins to drive away from the mall. He glances at her through the rearview mirror, his eyes just barely meeting hers.

“I met her foster family,” his mother lets out a long and aggravated sigh. She looks out the window and frowns.” They are…something else.”

“Aren’t they?” Sebastian’s grip on the steering wheel tightens.

He has only had one previous experience with Clara and her family. It was when Clara tried to frame Stella for stealing a necklace that she had her assistant plant in her bag. After that, Sebastian has lost all respect for that family and the way that they have treated Stella.

Sebastian is honestly really happy that Stella is back home with people who love and adore her instead of being stuck in a cruel and toxic situation where she feels like she is actively dying.

Oh, wait, they already did that to her by making her undergo surgeries for their precious daughter.

“How could they be so cruel to her?” the mother’s words are quiet and strained. Sebastian sighs, knowing just how far the rabbit hole goes once one were to fall into it.

“I know,” he sighs, glancing at the woman in the backseat through the rearview mirror. “It’s in the past, though. We can move forward now that she is in our care and not theirs.”

“You are right, Sebastian,” the woman sighs and looks to the side at all of the bags and belongings that she had just bought her daughter. “We need to protect her since we could not in the past.”

Sebastian’s grip tightens even further. His knuckles turn white and the man clenches his jaw.

He remembers that day like it was yesterday. He was holding Stella in his arms, she was just a small and precious boy. He had vowed to keep her safe then but life is very cruel and sadistic and she was forced out of his hands.

He knows that he can’t blame himself for what happened in the past. The man is very happy that Stella is not dead but resents himself because of her current health. He could have prevented this by being a better brother, someone who fought harder and longer for his sister.

The car pulls up into the gravel driveway. The house’s maids quickly exit and they help the mother out of the black SUV. Sebastian pops open the trunk and grabs a few of the bags before the maids can get to them.

“Place these in Stella’s room, please,” he breathes out, passing them by as he carries the bags inside.

As soon as he steps through the door, he spots Luca passing by and calls out his name. His older adoptive brother looks over and raises an eyebrow.

“What?” Luca asks.

“Brother meeting in five,” Sebastian orders, “we need to talk.”

Sebastian is quick up the stairs, refusing to listen to Luca’s complainants about it happening so late at night and that he is too lazy to talk. The finance mogul walks down the hallway with the maids in his wake, entering Stella

room.

He places the bags onto the bed and sighs, looking inside at the clothes. Sebastian takes out one of the dresses and closely inspects it, a frown spreading across his face.

If it weren’t fort for his carelessness, Stella would have been able to enjoy the same luxuries he has been so

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privileged to enjoy. A part of his mind wishes that it were him instead of her when she disappeared that day. Walking back down the stairs, Sebastian waves over Luca and Matteo, quickly entering the inside of a large den, one that the parents had reserved for their sons. Silas and Dominic enter in after that, closing the door behind them.

“What’s wrong, Sebastian?” Dominic asks.

“Why did you call a meeting?” Matteo chimes in.

“We need to protect Stella,” Sebastian turns and faces his group of brothers. Their posture straightens immediately. “I don’t trust Adrian or her adoptive family. They’re snakes.”

“Did something happen?” Silas breaks free from his silence and steps forward. His expression looks like he is ready to kill someone.

“Her other family happened,” Sebastian sighs, “Clara and that mother of hers caused a scene when Stella and our mother were out today. Now mom is closed off again and Stella is icing me out.”

The men in the room nod and look at each other. A silent vow is slowly being made, one that will protect Stella from any person who dares to destroy what is left of her hope and soul.

“Dominic,” Sebastian turns to his lawyer brother, “ensure that Adrian does not get a single thing that he wants. Protect Stella at all costs. She must get everything.”

Dominic nods. Sebastian turns his attention to Luca, who fiddles his thumbs and looks nervous to speak up. “You’re hiding something,” the man points out. Luca’s eyes slightly widen before he relaxes.

“When Stella was here the other day, I overheard her conversation with our parents,” Luca clears his throat. Father wants to marry her off to another mafia family.”

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“He what?” Matteo steps forward.

“She’s just escaping one marriage, how can he expect her to jump back into another one right after it?” Dominic thinks aloud, turning his back to the group as he begins to work over the evolving situation inside his head.

Sebastian clenches his jaw. His gaze burns holes into the side of Luca’s face. Silas remains silent, his face not breaking.

“How can we stop it?” Sebastian is the first to speak up.

“I don’t know,” Luca shrugs, “father is stubborn, you know this. I doubt he will give Stella much leniency. He wants her to be protected from the world-”

“We can protect her,” Silas‘ voice is low and deadly. The room looks at him. He blinks back, unmoved and unflinching.