In His Grasp: A Mafia Romance novel Chapter 112

Chapter 112: He's Deeply Affected by Her

Emanuele's sudden anger frightened Isabella. She always knew about his temper. But their close interactions sometimes made Isabella forget his ruthless side.

She remembered their first date after getting married, where they went to a restaurant. A man had cast some malicious glances her way, and Emanuele had walked right up to him, ending his life. The memory was horrific and haunted her dreams.

With Chloe being unkind to her now, Isabella feared if Emanuele might kill Chloe as he did with the man. She detested Chloe but wished to handle things her way, without resorting to Emanuele's violent means.

"Chloe's my cousin. I'll handle this," Isabella stated.

Emanuele stared sharply at Isabella, trying to see through her. He eventually said, "Then you better not disappoint me. Isabella, act like the queen of the mafia. They should fear you, not bully you."

"Understood."

After applying ice to her face, Isabella wondered if this man, sometimes tender, could love her. But she quickly dismissed the thought. She couldn't afford to fall in love in this game they played. Winning required keeping emotions at bay.

Emanuele assisted Isabella despite her insistence she could do it herself, observing her wounds closely. Her face was even more swollen than before. Wasn't it painful? Isabella seemed to be lying.

"This is the last time," Emanuele suddenly warned. Then, holding Isabella in his arms, he spoke sternly, startling her.

"What do you mean?"

"If you can't handle her, if you can't stop her from offending you, I'll kill her next time," Emanuele declared.

Emanuele's merciless words caused Isabella's heart to race with nervousness. He casually spoke about murder. Yet, when Emanuele mentioned killing Chloe for her offenses, Isabella recalled the afternoon scene in the study.

Maybe Emanuele and Chloe weren't as intimate as Chloe had claimed.

"Do you dislike Chloe?" Isabella gathered her courage and asked.

Emanuele paused for a moment. "Why should I like her?"

Recalling the disgusting scene from the afternoon, he admitted that if Chloe wasn't Isabella's cousin, she'd have been dead by now. He didn't hold Chloe in high regard. But having married Isabella, he needed to respect her. This realization brought Isabella some relief. Emanuele wasn't a man who judged based on appearances; he wasn't shallow.

"She's beautiful, has a great figure, and is a real lady. Don't you like that kind?" Isabella thought about Chloe's sarcasm, saying she was fat and ugly, unable to fit into her clothes. She looked at her own figure; she wasn't really overweight, just curvy. But Chloe's taunts shattered Isabella's self-esteem. Perhaps, as Chloe had said, she was indeed fat and ugly.

Emanuele didn't know what Isabella was thinking, but he felt a sense of déjà vu as if she was going to introduce Chloe to him, like in the past when she tried to introduce her to him. Emanuele chuckled, but his eyes remained icy, ready to kill.