Love Slave to the Mafia Boss's Passion 18 novel Chapter 163

“That’s right. My old man paid for all the ransom and waved it off as your father borrowing from him. The debt contract that my old man showed you was drafted and signed then. I don’t know this for sure, but my father probably didn’t want any of the money back. To him, he was just helping out a friend. Back then the Torex business isn’t the size that it is today so that money was a significant amount,” Hayden explained before grinning at me.

“I never knew this. Your father showed me a clause in the contract that I had to marry a member of the gang of his choice…” I said as I recalled the day that the boss showed me the debt contract.

“My father wanted us to get married. He still does. However, he was the only one who supported and understood your father’s decision to cut all ties with the mafia. The contract was signed in your parent’s new name too because of that. My father was probably the only one who knew of Jack’s new identity,” Hayden continued to explain.

One thing for sure was that Hayden’s father really wanted us to get married. He wanted it bad enough for him to track me down and use the debt against me. I remembered how mad and shocked I was back then, but I feel very different now. I had to admit that if it wasn’t for the boss’s intervention, Hayden and I probably won’t be where we are today.

“The others were against it?” I asked.

Hayden nodded solemnly.

“Definitely. I bet you can’t even begin to imagine. The previous boss of Silva, Ethan’s father and his entire gang viewed it as an act of complete betrayal,” Hayden said before he heaved a depressing sigh.

Everything was so complicated that I started to get a headache. From the way things are now between the two gangs, I could tell that the attempt at a partnership back then failed completely.

“Of course, the partnership plan that your father dreamt of failed. His departure made the two gang hate each other even more than before. It wasn’t just the bosses and the gang members that had differing opinions on the issue, Ethan and I had opposite views on it as well,” Hayden said coldly as his eyes narrowed.

“Ethan? What happened between you two?” I asked with worry.

“We were separated by our parents, and we stopped seeing each other. It was because of our parents at first but later it was mostly because of our different perspectives. Although we both love and respected your father a lot, his departure impacted us in very different ways,” Hayden said sadly.

Looking back on the argument that I’ve heard between the two, it did seem like they didn’t get along and had very opposing views.

“How exactly?” I asked for further details.

“When Jack disappeared, I felt like I had lost a father. I can only imagine what it must have been like for Ethan. Jack was from the Silva gang and he spent much more time with Ethan than he did with me. Ethan went crazy when Jack didn’t return. He used every method at his disposal to find Jack to try to bring him back,” Hayden said before he paused as if he was recalling something.

“And you?” I prompted for Hayden to continued.

“I respected Jack’s decision and wanted him to do whatever would make him happiest. I wanted you to be safe…that’s why…I never went looking for you even after what happened to Jack. At first, I thought that if that’s the life Jack wanted for you then that was how it should be,” Hayden said with slight regret in his voice.