The Mafia The Queen Bee

I stopped breathing as the edge of knife dug inside the skin of my throat. Breaking the surface and making the blood drip.

"Still in love with me, wifey?" Ethan asked, an innocent smile covering his face, while his evil eyes stared down at me.

"I'm not sure." I replied softly and took a step forward so that the knife pushed in deeper in my throat, "But still in hate with you, darling."

*****

Hope had a perfect life. She got married at the age of twenty to her rich, handsome boyfriend.

Three months later she realized that she'd just dug her own grave.

Because the people that she'd come to call family, were Italian gangsters.

On her fifth anniversary when her husband tried to forcefully kiss her bestfriend, she realized that there was nothing left for her here.