The Mafioso´s Bodyguard

home please," protested Mi

with frustration, waiting for her friend to d

long curls and a honey-colored gaze, who was focused on her p

h her phone, knowing that her old frien

Clara was a bookworm, the nerdiest

ime and never missed a class,

iend out of the corner o

working hard to get the best grade of the

someone to realize that Clara Herrer

that had once been black. She had given it to herself

er stunning body that Micaela knew she was hiding under that T-shirt three

n her backpack a thousand times over since she couldn't afford to

a, throwing herself back i

s and they both left the room, which

young women walked down a desolate stree

opped at a l

you," her friend asked worriedly. From that

nd going, but as soon as the sun went down and the stores closed their d

e, she had insisted that she live with her.

y time her friend sacrificed herself for her wellbeing,

ugged her

hear me? And if your idiot uncle is

anymore," protested the c

d turned back the

e air until her friend di

ut sighed heavily, let

ing to put up with this" She thoug

siness and also paying the bills and keeping h

e last of her strength, feeling her slend

le she had eaten all day and with so many hours away from h

k she would surely have to do late into the night, that she did not

oor rang in the silence of the shop

the darkness of the counter of the fas

he exclaimed to th

revealing that a burly, scarr

ck further, bump

ound her uncle Ricardo on the floor, gagged, bound hand and foot and with several bruises on

perfectly, they were the thugs that the boss of the whole city

t did they do with my uncle?" she protested full of fury, not

gh characteristic of him, but he let his co

xclaimed the thug, shaking the tied man- You are more than this primor...

t this disgusting man d

. At the weekend I'll finish collecting it, you know very well that on

sly dropped the

at Monday i

, "You idiots, get out of here! At that moment the big man grabbed her by the a

gs on Monday," he whispered very close to Clara, making the young woman t

feeling that she could no l

s so

bed, or take a shower, whatever,

ed, so we had to increase the payment," he exclaim

eeling anger ris

orget it! Tell your boss n

, mocking the w

I recommend you do it- the thug turned to the gagged man- U

e a lout, a ludopath, a stone in her shoe, but he was the only fa

ney, Clarita," the man sentenced, passing b

ing the young woman to stagger an

he thug walking out the door, but not

the floor looking at her own hands

crawled silently to him, untying him slowly, the last thing sh

t the money, this weekend we're going to get double in sales

enough sales to survive, with this in

lose her parents' business, it was

etting up from the flo

way, I don't have a faculty those days," sh

ated it was having to work more than usual, if Clara

-

nd sank her face into the pillow thinking about what to do to get the blessed money, jus

mo

earned with s

was one thing she hated in this world, it was lo

to Micaela" She t

ney many times, she couldn't drag

t on my own" She thought

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part-time job and a night job to boot, since she

the kind of jo

h money to pay the raise, but she h

hed on a dais on a small stage of red curtains

lcohol, where powerful men came to see a good

nd being sensual, but she also knew that her sc

laimed to her boss, a depraved man who was gold

n half an hour," he exclaimed, his

the back door, leaning against the cold

ustrated, feeling full of anxiety about the demeaning job she had gotten- -A

ere you

ghtened, turning to where the

to her head-on, sending her stumbling, especially since the s

n top of her, with each arm on either side of her face, holding himself up so as not to c

d eyes wide as her upturned, small nose brushed closel

time she had been this close to a

, but the man was qui

, in the deepest, most velve