Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 11

Gifts

Chapter 11 – Betrothed–1

I’m laying back on my bed, all cried out, when I hear a knock at my door. I raise my head and groan inwardly. What’s next?

Before I can get up to answer it, the door creeks open a little. I sigh. No such thing as privacy in the Mafia palace.

“Fay?”

My mouth drops open as I hear a voice that I recognize. I’m too shocked to speak as I see him peek around the door, smiling shyly.

“Are you okay, Fay?”

Daniel. I just stare at him.

He grimaces and comes into the room, pressing the door shut behind him. Then he leans back on it, staring at me, quirking his mouth into that sweet smile I used to love.

I groan and lay my head back on my pillows. “Go away, Daniel. We can talk about our engagement later.”

“Fay,” he says, and I can hear the apology in his voice. I hear him come closer to the bed. “Come on, Fay,” he says. “It could be worse.”

I open my eyes and glare at him. “Are you serious, Daniel?”

He shrugs and again gives me that charming smile, sliding his

“Shh!” He puts a hand out towards me and looks anxiously at the door. “Seriously, Fay, watch what you say. We can’t talk about that sort of thing here.”

I glance at the closed door, confused. “Can they hear us in here?”

“My dad has ears everywhere,” he murmurs. He turns back to me. “Are you mad at me?”

see Daniel ever again, let alone have this weird conversation about why I didn’t want to be his mafia bride just because our parents promised

say quietly. “It’s just… I want to be married to someone who loves me. Not to someone who is only marrying me

a worrying look and

attracted to me,”

hesitantly next to me on the bed, reaching out an arm to put around my shoulders. I

marriages work out anyway, and at least we know we like each

up at him, aghast. Is

you actually on board with this, Daniel? Don’t you want to marry someone

a world where what I want, personally, really matters. And

laugh at this.

But isn’t it kind of weird that we found

fake,” I say, looking at him with all of my pain showing. I can’t help it – he was my first love, and he totally betrayed me, and now here he is asking

is unfaithful to me,” I

I lower my voice to a hiss. “And I don’t want a husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl.

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Gifts

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Fay,” Daniel says, his eyes skittering for the door. “I

nod fervently

eyes to me and I’m surprised to see true fear in his face.

say, my heart going out to him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first century –

understand,” he says, shaking his head and looking down at the floor. “It’s a different world here, Fay – that’s why I spend so much time outside of it, at

more. And tradition is everything, family is everything. If I don’t get married, don’t have kids to carry on the family line…not only will they consider me a failure, but it will cause massive chaos in the city as the other bosses try to grab what my dad has built. What I will inherit, whether I want to or

face, feeling for him. He’s trapped

he knows it

like me, Fay?” Daniel asks, turning to look at me, agonized.

not even

them,” he says, “make them denounce their sexuality, who they are, and

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