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?”

awkward. I never wanted to 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 us to each

want to be married to someone who loves me. Not to

worrying look and I

to me,” I finish.

bed, reaching out an arm to put around my shoulders. I

Fay,” he says quietly. “Not all marriages work out anyway, and at least we know we like each other.”

up at him, aghast. Is he serious?

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

voice defeated. “This is not a world where what I want, personally, really matters.

laugh at this.

to be upbeat. “And I really am sorry about what happened in the coffee shop. But isn’t it kind of weird that we found each other out there on our own anyway, and we were engaged

all of my pain showing. I can’t help it – he was my first love, and he totally

is unfaithful to me,”

a husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl. Do you really want us to be in a fake marriage for the rest of our lives? Just because it’s what your dad

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Gifts

– Betrothed–2

eyes skittering for the door. “I get

nod fervently

turns worried eyes to me and I’m surprised to see true fear in his

my heart going out to him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first century – it’s so backwards to think that way about

here, Fay – that’s why I spend so much time outside of it, at school, in the

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

Daniel’s perfect face, feeling for him. He’s trapped and

he knows it

know what they do to people like me, Fay?”

no, not even wanting to

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

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