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?”

wanted to see Daniel ever again, let alone have this

at you,” I say quietly. “It’s just… I want to be married to someone who loves me. Not to someone who is only marrying me because of who my father is, and

and I sigh, watching

who isn’t attracted to

arm to put around my shoulders. I shoot him a look, though,

“Not all marriages work out anyway, and at least we

look up at him, aghast.

with this, Daniel? Don’t you want

someone, Fay,” he says, shrugging, his voice defeated. “This is not a world where what I want, personally, really matters.

huff a laugh at this.

mean, you were really upset when we broke up!” Daniel continues, trying 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

help it – he was my first love, and he

is unfaithful to me,” I say,

a hiss. “And I don’t want a husband who is into men, considering I’m a girl. Do you really

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Gifts

– Betrothed–2

his eyes skittering for the door. “I

fervently at this.

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

to him. “Why is it such a big deal? It’s the twenty–first

don’t understand,” he says, shaking his head and looking down at the floor. “It’s a different world here, Fay –

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

feeling for him.

he knows it

me,

head no, not even wanting to imagine it.

them denounce their sexuality, who they are, and if they do it again, they…they mutilate them…”

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