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?”

again, let alone have this weird conversation about why I didn’t want to

to someone who loves me. Not to someone who is only marrying me

worrying look and I sigh, watching

to me,”

put around my shoulders. I

marriages

up at him,

board with this, Daniel? Don’t

defeated. “This is not a world where what I want, personally, really matters. And with you, well. At least I know we get along, like the

huff a laugh at

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 the whole time? It’s kind of like…fate.”

Daniel, it’s fake,” I say, looking at him with all of my pain showing. I can’t help it – he was my

husband who is

considering I’m a girl. Do you really want us to be

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eyes skittering for the

nod fervently at

we can talk about there. Please,” he turns worried eyes to me and I’m surprised

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 sexual

don’t 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

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

Daniel’s perfect face, feeling for him.

he knows it

do to people like me, Fay?” Daniel

no, not even wanting to imagine

beat the crap out of them,” he says, “make them denounce their sexuality, who they are, and if they do it again, they…they mutilate them…”

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