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?”

alone have this weird conversation about why

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 certainly not someone who –“

and I

who isn’t attracted to me,”

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

all marriages work out anyway, and at least

up at him,

you actually on board with this, Daniel? Don’t you

what I want, personally, really matters. And with you, well. At

huff a laugh at

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

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,

husband who is

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

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eyes skittering for the door. “I get that

nod fervently

something we can talk about there. Please,” he turns worried eyes to me and I’m surprised to see true fear in his face. “You’ve

deal? It’s the twenty–first century – it’s so backwards to think that way about sexual orientation

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 school,

married, don’t have kids to carry on the family line…not only will

perfect face, feeling for him. He’s

he knows it

know what they do to people like me, Fay?” Daniel asks, turning to look

head no, not even

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

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