Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Gifts

Chapter 15 – A Pawn in their Game–1

Alden narrows his eyes at me and looks back at Kent. I’m a little shocked, I admit, that he hasn’t addressed me yet. I stand awkwardly in front of him and Daniel quietly takes my hand, giving it a squeeze of support.

“Is this for real, Lippert?” Alden asks, a threat behind his glare.

Kent nods slowly. “We did a test. It’s a 99% genetic match for paternity. I can show you the paperwork upstairs, and you can have it verified by your own doctors. But, with that kind of proof at hand, Alden.” He spread his hands out, hoping Alden takes him at his word. “Why would I lie?”

Alden nods and returns his gaze to me, staring for a moment. Then, he shocks me again by breathing out a huge breath of air and rubbing a hand down his face. “Damnit, but you look like your mother,” he mutters.

eyes.

My mouth falls open when I see the glimmer of tears in his My heart goes out to him, then. He’s a solid rock of a man, but I can see that deep feelings run beneath.

“Where is she?” he demands.

Surprised, I blurt out the first thing that comes to mind. “She died,” I say, grimacing inwardly at my bluntness. Alden’s face falls minutely. Surely, after all these years, he knew it would be unlikely that she would be alive, but still – he’s upset by the

“When?” he asks.

“Years ago,” I whisper, sorry to be the one to tell him. “I was young – I had just turned six.”

I feel horrible – I had no idea that he cared for her as much as he clearly does. I had assumed she was

–

what had Fiona called

herself? a goomah. His mistress, or his girlfriend, not someone he really I cared about.

asks, crossing his arms

say, my voice hardly more than a whisper now.

“And where

cemetery by our home – in the churchyard. I can take

a churchyard?” He shakes his head. “He didn’t respect her, then, the man she left me for,” he growls. “To bury her

dare he suggest that David was anything but an angel in our lives?

as I take a step forward. Daniel holds my hand tighter, in a warning that comes too late

was nothing,” Alden

“He raised me

from me,” the words rip from

mistake, I cower back, my eyes going wide. Alden takes a heavy step

taking another step. “Did he know about your parentage?

deny it, I stay silent, keeping

“He kept you from me,

kind of things my mother must have gone through. She must have experienced moods that made her decide to pack up and leave him, to

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Gifts

15 – A Pawn in their

Game–2

I was, in the place she’d so desperately left. Why did I let myself get so wrapped up in this world? I cower away from my father.

rings out behind me,

to him but Kent holds his ground.

Kent says, his teeth gritted, making clear that his pleasure is only a formality. He nods pointedly at the ring on my hand, “that our agreement, years ago, to unite our families through marriage is holding strong. Your

low in his throat. “This is a trick,” he says. “How can they be engaged, when you just found her

by some miracle,” he says, giving Alden a

of the fact that we broke up.

this. He and his father carefully

whether or not I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too, is a player in this game, moving me around like the pawn that I

to protest,