Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 15

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.

his arms

hardly more than a whisper now. “They said…they said she went fast.

head away, gathering himself together. “And where has she been laid to rest?” Alden asks,

– in the churchyard. I can take you there, if you like,”

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

dare he suggest

I take a step forward. Daniel holds my hand tighter, in

nothing,” Alden

“He raised me

KEPT you from me,” the words

back, my eyes going wide. Alden takes a heavy step towards me, intimidation in every muscle of his

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

stay silent,

kept you from me,

realize, suddenly, that I’m afraid of this man. That if this is what he’s like the first time meeting his daughter, then I can’t imagine the kind of things my mother must have gone through. She must have

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Game–2

she’d so desperately left. Why did I let myself get so wrapped up in this world? I cower

out behind me, cool and calm.

eyes to him but

unite our families through marriage is

is low in his throat. “This is a trick,” he says.

before, by some miracle,” he says, giving Alden a

fact

Daniel is in on this. He and his father carefully planned this meeting, this conversation.

I want to marry Daniel.

mouth to protest, but Alden interrupts

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