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.

arms over his barrel chest.

car accident,” I say, my voice hardly more than a whisper now. “They said…they said she went

and then turns his head away, gathering himself together. “And where has she been laid to rest?” Alden asks, not looking

churchyard. I can take you there, if

flip of a switch. He turns his burning eyes to me. “In a churchyard?” He shakes his head. “He didn’t respect her, then, the man she left me for,” he growls. “To bury her

pity to anger. How dare he suggest that David was anything but an angel in our lives?

Daniel holds my hand tighter,

nothing,” Alden

“He raised me

from me,” the

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

girl,” he says, taking another step. “Did he know about your parentage? Did he know where she came from, who your real

deny it, I stay silent, keeping my face still.

says, narrowing his eyes at me. “He kept you from me, my daughter, not his! And he should die for it.”

he’s like the first time meeting his daughter, then I can’t imagine the kind of things my mother must have

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Gifts

– A Pawn in their

Game–2

I let myself get so wrapped up in this world? I cower away from my

Kent’s voice rings out behind me,

him but

to unite our families through marriage is holding strong. Your daughter is engaged to

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

by some miracle,” he says, giving Alden a small but earnest

conveniently, of the fact

realize that Daniel is in on this. He and his father carefully planned this meeting, this conversation. In one swoop, they gave

angry again. It doesn’t matter what I want at all, whether or not I want to marry Daniel.

mouth to protest, but Alden interrupts me.