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.

arms over

a whisper now. “They said…they said she went

himself together. “And where has she

a small cemetery by our home – in the churchyard. I

shakes his head. “He didn’t respect her, then, the

own emotions turning, then, from pity to anger. How dare he suggest that

hand tighter, in a warning that comes too late –

was nothing,” Alden growls.

“He raised me

KEPT you from me,” the words rip from Alden’s

takes a heavy

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

stay silent, keeping my face

“He kept you from me, my daughter, not his! And he

first time meeting his daughter, then I can’t imagine the kind of things my mother must have gone through. She must have experienced moods that made her decide to pack up and leave him,

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Gifts

15 – A

Game–2

the place she’d so desperately left. Why did I let myself get so wrapped up

rings out behind me, cool and calm.

turns angry eyes to him but

hand, “that our agreement, years ago, to unite our

a trick,” he says. “How can

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

of the fact that we broke

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

whether or not I want to marry

my mouth to protest, but

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