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

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

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

a small cemetery by our home – in the churchyard. I can take you there,

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 in a churchyard, when she deserves to lay in state, in a

pity to anger. How dare he suggest that David was anything

hand tighter, in a warning that comes

nothing,” Alden

“He raised me

the words rip from Alden’s

my eyes going wide. Alden takes a heavy step towards me, intimidation in

about your

I stay silent, keeping my face still.

thought so,” he says, narrowing his eyes at me. “He kept you from me, my daughter, not his! And he

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, to give up

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Gifts

15 – A Pawn

Game–2

desperately left. Why did I let

Kent’s voice rings out behind

him but Kent holds his ground.

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

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

miracle,” he says, giving Alden

the fact that we broke up.

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

whether or not I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too, is a player in this

to protest,