Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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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

car accident,” I say, my voice hardly more than a whisper now. “They

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

I can take you there, if

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 in a churchyard, when she

dare he suggest that David

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

was nothing,” Alden growls.

“He raised me

the words rip from

a heavy step towards me, intimidation

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

it, I stay silent, keeping my face

so,” he says, narrowing his eyes at me. “He kept you from me,

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 everything she’d

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Game–2

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

out behind me, cool

eyes to him but Kent holds

hand, “that our agreement, years ago, to unite our families through marriage is holding strong. Your daughter

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

quick to answer. “We met before, by some miracle,” he says, giving Alden a small but earnest smile. “We were already dating, actually.”

mention, conveniently, of the fact

his father carefully planned this meeting, this conversation. In one swoop, they gave Alden back his daughter and claimed me as

or not I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too,

to protest, but Alden interrupts me.