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.

asks, crossing his arms over his

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

I can take you there, if you like,” Isay,

He shakes his head. “He

anger. How dare he suggest that David was anything but an angel in our

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

nothing,”

“He raised me

you from me,” the words rip from

takes a heavy step towards me, intimidation in every muscle of his

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

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 should die for it.”

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

A Pawn in

Game–2

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

voice rings out behind me, cool

to him but Kent

to unite our families through marriage is holding strong.

“This is a trick,” he says. “How can they be engaged,

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

fact that we

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

not I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too, is a player in this game, moving me around like the pawn that I

mouth to protest, but Alden