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.

crossing his arms

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

then turns his head away, gathering himself together. “And where has she been laid to

churchyard. I can take you there, if you like,” Isay, my

his emotions snapping from sadness to anger at the 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

dare he suggest

a step forward. Daniel holds my hand

was nothing,”

“He raised me

me,” the words rip from Alden’s mouth.

back, my eyes going wide. Alden takes a heavy step towards

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

to deny it, I stay silent,

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

afraid of this man. That if this is what he’s like the 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, to give up everything she’d ever known to keep me

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Game–2

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

out behind me, cool and calm.

to him but Kent holds his

“that our agreement, years ago, to unite our families through marriage is holding strong. Your daughter is engaged to my son. I anticipate that the wedding will

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

is quick to answer. “We met before, by some miracle,” he says, giving Alden

the fact that we

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

I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too, is a player in this game, moving me around

protest, but