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.

asks, crossing his arms

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

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

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

head. “He didn’t respect her, then, the man she left me for,” he growls. “To bury her in a churchyard, when she deserves

then, from pity to anger. How dare he

hand tighter, in a warning that comes too

was nothing,” Alden growls.

“He raised me

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

a heavy step towards me, intimidation in every muscle of

another step. “Did he know about your parentage? Did he know where she came from, who

stay silent, keeping my

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

I can’t imagine the kind of things my mother must have gone through. She must

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Gifts

– A Pawn in

Game–2

yet here I was, in the place she’d so desperately left. Why did I let myself get so wrapped up in this world? I cower away from my father.

behind me, cool and calm.

turns angry eyes to him but Kent holds

to unite our families through marriage is holding

his throat. “This is a trick,” he

he says, giving Alden a small but

of the fact that we broke up.

over at mine, and suddenly realize that Daniel is in on this. He and his

am suddenly angry again. It doesn’t matter what I want at all, whether or not I want to marry Daniel.

mouth to protest, but Alden

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