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.

He asks, crossing his arms over

hardly more than a whisper now. “They

himself together. “And where has she

– in the churchyard. I can

of a switch. He turns his burning eyes to me. “In a churchyard?” He shakes his head. “He didn’t respect her,

emotions turning, then, from pity to anger. How dare he suggest that

hand tighter, in a warning that

nothing,” Alden

“He raised me

KEPT you from me,” the words rip

takes a heavy step

he know about your parentage? Did he know where she came from, who your real father

to deny it, I stay silent, keeping my face still.

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

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

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Gifts

A Pawn in

Game–2

did I let myself get

out behind me, cool and

to him but Kent holds

the ring on my hand, “that our agreement, years ago, to unite our families through

he says. “How can they be engaged, when you just found her

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

conveniently, of the fact that we

Daniel and his father, and then over at mine, and suddenly realize that 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

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

my mouth to protest, but Alden interrupts me.