Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Gifts

Chapter 20 – Danger makes me

want to…-1

My heart pounding, I press the stop button on the remote as fast as I can and return my wide eyes to Kent, who is still looking at

1. me.

Please, please, please. By all that is holy, let him not have seen me watching his sex tape.

“What are you doing in here,” he asks, angry.

“Um,” I say, terrified, hoping he doesn’t pick up on the tremor in my voice. “Fiona brought me here? Said I could look through some…” my eyes dart around the room for an answer that is not porn. “Some family photo albums? And home videos?”

He narrows his eyes at me, his eyes flicking to the pile of vintage Playboys on the floor. “She shouldn’t have brought you down here,” he says, moving aside so that I can leave the room. I quickly get to my feet, flicking the power button on the remote so that the TV goes blank.

Then, dropping the remote, I scurry out of the room, praying with all my might that Kent does not go back in to see what tape

is in the VCR.

He closes the door behind me as I head for the steps. “Go upstairs,” he says. “Don’t come down here.”

Glad to obey, I hurry out into the kitchen, heaving a sigh of

phone.

My hand slides over smooth denim. I stop dead in my tracks, panicked, and pat all over my body looking for it. Then, slowly, I turn back towards the little door. I definitely felt it in my back pocket when we left the patio…

God damnit. My phone must have fallen out in the weird porn

room.

Steeling myself, I know I have to go back. If my dad or Janeen ever called I didn’t have it – I’d just die with guilt.

a crack to listen. I don’t hear a sound. Tentatively, I put a foot on the step, waiting for a creek.

my phone, which is sitting on the leather chair. Then, for good measure, I pop the VHS out of the VCR and put it back in its black casing, which I slide back on the shelf. There, good. Now no one will ever know.

a mouse, shut the door behind me. I begin to creep back along the hallway when I hear something to

stop dead, terrified that I’ve been caught.

one comes out

muffled groan. Unable to stop myself, I consider the door from which the

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see that the bolt is not

it’s a mistake. I know I

I know these things, though, I stare at

grip the metal handle and then, my inner voice still screaming

from inside is suddenly louder without the thick door to

sobbing, as they look at something just out of my sight, terror in their eyes. As I

dressed in his suit pants and an undershirt, steps into my line of sight. My eyes take in the strong muscles

wrapped his belt around his hand, a long piece of it hanging down from his fist, the buckle dangling. As I watch, Kent rips his fist to the side letting the belt drag across the

this is apparently not the answer that Kent wants. He drops the belt, moving to the man on the left

the knife to the man’s pinky finger. The scream turns to

frozen to the spot, horrified. Though I can feel myself trembling, I can’t move, can’t stop watching. The

and then –

god –

scream in my direction and I think I

a change, Kent’s eyes shift to the other man and then move directly to me.

and then bolt –

faster than I thought I could go as I scramble up the stairs, sprint across the kitchen, pull open the kitchen

he’s a

now? The truth feels like it has hit home

my room, my fingers inches from my doorknob, when something grabs me around my waist, hauling

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Gifts

20 – Danger makes me want to…-3

at the back of my neck, forcing my head back, my face turned up towards his.

phone!” I gasp, remembering my rationale for being there. “I