Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 22 – Everyday Life in the Mafia–1

As I fall into the routines of the Lippert house I’m surprised to find that I’m quickly bored by them. Life at my home with David and Janeen was also boring – but they’re just normal people. A little of me, I think, expected everyday gang life to be more exciting.

It’s not that the house is empty, really. Every day starts with a flurry of activity. Breakfast in the kitchen is a big affair, with everyone rushing through. Kent’s top guys mostly older

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gentlemen – drink their tiny glasses of espresso at a table in the corner, bantering. Lower–level guys, dressed in thousand–dollar sweatsuits, run briskly through, reporting and getting new

orders.

Guards are all around – watching everything, but mostly wishing, I think, that they were important enough to be included with the others. If they work hard enough, though, they can level

1. up.

As the day passes, everyone spreads out to do their work. Daniel goes out a lot – to school, mostly, wrapping up his spring semester. I’ve been expressly forbidden to go out with him, to school or anywhere else. Apparently, I’m still a kidnapping target. Kent has told the Mafia world that I’m out there, but until he locks me down as part of his family I’m forbidden any freedom.

The first day Daniel left me behind, Fiona had come into the

he wrapped

soul.”

something to do,” I moaned, slumping my

lot going on in this house at all times, it’s just that I’m…not at

guards, the captains, the made guys – they’re all very nice and polite to me. They smile at me when they pass me in the hall. But no one really talks to me, even if I try. I get the impression that Kent expressly forbade

she’s very sweet, but

a mafia boss’s dream girlfriend. She’s sweet, funny, and has enough bite in her wit to keep from

not here, she’s out getting her hair and her nails done. When she’s in the house, she’s doing aerobics, or facials and beauty treatments, or playing with makeup and clothes. Fiona always looks stunning and keeps up with the latest fashions, but it’s a

has swept me up in her world a bit. I think she likes it, giving me a whole master’s course in makeup and hair care that I never, ever would have even thought about before she came along.

me, though I’d never say it to her. For instance, once, her

my fingers gently to my skin in

told me that I

said, snapping her bubblegum as she leaned back in her chair and let the doctor do his work. “If you start when you’re twenty, you’ll look

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22 – Everyday Life

the problem of looking fifty when you’re fifty? After all, Kent was forty and he looked –

and moved my thoughts on to

stuff. Sure, strippers are all about being sexy while being