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.”

it would be something to do,” I moaned, slumping my shoulders forward in misery. “It’s so boring here.”

on in this house at

and polite to me. They smile at me when they pass me

friend is Fiona, and she’s very sweet, but we don’t have a lot

funny, and has enough bite in her wit to keep from being

she’s doing aerobics, or facials and beauty treatments, or playing with makeup and clothes.

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 Botox doctor

my skin in those places. “Seriously? Do I

she had told me that I didn’t. “It’s

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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Everyday Life in the Mafia–2

smiled at her and declined the treatment. What, really, was the problem of looking fifty when you’re fifty? After all, Kent was forty and he looked –

throat and moved my thoughts

am less tempted by the enticements of Fiona’s super–feminine lifestyle, I think, because I already had a sister who delved into all of that sort of stuff. Sure, strippers are all about being sexy while being a mafia side piece is all about being luxe, but there was some