Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 26 – Self–Control-1

Kent storms into the dining room, where the table is set for four. He sits down hard in his chair at the head of the table, waving at the place settings on either side of him.

“Remove these,” he says to the waitstaff, biting off the words in his frustration. “Have Daniel’s and Fay’s plates sent up to Fay’s room, they’ll take their supper there.”

The waitstaff give each other worried looks but silently do as they’re told. The chef comes out next, looking around the room.

“Sir?” He asks, his French accent heavy in the word. “Will y be dining alone?”

“Apparently,” Kent says, angry that Fiona isn’t here either. “Please bring it out.”

you

The chef nods, impassive, and heads back into the kitchen. A few moments later he appears again with Kent’s first course – salmon tartare with a small side salad and a freshly–sliced French baguette.

Kent ignores the fish and reaches directly for the bread, slathering it with butter as he sits back in his chair and thinks.

Thinks, inevitably, about her.

God damnit, he almost couldn’t take looking at her tonight, sitting there in her bed, crying as if her heart would break. He had tried – tried to break the mood, to cajole her out of it. to

But she had just kept crying –

He grits his teeth between bites of bread, angry with himself for not being able to control himself. For wanting, even now, to dash up those stairs and so something — anything – to make her stop.

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But she was Daniel’s problem now, a right with Daniel had just asserted upstairs. Kicking him out and keeping Fay all to himself.

Kent has tried, these past few weeks. Tried to distract himself, to busy himself with his work and his plans, tried to ignore her when she walks by, the light lily scent of her shampoo drifting through the air-

The wide–eyed expressions of her face, when she’s shocked, happy, sad, angry –

angry, with that fire in her eyes, that courage she drags up from somewhere deep in her soul – he loves to prod her, to push her, to raise that fire

he caught her spying on him in the basement, for instance, and chased her up the stairs, pinned her against the hall of her room, saw the passion

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the wall, press the length of himself

a slice of the bread within

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lose it –

had to get rid of her, Kent decided, looking blankly across the room. He’d send them away – marry them quick, send them back to the old country to his family there, where they’d

together, of her smiling at his son while she

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his teeth and pounds his fist against the table once. God

at his plate

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really, was the other option. Could he, somehow, claim her for his own – convince Daniel to give her up, to move on to someone

at himself, then, putting his hand over his face, disgusted. What was he thinking – trying to find a way to take his son’s fiancé

been in such a tight spot. Had never wanted something so badly, and yet had it so completely forbidden

bit by bit. If he loses control of himself, he knows that he will

when she looks at him that way. When she half–lids her eyes and pulls her lower lip into

slams his fist against the table again, forcing his mind away from the

fuck was he going to

moment, the door to the dining room swings open and Fiona breezes in. “Hey baby,” she says with a big

see, clearly, that he’s in a foul mood and she has to tread very, very carefully if she

for you?” Kent says, narrowing his eyes at her. “Why should I wait

far wall and notes that, yes – shit – she was five minutes late. Still, she

house,” she says casually, trying a small smile. “I’m

no joke. She screws her mouth shut, looking down at her plate and taking