Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 28

Gifts

Chapter 28 – Meeting the Family–1

Fiona gives me a tart little smack on the butt then, breaking my reverie and laughing as she hurries over to the jewelry box waiting on my vanity. I give her a weird look and cover my ass with my hands. “What is with people today,” I murmur.

She laughs again as she comes over to me, standing behind me so that she can hook the diamond solitaire around my neck on its slim silver chain.

“You got the ring?” she asks, smacking her gum.

“Oh, yeah,” I murmur, walking swiftly over to my bedside drawer and pulling it open. I reach towards the back, fishing it out and pushing it swiftly onto my left hand.

When I look at Fiona, she’s crossing her arms and shaking her head at me.

“A million–dollar diamond,” she says, “and you shove it in your bedside drawer?”

“Um,” I say, biting my lip in response. I hadn’t even thought about it. I look around, wondering where else I should have put

it

“Nevermind,” she says, laughing at me more.

“Fiona,” I say, taking in her vintage Juicy velour sweatsuit. “Won’t you please come? I’ll feel so much better with you there.”

comfortable here.”

I frown at her, knowing that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world than I do. If she doesn’t want to go, I’m not going to push her.

“Okay,” I say, sighing as I headed for the door.

“Wait wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a gorgeous mink stole.

“Oh my god,” I say, walking back towards it. “It’s beautiful

“Yeah,” she says, admiring it. “Vintage. You lucky girl.”

goes to wrap it around my

touch it. “Is it…like

you,” she scolds, “some

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I protest, staring at it. “I feel so bad, thinking

my face in her hands, “It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died so you could

it in. It is

hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my shoulders. “It would be

little minks, to leave them in the closet for another sixty years. Take

down the stairs, brushing my face against the wrap,

though, halfway down, when I see Kent at the bottom standing with his arms crossed,

ears, clutching the mink close against my chest, pressing my thighs and knees together. I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness of my skirt. I don’t break eye

–

his brow lowers, his

the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile

punch on his shoulder.

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Gifts

Meeting the

a charming, bashful smile, and I’m reminded again just how good–looking my fiancé is. Both of

says, nodding towards the door. “The cars are waiting.”

that, we head out of the house. On our way to meet

impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak floors, brass chandeliers, and sweeping views of the golf greens all along the

him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he takes two

a few steps into the room before we are

her?” A plump woman says, hurrying over and reaching out

him down.

Gifts

28 – Meeting

little. “I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before I take

turning with me, putting a hand on my back to show me the way.

us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve been kind of hovering all night

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