Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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Chapter 31

And yet here I was, in the place she’d so desperately left. Why did I let myself get so wrapped up in this world? I cower away from my

father.

“Enough,” Kent’s voice rings out behind me, cool and calm.

Alden turns angry eyes to him but Kent holds his ground.

“I’m pleased to announce,” Kent says, his teeth gritted, making clear that his pleasure is only a formality. He nods pointedly at the ring on my hand, “that our agreement, years ago, to unite our families through marriage is holding strong. Your daughter is engaged to my son. I anticipate that the wedding will be swift, in the next few months, if it can be arranged.”

My father’s growl is low in his throat. “This is a trick,” he says. “How can they be engaged, when you just found her yesterday?”

Daniel is quick to answer. “We met before, by some miracle,” he says, giving Alden a small but earnest smile. “We were already dating, actually.”

No mention, conveniently, of the fact that we broke up.

I look between Daniel and his father, and then over at mine, and suddenly realize that Daniel is in on this. He and his father

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carefully planned this meeting, this conversation. In one swoop,

they gave Alden back his daughter and claimed me as their own.

have the one thing Alden wants more than anything: the

of

angry again. It doesn’t matter

or not I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too, is a

game, moving me around like the pawn that

mouth to protest, but

he says, looking between the

no real leverage in this game. “This is the best

turns his attention back to me and

he is a man of

the occasion of your engagement.” He gives me a formal little bow and raises my left hand to his face, kissing

speaking, despite my wariness around him. “I – I’d

raises his eyebrows, surprised. When he

continue.

lot. I think talking about her past made her sad. But, if you wouldn’t mind, I’d…like to

my

hands in

are my daughter, my blood. It’s only

should spend some time together, get

for a moment,

now, as a

them, not understanding the politics. But Alden continues before I can

together,” he says, rocking back on his heels and considering me, a little fondness

time,” he rubs his hand across his chin, frowning and considering, “I’ll

you what I can of

woman.”

him a small smile and his eyes go sentimental, soft.