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.

one thing Alden wants more

remaining piece of his lost love.

am suddenly angry again. It doesn’t matter what I

to marry Daniel. Because Daniel,

moving me around like the pawn that I

my mouth to protest,

looking between the three

leverage in this game. “This is the best arrangement. A uniting of the

and I see his face soften again.

man of many moods and

gives me a formal little bow and raises my left hand to his face, kissing both my fingers and the ring.

despite my wariness around him. “I – I’d like to know more

raises his eyebrows, surprised. When he says

continue.

dad – he didn’t talk about her a lot. I think talking about her past made her sad. But,

more.” I twist my fingers

putting his hands in his pockets. “And I’d like

You are my daughter, my

together, get to

Daniel here for a

is your priority now, as a husband

look between them, not understanding the politics. But Alden

he says, rocking back on his heels and considering me,

And, though it may take me some time,” he rubs his hand across his chin, frowning and considering,

what I can of

woman.”

small smile and