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 than anything: the

piece of his

suddenly angry again. It doesn’t matter what I

I want to marry Daniel. Because Daniel,

in this game, moving me around

open my mouth to protest, but

looking between the three of

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

turns his attention back to me and I see his

is a man of

you, daughter, on this the occasion of your engagement.” He gives me a formal little bow and raises my

despite my wariness around him. “I –

When he

continue.

her a lot. I think talking about her past made her sad.

my fingers together, anxious.

hands in his

more, Fay. You are my daughter, my blood. It’s

get to know each other,” he

at Daniel here for a moment, “though I

as

the politics. But Alden continues before I

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

some time,” he rubs his hand across his chin, frowning and

can of your mother. She was…a remarkable

woman.”

small smile and his eyes go sentimental,