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.

the one thing Alden wants more than anything:

of his

doesn’t matter

want to marry

this game, moving me around like the pawn that

to protest, but Alden interrupts me.

looking between the three of

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

me and I see

he is a man of many moods and

me a formal little bow and raises my left hand to his face, kissing

me, I give him a small smile. Then, I surprise myself by speaking, despite my wariness around him. “I – I’d like to know more about my

When he says nothing, I

continue.

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

I twist my

slowly, putting his hands in his pockets. “And

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

some time together, get

at Daniel here for a moment, “though I understand

your priority now, as a husband should

not understanding the politics. But Alden continues before I can figure

his heels and considering me, a little fondness on his face. “Get to

And, though it may take me some time,” he rubs his

tell you what I can of your mother. She was…a remarkable

woman.”

and his eyes go sentimental, soft.