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

of

It doesn’t

or not I want to marry Daniel. Because

game, moving me around like

open my mouth to protest, but

looking between the

no real leverage in this game. “This

to me and I see his face soften again.

of many

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

my wariness around him. “I –

When

continue.

think talking about her past made her sad. But, if you

more.” I twist my fingers together, anxious.

in

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

time together, get to know each

a moment, “though

now, as a husband should

politics. But Alden

heels and considering me, a little

each other. And, though it may take me some time,” he rubs his hand across his

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

woman.”

give him a small smile and his