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.

they have the one thing Alden wants more than anything: the

remaining piece of his lost

again. It doesn’t matter what I

marry Daniel.

game, moving me around like the pawn that

protest, but

between the

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

turns his attention back to me and I see his face soften

a man of many moods and swift

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

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

his eyebrows, surprised. When

continue.

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

twist my

in his pockets. “And I’d like to

you more, Fay. You are my

time together, get to

here for a moment,

your priority now, as a husband should

the politics. But Alden continues before I can figure it out.

spend some time together,” he says, rocking back on his heels and considering

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

what I can of your mother.

woman.”

and his eyes go