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.

have the one thing Alden

piece of his lost

angry again. It doesn’t matter

to marry Daniel. Because

moving me around like

to protest, but Alden interrupts

the three of us,

no real leverage in this game. “This is the

attention back to me and I see his face soften again.

man of many moods

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

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

raises his eyebrows, surprised. When he says nothing, I

continue.

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

my

putting his hands in his

You are my

get to know

Daniel here for a moment, “though I

as a husband should be.”

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

says, rocking back on his heels and considering me, a little

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

to tell you what I can of

woman.”

small smile and his eyes go

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