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 lost love.

am suddenly angry again. It doesn’t matter what I want at all,

to marry Daniel. Because Daniel, too, is

this game, moving me around like the

open my mouth to protest, but Alden

he says, looking between the three

no real leverage in this game. “This

to me and I see his face soften again.

man of many

He gives me a formal little bow and raises my

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 mother,” I say in

eyebrows, surprised. When he

continue.

talking about her past made

my fingers together, anxious.

hands in his pockets. “And I’d like to

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

time together, get to

Daniel here for a moment, “though I

now, as a

understanding the politics. But Alden continues before I can figure

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

time,” he rubs his hand

I can of your mother. She was…a remarkable

woman.”

give him a small smile and