Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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Fay glares at him a little. “Sure, I can have whatever I want,

except, you know, the freedom to leave this house. A marriage to someone who loves me.”

Daniel tilts his head, truly wanting to make it better. “I love you, Fay. In my own way.”

She sighs, knowing he means well.

“I just don’t care about all of this, Daniel,” she says. “I don’t care about this wealth and power that everyone thinks is so important. Plus, you’re forgetting the fact that all of this wealth and power come with the heavy pricetag of violence.”

Daniel screws his mouth to the side, admitting, silently, that she’s

right.

“Don’t you want to choose your own lover?” She asks, leaning forward eagerly. “Instead of being assigned one?”

He hesitates, squeezing her hand. “I kind of did pick you, Fay. And you picked me. Even before I knew we were ‘assigned.“”

“Yeah, but that was before I had all the information,” she murmurs. Back when she thought he was Prince

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even if he knew it wouldn’t be a sexual relationship- or even one. in

of wife would you want me to be?” she asks softly. “Would I even be able

affairs, raise their kids. But he also knows that saying that aloud right now isn’t going

says, speaking the truth for both of them. “But somehow, you’ve just…given in to

knife to his heart. Fay Thompson, this poor, delicate, timid girl, feels sorry for

pathetic. He hangs his

says softly. “I’ll do my best to make you

happy.”

sitting next to him, putting her head

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I go, Daniel, I’m not going to

realizing that she still plans to escape. He doesn’t burst her bubble.