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.“”

the information,” she murmurs. Back

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it wouldn’t be a sexual relationship- or even one. in which he was faithful – he had always hoped it would be

what kind of wife would you want me to be?” she asks softly.

no- his wife would be expected to stay home, manage his social affairs, raise their kids. But he also

Fay sighs again. “This isn’t what either of us really want, Daniel,” she says, speaking the truth for both of them. “But somehow, you’ve just…given

words are like a knife to his heart. Fay Thompson, this poor, delicate, timid

so pathetic. He hangs his head.

softly. “I’ll do my best to make you

happy.”

she’s sitting next to him, putting her head

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Daniel, I’m

realizing that she still plans to escape.