Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 39

Fay leads me downstairs towards the front of the house, where she throws open the doors to the parlor. My eyebrows shoot up and I cover my mouth with both hands when I look inside.

Everything is covered in white–white tulle, white lace, white silk, white satin – hanging from racks, draped over chairs, stacked on the sofa. The only dark spot in the room is Kent, before the fireplace, directing the workers who carry piles of garment bags.

“What’s going on?” Daniel says, peering into the room behind me,

a sandwich in his hand.

“Don’t bring that in here,” Fiona scolds, swatting at him. Daniel

laughs and finishes the sandwich in two big bites, brushing his

hands on his pants to get free of crumbs. Fiona glares at him a

little but then nods, deeming him clean enough to enter.

“Is this…” I say, looking around in awe, a little anxiety roiling in my

stomach as I realize what all of these white things are.

“Wedding dresses!” Fiona says, clapping her hands. “Aren’t they gorgeous? They’re all brought in from Kleinfeld.”

“Now, you come stand here,” Fiona says, pulling me and Daniel further into the room to stand by Kent, “out of the way, while I get everything set up.”

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bustles away to shoo everyone unessential out of the room. As she works,

I ask. “For your own wedding?”

as he answers. “No. We had a small wedding, in Sicily. That’s where she

“Oh,” I say. “Is she…still

– I can’t just blurt out is she dead? How did she die?

looks down at me with a withering look. I work hard to keep my face straight, but I feel so terribly awkward that I open my

I was young,” he says casually. “Her marriage

looking between

was her death…an accident? An

and looks at me sharply. “If you want to ask, Fay, if I murdered her, or

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of course, that’s exactly what I want to know. I say

whispers beside me. I feel

mouth to tell him how sorry I am,

a smile. “It’s okay,” he says. “It really was a long time

turning to smile at

else we have in common. Both of

young.”