Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 44

My heart pounding, I press the stop button on the remote as fast

as I can and return my wide eyes to Kent, who is still looking at

1. me.

Please, please, please. By all that is holy, let him not have seen me

watching his sex tape.

“What are you doing in here,” he asks, angry.

“Um,” I say, terrified, hoping he doesn’t pick up on the tremor

in my voice. “Fiona brought me here? Said I could look through

some…” my eyes dart around the room for an answer that is not porn. “Some family photo albums? And home videos?”

He narrows his eyes at me, his eyes flicking to the pile of vintage Playboys on the floor. “She shouldn’t have brought you down here,” he says, moving aside so that I can leave the room. I quickly get to my feet, flicking the power button on the remote so that the TV goes blank.

all my might that Kent does not go back in to see

the VCR.

as I head for the

he says. “Don’t

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relief. I head back towards the main part of the house, looking forward to going to my room

tracks, panicked, and pat all over my body looking for it. Then,

fallen out in the weird porn

room.

I have to go back. If my dad or Janeen ever

little door in the kitchen,

crack to listen. I don’t hear a

for a creek. Nothing. Then, silently, I

stairs and through the

the little room and grab my phone, which is sitting on the

of the VCR and put it back in its black casing, which I slide

the shelf. There, good. Now no

room and, quiet as a mouse, shut the

to creep back along the hallway when