Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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Daniel’s gaze slips to mine, looking for confirmation. I hesitate for

a moment, looking between father and son, and then give a little

shrug, deciding not to push it. Kent has made his point – I need to do what he says – but if he was really going to hurt me, he’d have done it by now.

“See?” Kent says, looking at his son. “She’s fine.”

With that, Kent strides from the room, brushing past his son and

not giving me another look. Confused, Daniel looks after him, and

then turns to me.

“Am I crazy?” He asks. “Or did I hear you scream?”

I sign and sink onto the bed. “You’re not crazy,” I say. “I did.”

“But you’re okay?”

I nod as he sits down next to me, concern all over his face. I have

surprised by it – all this time I think

a little, that I’m just a

cares about me enough to come

hears that I’m in trouble.

just…well, I broke a rule,” I say, twisting my hands together

at him. Daniel groans, starting to

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giving a little laugh. “He does not like that. What

my lip, trying to decide where to start. I was watching

dad’s homemade porn in the basement doesn’t seem like quite the auspicious beginning, so I jump ahead. “He told me not

how

sorry, Fay,” he says softly. “Some of the stuff that goes

he puts a hand on

happen often?” I ask softly.

don’t really know,” he says, shrugging. “I saw it once as a kid and then…I never went down again. Honestly, I think my dad was a little disappointed in me. He doesn’t want me to be…well, a

bite my lip at this, feeling for Daniel, who is sensitive. After a beat, I feel a question

“How are you going to inherit this family,

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“I ask myself that all the time. I don’t think even my dad has an answer. Honestly, sometimes it feels like he’s fighting so hard to keep this family’s power together so that he