Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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Tristin turns her eyes to me as soon as I am seated, the baby in

her lap looking up at me curiously. “Hello, Fay,” she says, her face

cold. But hey, at least she’s talking to me.

“Hi,” I say, giving her as bright a smile as I can manage. Romulus

peaks around her to give me a happy wave, which I return.

My father, on Romulus‘ other side, turns to me as well. “We

wanted to apologize, Fay, as a family. For the events at our house

yesterday.”

“Oh, please,” I say, waving a hand to dismiss it. “Don’t worry

about it. I understand that it’s…awkward. That I’m sort of a new

addition, and that I screwed up some of your plans. I’m…sorry

about that, by the way.” I look into Tristin’s face as I say it.

“Not a new addition, Fay,” my father says, looking at me steadily. “A love one returned to us after a long parting.”

“Yes,” Tristin says, her voice low and rehearsed. “You are a

Her eyes flick to Kent and Daniel

I wonder why.

good, the chitchat a little dull. I get a lot of family history, then, with Alden showing me

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their journey to

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actually Italian. I never thought much about my ethnicity, but with my red hair and pale skin, Italian had never popped into my mind. I glance quickly at Kent and Daniel – with

hair, and roman noses,

showing me these,”

back to him.

myself these days.”

have so much more to learn,” he says, giving me a

I

goes quite late, with

comes out and begins playing the oldies that this crowd

It’s not a bad time, overall – even Daniel is

poor time- or, at least,

stern, always glancing

comes to say hello. I purse my

him as he looks critically over an old woman who introduced herself as my great aunt.

time?

me watching him and turns his attention to me,

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his eyebrow.

shrug at him and shimmy my shoulders, encouraging him, without words, to try to loosen up and have a good