Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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“Sure,” he says, laughing. “I’m Michael, this is Chris,” he says, indicating the slightly smaller version of himself next to him, “and

our sister Amy.”

“Oh,” I say, raising my brows. “Wow, it’s really nice to meet you.”

“Not quite cousins,” Amy says, leaning in familiarly to talk to me.

Her words are just a little bit slurred – not sloppy, but I can tell

she’s had a couple of drinks. “We’re second cousins! Your dad

is our mom’s cousin, which means,” she screws up her face in

thought, thinking, “we have great–grandparents in common.”

“Wow,” I say, taking a sip from my glass. “Um, my family- I mean,

the family I was adopted into – we didn’t pay a lot of attention to

that sort of thing. So to find out I have great–grandparents and

second cousins all in one day…” I raise my eyebrows in emphasis and they laugh, nodding.

“Yeah,” Michael says. “It must be a lot, to go from nothing into a big Italian family like this.”

“We remember you, though!” Amy says with a big smile. “Because you were our little redheaded Baby Fay-”

I blink, suddenly, at the way she says that. Baby Fay – only one other person calls me that-

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with you at family parties,” she continuos, “like I remember one summer,

nudging her with his elbow.

lifting her fingers to her mouth. She rushes to continue, then, trying to move the conversation on. “Yeah, anyway, I remember you when you were so little on the

hand to stop her. “Fiona? Is that –”

“Fay?” He asks, looking. sternly at my new cousins. “Did you have some trouble

Amy stare at Kent, maybe a little star–struck. “Kent,”

ignoring them and taking me by the arm. I look back at them and grimace a little, shrugging as I let him pull me away. They all give me a

I murmur to Kent when we’re out of earshot. “They were

them,” Kent says, bringing me back to the table. “And if I don’t know them, they’re a liability.” He glances back

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“Kent, if I’m going to come to these things to meet my family,

turns away to survey the room again.

was before. Even when I glance at our table, I notice that my father and stepmother

“A problem with the baby,” he says, shrugging. “They all left a

in the room now, who have, indeed, grown a little quiet. There are very few children left, mostly men in suits

largely, at us.

a hand then and just

BAM –

through me and I can’t help my little yell of surprise god damnit, it sounds like a firework has

room-

–

BAM BAM BAM

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