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

sharply then, nudging

then, trying to move the conversation on.

a hand to stop her.

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

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

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 little wave. As

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

don’t know them,” Kent says, bringing me back to the table. “And if

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shakes his head. “We can’t take risks like that,

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I’m going to come to these things to meet my family, you have to let me, you know.

glares at me and turns away to survey the

starting to filter out, I notice – it’s definitely a smaller crowd than it was before. Even when I glance at our table, I notice that my father and stepmother are

sees me looking for them. “A problem with the baby,” he says, shrugging. “They all left

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

at

out a hand then and just

BAM –

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

room-

–

BAM BAM BAM

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