Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 79

Tears start in my eyes now. I open my mouth to speak but she interrupts me again.

“Don’t do that, little cousin,” she says, giving me a broad smile, wincing when it pulls at the cut on her lip. “I’m all right – just like I said – I’m getting out of here.”

“So that’s real?” I ask, wiping the tears from beneath my eyes. “You’re really my cousin?”

“Sure,” she says, putting a hand on my cheek. “I knew you the instant I saw you in that kitchen downstairs – knew you were our little baby Fay.”

I bite my lip against my emotions then, struggling to keep from crying. My cousin here, all this time, taking care of me and I didn’t know.

—

“But he…he didn’t know?” I ask.

She shakes her head at me.

“Were you – were you spy-”

“Don’t ask questions, Fay,” she says seriously. “That you don’t

want to know the answer to.”

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snap my mouth shut, not really knowing, now, whether

think

she says, reaching into the pocket of her jeans. “I

little note, pushing it into my hand. I

1. it.

this to your dad,” she says quietly.

Alden?” I ask, looking up at her again, surprised.

to David, your other dad.” My

know if I

wouldn’t ask it if it wasn’t so important. I promise you, I promise – no one you love

away from

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leave it with you,” she says. “And if you want to flush the note down the toilet, Fay, I understand. I’ll be disappointed,” she gives me a stern, sisterly look then,

Please.”

hands together like she’s praying

the door.

stay – just tell me what’s going on

have to go baby,” she whispers, her hand on the knob