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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not really knowing, now, whether or

think I do

says, reaching into the pocket of her jeans. “I need you to do

produces a little note, pushing it into my hand. I stare

1. it.

need you to get this to

ask, looking up at her

she says, pursing her lips sarcastically. “I want you to take it to David, your other dad.” My eyes search her face as she hits me, jokingly,

eyes widening. “I don’t know if I can – that’s so dangerous. If

her eyes. “I know what I’m asking you to do, and I wouldn’t ask it if it wasn’t so important. I promise you, I promise – no one

away

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she says. “And if you want to flush the note down the toilet,

Please.”

together like she’s praying and

the door.

– just tell me what’s

go baby,” she whispers, her hand