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I frown a little at Kent, blinking. What?

He folds his hands and waits patiently.

“What,” I say, hesitating. “What do you want to know?”

“Everything,” he says, raising his eyebrows. “I want you to tell me everything he said to you, and everything you said in response.”

I frown at him further. “Are my conversations with my father not

private?

Kent leans forward a little, the corners of his mouth pulling up. “If

you want to have private conversations with your father,” he says.

slowly, “you can have them off my property. But in this house? I’m entitled to know everything. Including the words exchanged -between my ward,” he looks pointedly at me, “and my potential

enemy.”

I cock my head to the side. “I thought you and my father were allies,” I say, crossing my arms.

“Do allies leave each other to be shot at parties they threw? Do they conveniently leave the room moments before an attack?” Kent shakes his head slightly. “Our alliance is on shaky grounds, Fay, before this wedding happens. Right now, Alden and I are

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He stares at me then, silent. Waiting patiently for me to talk.

I clear my throat, looking away and trying to think. What did we just say to one another?

“I’m waiting,” he reminds me.

“I know,” I say, a little sharply. “I just…I’m trying to remember precisely.”

I throw my mind back, thinking hard. I don’t usually catalog my conversations so precisely. But I guess, in a Mafia household, you have different instincts when it comes to these sorts of things.

“He asked me if I was okay, after the party,” I say, closing my eyes so I can concentrate. “And I told him I was fine, that you got us out.”

allowing me to

he asked if I’m happy

Kent says quietly.

me that if I wanted to come home and live with him instead, that I’d be welcome to do that.

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his

proceed. I can tell he’s growing

hesitations.

said, putting a hand on my hip, “he asked me

I love him. And whether or

been…intimate.”

“And what, Fay,” he says slowly. “Was your answer to that.”

love. To which he replied that I’m still very young, and that if I wanted him to introduce me to some new

this, still watching my face carefully,

told him no,” I say, turning towards the door. “That

asks me, and I

ask, confused.

Try to remember if there was anything

swallow then and

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had left something out. Not intentionally, not really – none of my

with my father was important enough to warrant

secret from Kent. Instead, I’d rather be

the most

to have this finished. “He asked me if

did he mean by

I told him I didn’t. I don’t. Then

a hand at me in a dismissal, so I walk out of the office and head towards the

conversation to Kent. I know that I’m a pawn in their game, but I hadn’t realized that I’d be expected to report, on either side, what the other had said.

– had told him everything. But was that, really, my best choice? Where did my allegiances lie?

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through the kitchen door and then heading out to

I need some

the back door, I’m pleased to see

he says, smiling at

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