Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 82

Chapter 82

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

asked if I’m

Kent says

him then. “That I am. Happy here, I mean. But he told me that if I wanted to come home and live with him instead, that I’d

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moving his hand

I can tell he’s growing

hesitations.

on my hip,

with Daniel. And if I love him.

been…intimate.”

little. “And what, Fay,” he says slowly. “Was

and that of course we’re in love. To which he replied

this, still watching my

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

he asks me, and

ask, confused.

a moment. Try to remember

swallow then and

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something out. Not intentionally,

was important enough to

Instead, I’d rather

the most

hurry my next words out, eager to have this finished. “He asked me if I had anything to

mean by that?” Kent asks, frowning.

“I have no idea. I told him I

waving a hand at me in a dismissal, so I walk out of the office

slightly shaken by the experience, to be honest – first talking to my father, and then reporting the conversation to Kent. I know that I’m a pawn in their game, but I hadn’t realized that I’d

I hadn’t lied to Kent – had told him everything. But

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sigh, pushing through the kitchen door and

need some fresh

back door, I’m pleased to see Daniel there, buttering a scone at

says, smiling at me. “Do

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