Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 104

They had nodded their confirmation and then we had left.

Now, we’re forty–five minutes out of the city, heading away from the stables and towards the beach. I can already smell the salt on the air. I love the beach–I always have, despite my lily–white skin and my tendency to burn as red as a lobster. There’s just

something about the beach that just calls to me.

We pull up to the indicated spot and Daniel puts a hand on my

arm when I eagerly reach for the door, indicating that I should wait

a moment before getting out of the car. I pause, then, watching the guards climb out of the front seat and the car behind us,

sweeping the area in order to make sure that we’re secure.

When we get the nod from them, Daniel and I climb out and I look around, studying the scene.

Thad expected, really, to be taken to a beach house – my father, I’ve heard, owns several. But, instead, we’re at a private beach far away from any buildings. It’s just us and the sea, and it’s really very, very beautiful.

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There are plenty of people milling around some I recognize as family members whom I had met at the party. Others, though, are

completely foreign to me.

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One man in particular catches my eye. He’s young – perhaps my age, or just a little older than me. He has tanned skin and

but what is really eye–catching about

covered in tattoos – almost from head to foot. They’re all black and white, matching his

a distance – that each tattoo was carefully

and finely done.

and looks directly at

at all, but instead looks almost…unsurprised. That

As I continue to look, he smirks

beer to me.

me realize that

at this guy.

course, makes me

then, trying to

of him at my

and sighs. “Into the lion’s den we go,” he

onto the beach.

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says, coming forward.

Hawaiian–print shirt, which

little. This is a big, Italian man – I haven’t seen

than an Armani suit yet, so such an abrupt change is…well, it’s abrupt.

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me a

uninvited guest. “Welcome,” he says,

a drink! Make yourself

offering a tray of soft and hard drinks. I select a can of spiked

coke.

runs up to us. “Hi Fay!” he says, waving to me, apparently genuinely excited to see me. I lean down to greet