Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 107

Ivan laughs at me then, at my speechlessness, and I can’t help myself – I laugh too, putting my head in my hands.

“Yes,” I say, blushing terribly. “I have heard of you. And I have to

say, it has not all been good things.”

“Oh, come on,” he says, still laughing a little. “It can’t have been

all bad.”

I peek out from between my fingers and raise an eyebrow at him letting him know that, yeah. It’s all been bad.

“What,” he says, joking, “nobody told you about my striking good

looks or my debonaire sense of style when they were telling you

about my success in the drug trade?”

I shake my head slowly, finding myself laughing again. I can’t help

it – he’s terribly charming.

“Well,” he says, giving me a sexy little half–smile. “Now you

know.”

Ivan catches the eye of a waiter and holds up a hand. “Two shots. of tequila,” he says, definitive. The waiter nods, walking the short distance to the little bar and interrupting the bar tender to get the

order in right away.

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–” I say, my eyes following the waiter.

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tell you’ve just had the surprise of your life. You need a

Ivan takes the drinks from him, sliding him a folded bill and giving him a wink. I can tell by the waiter’s pleasure that it’s a

me as well and holds the shot nearer

to me.

from his hand, shrugging. The truth was, I could use a little bit of a relaxant right now. If I’m the

little setup, then I’m not sure

I say, taking the lime off the edge of

it up to toast Ivan. He does the

lick the salt from the rim of the glass and toss my

before doing the

and sinuses and I

face, then, at the taste of it, sticking out my

me. “The lime,” he

some relief, the acid of the lime

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again, meeting Ivan’s smile with my own. He gestures to the waiter

feeling that’s becoming oddly more familiar as the weeks pass. Fay of a few weeks ago would have run screaming when she found out that she was doing shots of tequila with the wunderkind head

With Kent’s worst

today? Honestly, I’m kind

says, leaning closer to

relaxed.”

I murmur, looking around at all of

of my suitors, apparently. I shake my head

at the wasted