Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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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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following the

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

and 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 gigantic tip.

Ivan winks at me as well

to me.

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

little setup, then I’m not sure I want to do it sober.

off the edge of the

Ivan. He does the same, and then

rim of the glass

before doing

is sharp in my throat and sinuses and I can’t help it as

body shudders. I make a face, then, at the taste of it,

can hear Ivan laugh at me. “The lime,” he says. “Bite the lime.”

and, indeed, it brings some relief, the

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sharpness of the tequila

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open my eyes again, meeting Ivan’s smile with my own. He gestures to the waiter again, ordering another round,

of a few weeks ago would have run

With Kent’s worst

I’m kind of enjoying myself.

says, leaning closer to

relaxed.”

looking around at all of the people in the

– at all of my suitors, apparently. I shake my head at the

it all, at